Power Supply w/ Gold Fingers

Back in April, I shipped a FTL, which included 4 gaylords of power supplies. Most of these, probably 99% (assuming they had wires to begin with) had wires on them. I also included at least 30 of this type of server power supply. I chose to leave them as is. I also included some AC adapters without wire. These were encased in aluminum, instead of plastic. My buyer lumped everything in as Power supply with wire.

Had I cut the gold finger off, these could have been graded as Power Supply without Wire. This is 8 to 10 cents per pound lower. On a 5 pound power supply, 40 to 50 cents different. Gold fingers are about $20 per pound. Does anyone know what these finger weigh? I'm not sure it is worth the time, if you can get PSU with Wire price for them.

Originally Posted by mthomasdev

Back in April, I shipped a FTL, which included 4 gaylords of power supplies. Most of these, probably 99% (assuming they had wires to begin with) had wires on them. I also included at least 30 of this type of server power supply. I chose to leave them as is. I also included some AC adapters without wire. These were encased in aluminum, instead of plastic. My buyer lumped everything in as Power supply with wire.

Had I cut the gold finger off, these could have been graded as Power Supply without Wire. This is 8 to 10 cents per pound lower. On a 5 pound power supply, 40 to 50 cents different. Gold fingers are about $20 per pound. Does anyone know what these finger weigh? I'm not sure it is worth the time, if you can get PSU with Wire price for them.

$20 a pound seems low for trimmed fingers. Don't whole memory sticks go for between $6 to $8 a pound?
Since it's almost winter ( down time ) I think I will strip the boards of the cu, al and transformers and big caps and sell as a nice board. All upgrades. With shorter days and cold temps bench work is better than nothing.

Originally Posted by Ran440

$20 a pound seems low for trimmed fingers. Don't whole memory sticks go for between $6 to $8 a pound?
Since it's almost winter ( down time ) I think I will strip the boards of the cu, al and transformers and big caps and sell as a nice board. All upgrades. With shorter days and cold temps bench work is better than nothing.

A quality cut trim, with little or no green is $20 per pound in Ohio (mario).