Dman886, I only buy electronics with the endview of scrapping the boards to Boardsort, along with the mixed wire and goldplated connectors. All else that Boardsort does not buy, I feel free to market to the local metal yards, and occasionally, if a piece has some value, such as a power supply, sell on 'ebay or craigslist. Sometimes I will pay more than I expect to get, just for the knowledge gained in finding out what type boards can be found in the unit. Also, sometimes I will acquire a working tower or usable monitor, but again, my intent in buying is to scrap to boardsort, so any posting of the devices or their boards is to help educate others who may have a chance to acquire such an item as to the value of scrap boards. Several years ago, a local scrap yard "gave" me approximately 1500 old style monitors. and those weird looking brightly colored see thru plastic cased Apples. I scrapped those out at around $4.50 each for the metals, and paid to dump the glass and plastic in the landfill. (I didn't have any local recycler for the special glass) I would work up 20 or so monitors and make my $100 run to the nearby junkyard. I just hauled the last load of the low and midgrade boards from that project to Boardsort in December. While the few hundred pounds of low and mid only added up to about 80 bucks, since I had a small pickup, that almost bought my gasoline for the trip. Oh, I did have a thousand dollars worth of other boards and chips so it was more than an $80 payday Since I am retired, and like to rockhound, I am always looking for an excuse to travel to new rockcollecting areas, and if I can make it a scrap selling trip, so be it. Again, any thing I post here is to educate either myself of other readers as to whether something is profitable to sell to Boardsort.
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