I wish I had found this about 2 years ago when I had about 200 pounds of processors, RAM, and old motherboards that I sent off to somewhere else and ended up with about $60 for it. However, life sucks and we move on.
I've read a lot through here and I'm only slightly less confused then I was before I started.
1) Motherboards are easy, gold fingered boards are easy, hard drive boards are easy, but I'm seeing Mid grade, Low grade, Peripheral, and Telecom. I'm guessing low grade is easy. Power supply boards, TV boards, anything that looks crappy and probably a brown board with little circuitry running through it. Mid grade is much cheaper than peripheral, but all the identification posts are calling almost everything peripheral. Is mid grade just a prettier version of what a low grade board looks like? Telecom appears to be a high grade board that may or may not be peripheral. So for easiness one could call it peripheral unless every square inch is covered with IC chips?
2) I'm also also seeing things about not taking items off of boards. I've been popping everything off the boards that's worth anything because I had nowhere to send the boards to. 2a) Such as aluminum heatsinks on the motherboards. Doesn't make a lot of sense to take them off from what I see here, unless you need to do so. Selling the aluminum heatsink for .25 a pound or leave it on and basically sell for $1.20 a pound. Should all of them be left on, or take them off if they're x big? 2b) Such as the isolator and transformers on power supply boards. Since the PSU board is low grade it can't get demoted much I guess. Would boards that have those ALL be low grade though? Or would it lower it to low grade if it was removed from a higher grade? 2c) Such as the IC chips. Which I get a pittance for anyhow so probably wouldn't bother removing when I send here.
Thanks for your help guys.
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