Power adapters

[CanIScrapIt]

I remember seeing a thread regarding power adapters but I can't seem to find it. :/ Well, I have...maybe about 40 lbs of them, I know, not a ton, but I need to get them gone. My yard buys them as breakage for $.18/lb. I remember seeing an ewaste buyer purchasing them on this forum but I can't find who it was.

Breaking them down doesn't seem efficient as the only good thing in them would be a tiny bit of wiring, a CBM, and maybe an AL heat-sink. Do you know anyone who buys them? How much. I also have a few laptops, motherboards, and a few lbs of odds and ends to sell, so it won't be completely just adapters.


Thank you

[Reelman65]

I have this problem as well. There are a lot of e- waste buyers that will pay .35/lb with wires, but shipping doesn't really work out. The cheapest I can ship something even topping off a gaylord is 20 cents per lb. The only option I have found is driving to buyer and dropping off. Hopefully your e waste buyer is closer than mine.

[PartTimeScrapper]

YEah shipping them is not worth it. Just sell them to your local yard for breakage thats what I do.

[Dumpster-Dee]

Is breakage the same as shred..or another category ?

[CanIScrapIt]

Breakage is another category. Shred is .1075/lb right now, breakage is .18/lb. My yard does things in a really weird way. Here, there is no such thing as dirty AL (AL breakage), dirty CU (Copper breakage)...or anything like that. They just have one flat rate for all breakage. So pretty much any boards, computers, power adapters, weed eaters, irony AL, dirty brass, etc, etc.

Okay, that sounds like a good idea. I'll just sell them to my yard.


Thanks!

[KzScrapper]

Now isn't copper breakage and copper motor one in the same. I usually bust those open and the little transformer goes in the motor/transformer bucket.

[PartTimeScrapper]

Not at All recycling KZ. They have a couple of breakage catagories. They have motor and low copper breakage that I know of for sure. I think they also have aluminum copper breakage as well.

[KzScrapper]

Not at All recycling KZ. They have a couple of breakage catagories. They have motor and low copper breakage that I know of for sure. I think they also have aluminum copper breakage as well.

Thanks. I haven't taken a non-ferrous load in yet since you converted me to ALL, the kid has tho and I was looking at his sheet the other day and prices seemed good. He got that car shell done yesterday and is bringing it in tomorrow.

[PartTimeScrapper]

cool maybe ill see him then. Im making a run in the am since shred is at $260 a ton.

[Dumpster-Dee]

Oh, some of what ya'll call breakage, my yard calls electric windings...all the little windings off the boards and the what-you call-it (spindles?) out of motors.