I'll try to keep this as "family appropriate" as possible...

**elitelawnteam1** · 12-02-2012, 05:32 AM

Don't get me wrong, I understand where you guys are coming from, btw i don't snip freon lines, I have a buddy i take all my fridges&a/c units to and he takes it out for free (i think he sells the freon or something? idk) I snipped lines a few times because thats what the scrap yard guys told me to do, i didn't know it was illegal until i researched it a few weeks later. i also think you guys are a bit confused. I take a sledgehammer (i spelled "sludge" in my last post(s) my bad) and break the plastic shell in the back where each screw is so i don't have to unscrew it, that's all. I don't smash the lead glass (the brown/purple tinted glass) I've known what that stuff is for a while. I do give the cathode ray tube itself a little tap and that breaks the vacuum so i can get the yolk off.

I throw out the remnants because it's legal here, as long as all the electronic components are removed, it can go in the trash. I'd love to take it somewhere else, but everywhere that takes them requires that they are 100% intact (nothing taken out of it)

**auminer** · 12-02-2012, 06:06 AM

Originally Posted by elitelawnteam1

I do give the cathode ray tube itself a little tap and that breaks the vacuum so i can get the yolk off.

SMFH

2 screws, and pull off the clamps, then yank out the three little sticky-foam wedges with your needlenose, and the yokes twist-pull right off. The vacuum in the tube has absolutely nothing to do with wolding the yoke in place. I've only been at this scrappin' thing for 2 months and I learned this 7 weeks ago.

""A little tap"" on the tube to break the vacuum will make it implode. You're #$%&ing up your shop, your neighborhood, AND your body.

**Gravitar** · 12-02-2012, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by elitelawnteam1

i also think you guys are a bit confused. I take a sledgehammer (i spelled "sludge" in my last post(s) my bad) and break the plastic shell in the back where each screw is so i don't have to unscrew it, that's all. I don't smash the lead glass (the brown/purple tinted glass) I've known what that stuff is for a while.

I throw out the remnants because it's legal here, as long as all the electronic components are removed, it can go in the trash. I'd love to take it somewhere else, but everywhere that takes them requires that they are 100% intact (nothing taken out of it)

Well THAT would have been nice to know before we got into a heated discussion about CRT Glass with you. Before you start saying that we are "Inefficient" by not smashing TV's open, at least say what part you are smashing. When people say "Smashing a TV" on here, most of us take that as the WHOLE THING not just the plasitc.

Oh, us down here in Texas usually use large trailers and organize our scrap rather that just tossing stuff in the truck. (This is in my area at least)

**elitelawnteam1** · 12-02-2012, 07:32 AM

yeah I don't smash the glass, there is no point to it, since there's no scrap inside the glass. I didn't think people would be jumping to conclusions and formulating opinions as fast as they did. But whatever i don't care.

Pick-ups are the only types of scrap trucks i ever see on the road. I started out at 16 with a minivan and a trailer, and now i'm 18 and i've got a f150, and access to 2 f250s if i fill up the first truck. I work as a landscaper, but scrap metal gives me some serious cash to spend on whatever. And that's nice.