On the assumption that the “in” box you reference is the RF input port and converter in a thin metal hoisin... it’s rarely worth focusing on that. Much like old video game and 4/8 bit computer boards that one of the afterthought components in recycling. With tube TVs the vast majority of power on board motherboards, the big massive single board units with ICs, cables, and transformers etc attached, are going to be mid grade 99% of the time. And nothing you’d remove could bump it up in value. Very high end tube TVs, and computer monitors, especially “flat tube” units, have the potential to make it to peripheral with a bit of work. Youdthave to remove the massive transformers and large capacitors, shields, wires, etc. Removing the RF converter won’t hurt, but is unlikely to help either.
As for pins I’m not sure what I said in reference to the posted boards. Boardsort, and all escrap companies, generally frown upon cherry picking items of value from the boards. The class value is based on the average value of boards. Much like a company that pays a special rate for transformers averages the value of large copper strip shields in high voltage against the plastic weight of brick transformers in price, Boardsort values the average pin weight on many gold finger cards as part of the offer. Will they dock an individual person of a single card? Probably not. 20, 10, 5 cards with cut pins, someone is going to notice. Not sure if they’ll dock you down on that or not. But if 50 people cut the pins on just one card each that’s a massive value loss for Boardsort, and the class value will depreciate considerably after a week or two. Then you get the domino issues where the lower prices make people remove more, driving prices lower, etc; where eventually the value of gold finger cards isn’t much better than peripheral. Those scrapping long enough in escrap remember the price crash when the industry changed from ATA/SCSI to SATA/SAS on drive controllers like DVD and Hard Disk cards. The loss there was the same as this hypothetical loss of pins on finger cards. The only reason hard drive boards still hold the current hard drive value today is due to Apple and HP who held on to SCSI until a few years ago; there’s still a large volume of SCSI drive boards coming into the scrap market. With the end of XP/2008 on the windows side and the coming death of 32-bit MacOS the SCSI bubble is going to pop in the next 2 years and then hard drive boards will quickly drop to near telco if not be merged outright.
So... my ultimate suggestion is don’t. You could make a bit more short term money doing so, but you’re hurting the very industry and people you are depending on.
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