Dinosaur Towers

Picked up 12 towers today and they look very old....can't wait to start tearing into them. To me it's like Christmas every time I start to open a tower ! Does it feel that way to ya'll ? I mean we all know exactly what we will encounter when we tear into a microwave....only variation is sometimes AL wire which always disappoints us, but unless someone has taken out things there are almost always nice little presents inside a tower. Thank you computerscrapper, easy, and e-wasted for introducing me to this exciting field, and for continuing to educate me at every turn. And thanks to others like PTS the postman who works 2 fulltime jobs and has shared his knowledge many times. And Mech688 and olddude who shared as they learned. Thanks to all of you. I have 22 in all...with printers and monitors and all kinds of old office equipment. Two truckloads and one trailor full. Wish me luck.
Dee

Good Luck Dee! Sounds like you have a good payday coming your way, you certainly deserve it!

i ran across a guy who had a fire at his shop. the state was giving him a hard time about cleaning it up. wound up with a bunch of old pentium pro servers. first quad pentium pro i had run into.

makes your whole day.

Hey congrats and take pictures. I agree I can't wait to see what goodies are inside old towers, Mike.

sounds like you got your self a nice lick there! I hope will be your buyer =P lol just messing but let all of us know what all you get out of them.

check the monitors. some of them will have high grade boards. look for old crt multi- media monitors. they always have a good board.

Awesome Dumpster-Dee, heck I feel the excited myself reading your post :)

Excellent Dee....Welcome to e-mining lol.....I look forward to hearing what you find.

I am just like you Dee. Ive been building my own computers for the past 20 years. I still like to crack them babies open now that im scrapping them. But I get the let down when I see its a gren fiber cpu in the machine instead of a ceramic. But then right when you think its going to be a crappy tower. You find a 100gb hard drive to sell on ebay for $15. Dont scrap all them old 5.25 drives. Sell them on ebay for 15 to 20 bucks all day long.

Nice score Dee, hope you have a blast tearing them down!

Awesome! I hope you get lots of goodies. :) Let us know what you find.

love this. good 4 u !!!!

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Thanks to all of you. I have 22 in all...with printers and monitors and all kinds of old office equipment. Two truckloads and one trailor full.

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I'm jealous

Good deal Dee! Sounds like you hit the jackpot.

I would think being older computers they will have more pm's compared to the newer ones.

Have fun with your "presents" http://pinkoddy.files.wordpress.com/...resent2jpg.jpg

12 woohoo may you find 12 more today too!!! :)

Good job

Sounds like a good haul! :)

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Originally Posted by Dumpster-Dee

Picked up 12 towers today and they look very old....can't wait to start tearing into them. To me it's like Christmas every time I start to open a tower ! Does it feel that way to ya'll ? I mean we all know exactly what we will encounter when we tear into a microwave....only variation is sometimes AL wire which always disappoints us, but unless someone has taken out things there are almost always nice little presents inside a tower. Thank you computerscrapper, easy, and e-wasted for introducing me to this exciting field, and for continuing to educate me at every turn. And thanks to others like PTS the postman who works 2 fulltime jobs and has shared his knowledge many times. And Mech688 and olddude who shared as they learned. Thanks to all of you. I have 22 in all...with printers and monitors and all kinds of old office equipment. Two truckloads and one trailor full. Wish me luck.
Dee

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Great work, best of luck, Dee !

On the twelth day of Christmas my true love gave to me....twelve towers a cha-chinging and a partridge in a pear tree. Lol.

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twelve towers a cha-chinging and a partridge in a pear tree. Lol.

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The towers are money in the bank and the partridge would look real good on my grill,,,

Sounds like a nice haul!

I assume you had permission to take them?? :)

Torker, how long are you going to give me a hard time about that ?!!! I did apologize you know. lol Happy new year.

Just testing your sense of humour Dee!

Looks like it is in tact.

Cheers!

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Congratulations and Good Luck Dee!!

Well Now I see the post is a few weeks old... Hopefully you did great with them!!!

Thanks Auntie...I posted a pic on another thread entitled..."there's gold in these here dinasaurs"

just found my secound double gold top today. 2 in 3 days :)

I just came across someone that has a garage full of old ibm 486/386 and gateway 2000 pcs some are flat desktops and others full towers.

He is firm on $10 a piece.

What do you think the scrap value of these would be?

Would it be worth it to buy 100 of these for $1000?

this should be a new thread: that said what hes doing is selling you the chips and the mother board with out having to do the work himself. you will be left with profit from iron, floppy drives hard drives ram etc, I just finished a bunch of them. if they are all complete, its probably an ok deal, if they have been scavanged and ram or other parts removed its marginal. ram and hard drive boards are premium price but it takes a lot of them to make a LB.

copper , lead

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this should be a new thread: that said what hes doing is selling you the chips and the mother board with out having to do the work himself. you will be left with profit from iron, floppy drives hard drives ram etc, I just finished a bunch of them. if they are all complete, its probably an ok deal, if they have been scavanged and ram or other parts removed its marginal. ram and hard drive boards are premium price but it takes a lot of them to make a LB.

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Yes they are not scavenged. I am estimating close to doubling my investment, but this is not including labour to break them all down et...

Do you think that $18 to $20 is about right for scrap value of entire 486 pc?

olddude, congratulations on the gold tops....are they A80501

A8050 290

NYP you better figgure closer to $!5. the drop in gold a month ago has hit the e waste about $1 to $2.50 per Lb on every thing.

a while back I bought a 1 gal baggie of ram for $10 it looked and felt like 10 lbs it weighed 2.5 lbs. the thought and sight of gold does strange things to peoples judgment.

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Do you think that $18 to $20 is about right for scrap value of entire 486 pc?

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Maybe back in the summer, but not now. You could gamble on it (the price) going back up, if you feel lucky. Sometimes this is all a crapshoot.