14 Nov
2001
14 Nov
'01
11:02 p.m.
Mike Ford wrote:
One of the bad guys (professional scrapper) said he paid $10K for
Each IBM 360 he got. Sounds like more than $1/llb folks.
*** joke ****
How do you tell when a professional scrapper is lying? Their lips are moving.
$4/lb is about the top end for just circuit boards, and then only when
filled with expensive chips in sockets. $0.50 to $1.50 is more common for
well populated boards.
Ceramic chips with gold pins go by themselves for about $25/lb.
Aluminum is something like $0.35/lb.
The rest is mostly breakage which is more like $0.04/lb.
I should have clarified. It's not that significant when you factor in
the transport, labor, fuel, processing supplies, hazardous disposal
costs, and other overhead. I have had occasion to haul off worn out
appliances, junk cars, and such to the scrapper, and I even did a
spreadsheet or two for one. The margin is not that high without a little
help sometimes, if you know what I mean.
Something like that might be going on in the case of the Cyber, and the
state may be lucky not to lose more than $10K selling it as scrap, even
with a slash-and-burn removal.
To be fair, that may represent the least cost method of disposal, at
least in terms that beancounters can understand. Unless a rescue plan
that will cost the state less, or maybe net it something, is established.
jbdigriz
Anybody have a
CLUE as to its value as scrap?
Apperently it's not insignificant. Supposedly there is considerable
gold on the circuit boards. May be water cooler myth, can anyone
confirm or deny?