No, what I'm trying to say is that it is not up to you to decide what my time or any one else's is worth.
I understand that many people on this forum, like yourself, do this full time. Many own and run recycling facilities or computer shops or whatever. Are you going to pay your employees to break down laptop hard drives or PC power supplies. Hell no!
I do this part time and many here do it as a hobby. I use to breakdown everything, including printers. 3 years later and the amount of scrap I get has increased and I have changed the way I do things and how far I break down certain items.
Something else I have to consider is what the local yards are paying or even if they buy certain items. PC power supplies and hard drives are a good example. Yards here don't want to pay more than shred for them so I don't even remove power supplies from the PC anymore. I cut the wire flush with the outside and move on to the next one.
All hard drive boards are removed. The hard drives from laptops are bent in a vice and thrown in with the shred. The big hard drives are taken apart.
That's what works best for me where I live and with the local yards I have.
I determine what my time is worth, not you.
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