$12/lb sounds like a nice pay day. What is "clean"? ******Mostly that means no excess plastic but sometimes metal also. This would be items like speakers and some plastic contraptions attached to the board.
Got a bit of insomnia so this is what I worked on. ****Melatonin
What am I keeping to ship out? ***See below with ***
This is a LG VX8360.
Is there anything to recover in the keypad? I don't see anything. Looks to be entirely plastic. *********Not in this one. All plastic
Then I've got the board on the right. Leave that as is or break it down further? ******Photo is blurry but looks good from here.
From left to right.
1. Case. Nothing exciting there other than very tiny brass screw inserts.
There's a gold looking piece, but when I pried it up it was sticky like tape. Not seeing any value there? ****Not on this one, but some phones have gold bearing items embadded and atached to the plastic housing. Blackberrys are famous for this.
2. Screen. Has copper? with chips? embedded in it. Send that in whole? I went ahead and tore it down. Has a silverish sheet inside of it. *****Sometimes there is a green board wrapped around/attached to the screen. Also, the flex cables are good. There is usually nothing "Inside" the LCD, except sometimes there are phones where the whole LCD and it's controlling boards are wrapped in metal.
3. Top is a speaker. Value?*********Scrap metal. Don't know what middle is. Bottom that is circled is the camera eye. Appears to have gold on it. Assume I would send that in as well. ****Yes. Some of the items will be counted as boards and some will be counted as Cell Scrap.
4. Case. Circles have silver and gold colored pins. Try to remove or send in as is? *********Try to remove if you have the time and inclination. Prefer not sent in.
5. Case. Has a few brass inserts. *****Recycle locally
Are these phones worth more than scrap? LG VX8360**** SCRAP; Sanyo SCP-3200 ****SCRAP; and Blackberry Curve 8530 ***RE-SELLABLE!
Found the lil thingamajig that makes it vibrate. It's a half moon metal on a shaft. Interesting. Also found a very tiny
magnet that has surprising pull for its size. ******Recycle Locally.
I hope this helps! Jack
Originally Posted by IdahoScrapper
$12/lb sounds like a nice pay day. What is "clean"? ******Mostly that means no excess plastic but sometimes metal also. This would be items like speakers and some plastic contraptions attached to the board.
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