Palladium & Silver recovery from MLCC's

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Monolithic Ceramic Capacitors (MLCC's) from older electronics contain up to 2% Palladium & 10% Silver by weight depending on processing methods and quality of mlcc.
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Whilst very current mlcc's may contain less Palladium then before, those high end electronics are just coming into play, most electronics a scrapper will find is 4 years old or more, meaning e-waste of today can still be loaded with high Pd content mlcc's.
MLCC's from factory supplies that are sold in 1kg bags online do not contain much Palladium or Silver, Only buy MLCC's from scrapped PC's which are higher grade then aftermarket copies.
we are all trying to learn so if you have more info to share about mlcc's and palladium recovery then tell us about it.
Palladium spot price is holding steady so well worth picking mlcc's.

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@gwater12345 3 года назад

MLCC is almost exclusively owned by Japanese company murata. The palladium used in MLCCs is currently being switched to nickel and began to switch around 2001. When collecting palladium, it is recommended to collect MLCCs from equipment older than 2001.

@williamspaulding1573 7 лет назад

+eWaste Ben As usual, Ben has produced yet another important and highly informative video for us ALL to learn a great deal of accurate info. As of yesterday, I have watch 95% of every video he has produced which has taken me many months but has been well worth my spare time. Ben is definitely a very good person with loads of wisdom he gladly shares.

@williamspaulding1573 7 лет назад

Agreed Stormy. :P

@chosen1one930 2 года назад

Fanboy. Ben makes horrible videos WITH BS that is wrong. Gold yields he finds on the internet and thinks there accurate when they're WAY OFF. He makes click bait videis and diesnt tzlk about the most important thing with MLCCs, the old ones that are dipped or box type through hole. ALMOST ALL MLCCs that are surface mount contain only baae metals. You can easily look this up online for free but most people never do

@chosen1one930 2 года назад

@Stormtrooper1488 intelligent? About what? Giving horrible information and making people lose money? HE IS ONLY A SCRAPPER, Period. He knows absolutely nothing about yields or how to process anything thats why you never him do it even though he said he would YEARA AGO

@chosen1one930 2 года назад

@Stormtrooper1488 He knows barely anything about Hardware and treats it like shit even though he says I can resell this or that, not when it doesnt work. No one should trust anything this guy says unless your only looking to scrap and want to know what things are called on a board but anyone can know that if you do a google search BUT those people are better off leaving boards alone so a scrap yard or ewste buyer doesnt give you less money just because you wanted to be like ewaste ben and end up finding out most of this shit is impossible to sell unless you give it away for cheap or get extremely luck. Eamples, tantalum and Oscillators. Very few buyers and very low prices, even ebay these items barely sell

@joanbaron540 5 лет назад

George here from America again. Awesome video Ben. I'm watching it several times. Good to know how much I should sell my mlccs for. Will do that so that the refiner can make his/her money. I'm your student sucking up all the knowledge you have to offer. Thanks so very much. Keep on scrapping mate.

@jboeras9298 2 года назад

Best explanation I’ve found so far, thank you really appreciate the quality and clarity

@shehaantissera1921 8 лет назад

Thank you very much Sir, I learnt a lot . and even i would be much pleased if released a video about refining mlccs. Thank you again..!

@gortnewton4765 7 лет назад

As always, excellent video Ben. Love your thoroughness and methodologies. Here's a suggestion, put together 30 of your best videos on a DVD, or even all of them in date order and sell them.

@TAWNYVLOG 8 лет назад

Take care folks with the MLCCs. I scraped almost half a kilo of them over the past 2 years, later I found out, that there are 2 types of MLCCs, BME and PME (base metal / precious metal). BME MLCCs contain no Pd, they contain Nickel instead and are magnetic... I tested my MLCCs with a harddrive magnet, more then 2/3 of them are magnetic... =(

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

+TAWNY BME's have only been in production for 5 years and not many things we scrap are new, they still make class 1 mlcc's. you mostly have inductors that look like mlcc's, they have code "L" on the board and are easily confused with mlcc's because they look the same.

@TAWNYVLOG 8 лет назад

no, its like you said, you can only trust yourself with MLCCs and I am sure, I had just scraped capacitors, didnt touch any inductors. Well, it was alot of work to scarp and collect them, and I was really disapointed, when I found out about it and run a magnet on them... have you checked yours, how much of them are magnetic? Well, I would guess, really good non magnetic MLCCs can only be found in 1990s hardware. Anything later then 2000 only if its high-end hardware like servers...

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

+TAWNY i'm pretty sure even the ceramic has some magnetism to them, a hard drive magnet is very strong so would pick up most of them, maybe try a regular magnet and the ones that get picked up then you could throw out. think the colored mobo's, red/blue etc might have the new style mlcc's, I just pick 'em all and hope for the best if I refine them.

@scottatkinson1975 3 года назад

@@eWasteBen hello, so I was wondering if you've ever scrapped a hospital laser? I got two rather large Exima 380 lasers and it looks like there is a lot of good stuff inside but i don't know if it is dangerous to be screwing around with lasers. Thanks for any advice you might have.

@justonpearson935 3 года назад

You can sell those old laser heads and power supplies they use to tinkerers like myself for more than what you would get for scrap. Do you still have any? I might buy or trade for one, as I could likely use the parts.

@paulholznagel6101 Год назад

Very interesting and helpful video. Thx for going into so much details explaining it Ben.

@philward2221 7 лет назад

Firstly MLCCs means MUltilayer Ceramic Capacitors not Monolithic Ceramic Capacitors. Many videos claim they contain gold ,they do not. Also it has been the avowed aim of every MLCC manufacturer to eliminate Palladium from being used as a constituent of the electrode alloy (used to be 70% silver 30% Palladium ) so many other metals have been used as substitutes eg, Lead, copper etc with some success, This is because the supplyof palladium is volatiles and expensive. The main metal recovered is Silver from the terminations (mixed with glass), If you want to make money it is no use relying on the sellers estimate of Palladium content you must obtain an assay before you buy, and believe me you will find very little Palladium in it in most cases. former AVX Technical manager.

@alternativeenergy2133 5 лет назад

thanks.

@bahubali2126 5 лет назад

what if we buy in india , where sellers know little about estimates

@seansenior6737 8 лет назад

Cheers for info i did not know they were worth that much and you did not blag on the more you say the more we learn, we earn.

@4CarbideGaming 3 года назад

Quick Question. How many lbs of boards did it take to acquire 1KG of MLCC's

@overtotheyouth 5 лет назад

Fantastic video! Very educational. Thank you!

@gaggiggable 2 года назад

A really rough 1600. This current day - amazing seeing the price change...still taking me to school - thanks for what you do B -

@christopherleubner6633 3 года назад

Remove big capacitors, Warm the board to melt solder in a convection oven, pluck off bigger connectors, scrape with a paint scraper. Separate with a magnet. The resistors are ok to have mixed in because they have silver on the ends.

@Justinbeehoney 2 года назад

I like this video real lessons learned. Stay up Ben.

@MrAllan9 7 лет назад

Thank you Ben.

@matthewbishop6385 6 лет назад

Thank you so much, the information was very good.

@TruthDigest 2 года назад

thank you very much for these rich description.

@victoriaharrison-sewell6717 Год назад

Thank you for this valuable information. It's good to know the prices of these precious metals & their retail value. Good also to be informed as to the different elements on a circuit board..

@GeoONE 8 лет назад

Thank you for sharing. Very insightful. I don't sell or buy but I do refine this for myself.

@rasmusuglebjergwith1284 8 лет назад

+Geo Could you make a video of that the next time you do it? There aren't a lot of MLCC refining videos out there (if any) and for us visual learners it's a great way to gather knowledge!

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

+Rallerman Awesomezz yeah a lot of people want to see this, I too am a visual learner, I can read 10 pages on the subject and not get it, show me once and i'm a master :)

@GeoONE 8 лет назад

+Rallerman Awesomezz Sure thing. I have a one pound sample I've been meaning to process. Watch for it in the future on my channel.

@rasmusuglebjergwith1284 8 лет назад

+Geo Thanks Geo, that'd be awesome! Can't wait!

@pinksapphire2898 8 лет назад

+Rallerman Awesomezz goldnscrap.com has alot of good info but its more broad then just standard knowledge and his youtube page is indeeditdoes and there slideshows

@maranti34b 8 лет назад

I pulverized a small batch of these, from four different makers. Then applied silver test solution to the powder. First tested the silver test solution on a .999 silver round. Positive test for silver. The test on the MMLC powder was negative for silver. Repeated the test 3 times. Under a 30x scope the powder looked like nickel. Am going to do a fire assay on some and see what the results are. Nickel will go to the slag. Nickel is widely used for metal plating and as a electrical charge holder.

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

+David Howard some don't have silver contacts and no palladium either, but I don't think your testing methods is how they do it, you would want to refine that powder and drop the silver out, then test wouldn't you?

@riverboat28 4 месяца назад

Hey Ben, can these things be absolutely tiny? I have so many on my board but they are tiny and usually start to break apart when trying to remove them. I've been trying to hoard all the pieces but is there any easier way? Thanks

@snoddyification 6 лет назад

You are a cool dude. Thanks for sharing mate.

@DonaldMelton 7 лет назад

hey thanks for such great information . i have learned a lot watching this .

@christophergranillo8753 3 года назад

Tremendous HELP! thank you

@shaneyork300 6 лет назад

What are the ones that are labeled with f or fb??? Since I've watched this the 1st time 11 months ago today. I started to get the boards and pick the mlcc, keep in mind I only do this 1 to 3 days a week and I've already got more than a 2lbs or a kilo! Probably getting close to 3lbs. GREAT VIDEO!!!

@hosammohamed7107 3 года назад

Is the yellow shiny spots on the motherboard are gold? i am just curious to know

@thegatesofhell 3 года назад

I come by some grayish ones that start with CP. Do they also contain palladium?

@ironface76f 6 месяцев назад

Great video. Learned a lot 👍🏾

@grimmsshenanigansproductions 3 года назад

I come across a lot of boards where they are not labeled. Frustrating. Any suggestions?

@johnnymotorboat8824 4 года назад

Ive yet to see a electronics recovery video. I know how to scrape them off the board. ???

@SAFEJIM 3 года назад

do these run on the board at the bottom of any digital screenon laptop tv or any other flatscreen

@scrappinfam6 4 года назад

Very Informative, Thanks! Scrap On!

@thewitchdoctor9821 6 лет назад

thanks for this!

@wizkid861 7 лет назад

Ran into something depopulating mlcc's.If on the board if there is a letter before the c is it still a mlcc for example one says tc66 etc.

@cricketman7335 8 лет назад

When you de-populate a board via an air hammer... how do you separate MLCCs from MCLIs and MLCRs (resistors) since off the board there are no codes to read and they all look a like? Or in that case you just process them all together? Thanks!

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

+Scappin' Cricket yeah not much you can do there aside when you get them refined you will just have less palladium/silver ratio, I do try and remove bigger mlcc's first by hand, the small ones and crumbles will just go in another tub and processed after the hand picked one's are. But if you want to be picky then do them by hand first, that way you will have a nice clean batch.

@cricketman7335 8 лет назад

+eWaste Ben Thank you for replying back and being helpfully honest :)

@citylotgardening6171 3 года назад

Thank you very informative

@thanos162 6 месяцев назад

can we do palladium recovery with new type mlcc capacitors?

@thanos162 6 месяцев назад

can we use any kind of mlcc capacitor?

@phillipbrewster6058 5 лет назад

Where do you sell your metals too do you know of any good refinering companies that Buy boards?

@brochclintonExtract_platinum 9 лет назад

Monolithic capacitors have mostly palladium. To remove them from computer scrap there is an extra step and that is to get the lead and silver out first I have a video on my page of this process only talking about it though.

@user-bj2qw1to9k 8 лет назад

+broch clinton I'm interested your method ........What do I have to do

@nobodyimportant4608 3 года назад

I had heard ( ONLY CXXX ) are palladium, and the ones with only 1 or 2 numbers are not ( CX or CXX ). so it's not all with C .. it has to have 3 numbers ?? Can you please verify that ?

@carolmoore3706 2 года назад

Very informative thank you 🙏

@michaelparker9165 2 года назад

Hi Ben, do you have a way I could send a picture for your opinion/clarification of mlcc's and what I question to be mlcc?

@albertfinton3444 7 лет назад

I got a few circuit boards that has the letters BC, PR, rp, cr, pq, ect. If you can tell me what they mean, I would be very thankful!!! And also I have something that looks like a resistor black but it has ted numbers on it, is that a resistor, too? I love your videos!

@kluafoz 8 лет назад

1st I seen of this.. liked and subbed

@davidcrandall1548 4 года назад

Any idea how much silver in the inductors?

@STROONZONY 8 лет назад

Gday, how do they do it on industrial scale? Do they just throw everything into a furnace to melt everything and separate metals by melting points? the main problem would be plastic fumes.

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

+GEZZA1 Not melted, they grind the boards down to a fine powder and use eddy currents to seperate the metals, plastic etc. it's a very clean process.

@Syzygy629 4 года назад

I read palladium is twice the price of gold right now.

@khookhoo2956 6 лет назад

What would happen if mix the mlcc and mlci together? Will we still get pure silver over it? Cause its pretty hard to tell which is which. And most of the circuit board not state it.

@eWasteBen 6 лет назад

silver, yes. but no palladium in mlci. inductor code on board is "L"

@xylz1798 8 лет назад

are they still good to keep if u break them im having a very hard time getting them off without breaking them,as i watch u just use a screw driver ,u make it look easy but not for me so far!any suggestions?

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

+Nate Chaps many mlcc's do break, it's ok, keep the dust too, palladium dust is good, if you sell them most know they have a portion of crumbled ones

@FlamingFoxIgnited1 8 лет назад

very informative. thx

@elvedinalibali8886 5 лет назад

Proximately how many regular motherboards are necessary for 1kg MLCC ?

@GeoffBosco 4 года назад

Gotta be in the hundreds, if not 1000s.

@robertoluiz2406 5 лет назад

Hi friend ewaste, i AM subscribe to you channel and would very much like you to ask me a question,what reagents and precipitant do you use to extract 2% Palladium?

@CARLOSCESPEDESbiocihealth Год назад

Good job.!’

@user-gk5pl7oz3p 8 лет назад

Hello, I have a question, or MLCC on the motherboard of laptops which are marked as "PC 203, 103 , ..." and have the same color as capacitors C also may palladium and silver? I might add that there are a lot on the motherboard and I wonder if they Scraping

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

+Paweł Hi, yes, PC are mlcc's, sometimes MC also.

@user-gk5pl7oz3p 8 лет назад

Thank you very much for your reply and all videos. Scraping Time

@styx7989 6 лет назад

very usefull video dude

@dertdert6190 7 лет назад

Hi Ben, great informative video. A question : no gold in MLCC ? I saw a vid on 41kg refining of MLCC, and the guys extract some gold of it. Any guess ?

@eWasteBen 7 лет назад

can't see where the gold would be but who know's, there may be some mlcc's where they used gold instead of palladium but i've never seen anything written about it

@Reasonist 2 года назад

Some mlcc’s might have gold braze in the solder.

@raymondreyes9710 8 лет назад

I tried quickly to write in the forum but couldn't figure it out quickly enough , so I was wondering if u could answer one more question. what is the silver stuff on the end of these Flat connection wires/paper? ribbon like, I see on many it is good but im coming across silver ones. are these precious metals?

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

+Raymond Reyes Tin

@raymondreyes9710 8 лет назад

+eWaste Ben it's TIN?

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

yep Tin, rarely silver, when it is silver it's not shiny it's a flat grey

@sherifaly6749 5 лет назад

thank you

@tousifst4490 8 лет назад

any body can tell me how recovery palladium and silver from mlcc's if should mony then iam

@dbcherrypicking8469 7 лет назад

Another quick question Ben.. I have a laptop board with what i think are some nice mlcc's. there the brown ones but they say PC instead of just C. I believed they were because some of the non black ones are labeled PL instead of just L. I just want to be sure..

@eWasteBen 7 лет назад

yeah sounds ok, the L are inductors so makes sense if the mlcc's are PC

@dbcherrypicking8469 7 лет назад

Yeah that's what I thought.. Cool, thanks again!!

@halilibrahimkocoglu5899 2 года назад

Man that is such an awesome motherboard.....

@ecv03 2 года назад

How about the extraction of the elements?

@aceroandaluz9405 7 лет назад

Use a magnet to pick em up lol works a treat ; )

@xylz1798 8 лет назад

just another quick question have u made any gold or silver bars yet? i wish i could get as many computers as u have.its so hard here in the us as i try to make some post on craigslist and people just flag it all the time so my only luck is to fin d looking in neighborhoods in garbage

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

+Nate Chaps no i haven't refined anything, just building it up to do when i cant pick stuff up anymore.

@rhondagrewe3591 3 года назад

we love watching you. Thanks for the good info. stay safe

@cynthomsen9133 11 месяцев назад

what type of board is that?

@williambramhall446 6 лет назад

eWaste Ben, Thank you for "signifying" which is which!!!!

@roywhipple4923 3 года назад

You got to the point just fine , good to know how many it takes to make it worth it.

@bantalee2002 9 лет назад

Ok here is a question...among the little brown MLCC's I see a few larger yellow squares.. are those MLCC's? because they are labeled with a C. I have about 2 pounds of them.

@eWasteBen 9 лет назад

bantalee2002 They are Tantalum capacitors the yellow ones.

@bantalee2002 9 лет назад

Ty.

@Ascaso_iF 8 лет назад

How do you take an MLCC off of a board without it breaking and crumbling?

@NameisRed 7 лет назад

themedres s I use thin pliers for the bigger ones. Small ones sharp chisel (carefully adding pressure and moving chisel side to side.)then pour into a jar.

@Alex-kp3hr 3 месяца назад

Hi Ben, as far as backyard scrapping and recovery goes, I include MLCI with my MLCC during the silver recovery part. For me, why discard a source of silver in MLCI's? I can see that from your point of view of buying strickly MLCC's that MLCI's would be a problem.

@trains644 8 лет назад

I recently started scrapping circuitboards and i noticed that there were things that looked like MLCCs but they were labeled "BC(number)" on the circuitboard. Anybody know what this means?

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

"BC" stands for bypass capacitor, it's still an mlcc if it looks like one, a BC can also be a tantalum capacitor.

@trains644 8 лет назад

+eWaste Ben ok thank you!

@lubiatty1 9 лет назад

superb channel and video as well! but i ve got some old mobile phones circuit mother boards and i ve looked for marks on them next to theese MLCCs and there is non. So how do i know what is what on boards like this? it is really hard to tell just by color sandy looking MLCC. i want to get the highest rate as you mentioned. thanks

@eWasteBen 9 лет назад

lubiatty1 Sometimes the codes will be in a group near the corresponding group of mlcc's. But mobile phones are known to have high quality components and those that look like an mlcc most likely will be so i'd be comfortable with putting them in my mlcc tub.

@lubiatty1 9 лет назад

thanks for advice. i dont see any marks next to anything there at all. but i believe they are all MLCCs, hopfully. thanks again!

@420stankybudz 9 лет назад

I was reading somewhere that the black mlccs have rhodium in them, is that true?

@eWasteBen 9 лет назад

stanky budz I haven't heard of mlcc's having rhodium.

@eWasteBen 9 лет назад

stanky budz oh sorry I was just thinking mlcc's which are capacitors, you mean Resistors, yep, the black resistors do have oxides of ruthenium or iridium and rhenium, just not sure if it's possible to extract the stuff. But one computer all up can have up to 1000 thick film resistors so it's worth finding out for sure, thanks.

@brochclintonExtract_platinum 9 лет назад

eWaste Ben you would extract the rhodium and iridium the same way you would platinum and palladium its just hard to separate platinum group metals

@DonaldMelton 7 лет назад

hey you stated that these are marked with a "C" or a "D" however on some sound cards there marked with a "R" , what is the deal with the "R" ones ?

@eWasteBen 7 лет назад

R is a Resistor, D is a Diode, only C is for capacitor but still needs to look like an mlcc to be one, so no C no mlcc

@DonaldMelton 7 лет назад

ok so what does a resistor have as far as pm's go ?

@eWasteBen 7 лет назад

Not much, thick film resistors, the ones with numbers on the top of them usually have ruthenium but very hard to get it and very small amount, no, resistors are not something we really go for, it's just not something an average refiner would bother with

@DonaldMelton 7 лет назад

ok thanks for all that information . keep up the great work my friend .

@guatagel2454 2 года назад

How? How do you recover those metal from those components? You only show us how to gather components. Buckets and buckets of components. But, when and how do you recover those metals?

@subhashchowdary263 7 лет назад

what is the total weight of MLCC'S present in one PC?

@noway8233 2 года назад

Very little, those are surface mount components , so theyvare very little

@user-mk1pk6ch3g 3 года назад

I have palladium 200 grams can you buy?

@aussiescraphunter7808 3 года назад

5 years old and still valid, except palladium has doubled in price now

@mitchellisnotallowed1731 7 лет назад

Ben, I'm sure this question is asked a lot but I haven't seen it. Lets say I gather a lot of scrap, perform the recovery and even the refining process myself. Where exactly does one unload two or three ounces of Palladium? Gold and silver are easy, every pawn shop in the country will buy your gold and silver (though at a much-reduced price). How does one go about moving large amounts of Palladium, tantalum, etc? Great video! One of the better ones out there on e-waste. Keep up the good work!

@eWasteBen 7 лет назад

you wold sell precious metals to a bullion dealer, not a pawn shop, they would buy palladium no problem. tantalum capacitors can just be sold to a buyer as it's not likely you will be able to process it, requires very high temp's to melt

@Himithor 3 года назад

Where do u take these mlcc's to make money?

@mr.webmasterc4585 8 лет назад

hi mate i was wondering if u can make a refining video of silver oxide batteries

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

+Mr. Webmasterc I don't get many silver oxide batteries, they don't really come in regular e-waste, mostly watches and stuff

@goa699 3 года назад

they seem to be magnetic to a neodymium, are the magnetic ones not silver and palladium?

@eWasteBen 3 года назад

Some magnetic ones are as palladium mlcc's can also have a little nickel, usually the ones that only barely stick to a magnet.

@pacoblancosmith 9 лет назад

Glad I came across your vids, Ben! Very good info. On this one in particular....I depopulate all my boards with a sandbath so my monolithics are mixed.....I proceed too many to hand scrape.... But I am only accumulating them at this point and refining or selling... Any suggestions? Or will it all come out in the mix when I do decide to test run a refining process? Cheers!

@eWasteBen 9 лет назад

+pacoblancosmith Yes I think you'll be ok with a mix of mlcc's, resistors ect as you'll be extracting one metal at a time, so if your going for Palladium first then what's left will contain silver and other metals, next you might extract the silver, by then you might be happy with what you have at that stage. I have a new method of depopulating boards, simply using an air hammer, my latest video shows the process, in the end I have the same as you have after a sand bath.

@tousifahmed2645 3 года назад

Bro how tu recover palladium from mlccs

@stitche5 8 лет назад

wouldnt it be easier to use a heat gun instead of using a screw driver to remove these?

@venichord1744 7 лет назад

no that would just make a hot mess, these pop off super easy which is why people take the time to collect them

@MichaelLangell 9 лет назад

Will the mlci's mess up the refining process or just the ratio?

@eWasteBen 9 лет назад

Michael Langell Mostly the ratio but if your refining yourself it shouldn't, except it might complicate the process more then if it was just straight mlcc's.

@MichaelLangell 9 лет назад

+eWaste Ben thx man

@johnh8615 4 года назад

MLCI : multi layer ceramic inductor MLCC : multi layer ceramic capacitor

@PanJotek 4 года назад

Hi. Why do you even bother on getting them off of the boards since there is almost none palladium in modern MLCCs?

@eWasteBen 4 года назад

depends what yur taking them off from, not all board manufacturers use low grade MLCC's. don't believe one or two articles on the web.

@anibalquintana8850 Год назад

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@dj858 2 года назад

im very new to this but have got into it through you're and other people's videos on the subject, and much like you just feel sick with the amount of needless material being through into landfill site's, like I say im very new to this but have learnt from you to be selective on what to de pop from a board, I get you're point its so easy to look at a board and assume mlci's an mlcc's are identical but followed your advice on the c - code, also I've noticed the colour is different mlcc's being a beigey brown mlci's being mainly black could be wrong on that though, thanks for the inspiration

@csilk3621 Год назад

Hi Ben, thanks for this video, really helpful. What is the decider as to whether you take an mlcc off a PCB or whether you leave it on to sell as a PCB in tact? thanks

@eWasteBen Год назад

Now days I remove one and if it's magnetic and you can't shake it off a hard drive magnet, it's base metal so I leave them on

@csilk3621 Год назад

@@eWasteBen great, thanks Ben 😊👍

@williamela3340 9 лет назад

If your processing the mlcc's yourself is it as critical to make sure they arent inductors?

@eWasteBen 9 лет назад

William Ela Probably not but you still want clean product with as little contaminants as possible when processing mlcc's. Resistors can be processed for other metals like ruthenium.

@williamela3340 9 лет назад

I saw that comment and you stated that you didnt know if the ruthenium could be processed. Did you find out somethin else in that time?

@eWasteBen 9 лет назад

William Ela They're getting it at the highest level of refining, like Umicor. I'm still looking into it but there's no reason Ruthenium can't be extracted from the thick film resistors. The one's with a black top and numbers on it like 135, 325 etc.

@williamela3340 9 лет назад

eWaste Ben Thanks! ive been scrapping for a while and have started geetting into depopolationg mother boards! MY personal favorite areMLCC's

@cornishman1987 6 лет назад

Dose the L, C and I all contain silver ? I'm only going for the silver

@eWasteBen 6 лет назад

some can have a little but not much to be worth silver recovery

@cornishman1987 6 лет назад

ok, thanks for getting back too me, love you vids bud

@moonmining4922 2 месяца назад

Thanks for knowledge.

@MrBensmith8302 7 лет назад

Have you ever sold them? I can buy them new for pennies. I doubt its worth the time to harvest them.

@eWasteBen 7 лет назад

no I will be refining them

@soonersciencenerd383 8 лет назад

do you melt them, or put acid on them? how do recover the metals?

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

+Sooner Science Nerd it's a four stage process, quite complicated, scrapforum.com.au/forum/main-category/identifying-boards-components/8200-refining-precious-metals/page4

@soonersciencenerd383 8 лет назад

thanks. ill just keep the copper,aluminum, gold pins,fingers, and wire.

@sefolettin 8 лет назад

+eWaste Ben the link you sent doesn't work at the moment. can you let me know his question as well ? melting them or with acid? thanks.

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

you would use acids, look up refining mlcc's and something will come up in your search that shows the steps

@soonersciencenerd383 8 лет назад

o.k. ill check that out!

@user-ey5lz2nj4r 4 месяца назад

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@ernestpetzrick7741 8 лет назад

Ben - I've watched this vid a few times and just noticed a thick film resistor on your finger at time stamp 00:49. It must have snuck through your sorting.

@eWasteBen 8 лет назад

yeah possibly, I got a small batch from a scrapper and it got mixed in, no matter, wouldn't do much harm