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Welcome, from a WV escapee.
Have fun!

Way to go travistemple202020, makin' some $$ selling Throwies!

I give the batteries that still have a charge, pulled LEDs, and magnets from hard drives to the kids in the neighborhood, they make Throwies out of them.
Then they bring them back when they are...

I use a heat gun to pull IC chips. I guess it would work for pins too.

Give you info to apartment complex managers and ask them to call whenever they see anything. People move out every week and leave TVs, electronics, and bed frames outside the apartment or the...

Broke down an HP desk top laser printer;
137 screws
1 mid grade board
5gal bucket full of plastic
4lbs steel
1 toner cartridge (most profitable, $2 at Staples)

Put one end flange of the bracket in a vice, then grab the other end with a pair of pliers and bend it away from the magnet. This will release part of the glue and you can lift the magnet off with a...

I pop off any visible copper too. It's not much but it adds to the bucket.

Cool videos! Welcome

Free money is just waiting at the curb, go get it!

Considering you can probably make $10-$13 per computer scraped out, it looks like a profitable venture.

Hello from Youngsville NC, welcome!

30 seconds with a heat gun on high pointed at the solder side works pretty well for me.
Remember to have good ventilation.

"A man too rich to bend over and pick up a penny, is too rich."
J.C. Penney

I work/fight with computers all day long at my job, so it's THERAPY for me to go out to my shop in the evenings and tear them apart.

Middle of NC says welcome too!
We're all in this together.

I got a chance to dig in the bin of phones and satellite boxes, in the bottom I found 6 hard drives, 6 sticks of ram, 3 fire extinguishers, and a home medical oxygen bottle. Oh, and a working...

All for free. I just had to haul it away.
I set up a work bench on sawhorses in my driveway and broke down the TVs and monitors right there in a couple of hours. I pulled the circuit boards, yoke,...

I have the tube amplifier and speakers from a 1960 Hammond organ for my shop sound system. Kind of ironic how it presides over the destruction of "newer" electronics.

If it wasn't for me and my CL ad, it was all heading for the dump or the burn barrel. I was happy to help avoid that.

My CL ad says that I will pick up for free in about a 12 radius of my home. I've kind of of taken upon myself as a local citizen, who knows how to properly recycle electronics, to help out out my...

Greetings

Welcome to the addiction.

I picked up 12 computer monitors, 4 TVs, 2 microwaves, 2 five-gallon buckets of wire, and large recycle bin full of phones and satelite boxes; all from one home today. Sometimes a really worder about...

This forum is a college education in scrapping, read all you can.