CRT TVs scrap value

[JudgeMental]

Last night I wrestled 80kgs of 37" CRT TV out of the bedroom and down the stairs. It wasn't easy

Using a set of wheels I managed to then manouvre it through the house and out on to the drive ready for a run to the tip this morning. I placed this behemoth of a tv on the ground against the side drive gates and parked the car almost up against it.

This morning it's gone! Silently whisked away during the small hours. This couldn't have been an easy task as it had to be somehow manouvred over my car to get it out.

Am I missing the point here? Is there a scrap value I'm unaware of for old CRTs?

[carreauchompeur]

80kg??? Jeez, was it one of those floorstanding projection ones?

I can't see any scrap value in it, however someone obviously thinks they've played a blinder. No need for the tip run now- Yay!

[BlackVanDyke]

If it still works it's probably worth having to someone - flatscreens aren't cheap. Manage to sell it on for a few quid, all the better.

[cazzer]

I used to have a floor standing projection one...they weighed nothing.

[cal216610]

cazzer said:

I used to have a floor standing projection one...they weighed nothing.

Powerfully built are we,
When i put my old tv outside ready to take the tip after work, got home to find the tv gone but the plastic caseing was left behind? i know there is no scrap value in the plastic but spending time screwing the back off was a bit much.

[cazzer]

No really, when it was delivered they left it in the box in the middle of the livin room.
I unpacked it, then me and a mate got ready to move it.
Legs bent, steady, on three.....
We nearly threw it through the ceiling.

[NiceCupOfTea]

It's unbelievable, the brass balls of these people.

When my parents were having their bathroom done they left the old bath out on the drive - top of the drive, mind, couple of cars in the way and couldn't be seen from the road (quiet suburban cul-de-sac). Came out 15 minutes later and some tt had smashed the bath to get the taps off! They looked brass but they weren't so last laugh is on them!

I must admit, I'm not quite sure what I would have said if I'd caught them at it...

[dtmpower]

Why are people confusing the large CRT with a rear projection screen TV?

[Condi]

Very common in places like the States and Ozzie to leave things out and for them to vanish. Being poor people, we did the collecting most of the time, but you would be amazed what people throw out.

[Nickyboy]

Big CRT's are popular with our Eastern European cousins, they don't have cash for a flat screen so a big CRT is like gold. I took my old 32" to a boot sale and it was gone to a Polish guy before i'd even parked up, he chased me down the field on seeing it in the back.

[rumple]

Ive just stripped down a trampoline, put it out the front to load into my car for a tip run, came in here for a coffee, and its gone, not even 10 mminutes, quite impressed.

[DuckDuck]

They contain huge amounts of lead which is why they are so heavy for what they are. Good scrap value Imo.

Ok maybe not so huge amounts about 11lbs lead?

https://www.premierinc.com/quality-safety/tools-se...

Edited by DuckDuck on Sunday 25th March 14:22

[F i F]

Well the concentration of lead in solder is about 40% but the greatest weight in a CRT TV is the glass of the CRT surely. Especially if a "flat" screen as the glass has to be thicker to support the load, even more if a Sony because of their targeting system.

Also the speakers will be heavier than the tiny rubbish things they put in modern thin panel TVs.

[Benjurs]

If you want to get rid of any st then freecycle is your friend.....

It's free to join and you can get a warm fuzzy feeling of helping someone else in the community....

They'll generally come into your house and do all the hard work (if you're OK with that, else just leave it outside )

You'd be amazed what st can shifted on that site...

[SteellFJ]

same happened to me the other week with a washing machine, after skidding it down 4 sets of stairs(top floor Flat) and leaving it outside for council to collect, I went to work the next morning and it was gone , saved me a phone call!

it was a washer dryer and by no means light and easy to move.

[Porkbrain]

It may save a trip to the tip but the bit that bogs me off is that while you're tucked up in bed these fkers are skulking around in your street, presumably with a van, looking for stuff to steal.

[Six Fiend]

My neighbour was moving on Friday, left a TV cabinet by the van for a few minutes to stop anybody blocking the rear doors and came back inside...luckily I saw the other van driven by standard swarthy looking chap pull up and thus saved the cabinet

As others have said Freecycle is ace! CRT TVs are easy to shift. I give and collect loads on the site

[JudgeMental]

Some interesting tales. So it's lead for some and cheap viewing for others.

They must be constantly driving around looking, from what I've heard here and elsewhere.

[tribbles]

rumple said:

Ive just stripped down a trampoline, put it out the front to load into my car for a tip run, came in here for a coffee, and its gone, not even 10 mminutes, quite impressed.

Free tramampoline!

[moanthebairns]

tribbles said:

Free tramampoline!

oh my god! Tramampoline! Trambomboline!