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Ok so I'm out on trash night an it's slim pickings there's nothing good then I come across a projection screen tv very big figures tonight I was an army of one so I left it behind it's not worth geting hurt over anyway I never took one apart what did I miss out on?? I took other tv's apart is it the same??
copper brass and alum... there all different from what i have seen.. Last one I scrapped had 3 of everything, 3 yokes etc etc.. Heavy suckers to say the least
Motorhead, if you want to pick up a Big screen and not throw out your back. Do what I do...
1. Back truck up to the back of the TV, leave some space for your tailgate to drop.
2. Lean tv back against tailgate and lift by the bottom, with your legs. The tailgate becomes the support for the TV, and you just rotate the bottom up, you're not lifting the whole weight of the TV.
3. TV will fall backwards into truck then just slide it all the way on and close the tailgate.
I've done it this way a few times and never felt anything negative, and I'm not a big guy either and only go out by myself...
Yea thought of that but I would of had to move it between cars an to the street. I was wondering if there's more copper in a projection screen or tube tv? I have no idea what the insides of a projection tv looks like.
I saw one a few months ago and a scrapper was tearing it apart right there on site.
I took one apart a month ago, there are 3 tubes each attached to an aluminum housing. There are some circuit boards, guessing low grade, and a bunch of wire. You will also get some steel framework. There is a large mirror, plastic and wood also. The bulk of the TV is just air, on the one I got the entire top section was empty, except for a large mirror. The tubs project the image to the mirror and the mirror directs it to the screen. I sold the mirror for $25 on Craigslist to a lady that makes crafts.
When taking the tubes off of the aluminum housings, be careful, they are filled with oil and its easy to get it all over yourself. There is a drain screw to drain the oil out first.
I would do another one if I had the chance, its fun to tear apart and quite a bit of goodies in there.
As for moving it, get yourself a hand cart. Use it to get it to your truck and then use the tailgate as a pivot to lift it into the bed.
was just about to scrap a projection tv that's been buried in the garage for a few weeks,
took the top off, silly big thing that's completely empty, and on the steel plate there was that oil
and I remembered I had to look up projection tv's, got a little on my finger, washed off and searched.
ok, looks like i'm gonna live, good to know it's just coolant.
Thanks for the tip about the drain plugs, i'll do that.
I've passed up a few of these as I never seem to have room when I find 'em, this ones on wheels so easy to move around.
http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...iroo/tv007.jpg
it's a 100hz panasonic TX-43P250H
I tried to scrap one of these out in the street once and was too hard to do, if I knew that the top is completely empty and it's just
a few screws to remove, I would of had a few more, but now I know what to do, take off the tops, leave that and take the base only.
I use the top back as a huge container where I throw my low grade boards and low yield wire (I have 2 ) even still I had a bunch of Plastic which I slowly fed into my household trash recycle bin
low yield wire? appart from degaussing cables, I haven't seen anything in ewaste that wouldn't fit into that category.
well that was a flop, I won't be wasting the space to grab these again.
the boards seem low grade, the metal is steel, the 3 little tv's are encased in a cast alu' so that's ok.
the yolks are small so not a lot of copper, really nothing to it, no doubt a cheaper model but either way not much chop, glad it's done now though, happy to see the back of it when I hoard it off to the station.
Re: lifting something heavy onto a tailgate.
I did something just like this with a heavy clothes washer the other day. My partner and his pickup truck weren't available, and I needed to snag this thing before somebody else got it. So I backed my Grand Cherokee up, draped a piece of scrap carpet I keep in the back over the bumper so the paint wouldn't get scratched, leaned the thing in and lifted a bit with my legs. I got it in there myself, and like Insanity said, I'm not a real big, strong guy and couldn't have lifted the machine outright. I imagine that if I kept a longish piece of 2x4 with me I could have levered it up in there even easier.
Work smarter, not harder!
--Geoff