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Looking at several lots of emacs - close to 100 units being sold in groups of 6. Untested, no cords (might be able to get the cords and keyboards in another auction lot) and no mention of processor speed or memory.
They're pretty small units - I'd assume there's less value in these than a regular tower?
Anyone deal with these machines before?
Thanks in advance
I just did 45 iMac G3's. Worst thing I ever did. These are the self contained units with monitor. Total pain in the rear. I got mine for $2.25 each. Figured the yield to be near $10. But, these aren't normal towers. They take frickin forever to tear down. I'm talking half hour each. That's a complete tear down. I harvested the lo grade boards, stripped the degaussing wire, prepared the aluminum, etc.. I will never to another again. Also, there is no removable CPU. It's fused to the motherboard. In all, they suck. That's just my opinion.
You dont get near out of them like you do a tower. The motherboard in those machines are like an all in one board. CPU is soldered on to the board. You get 1 maybe 2 ram sticks. Also get a Hard drive and a cdrom drive. Then the normal stuff you get from a CRT. hope that helps.
I bought a lot of 18 for 33 dollars once and made well over 200....There was one powercord and I plugged one in and it worked but was password protected....I found a keyboard for it and sold it for $35......Anyways there is money to be made there they are like a puzzle taking them apart, just make sure you have the right tools for the job
I just did @ 60 of these... they are not bad after the first two or so. They are easier than the colored g3's. The only thing I did'nt like about them is the crt. it weighed 22 pounds. That's a lot of pounds of crt to get rid of.
It only took a small allen wrench, a cross tip driver in a drill, and a wire cutters.. around 10 minutes each
I think a hatchet would make the job much faster. Just smash away and pick up the pieces. Can I get a heck yeah Jackschmuck. Just Schmuck it with a hatchet.
good thread, dont know much about these, I have only gotten 1 in the last 6 months. I also stay away from lap tops, after breaking down 30+ Old IBMs and ending up with 95% useless and costly junk.
I did roughly 20 of the colored G3 IMacs. I got them a few months ago and am still working on breaking them down (working on the low grade boards and aluminum right now...). They are a pain, but do it in chunks. Here's how I did mine...
1. Take screws off and remove the back case. Remove the cd/dvd, hard drive and motherboard. Put cover back on and put it the garage. Remove wireless card and ram from motherboard. Do this until you have processed them all. This way, you get efficient at this step. (you will need to separate the smaller mid grade board from the high grade motherboard). Keep the motherboards separate from other motherboards as they have an integrated cpu and you may be able to get more.
2. Remove back case and start removing screws for the aluminum plate under the low grade board. Put the aluminum/low grade board assembly aside. If you can process monitors, tear into the yoke, degaussing cable, etc... If not, put the case back on, screw it back up and take it down to your monitor recycling place.
3. Start going through your stack of aluminum/low grade board assemblies. Remove the board from the aluminum plate and remove the large aluminum heat sinks from the board.
I have found that it is much easier to process these in steps. There are so many screws in those darned things that it's a pain to remember which ones to remove to get what out. But, you can get pretty efficient breaking it into smaller steps and doing that one step on all of the units before you go on to the next step.
If you can't break down monitors, just stop at 1
A little different than I did but I guess this is an ok method....I took mine all the way down to the crt tube on each and set them to the side....I guess my 1000's of monitors I have done played in well on these little monsters
Thanks for the responses - lots of good info.
I passed this time around - the emacs went for about $6-8 each, but several boxes of cables, mouses (mice?), keyboards, etc went for close to $100 each and I would have needed those to maximize profits. The 1gb ram sticks seem to sell well on ebay but there was no way to tell what these were without holding them in your hand.