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    that looks like a lot to learn and i have no clue where to start.Let me ask this if i bought some computers/laptops and broke them down and sent to you.Could u price and grade them then.I have no clue on the computer stuff.On the average dell tower broken down what are they worth in scrap and that is with the harddrive still in them.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Focker View Post
    that looks like a lot to learn and i have no clue where to start.Let me ask this if i bought some computers/laptops and broke them down and sent to you.Could u price and grade them then.I have no clue on the computer stuff.On the average dell tower broken down what are they worth in scrap and that is with the harddrive still in them.
    I would say about $15-20 if they are the larger optiplex. And to get that you would have to break them down to the screws. Clean motherboard, CPU, RAM, Hard Drive board, CD ROM board, cut the wire off the power supply, cut the ends off the ribbon wire. I break the hard drives down to the screws and then sell them on eBay lol. Depending on how many you can get and how fast you can break them down could be well worth your time.
    Fill a box with just your "goodies" (ram, cpu, hard drive boards), keep them sorted and send to ewasted. In another box save up your motherboards ( I typically save up a gaylord worth of motherboards to ship as well as the power supplies and other drives I dont break down Floppy drives)
    Sell your wire and steel to a yard.

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    ewasted are very good about sorting motherboards and circuit boards. just make sure to keep your ram , cpus and other smaller items in separate bags.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carolinaecycle View Post
    I would say about $15-20 if they are the larger optiplex. And to get that you would have to break them down to the screws. Clean motherboard, CPU, RAM, Hard Drive board, CD ROM board, cut the wire off the power supply, cut the ends off the ribbon wire. I break the hard drives down to the screws and then sell them on eBay lol. Depending on how many you can get and how fast you can break them down could be well worth your time.
    Fill a box with just your "goodies" (ram, cpu, hard drive boards), keep them sorted and send to ewasted. In another box save up your motherboards ( I typically save up a gaylord worth of motherboards to ship as well as the power supplies and other drives I dont break down Floppy drives)
    Sell your wire and steel to a yard.

    ok ive seen this before and the wife is hounding me to go get the dog in lol so ill make this quick... ive read clean ram.. you say clean mother board clean ram clean cup... curious ive never seen a dirty one other than the artic silver on cpu's.. please enlighten me if you don't mind thanks... do you send your mb's in complete or do you take copper, gold pins out then send. same applies to all other cards that have gold pins (ribbon connects)I guess you would call them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRecycleGuy View Post
    ok ive seen this before and the wife is hounding me to go get the dog in lol so ill make this quick... ive read clean ram.. you say clean mother board clean ram clean cup... curious ive never seen a dirty one other than the artic silver on cpu's.. please enlighten me if you don't mind thanks... do you send your mb's in complete or do you take copper, gold pins out then send. same applies to all other cards that have gold pins (ribbon connects)I guess you would call them.
    clean as in no heat sinks, no batteries, no IO plate, no excess steel from a CPU bracket. Maybe I should have put clean motherboard last so you wouldn't think I meant literally everything had to be clean?
    CPU, RAM, hard drive board, CD ROM board, cut the the wire off the power supply, cut the ends off the ribbon wire, OH and clean mother board.....lol. Not sure if cup was a typo, I don't think they buy cups...
    And as far as taking anything off the motherboard, I wouldn't waste my time, you may also get a down grade if you take to many of the "goodies" off of the boards.

    You aren't digging deep enough if you haven't ever seen a dirty computer. Some of the computers I get in from scrap yards, don't come into my shop unless I hit them with a power washer...twice. Roaches, rats, bugs, bugs, more bugs and good ol' North Carolina CLAY!

    Clean em' up
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    thanks brother, ya lol at typo ment to put cpu not cup.. ya ive seen dirty as in dust and bugs, and ive lived in nc so I know where your coming from although where im at isn't much difference, south Louisiana... that info makes sence and helps, thanks again..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Focker View Post
    that looks like a lot to learn and i have no clue where to start.Let me ask this if i bought some computers/laptops and broke them down and sent to you.Could u price and grade them then.I have no clue on the computer stuff.On the average dell tower broken down what are they worth in scrap and that is with the harddrive still in them.
    Start by doing a bunch of reading thru the "electronic section". There is a lot of info there to get you started.
    I would imagine that Mario and co. are busier than the proverbial cat on a tin roof.
    Maybe this'll help; http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/elect...breakdown.html

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