Big day tomorrow. Going to have at least three huge loads, #tonsoffun

I was contacted today by the facilities maintenance supervisor from my old work at a newspaper. He's in charge of seven sites in Ohio and they are removing the presses out of the main site because they no longer print there. He has told me to come and get everything I can , I'm allowed to get anything other than parts of the press. When I work there I would dream about scrapping all kinds of things from there taking it apart getting paid for the immense weight of these items. I get things from copper-bearing Motors two computers to Old Telecom equipment to light ballast I am just super super excited and I don't know if I can control myself. I feel like a kid waiting on Christmas morning I don't know if I will sleep tonight, I will post pics, have to share a day like this.

im sure everyone is happy for you
and also envious

just take pics of everything for us and we will be satisfied
well almost.

Pics pics pics lol..

Congrats - that is cool

Stay away from the Asbestos lol. Hope you get a real nice haul!

Made two trips two two different yards First yard was half a penny behind my normal yard second yard was my normal yard made about $180. Had 670 pounds of electric motors on the second trip and 900 pounds of shred on the second trip and the first trip had 1500 pounds of shred. Cut my thumb open pretty good had to get three stitches on the second trip still have probably 3 or 4 more trips to go.

Pics 2

Nice Nice Nice
time for a treasure hunt through the big bin of junk!!

Great score! Got any pictures of the thumb?

Looks like you have a lot of good stuff. I just skimmed through them very quickly because they all fell over and it's hard for me to look at pics like that.

I did notice one that looked like someone had a burrito.

Don't forget resale. Double, triple, 10x the money.

Super Glue...it'll save you on doctor bills. :)

nice job.

First time is always the best...scrap run people. not whatever you were thinking!

;)

Sirscrapalot - Stop, drop an roll! - The fire department.

Thanks guys, no pics of the thumb....... would have ruined the phone from squirting lol. Big bin was full of new switches and relays

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Originally Posted by nutpie

Don't forget resale. Double, triple, 10x the money.

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Especially if those Timken boxes still have new bearings in them.

wow what a load!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A lot of the bearings are brand new but they go to paper press parts, wouldn't know where to send or advertise them lol.

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A lot of the bearings are brand new but they go to paper press parts, wouldn't know where to send or advertise them lol.

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After all the responses you've gotten you say this? More than press machines use bearings. i'm tired. Mike

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A lot of the bearings are brand new but they go to paper press parts, wouldn't know where to send or advertise them lol.

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Advertise (or have someone do it for you) on Ebay using the Timken name and part number. Even in our small town there is a business that does Ebay consignments, they just take a percentage of what it sells for. They take the pictures and write the description. If you would get 5. for a part is a whole lot more than 20 cent scrap.

I am a noon when it comes to this stuff, I have plenty of repair experience and resale on big items, I have never used ebay, not even bought off of it Mike. Sorry to seen I'm a moron but my inexperience shows. Didn't have a father to show me anything about life, so self taught here and still learning.

Crazy, I just gave you an out so you don't even have to mess with Ebay yourself, they do it for you.

EBay consignment shops are gone where I live there is one and they don't know the first thing about selling bearings I just spoke with them.

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I am a noon when it comes to this stuff, I have plenty of repair experience and resale on big items, I have never used ebay, not even bought off of it Mike. Sorry to seen I'm a moron but my inexperience shows. Didn't have a father to show me anything about life, so self taught here and still learning.

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I guess you had noticed other times when folks had advised you and others to look up parts on ebay. On the left margin on ebay there are options to refine your search, (new, old, for parts not working etc). Down the left margin you can choose "sold". This tells me how many and how much the item really sells for.

We all have reasons why we don't know what we don't know. You have the means contained in the forum. By reading you will learn things you don't know you didn't know. You will profit and may find a direction in your life that will interest you and make money at the same time.

Some of us(myself included) have physical limitations. I am restricted to lifting no more than 20lbs but ship 1000lb pallets of ewaste boards. Others show up here with incredible backgrounds that make scrapping easy for them. But even the ones who do are lacking a lot of the other areas that can make their business even more profitable.

Take what you have and study more. Mike

I don't know what I don't know yet! The more I read, the more I learn. Case in point, I made a post asking about a tivo dvr series 2 cos I was at a shop and right now having 2 kids and a third due in the next month and a half I can't lose 8.00 yes only 8.00, but I came across 2 gaylord full of laptops weighing around 1900 lbs but the all have broken screens, no hard drives, and more than half are missing memory and the person selling them wanted $1.00 a pound...... from learning how to research I told them it was only worth about 200 dollars because I would only get 50 cents on the pound

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I told them it was only worth about 200 dollars because I would only get 50 cents on the pound

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@ .50 / lb x 1900 lbs = $950.00 not $200.00

Plus i know of someone who pays .80 for incomplete laptops

"I apologize for that outburst" - Chris Whitcroft

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@ .50 / lb x 1900 lbs = $950.00 not $200.00

Plus i know of someone who pays .80 for incomplete laptops

"I apologize for that outburst" - Chris Whitcroft

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yes but for me I have to factor in shipping cost against that .80/lb.........Most people always want more than a laptop is worth..........Anymore unless its a 64bit dual core machine that works perfect it gets gutted for parts then scrapped

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yes but for me I have to factor in shipping cost against that .80/lb.........Most people always want more than a laptop is worth..........Anymore unless its a 64bit dual core machine that works perfect it gets gutted for parts then scrapped

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True about the shipping Mike, Im a numbers person and when i saw that i was like, ummmm somethings not right here. .50 x 1900 is way more than 200. Also seeing that he is within driving distance of one of our buyers, I would just drive it on in instead of shipping.

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True about the shipping Mike, Im a numbers person and when i saw that i was like, ummmm somethings not right here. .50 x 1900 is way more than 200. Also seeing that he is within driving distance of one of our buyers, I would just drive it on in instead of shipping.

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agreed!!!!!!!........I do have a few steady suppliers of scrap laptops but I don't pay that much.......I mainly deal in desktops

$200 is what it was worth to me, I know what $0.50 times 1990 pounds is but I have to put in the time to move it all myself so I have to move each individual laptop from there Gaylord's into a gaylord or two Gaylords that I get and that I have to get it home if I want to make more than $950 so I can put the time in and at least pull the boards and the CPUs but if I want to make just $950 I can drive it straight to the local e scrap buyer. These people are not willing to dryvit 25 miles and sell these items themselves, I even went as far as offering to put in the work and piecing these things out and coming up with some type of profit share but they told me they had higher bidder then me yet later that day they called me saying they received an email from me which it was actually a text and I just played it off as if they hadn't spoke with me and at that time they told me they only had one bid for $200 so I think if I hold out until the 1st of June they actually may let me get both Gaylord's that are completely full to the brim.

I should have worded that differently as I told them it was only worth $200 to me I did not include the price I get paid per in complete unit it was just what I knew.

1990 lbs x .$70 (local buyer within driving distance)=$1,393. Paying $200. $1,193 profit. Someone check my math..... I would sign up for that any day. $1,193 profit for a day or two of work sounds like a easy transaction to me. I will buy scrap laptops all day, everyday for $.10 a pound.

It would take a lot of time to rip those guys apart !
0.7 pounds per clean board average = $1.27 each board after shipping costs ...

I didn't realize that it was OK to be a jerk to the thread starter for the appalling crime of scrapping things instead of reselling them, on a SCRAPPING forum. Seems like a lot of you think you're "just telling it like it is" when, in fact, you're being rude and condescending.

Crzyhair28, you shouldn't feel like you have to spend the day on eBay chasing every last nickel rolling your way if you don't want to. If you want to just scrap something out instead of learning about obscure bearings for printing presses that's your God-given right and anyone, on this forum or not, can go fly a kite if they don't agree with it or else break out the checkbooks to take this stuff off your hands. If it's all worth so much money, put up or shut up.