How to easily remove gold pins from circuit boards and CPU chips using heat. 

Thank you for that video my name is Scrapper Bob I deal with components every day on my TVs now I know how to make more money

Another amazing video. Lots of great tips. I will use my dual temp heat gun in the future. I like the way it works on the chips with heat sink.😎😎⛏⛏🔥🔥

More people should see this. You saved me the headache of trying to obtain a decent sized bottle of nitric acid. I found some on Amazon that unfortunately is not very good quality and couldn't find any other listings. And I don't want to use sulfuric acid because that's going to damage the gold. And I did not want to have to jump through any hoop shifts to get some. Before anybody says what about muriatic acid, I don't know if that will work. I don't know if it'll eat away at the soldering or the board itself. I try to research it, but couldn't get a straight answer.

Another great video. Thank you for producing such useful content.

Wow the heat gun works great.. and I already have a heat gun.. cool I wouldn't have thought of that..

Great information. Thanks so much.

GENIUS!!! I have subscribed! Thank you for sharing! ♥️🥀🙏

I use a small butane torch. Great video my man!

Appreciate it and thank you Sir .👍🏼

Great Job. Thank You.

Great video Tin Man 💣🔥

Thanks, very helpful

awsome info my friend thanks for sharing ;) great video

I love it thank you

Nice way to grab some bits with out mass destruction!

Great video are u planning on getting into refining ewaste to get the gold?? Iv been thinking about doing it iv been resurching alot about it

i bought jewellers glasses, like 2 yrs ago.def a big help to see those tiny pins! i got them for about 10.00 or less now they sell for over 60.00 crazy!

Great Video How do you get the gold off the pins?

I've been saving gold pins and other goodies not that I have the knowledge to refine any of it but maybe I can gift it really something to someone who does this scale of refining or has more use for it then I do ♻🌎👍p.s here in Alberta Canada we get charged for dropping off ewaste in our city's however county dumps and landfills out in the rural areas we have ewaste and plastic recycling bins but we pay for the dump/landfill use ito a extra charge with your property taxes but it covers all waste and recycling trash! They also have a up cycle sheds set up to leave unwanted things that still work or might have value or use to someone else and if the employee working there likes you he well let you even scrap out what you want from the metal and other waste bins at your own risk!

Thanx for the videos I have found them very helpful..always learning new things. I have a question for you...I don't have a hot gun can I use a hair dryer it blows hot air would tht work?

Thanks Tin Man. Hadn't really thought of using a heat gun, but will look into investing in one. Looks much easier than the method I have been removing pins from mother boards and such. Thanks also for the info on removing the core and magnets of the microwave mechanism. I have several that I haven't finished scrapping.

I'd love to see a video on finding, pricing and figuring out what our time is best spent in. Just a an idea for a future video. I'm sure there's more ppl who wander the same.

Yep 👍👍

How much weight in pins does it take to get an ounce of gold after refining?

you can also use a clothes iron and make a holder to turn it upside down and leave the board to set on, make sure to move air outside away from yourself.

Hey tin,i work at a car dealership in Florida and they throw away car window and af switches i found out they contain gold boards with gold pins

Could you ever do a video on gold extraction ?? Preferably without hard chemicals but however you do it at home.

I have read that that boards emit toxic fumes when heated. What are your thoughts regarding this drawback?

i have 9 desktop computers i took the circuit boards out and 2 flatscreen tv's..how much gold do i have estimated?do flatscreen tv's contain gold because i pass a lot of them up on the street being thrown out?

Who do you sell the pins to? I've got 3 quart Mason jars full of them pins.

Not bad. Remember solder is liquid at 300 - 350 degrees. Try a propane torch or soldering iron. .

I've been collecting circuit boards from electronics and flat screens and I have a few questions to ask you. There's tags connected to the screen and circuit board is there some gold in them? And in your opinion what would be a sizable amount to start the separation process? I wish I could show you what I've collected so far I think I have a nice collection but I'm gonna keep stacking it

Ammonium nitrate And hydrochloric will make quick work of those pins. Peroxide and hydrochloric. Thales forever. Usually let the sit all winter if I’m using peroxide method.

Where do you sell your gold pins

Awesome video, but I can’t get it out of my head that you sound exactly like the guy in the show Dan vs.

the metal on the back of the CPU's is usually #2 copper

What temperature is the heat gun please.

just a suggestion you might wanna try letting them set in the sun and get hot first then you wont have to use the heat gun as long

Love the channel and your enthusiasm but its gonna take you a lifetime to depopulate boards with the heat gun, whack a map gas blowtorch on the solder.

What do you do with the CPU chip after you remove gold?

some people think it's just to small an amount of gold to bother with, however, prospectors never toss gold out for being small. think about it.

I've gone through two heat guns already. You'll find the elements burn out fairly quickly. If they have two settings, turn it from high to the low range before shutting it off. The lower setting will help it cool down without fatigue / heat cracking the element. I have a vice I hold motherboards in, place a tray underneath it to collect all the pins and chips during depopulation. I typically pry off the aluminum capacitors because they can explode when heated. The transistors, resistors, diodes, that I can cut off with my dykes (diagonal cutting pliers) I do so before heating the board with my airgun. The only thing I use heat to remove are the gold plated pins / sockets, MLCCs, mosfets, flat resistors, and IC chips off the circuit board. I find it pays to sort and stow away items I depopulate from the boards at the end of each day. This way, I don't have to sort through several buckets full of items over a week or two. Remember to take care not to burn yourself or catch adjacent items on fire.

That was way faster using a heat gun over a soldering pen and a desoldering pump 👍

Tin man where are those located, are they on flat screens?

Are the pins pure gold

I mean the squares using the heat gun

by the way, who will but the gold pins, as is? if u cant refine them? anyone know?

You may be breathing toxic fumes released from the melting.

that metal backing is a nickel plated solid copper heatsink. remove it .

In the USA those are vice grips. A pair of needle nose grips might be better.🐎🌻✌️

I use a razor blade and cut the legs… it is way faster and cost effective and my opinion

Tinman , shoot me an email. I have some scraping info to share.

seems like way too much work

You talk too much you, 😲😲😲😲