Have you guys heard of UC Davis just drove in circles for a bunch of printers big ol boxy things wasted about a million dollars in gas but Im in a drought so I took a chance I just got home
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Have you guys heard of UC Davis just drove in circles for a bunch of printers big ol boxy things wasted about a million dollars in gas but Im in a drought so I took a chance I just got home
My yard takes them as shred. So i pull out the ink toner carts and the boards and throw them in the shred pile.
How about the motors and the wires scanners have only one small board (low grade) Printers are better, 2 or 3 motors, wires,low and mid grade boards and steel. Scanners don't have ink or toner carts. If you get alot of them and you get good at breaking them down you can make money off of them. Lots of plastic.
some printer are heavy
You guys need to look closer in your scanners. Most of them have gold in the optics.
Actually since I'm at it, ink jet printers that use cartridges with the nozzles in the cartridge usually have gold in the contacts.
Some printers are heavy because they have more steel also behind the thing that holds the ink cartridge is a mid grade board. The ink jet cartridge I sell whole. the laser optics I have been saving because I don't know who buys them, any help on that would be great.
Oh how I miss Sir Skippy...
I'm starting to love printer/scanners I pay $.15-$.75 each typically. Some of them are better than computers and like someone said there is a bit of gold. The light and optic unit for the scanner both have gold, plus the print heads and wiring. There is at least a board when clean I can mix with other high grade boards and get paid that price. The control pad with LCD is usually a gold plated in areas high grade board as well. They sometimes have ram, hard drives, a power board, wi fi cards and so forth plus the motors and wire add up. Also when I get them about 70% of the time they have at least 2 cartridges which is $2 each at staples etc.
In printers thers alot of gold and silver mylar cables, look on the cartritdge itself and there gold mylar. Look in the spot where the contacts on the printer cartridge is and you will see gold plated pins. Not alot of money there but enough to cover your costs.
Is it 100% true that those white mylar cables have Silver in them?Quote:
Originally Posted by jghilino
I have found a couple of HP printers that used a whole bunch of Gold plated springs & pins as the contacts onto the ink container. Wish I could find more of them..... Dunno what model printer either.
not sure what it is actually, just call it silver mylar because the contacts are silver colored
Nice to see another scrapper from Sacramento on here!
I just pulled a board today with a solid strip of gold where a finger would be, from a printer.
The shameful part is some of those with a good amount of gold plate on them sometimes have a brown back. I throw them in my low grade to keep it honest but then I wonder if it is a waste do they even try to refine low grade for gold content?Quote:
Originally Posted by rca987
Last night I was breaking down some of my printers, and I had a Lexmark small office type of printer, and that thing probably had 6 motors in it, a few fans, a decent size mobo-grade board, several little gold-plated contact boards, several low grade boards, about 1 or 1.5 pounds of #3 insulated, a little bit of aluminum, and probably 40-ish pounds of shred. Also, the paper tray was full, so I took that and put it in my printer. This was a nice curb find.
As for scanners: I think people often miss the nice board behind the little florescent light tube. They are usually black, so it blends into the plastic. It's got gold on it, though it's super lightweight. It all adds up, though.
All of the metals are accounted for eventually.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScrapYaHerd
also on some toner cartridges there is a small high grade board that is used to keep track of the page count on the cartridge so to know when its time to replace it
That's where I have a box for odd/unusual boards that will be sent to a refiner one day, why give the gold away for .10 a lb??Quote:
Originally Posted by ScrapYaHerd
I've found all different shapes/sizes of low grade with gold fingers, pins, and clips, stand-off's. Nothing else I'm going to trim the good stuff off, then sell the boards. That's my retirement fund in the making,,,,lol
My yard wont take printers any more , They will still take the large heavy ones . but the smaller printers sold in the consumer market if they see you give it to them they give a 25 pound reduction lke it's garbage (they just don't want plastic any more. For a wile it made sense to just give it whole as the plastic had weight .I spent $ 2.55 to recently sell them a printer as mix WELL that only had to happen once.
As most of us know take them apart and they have good stuff in them. Even staples will give me $2 store credit for the empty cartridges