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older pc's (servers included) are seldom worth more than scrap value. i dont think anyone would ever want to buy a 20 year old server. any cheap modern pc will be faster than a server of that age....

invest in one of these

http://www.amazon.com/WL-100-Stripping-Stripper-Recycling-BLUEROCKTM/dp/B000GCMK0U

you can strip all that and more in less than 10 min

and you can use it for the rest...

most of the drive sells as cast aluminium. + some motor breakage.

Hello everyone, its been about two weeks since I have been on the forum

In this time I have immigrated to Harvey bay, Queensland, Australia.

So far I love this country. the recycling ethic and...

they strip very easy with the utility , i will never sell as cu/al again. live and learn.

why are you looking for palladium specifically.
why not ask or look for gold, copper or more generally available scrap.

btw , how much would a pound of mmc caps go for.

congrats big tex, keep up the good work and enjoy coining it.
do you strip your ac units or sell as cu/al ?
if you dont strip them yet i would recommend the video on stripping them with a utility...

i got full price for the boards. now i just need to get cpu price for the chips.

it does not make sense to me that they will be downgrading the board as all other motherboards have their cpu's...

i take my integrated cpu's off. i just hope the buyer will buy them like that. they come off really easy though.

thanks guys, probably 4 -6 month's work on and off. i do it as a hobby for the extra cash. i sure did make the cash

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quick tip, all power supplies tend to blow caps after a few years or even month's. if it switches on and doesn't have blown caps, then it should be working fine.

Well at least I got paid to empty it out
I had to sell all my nonferrous and e waste this past weekend.
It was a lot of fun to finally make some money out of all my hard work from the past few...

the biggest black hole with pc's are the carcases.

they weigh the same as the rest of the stuff together.

if you can get the internal components only you have a great deal.

strip all the...

what type of battery is it.

lead-acid??

all lead acid battery's should sell the same as auto battery's.

i realy believe some people are just not good at navigating forums and trying to get info out of old posts

i still think this will add alot of value to the forum and give everyone a break from...

i would suggest starting a new thread or even an entire section "How to start scrapping" or something in this line. then like we ask and require everyone to introduce themselves we could refer all...

what price would buyers buy these old chips at?
$120/lb ?

i have alot of intel 8088 cpu's and plenty more old chips on the motherboards.
i would like to know which other chips should i pull out...

stripping wire wont always be worth your time, but in most cases it is worth some more money striped . so if your time is worth nothing like mine, strip away buddy.

its all relative to the price ratios.

i get R10/KG (south africa) insulated and R55/KG stripped = ratio of 5.5
you get $1.10 insulated and $2.58 per pound stripped = ratio of 2.45

i get 5...

so i have alot of boards from the early 90's and some that are even older.

i have removed alot of cpu's from the boards
the ones i got include 286/386/486 and newer

what i would like to know...

all this is being done by Eddy current.the eddy current effect was discovered by Heinrich Lenz and is called Lenz's law. the wiki page is way to detailed so youtube Lenz's law. links below
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i would sell them on eBay to a PM recovery specialist. if you don't know what you are doing, PM's recovery can be dangerous to your health.
strip them down and sell to the highest bidder. good luck

ups is great for breakdown, open it up and disconnect the batteries. its all safe from there.

if the unit still switches on but dosent run with a load it could just be the battery's.
scrap the...

yes, there is a minor price difference. at my yard tin copper is bought seperate