scrapping electricals for pm's
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miniroo said:
Are you sure he wasn't just moving in..?
A lot of commercial dumping of eWaste is apparently done in Ghana, shipping containers of electircal waste is just dumped and the locals build fires and burn off the plast to leave the scrap metal, needless to say the pollution is massive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr1zQrXM_7s
You are doing Africa a favour!
Before you pull anything apart check to make sure it really is junk, the amount of stuff that gets chucked out to make way for a new purchase when there is nothing wrong with it is scandalous!
gosh, wouldn't that be a shocker.
if the stuff was unloaded off the harvey norman truck
and the poor bloke was just having a cuppa, comes out
and hey presto! no more electricals
nah it definitely was hard rubbish, actually I went and had a better look at them and they all have stickers on the monitor that says display model only.
so that kinda makes sense, he must run a tv store
as why would you have 3 identicle tv's.
got another 4 plasma's today, here I am scrapping fancy plasma's and I don't even own my own plasma.
same goes for many things, it's a bit like I get to own them until i rip 'em appart.
today the council trucks were lurking about, everyone was about today, there was a charity truck with a couple work for the dole guys actually picking stuff up too.
spotted a council supervisor and went up to him and asked what they think of scrappers and if there's any problems, he's never heard of any problems and they are ok with people grabbing what they need.
Yeah a lot of the junk is in perfect working order, I been getting people coming out and saying oh that still works fine ect, still hoping that someone puts items to good use before it's in landfill.
I have kept everything thats still brand new in box, with all attachments ect, today was a coffee machine, even the little plastic sticker to open the box hasn't been opened! yestdy I got a dutch pancake maker and brand new timber blinds in good small sizes, it's endless.
if I had kids they'd have the best toys.
bumped into a guy on a push bike picking up items to resell, he picks up anything retro 70's ect.
we were at the same pile and he was wrapped to find two mannequin type latex heads! real freaky but he reckon's they sell like hot cakes.
appart from a few old blokes going around cutting cords, I seem to be the only one that's doing ewaste, I kinda feel I'm like the clown of the scrappers and there's something I don't know that everyone else does.
but the copper, there's so much copper, if you try not to think about it then you can imagine it to be gold.
speaking of gold, I found another big bounty stack today, really nice old Vietnamese guy come out and pointed to two boxes he put out, he must of started to scrap electricals at one stage and had heaps of beautiful pc boards, and them real heavy little block things that have a heap of copper in them, encased in like a steel casing, yeah about 40kg's of them.
the boards are all loaded with gold fingers and bits.
there were no memory chips but there was a pc chip, you know that square thing with all the gold pins, yeah one of them too, and a wooden box with metal tid bits,
really heavy, lots of junky bits too but I took the whole box and then dropped in on my driveway, took ages to clean up.
Charlie the scrapper, my little maltese scrapper mate I met yesterday, has a classic maltese accent, bumped into him today and he showed me how to scrap a tv in situ.
he showed me his little tools, a cordless drill & side cutters, that's it appart from magnets stuck all around his truck as he's a metal scrapper.
anyway, we walked over to a random medium sized tv. in about 3 minutes he stripped the tv bare and had it back together like new.
no breakage, no mess and maximum value.
so i'm going to practice it with all my tv's and monitors and see if I can master the art myself.
happy scrapping..
if the stuff was unloaded off the harvey norman truck
and the poor bloke was just having a cuppa, comes out
and hey presto! no more electricals
nah it definitely was hard rubbish, actually I went and had a better look at them and they all have stickers on the monitor that says display model only.
so that kinda makes sense, he must run a tv store
as why would you have 3 identicle tv's.
got another 4 plasma's today, here I am scrapping fancy plasma's and I don't even own my own plasma.
same goes for many things, it's a bit like I get to own them until i rip 'em appart.
today the council trucks were lurking about, everyone was about today, there was a charity truck with a couple work for the dole guys actually picking stuff up too.
spotted a council supervisor and went up to him and asked what they think of scrappers and if there's any problems, he's never heard of any problems and they are ok with people grabbing what they need.
Yeah a lot of the junk is in perfect working order, I been getting people coming out and saying oh that still works fine ect, still hoping that someone puts items to good use before it's in landfill.
I have kept everything thats still brand new in box, with all attachments ect, today was a coffee machine, even the little plastic sticker to open the box hasn't been opened! yestdy I got a dutch pancake maker and brand new timber blinds in good small sizes, it's endless.
if I had kids they'd have the best toys.
bumped into a guy on a push bike picking up items to resell, he picks up anything retro 70's ect.
we were at the same pile and he was wrapped to find two mannequin type latex heads! real freaky but he reckon's they sell like hot cakes.
appart from a few old blokes going around cutting cords, I seem to be the only one that's doing ewaste, I kinda feel I'm like the clown of the scrappers and there's something I don't know that everyone else does.
but the copper, there's so much copper, if you try not to think about it then you can imagine it to be gold.
speaking of gold, I found another big bounty stack today, really nice old Vietnamese guy come out and pointed to two boxes he put out, he must of started to scrap electricals at one stage and had heaps of beautiful pc boards, and them real heavy little block things that have a heap of copper in them, encased in like a steel casing, yeah about 40kg's of them.
the boards are all loaded with gold fingers and bits.
there were no memory chips but there was a pc chip, you know that square thing with all the gold pins, yeah one of them too, and a wooden box with metal tid bits,
really heavy, lots of junky bits too but I took the whole box and then dropped in on my driveway, took ages to clean up.
Charlie the scrapper, my little maltese scrapper mate I met yesterday, has a classic maltese accent, bumped into him today and he showed me how to scrap a tv in situ.
he showed me his little tools, a cordless drill & side cutters, that's it appart from magnets stuck all around his truck as he's a metal scrapper.
anyway, we walked over to a random medium sized tv. in about 3 minutes he stripped the tv bare and had it back together like new.
no breakage, no mess and maximum value.
so i'm going to practice it with all my tv's and monitors and see if I can master the art myself.
happy scrapping..
Dirtbikepilot
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Dirtbikepilot
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miniroo said:gosh, wouldn't that be a shocker.
if the stuff was unloaded off the harvey norman truck
and the poor bloke was just having a cuppa, comes out
and hey presto! no more electricals
nah it definitely was hard rubbish, actually I went and had a better look at them and they all have stickers on the monitor that says display model only.
so that kinda makes sense, he must run a tv store
as why would you have 3 identicle tv's.
got another 4 plasma's today, here I am scrapping fancy plasma's and I don't even own my own plasma.
same goes for many things, it's a bit like I get to own them until i rip 'em appart.
today the council trucks were lurking about, everyone was about today, there was a charity truck with a couple work for the dole guys actually picking stuff up too.
spotted a council supervisor and went up to him and asked what they think of scrappers and if there's any problems, he's never heard of any problems and they are ok with people grabbing what they need.
Yeah a lot of the junk is in perfect working order, I been getting people coming out and saying oh that still works fine ect, still hoping that someone puts items to good use before it's in landfill.
I have kept everything thats still brand new in box, with all attachments ect, today was a coffee machine, even the little plastic sticker to open the box hasn't been opened! yestdy I got a dutch pancake maker and brand new timber blinds in good small sizes, it's endless.
if I had kids they'd have the best toys.
bumped into a guy on a push bike picking up items to resell, he picks up anything retro 70's ect.
we were at the same pile and he was wrapped to find two mannequin type latex heads! real freaky but he reckon's they sell like hot cakes.
appart from a few old blokes going around cutting cords, I seem to be the only one that's doing ewaste, I kinda feel I'm like the clown of the scrappers and there's something I don't know that everyone else does.
but the copper, there's so much copper, if you try not to think about it then you can imagine it to be gold.
speaking of gold, I found another big bounty stack today, really nice old Vietnamese guy come out and pointed to two boxes he put out, he must of started to scrap electricals at one stage and had heaps of beautiful pc boards, and them real heavy little block things that have a heap of copper in them, encased in like a steel casing, yeah about 40kg's of them.
the boards are all loaded with gold fingers and bits.
there were no memory chips but there was a pc chip, you know that square thing with all the gold pins, yeah one of them too, and a wooden box with metal tid bits,
really heavy, lots of junky bits too but I took the whole box and then dropped in on my driveway, took ages to clean up.
Charlie the scrapper, my little maltese scrapper mate I met yesterday, has a classic maltese accent, bumped into him today and he showed me how to scrap a tv in situ.
he showed me his little tools, a cordless drill & side cutters, that's it appart from magnets stuck all around his truck as he's a metal scrapper.
anyway, we walked over to a random medium sized tv. in about 3 minutes he stripped the tv bare and had it back together like new.
no breakage, no mess and maximum value.
so i'm going to practice it with all my tv's and monitors and see if I can master the art myself.
happy scrapping..
You should have finished that up with a Big Kev, "I'm excited"
You will be the king of the scrappers soon. Sound like you are finding some great stuff.
oh off course, inside the switches
tried to look online for pictures of switches and it seems a switch can look like anything.
but yeah, they have silver contacts and even gold contacts coated in silver.
think I won't rush to scrap all the little electrical components until i've learnt enough to
get the max value from them, but yeah your right, it seems most scrappers overlook them.
another day at the office, the location is done, was funny as I was running about 50 metres in front of the truck picking it all up,
frantically picking up pc monitors, cutting cables and what not.
streets are now empty and i'm onto the next already.
a smaller area, mostly a new estate with mcmansions, funny though as I still see this area as a dried out sheep paddock,
it's only 6 minutes away and so far did 2 loads from it, an outstanding array of quality assorted goods to be got.
the cable cutter on a push bike has already hit this area, every tv and monitor has it's cord cut off,
but if he just looked to the side he'd often find better then a few cables but that's good for me.
I brought along a camera and was gonna take pictures of peoples stacks to give you an example of what I'm dealing with.
but all I managed was a test shot as I put the camera on the floor then forgot and piled heaps of junk on top so couldn't
get to the camera until I unloaded again.
so this is all I took, from the old area this morning. I didn't touch these tv's though, have too many of 'em. these ones had the cords cut
so moved onto the next stack but this is pretty much a standard sized pile with a few extra tv's, other places look the same except
it may be pc's, monitors, stereo systems ect, depends on what there into I guess, but this picture tells me these people have
no life and watch too much television.
Honey i'm home!
I got my camera back from under the junk, what you see out of the car is what was in the front seat!
the pc towers were a late inclusion as I was chugging back home when I saw 'em and couldn't resist more cpu's!
them three and the one you see in the back of the car, it's just sitting there like that, had to strap the hatch down
as it wouldn't fit otherwise and didn't want to leave one behind.
but yeah, that's one load, big bits and lots of small bit's and that's what I'm doing 3 or 4 times a day.
tried to look online for pictures of switches and it seems a switch can look like anything.
but yeah, they have silver contacts and even gold contacts coated in silver.
think I won't rush to scrap all the little electrical components until i've learnt enough to
get the max value from them, but yeah your right, it seems most scrappers overlook them.
another day at the office, the location is done, was funny as I was running about 50 metres in front of the truck picking it all up,
frantically picking up pc monitors, cutting cables and what not.
streets are now empty and i'm onto the next already.
a smaller area, mostly a new estate with mcmansions, funny though as I still see this area as a dried out sheep paddock,
it's only 6 minutes away and so far did 2 loads from it, an outstanding array of quality assorted goods to be got.
the cable cutter on a push bike has already hit this area, every tv and monitor has it's cord cut off,
but if he just looked to the side he'd often find better then a few cables but that's good for me.
I brought along a camera and was gonna take pictures of peoples stacks to give you an example of what I'm dealing with.
but all I managed was a test shot as I put the camera on the floor then forgot and piled heaps of junk on top so couldn't
get to the camera until I unloaded again.
so this is all I took, from the old area this morning. I didn't touch these tv's though, have too many of 'em. these ones had the cords cut
so moved onto the next stack but this is pretty much a standard sized pile with a few extra tv's, other places look the same except
it may be pc's, monitors, stereo systems ect, depends on what there into I guess, but this picture tells me these people have
no life and watch too much television.
Honey i'm home!
I got my camera back from under the junk, what you see out of the car is what was in the front seat!
the pc towers were a late inclusion as I was chugging back home when I saw 'em and couldn't resist more cpu's!
them three and the one you see in the back of the car, it's just sitting there like that, had to strap the hatch down
as it wouldn't fit otherwise and didn't want to leave one behind.
but yeah, that's one load, big bits and lots of small bit's and that's what I'm doing 3 or 4 times a day.
Coppermetalzzz said:
Strip the cable and you get twice as much for it
Rubbing Elbows
Active Member
You need someone to throw out a trailer!
yeah I could use a trailer, but I think i'd be too tempted to do scrap steel aswell, that would be a bit too full on.
but I am thinking of different setups and looking at doing things maybe on more of a professional level, would like to get access to when companies change over their pc's and things like that, free removals, some charge to pick up.
yeah cables have copper and they sell cables for $2 kg with the plastic coating still on, just have to remove the plugs, they leave the plugs on the ground which I pick up,
the 3 ends on the plug can be pulled out and they are brass, I like 'em.
when they strip the wire and get clean copper they get $6 kg. a big older tv can have 2kg's of copper if you remove it all, that's pretty good money.
today I saw an old couple going about picking wires, good excercise and money for pokies that evening i guess
this isn't just scrapping, this is mining for precious metals above ground, that's all it is, gina rheinhart uses giant bulldozers to get her copper, me, a toyota starlet with tinted windows baby!
but I am thinking of different setups and looking at doing things maybe on more of a professional level, would like to get access to when companies change over their pc's and things like that, free removals, some charge to pick up.
yeah cables have copper and they sell cables for $2 kg with the plastic coating still on, just have to remove the plugs, they leave the plugs on the ground which I pick up,
the 3 ends on the plug can be pulled out and they are brass, I like 'em.
when they strip the wire and get clean copper they get $6 kg. a big older tv can have 2kg's of copper if you remove it all, that's pretty good money.
today I saw an old couple going about picking wires, good excercise and money for pokies that evening i guess
this isn't just scrapping, this is mining for precious metals above ground, that's all it is, gina rheinhart uses giant bulldozers to get her copper, me, a toyota starlet with tinted windows baby!
A little off topic, but..
[rant] What is it with these "roadside collections" any way? On the GC the council only collect the wheelie bins. If it's too big for the bin, you put it in your car and take it to the tip.
However, cross into NSW Tweed Heads and there can be piles of shit festering at the side of the road for weeks. It's no wonder you don't get any bloody tourists!
IF YOU DON'T WANT IT, TAKE IT TO THE TIP, YOU LAZY PEOPLE.
The tip ("resource recovery centre", they call it "resource" now, not shit) is at Stotts Creek. It's only a 10 minute drive. Try it! You may find it liberating to look out of your window and not have to think "Jaysus keryste, it's like Beirut on a bad day!" [/rant]
[rant] What is it with these "roadside collections" any way? On the GC the council only collect the wheelie bins. If it's too big for the bin, you put it in your car and take it to the tip.
However, cross into NSW Tweed Heads and there can be piles of shit festering at the side of the road for weeks. It's no wonder you don't get any bloody tourists!
IF YOU DON'T WANT IT, TAKE IT TO THE TIP, YOU LAZY PEOPLE.
The tip ("resource recovery centre", they call it "resource" now, not shit) is at Stotts Creek. It's only a 10 minute drive. Try it! You may find it liberating to look out of your window and not have to think "Jaysus keryste, it's like Beirut on a bad day!" [/rant]
well they pay for it, they pay rates.
most civilised parts of australia don't just put what they can fit into a wheelie bin, infact most have 2 wheelie bins, one for rubbish and one for recyclables.
you can also pay extra and get a green waste wheelie bin too.
so you expect your grandparents to lug out an old washing machine and some old tv's, load it onto a trailer, scoot up to the tip and throw 'em off?
what's more disturbing is having to read the word shit 4 times, you seem a little obsessed with that word, it's a shit word.
most civilised parts of australia don't just put what they can fit into a wheelie bin, infact most have 2 wheelie bins, one for rubbish and one for recyclables.
you can also pay extra and get a green waste wheelie bin too.
so you expect your grandparents to lug out an old washing machine and some old tv's, load it onto a trailer, scoot up to the tip and throw 'em off?
what's more disturbing is having to read the word shit 4 times, you seem a little obsessed with that word, it's a shit word.
Tacrezod said:
Stotts Creek charges you a bomb - even to dump green waste! WTF? Then they mulch it and sell it back to you for your garden. You have got to be kidding.
I just burn mine now.... Julia can fix it with my carbon tax.
BTW: We don't want anymore tourists down here... can hardly cope now with all the Queenslanders at the beach carpark every week end.
Dirtbikepilot
Active Member
Good on you Miniroo. I was going to work a couple of months ago and saw some great pieces of steel I wanted.
Alas I was on my way to work and could do nothing unless I threw a sicky. The next day they have like that I am
taking the trailer out and picking up anything that is handy. Not gonna be the next scrappy, but there is plenty
of stuff like angle iron that gets chucked that is always handy.
Alas I was on my way to work and could do nothing unless I threw a sicky. The next day they have like that I am
taking the trailer out and picking up anything that is handy. Not gonna be the next scrappy, but there is plenty
of stuff like angle iron that gets chucked that is always handy.
Bloody tea leafs
All the GC tips are free. What if you go up to Tugun tip and dump your stuff there? ShinyStuff
New Member
I did my first ever scapping trip a few weeks ago!
I had an old steel fence, some shelves... just my stuff, nothing grabbed! My wife also had one of those HUGE irons with a water resoviour so I thought that I would take it apart for fun... took about 30 mins and it was CAST ALUMINIUM. With all the steel, the brass, aluminium (4 kilos) and the like, I made $7.50. Ok, not heaps, but this was just from my own junk, and the aluminium was the kicker... steel didn't make me much at all.
So - question... how do you take apart the old vacuum tube TVs without smashing them. THEN, what to do with them later? I am totally into it, but these seem too hard for me.... love your advice.
Shiny.
I had an old steel fence, some shelves... just my stuff, nothing grabbed! My wife also had one of those HUGE irons with a water resoviour so I thought that I would take it apart for fun... took about 30 mins and it was CAST ALUMINIUM. With all the steel, the brass, aluminium (4 kilos) and the like, I made $7.50. Ok, not heaps, but this was just from my own junk, and the aluminium was the kicker... steel didn't make me much at all.
So - question... how do you take apart the old vacuum tube TVs without smashing them. THEN, what to do with them later? I am totally into it, but these seem too hard for me.... love your advice.
Shiny.
ShinyStuff said:
it's very easy to remove the copper without breaking the glass tube.
remove the 4 screws from the back cover, take it off, on top of the tube there is a small circuit board,
just pull it up off, then you'll see two stainless steel hose clamps, unscrew them and you just pull the
whole yolk up off the tube.
then the main circuit board just pulls out and you cut a few wires.
then pull out the big cord that wraps around the tv by snipping of the cable ties.
that's it, you can also remove the speakers if you like then cover back on and your done.
but if you have no real means of disposing tv tubes then your best to do it where you find the tv.