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Hi all, well, I'm another newby. Wish I had known about E-scrap years ago. So much fun breaking down computers. Also so very much to learn. Thank you for this awesome forum and all your great information. As a woman new to all of this , my friends think I've gone nuts.
You have to be about half nuts to want to get into this line of unforgiving work, lol.
As far as the learning, just do a little reading every nite in the electronic section and the breaking down section and things will start coming together. Welcome.
Hello from Denver.
Welcome to the forums. Feel free to ask question and ill gladly help where I can.
I'm a few hours away from you in arkansas straight down 71, or the new I-49... I just got into the scrap world a while ago myself. I am glad to see someone from KC as I am up there all the time. I have some hookups at some voice/data companies up in KC that I don't get to at all. Cytek corp being one of the biggest. I know these guys, I know they do a ton of computer replacements, been to a couple Chiefs games with them too. If they don't do anything but pitch them I will be sure to let you know.
Thank you all for the warm welcome. Thank you Pfred59.I would be glad to contact Cytek. Would you have a contact name? Also, does anyone know where I can recycle computer plastic covers?
Howdy from Lawrence, KS, and welcome to the forum!
I'm coming up on one year of e-scrapping and I'm *still* learning the ropes, but it's been a lot of fun along the way and there are all sorts of great people here.
I'm very much a small-time operator compared to most on these forums, but if I can be of any local help, let me know!
cheers,
thebugguy
Sure seems to be a lot of people from Kansas City. Welcome aboard. Not to be rude , just an observation.
I talked to the guy at Cytek on Friday. I asked him if they trashed their tear downs or what they did with them, turns out they have been selling all of their escrap for a while now, so getting it for free wont be happening with those guys. But at least it was a phone call.
Thank you Pfred for checking them out anyway.
And to the Bugguy, thanks for the welcome.
Jonniebrass, thanks, are you in Kansas City too?
No I am not. I am in western Massachusetts.
Welcome to the scrap forum.....we DO like pictures. I do some heavier farm scrapping/cleanup here in Nebr., not too advanced; just brute strength and awkwardness, kinda whatever my skidsteer will handle, loaded on my 20 ft trailer and powered by the Dodge. E-scrap confuses me.:-o
escrap is for those of us that don't have a skid steer :)
when you can load up thousands of lbs at a time, you don't need anything to be gold plated lol
Thanks Yunkman.
Phred59, you are right. At this point I don't have a truck. But, my hope is to build my scrap business to need one.
luckily I have a truck at my disposal when I need one. we have a shop truck that just sits there at my regular job. which is at a voice and data cabling supply house. which is also where I get most of my hookups from. they walk right in our door to buy materials for new systems, which is when I get to ask, hey... what ya doing with the old stuff? man it's too easy from my desk sometimes lol.
Phred59, Wow. Perfect set up for you. That's really great.
Just thought I'd write a little something since it's been awhile. Still enjoy figuring out how to get each piece of e-scrap apart. I've been watching videos of people smashing and banging the heck out of printers just to get a board and some copper. I'm not sure printers are worth it. Anyone have comments on that? And, I still would love to find a plastics recycler who buys computer plastic.
Hello and welcome neighbor, I'm also in Kansas City. As far as I know there are no plastic recyclers locally.
Welcome to the forum Sands. Don't you know that nut's is the new norm?
I use to break down printers but no longer. Now I just remove the plastic side panel and remove the circuit boards. Takes just a few minutes and my local scrap yard takes the rest as shred. As for hammers, I don't need them. All electronics were assembled in a certain order using screws and you just have to figure out how to reverse that order. That's one of the things I like about scrapping. Maybe it's a guy thing, maybe it's just me. I don't know.