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First time trying to sort and sell before so go easy one me!

I'm not really interested in doing a ton of additional work to make a few extra pennies but if there is something I should obviously break down please let me know.



Pretty sure these are metal socket motherboards.




This was the thing I was least sure about. Has the silver fingers but the part on the corner is rather heavy but it's attached to the other board.



Pretty sure these are low grade brown boards



I think these are gold finger cards but the one might be a back plane expansion?



Peripheral Board?



Mid Grade Greens?

large socket mobos



an aluminum/copper sink and a just aluminum sinks. It's not on the list but there are a few pieces of extra aluminum I have from various spots. Can I sent those in as well?



Just doing the quick math it makes a lot of sense to pull the batteries out of these and sell them separately.




Pentium Ceramic Chip



Green/Brown Fiber No Metal



PSUs



disk drives



Ribbon and other various wires. Any sorting beyond this need to be done?



Gold Finger Ram



386/486 chips. One has what looks like a mini heatsink on the back. Does that need to be removed? I tried but she's on there pretty good

I'll let someone else help you on grading specific items (your grades should be close if not right, but I'm still learning too) but some thoughts from my own experience doing this:

Remember to remove the batteries on the motherboards.

If you're shipping consider the cost of shipping and the price for the materials you're sending in. I usually take all my wire, copper, aluminum and steel to a local scrap yard because I get more for my material after any costs in transporting it there. I try to do this with most of my circuit boards also because they're just too bulky to get in a box to ship. Just make sure your local yard will take circuit boards.

Of course, if you can fit everything you have in one box then you might as well put it all in.

That particular copper aluminum heat sink can be separated fairly easily if you have a small sledge hammer, a steel rod and something to hit it against, like a vise. You have to hit it pretty hard but it only takes a minute and that's a good chunk of copper.

On the 386, I think lostinlodos said you can boil it to separate the heatsink (apologies to whoever suggested that if not Lost). If you just heat it, it may come off with some force but that may break it.

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Chris said boil. Which works for most people. I use a heat gun set at 1200• which takes just as long in warm up and remove as bringing to a boil.
Boiling usually works
Heat gun always works but you risk loosening/loosing gold caps too.

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Thanks for the heads-up on the mobo batteries I'll get those removed.

I'll definitely omit shipping stuff like the PSUs if I run out of space. I'll likely end up using a flat rate and basically leaving out the biggest/least valuable stuff if I don't have room.

I can definitely bang the copper out of the heat sink. But I guess that brings me to the question, will BS take alum or copper that been further refined like that? Or such as the random pieces of aluminum that I posted?

I guess part of it is I don't really feel like going out of my way to bring in a few lbs of scrap (less than $10 worth) to a yard. Most of the yards around here are pretty shady and with my luck I'll probs end up with a nail in my tire.

I don't have a heatgun so I guess boiling will be my best bet. Next time I make a pot of spaghetti I'll give it a go :P

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Metal Socket

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Peripheral

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power set is low-grade. The floppy board will be peripheral if there's an an IC on it somewhere.

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yes, backplane and Gold Finger Cards

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small socket motherboard. remove the fan and heatsink. There is, or was, a processor in the socket under it

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Largest board is CD/DVD class. Smallest board is peripheral. medium board is midgrade.


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yes both large socket

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aluminium is heavy. You're probably better selling it locally. They do not accept scrap aluminium. Only computer/electronics pieces. These tend to be a slightly higher class when used as heatsinks. As opposed to other scrap.

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it varies by phone and battery sizing. you need to do the weights and math yourself as sometimes it is better whole, sometimes separating the batteries from the phone and some larger older models can be more valuable taken apart completely.

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Yep, standard pentium/mac ceramic

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correct again

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That they are. usually better sold locally, after removing the wire tails

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remove the board from the bottom and send it to boardsort. sell the rest locally for steel scrap. you're loosing money otherwise.

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good as is (cut any gold pin/socket ends off, they're paid higher as gold pin connectors)

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Ram it is

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covered in an above post for the sink.

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metal socket

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you can send the aluminium and copper pieces separated as aluminium, and copper, heatsinks.

And i would suggest cooking the pasta FIRST. there's some things in the chip packages you probably don't want to be eating.

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