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    Quite a few scrap questions

    I have plenty of TV motherboards, a couple PC motherboards, steel, brass, copper and everything. I should have these seperated to where I get the most for my money, correct? Plug ends, anything in them? Silverware, should I seperate it? Coax cable, keep it seperate? The local scrap yard does not take coax cable or Christmas lights. I also need to find more sources of scrap. Do I just speak to the manager/owner of the business I would like to potentially get metal from? I do thrift store shopping for brass.



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    #1- No mother boards in TV's, only (brown) circuit boards.
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    In my experience, strip tv and seperate your copper and aluminum. Break the cores for copper. Silverware is typically shred. Coax is shred. My yard takes Christmas lights as breakage..


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