Accidental scrapper? "Inherited" a room full of OLD e-waste and a true main frame...
Hello,
I'm intrigued by the e-waste recycling and have been poking around here for a few days. I live in Florence SC and recently purchased a warehouse which was full of "junk" and some good things as well. I failed at my attempt to recycle the paper and ended up filling a 30 yard dumpster with computer paper and clean catalogs. Sonoco packaging is just about 20 miles from me and they would have bought the paper IF I could deliver it but I didn't have time or a great way to transport it. I have a loading dock and pallet jack and was willing to sort it in gaylords for them but they said 15,000# isn't enough for them to drop a trailer and take it for free. So I paid $365 for the dumpster :-l.
Now I'm filling a 20 yard with scrap metal which they are basically going to haul away for free plus a few bucks. I considered hauling it to the scrap yard myself but I'm super busy during business hours since I have a full time job and need the convenience of the dumpster for a few weeks as I sort through stuff.
So here is what intrigues me and I need some advice on. I collected all of the e-waste from which was scattered around and it pretty much fills a room. This is old, heavy archaic stuff from the 70s, 80s and a few monichrome monitors that may have hit 1990. I know nothing about scrapping except frompoking around here and watching a few youtube videos. If I pay a highschool kidto strip this stuff down for me and ship it to Ewasted how much approximatelyshould I expect to get (I mean like $200 or $1200)? Would I be better off tolet someone take it for a couple hundred bucks and not spend the time / effort?There aren't any pentiums, hard drives or even sticks of ram but there areplenty of power supplies, line conditioners, boards and ribbon cable. For curiosityI opened up one of the old "monitors" which are actually individuallights that make up a character and it has 10 rows of characters by like 50columns. I also opened one of the old keyboards which has the heavy plastickeys stuck to the board. The main frame mother-boards pop out easily enough butthere appears to be a lot more than the boards that could be salvaged.
Thoughts? Given the age, should I expect there tobe much mercury, lead or other things that could make me glow in the dark?
Since this is my first post it won't let me post pictures yet so I'm going to have to go trolling and commenting to see if I can get past this stipulation.
