Removing Gold Fingers & Pins from RAM & CPU's 

I will definitely keep this procedure on my list of, ways to recover gold! EXCELLENT VIDEO BEN!!!

18:58 "Man. That felt good" You just made my day mate!

Bro, you had a pile of gold with a modified soldering iron tip in minutes on your first try!! Great video and thanks Ben

you are the number one source for this information appreciate you .

Thank you for doing this video. I am just starting to think about how to get into escrapping and this will help tremendously

didn`t expect that result of that thing , just great and quick thanks men

Thank you Ban! Just getting into e-waste side of scrapping. I am starting with silver contacts out of all the switches from the appliances i get for scrap. I don't know if I am going to make any money scrapping gold and silver, but I am having fun and that's the whole point. Gotta go now, going to pick up a free aluminium boat.

Wow Thanks for taking the time to show us!

How about a "slot" with soldiering irons angled in and braced on both sides and just run them through like a credit card?

Absolutely amazing, thanks for sharing Ben

That is awesome you really have something with using the soldering iron I like it thank you.

So pleased to see u do this. I did not have the strength to cut the board. Guess I know what I will do tomorrow. Thanks so much

Good sharing, buddy... cheers!

Excellent Video Ben!

Great tip, cheers Ben. Only thing I could think of to improve would be making a shorter iron.

This is great Ben!!! I've been wondering what to do with all the gold on those video boards other than sell them for peripheral board prices! Thanks again!

This is the smarter way to remove gold pins from cpu i found in RU-vid. Congraturation Ben!

making money is always FUN Thanks for the vid Ben

Ben great video, I was wondering if you could flux the tin out of that copper heat sink for more copper ewaste Ben bars?

i have watched lots of your vids this one is awesome,i am collecting a lot of phones ,im thinking this method must be of the highest grade possible,but hard to belive the boards are still worth money,in canada they charge to get rid of everything,small town,

Very cool!!! I'm going to break out the soldering iron right now!!!

Thank you again Ben!!!!!

Beautiful Firecrackers sound(increase the volume) good on you mate

Ben great video ive seen em all one of my favorite Great Show

I like what you do good hobby to stay busy I enjoy your videos. Not only that you can be a bit funny my wife hates me laughing sometimes looking into my phone. You have it a lot easier with the way people dump trash on the side of the curb over in the United States in Jersey City New Jersey people use trash cans and bags to dump the trash in so it's a quite that hard to find cell phones old phones and other stuff that contain precious metals so it's not like we can go through every bag just to see if by any chance of something good in it like I said you have a little better over there I enjoy watching you my name is Joe keep up the good work. And bless us all.

Just Brilliant. Thanks

Great tip as another method! I'm glad you mentioned the separating of the recovered material. For those who would have the bad luck of the soldering tip finding it's way to your fingers *ouch*... some sort of holding apparatus or affixed block would be helpful, also possibly a little faster, since you won't be worried about your fingers getting burned.

What kind of surface do you need to work off to take off the gold from the boards with the iron

I cut the fingers using my vice (bent and snap), then use warm HCl and peroxide to dissolve the base metal/copper underneath. And process the foils. Much less work.

Love these videos great tip for mining

Most of my e-scrap gold comes from these types of sticks. I haven't processed any yet as I was just waiting to find out the best technique. This one seems really good. I was just wondering tho, what sort of temperature should the soldering iron be at? Can you vary the temp on a s.i.? Would be really grateful for some info in this. Fantastic vid btw. Would really love to see more.

Thats a lot of work Ben. much easier to process the entire ram board together in AP that will take the chips and gold foils off in one go then process as you would normally in AR

I do the same thing but I pre heat them in an small cheap oven on low heat and it takes the chips off as well .

Great tip!

Thanks Ben!

That looks so so fun 😃

Thank you so mch sir for sharing this video for us to know that easies way to recover gold

Hi" Ben" need some help heatsenkes with copper in th center . how do you get them out what tools to use ? thank you"

Wow Ben another awesome video. You could get a cheap oxygen and map gas torch and melt those unrefined gold foils into a small nugget. It would be 10k or 14k gold but could be sold to a jewelry store or kept as a nice homemade nugget. I was trying to refine gold to 24k but it was too much work for me and too dangerous for me. I sold $1000 US dollars worth of unrefined gold to a jewelry store and put the rest of the nuggets into a safe deposit box. Your new process has gotten me excited to dig out all of my ram sticks and see how much of a nugget I can make in one rainy day worth of work.

I would use a wider soldering tip!

what is under the colored mask of the boards?

Did it and it works great! Thanks Ben!

I am new for depopulating boards can you please show me how to do the gold recovery process with the chemicals and what are the chemicals that I will need to do the process!

Much Respect

Hi Ben very interesting idea. I was thinking if a 45 to 60 watt and a little wider iron sharped like you did will remove easier the large fingers from cards and more area with the processors. and maybe if you try to screw a piece of wood or aluminum on the desk and put the processor against the force direction to remain it still on place. keep coming those new efficient ideas. regards Luis.

Hey this would be a good challenge ....how can you do in an hour or something..Thanks for all your videos

nice job

Sir which soldering gun be used send me details

I do this all the time work well

can you sell the foils to a jewelry store?

Good job

Is it good to mix cpu gold pins and pins from molex cable?

I wonder if you could use this to remove MLCCs, thin film resistors and other things on the boards.

Hi Ben my name is Dan my borther built and fxed computers for a livong before he moved out I have alot computer parts and gold pinned chips is it better to remove the gold or sell the parts whole with gold still on them

How many fingers from boards or pins from cpu chips to reclaim a gram of gold , typically...? and the average time taken to achieve this ....?

where do yall collect your old electronic parts from? I live in a small Texas town and don't find all these but I am wanting to collect and refine gold and silver.

thats a handy idea

Awesome video. One question, what do you do with them after, how do you make gold for sale from pins and gold foils?

Hey that is real slick. my problem is i already clipped the fingers off. Thanks Ben good video Ben. Kinda curious over how the crushing went with tumbler. I seen somewhere where a fella rented a small cement mixer,tossed all his chip in it with 2 bowling balls and let it mixer run for about an hour. chips were all crushed up.

As a collector of old computer hardware, this is the most painful thing I've ever watched on youtube. D:

Ben do you still do this? I haven't seen any other mention of it

Excellent video Ben! I have several pins waiting to process. What is your recommendation for processing the pins?

I watched this video so many times now LoL. I think I might make a video like this some time in the near future!

Great idea big saving on chemicals but is it viable with the cost of power ? make a jig for soldering iron and run the board through it

Where do you score all of this ewaste. Idk if you’ve said it before or keep it secret

What a simple way, have been looking for these kind of videos, but is that like pure/only gold?

This needs an ASMR video all by itself! #asmr

awesome technique, are the fingers pure or do they still hold impurities

i wonder if you could use a razor blade on your soldering iron

very nice

Can you sell the foils to the jewelry shop

A 1500 watt heat gun does not use much electricity at all. Where I live (Tennessee Valley) electricity is billed at 11 cents per kilowatt hour. That means I could run a heat gun at full blast for an entire DAY and it would only cost around $4.00 total. That's running the heat gun 24 hours straight. I'd imagine I could remove a lot more pins than you could... I guess you have to find the right balance. If you are doing 500 chips you might say "screw it" and hit 'em with the heat gun and use sulfuric to kill the solder, whereas if you only had 10 chips the soldering iron might be the way to go.

I try soldering iron 40 Wtt/60 wtt cannot fingers pls how much sir use

How many carrat gold is ram fingers??

awesome video can you still sell sticks after remo

File down the tip and look for a wider tip may work better Watch before forgot to like thanks for sharing

Ben there is an even easier way, heat the chip till it is just about to glow and smack the side of a Pyrex bowl the pins just drop off. saw this on another video.

what temperature do I need to loosen the pins but not to melt the board?

hy ben,do you know by any chance how many grams of gold are in 1 kg of cpu pins?

Gold pins flying everywhere.

Which ram & Processer you collect provide ram & Processer name

Don't you have to use acid to purify them and to get the rest of the metal out? Or can you just melt it then and sell it?

Sir soldering iron how much Wtt

watched so many of your videos now I feel like we are family... '' } You said you just need 100 000 cpu's and then you will be good.... what do you think 100 000 would get you back in gold?

That will greatly reduce the costs of your chemicals as you are only dissolving a tiny area of copper. It should clean off now with something really cheap like vinegar or even lemon juice if your not in a hurry.

Hello Ben, just a quick note. If your removing gold fingers outside, make sure its not a windy day!!!! Also NOoooo sneezing it could make a have a bad day of it. HA Ha Ha!!!! Later, stay safe Robin Jo

thank you ,now I'm kicking my self I've had a lot of computers!?!

what wuld you thi9nk how much rams do you need to get like a 100$ gold

nice video, thanks for the new trick, can any one help me out, after removing the gold pins, what is the next step one can use to fully recover the gold. thanks.

i have a lot of ram sitcks old ones i am rich thenks you

If you could cut down a razor blade then rig it to the iron it would work even better I bet with a nice sharp edge

omg i have that same iron

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I never like to just sit there and cut my fingers off...🤣😄🤣😄🤣

My Life: "So you lay the board down and run the Soldering Iron over it like this....and this...now we are getting a nice pile so let's do ano- ACHOO! Shit."

if you plan to sell the gold for cash, Process it to make it pure gold. if you are making jewlery, DO NOT seperate the other alloys because the alloys make it stronger.

Why cut off or up the chips and boards because the entire circuits board has the gold through and through. The computer companies I read about said all circuit boards since the 20s and 30s had gold through the entire circuits board

did you earn good from this?

I though cbu has gold wire inside the chip cheers Graham

Good day I am just starting not looking to be a millionair just looking for something to have fun with and maybe make a little money. My q is where can i get the junk things and should I buy on ebay and what should I pay