are there salvagable parts in a Sharp LCD tv

[Tim R]

The neighbor has a Sharp LCD tv, small screen size but rather thick profile, with a cracked screen.

The glass in front isn't cracked but if you turn it on there's a nice pattern of cracks radiating out from what looks like a small impact site.

We're trying to figure out how to dispose of it without paying the recycling fee. It's $25 per unit for electronics here. Would there be any components in it worth salvaging? I dunno, power supply, memory, something like that?

[John-Del]

If it's an older model and of small size, there's not much value. The best way to get rid of it is to put it in your car with a price tag on it (like you just bought it) and park at the mall with your windows down. Go get an ice cream in the mall and the problem will correct itself.

[Tim R]

Tried that, ended up with two more.

[pf...@aol.com]

On Friday, October 6, 2017 at 10:26:35 AM UTC-4, John-Del wrote:

Save for the fact that the item will then wind up on the side of some road somewhere for the taxpayers to remove, or not.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

[pf...@aol.com]

On Friday, October 6, 2017 at 9:00:36 AM UTC-4, Tim R wrote:

I have no idea where you are, but here in Eastern PA, Best Buy and Sears recycle electronics at no charge. Not that there are too many Sears remaining. You might investigate that option.

[Tim R]

Currently Best Buy is the only option, and they charge $25 per.

I'm hoping for an amnesty day locally, even if I have to drive a bit. The local landfill operator has a consent degree that may force them to do this.

[John-Del]

LOL!

I love Peter like a brother but sometimes the lad misses the point...

[Foxs Mercantile]

On 10/6/2017 8:00 AM, Tim R wrote:
> We're trying to figure out how to dispose of it without
> paying the recycling fee.

That what God made black trash bags for.
The pickup guys can't see what it is and refuse to pick
it up.


--
Jeff-1.0
wa6fwi
http://www.foxsmercantile.com

[pf...@aol.com]

I suffer from heightened sensitivity on this matter. Our summer house is in an enclave surrounded by a larger 13 acre plot and on a private lane. The main road nearby passes a gully on the larger plot - two years ago, the owner of the plot took out 60 yards of crap - mostly large appliances and electronics, not the expected tires and demolition debris. She spent several thousand dollars from her very limited fixed income based on the laziness of others.

Yes, we all pinched in - but she was still massively out-of-pocket.

[N_Cook]

The plastic microprism sheet makes an interesting lamp shade, with the
spectrumming effects

[tom]

"Foxs Mercantile" <jda...@att.net> wrote in message
news:or8b0d$9vn$1...@gioia.aioe.org...

Take it apart and cut it into small pieces and put it out with the trash.
That's why God made the reciprocating cut saw.

[tabb...@gmail.com]

Whether stuff is worth salvaging depends on how much you get paid, what you have in stock etc. So there's no way we can know. There are certainly things in it you can make stuff from.


NT

[bruce2...@gmail.com]

Tim R wrote:
> The neighbor has a Sharp LCD tv, small screen size but rather thick profile, with a cracked screen.
>
> The glass in front isn't cracked but if you turn it on there's a nice pattern of cracks radiating out from what looks like a small impact site.
>
> We're trying to figure out how to dispose of it without paying the
> recycling fee. It's $25 per unit for electronics here.

This is the electrical industry. Not the garbage hauling industry. We can forget that, occasionally.

Now, I realize that you're trying to be a modest good samaritan, however at some point shouldn't you tell the neighbor that this is a trash transportation and disposal issue. Is their's to deal with. Not your's.

[micky]

In sci.electronics.repair, on Fri, 6 Oct 2017 07:59:54 -0700 (PDT), Tim

R <timot...@aol.com> wrote:

>On Friday, October 6, 2017 at 10:55:35 AM UTC-4, pf...@aol.com wrote:
>> On Friday, October 6, 2017 at 9:00:36 AM UTC-4, Tim R wrote:
>> > The neighbor has a Sharp LCD tv, small screen size but rather thick profile, with a cracked screen.
>> >
>> > The glass in front isn't cracked but if you turn it on there's a nice pattern of cracks radiating out from what looks like a small impact site.
>> >
>> > We're trying to figure out how to dispose of it without paying the recycling fee. It's $25 per unit for electronics here. Would there be any components in it worth salvaging? I dunno, power supply, memory, something like that?
>>
>> I have no idea where you are, but here in Eastern PA, Best Buy and Sears recycle electronics at no charge. Not that there are too many Sears remaining. You might investigate that option.
>>
>> Peter Wieck
>> Melrose Park, PA
>
>Currently Best Buy is the only option, and they charge $25 per.

I went to BB a couple months ago and found out they hadn't been free for
18 months. Time flies.

>
>I'm hoping for an amnesty day locally, even if I have to drive a bit. The local landfill operator has a consent degree that may force them to do this.

I don't know if this will lead you to something in your state or not.
It's about 20 miles so I'm planning on taking everything I've got.
>

[Chris Jones]

You could try looking on e-bay to see whether others have successfully
sold any of the PCBs with the same part numbers on them. Perhaps selling
a couple of the boards would get you nearly enough to pay for the
disposal fee for the rest of it.

[olds...@tubes.com]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 06:00:34 -0700 (PDT), Tim R <timot...@aol.com>
wrote:

>We're trying to figure out how to dispose of it without paying the recycling fee.

Donate it to a local rifle range. They always need targets to blast into
pieces.

[Foxs Mercantile]

On 10/9/2017 11:35 PM, olds...@tubes.com wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 Tim R <timot...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> We're trying to figure out how to dispose of it without
>> paying the recycling fee.
>

> Donate it to a local rifle range. They always need target > to blast into pieces.
>

Once again proving your ignorance.
No rifle range in their right mind would accept that trash to shoot at.
I suppose you're one of those that dump your trash along county roads at
night too.

[pf...@aol.com]

On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 12:35:41 AM UTC-4, olds...@tubes.com wrote:

> Donate it to a local rifle range. They always need targets to blast into
> pieces.

Wait! isn't this the guy who burns his plastic trash illegally? And then blames the "Government"?

I spent years on a shooting team in my misspent youth (and have the medals and patches to show for it). I shot on ranges from Texas to New England and points between. No range of any repute would accept any sort of trash for targets.

[olds...@tubes.com]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 06:07:56 -0700 (PDT), "pf...@aol.com" <pf...@aol.com>
wrote:

>I shot on ranges from Texas to New England and points between.

Words typed by an ANTI-AMERICAN who according to this sentence, claims
he lives in America. An ANTI-AMERICAN who not only prefers to buy China
made items, but an ANTI-AMERICAN who promotes China made items as being
superior to those made in America. An ANTI-AMERICAN who likely refuses
to stand for the Star Spangled Banner, and who kicks dirt in the faces
of American war Veterans.

My suggestion for this ANTI-AMERICAN:
Get the hell out of America. You are not welcome here. Move to China
where you belong.

[~misfit~]

Slow down, take your meds then call your carer.

(Another clown who thinks that the internet is American!)
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy
little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

[Rheilly Phoull]

On 11/10/2017 2:30 PM, ~misfit~ wrote:
> Once upon a time on usenet olds...@tubes.com wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 06:07:56 -0700 (PDT), "pf...@aol.com"
>> <pf...@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I shot on ranges from Texas to New England and points between.
>>
>> Words typed by an ANTI-AMERICAN who according to this sentence, claims
>> he lives in America. An ANTI-AMERICAN who not only prefers to buy
>> China made items, but an ANTI-AMERICAN who promotes China made items
>> as being superior to those made in America. An ANTI-AMERICAN who
>> likely refuses to stand for the Star Spangled Banner, and who kicks
>> dirt in the faces of American war Veterans.
>>
>> My suggestion for this ANTI-AMERICAN:
>> Get the hell out of America. You are not welcome here. Move to China
>> where you belong.
>
> Slow down, take your meds then call your carer.
>
> (Another clown who thinks that the internet is American!)
>

Don't forget, this bloke is on a slow learning curve for everything

[~misfit~]

Yeah, I didn't realise just *how* slow (having only been reading bits of the
group for a wee while now).

[pf...@aol.com]

Seemed to have hit a nerve. Which is entirely surprising as I really thought OldSchool was less sensitive than a box of rocks - only without the utility.

For the record, we have been to China - it is a fascinating country, the little we saw of it, but it is incredibly polluted. Much as the US was during the height of the coal-burning era, and when the rivers ran orange and actually caught on fire.

I guess that would be the Old School of environmental management!

[Foxs Mercantile]

On 10/10/2017 11:27 PM, olds...@tubes.com wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 06:07:56 -0700 (PDT), "pf...@aol.com" <pf...@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I shot on ranges from Texas to New England and points between.
>
> Words typed by an ANTI-AMERICAN who according to this sentence

Once again proving what a clueless fuckwit you are.

[Foxs Mercantile]

On 10/11/2017 11:02 AM, pf...@aol.com wrote:
>
> For the record, we have been to China - it is a fascinating country

I've been there twice on vacation.
The most striking part of China, is that while we allow
bridges full of traffic to fall into rivers, they are plowing
tons of money into their infrastructure.

[pf...@aol.com]

On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 11:27:34 PM UTC-4, Foxs Mercantile wrote:
> On 10/11/2017 11:02 AM, pf...@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > For the record, we have been to China - it is a fascinating country
>
> I've been there twice on vacation.
> The most striking part of China, is that while we allow
> bridges full of traffic to fall into rivers, they are plowing
> tons of money into their infrastructure.

Something similar happened after WW-II - the US infrastructure from rails to factories was almost entirely worm out due to heavy use. On the other hand, European and Japanese infrastructure was crushed. They built new from everything they had learned from the US (Deming), modern production methods and more. They revised their entire rail system ... and subsequently cleaned our collective and several clocks for efficiency. They did not have the materials and wealth to replace their transportation systems with automobiles, so they maintained their passenger and light-rail systems.

On the other hand, we built the Interstate and Defense Highway system from the 50s to the 80s, where it became the envy of the world. Now, a highway is designed to last about 25 years without much maintenance. A highway bridge somewhere to about 50 years, with the upper limits around 75 years. Guys and gals - we are there - and beyond.

Interstate and federal highways are paid for by the gasoline tax. Which has remained at $0.184/gallon since 1993. It should be $0.317/gallon by inflation Writing for myself, I would gladly pay that amount if I could be assure of safe bridges and highways, and better public transportation options - and that it would not be diverted for other purposes.

[Tim R]

We've gone a little off topic, but in Germany we paid $9 a gallon for gas - and there wasn't a pothole from one end of the Autobahn to the other.

[John-Del]

On Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 8:57:31 AM UTC-4, pf...@aol.com wrote:
and that it would not be diverted for other purposes.
>
> Peter Wieck
> Melrose Park, PA

Well there's the rub Peter. No money will ever not be spent elsewhere as "needed". SSI was solvent as originally devised, but once it was determined that SSI was flush with funds, it got redirected. Now it's part of the entitlement vote buying handout system. People who have never contributed to SSI can collect.

Here in CT, the casino money was supposed to be earmarked to just education. With CT's finances a full fledged dumpster fire all money goes into the general fund.