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Here it is mid July, year 2026 of the Common Era, except it isn't so common anymore. The Dog Star Sirius is rising, and Sirius is playing music for you, and your phone and TV are talking back to you like a teenage child, but obey your commands more readily.
Country farm boys are out hoeing the corn, wait, that was 60 years ago. Now the farmers use chemicals and no till methods so the farm boy is sweating out the hot summer in the airconditioned cab of a quarter million dollar tractor while the corn grows and hoes itself.
Everybody knows that dogs get rabies and go mad during dog days, and that the ponds are filled with deadly diseases, and don't get cut or scratched or your leg will rot off.
So what is a farm boy with 75 plus years of poverty under his belt to do? Why make big money with E-Scrap of course. Wr know how easy how easy to bring home the plant based bacon these days. It is too easy, according the videos. Pick up a piece of junk electronics. spend two minutes dismantling it and presto, money you ain't never spent is in your hand.
Unfortunately for the dog day dreamers, there is a bit of sweaty work, lets call it persistent perspiration perspective and manual manipulation involved.
Junking out Antminer power supplies is my current task. Forget that proverb that says "go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise. True, the ant is toiling away, day after day. May I point out that the industrious ant has about ten thousand helpers and I am a one to a chair in a one chair operation.
Last summer and autum, it was too hot or too cold to process the power supplies. The winter was just too cold to handle the metal items, and besides the final price to realize wasn't high enough to demand quick turnover.
So now that I have enough high dollar boards and scrap from other items, I need to have the 2000 + pounds of power supplies ready to deliver with the boards and IC's
So here I am sitting out in the direct sunlight, converting sunshine to Vitamin D for more hours than is enjoyable until the metal is hot enough to blister the fingers. Why don't I sit under the shade tree you ask? Well, the shade tree is on the other side of the drive, and I can't move the tree to where I am working.
To further complicate the process, some idiot left several totes of these power supplies sitting out in the weather and rain for several months, so some of the screwheads are rusty and strip when removal is attempted.
Had I been 400 miles closer to boardsort, I would have saved time by delivering the power supplys with wire without any processing, but due to the volume and weight, it was more than my vehicles could handle .
My question for the forum after I post a picture, should I further process the boards removing the aluminum and copper heavy transformers, copper heatsinks, etc.

my cuzin says, 'if it was easy, everyone would do it.'
try working with vintage avionics. few boards, remove parts seperatly. but the presious metals 4 times thicker than today.

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chillin at Scrooge McDuck's place dreamin bout gold
and out of work comedian :lol:

Yep, boardjerking can be monotonous, but I have a monopoly on monotony. But, on the brighter side, at least it pays better than playing solitaire. And eventually every card/board will go into some box.

I'm at a point where I can set up a gaylord box, fill the bottom with as many PSUs as I can then add barrels/boxes of higher grade material on top, then strap down another pallet on top where more boxes can go until I reach the 84" height limit. In this method I cut the wires so the psu boxes stack neatly.

In the past I would leave the wire alone until I got the board out, this way you cut closer to the board and get more insulated wire. Then, if the heatsinks are aluminum, they stay put ~85% of the time and only come off if they're fairly large and all the screws (or whatever is holding them on) are easily accessible. If copper or brass heatsinks, they come off ~98% of the time. I go with a number slightly less than 100% because inevitably a heatsink will be so stubborn I just cut as much off as I can and leave the rest. Board then usually goes into low grade.

But you can do more or less depending on how much you want to do compared to the money you make off that work.

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Here to learn more so I can recycle more
My grades are my own opinion and not an official grade from Boardsort

I always try to resell the power supplies on ebay before i scrap them. I get anywhere from $20-$35 depending on the model.

Anything that doesnt sell in a couple months gets scrapped.

Ive got a couple hundred that need scrapped. I strip them down completely. All the wires, connector ends, MLCCs, aluminum (I melt all the aluminum), and copper.

Ive got a few pounds of MLCCs that one day i will attempt to recover the silver from