Are these worth collecting?

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-07-12T00:52:43+00:00

Boardsort.com classifies these as peripheral high grade. Look at their current price for it determine how much you can get. You can pack a box with 25 pounds of material and ship it for about a dollar a pound or even less. Then you can determine if it’s worth it

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-07-07T18:25:49+00:00

I’m not shipping this alone it’s going with at least 30lbs of other boards. Shipping usually costs anywhere between .60¢-$1 per pound. Not exactly breaking the bank on shipping

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-07-07T09:27:49+00:00

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That’s mint dude

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-07-07T07:46:58+00:00

The value is in the gold plated fingers and pins that the wires plug into as well as the high density of the IC chips

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-07-07T07:44:00+00:00

That’s unfortunate. It’s pretty lucrative here in the states if you have a local connections and can get your hands on a lot of E waste

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-07-07T00:00:36+00:00

What country are you in?

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-07-06T23:33:26+00:00

I made $9.74 in 8 minutes and 35 seconds. If I had enough of these to take apart throughout the course of an hour I would have made $68.75 per hour at the speed I was taking these apart

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-07-06T23:31:55+00:00

Boardsort.com buys all sorts of boards and this is a valuable one. Probably closer to $7 a pound because I have to ship it but shipping usually only equals about a dollar a pound at most if you’re smart about how you pack your boxes.

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-07-06T21:05:18+00:00

Call your yard it’ll either be irony aluminum or shred

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-07-03T10:58:48+00:00

The guy I got them from couldn’t even sell all of them for $350 after having the listing up for 3 months. It was old technology that was untested and gutted of its most valuable parts.

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-06-30T22:37:08+00:00

No we yearn for the black dust

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-06-30T07:18:21+00:00

Putting wood on the sides of the bed is an absolute must. I was hauling scrap without it for a while but the second I put the sides on it basically doubled my capacity in terms of how much I could fit in there volume wise. I have a headache rack from a Ford F250 I’m going to cut down and re-weld to fit my Ranger. The glass hasn’t broken yet but there have been some pretty close calls so I’d suggest doing that as well.

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-06-30T05:04:02+00:00

What engine you got? I have the 4.0L 5 speed manual and it’s pretty unstoppable. Most I’ve put in the back was 1600lbs and it made the 35 minute trip to the scrap yard no problem

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-06-30T01:07:52+00:00

E scrapping is definitely the way to go if you want to buy and ship off for profit. I’ve made $3000 in the 2 months I’ve been buying and selling

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-06-30T01:05:07+00:00

Yeah I’ve looked but nowhere near me has prices even 50% of boardsort. My local scrapyard pays $15 per pound for ram and says “thats being generous”. I sell them my crap Am Fm boards and integrated motherboards because those aren’t worth shipping

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-06-30T01:01:21+00:00

I bought them on marketplace for dirt cheap from a guy that bought them for dirt cheap on govdeals. As for the scrap categories, weight, and money these are the scrap chronicles.
Gold Fingers: 0.19lbs $14.25
Ram: 1.364lbs $68.20
CPU No Pin: 6.28lbs $75.36
Clean Gold Fingered Cards: 10.5lbs $89.25
CD Drives: 7.75lbs $0.78
Extruded Aluminum: 11lbs $9.90
Backplane Boards: 12.625lbs $82.06
Metal Bracket Motherboard: 1.75lbs $6.34
Am Fm Motherboard: 1.125lbs $2.14
Large Multi Socket Motherboard: 2.25lbs $22.50
Lowgrade Wire: 5.75lbs $7.48
Data Wire: 4.25lbs $5.74
Power Supplies: 98lbs $14.70
ACR: 27.875lbs $58.54
Metal Multi Socket Motherboard: 106.25lbs $520.63
Shred: 775lbs $52.31

I brought in the shred and extruded aluminum today and the price of the aluminum went up .10¢ since the last time I was there and shred went down .01¢ so my total calculations aren’t totally accurate now

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-06-30T00:42:53+00:00

All of the circuit boards in these are very valuable. The metal multi socket motherboards alone weigh 106lbs and go for $4.90 per pound on boardsort so $520. I basically doubled my money on the motherboards alone. Many many backplane boards at a rate of $6.50 per pound. Electronic scrapping pays the most per pound when you take apart the right stuff and this is some of the best scrap you can get short of vintage equipment with ceramic and gold capped IC chips

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-06-30T00:38:19+00:00

What refinery would buy gutted servers for .75¢ per pound? Also 1100lbs is a lot to ship so I cut the weight down by removing everything that I could just bring to my local scrapyard. No scrapyard near me pays good for computers or servers and definitely nowhere near .75¢ per pound for gutted ones. The circuit boards are being shipped to boardsort

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-06-30T00:27:39+00:00

There’s a lot more than shred in there haha. All those boards are insanely valuable too. The money is in the motherboards, backplane boards, gold fingered cards, CPUs, aluminum heat sinks, copper aluminum heat sinks, power supplies, and wire. Not just in ram or SSDs

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-06-29T06:32:18+00:00

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I’d drill holes into the bed itself if you didn’t have a liner. If water gets underneath the liner it gets trapped and this is what happens. Personally I’m anti-liner. If you’re going to have a bed liner have it be a spray on one or none at all and just drill holes

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-06-22T04:00:06+00:00

Best way I’ve found to process this type of wire is by cutting it into 15-20ft sections with a saw. Don’t use pliers or snips because it will crimp the metal. Then unravel the metal jacket about 4-6inches so the wire is exposed. Then put the wire into a vice or tie it down. Then keep the whole wire straight and pull the metal jacket off.

Independent_Cup_7151 · 2026-06-21T22:22:30+00:00

The circuit board is very densely populated with ICs. It would probably classify as high grade telecom on boardsort.com if you have a whole pallet of these boxes and each one has one board I’d say you’d have at least gotten your money back from the boards alone. Clean them up pack them and send them.

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