Depopulating Boards for Gold Recovery 

agreed. I would never be where I am today with out ben

So true. I have learned almost everything from ben

yes Bens deffo an old bugger , whoops i mean very skilful am only joking about you been old mate am 58 have learned of you too loads including peach voddys nice lol

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@@davegdm954 .l..l.l..ll..l...l no

@@scrapwomblecreatives6944 I cry when I see him selling the boards without depopulating them like the TITLE said...but still he is very worthy of watching and the Aussie accent always tickles me.

That's how I do it. Often use pliers too nice and quick

You ever see that commercial for blendtec blenders. I was thinking the same thing. That thing would reduce whole boards to powder.

Yup, sounds just as good as his other setup

lol why you off to get it lol have you not noticed he gets lots of amy grade gear Bens got his wits about him mate his a prepper lol do you really think he stores stuff in his garden , its a long standing joke he as with his followers

@@scrapwomblecreatives6944 why would i go halfway around the world to take stuff from him?

Probably doing what I do and step the boards down from telecom to server grade or even just a high grade and taking more, really depends on your board buyer

OK thanks for the help. Ive been trying to decide sience I am anticipating getting my first real telecom stuff soon

it depends on the board itself, not all boards that come out of telecom equipment are telecom grade

I’m waiting for that day here in BC, the local govt has the recycle program running so tight here people don’t get any money for turning in e-waste. I have a local yard that will take everything you can recycle from a computer except the board itself. I do believe it is coming though, the amount of ewaste being recycled right now is obscene. If your going to stockpile boards for copper, laptop are the high grade along with server then desktop and peripheral boards. Don’t stockpile low grade power boards found in tv remotes or brown back. Clean off everything after your cherry-pick pass, as the board will be worth more clean of all large components. All your small surface mount components will have silver in the solder so keeping them is actually upgrading the board a bit. But cleaning off all large components will making stacking way more space friendly. This is all advice i I got when I deep dived the subject with a friend who works at the local scrapyard. They see it coming too, regulation is just favoring the recycling companies that have cornered the market ahead of the rest of the curve. Happy hunting!

I stack it all for later

my buyers grading

The fingers in the female wifi ports???? Is it not worth getting into them . How do I find out if it's bronze

So should I keep them separate from other pins ive taken out of plugs that I know are gold plated

I wish I could just show them to one of yall. The actual wire is longer than the usual ones that you pull out of those kind of telephone ports. The wire is gold all the way down once you pull them out there probably about an inch and a quarter long and the entire thing it's covered in gold. I saw something on a forum about a guy that had a bunch of of them and I guess he processed them and didn't get anything back

MONOLITHIC CERAMIC CAPACITORS i guess

You mean it's not the AR version of Kansas?!😱😉

Maybe work for depopulating board or anything

Can you see the gold bonding wire with the naked eye?

Ball Grid Array, they use tiny balls of solder to permanently mount the chips to the boards onto matching semi-cupped trace lines. Therefore, no more legs needed. They are less likely to be loosened from bumps and such. It also improves the efficiency along the production line. Hope this helps.

Strongly Alaska?