I think I have some telco/gold, some perif and some junk. Please let me know what you think, what if anything should I remove to increase grade and if junk, anything worth pulling off and saving.

First of all welcome.

A: Remove the steel bracket and it will be GFC-Clean.

B: Remove the steel bracket and it would be HGP in my book.

C: Remove those blue things and what looks like a transformer on the top right and this would be HGT.

D: MGB all day long. You are free to depopulate this board for anything you deem worthy and I would just scrap the rest of the board. Its not worth much

E: MGB. Remove the goodies for yourself and do the same with the rest as D

F: Remove the transformers and this would be LGT

G: This is LGT

H: Remove the coaxial port and steel box and this is also LGT

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**Please keep in mind that my assessments on board quality are personal in nature

Abbreviations
HGT - High Grade Telecom
LGT - Low Grade Telecom
HGP - High Grade Peripherial
LGP - Low Grade Peripherial
MGB - Mid-Grade Board
LGB - Low-Grade Board

Anyone familiar with that Wescom component on E?

I feel like it isn't but can never be too careful on Mercury relays; gonna see if I can find anything.

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I can't find anything with the visible numbers.

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A: there are 7 glass fuses. You can't have those on the board if you want to get graded for the rest of the board's value.


note on A/B: I'm not sure there's enough gold fingers there for either to get GFC class; both can at least get high peripheral after you remove the steel brackets pointed out already. Those rivet like screws are quite annoying at times, be sure you use the appropriate size screwdriver or just cut the bracket as close as possible to the board.

C: I can't see this hitting high telco even if you cleaned off the copper/steel bearing components. Feel like you're at high peripheral as is and maybe hit low telco if you carefully remove the "junk". Interesting, there is a Dallas component that isn't a battery.

D: I think there's room for low peripheral if you wanted to remove the large square and one round components. But, those may have added value too so maybe no need. The PC 388C's, are those phone jacks? that's gold pins if so. The 3 switches may have precious metals as well as the boxes. A few ICs and gold fingers as well. Do remove the faceplate.

E: see earlier comment.

F/G: High peripheral, just pop the lid off the cable box.

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