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I'll tell you one thing, you don't live here. Lol! If I put them out by the curb, they would stay there 'till I went and got them. Here the landfill charges $20 at least if not more to dispose of them. I charge $5, and mostly get them from someone who collects them for me. Then I take 3 at a time to Best Buy every time I go by it. I love it because it adds a few bucks here and there, and I always stop at Best Buy anyways. Gives me an excuse to visit ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BumpRacerX
If i could only get rid of 3 crts a day i would have mount Everest of glass is my back yard. TY FL <3 now please turn off the heat we get it already.
I get rid of them by the trailer load Dune. It's a PITA but worth it knowing they're recycled properly.
I'm almost done with these TV's anyway. No money in them anymore.
Yeah i just started selling yokes and degaussing cables whole to my buyer along with the boards and transformers
and dropped my prices on them alot. not a cash cow but it adds up with everything else.
Buying them is a lose/lose situation. One day you'll find that out. When i first started i did purchase some tv's/monitor's. But i soon realized that it wasn't worth it.
i dunno how i lose hoss i make 3x what i pay for them and can do 12 a hour. So i see it as a win in my book. Im happy making 24$ a hour after all said and done.
Haha that's fine. I'm just saying you'll figure out the better way eventually and stop wasting money. Their are so many sources for hundreds of free tv's a month it's crazy.
Also helps that I only do them once a week. The Escrap is flowin, just like ur saying time is better spent elsewhere. I just got time on my hands.
Today I'm doing my first monitor breakdown. Previously I passed CRTs because I didn't know what to do with them, and they were big and heavy. I watched a youtube video and picked up some yesterday. I thought the big capacitors that look like D cells must be worth something, so I searched and discovered the value is in the little button tantalum capacitors. That's another bucket to start filling.
An interesting surprise is the colors of copper wire. I have more red than blue and green. Now I'm thinking about Christmas trees made of wire. I could use plain wire for the trunk, but I would probably have to buy some green wire to have enough for the branches.
Some aircons/heatexchangers have a Ali 'tinsel' covered condensing coil, I have only found one & put it aside for Christmas. I can't find any pics of one.Quote:
Originally Posted by charn
Its a standard 6mm Ali tube with Ali tinsel spot welded to it over its full length. About 6 foot long when extended.
Yeah, I LOVE all the colours copper wire comes in.
Do your self a favor and snip some of the wire and look at the ends, you'll find some is alum. wire and some is copper, don't be fooled. These were alum. wire that came out of degaussing cables.Quote:
Originally Posted by charn
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i live in ames iowa and i just scrap out what i want and then throw them away here in town our garbage services will take 2 monitors or 2 tvs a day but the garbage plant here in town does $22 a pick up load of almost anything non hazard no applic though but with that i can fit at least 50 or more stacked high in a old stock truck with wooded slats all up the side