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Curt Palme
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:58 pm Post subject: The secret to every CRT repair I've ever done. |
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I started this box about 6 years ago. It was a large flat rate USPS shipping box, but that overflowed about 3 years ago, so I dumped all them into a bigger box. It's been overflowing for the last 6 months, so it's finally time to dump it! $1000s of dollars in chips, caps, transistors, etc. All going to the dumpster... tomorrow. I start with a clean box on Jan 1.
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Matrix
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Curt, the older chips and boards are worth some money for the precious metal content. Contact a precious metal refiner to see what the minimum weight or bulk in printed circuit boards they will take for refining. They do not charge you anything upfront, only a percentage off the final assay after refining, like 10% .You may be throwing your retirement away a box at a time! The newer chips and circuit boards have less gold, silver, and platinum than the say pre 2004 years production.
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draganm
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| Curt Palme wrote: | | All going to the dumpster... tomorrow.. |
ever heard of recycling? | Matrix wrote: | | Curt, the older chips and boards are worth some money for the precious metal content. Contact a precious metal refiner to see what the minimum weight or bulk in printed circuit boards they will take for refining. |
right, I saw a guy walk away with 50 bucks once for a small box of CPU's, that was 10 years ago.
Can't imagine what it's worth now with Copper at $3. a pound scrap value.
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draganm
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Curt Palme
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It is all going to the recycler.. I actually tried listing the parts for $1.00 on eBay a couple of years ago... 3 times.. with no takers.
I took a record 3 truckloads of crap to the recycler today. I was brutal in the shop, and it was sad, really. Threw out two nice Technics receivers, but both used the $60 custom Technics chips. I can't get $35 for the receivers, even when working. Portable 1983 vintage VHS machines... 2 of them... toast! Mono Sanyo Beta machine... outta here! 
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Jeremy112
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| Curt Palme wrote: | It is all going to the recycler.. I actually tried listing the parts for $1.00 on eBay a couple of years ago... 3 times.. with no takers.
I took a record 3 truckloads of crap to the recycler today. I was brutal in the shop, and it was sad, really. Threw out two nice Technics receivers, but both used the $60 custom Technics chips. I can't get $35 for the receivers, even when working. Portable 1983 vintage VHS machines... 2 of them... toast! Mono Sanyo Beta machine... outta here! |
Though some of those items may be a piece of history, they should probably remain that way, so far your list of stuff thats "otta here!" is well worth tossing in the dumpster!!
I know what you mean when you say its sad, I have a hard time throwing any electronics away, but thats the way it goes sometimes....
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dvh99
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are those the stk convergence chips i see in the box?
seems to be a common problem, those chips going bad.
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AnalogRocks
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Moment of silence for the Beta machine. Sanyo Beta's, eats tapes like nobodies business.  and had Mono to boot. SO it ate them slowly.
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draganm
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I don't think donating or recycling crap that's clogging up my life is sad at all. when I come home and see a nice, clean open space where there used tot be piles up crap I just feel better. Sometimes it stays that way for as long as a week
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Jeremy112
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| draganm wrote: | | I don't think donating or recycling crap that's clogging up my life is sad at all. when I come home and see a nice, clean open space where there used tot be piles up crap I just feel better. Sometimes it stays that way for as long as a week |
lmao, I would have to agree with you there draganm, I have loads of stuff coming in and out of my house all the time, If I kept everything I liked, I would be living outside the house 
Its pretty hard to keep a nice open space around when you do this stuff on a daily basis 
Besides I only keep stuff I actually use, so far I have to say that works out pretty well, I only have 20% of unused electronics
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