Here is is New Years day, again, in Tennessee. This New Years celebration is getting monotonous, co when asked if she like fishing, said that she had gone once, and it was fuming like clockwork regular every year. It is like my fishing buddys wife. ,n, but it wasn't something she wanted to do regular like once a year
January? check. happens every yead last year, which was only yesterday,
So here I am in short sleeves, taking the steel case off Bitmain power supplies. Each weighs 5 pounds, which would bring $2.25 at Boardsort as is @ 45 cents as power supply with wire. There is the catch. Each unit has a wire tail consisting of about 18 or twenty foot long #2 insulated copper wires. Haven't weighed the wire yet, but it is worth taking off, but to remove it with the heavy copper solid terminal ends, requires removing the steel case cover.
Whoops, did I goof up? Without the wires, the power supply is only worth 3er pound. 0 c3nts. But now if I remove the power supply board, I now have a midgrade board worth 50 cents per pound. But wait. Now that the board is out, it has 3 heavy aluminum heat sinks , a heavy copper transformer made like four or five plate copper washers stacked around a ferrite block, and heavy copper connection posts for the wiring harness to connect, plus a few capacitors and other stuff.
After I get about 20 completely disassembled, Ill weigh and report back on the value vs time element, before decidinig how many more of the 3 or 4 hundred to disassemble and to what stage. Again, one overriding consideration is the volume of the unprocessed material to deliver to Ohio. Most of the metals will pay more at my local yard, but they won't touch e scrap, except at shred steel prices. As I mentioned in another post, I have already sold $540 of aluminum extrusions from the hundreds of hashboards the local yard offer me 8 cents per pound, or about 20 cents per board. I still have the boards, with half the heatsinks gone, still worth 50 cents a pound as midgrade at Boardsort, and a few winter weeks where I will probably strip more aluminum off, leaving only the boards to bring to boardsort.

I am not as ignorant as the grammar and word order in the first part of the above post imdicates. I usually am typing/keyboarding early in the morning or late at night, with laptop on top of my lap, with a big belly sticking its big noggin out to see what is happening, and knocking my hand off kilter. Plus with my fickle finger of eight, with two thumbs trying to take charge, somehow I hit keys which insert a whole sentence into another word, or shoves a line or paragraph up the page halfway, and I rarely proof read and never read the terms and conditions of papers I sign (ha). I may eventually edit the above to make sense, if I am making any cents by all the extra preparation I am doing to the boards. I made a 30 second video of my method of clearing heatsinks off the hashboards. Unfortunately the ones I had to use for demonstration were the dozen or so I had thrown back because they were newer boards, and were soldered extra heavy, so that my blade merely slid under a row of heat sinks and lodged, instead of knocing a about twenty loose with one blow.