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.