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There's a company called A to Z in near Brentwood in Essex that I know of.

LCWS in Lancashire collects free of charge. check out their website LCWS - Where IT disposal and recycling do not cost the earth

Heres a link to the environment agency weee breifing note that explain when IT equipment is waste. Most school equipment donated or given comes under scenario 12 if it's fully working or 13 if it's intended for repair and reuse. Hence no WEEE transfer notes or waste licences are required http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Business/WEEE_briefing_note_v2_7.pdf

Look at www.whiteboardpens.co.uk the pens are around £9.00 each.

LCWS have always done a good job for us. They are on 01254 726303. They take anything working or not and don't charge anything.

Try whiteboardpens.co.uk they do pens from £9.00.

whiteboardpens.co.uk are quite cheap for promethean pens.

A pair of BL-554 USB BLUETOOTH ADAPTORS will do the job. Their between £85-£99 retail each, but i've looked on ebay and you can pick them up for £15.00 each.

I have a load of spare control units if you need one just let me know which one you need.

The main difference in the Weee regulations is that if you are a home user then the cost of disposal and return of the item from where it was bought must be borne by the manufacturer. This means if it was delivered direct to your house then they must pick it up, if you collected it from a shop/distributor then you must drop it back. All costs incured must not be passed on to the end user. In the case of Buisness to Buisness (B2B) the manufacturer must set a system where by the items can be collected or delivered to a local depot but the cost associated can be charged to the end buisness. The manufacture/distributor can not make a profit on this service so you will normally find it is in the region of £5-£10 a system for disposal. You can normally do a deal at the time of buying any new kit for the old kit to be taken away at the same time. If the distributor is delivering to you direct and not via a courier then theoreticaly there will be no additional cost and then you should get your kit taken away for free. The alternative if you are not going to have kit ready at the same time you can use one of the donation to charity services that are set up around the country. These are better as you know your kit may get reused or recycled and not scraped or landfilled. There are lots of these though you have to check what they will take as some will only take working kit or items above a certain spec. Here are a few but plenty more can be found by serching for computer waste or computer disposal in google. Giving Solutions Lancashire Computer Waste Services Intelligent Giving | The independent site for the smarter giver Computer Aid International Refurbish Recycle Donate

they want to expand, they only wanted to go so far as oxford. Let me know when you have some kit, i've got kit to go as well, so they'll be more liekly to come out. I have spoken to them today and they cover all the country. All they ask is if you don't have a full load is to give them a week and they will do your collection with another school in your area. you can contact them on 01254 726303 LCWS They ask for total numbers to be collected so they can send the right size vehicle but find that numbers are not always accurate hence them not fitting into the vehicles.

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On most tft's it is not the backlight that goes, it is just a couple of capacitors on the ac-dc invertor board that has gone. Open one of the monitor and look at the long thin board with the wires going to the top and bottom of the screen. Normally around the middle of this board there are two square plastic or metal round capacitors. The plastic ones will have a small hole blown in one of then corners and the metal ones will be domed on the top. Replace these for about 15p each and your screen will be working. All you need is a soldering iron and a nice electronics teacher.

Most tft's that seem to have a back light problem have a couple of capacitors blown on the ac-dc invertor board. These cost about 15p each so for very little time effort and money you can replace these and get the screens working again. This is the same problem you get with athlon motherboards around the 1800mhz mark.