On Mon, 24 May 2021 20:59:49 -0400, micky
wrote:

Is there any "market" for old electronics, even for free?

I guess it can depend on if there *is* a market for any of it for some
reason. Like, I was given a commercial Hard Drive storage unit that
was full of low capacity half height 3.5" SCSI HDDs that turned out to
be of use to people running / upgrading a game console of some sort
and they all sold on eBay for a reasonable sum.

I actually found a recycler in driving distance who claims he will even
take my CRT tvs.

We have a recycler who pays for old PCB's and even cables and
connectors as they recover any precious metals (primarily gold) and
even the lead from the solder. Old CPU's and RAM are good as they
often have gold plated pins.

So if I have something that is both dead and unlikely to be of any use
to anyone else (even if working) I generally take it to bits, recover
anything that might be of use to me (screws, switches, fuse holders,
IEC sockets, big caps etc) before recycling what's left.

Might be worth a quick check online (eBay etc) *before* you strip
something down as you can often be surprised how valuable some old
stuff can be. I stripped a couple of brand new / old stock 486 mobos,
only to see on eBay they were going for quite a bit (possibly old
engineering equipment that still used such). ;-(

Cheers, T i m