So what are you doing with your floppy's ?????? - Page 2

Originally Posted by sirscrapalot

56,

i am a business to, a one man one. Your much larger don't get me wrong. I also don't do the other stuff you do, nothing but ewaste. If people are throwing thousands or hundreds of floppies at you you might want to check into gold connector prices. Like mech said above it takes 5 seconds. You can break them off without even taking the case apart.



You asked for opinions, you got them. not all of us are so big we just throw things in shred. I dislike just tossing things into the shred pile. That's throwing away money for me. An i dislike giving any yard free money.

Sirscrapalot - ymmv regardless if your business or a hobbyist.

sirscrapalot, you make vaild points, and have much more experience in e-waste than i do, i am always trying to figure the most efficient way to run my business you try something one way and see how it works, the thing that i have come to understand about e-scrap is the profit margins are not so profitable on certain items and floppy's fall in to this category, i have figured out that i make more money with the floppy's by putting them in the shread than paying one of my guys to scrap them out.

Always good to see ya buddy.

Glad to know your still going strong.



Sirscrapalot - PCscrapper is awesomesauce.

I am able to drive them into ewasted and get better than shred. Very grateful for that.

I do pull the cast aluminum ones aside and break those down. you may find those to be worth it.

56'

It's all good buddy, hence my whole YMMV. I realize what works for me as a one man army, may not work for you big dogs with staff an all that. Like Mech I do these kind of things when I got nothing to do, slow, or just in my spare time while doing something else.

Like tonight..Gotta do some stuff on the computer that'll take a bit, so while things are downloading, I'll kick on the tv here in my office, find something entertaining, grab a tote of something from my "I got nothing better to do, so I'll break these down" pile. LOL.

Interesting to see what everyone does with their stuff tho! I don't think I've ever gotten a cast alum floppy drive. Or if I did I didn't pay attention an threw it in the shred pile.

More threads 56' your on a roll!

Sirscrapalot - Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. - Kevin James

Here is how I assess/process 3.5" floppies. First, with drive still in tower, are pins gold plated the entire length or tips only? Tips only, I used to use flat screw driver to break off (still in tower) and add with gold connectors (no longer economical with shipping). Full length plated pins, same removal procedure. 3.5" floppies were made when gold was less expensive and used in greater quantities. Full length plated pins are then hit with air chisel to break up remaining circuit board fiber. Pins are then extracted and soldered ends removed. Remaining base metal pins with gold plating are then processed to remove the base metals or remove the gold (aka topic for another forum). This has been a multi-year experiment and gold will not be sold for 20-40 years if at all. What is the return? I won't know for awhile. I just try to spend time on materials that seem to have the best potential with least storage over my time range.

As ewasted and others said it's only a matter of, " is it worth it to me"? And always be willing to adjust to new circumstances. I use to break down printers. Now I get so many I sell whole to yard as white goods.

Originally Posted by etack

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I think you are referring to zip drives.

NEC FZ110A Internal PC 3 5" Zip Drive IDE 100MB Beige ATAPI 134 507313 | eBay

Like this one (not my auction) they have the same 50 pin IDE connector and the board looks just like a harddrive board too.

Eric

Yes that is what they are. Thanks. Ive been saving the boards, I figure I can get CD rom price for them. I haven't seen anything on buyers pages about Zip drives though.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

My yard is only .05 lb and they buy all electronics at that price (minus tv's & monitors). Their making out buying computers & parts at .05 lb.

That's the same setup we have here. Any electronics are $0.05 per pound, except CRTs and TVs. They charge $0.50 per pound for those.

Our yard does pay more for some items (such as RAM), but their prices are pretty low.

it all depends on the amount of product you have. If you don't have product coming in you might as well spend the time making more from what you have. HDDs are tricky for me because some with smaller boards I will get less for selling them separately.

you do this with them...

My yard buys floppy drives with cd drives