I appreciate the help I'm getting on the HD TV boards I've accumulated, hopefully this is the last time I'll have a question on these, what are the boards in sets that have the main and power as one board like in the one pictured? Is this still high peripheral or because of the high voltage capacitor and transformer do these drops down in grade? And if they do could the larger caps, coils, transformer be removed to make them high grade peripheral, or would it make more sense to take a saw to the board and remove the power supply part although it's not all that easy to do on some boards. Thanks again for the help.

The term you will commonly hear in the videos is quote. "Junk". That's a buzzword for transformers. Heatsinks. Toroids. Metal brackets. I'm sure some other "junk" exists also. Remove the junk from your pictured board. I see 2 toroids. 1 transformer. Then that board will go High Perpheral. I think leaving the large capacitor is ok. NOW! Without removing the "junk". That board most likely is midgrade. There are more experienced escrappers on this forum. Hopefully one will chime in also. Maybe Boardsort or our forum administrator or other seasoned escrapper can do a video on "COMMONLY FOUND ESCRAP JUNK". WHAT IT IS. AND WHAT IT IS NOT. WHY IT AFFECTS GRADE. I know the references to "junk" is covered in many videos. But. Maybe a fully dedicated video to common escrap junk posted in the Annoucement section can help a novice escrapper develope a feel for escrap in general. This is only my opinion.
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Thanks for the info Catwhisker, I had a couple dozen combo boards similar to this one I have pictured, I cut out the hot side of the power supply that has the transformers, coils ect so basically all that was left was the main board parts, on some boards that's easy to do but on most of them it's not a straight line so cutting on a bandsaw is impossible, on those I'll remove the transformers, coils and large capacitor, hopefully then it will be graded as a high grade peripheral board. My concern with any board being graded as mid-grade is it cost me about a buck and a half a pound to ship from where I live to Ohio, if the price on mid is $.50 I lose a buck a pound, so want to do my best to not have any boards turn into mid grade.

I deal with shipping issues in a similiar fashion. I pack a box as tight as possible. That requires me to many times remove those big capacitors. Also. Removing input/output ports. That are too high off the board for a tight fit. Yes. I lose weight. But. I gain 2 or 4 boards in the box I am packing. Motherboards are prime examples. I remove those highly stacked outport ports. Then. I can squeeze many more boards together. I pack my escrap against shipping cost. In other words. What I pack offsets the shipping cost as best as possible. I could go on. But. I know you see it for what I am saying.
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I've thought about removing the taller ports and rca plugs as well but was worried about that dropping down the grading value of the boards. I used to ship a lot of things with USPS but they're getting crazy in price so mainly been using UPS, I just shipped a 30 pound box to boardsort a week ago, USPS commercial rate was just over $50 where UPS was $31, that's quite a savings.

USPS is "top heavy". You have 2 to 3 supervisors managing 1 man on the street. That's a fact. USPS has 1 thing going for it. Under law. They must deliver to the final destination. Many services contract with USPS to get that benefit. This is how it is. Costs go up. Naturally. Then we hear about buying out long term USPS employees. "What's up with that?" There is nothing unusual going on here. You got devoted USPS employees that served the system. And eventually came into comfortable postions. As outlined in the USPS business model. Now. Here we are. All this competition from other delivery businesses. Amazon Prime. Fine example. So. Crazy. Yes indeed.

I am not in the escrap business. I'm the individual that has this accumulation of electronic parts over the years. NOTE. Been in electronics since 1972. Rather than put it to the street curb. I started searching for businesses that buy vintage/antique electronic components. Then I found this business called Boardsort. Interesting. I have sold some stuff to them. And also study the website. It is something I entertain myself with in my retirement years. That comment is not intended to be demeaning. My interest is basically academic. I said all that. To say this. I temper my comments to the technical issues of selling an escrap piece to Boardsort. I am not a seasoned escrapper. Some issues. I could never address. And I do not feign to. Your example of shipping Midgrade is one such example. What I do. For me. I know a "street scrapper here." I give all my Low Grade/Mid Grade to him. I also find it a losing endeavour to mail Low/Mid. BUT. I have read some committed escrappers posts. They save up hundreds of pounds of Mid Low escrap and send it in via other services. And it seems to pay. If your in a position to collect large quanties of Low/Mid Grade. Do it. Why? The large movers of freight. Make their $$$ on large weight.
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I am hoping a seasoned escrapper will comment.
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