Finally had a good week, been a long dry spell.

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07-10-2012, 10:34 AM
Mechanic688

Finally had a good week, been a long dry spell.

I have been struggling along getting one or two pieces at a time for quite some time now. I spotted an ad on C.L. and went to look at the merchandise and ended up buying 30 misc. "computers" on a pallet for $100. Well I ended up with 2 Dell servers in the bunch, along with 3-4 partially empty cases. Still came out ok. Then yesterday met a guy and bought all his escrap before he hauled it to the local yard. I got over 205 lb of heatsinks, motherboards, fingercards, HD's, PS's, CPU's, Ram, drives, and wire for $140. I feel like I'm in hoggy heaven, not a big score like some of you guys get, but a good week to me,,, "not a whale but a good sized bluegill" lol

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07-10-2012, 10:41 AM
mikeinreco

Looks good that stuff adds up..........Congrats
07-10-2012, 11:52 AM
mrbillbus

Make sure you take the copper cores out of the heat sinks. They are very pretty!
07-10-2012, 02:38 PM
miked

I would really like to have a whole school of blue gills. Congrats and its almost time for a truck, don't you think? Mike.
07-10-2012, 03:14 PM
freonjoe

Looks like I'm not the only one who can't set the date on my camera! Good score!
07-10-2012, 04:12 PM
PistoneScrapProcessing

Outstanding young man!!!
07-10-2012, 04:51 PM
BRASSCATCHER

Pallet of towers = blue fin tuna in my book. Nice going and at a good price for them. Nice price for the other stuff too. Can they be a steady supplier for you?
07-10-2012, 05:01 PM
Mechanic688

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Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER

Pallet of towers = blue fin tuna in my book. Nice going and at a good price for them. Nice price for the other stuff too. Can they be a steady supplier for you?

Possibly the guy with the misc. stuff broken down maybe. He's advertising the next town over with brochures and getting this stuff free so I went just above the local scrapyard (pricewise) and he was happy. Hopefully it was not the last time.
The pallet load (there were 3 total) came out of a storage unit that these people bought and was reselling. I took the best pallet.
Pallet #2 had at least 8-9 empties on it, I don't call that one a bargain. And their older, and some of the cases are really outdated, so not much resale value there.
07-10-2012, 06:01 PM
BRASSCATCHER

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Mechanic688 ]Possibly the guy with the misc. stuff broken down maybe. He's advertising the next town over with brochures and getting this stuff free so I went just above the local scrapyard (pricewise) and he was happy. Hopefully it was not the last time.
The pallet load (there were 3 total) came out of a storage unit that these people bought and was reselling. I took the best pallet.
Pallet #2 had at least 8-9 empties on it, I don't call that one a bargain. And their older, and some of the cases are really outdated, so not much resale value

The older the towers the better the grade of boards and lots more pretty gold proc chips. Also if they are older towers like IBM look into them before breaking down. There are people that will buy at better than scrap value even if they aren't in working condition.
07-10-2012, 06:03 PM
BRASSCATCHER

I have gotten some of my best computer towers from people who buy a locker and then don't know how to move them. Have a guy now who is actively looking for them since I pay $5 each for them.
07-10-2012, 06:09 PM
Mechanic688

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Also if they are older towers like IBM look into them before breaking down. There are people that will buy at better than scrap value even if they aren't in working condition.

Unfortunately I already scrapped a desktop IBM.
07-10-2012, 06:13 PM
Geiser093

Very cool.
07-10-2012, 06:14 PM
happyscraper

I'll take a blue gill like that any day of the week. Congrats.
07-10-2012, 07:29 PM
parrothead

Lots of bluegills add up to a whale. It all comes as you know.
07-10-2012, 07:45 PM
Bear

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Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Pallet #2 had at least 8-9 empties on it, I don't call that one a bargain. And their older, and some of the cases are really outdated, so not much resale value there.

Define "empty"? bare case? no PS or Mobo? Are you aware that even the older AT cases are getting hard to find? Also, does "empty" mean there's empty slots on the back? I'm thinking a good old Mobo with a good ol CPU, no other cards, no other nothin, may just be worth more nowdays than a purple P4 with a stockpile of newer cards. Do you realize how many "empty" cases get tossed, carrying no more than an old mobo, with it's old CPU still inside?
07-10-2012, 07:47 PM
thirsty

Sweet grabs!
07-10-2012, 10:51 PM
Mechanic688

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I would really like to have a whole school of blue gills. Congrats and its almost time for a truck, don't you think? Mike.

Don't need a truck, I haven't wore out my Taurus yet,,lol

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Looks like I'm not the only one who can't set the date on my camera! Good score!

Everytime I turn around it jumps back to a default date, so it's been 2005 for quite a while now.

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Define "empty"? bare case? no PS or Mobo?

Yes, totally empty except for the wires for the switch, and one side panel (and sometimes the front) missing.

I ended up with over 30 lb of M.B's, 6 lb of fingercards, 25 lb of HD's, 2 lb of CPU's, 2 lb of ram, and almost 60 lb of drives, not counting the full towers. That was just the second load. can you say,"happy dance" ??
07-11-2012, 12:23 PM
KzScrapper

Glad to hear the "Good Guys" are getting some action!
07-11-2012, 12:41 PM
Bear

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Originally Posted by freonjoe

Looks like I'm not the only one who can't set the date on my camera! Good score!

When you replace the batteries in it, leave them out for a little while. When I do that with mine, it starts off with a "set date" or "cancel" option, choosing cancel makes the date go away ; )
07-14-2012, 09:20 AM
Mechanic688

Just to update I had a young man that likes to "build computers" look at the 30 off the pallet. He sorted the "possibles" from the scrap and as I tore them down he was rebuilding a couple. He does a complete wipe of the system and a new install. So far we've sold 1 computer for $60. 1 package (computer, 19" monitor, keyboard, mouse) for $120. Hard Drive for $30. We split the money 50/50 and I still made way more than scrap and we have a couple more to go.
07-14-2012, 09:36 AM
Bear

Cool man! Computers are really a piece of cake, I check every one i get aholt of, just plug em up and turn em on. Even if it has no hard drive or operating system, start-up or BIOS will still tell you what CPU, memory and BIOS date/version. If you get anything less than a 100 mhz CPU it is definitely worth further investigation for vintage or parts
07-14-2012, 09:43 AM
Mechanic688

Definitely worth checking out first, to me a computer is a computer. I thought that some stuff might have potential but did not have the knowledge needed, that's where the young man came in. It was worth the 50% to have him work on them a little. The package we sold was a 2.8 dual core, HP well worth putting back into service.