Reply 58080 of 58082, by Ozzuneoj
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myne wrote on Today, 03:24:Inductors are more or less solid copper wire.
Worth the 3 seconds to cut off.
Not worth the several hours to attack the rest of the copper.
When you say worth, do you mean like as scrap?
Copper is worth less than $6 US per pound. If you're trimming one off every three seconds (and someone is actively feeding you boards loaded with inductors), it'd probably still take hours to get one pound of copper from inductors on motherboards.
Anyway, yeah... a lot of scrappers would probably still do that for some reason. I have seen some boards that were demolished in so many complicated ways it was baffling. It must take a tremendous amount of time and energy to destroy some of this stuff. On the other hand it would take minutes to just look for the biggest name\words\numbers printed on the thing and search for it on ebay... and they don't even have to sell on ebay. Just take the pile of valuable stuff, dump it on FB Marketplace as-is and sell it for 10-20% of the ebay price to be done with it. They'll save countless hours, make 10x as much money and not have to destroy their hands, tools or the boards themselves.
Makes my brain hurt... 😵