This Samsung PS-50Q7HD had a pretty decent scrap value, depopulating the boards further for gold recovery, copper & aluminum will increase the scrap value also.
Lots of boards and a million screws I’ve come to learn. I’ve found a TV repair shop near me and the dumpster is a regular supply of e-waste for me if I can get to it before the dump truck. Always has several loose boards, VCRs, wire, flat screens. Keeps me busy. That aluminum backing has glass glued to it. I try and clean it up and the yard gives me dirty aluminum prices.
I like your videos I used to work at a major E waste service and about to start mine from the ground up and i think your videos would make great training videos for any staff I might hire in future
The high grade boards, will people buy them to use on another powered item? Do they pay similar to parting them as precious metals? Who buys this? A scrap yard or ppl to use the parts? I have a Samsung plasma 51" series 550 and I broke the display because I tripped up and my elbow hit it. The TV is so nice but I see the plasma screen and display are combined. First channel I found where this is done. Thanks.
Hey Ben, quick question, how much are power & mid/high grade boards are worth per kilo?. At the moment, I'm only doing CRT TVs, I'm also considering doing flat screen TVs, curious to see if it's worth it haha
if you take the gold pins off of some of these boards does it devalue their money if you take the copper and the heat sinks off of Power Board does that increase the value
+Stephen Farrington no it doesn't increase the value of a power board, taking off the copper etc leaves you with a board only good for scrap steel and no real value, taking off some gold pins shouldn't devalue a mid-high grade as it is mostly valued by the ic chips, but taking too much might not make your buyer very happy.
I am scrapping my first plasma screen TV and I have a question about the gold Leeds that go into the screen itself. I can't tell for sure but it looks like gold wire embedded in the glass of the screen itself. Do you know anything about that?
I'd leave it, not worth breaking the glass, most likely it's the yellow plastic insulation that looks gold, no reason for gold wire there, they use gold for contact points , not wire unless in a cpu or ic chip.
Most of the time when we scrappers get these they don't work. Unless you get them from a friend who just doesn't want it anymore it's not worth our time to diagnose and sell the parts on eBay. Way easier to scrap. However, if you come across a very nice tv it might totally be worth the hassle to diagnose, fix, and resell.
+eWaste Ben western australia haha. realy never winter here. just collected my first gold stack ready for processing. watch a shit load of vids of yours . you should do one on refining.
I do it because I refuse to throw out even a small amount of gold. Not to mention Copper and Aluminum eventually add up to a sizable chunk of change. Never mind what the dump ends up doing with relatively valuable/rare metals. Gold is mentioned, but rarely you hear about Tantalum, and others.
