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I stripped out 6 TV's and 4 monitors this weekend. I have no idea what to do with the tubes. I've read the glass has lead in it but scrap yards don't want them. Can you make money off them? The last thing I wana do is send them to the landfill. Any input would be great! Thanks!
Check with your local Goodwill. I just took in 10 of them yesterday with no problems.
Really they take just the glass tubes?
I don't think they will just take the tubes...most open them up, harvest the goods and button them back up so they are still safe to move around.
Hmmm my dumb ass broke the glass when I took the yoke off. Then I dumped the plastic in the trash and broke it with a sledgehammer
Now I'm stuck with tubes lol oops
The Goodwill I go to will take a broken monitor if the front glass is not broken, even without the plastic being put back on. If the front glass is broken, put it in a box and write "Broken Glass" on the box. They're not taking the stuff to harvest the copper; it's a recycling agreement with Dell. Goodwill is just acting as the collection agent. Also, some Staples stores will take monitors but limit to six per family per day.
TV tubes are different. My post above is for computer monitors.
any idea why tv tubes are different ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
Personally I think dell harvests them as well. From experience I've noticed that monitors have more goodies in them with the exception of new TVs. The TVs that I've taken to goodwill have been in pieces. I don't think they can tell if its a TV or monitor if its shattered glass.
Just set it out for garbage day i know u live in one of the most up tight citys in the state but its still worth a try. Its still FL most our trash is getting burnt these days lol.
Goodwill will take just the glass, they will also take tv's/monitors that have been broken in the back as long as the Goodwill is a collection center. Go to the Goodwill website to find the nearest Goodwill COlLECTION CENTER. I only have one that is worth driving to, the others only take them if they are intact.
Bestbuy.
Not really. Just what Goodwill told me. Although they DID take the two TV tubes I had mixed in with the monitors. The workers asked if they if they were TV tubes but took them, anyway, before I could answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
Probably cause the project is being funded by Dell, which is a monitor manufacturer, not a tv manuf.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
i wrote the local goodwill, simply asking if they accepted tv and monitor tubes, their reply was a simple "yes we do". Guess I should write again and ask if there are any particular requirements or guidelines
i sent another inquiry to see what he says might apply as far as requirements or preferences, maybe hear back before long
I drove up and specifically asked the guy at the donation door if they took TVs and monitors that I had stripped the copper out of. He answered yes and said that was about all those old ones were good for. I asked again, somewhat incredulously, "You'll take the ones I've opened and taken the copper out of and put back together?" and he said yep, it's better than putting them in the trash.
I also asked if I could buy the dead computers people drop off there. He said nope - we send those to our Computer Works store. Kinda sucks being around Austin - too many tech savvy people around. BTW, I went to the Computer Works store. It's beside the Computer Museum. I doubt there's much they scrap - they had walls full of PCI cards, HDDs, floppy drives, optical drives, whole computers, motherboards, etc.
i bought my first computer from goodwill, took it back after awhile, but that's when i started working on them. I turned it on, looked at it, and said "what good is this?" I went by there and asked them that question, they said well, you can listen to music on it, but you'll need a cd-rom, so i got one of those, then i had to get a soundcard too, then i listened to a cd and thought "this is kind of an expensive cd player!" Then i talked to them again and they said, "welll, you can get on the internet, "if" you get a modem" lol, so, i'm eventually looking at the internet and asking myself "what good is this?" Then i saw the "meet people, chat" That was kind of fun, Ohwell! In the meantime the hard drive had got full, wouldn't hold any more, so i took all my stuff out of it and took it back, told them i needed a little stronger computer.
I just scrapped my first monitor today, them things are a pitb! 5 thousand screws, but lotsa goodies, and it was only a 13" one, wondering what the 21" are gonna look like. The TVs were easy compared to these!
Since our Gov decided that the lead in them makes them a Hazardous Material, you have to be careful about where you put them. A couple companies here in NC got in big trouble with the EPA for exporting HazMat(CRTs) without proper licences not to long ago. Now the only companies that I have heard of that will buy them around me have special furnaces that slowly heat them and somehow separate the lead from the glass.Was only 2 within about 500 miles and both would only buy in BULK.They also had 4 or 5 different grades of the glass depending on the average lead content of the glass.If I remember correctly top grade was over 50% lead.
There are other companies that cut the glass and separate it somehow, but none were anywhere near me.
Bear if you dont like those monitors send them my way.I am not a pro but,Ive already done a little over a hundred this week.My favorite are the Dells. Only 10 screws and they pretty much fall apart.First 4 pulls off the back,next 2 from the clamps on the yolk,pull everything out,the last 4 screws separate the glass from front plastic.I did a monster(was made in Germany not a dell) last night.It was about a 21 inch,but had the beefiest AL box built around the tube and boards.The most shielding I have ever seen in any thing.I had to remove enough screws to build the Keystone Pipeline,but I got well over 6lb(gotta bring my scale and weigh it )of AL from this beast.I will do those all night.:D
Actually the one i did first probably one of the earliest type, it was only a 13.5 inch one, and darn well built. Why do you take the 4 that separate the tube from the plastic? don't you wrap the plastic back around it anyway ?
no Bear I separate all of the plastic/glass/metal. I live <1 mile from the dump and throw all the plastic in their recycle bin on the way to work. I found somewhere to sell the crt glass, I just need a few more tons of it first.:)
I agree some of the older ones are BUILT.I had one little guy that i spent about a half hour trying to take it apart.After about 5 min I was ready to finish it with the hatchet. Thanks to the archives here, I now know what a bad idea that would have been.
Make sure you do check with your local Goodwill store before going to drop off. I asked at mine before I had loaded the van, and was treated like a criminal for daring to ask about a recycling program the company participates in. Go figure. I know not all are like this but after dealing with my local one, I will always ask when it comes to GW.
Came across a total of 15 Tv's and 3 monitors over this past weekend, I'll be gutting them tomorrow, and adding to my stockpile for my road trip to a GW that will accept them, and not look at me like just I asked to snort meth off the fine mirror they are selling for 30 bucks.
Sirscrapalot - Likes his local Goodwill bout as much as you all like people who refuse to use the search function. :P
What do you do with this stuff? The two on top came from a tv and monitor, and hold the red wire going to the suction cup. The bottom row didn't come out well, but the part on lower left was in an old gas furnace
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Flyback transformer? I got a box of them and tried smashing one for the hell of it and it looks like a ceramic or hard plastic from what I busted so im kinda wondering myself as I was thinking it had copper in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
i smashed it a few times too, but it didn't smash well, guess i'll just leave them on the board then. beginning to see a lot of it really isn't worth messing with for very long
hmmm, transformer? maybe i'll throw it in with those and see what happens
They will only take them as motors and be happy with that. there's so little copper in those things that we are getting the better end of the deal. If i found that in my transformer bucket id be more pissed then a alum winding one
Those go in my transformer/small motor tote, my yard buys them that way on a regular basis. I know this has been posted many/many times.Quote:
Originally Posted by IAscrapper
I hit one with the chop saw just to see what it looked like in there
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Love the copper hate the tube. 15 naked tubes in basement and no where to go.
that could be a major pain there
Bear, didn't look like much copper was in there.
that dark spot was pretty much a copper wound core
my recycling center takes tv and monitors, do you think they would be pissed if i came in with just the plastic frames and tv tubes?
There's one sure fire way to find out...but it might be easier to call first.Quote:
Originally Posted by tryingtoscrap
Nice picture. I've only seen one beat up with a sledge. Let me ask you something. In the bottom half, you have a donut with an inner and outer dark ring, and a dark core in the lower section. Are all of those copper windings?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
Check for a local FCI ( Fed Corrections Institute) several regional recycle facilities. They will take your glass... http://www.unicor.gov/recycling/ I know some folks have an issue with prison help to recycle but TV and Monitor glass is a stale mate..
compliments of Wiki; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyback_transformer
Here's an old one; http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...px-Flyback.jpg
Here's a new one; http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...eilentrafo.jpg
thanks man, i believe the one nearest the bottom on that pic was plastic or ferrite, that row of pinholes all had copper running through them tooQuote:
Originally Posted by erewen
Not to steer away from the subject but this is why we recommend you being grounded or the tv /monitor being grounded/shorted out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...6N2hvRx1w#t=0s
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Arc from a DC Flyback Transformer using ZVS driver.