Been cleaning my shop and found some older digital cameras. Is there anything worth pulling out of them?
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Been cleaning my shop and found some older digital cameras. Is there anything worth pulling out of them?
I was wondering the same thing. I am getting a small pile of them from various odd lots.
I figure there is a good board in them, but have not torn into one yet.
I was just looking inside the bottom of mine and the contacts all look to be gold, so the one that holds the memory cards would be also. Just gonna be really small, smaller the those cards out of the sat. dish amps.
nothing that a good hammer couldn't figure out
I think there is someone that buys them but don't know who, if I find out I'll post it here.
they could turn in to collectors items real quick, it hasn't been a long time since the first ones were coming out
i wouldn't scrap one without investigating it a bit, at least unless it was totally worn out or trashed
I thought it was Jack down in Fla. but I'm not finding the post.Quote:
Originally Posted by happyscraper
I think ARCOA buys these along with other "consumer electronics" but I cannot remember what the price is.
I know both of these places and maybe I'll give them a call tomorrow.
I have taken a few apart and the image element strongly resembles a gold-wired chip. Take a look...they are pretty! I have just been saving them.
I agree with Enoch, they are quite interesting under magnification. Same with the ones from webcams.
If working, not worth scrapping. Many buyers pay .04 per pound for them whole. if you scrap it, you will get between 1-2 quarters worth of high grade stuff. Throw them in a pile and sell them as a lot on Ebay or as a lot on craigslist.
We buy them with other plastic breakage like office phones. We are currently paying .14/lb for them.
CLR, I looked at your web site but didn't find anything about shipping. Do you pay for shipping?
For scrap material we can arrange shipping through Fedex at a discount on our account. The cost of shipping will be deducted from the payout for the material.Quote:
Originally Posted by happyscraper
Where in the USA can one ship to you on your account for less than .14 lb? My digital camera weights about 5 oz almost 1/3 lb or $.05. If you can't sell it locally you have to increase it's value density. $.05 of gold doesn't weight much.
Wow. I've never run into this, but unless you have a quantity of them seems you would just throw them in your shred pile and forget about this. You are stepping over dollars to get to dimes worrying about something this small. IMNTBHO.
An item like this is not economical to ship. What you can do is mix it in the box with higher paying material.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrap Master J
The couple of posts I have read by you today Burly have been suprisingly insightful......Keep up the good work!Quote:
Originally Posted by BurlyGuys
Yeah, sometimes me am smart...
I'd say that was the best option. Some people do use them for parts, and some people do collect them. If it's still working, others may even want to use it for a camera ; )Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremiah
somehow stumbled across this old thread and thought i'd ressurect it just to highlight the one post that said just hang on to them if they work. they,ve become fashionable again thanks to an instagram post by a jenner.
I have a large box of these now . I'll look into it to see if anything worth saving/selling. Never paid much attention to them but now since everyone uses cell phone camera these
are obsolete but maybe becoming "collectible" ?
I'll take a crack at resurrecting this thread too. Might just be screaming into the void, but I enjoy a good exercise in futility.
I have pulled apart hundreds of digital cameras, and even a fair amount of old film cameras. Most of the ones I've pulled apart have what I would consider to be comparable to laptop or cell phone components for PM content, pound for pound. Maybe better.
I really like the digitizer chips. They almost all have gold/gold plated legs, and they have a really cool look to them. I'm stockpiling them in hopes of creating a line of ewaste sourced jewelry. These chips would make really cool "gems" for pendants or rings.
Otherwise, lots of good gold plated pins, ribbon wire, leds, circuit boards with gold flashing and ic/bga chips. I have a whole bunch of lenses that are ideal to use as loupes, and there are many glass prisms, mirrors and other, small lenses that are pretty cool that I'll try to find uses for.
Base metals include aluminum outer cases, lots of little bits of stainless steel, and what I'm pretty sure are nickel battery contacts.
It's also fun when you come across one with a memory card left inside. I've only come across one that still had pictures on it, nothing crazy, but I have a big pile of working, SD, micro SD, and some older type memory cards.
Anyway. If you like microscrapping, I definitely recommend digital cameras. They are my second favorite small electronic item to scrap, after hard drives.