How To Scrap A TV Video
 

Looks like you could do the same thing with him and end up with some silver and maybe gold.

I cant imagine being so poor that I had to resort to this. I think I would rather steal newspaper machines and break the coin boxes open.

I really shouldn't talk as I sent many tvs to recycling while cleaning out a shop.

Electric motors....wadf

There's a guy that comes around to get my junk TV's and other junk electronics. He does the exact same thing as this guy; which, is fine with me because he's doing me a service by hauling them off and I don't have to pay to get rid of them. Several years ago, I paid several hundred dollars for a roll-off dumpster so that I could dispose of an excess amount of TV's and other junk. They used to have several dump sites throughout the county for this purpose; but, they are now closed and everything is door-to-door pick-up. Twice a year, the city has a bulky waste collection day. So, if it were not for the scrappers, I'd be screwed.

We have approved recyclers that reuse everything down to the solder. These guys do the same thing here and leave the unwanted toxic waste all over the street.

That was the impression I got too, he didn't seem to concerned with the disposal of the carcass.
Oh well, at least it was a non working, BPC set, you couldn't get $5.00 out of it any other way.

I don't understand why this is really worthwhile. You're spending all that time to tear it apart, separate everything, load it in a truck, use expensive fuel to go to a recycling center, and unload it and wait while they weigh it. Each tv is only worth about 5 bucks according to the comments, but you're probably spending 3 times that in effort and expenses. You'd need to scrap alot of TV sets, and then there are all the carcasses left behind that are essentially toxic waste.

To each their own I guess.

Gotta luv the narration, "hear da gas comin' out." and "dis here's a motor."
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Sorta the junked electronics version of this..
:lmao:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yn3YpIOew4&NR=1

It's what they call tax free income. Isn't it funny that he has money for all that useless jewelry he has on. Probably mooching off the tax payers on some kind of disability.

Wow, I can't see how all that effort makes any sense. gotta love the factual sounding commentary, (motor comment is nice). I wonder if any of the wallymart crowd "up grading" to flats are going to want there old BPC back when that flat goes belly up. I was looking at some the other day, I swear they give me a headache if there is any movement on the screen. Seems jarring to me, I think it has to do with how my eyes have been trained to view moving images in 2D, Something about the flats just does not seem natural to me. I guess it could be they are just too sharp, but I honestly think its something else, again the movement gets to me.

I've scrapped dead tube VGA monitors, but I was after the high voltage caps and power resistors and the damper diodes make for good high voltage rectifier diodes in tube hifi audio amps. The bridge rectifiers for their switching power supplies were nice too. And lots of heat sinks. And inductors for higher frequency work. So now I have a pretty well supplied "junk box" of parts. usually it was the horizontal output transistor and flyback that failed to cause the monitor to be junked, but most of the rest of the parts were still fine. But it took me a lot longer to tear down a "chassis" than the guy in the video.

I would like to see her capture a freshly charged CRT anode in the tear down process.

My favorite part is right after the crackhead necks the tube, they talk about some guy who died by impaling himself on a CRT neck.

The economics sure have changed - up until 2008, it was economical to scrap TVs for a living. I have a buddy who still does it. Sony's are his thing - he cruises for them, as they have a higher metal content than most sets. He still picks TVs up for scrap, but he's more into junk cars these days. Seems with the bad economy, folks aren't into having more cars than they need, and he reaps big time from that.

BTW, that Zenith set is worth less than 2 bucks, and the yokes yield little vs the labor to get the copper wire out. For a breakdown of what a Sony XBR would bring to the table, I spelled it out in this thread, post 7:

http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=174042

I junk only my own sets, and don't condone the junking of any rare/esoteric/tube/or otherwise collectible set.

Cheers,

Caught me off guard too... and how casually they talk about it! Can't say I envy those people!

I was going to comment on his stupidity of calling the fly a "motor" but I do believe that they classify that type of scrap as Motors, transformers, etc. So to him, I guess it is a "motor".

What's depressing are the comments of folks who are really interested in doing this themselves, getting that big $5 a tv. How can people be so desperate?