I often am required to make corrections in my previous avowals: like when I told the preacher and assembled audience to see a woman get married, and I said, "I Do," for some reason I usually wound up telling the judge later, that "I didn't". No reflection on the lady (s): just pointing out their poor judgment in choice of husband material. I need to correct a couple of my statements above. These units were GX 620 rather than 630. Also, the ones that opened like a suitcase were four digit models, rather than in the hundreds series, and there were only two of those. Since those two were complete with everything except the harddrive, I put them back for testing with a harddrive installed instead of junking. The others that I did scrap were large towers who popped a side off with the push of a button, so quick to dismantle. Only six had the power supply, with Cd/DVD intact, while another 5 had only the CD. Of note is that the ones I stripped all had Celeron D processors, a pinless one. While the D was apparently a good Chip, it was a dual core which produced a huge amount of heat, and required a 1 3/4 pound Cu/Al heatsink. The stripped GX620 were lacking in memory sticks. Here is a rough breakdown: Cost of 24 units $31 plus tax and fees, Total $36.50 Kept 8 units, so cost of ones recycled, $24. 20 (figures not precise) Time to remove 9 screws by hand driver 2 to 3 minutes less than an hour total
Value of steel housing (large tower) approximately 20 pounds @ .03 $0.60 times 16 total recoup $9.60
16 pinless CPU weight slightly over 3/4 pound, at $4.50 per lb, about $3.50
16 metal socket green motherboards, roughly 1 pound each, at $1.80 per pound, total $28.20
16 Cu/Al heatsink, 1 1/2 pounds each , total 24 pounds@ $0.50 per pound, total $12.00
30 pounds of power supply with wire, DVD/CD whole, @ $0.15 per lb, $4.50
Total recoup: approximately $56.00 on stripping 2/3 of the units.
Notes: usually these units would have a couple or three gold memory sticks, at about 40 cents each, and two or more gold finger cards. Extrapolating these figures to the entire batch of 24, if I recycle all 24, I expect to get approximately $90 scrap value
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