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what to do with CRT monitors?
owelly - 3/1/12 at 01:50 PM

My garage has been filled with ex-office CRT monitors. I could take them to the tip but it seems a waste as they all work. Any suggestions?

mookaloid - 3/1/12 at 01:59 PM

modern art crt monitor pyramid sculpture on the cliffs near Whitby?

Benzine - 3/1/12 at 02:00 PM

MAME arcade cabinet?

Get big into flight sims?




[Edited on 3-1-2012 by Benzine]

loggyboy - 3/1/12 at 02:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by owelly
Any suggestions?


Get rid of them fast before places start to charge!?

steve m - 3/1/12 at 02:33 PM

Mine went to the tip, as did my old ENOMOUS and HEAVY old tv

It still worked, but took up a 1/4 of my spare room!

gazza285 - 3/1/12 at 02:51 PM

Has Keith Moon taught us nothing?

steve m - 3/1/12 at 03:21 PM

There was no way keith moon could of picked my TV up and lobbed it out, it took 3 of us to get it downstairs

jossey - 3/1/12 at 03:41 PM

what about places like CEX or the second hand pc shops around?

you may only get £5 per monitor but better than a kick in the teeth

loggyboy - 3/1/12 at 04:29 PM

quote:
Originally posted by jossey
what about places like CEX or the second hand pc shops around?

you may only get £5 per monitor but better than a kick in the teeth


They'd be lucky to sell them for that much, i doubt theyd even take them off you for free!
Just check out ebay to see how many dont sell or do sell for pennies.

jossey - 3/1/12 at 04:56 PM

ohh ok....

:O(

but crt is much better than lcd monitors. you cant heat a house with a 19" lced but a 19" crt will heat a 3 bed house when on full.....

nick205 - 3/1/12 at 05:02 PM

quote:
Originally posted by loggyboy
quote:
Originally posted by owelly
Any suggestions?


Get rid of them fast before places start to charge!?



having just tried to dispose of 10+ CRT screens at work and being asked for £8 each to take them away we divvied them up and took them to a variety of local household recycling centres for free. A word of caution though....if you turn up with a load of them the staff are likely to question you and possibly turn you away (as happened to one of us).

owelly - 3/1/12 at 06:37 PM

Cheers guys. I'll take a couple to the recycle place tomorrow and see what the score is.

Andybarbet - 3/1/12 at 06:40 PM

Log onto your local freecycle group, i just got rid of the 2 i was keeping as spare just incase monitors.

The people that wanted them even came & taook them away - saved me a trip to the dump