Ewaste Scrapping - Make the Most Money on Computer Power Supplies 

The black slotted plugs are gold connectors.

Very thorough comparison, Professor Shark!! It's always so easy just to tell someone "It's not worth the time", but to actually SHOW them why makes all the difference. And as you said, there are differences from yard to yard. I have found a place that takes low grade boards for $.38/lb. I get $.18/lb on transformers, so I don't strip the transformers from the boards anymore.

How your scrap yard categorizes things matters a ton. That wire with connectors, you called copper 2 at over $1 a pound. I just brought essentially the same thing to my scrap yard and they call it ribbon cable at 45 cents a pound with or without connectors. Connector ends and small transformers and inductors are all considered steel and they pay 6 cents a pound. So it's very much worth knowing what YOUR scrapyard categorizes it and what they pay.

You are probably the first person on RU-vid i seen respond back to everyone's comment and not complain about it in your videos you are amazing keep this up I'm a new subscriber for you and ill definitely be watching your videos man Good job and keep up the good work

personally, I always save my power supplies. I make trickle chargers, LED power supplies, and other psu out of them. They're good for sooo many things!

I love these types of videos. I make spreadsheets for everything I can justify. Keep it up!

and if it is E you brake transformers and F you depopulate all components from the boards, pcn goes to be burnt for heating pump it would get us somewhere the same, unless workforce is under 1-2 dollar per hour

Your life could be so easy and peace in mind when you stop looking time ticking, looking always on watch give you a kind of unrest in your mind. Its my own opinion may i m wrong here

Exactly as I expected. You do it the way you do it because as a business man you know time is money. Excellant presentation! I always enjoy watching these videos. If only all, "professors" , were as good at teaching as you are. I had fun.

Hey man I work in a place where they always bring us laptops, computers, tvs, microwaves etc, what do you recommend me scrapping off them to start to sell?

I wonder if one would make more turing the powersupplies into DYI power supplies for DYIer and sell for more on Ebay...

Very good description given by you prof.thank you very much.

Love all the math, I would love to see the average hourly/step break down. Because one would not skip to the last few steps without doing the ones previous. I see the more time spent equals less per hour made, but if you average the first step with any of the other steps, the hourly comparison would look more appealing.

I always pull all the copper. Including the brass from the prongs in the plugs and the ends on the cables. It takes me an avg of 15 minutes per supply using all manual tools. I would get just shred prices for the supplies, which is about $65 a ton, as no yard in my area would pay power supply prices. I also have a pile of fans that I hope to sell as fans. They are used in a lot of projects and art. I also have no local places to send the boards and they just go as breakage online. I am also saving capacitors in hopes of finding an easy way of cleaning them up for the aluminum.

I love these comparison videos, they are very helpful. I love the Excel too!

Shark cage is looking AMAZING

All the labor in processing escrap is a waste of time. The refinery pays .30-.40 cents/lb for power supplies. Skip the local yard & just send them to the refiner. I own a recycling business and there is very minimal processing. Unless there are definitely internal components worth more than just scrapping the whole thing, leave it alone.

Power supply wire isn't #2 wire, even with the plugs removed. A large amount of power supply wire is actually insulated aluminum wire.

There's a few problems... your numbers are skewed because they're all different power supplies. If all were the same, you would strip them much faster, as you'd get into a routine and do them in batches .. stack them and unscrew them all in one shot, then cut the wires of all in one shot then remove fans of all in one go and so on. Your methods are also quite UNoptimized ... for example, I wouldn't use hand tool like pliers to cut the connectors off the cables, it takes too much time. I'd just use a paper guillotine or something that can be operated with a foot pedal .. for example, put the cable under the blade, press pedal and the blade goes down cutting the wires in one shot. If you collect enough cables, like for example a barrel, you could have something automated (like those wood splitter machines), a blade that rotates at a fixed rotation so you can just slide the cable into a channel and at next rotation the cables will be cut.

It’s best to also know the weight of your scrap and some yards only pay by the pound and anything less you get nothing so know who your dealing with and do the math!

Fun fact, I'm working on power supplies as I watch this. I'm micro scrapping them right now, but may have to end up just clipping the wires and finding a yard that will take them w/o wire.

With gloves like that sometimes using your knuckle works to use your phone's touchscreen.

Buddy, Thank You, I always try to be the most efficient with my time. this is exactly what I was looking for. there is always a sweet spot, where to stop, and when you have volumes of material, it makes a big difference.

You are being scamed if you only. Get 0,20$ for your lowgrade

Awesome video. I never realized how much time I was wasting on these. Although I'm not 100% about the money. I enjoy taking stuff apart, helping the environment a bit and honestly I enjoy bringing a nice clean product to the scrap yard but this video definitely opened my eyes a bit.

Very well demonstrated and your right for me personally I am disabled. So I do this just for something to keep busy and have something I can do. Therefore as you said for those like me time really has no value as the point is just keeping busy and make as much as possible from every item we scrap. I have no place local to sell boards so I strip all components and collect them till I have enough to further process and recover the metals. Even after boards are strip the plain board has copper, silver, lead and occasionally even some gold tracing.

Ohh brother I would pull out all the capacitors and make a kick ass capacitor bank

Selling them 2nd hand gets most money I guess

Very cool, I really like to scrap electronics, usually clean and not very hard to do. Great video 👍👍

Very informative video. I can see why one would lop off the wires on a power supply and sell the wires as dirty copper, and the brick separately. Most of us don't have time to just sit around micro scrapping. Time is money too. Thank you for taking the time to give a thorough comparison.

It can be a hobby more then money and plus we are recycling e waste

What happened to thee high grade or like I say ter one, boards

Thanks for taking the time to compare the levels of microscrapping. Of course I do this all is my spare time when I’m not doing a million other things. When you have huge volumes of scrap, the more efficient the better. When it’s sparse, then you make the most of what you got. Either way, I definitely won’t quit my day job! 👍

My yard buy the connector end as copper content @ .20 per pound

From where are we getting this money?

at my recycling center, they take all the screws, nuts, and bolts under short steel, which pays more than shred.

I use a hatchet to remove the plastic from fan motors, it is real fast

My yard only pays shred value for power supplies

Very well done. I do e scraping for something to do. And your spot on.

Very interesting 👍🏻👍🏻

The only thing I would suggest is get a pair of craftsman aviation snips with the long nose. That way you can snap through those wires and one swoop, save even more time. Awesome video I made a video the other day asking if I should cut the wires off of the power supplies or do I need to leave them on to get the price

Love these comparisons!! Well done you

Scrapped on & off over the years, best thing for old powers supplies is reuse, turned a few of the into benchtop power outlets, they have multiple DC voltages great for a electrical supply on a work bench. 👍 3.3 v, 5v, 12v, & often -5 & -12v. And 24v across the -12 and +12v. 😊 Most of them needs a small jumper to run if not hooked to a motherboard. Lots of videos on how to make them work outside of a pc.

Wow you are great

This is the best scrapper channel I've found so far! Kudos! You got yourself a subscriber. I just do a little scrapping for fun, and I don't do anything on PSUs. I don't even collect them if I don't find them already dismounted from the case. Being a hobbyist makes me even more selective on what I spend my time on. The low yielding materials only make sense, if you bring significant amounts to the yard. Like >100kg. I don't want to plug my small home shop with such storage of junk.

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Mr Simple Economics himself. LOL A very good demonstration video. Yep, when I did the scrapping I was a self-employed individual, just me to fend for, so I had the time to do what you did. A lot of the micro work at that level was done by me on the weekends watching College and NFL football, Same if there other Sport Season was in full swing. So yes, to each their own, but it kept a roof over my head, fed, utilities, vehicles, and everything associated in the needs department. Thanks Shark and really enjoyed 👍

This is the video I’ve been looking for !! Thank you much. I’m a relatively new hobbyist. It feels good to take apart and recycle some of these electronics that the tech world keeps leaving behind so quickly for the newest model, the newest features, etc. Looking forward to watching more of your videos - I want to be efficient! Can you tell me what type of drill bit you use on the Dewalt driver ? The long black thin one? Is it like a universal bit ? So many of these electronics have all different screws, hex screws, etc. i spend wayyyy too much time trying to find the right bit and it seems like jt saves you a lot of time to use that same bit on (most) or the screws in the boards and outer casing.

Thank you for helping so many people with these interesting comparison videos! :D

This was another Brilliant Comparison and that Spread Sheet was Fantastic and Your Explanation Spot on - it all makes Sense - Thank You so Much - man - we enjoyed that very much ! Cheers from us in Australia !!!!

Awesome. Loved the breakdown even if i wasnt looking to scrap stuff.

Here from Silver Scorpions mention. Interesting stuff!!

Nice

Very interesting ! Good idea to break all the info in an Excel sheet, well done !

Did you forget to weigh the wire after you cut it off and include it in the final comparison?

This is a fantastic video!!!!! Keep up the great work. I appreciate you

There's no copper inside the wiring

Up here I make 38 cents off of power boards .. and the only giving 30 for the power supply .. but you know I take all the copper I can get so I scrap all power supply’s but I’m a hobbyist.. and yes more Spreadsheets please you don’t know how much they do for me I consider a lot of stuff I do all off those spreadsheets you make👊🏻👊🏻

Shred pile

love the computer scrapping

Love the comparison videos! It wasn't until I worked with you on the collaboration did I realize that "Mako" speed was named after the worlds fastest Shark, the Mako shark!

I really enjoyed that video. 👍

I come from Ian Matthews. You made me laugh with the spice 🤣 liked and subscribed

very interesting to see how your hr profit drops the more you scrap out ,if you had a ware house full of them you could employ a guy on min wage and by just cutting the wire off he would be making you a extra 80 dollars a hour or 640 dollars a day

Great video! Silver Scorpion sent me here!

good insight into scrapping computer power supplies mate *a like left👍Au👍full view*

Version D: Just do it all and compare it on a spreadsheet. Show it to fellow scappers. Result: Priceless! Thx* As a hobbyist I'm still collecting power supplies and wonder what to do with em. There are a few places in town that refurbish PCs, but I couldn't figure out yet how to identify a "good" power supply. (ReUse is still best) But some of them will be taken apart completely one night come winter - just to see what's inside. Cheers*

Super amazing video. Thanks for breaking it all down!

Great video. Lots of good information. I'll be scrapping those out. See you Friday!

I scrapped out 2 power units today and it took alot longer then I wanted. You can take those electric motors apart and cut the copper out mildly easy.

So micro scrapping is the way to go for the long run. But when you're flat out then snip and toss. Great video very informative well done two thumbs

If your in to all this save the power supplies for a rainy day when you can't get out and make the big money.

Great breakdown vid, really enjoyed this 👍

thanks Shark. Once again a really informative episode.

Thanks Sharky. Some I open, some I dont.

I love when you make those comparisons. Thanks Shark

Time is the important factor here

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That was an excellent break down Sharky. 👍

Very informative, love your channel

like the comparisons

The wires off the power supplies are generally not copper wire