Raped curbside sets

[radiotvnut]

A lot of these TV's that are being destroyed probably worked just fine or could have easily been fixed. It used to burn me up, back when used TVs were still a somewhat hot item, to see a nice set that I could have gotten good money for had some idiot not busted it to pieces.

[zenith2134]

Pretty funny that there's a packet of smokes in one of those gutted BPC sets...

Copper thieves strike again! They'll take anything made of copper, illegal or legal....kind of crazy how bad it's gotten...

[zenithfan1]

Originally Posted by zenith2134

packet of smokes.

Never heard one say it that way

We have them here too, I call 'em the "copper smashers" and boy do they make a mess. I can't wait until I catch one smashing a tv in front of my house.
They won't be happy.. I just missed one a while back and he was lucky I wasn't around with a bat. My house sits very close to the road so I get more pissed than most about this kind of stuff. That and I'm sick of all the kenosha losers.

[radiotvnut]

Originally Posted by zenithfan1

Never heard one say it that way

We have them here too, I call 'em the "copper smashers" and boy do they make a mess. I can't wait until I catch one smashing a tv in front of my house.
They won't be happy.. I just missed one a while back and he was lucky I wasn't around with a bat. My house sits very close to the road so I get more pissed than most about this kind of stuff. That and I'm sick of all the kenosha losers.

I'd tell you to move to Mississippi; but, we probably have just as many losers down here.

About 2 weeks ago, I stuck a dud 2003 HP computer monitor out on the curb. Some guy pulled up in a clunker Cadillac and picked it up. He wouldn't have wanted to face the wrath of my Mother had she looked out and caught him smashing it. We have enough problems with garbage blowing in our yard from all the idiots in the neighborhood who don't have sense enough to tie up a trash bag.

There is one guy that I call when I have a load of crap and he comes and haules it off and acts like he's glad to get the crap. I told him the kind of stuff I was looking for and he said he'd save any that he found. So far, nothing has surfaced.

[Findm-Keepm]

Although the copper prices have gone down, several enterprising folks here in Norfolk make quite a bit from TV and copper scrapping - we're talking about 400-600 dollars a week! One gent I met at the metals place gets every bit of copper out of a TV - chassis, yoke and degaussing coil. We discussed the "best" sets to scrap - he agreed that Sony puts the most copper in sets. He also likes the projection jobs - easy to gut on the curb.

He hooked me up with an Admiral black and white 15" tube portable - not much in the way of copper, or tubes - it was missing all but the RF amp tube in the tuner.

What we see as a missed opportunity, he sees as income.

Me, I sell copper from BPC sets and the occasional extension cord I find when trash pickin' - but most of my metals are aluminum chassis parts from gutted test and computer equipment and aluminum cans from my Diet Coke addiction.

Cheers,