I have collected "broken" flat screen tv's for several years. Sometimes, if it is an easy fix, like replacing a board, then I sell the working tv for several times what the part cost to fix it. I have, on occasion, collected the tv's, and, when testing them, found that they were thrown out just because the person wanted a higher resolution or a tv with more apps preloaded. Two of these I now use in my work shop. They work well, have good enough resolution for my shop environment, and, didn't cost a thing. The best part is that the ones that I fixed and sold, or, fixed and now use, don't go into a landfill and provide entertainment for me and other people. Reuse is not a bad word.
Where I live in my neighborhood ( my house is right on the corner of a 4 way stop) My side yard for some odd reason has been deemed the convinient "free stuff" corner. So regularly people leave all sorts of stuff they don't want yet think others will. This sucks at times but honestly is great most of the time. So far this week alone I've gotten a 55" Toshiba fire stick smart tv ( can't remember the exact name) a newish Toshiba satellite laptop that turns on and functions fine, just a cracked screen a floor standing heater on wheels and a dehumidifier.
Lots of gold fingers in flat screens. I can knock out 20 in an hour. Depending on the TV. At first it's difficult but now I've learned a safe and fast why of doing them. Worth the time.
Wait, are you saying you learned a DIFFERENT WAY to grab the goodies that aren't here on my fav youtube channel? Well? No PT here girl. (I'm assuming you're a girl, cuz I came across a few who got the main vein ready to put out a fire and discovered there wasn't a fire, or even a spark. Just a manipulating funk and wagnalls reader excited about the power of womanhood. #ustoo
@@REDHEADSARETOPS This is the first time in over twenty years that I've even seen someone mention Funk and Wagnalls, so I hope you'll forgive me for staring.
As soon as you hit your thumb, I hit "Like". Taking apart flat screens obtained at the dump has become a hobby of mine. I simply can't pass one up! They contain cool translucent and silvered plastic sheets for artists. But the BEST part is the OPTICAL SHEETS. You've seen them. They're flat Fresnel screens. Not with the typical concentric rings, but rather horizontally-etched surfaces that do the coolest things with light. I pass on all the hardware, metal, plastic and LED strips and chips.
I think you're just like me bro you get comfort and relaxation on just breaking down things finding what's actually in. And then to I bet you make more money off your UA-cam channel than you do scrapping.. that's all I had to say peace and love bro. 😊 I am a scrapper down here in Memphis Tennessee
loved you video from the first few seconds. im 55 now and have been scrapping since i was 14. yes, theres a ton of screws to undo to scrap. i put them in containers and they go on the scrap trailer with everything else.
The best part of a flat screen is the polarizer sheets. Some are actually created by electroplating platinum metal on to them. Other than that they're really cool and you can make little outside grow tent enclosures out of them. I made a mini hoop house with them they last forever unless you live somewhere cold then they may get brittle after 2 years.
Theres a power supply board and main board. A lot of physical tactile switches will have s lil dot of pure gold foil as a contact. Definitely worth saving. Depending on your location there are recyclers that will buy glass it isnt much but it isnt hard to max out the hauling capacity of a pickup with the stuff either
I picked up 250 flatscreens from a return center. I have taken apart 170 so far. I have 12 pounds of screws, an 18 gallon tote of copper, a 1/4 barrel of power cords, 2 trash cans of circuit boards, 2 5 gallon buckets of aluminum, a quart of brass and half of a 5 gallon bucket of aluminum and zinc (mixed because i ran out of buckets)!! I can strip 7 to 10 TVs an hour depending on size.
I resell working boards for 20/50 each. And stock tvs to make 1 working one out of however many. And reselling 50 to 400. Just recently got back into scrapping. Usually resell what I find complete. Great videos byw.
Where would the best place be to sell a TON of 4G telcom boards? High grade I'm new to this and don't t wanna screw myself selling quick to some website amd paying to ship them.
I started doing this during the great quarantine of 2020. That one’s bit different than the ones I have taken apart. I’d say upwards of 50 tv. But your showing me I left a little on the meat on the bone.
I know how little of money and gold is on a flatscreen t.v. but I still pick up the ones I know are not the ones that has pennies of gold in it. I recover and refine gold as a hobby so it's fun to get the finger strip boards and other gold plated items out of the good ones. Have a GREAT Day!!!
From another Canadian The black glass he thought was garbage actually contains iridium a material use in solar worth up to $100 Canadian and can be had by crushing and easy chemical separation also there is a nice sheet of plexiglass along with a fresnel lens. Have a nice day
Iridium is quickly becoming the most expensive high use PM work with it everyday and trust me they remind us the price continues upward. One of these days they will listen to me when prices are down it is cheaper to buy as much as you can and pay the tax on the inventory. But 10+ years they haven't yet 🤣 Palladium is technically worth more but not used nearly as much in day to day industry as much as iridium, Ruthenium, and lithium
@@leoc4901 it's also used in a LOT of electrochemical anodes for many companies you buy from everyday somewhere in their supply chain Colgate, Clorox, Paper Producers, General Motors ect,ect it's only gotten demand increase. If prices continue to hover above 4k per troy your probably going to see that buisness shift, there already made a big transition to tantilium in that industry to replace at least some of that IR demand
Being heavy on the diy side of things, I find saving and organizing screws, various flat and perforated metal panels, fans, power supplies, etc, money savers, for various other projects…
Man oh man you are the cutest! I don't even care what your talking about, I love watching you talk. You have the best personality and energy aaaand your beautiful 😍❤️
You remind me so much of myself and my junk (and good stuff) all over my house. I am a technologist and I've always stripped everything for the goods they carry . Don't forget to get the strong magnets from computer hard drives . In Toronto...😁😁😁
@@thubprint i know that feeling lol. I currently live on a holiday site hear in the uk 8 months out the year i call it my shed lol its a wooden chalet, hopefully be going back next week with lockdown easing. My main source of scrap is microwaves and fans and the odd bits hear and there. Not got any garden but site allows the use of wind breakers to make a fenced of area. Uk dont have boardsort iver only place be in london/essex but they only take motherboards and server grade. Ebay sales of the gold pins and ic chips are ok if u have the weight. If i was able to start a business dealing with scrap ild jump at the chance lol but atm the little bits of scrap i do get pays for my gas bottles on site. anyway hope all is well in the new place your at and your plant is still growing well. Love that plant where it hangs all over your ceiling be nice to see it in a video wink wink haha.
Ok so good info that you have given however you missed or left out some details that iv learned from scrapping with my man for 7 years. The first tv you messed around with is a plasma. They are very heavy even though they are flat. A plasma tv has about 3-4 pounds of copper transformers on the boards as well as all the round things that are wrapped with copper wire. We don't clean small transformers we just throw them in a bucket till it's full. But the round things wrapped in Cooper on a big plasma there is around 2 pounds of copper all you have to do is cut the wire connection to the board and hit the round things once with a hammer and the middle part the copper is wrapped around disintegrates and you pull the copper apart and discard the middle. Also if you take just the transformers and copper wrapped round things, the wire and aluminum a person with a drill for the screws can get it apart and ready to sell to the scrap yard in under half hour. With the prices in southern Ontario where we are it's worth around $11 so I would say worth it not for gold tho. We also have no one to buy gold boards ect.
thanx to thub for even bothering to make this vid: i learned a lot! (even though i've repaired electronics - all kinds - since forever). i used to collect aluminum cans, but found the actual cost of hauling the cans to the recycler cancelled out what i got for them... you live, you learn. i was surprised when thub said: "all those little pieces of gold are not even worth a dollar..." (gold has steadily increased in price) it's early days in my research: process of extracting gold from old PCBs seems time-consuming and dangerous. (maybe there's a a way of harvesting gold quicker with less dangerous chemicals)? (i'll try to find out). the big surprise is when thub mentioned palladium (MLCC capacitors). palladium is a very rare metal, much more valuable than gold and (probably) well-worth harvesting from scrap. tantalum was new to me, too (another rare metal). hauling metals cheaply (especially cheaper kinds) is probably a key to success. or, if you're clever enough, harvesting the very rare metals thub mentions. the way i see it, scrap-harvesting is a big service to humans, our communities and the economy generally. (the electronics industry is worth billions, so the demand for metals must be high). in my neck of the woods, "fly tipping" (people illegally dumping large items out in the streets) is a big problem: i literally find myself rescuing flat screen TVs and other items regularly. if i had a wood burner, i could keep myself warm all year with the amount of timber people discard... its amazing the valuable stuff people chuck-out.. anyway, i think knowledge is power with getting the most out of scrapping, so here's a run down of current metal prices for anyone interested. [happy hunting] zinc castings.... £1 - £2 ($2) per kilogram aluminum frames ... £0.60 - £1.40 ($1) per kilogram palladium per ounce > as of march 20, 2023: $1,339.00
It's amazing how much is in the older flat screens like the unit above vs the newer flat screens.. The newer units basically have a calculator and 2 crappy speakers.
totally if its a very light tv it only have 1/2 crappy boards now i dont bother on those 10000 screws 4 no return but the heavy ones forsure their loaded
Make it worth your while it always depends on how you do your stuff but recycling I like to recycle anything and everything I can get my hands on because it's very fun and exciting mostly learning about all these little parts inside and attached to a board which all these names I can't remember
Those heatsinks are worth more as heatsinks than scrap. Electronics guys would buy em. As an EET guy, I didn't think I'd want anything in one of those, but those switching PS look nice. Probably the newer TVs have less stuff worth anything, but those old ones have some nice parts in them.
They used to make very large projection screen TVs and it was in a particleboard frame. They have a very nice gold cpu chip and a few optic lenses from europe. And they have a large freshnell lense for the screen backing. You can boil water off a mirror reflecting the sunlight under the pan of water. Very fun to take apart. Three lenses as big as your hand, 4" diameter. The hardest part about it is that you have to bust it up right on the street to get the parts into your trunk. They weigh over 100. All the sides collapse down after a few wacks. Look up the price of a freshnell lense at 2x3 feet. That's the coolest part.
Me and my son had one of these tvs to take apart(it was left behind in a rental) the lenses were alot of fun to play with, but had no idea the lenses were valuable. We just started fires focusing them on paper......
I do tons of ewaste here in the states. Flat screens are well worth my time. I have a buyers for all the boards so it works out great. Computers is where I make the most
You are doing are planet a favor by collecting the metals out of TVs and electronics. Pat yourself on the back, it is worth it for further generations of people.
So I live north of Toronto in Aurora, Ontario for anyone doing it in this area. At Aim in Newmarket on Davis they buy whole flat-screens at 9 cents a lb. Otherwise I do strip down computers, some electronics, tvs down in Toronto near Weston Rd & Finch at CMI they buy motherboards for $1.30ish lb mixed, 30 cents lb for circuit boards, $5 lb for CPU chips just for example. Your videos are great thank you for the educational information
I live in Canada and circuit boards are bought from our scrap yards.. 27cent per pound.. take the copper off and and heat sinks then leave the rest on as wieght
It took me 2 days to remove the glass off a Panasonic Plasma. Definitely not worth the hassle. The putty they use to seal that glass down is amazing. Kinda would like to have some of that glue they use.
Hey I enjoy your videos! I scrap e waste as a hobby came across a tankless water heater. Interesting mix of electronics and plumbing. Had a huge chunk of copper unlike I've ever seen.
Thank you on the tip on the palladium. Don't throw away the steel. It isn't worth much, but it'll pay for the gas to get to the scrap yard. Why throw money away? The screws where the cables secure, those are often stainless. I usually check them. Takes a while to build up enough stainless to be worth it, but again why throw money away? There's tiny bits of copper on those boards. It adds up as #2 over time. Often a bit of aluminum also. The capacitors are aluminum but have a very toxic substance inside. Most yards won't take them as is and it's rather tedious to remove the plastic, then unstuff them for the aluminium but for the really big ones I make the effort. Just do in a well ventilated area and wear gloves while doing it.
All good points! The steel for sure, it piles up so quickly without any special effort. Stainless less so, but I’ve been really happy with my stainless payouts lately so I have to keep a bin for it going anyway. It depends on your situation though, the time and the storage space you have available. I think anybody who has a buyer for complete boards will probably be better to just leave as much as possible on them to keep the weight up.
@@thubprint I just took about 5 tons of steel down to the yard this week. It builds up quick. Especially when scrapping appliances and PCs. True, storing it is a pain, but for the smaller stuff, screws, small pieces, etc I just take it down with me when I take the other metals. A PC case for example, if I line it with smaller pieces allows me to just toss screws and tiny pieces on top. I then take the whole thing. I used to use dead microwaves like that. Fill them up with screws but I've been using microwaves for Faraday cages lately. I leave enough of the cord to use for grounding and it makes a great cage. There's always little boxes of something or at worst throw it in a plastic bag or cardboard box and do it that way. You get 50 cents or a buck but it's out of your place and a little pocket change when you take the other stuff down.
I've taken some tv's apart but where I live there are aluminum cans everywhere, thousands of them so to me that time would be better spent collecting all these cans especially if you live in a deposit state that gives 5 or 10 cents each for them...but taking tv's apart is kind of fun I have to say
Here in southern California TV repair shops have gone the way of the Dodo or even Stegasaurus. Also small applience and shoe repair shops are anchient history. Vacume repairs suprisingly enough are still around just hard to find.
Im in PA and my hometown actually still has a cobbler that makes custom shoes! My husband and I both know how to properly fix shoes, they aren’t difficult
M8 cheers on your presentation . I live in Oregon USA where I deal with Schnitzer's metals they do buy all sorts of metals via their other companies. Have you tried asking them about buyers for circuit boards , etc ? Keep up the good work. God bless y'all.
Thanks! I’m up in Canada and I’ve looked into shipping precious metal scrap a couple times but companies generally just pass on small international sellers in my experience.
@@thubprint not sure if its worth it but have you tried these guys www.precious-metal-services.com/prices-sorting-criteria-for-electronic-waste/ another youtuber pointed me in that direction for circuit boards
But anyhow thub I like your show it's awesome watching you just going out to recycle I did that before it's pretty cool cuz you find a lot of new stuff and stuff you never seen before it's well worth it it's on us .
I find the cast cases (most of which consists of cast aluminum and ,very rarely, a die cast aluminum/zinc alloy) on most older technology. The yard I sell to takes them as cast aluminum, they add up quite fast.
How’s it going man? I ask myself these questions all the time. Is it worth it? It always depends on, my time to what I end up with. I did notice several coils of copper wire. I guess not enough for your time. But if in fact you already are taking them apart, I’d definitely start saving it , copper had s as good solid value and isn’t too difficult to separate. It’s still one of the precious metals that you still css as n acquire if you want to do the work or research. There’s still large quantities of pure clean copper just laying around, you just need to know where to look. And many who do know aren’t likely to share their knowledge. Because the tougher times get the harder it will become to scrap, and the supply will be much less of what’s readily available. People still throw away items daily that have many valuable scrap metals without ever considering it. Many people still throw away 5 cent returns that they pay for. A case of water 24 bottles is $1.20 evey case you either return or throw away. It shows how different things are in different places. I’m many places in the world $1.20 can go a long way and can make a difference in the world if collectively that money went to the places it matters. Sadly there’s places and people throughout the United States would greatly benefit from the money that other throw away daily. Maybe one day it won’t be like this! Maybe recourses will become so scarce that every penny, every scrap will matter!! We’re far from it but I’m always amazed at the value in things so many regard as valueless! I’ve been scraping for many years, I know in upstate NY many junk, salvage businesses are generational. I had several uncles and a step grandfather that were lifelong scrappers. They all died very wealthy but no one would have ever known. They were very tight with they Money, wore them same dirty raggedy old clothes every day and were perfectly happy. Sad because all never got to enjoy it! It’s almost a sickness to work so hard to collect that money just to die and have family members squabble over it and pick through your belongings or for the state to take it all. But very few ever get to enjoy all the years of hard work they put in!!
I’ve got a 65” tv in my living room that I’ve managed to get the light diffusing plastic sheets out of and a large sheet of plexiglass which I’m going to use to make an airbrush spray booth. I havnt gotten to the electronics yet though. Other things I’m in the process of taking apart are 2 G5 Mac towers, induction heating stove top, epson 4in1 printer, and some other things. I’ve been hoarding 12v computer fans, microwave fans, transformers and magnetrons, many DC motors of various sizes, nichrome wire, 3v LEDs(the bulb kind and board mounted ones that are 1m) and strip light LEDs(going to make some light tables). All the circuit boards I’ve taken out of things I’ve managed to save every one and have a 40gallon tote almost filled because I’m still learning what is worth keeping and what isn’t by watching UA-cam videos like these.
Someone may have said this earlier, but one may be able to sell on places like ebay, amazon, etc the WHOLE circuit boards and interconnecting wire harnesses and LED strips for a great deal higher ROI and with much less effort than tearing them apart at the component level. Even if one offers a zero-cost return policy if a board/harness fails, it can be worth it to eat the cost of the infrequent bad board...especially if you know a TV was tossed-out due to a bad LED strip, or damaged display, etc. and a failure is less likely to be due to a bad board. Otherwise, either the main power supply circuit board or the LED power supply board are often the failing part. Also, more modern TVs have far fewer boards than they used to. edit to add: If you know the power supply board(s) are fully functional, they're probably one of the easier/faster selling circuit boards. You can search the net to see what kind of price you might consider asking for them.
No mercury in that one as it’s a plasma screen (metal back, glass front & very heavy). CCFL backlit LCD screens contain mercury. modern LED backlit LCD screens do not.
Scrapping the gold & silver off broken TV’s and electronic devices as a hobby like myself, it’s fun and profitable, because your not spending nothing, your collecting & breaking apart and recycling the TV or electronic products after you’ve stripped them down! Collecting what you find precious is up to u!
It's take to much time to tear a tv apart Then i was selling as scrap for .15 cents a pound Then somehow my tv stop working so i call a tv repair guy to fix it one thing led to another he said that he has to get a part so he saw that I had TVs in the back and I told them that I sell it as scrap for extra cash and then he said he buys broken TVs 15 $20 each And ever since I've been selling it to him
Absolutely. I sometimes do the same, fill up a microwave or pc case or similar. Steel has just been such a bad price recently though, it’s hard to want to
My interest is more for scrounging, so I collect screws as hardware for projects etc. Anyone who’s a maker quickly learns fasteners and hardware add up quickly, although I find furniture and smaller electronics a better source for these. Their scrap value is dubious. I agree parting out or selling the whole broken TV is the better value. But definitely test non-visibly broken TVs for functionality first. People throw away perfectly functional stuff, more frequently than broken stuff in the States in my opinion since the price of TVs has plummeted. Often the broken TVs just have bad power supplies.
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You have a really great presence for the screen. We really enjoy your topics as well. And hey, if you're ever in Missouri swing by and my husband can take you to his barber. No offense intended please! I just think your lovely happy happy hair would be cooler and so much easier to handle if it were cut short❤
Hi, you forgot about people who do craft projects, I have used the led lights and save the screws you would be surprised at how many times I have needed a small screw to hold the let's to a project. Good video 👍
Oh I have SUCH a collection of screws and bolts! The trick is organizing them, but I generally do have the hardware I need for my frequent projects, which saves a lot of money over time!
It’s definitely a piece of the overall body of work, although I worry some people watch it and are disappointed there wasn’t any pouring of a gold bar involved 🤔
I dont think I have ever thru out anything without stripping it down esp. electronics old vcr , stereos, pwr tools, microwaves , washers dyers , ovens like i said everything i keep ALL screws & use plastics making stuff probably my fav is recliners for the flat bar metal, mounting brackets i can re cut & weld to fabricate something I need I love it & do it for fun
O come on. You pulled the screws out add them to your iron pile. I put mine in a can . You might be surprised after three months how many pounds you have
I wish I could put up a picture of my jars of screws. I bet I've got close to a hundred pounds and it doesn't take any extra time. The way I do it I only touch each screw once
I agree. Even if you didnt sell as scrap screws you can sell jars of screws. Like a jar of buttons even at 5 dollars a jar or bag might be worth more than a pound of iron.
Try getting a washing machine tub full of screws off the back of your truck at the scrapyard. Lol. I think this idiots man bun is too tight. If you’re gonna bother to take it apart, save all the metal. That shit adds up.
I live in Ontario and our scrap centers pay for e-waste now, its only .05 - .15 per lbs but it can add up pretty quick and if you only need to load unload vs. break it down its not terrible🤷♂️🤷♂️
I scrap them out cause I love tearing them apart and it's fun I also love tearing tube tv's, computer monitors, computer towers, microwaves it's just fun to do
I have collected "broken" flat screen tv's for several years. Sometimes, if it is an easy fix, like replacing a board, then I sell the working tv for several times what the part cost to fix it. I have, on occasion, collected the tv's, and, when testing them, found that they were thrown out just because the person wanted a higher resolution or a tv with more apps preloaded. Two of these I now use in my work shop. They work well, have good enough resolution for my shop environment, and, didn't cost a thing.
The best part is that the ones that I fixed and sold, or, fixed and now use, don't go into a landfill and provide entertainment for me and other people. Reuse is not a bad word.
You need to make money in radio with that golden voice bro
Where I live in my neighborhood ( my house is right on the corner of a 4 way stop) My side yard for some odd reason has been deemed the convinient "free stuff" corner. So regularly people leave all sorts of stuff they don't want yet think others will. This sucks at times but honestly is great most of the time. So far this week alone I've gotten a 55" Toshiba fire stick smart tv ( can't remember the exact name) a newish Toshiba satellite laptop that turns on and functions fine, just a cracked screen a floor standing heater on wheels and a dehumidifier.
Dude you should make short videos everytime theres new stuff
Lots of gold fingers in flat screens. I can knock out 20 in an hour. Depending on the TV. At first it's difficult but now I've learned a safe and fast why of doing them. Worth the time.
Wait, are you saying you learned a DIFFERENT WAY to grab the goodies that aren't here on my fav youtube channel? Well? No PT here girl. (I'm assuming you're a girl, cuz I came across a few who got the main vein ready to put out a fire and discovered there wasn't a fire, or even a spark. Just a manipulating funk and wagnalls reader excited about the power of womanhood. #ustoo
@@REDHEADSARETOPS This is the first time in over twenty years that I've even seen someone mention Funk and Wagnalls, so I hope you'll forgive me for staring.
I know I will never scrap a thing, but love watching these. Thanks, Thub.
Well thank YOU for letting me do my thing 😎
@CYRUS DAWSON Because it's interesting?
@CYRUS DAWSON time
I watch because it calms my ocd
@CYRUS DAWSON - just found this. Sorry for the late response, but why do you care?
As soon as you hit your thumb, I hit "Like".
Taking apart flat screens obtained at the dump has become a hobby of mine. I simply can't pass one up!
They contain cool translucent and silvered plastic sheets for artists. But the BEST part is the OPTICAL SHEETS. You've seen them. They're flat Fresnel screens. Not with the typical concentric rings, but rather horizontally-etched surfaces that do the coolest things with light. I pass on all the hardware, metal, plastic and LED strips and chips.
man, i've been in and out of jobs and stuff like this definitely helps in between and honestly you can learn a lot, thanks for the content brother!
Put the magnet in a thin rag. After picking up the screws turn the rag into a sort of bag and pull the magnet off. Dump the screws.
Ooooh, I like that a lot
@@thubprint yeah and saves you from getting poked by pointy things like drywall screws when you're picking them up
I scraped that same TV last week and still have all the electronic parts. So this video is exactly what I need know. Thanks.
I think you're just like me bro you get comfort and relaxation on just breaking down things finding what's actually in. And then to I bet you make more money off your UA-cam channel than you do scrapping.. that's all I had to say peace and love bro. 😊 I am a scrapper down here in Memphis Tennessee
loved you video from the first few seconds. im 55 now and have been scrapping since i was 14. yes, theres a ton of screws to undo to scrap. i put them in containers and they go on the scrap trailer with everything else.
The best part of a flat screen is the polarizer sheets. Some are actually created by electroplating platinum metal on to them. Other than that they're really cool and you can make little outside grow tent enclosures out of them. I made a mini hoop house with them they last forever unless you live somewhere cold then they may get brittle after 2 years.
@@alienrocketscienceshared8454Nuh uh
What is the polarizer sheets ?
Theres a power supply board and main board. A lot of physical tactile switches will have s lil dot of pure gold foil as a contact. Definitely worth saving. Depending on your location there are recyclers that will buy glass it isnt much but it isnt hard to max out the hauling capacity of a pickup with the stuff either
Thanks for showing those capacitors and resistors. That was super helpful
I picked up 250 flatscreens from a return center. I have taken apart 170 so far. I have 12 pounds of screws, an 18 gallon tote of copper, a 1/4 barrel of power cords, 2 trash cans of circuit boards, 2 5 gallon buckets of aluminum, a quart of brass and half of a 5 gallon bucket of aluminum and zinc (mixed because i ran out of buckets)!! I can strip 7 to 10 TVs an hour depending on size.
cheers to you for recycling ~!!
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@@Vizneezee100 holy shit 7 -10 tvs. I just started working as a tv scrapper. Do you have any tips or is it just getting my own style eventually
That's crazy, how much did you make and how long did it take you to tear them all down?
I resell working boards for 20/50 each. And stock tvs to make 1 working one out of however many. And reselling 50 to 400. Just recently got back into scrapping. Usually resell what I find complete. Great videos byw.
How can you 100% be sure and verify they work though….?
@@joshymcdaniel9233 plug the TV in and see if it has sound etc.
Where would the best place be to sell a TON of 4G telcom boards? High grade
I'm new to this and don't t wanna screw myself selling quick to some website amd paying to ship them.
I started doing this during the great quarantine of 2020. That one’s bit different than the ones I have taken apart. I’d say upwards of 50 tv. But your showing me I left a little on the meat on the bone.
whooop whoop, good to see/hear you.
I know how little of money and gold is on a flatscreen t.v. but I still pick up the ones I know are not the ones that has pennies of gold in it. I recover and refine gold as a hobby so it's fun to get the finger strip boards and other gold plated items out of the good ones.
Have a GREAT Day!!!
Ive learned many ways to make the most from scrapping . GREAT VIDEOS THANKS
Your personality is truely a wonderment …thank you for your honesty. And until next time…bye🧐✨
I put them out for target practice makes disassembly easy
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I always assumed flat screens weren't worth the effort. Now I know for sure. Thanks from a Canucks fan living in South Australia 👍
From another Canadian
The black glass he thought was garbage actually contains iridium a material use in solar worth up to $100 Canadian and can be had by crushing and easy chemical separation also there is a nice sheet of plexiglass along with a fresnel lens.
Have a nice day
Iridium 100 a gram.
Iridium is quickly becoming the most expensive high use PM work with it everyday and trust me they remind us the price continues upward. One of these days they will listen to me when prices are down it is cheaper to buy as much as you can and pay the tax on the inventory. But 10+ years they haven't yet 🤣
Palladium is technically worth more but not used nearly as much in day to day industry as much as iridium, Ruthenium, and lithium
@@leoc4901 it's also used in a LOT of electrochemical anodes for many companies you buy from everyday somewhere in their supply chain
Colgate, Clorox, Paper Producers, General Motors ect,ect it's only gotten demand increase. If prices continue to hover above 4k per troy your probably going to see that buisness shift, there already made a big transition to tantilium in that industry to replace at least some of that IR demand
2nd Tv was fluorescent back light with mercury in tiny bulbs!
Being heavy on the diy side of things, I find saving and organizing screws, various flat and perforated metal panels, fans, power supplies, etc, money savers, for various other projects…
Man oh man you are the cutest! I don't even care what your talking about, I love watching you talk. You have the best personality and energy aaaand your beautiful 😍❤️
You're beautiful where are you???
Thanks for posting this!
You remind me so much of myself and my junk (and good stuff) all over my house. I am a technologist and I've always stripped everything for the goods they carry . Don't forget to get the strong magnets from computer hard drives . In Toronto...😁😁😁
Nice! It can get out of hand lol. I’m trying really hard to keep things organized and streamlined
Can you tell me where the mercury is in the tv?
I just wanted to say thank you so very much I've learned quite a bit from some of your videos
You can also make led sky light out of screens and sell them as well. Thanks for your video. Hope that tip helps you, as well as others. Enjoy. ✌️
Defo miss these videos was nice to see the old house and garden again. Hope your staying safe thub and as always keep doing the thing :)
I miss that place too! It had so many windows, and the yard was HUGE. I’d buy it if I could lol
@@thubprint i know that feeling lol. I currently live on a holiday site hear in the uk 8 months out the year i call it my shed lol its a wooden chalet, hopefully be going back next week with lockdown easing. My main source of scrap is microwaves and fans and the odd bits hear and there. Not got any garden but site allows the use of wind breakers to make a fenced of area. Uk dont have boardsort iver only place be in london/essex but they only take motherboards and server grade. Ebay sales of the gold pins and ic chips are ok if u have the weight. If i was able to start a business dealing with scrap ild jump at the chance lol but atm the little bits of scrap i do get pays for my gas bottles on site. anyway hope all is well in the new place your at and your plant is still growing well. Love that plant where it hangs all over your ceiling be nice to see it in a video wink wink haha.
Ok so good info that you have given however you missed or left out some details that iv learned from scrapping with my man for 7 years. The first tv you messed around with is a plasma. They are very heavy even though they are flat. A plasma tv has about 3-4 pounds of copper transformers on the boards as well as all the round things that are wrapped with copper wire. We don't clean small transformers we just throw them in a bucket till it's full. But the round things wrapped in Cooper on a big plasma there is around 2 pounds of copper all you have to do is cut the wire connection to the board and hit the round things once with a hammer and the middle part the copper is wrapped around disintegrates and you pull the copper apart and discard the middle. Also if you take just the transformers and copper wrapped round things, the wire and aluminum a person with a drill for the screws can get it apart and ready to sell to the scrap yard in under half hour. With the prices in southern Ontario where we are it's worth around $11 so I would say worth it not for gold tho. We also have no one to buy gold boards ect.
thanx to thub for even bothering to make this vid: i learned a lot! (even though i've repaired electronics - all kinds - since forever).
i used to collect aluminum cans, but found the actual cost of hauling the cans to the recycler cancelled out what i got for them... you live, you learn. i was surprised when thub said:
"all those little pieces of gold are not even worth a dollar..."
(gold has steadily increased in price) it's early days in my research: process of extracting gold from old PCBs seems time-consuming and dangerous. (maybe there's a a way of harvesting gold quicker with less dangerous chemicals)? (i'll try to find out). the big surprise is when thub mentioned palladium (MLCC capacitors). palladium is a very rare metal, much more valuable than gold and (probably) well-worth harvesting from scrap. tantalum was new to me, too (another rare metal).
hauling metals cheaply (especially cheaper kinds) is probably a key to success. or, if you're clever enough, harvesting the very rare metals thub mentions. the way i see it, scrap-harvesting is a big service to humans, our communities and the economy generally. (the electronics industry is worth billions, so the demand for metals must be high).
in my neck of the woods, "fly tipping" (people illegally dumping large items out in the streets) is a big problem:
i literally find myself rescuing flat screen TVs and other items regularly. if i had a wood burner, i could keep myself warm all year with the amount of timber people discard... its amazing the valuable stuff people chuck-out.. anyway, i think knowledge is power with getting the most out of scrapping, so here's a run down of current metal prices for anyone interested. [happy hunting]
zinc castings.... £1 - £2 ($2) per kilogram
aluminum frames ... £0.60 - £1.40 ($1) per kilogram
palladium per ounce > as of march 20, 2023: $1,339.00
So satisfying and great editing work
Ty!
It's amazing how much is in the older flat screens like the unit above vs the newer flat screens..
The newer units basically have a calculator and 2 crappy speakers.
Truth, I scrapped a 56" and it had just a single tiny board
totally if its a very light tv it only have 1/2 crappy boards now i dont bother on those 10000 screws 4 no return but the heavy ones forsure their loaded
Make it worth your while it always depends on how you do your stuff but recycling I like to recycle anything and everything I can get my hands on because it's very fun and exciting mostly learning about all these little parts inside and attached to a board which all these names I can't remember
This video answered a lot of questions about what is useful. I'm not looking for a pay day just what can be re purposed
Dude that flatscreen is ancient! I Just scrapped out an old Sony Bravia 2006 model today and it didn't have near as many circuit boards!
Surface mounted boards are easy to depopulate with a heat gun and scrapper for the mill's, tantalum capacitors and other gold bearing items.
Heck yeah! I just don’t do enough of them to make the investment
Guy says dont break it....then hammers every bit to pieces. 😂🤟
Sometimes you gotta be really careful before you 🎇😅
Thub, your my hero. Happy gathering to ya!
Thanks for the heads up! Thanks for covering. Like i said a little bit before: wish I found your channel sooner!!!
Those heatsinks are worth more as heatsinks than scrap. Electronics guys would buy em. As an EET guy, I didn't think I'd want anything in one of those, but those switching PS look nice. Probably the newer TVs have less stuff worth anything, but those old ones have some nice parts in them.
I actually hadn’t thought of that, but having a collection of heat sinks for sale would probably have a market!
Check for gold plating under that big square CPU chip at the 4:36 mark.
Awesome vid bro keepum comin!
Thanks for making this video
I’m a new scrapper. Like watching your videos. I’m learning from my mistakes. Keep your videos up like watching them. I’m learning lol 😂
Keep an eye open for solid brass. It is pretty profitable if you can gather 15-20 pounds.
Those little metal panels on the back make good classifiers for gold panning sometimes
excellent points and opportunities.
Great Speed/Actor/Personality!
First tv you scrapped was a plasma phosphor array tv. They were very spendy back in the day. The chips and such are worth way more than scrap btw.
I definitely did not get the best value out of this lol
Yeah when you see that many relays on the motherboard you know you got a good one
They used to make very large projection screen TVs and it was in a particleboard frame. They have a very nice gold cpu chip and a few optic lenses from europe. And they have a large freshnell lense for the screen backing. You can boil water off a mirror reflecting the sunlight under the pan of water. Very fun to take apart. Three lenses as big as your hand, 4" diameter. The hardest part about it is that you have to bust it up right on the street to get the parts into your trunk. They weigh over 100. All the sides collapse down after a few wacks. Look up the price of a freshnell lense at 2x3 feet. That's the coolest part.
Me and my son had one of these tvs to take apart(it was left behind in a rental) the lenses were alot of fun to play with, but had no idea the lenses were valuable. We just started fires focusing them on paper......
True that. I've had a lot of fun with mine.
Good information
I do tons of ewaste here in the states. Flat screens are well worth my time. I have a buyers for all the boards so it works out great. Computers is where I make the most
Nice! Canada has a totally different system for ewaste so the boards are a very different game
What out of flat screens is worth scrapping if I'm in the states
You are doing are planet a favor by collecting the metals out of TVs and electronics. Pat yourself on the back, it is worth it for further generations of people.
Hey Thub! What are the websites to send off the circuit boards? Thanks!
So I live north of Toronto in Aurora, Ontario for anyone doing it in this area. At Aim in Newmarket on Davis they buy whole flat-screens at 9 cents a lb. Otherwise I do strip down computers, some electronics, tvs down in Toronto near Weston Rd & Finch at CMI they buy motherboards for $1.30ish lb mixed, 30 cents lb for circuit boards, $5 lb for CPU chips just for example. Your videos are great thank you for the educational information
How funny I have a flat screen TV that I have been trying to figure out what to do eith it LOL Thank you good Video.
Maybe you have a decent price for boards at your local scrapyard? I know I dont
I live in Canada and circuit boards are bought from our scrap yards.. 27cent per pound.. take the copper off and and heat sinks then leave the rest on as wieght
You must be out east? Mine gives me the same price as steel shred 😭
@@thubprint I'm in Ontario
They mine Copper in Canada, they refine the escrap in the Copper refinerys, so Canada should be a good place to sell escrap once you find the buyers.
It took me 2 days to remove the glass off a Panasonic Plasma. Definitely not worth the hassle. The putty they use to seal that glass down is amazing. Kinda would like to have some of that glue they use.
Thank you. So kind
love it!
Heyyy, I'm early! Love the content, thub
Appreciate ya bud!
Hey I enjoy your videos! I scrap e waste as a hobby came across a tankless water heater. Interesting mix of electronics and plumbing. Had a huge chunk of copper unlike I've ever seen.
I’ve heard about those! Are you in the uk? I believe they’re more common there
They’re getting pretty common in new construction here in the PNW
Thanks for sharing
It is amazing how heavy that tv is compared to a new one the same size.
Yea, these plasma screens were good but they were beasts
Thank you on the tip on the palladium. Don't throw away the steel. It isn't worth much, but it'll pay for the gas to get to the scrap yard. Why throw money away? The screws where the cables secure, those are often stainless. I usually check them. Takes a while to build up enough stainless to be worth it, but again why throw money away? There's tiny bits of copper on those boards. It adds up as #2 over time. Often a bit of aluminum also. The capacitors are aluminum but have a very toxic substance inside. Most yards won't take them as is and it's rather tedious to remove the plastic, then unstuff them for the aluminium but for the really big ones I make the effort. Just do in a well ventilated area and wear gloves while doing it.
All good points! The steel for sure, it piles up so quickly without any special effort. Stainless less so, but I’ve been really happy with my stainless payouts lately so I have to keep a bin for it going anyway.
It depends on your situation though, the time and the storage space you have available. I think anybody who has a buyer for complete boards will probably be better to just leave as much as possible on them to keep the weight up.
How do you separate the gold from a gold plated whatever?
@@thubprint I just took about 5 tons of steel down to the yard this week. It builds up quick. Especially when scrapping appliances and PCs. True, storing it is a pain, but for the smaller stuff, screws, small pieces, etc I just take it down with me when I take the other metals. A PC case for example, if I line it with smaller pieces allows me to just toss screws and tiny pieces on top. I then take the whole thing. I used to use dead microwaves like that. Fill them up with screws but I've been using microwaves for Faraday cages lately. I leave enough of the cord to use for grounding and it makes a great cage. There's always little boxes of something or at worst throw it in a plastic bag or cardboard box and do it that way. You get 50 cents or a buck but it's out of your place and a little pocket change when you take the other stuff down.
@@deanbromerg8000 It's all plated. Solid gold anything is rare in scrap.
Dude, theres only 24hrs in a day.
The most useful piece of a modern flat screen tv is the back light. You can easily make an artificial daylight window.
It's for money not fashion
I've taken some tv's apart but where I live there are aluminum cans everywhere, thousands of them so to me that time would be better spent collecting all these cans especially if you live in a deposit state that gives 5 or 10 cents each for them...but taking tv's apart is kind of fun I have to say
Im very happy to finally konw the true : no gold bars inside the tv.
Here in southern California TV repair shops have gone the way of the Dodo or even Stegasaurus. Also small applience and shoe repair shops are anchient history. Vacume repairs suprisingly enough are still around just hard to find.
Well the cost of replacement is just so close to the cost of some parts right? I’ll miss the shoemakers and tailors though.
Im in PA and my hometown actually still has a cobbler that makes custom shoes! My husband and I both know how to properly fix shoes, they aren’t difficult
But please bring back the tailors!
M8 cheers on your presentation . I live in Oregon USA where I deal with Schnitzer's metals they do buy all sorts of metals via their other companies. Have you tried asking them about buyers for circuit boards , etc ?
Keep up the good work. God bless y'all.
Thanks! I’m up in Canada and I’ve looked into shipping precious metal scrap a couple times but companies generally just pass on small international sellers in my experience.
@@thubprint not sure if its worth it but have you tried these guys www.precious-metal-services.com/prices-sorting-criteria-for-electronic-waste/ another youtuber pointed me in that direction for circuit boards
But anyhow thub I like your show it's awesome watching you just going out to recycle I did that before it's pretty cool cuz you find a lot of new stuff and stuff you never seen before it's well worth it it's on us .
Great
I find the cast cases (most of which consists of cast aluminum and ,very rarely, a die cast aluminum/zinc alloy) on most older technology. The yard I sell to takes them as cast aluminum, they add up quite fast.
They are pretty large, I’m not surprised those do well! I think most modern flatscreens use cheap steel all the way through though
@@thubprint yup, I picked up a 55" TCL flat screen last night and the most aluminum that was in it was the heat sinks on the motherboard.
How’s it going man? I ask myself these questions all the time. Is it worth it? It always depends on, my time to what I end up with. I did notice several coils of copper wire. I guess not enough for your time. But if in fact you already are taking them apart, I’d definitely start saving it , copper had s as good solid value and isn’t too difficult to separate. It’s still one of the precious metals that you still css as n acquire if you want to do the work or research. There’s still large quantities of pure clean copper just laying around, you just need to know where to look. And many who do know aren’t likely to share their knowledge. Because the tougher times get the harder it will become to scrap, and the supply will be much less of what’s readily available. People still throw away items daily that have many valuable scrap metals without ever considering it. Many people still throw away 5 cent returns that they pay for. A case of water 24 bottles is $1.20 evey case you either return or throw away. It shows how different things are in different places. I’m many places in the world $1.20 can go a long way and can make a difference in the world if collectively that money went to the places it matters. Sadly there’s places and people throughout the United States would greatly benefit from the money that other throw away daily. Maybe one day it won’t be like this! Maybe recourses will become so scarce that every penny, every scrap will matter!! We’re far from it but I’m always amazed at the value in things so many regard as valueless! I’ve been scraping for many years, I know in upstate NY many junk, salvage businesses are generational. I had several uncles and a step grandfather that were lifelong scrappers. They all died very wealthy but no one would have ever known. They were very tight with they Money, wore them same dirty raggedy old clothes every day and were perfectly happy. Sad because all never got to enjoy it! It’s almost a sickness to work so hard to collect that money just to die and have family members squabble over it and pick through your belongings or for the state to take it all. But very few ever get to enjoy all the years of hard work they put in!!
I’ve got a 65” tv in my living room that I’ve managed to get the light diffusing plastic sheets out of and a large sheet of plexiglass which I’m going to use to make an airbrush spray booth. I havnt gotten to the electronics yet though. Other things I’m in the process of taking apart are 2 G5 Mac towers, induction heating stove top, epson 4in1 printer, and some other things. I’ve been hoarding 12v computer fans, microwave fans, transformers and magnetrons, many DC motors of various sizes, nichrome wire, 3v LEDs(the bulb kind and board mounted ones that are 1m) and strip light LEDs(going to make some light tables). All the circuit boards I’ve taken out of things I’ve managed to save every one and have a 40gallon tote almost filled because I’m still learning what is worth keeping and what isn’t by watching UA-cam videos like these.
Someone may have said this earlier, but one may be able to sell on places like ebay, amazon, etc the WHOLE circuit boards and interconnecting wire harnesses and LED strips for a great deal higher ROI and with much less effort than tearing them apart at the component level.
Even if one offers a zero-cost return policy if a board/harness fails, it can be worth it to eat the cost of the infrequent bad board...especially if you know a TV was tossed-out due to a bad LED strip, or damaged display, etc. and a failure is less likely to be due to a bad board. Otherwise, either the main power supply circuit board or the LED power supply board are often the failing part. Also, more modern TVs have far fewer boards than they used to.
edit to add: If you know the power supply board(s) are fully functional, they're probably one of the easier/faster selling circuit boards. You can search the net to see what kind of price you might consider asking for them.
No mercury in that one as it’s a plasma screen (metal back, glass front & very heavy). CCFL backlit LCD screens contain mercury. modern LED backlit LCD screens do not.
When he fast forward I feel out my car laughing cause it looked like me on tweak🤪🤣🤣
I said God damn God damn!
And the second one was your standard LEDs that they have now so your best bet is to try to find as many pulled plasma was as you can
That's a load circuitry in there, pretty sure it might have been a plasma screen TV, definitely wasn't cheap when 1st bought.. 😊
My little 20 inch plasma tv was approximately $650-700 when it first came out, as I recall.
Scrapping the gold & silver off broken TV’s and electronic devices as a hobby like myself, it’s fun and profitable, because your not spending nothing, your collecting & breaking apart and recycling the TV or electronic products after you’ve stripped them down! Collecting what you find precious is up to u!
It's take to much time to tear a tv apart
Then i was selling as scrap for .15 cents a pound
Then somehow my tv stop working so i call a tv repair guy to fix it
one thing led to another he said that he has to get a part so he saw that I had TVs in the back and I told them that I sell it as scrap for extra cash and then he said he buys broken TVs 15 $20 each
And ever since I've been selling it to him
THATS how it’s done! Nice work bud, I still need a regular like that!
Neighbors watching, be like hes rebuilding that whole tv. 😂
Interesting.
Throwing silver away to keep zinc come on!!!!!
Neil S. If they were similar weights, I would agree with you. But ...
Only 20 cents in silver
Or less
@@jimscott4552 but it adds up. Just like collecting all the screws of everything you take apart.
@@Treebronx and that’s 20 cents you didn’t have before.
I throw all my screws into a container to scrap also, it's not much but every bit helps
Absolutely. I sometimes do the same, fill up a microwave or pc case or similar. Steel has just been such a bad price recently though, it’s hard to want to
@@thubprint bbq tanks are great for smalls like screws etc...the valve is usually brass...hope you will do a video scrapping them
My interest is more for scrounging, so I collect screws as hardware for projects etc. Anyone who’s a maker quickly learns fasteners and hardware add up quickly, although I find furniture and smaller electronics a better source for these. Their scrap value is dubious. I agree parting out or selling the whole broken TV is the better value. But definitely test non-visibly broken TVs for functionality first. People throw away perfectly functional stuff, more frequently than broken stuff in the States in my opinion since the price of TVs has plummeted. Often the broken TVs just have bad power supplies.
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Precious metals, including gold are measured in Troy Ounces. There are 31.103 grams in a Troy Great video
You have a really great presence for the screen. We really enjoy your topics as well. And hey, if you're ever in Missouri swing by and my husband can take you to his barber. No offense intended please! I just think your lovely happy happy hair would be cooler and so much easier to handle if it were cut short❤
The power supply and main board are worth between 25 - 50.
Thanks for ripping into it so I dont have to!, I will grab one and sell it to a tv repairman, thanks
This guy gets it 👍
Hi, you forgot about people who do craft projects, I have used the led lights and save the screws you would be surprised at how many times I have needed a small screw to hold the let's to a project. Good video 👍
Oh I have SUCH a collection of screws and bolts! The trick is organizing them, but I generally do have the hardware I need for my frequent projects, which saves a lot of money over time!
I got a really good white back drop from a TV and a nice piece of plexiglass
I try them out to see if the screen is just broken and if so, I sell the motherboard on ebay as a working board for repair.
Fair! Odds are if the screen is busted the rest of the parts will be good.
You can never undo too many screws, it always releases my inner child to take something apart
Yes, but, would you be able to put it all back together, with the original screws ? 😉😉
Now this video makes sense after watching a lot of your videos
It’s definitely a piece of the overall body of work, although I worry some people watch it and are disappointed there wasn’t any pouring of a gold bar involved 🤔
@@thubprint a gold bar ready to sell just behind the screen 😁😁
I dont think I have ever thru out anything without stripping it down esp. electronics old vcr , stereos, pwr tools, microwaves , washers dyers , ovens like i said everything i keep ALL screws & use plastics making stuff probably my fav is recliners for the flat bar metal, mounting brackets i can re cut & weld to fabricate something I need I love it & do it for fun
O come on. You pulled the screws out add them to your iron pile. I put mine in a can . You might be surprised after three months how many pounds you have
I wish I could put up a picture of my jars of screws. I bet I've got close to a hundred pounds and it doesn't take any extra time. The way I do it I only touch each screw once
I agree. Even if you didnt sell as scrap screws you can sell jars of screws. Like a jar of buttons even at 5 dollars a jar or bag might be worth more than a pound of iron.
Try getting a washing machine tub full of screws off the back of your truck at the scrapyard. Lol. I think this idiots man bun is too tight. If you’re gonna bother to take it apart, save all the metal. That shit adds up.
Definitely, i have 10kg already
To be honest I probably got closer to 20 or 30 lb myself. A hundred sounded better at the time
You don't make money from a' flat screen you make money from 10,000 flat screens
I live in Ontario and our scrap centers pay for e-waste now, its only .05 - .15 per lbs but it can add up pretty quick and if you only need to load unload vs. break it down its not terrible🤷♂️🤷♂️
I scrap them out cause I love tearing them apart and it's fun I also love tearing tube tv's, computer monitors, computer towers, microwaves it's just fun to do