E-waste GOLD Recovery | Recycle Broken Electronics! 

The real gold was the fun we had all along

Really enjoyed the video. I think you should narrate your videos more often as you have a good sense of humour and are humble enough to not take things too seriously. Always enjoy your content!

I worked in a massive E-waste company for about 10 years. High grade boards were absolutely the moneymaker, as well as gold contacts. But there’s were big beefy gold plugs. We had 2, and later 3 main contracts. One was office E-waste, the other was in dismantling decommissioned mobile technology, the infrastructure. Near a phone mast you will see a series of huge green cabinets. They are FULL of gold contacts. Later on we got a contract with BT, decommissioning all their old exchanges from decades ago that were just shuttered all over the country. It was full of gold and palladium. The company expanded so much we ended up with our own shredder warehouse with belts, vibrating tables, magnets etc and visual sorting system. It would recognise a piece of shredded material and jet it off into different boxes. I miss working there now. The owner started like you, scrapping electronics in his garage. He ended up with 2 Ferraris and a lambo 😅

First I have to say thank you, as an IT professional I truly enjoyed you destroying all of those components :). My company has over 130 locations, 40K employees and we recycle all of our E-Waste. I got to visit the facility that processes it and the place was massive. At the heart they had a 3 story grinder/sorter, electronics go in, get ground up, then are sorted by floating them in higher and higher density liquids, they skim the floating material off the top and collect it. They process so much and the operation is so large, they turn a very decent profit. Yes some of the electronics are repurposed and sold to other companies but hard drives and memory storage devices are destroyed (I'm in healthcare, that's important). Really nice to see you do this project, it might not be profitable, but it's a learning experience and fun. Take care!

I didn't know how involved the process was, very cool thanks for sharing.

I was a little surprised by just how little gold you got out of that. But I'd love to see you process the rest of it.

The thickness of gold on edge connectors has gone down by a factor of over ten in the past few decades as process technologies have improved.

Wow! That was a lot of work for a little pay off. I’ve always thought about doing this but I’m glad you did it first and shared your curiosity with the rest of the world. Great job!

Outstanding. I think most of us have always wondered how much gold could be recovered from waste like this, and also how much work it would be. Love your vids.

Love the more laid back talking head and voice over. Much better than awkward ad reads any day! I love your videos and always watch them when they come to my feed! Keep up the great work!

This is great,now i can do something with old broken electronics from my office,reducing dump money and getting something and possibly extra payment

Suggestion: You might want to watch Sreetips and see how he does this. He has done this type of recovery a couple of times on this channel. You get a piece of gold about the size of a Green Pea.

finally a video with voiceover, i've been waiting for this for so long

Wow, that was amazing. I guess the manufacturers do know how to make efficient use of a very small amount.

Nice video 👍 Looking forward for the next one. Just wanna mention out some points. Adding the SMB to the gold solution is an exothermic reaction. You might have a boil over effect because this. My advice. Use a taller beaker. Also. The SMB reaction is kinda slow when the gold concentration is low. I noticed that the colour of the waste changed after you filtered it. Definitely a loss of gold there. My advice. Let is set over night. It will collect in the bottom of the beaker. Then filtration is not necessary. You can siphon of the liquid. Then test the waste with Stannous. (Tin2 chloride) so you are sure that everything is precipitated 👍

More interested in the copper separation, which is the bulk of the weight of the PCBs. Not to mention using that to cast brass/bronze parts for machining later. ;)

I'm not sure but buying those chemicals cost more money than the gold you recovered.

‏‪0:29‬‏ the dream of anyone interested in electronics

This guy is very humble and honest. Keep it up bro.

Great video, loved the golden color of the dissolved gold. Glad you got a nice bead of gold from the hard work.

Thanks for doing this. Really good to see how much waste went in versus the labor and the result. I can now stop dreaming about all the e-waste that has collected at my house. ;-)

I have always been interested in doing that as well. I have a ton of e-waste ive collected over the years. Maybe once I retire in will look into doing this so i will have all the time I need to do it. Would definitely like to see the rest of it processed.

I live for new experiences. Thanks for sharing yours! Cool to see you mix it up.

I've seen several videos of this type before and yours was the best by far.

😱😱👍👉Electronics has a lot of gold for you to find. Good idea.😱😱

If you refine the silver, you can alloy it with the gold to make something called electrum. It's also known as green gold. It's really unique looking. You won't have enough for a ring, but maybe a small earring.

New sub, I have watched hundreds of e waste to gold videos and yours was awesome

Another fantastic video. I always appreciate your genuineness, and attitude. Thanks you.

Camera modules from smartphones contain pretty much gold. The internal wiring to the chip is done with gold fibers.

Chemist here, that was a fantastic process to watch!

This was really fascinating stuff, even though it didn't produce much it was still a good experiment to learn how things work

You have a golden pea, Very cool 😁 Really enjoyed watching the process

what surprises me is that such a small nugget was enough to plate all that electronic material

A lot of aluminum/copper/brass in the rest of the "junk". Also worth $$. And a lot less processing! Love your channel!

I had a hunch you were a magician! You could make a wallhanging/framed picture with the remaining components. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe and keep up the good work. :)

The extraction would be much better if you used a larger glas container which holds everything (pcbs and stuff) and where you are able to trap the emerging chlorine fumes in order to create a internal chlorine environment. Sadly nitric acid is hard to buy so hypochlorite has to be the oxidizing agent combined with chlorine gas the extraction should be comparable with aqua regia (HCL + HNO3 3:1) Btw you lost a lot if gold in the process too

Nice work man. I do enjoy your out-of-the-box content.

You are an awesome teacher. Thank you for what you do. Never stop.

As an italian I love all the stuff from chinese stores, Lidl or Brico that you use, it's super recognizable lol

So much work for such a tiny blob of gold, but it was a joy to watch.

Nice job doing the recovery. Thanks for the look.

Good work and thanks for the fun. I like to keep some distance to chemicals so I glad you do the work.

wow! super cool that you got pure gold from recycling ! love it!

Thanks for sharing the process it was fascinating to watch it may be a little bit of gold but imagine if you did it all the time at the end of the week those little bits could add up to some serious money lol all the best

Thumbs up. Testing a new process for the sake of a new eperience. That's the Blackbeard style.

That was awesome to watch. Thanks for sharing the experience!

Excellent job. I appreciate your willingness to try that.

Awesome mate, thanks for the video. Fantastic as always. Keep up the great work!

That was great, I can now bin all those bits I have been keeping for years 🤪

Great job every little bit adds up so don't be discouraged you did very well for your first time let's see how you do on the rest two thumbs my friend

Thanks for sharing that, it was fun watching!

Very intriguing and it'd be nice to see another video of you trying to do the same with the other scrap parts

Really interesting how much gold is actually used with the connectors

You are far smarter than you give yourself credit for! Very good video!

Brilliant, really enjoyed this.

Thanks I have always been intrigued by this! I have done plating before(damaged my wife’s kitchen) but never reclamation very honest you have saved me much time and purchas of chemicals by watching this I will move on to my other crazy ideas hence the donation for saving me time tears and money. Be lucky mi amigo,😅

What a cool video , and all the way you broke it down was fun to watch

Very enjoyable and interesting video! I also like the narration - maybe you should incorporate more of it in your videos! As always, excellent work and keep it up! 🤘

Very cool stuff. Thanks for sharing and explaining everything.

Really interesting never new you could do that in a home environment

Surprisingly easy to do with some common ingredients and other easy to acquire ones. On a small scale not monetarily worth it but fun.

Thank God a channel that speaks.

You know what would also be amazing? Making a rainbow-shining mosaic from ICs from all these. You can get them out of plastic with hot air or straight up burning it off, but the second one wouls need a good wash.

Great video man, really glad to see the little gold pebel.

Make a go of the other components. Great content! Keep 'em coming!

Awesome! Will this make an appearance as a component in a future project? Thanks for sharing; enjoyed the narration as well.

2:11 when you had too many beans for dinner

As a vintage computer and electronics enthusiast (hundreds of dollars worth of parts destroyed for a few dollars worth of precious metals), this video was very painful to watch but at the same time interesting from a metallurgy perspective.

Watching you destroy the boards etc at the start caused me physical pain 😁 even though I knew they were no longer useful haha.

yes, bill all to this guy, another knowledge, lots of e-waste,thanks for sharing great video sir..

Black Beard Alchemist

Very cool to see !! I enjoyed it !! 👍👍

Glad you did it for fun. I had fun watching.

Haha! Very nice. Great job. Yeah, the cost of the chemicals alone, far exceeded your gold value.... Still, it's super cool, to have that piece of gold, that you yourself, pulled out of old electronics....... The value of THAT, is priceless..... You DID it. No one can ever say, you couldn't do it... You did it....

damn, the process is super time-consuming. maybe the extraction costs are worth it nice work bring more

This is why I also love my e waste it gives me some profit from recovering precious metal.

That was wild! Really cool video!

pretty neat experiment, it's nice you managed to have fun :D

Really fun video, BBP! Thanks!

Awesome, very informative and you saved me a heap of trouble!

I realize you don't yeild much recovering gold from electrical places, but I was wondering if the materials you used cost more than the recovered gold you ended up with? Either way, I did enjoy your process... Thumbs Up!

Bro this video is so awesome and entertaining to watch u did a wonderful job. But i can't imagine the patience and pain of the whole process of collection cutting removing and sorting 😵😵😵😵 it must be a hell lot of work right brooooo a big HATS OFF FOR THAT WORK BEHIND THE VIDEO

Wow amazing skills. Great job as always sir.

The coolest guy in Internet. Very fun video!

Cool experiment, glad I have not tried this. Please keep up the good work. God Bless.

Wicked cool! Absolutely love your videos!

That was so cool. Respect.

You are a Genius……..how do you know all of this…….Bravo!!

Absolutely fascinating. Thanks 😊

...looks like fun, good one, keep safe and have a great weekend..

Man, you should try gold-coated wrist watch cases. The old ones can be found for quite low price and there’s only gold and brass in it. Amount of gold would be much higher and process not so complicated.

Thanks for suffering through this on our behalf!

cool, cant wait for the rest :)

i really like your job and your method i have learned many things from you

Great video and glad you did it

I love the pneumatic chisel for chip removal xD

Love your work.

That was fun. Thanks!

That was awesome to watch

That was fascinating. Thank you 😊😊