How do you dispose of your bad monitors?

[LyonsArcade]

When I go to the dump, they never i.d. me, and I've been to some of the recycling things to and never got i.d.'d.

Seems kind of uptight to me. "HEY! YOU GOD DAMN FORIEGNERS! YOU'RE FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY!!! GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!!! WE'RE ONLY TRYING TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT of 'THIS' COUNTY!!!!"

lol

 

[Riptor]

Oh, and any tube I toss, I save the yoke and rings...

Same here.


They are getting strict at the transfer stations and dump. I got yelled at a couple weeks ago when the guy caught me throwing a bunch of metal brackets from slot machines in the dumpster. He claimed it would damage his crusher. It was entertaining watching him try to fish the stuff out with his little hook stick. Took him about 30 trys to get one piece

 

[Peale]

Who throws away old monitors? Unless it has a broken neck or a shorted gun that can't be saved, it stays. Always good for testing chassis.

+1. One of these days my repair setup will consist of just one tube, but with many different yokes. Need to test a G07? Get the yoke from the shelf, slide it on the neck and test away. Of course it won't be a "perfect" picture but for most things it doesn't need to be.

I take all broken tubes to the recycling place in town. TV chassis are used for parts, I haven't not been able to fix a monitor yet.

 

[Peale]

Please dont throw away ANY chassis and only tubes that are not salvagable. Some of us dont mind a little burn and tubes with heavy burn can be used as bench monitors.

I shudder sometimes about those who are "new" to the hobby that are so quick to toss monitors for whatever reason. "New" meaning anything from brand new to a few years in, or inexperienced.

I went to pick up some stuff from a collector recently and there was pieces of a broken up cabinet in their dumpster. Then I noted what appeared to be a very clean 4900 just below the pieces with a broken neckboard. I asked what was wrong with it, and he said "I asked a bunch of the guys, and it was deemed 'unrepairable'. Asked if the tube was broken: "nope!" I was in a hurry that day, so I couldn't fish it out.

They aren't making these things any more, we've got to be careful with what we've got!

 

[ELutz]

I shudder sometimes about those who are "new" to the hobby that are so quick to toss monitors for whatever reason. "New" meaning anything from brand new to a few years in, or inexperienced.

I went to pick up some stuff from a collector recently and there was pieces of a broken up cabinet in their dumpster. Then I noted what appeared to be a very clean 4900 just below the pieces with a broken neckboard. I asked what was wrong with it, and he said "I asked a bunch of the guys, and it was deemed 'unrepairable'. Asked if the tube was broken: "nope!" I was in a hurry that day, so I couldn't fish it out.

They aren't making these things any more, we've got to be careful with what we've got!

Yeah, there's a small time op I do work for....he's several hundred miles away in the country. His house is atop a hill. I've been told how he just chucks monitors out his back door....and lets them tumble down the hilll side. Apparently, the ravine at the bottom is pilled with busted monitors. I try to get him to bring them to me on his next visits, but I've yet to see any.

Edward

 

[mrbill2084]

I wait until I have a few tubes, then I take them to the local recycler(when I have a load of aluminium cans).

I think if you take a tv, they will give you some money, but since I am just taking tubes, they will only take them for free. Last time I took a bunch of old UPS batteries and I think they gave me like $2 each..

American Metal & Iron (AMI)
11665 Berryessa Road, San Jose, CA‎

 

[Peale]

Wow, you GET money? I always have to pay to have them disposed of.

 

[modessitt]

+1. One of these days my repair setup will consist of just one tube, but with many different yokes. Need to test a G07? Get the yoke from the shelf, slide it on the neck and test away. Of course it won't be a "perfect" picture but for most things it doesn't need to be.

Well, several tubes, at least. A G07 tube won't help test a 19" K7000. And you'll need a 25" and 27" (maybe bigger), and at least one 13". and a couple B & W tubes. And then figure in the vectors (both color and B&W), for both WG, Amplifone, and Electrohome, and you'll be about where you need to be...

 

[Peale]

Depends on what you're repairing. I don't plan on doing any vectors, so that's out. There are two kinds of 19" K7000, so yes, I'd need both the narrow and wide neck variety. Both a 27" and 25" tube are good ideas. But for what I normally do, I could easily get away with two 19" and a 25".

 

[OregonPacman]

Trash can or smashy smashy and then the trash can. The TV repair guy (yeah we still have one) where I writes "SCRAP" on them with a sharpie and they get tossed in the dumpster. When I worked on games, if the dumpster was empty, I would forego bashing the end of the neck to vent it and just toss it neck down into the dumpster and quickly run away.

 

[EVB]

I bet you use that for garden mulch.

+1. Shoot 'em into little bits, bury the bits with a shovel.