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    Future of Scrapping TV's looks ok..

    I've just done a bunch of flat screen tv's and I have to say the future looks good.
    not sure what the situation in the US is with crt tv's and the analogue system, I would of thought
    the US switched analogue tv off years ago, we're just doing it next year and for the past year or so
    retailers haven't sold crt tv's so it's all digital from next year on.



    this won't really stop the ammount of tv's being dumped and available to scrappers.
    infact, tv's are now designed to be obsolete almost in 2 years as technology increases demand for the new.

    What i'm liking about flat screen digital tv's is there's little waste, appart from some plastic around the face edge and most times the back cover, the rest is either aluminium or steel.
    so remove the back, take out all the boards and the steel brackets ect and your left with a glass sheet one side and a steel or aluminium sheet on the other, basically it's shred steel.

    so instead of carting chunky crt's to the transfer station ect and generally being a pain to handle, these flat screens can be at least sold as shred, they have some weight, I worked it out here at about $2.40 in shred steel on average after removing the outer plastic frame, the back and the pcb's.
    so $2.40 isn't bad at all compared to a heavy crt that i'm happy to dispose of just for free, some pay to dispose.

    The boards are at least interesting, they still have a tv board with extruded heat sinks, nice transformers and some copper. no degaussing cable or yolk but mid grade boards, some high and gold finger strip boards.
    I haven't done enough to get a good average on value of 'em but i'm thinking it's more like $8 then $4 as crt's are,
    and with the steal going with shred there's a saving in time as your going to the scrap yard anyway.

    So yeah, I'm looking fwd to the day I don't see a crt on the street, will probably miss the degaussing cables but pcb's with fingers turn me on a bit more anyway.

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    I agree.

    Double check the metal that is glued to a layer of glass. Most times it is aluminum. It's a PITA to remove, so I sell it attached for a little more than shred.
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    heck yeah! Takin mine to a whole new level. Can't wait to tear into this monster!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bear View Post
    heck yeah! Takin mine to a whole new level. Can't wait to tear into this monster!

    Bear, How many people did you get to help carry that t.v.? LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by greytruck View Post
    Bear, How many people did you get to help carry that t.v.? LOL
    haha!

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    Wait'll you see the cute little degaussing cable in that thing,
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    heh, and the yolk, it'll be tiny.

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    to use analog TV here you need a converter box. I've been using one on my old TV since they switched it 2 or 3 years ago. Bought my old CRT TV in 2003, and when it goes out I've got Mom's old one in the back ; ) Using an amplified indoor antenna I got in 99 for .01 cent with a satellite package deal

    Those converter boxes might be good to hang on to, or to sell on Ebay, if you ever run across any
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bear View Post
    heck yeah! Takin mine to a whole new level. Can't wait to tear into this monster!

    My first T.V. was actually that size. I had to rent a trailer and forklift to get it into my garage. Whew it was a job!
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    may do i wish i got more lcd's and such im not complaining myself but my back sure does lol i swim in tv's and wish that i did not have to toss the glass wish i had a buyer or free recycler near me but thats how it goes in a smaller town but thats what makes it good to since i get alot. sad things though is i do not have parts buyers anywhere close either so either ebay or scap it out.

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    You can use the degaussing cable as a copper bracelet.

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    Actually in response to the op there is a very high grade board in modern lcds and plasmas. It is a long thin board and had a gold finger all the way down 1 side. I process them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ParkerFlyer4 View Post
    You can use the degaussing cable as a copper bracelet.
    lol now if i can only figure out how to get that adhesive off of it

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    Quote Originally Posted by jghilino View Post
    Actually in response to the op there is a very high grade board in modern lcds and plasmas. It is a long thin board and had a gold finger all the way down 1 side. I process them.
    yeah and in flat screen monitors aswell, there's two almost identical finger strips in every flat screen tv/monitor.
    these here, see how they come in pairs?







    these little ones below, about 8 inch long are in flat screen monitors mostly..



    appart from some little boards this is about the normal content, it's what came out of one I just did..


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    lots and lots of gold on those lcd boards Id much rather process this type of material than that low grade junk found in crts. Im glad they changed the design.

    this is what those boards look like after i am done with them:
    the different grades in the picture was sold to a specialty escrap buyer for $500 total of 3.5 pounds of trimmings produced from 15 pounds of boards, the other 11.5 pounds resold as high grade thin boards at $4 per pound

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