On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Jay West wrote:
> You're right William. We as collectors need to pony up and be willing to pay
> the price over scrap. However, I have delt with a couple scrappers who tell
> me "Oh, I can get $XXX for that in scrap" and I wonder how valid those
> prices are. How can we know? I believe one scrapper told me that for a 6
> foot rack with a 21MX cpu and a small QIC tape drive and small HPIB drive
> (each of the later units is 19 inches wide, about 4 inches tall, 15 inches
> deep, and weighs about 15 pounds so we're not talking lots of metal)... that
> he could get $140 for the scrap metal from it. Is this about right or
> off-base?
I used to have an easy rule of thumb for determining scrap value. It was
something like $.14/pound for typical old computers, but <$.20/pound for
HP gear (more gold).
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