What say you?
What say you?
Yep...hard drives!
Where do I begin? Anything I can't make an additional 10$ an hour at BARE MINIMUM breaking down, I don't touch. I value my time. I'll remove a motor from something but that doesn't mean I'm automatically gonna break the motor down.
I used to think TVs were cool. Then I realized they end up being worth little more than steel weight, when you factor what you make vs how much they weigh.
The most useless waste of time?
The first laser printer that I took the time to take everything apart. Interesting, but what a waste of time. Now, it's just pull the memory and a accessible cards, the cartridge and throw the rest inside of a fridge for shred. It isn't worth my time to go much further.
Don't care for printers either^^ and even though I break regular washers and dryers down the stack-able apartment types can be a real PITA so sometimes I just grab wire and move on.
Now THIS is information I can USE! What NOT to break down! LOL!
Boom boxes. not much inside of them. But sterio receivers are great
3.5 foppy drives, unless they have the nice aluminum frame. Dish washers, the motor is a pita to get out and the bodies have a lot of plastic.
1. A Condensation Dryer looking for the motor, never again!!!!! and 2. A Teletype system - just some cable and the rest was shredder food.
I used to pass dishwashers for the pita of taking apart, then I got a 10lbs sledge and now they just fall apart. The only thing I dissect now is towers, everything else gets bashed.
Everything is useful it all ends up being $$
floor standing air purifier. tiny motor, a switch, a few wires, gobs of plastic fan blades, plastic housing, plastic plastic. I did one via unscrewing, and the screws were just endless, followed by prying and smashing. The second one I found went straight into a smash blanket and I wound up with a mountain of fragmented plastic that was sharp as glass. no more air purifiers!
they look like this
agree w/boomboxes too
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My yard takes those for shred.Quote:
Originally Posted by volvoscrapper
I once took apart a magnetron out of a microwave broke it all the way down. Thats fifteen mins i"ll never get back.
It finally came to me, one that was useless.
A projection TV,
If I have never broken something down before, I do. It's fun seeing how things work, and what is in them. Advice on this site is very good, but I like finding out on my own (the hard way sometimes.)
That being said, there are many things I have broken down completely and will never do them again:
Printers - take what is easy, the rest in shred.
vcrs - pull wires and Aluminum motor mount, the rest in shred.
radios - cut cord, shred
toasters - cut cord, shred
coffee makers - cut cord, Junk!
I pretty much agree with you except don't forget the heating wires from the toaster (not sure what's in the coffee maker for heat) cause that is ni-chrome wire.Quote:
That being said, there are many things I have broken down completely and will never do them again:
Printers - take what is easy, the rest in shred.
vcrs - pull wires and Aluminum motor mount, the rest in shred.
radios - cut cord, shred
toasters - cut cord, shred
coffee makers - cut cord, Junk!
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/disma...sell-them.html
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...um-anyone.html
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...me-$$$$$$.html
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/day-l...t-insides.html
not saying its useless but sure is no end - an old old turn table
pool pumps for those blow up pools....... stupid things.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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I will agree they take a bit of time to take apart, but they got those DLP chips in them. around $60+ a lbQuote:
Originally Posted by landmine
PRINTERS N HARDDRIVES Ugghhhhh Do I've to ......
Watching the answering machine video.
I like them cause they have 3 copper yolks , Then you have the sizable portion with the yolks that often is AL on top or just a nice heavy piece ready for mix also the lenses are a handy item like a super powerful magnifier . Good boards and a few times i found short steel in case used as weight so TV is not top heavyQuote:
Originally Posted by landmine
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But what I don't bother with are printers - But the cartridges have value at staples $2 each as store credit
I really have no use for portable electric typewriters. The motor inside is so small and a real pain to remove that now I just snip the cord and shred the rest.
Apple computers, like the G3's are painful to take apart too. too many screws plus a CRT tube to dispose.
I don't do much with printers and old laptops either.
Have you received a "too numerous to list" reply yet? I'll use that one ; )
Stripping A Microwave - YouTube watching this experts videos...
Front load washers are a PITA...I get about one a month and they have cement weights in them for balance. As much as I would like to get paid for rocks I just can't do it, so extra time is needed to dismantle.
Printers for sure. Now i just whack them on the port side with a hatchet Thanks Jack to get the green boards and toss em in shred.
With short daylight hours, minutes on the road are worth hours at home.
I used to dislike CRT's, now I just hate them. I spent more time cleaning up after dismantling a used paper shredder.
I used to bash old engines apart with a 20lb sledge to get the AL pistons, that's really lots of work for a few bucks ( Not that I"m above it or anything..I would still do it if needed).
Just did a printer yesterday, my first one. lots of effort for little reward. got a few boards out of it, i'm sure there low grade,but i did see that the ribbon connections might be gold,not sure.But its still money, recently had a heart attack, 5 bypasses, still off work, so i got time on my hands.
newer vacuum cleaners dont seem to yield much either,The older ones i used to get from way back when, were just about all metal,except the dust bags. i had four or five gathered in the pile, i dismantled the first one, after that i just cut away all i could with the recip saw, and got the motor.
Keyboards, The Music ones
I haven't run across this guy before, but lemmetellya. I don't need a video to show me how to use a screwdriver. At least with jackschmuc's videos he shows you stuff you might not think of yourself...like the trick to busting a big transformer apart with a hatchet and a hammer. Or what about that kid putting videos on here that hasn't even been to a scrapyard for the first time yet? But he's gonna show the world how it's done?Quote:
Originally Posted by Russell
If I make a video, it's because I've come up with something cool....
cool
....or because I think something is funny...
funny.
Ive done 15 pcs in 2 hrs so no that bad used a sthl screw drive for it got it at walmart for 8$ on one set of AA batterys im close to 50 pcs
Air purifers, coffee makers, vacuums, car radios, and laptops
Going to my 9-5 unless scrap is down !
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