Scrapping Modems, Routers, Switches for Gold, Palladium & Tantalum 

That was a great video Ben, thanks. I liked that you went through them all and explained the valuable components so that by the end of the vid you completely understood what you need to look for! 👍

I initially held off watching this due to its 1 hour length, but glad I have seen it now, thanks again Ben, great video

Loved this vid!! So many cool boards! Thanks Ben!!!

Hi Ben. worth checking this out. Steve Tinter, a collector in Sydney, Australia, says he sometimes spends hours studying wafers under a microscope to identify chips and their manufacturers. His holdings of more than 1,000 wafers include rarities like creations of former supercomputer maker nCube Corp. and many unidentified wafers from Xerox Corp. "I have no idea what they are even after trying to find out for more than a year," he says. Danny.

I work at a thrift store. We get everything electrics. I just recently realized gold fingers, ect. Most was going to e-waste. Now I'm slowing down doing quick checks. Snatch and grab easy stuff.

Awesome video! I learned a ton keep them coming ben!!

7:32 "So that's that one" (Proceeds to throw the gold across the table) lol😂😂😂

Thank you for this greatEST training! All the best🍻 👍🌟

Ben, I like your videos lot of info Thank you

i learn so much from you thank you for doing this

hi, loving the videos. Can I ask a quick question - is it better to depopulate or sell as board? I presume selling as board gets less than removing everything and sorting etc. thanks

P.S. I'm with you on the hoarding idea! Haha. I love stacking stuff up too and not being in a hurry to sell. I think one day whenever I sell all this crap I may be more sad to see it go than to have the cash! Lol

That's about as thorough as any human could achieve. Nice work! What do you do with the power supplies and fans?

Ben do you collect the heat sinks and scrap them aluminium??

looks good ben. i have a ton theses too.but i try to depopulate everything i can.

You were saying about very light gold plating on that one "smart card" thAt came out of the Cisco 1600, and that reminded me to ask you if you've ever seen bus cable out of desktop pcs that are not gold plated? I've been taking the plastic clips off mine after I seen how you do it and I've noticed some of them appear like they have no gold plating on at all. Could it just be that light that I can't really see it? And how's your air hammer work out on smaller mlcc and tantalums?

Great video

What are the bronze looking wires on the boards? Is it Copper????

love the video Ben. your awesome m keep them coming.

wow / there's a lot of / I've never seen / Thanks your video

I don't ever get the chance to tear down my switches. they sell fast around here. If I get ones with gigabyte ports they sent for good money. only ones I get to bust apart are the non working. like those pins in them. usually good recovery ratio.

I'm of the mindset of "See a screw, remove a screw". When I take an item apart I take it totally to bits to separate everything I can be it Ally, Steel, copper, gold, and plastics.

PPS I do want to get the gold as pure as possible for making clay, but I'm not that concerned about the assay for lost wax casting.

+eWaste Ben can you possibly find a board similar to the one that you work on @ 50:25 or the same one and provide a rough estimation of weight for the fully populated board? Also, does your yard/buyer pay seperate for the ethernet (gold pinned) connections that you refer to on the switches ? Wondering if it is worth taking those off for seperate profit or keeping them on for weight of high grade telecom price. Thanks! Paul

Trying to get started in this as well. Where do you get all your stuff to scrap? Most places I speak with send their stuff out to big companies for recycling.

you make it look so easy, i started scrapping yesterday when a family member threw out a flatscreen tv, and it took me a long time xD i got a nice amount of copper from it, not much gold, and a few crystals, i'm not sure what to do with the boards, don't know where to sell boards yet so i'll probably just give them away, i don't really know where to sell any of the stuff i'm removing from the boards, but figuring it out as i go. it was a lot of fun though, and i've learned a lot from watching your videos. ps: i couldn't get off the bga chips, should i get an air hammer for those? my flat screwdriver only ended up breaking it. i got some flatpacks, but a lot of chips were just not easy to get.

One of the VERY BEST videos you have shared with us!

My kids call the circuit boards little cities with all the buildings 😄

How do you get these things?

Great video lernt alot thanks

I see you use that air-hammer for scrapping parts. Don't chips have gold plated pins ? So all the pins are soldered to the board, won't that waste some gold ?

Hi Ben thanks for the education, is there anywhere where I can submit a picture of some old PC parts I've obtained ? I could really use a hand !

so those MLCC's and the crystal oscilators/resonators contain gold as well then?

those big rockwell ics should be kept seperate. they have unusually high yields. Just to let you all know.

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Thank you for the informative video. Great job and well detailed. Many thanks....

12:48 what is the values of the mlcc.? Do they all have the same value or are they different and if different how to identify them?

Any experience with WYSE routers or Maestro industrial routers?

Can you recycle Pd.?

someone said that there is silver on the eproms the silver they say is the pins holding it to the board what to you think?

Hey Ben love the videos, whats the best way to test pins to tell if they are silver?. I get hundreds of the same boards and I believe I have 8 one inch silver pins on each.

Thanks Ben for the info. Great video as always. Good stuff!

dudes so funny.... Man them crystals sure get him going... Dont mind the 50 to 1 nice chips here look at these lil crystals..... Too funny

copper motors to!

A lot of Netgear stuff has lifetime warranties. You might ought to check that before you scrapped them. Mainly the high end switches etc. you could use or resell them that way.

what metals are directly inside being layered within a motherboard? Thanks Ben.

What precious metal is in a MLCC?

How do you get your scrap?

bought 20 towers for 100 euro today, got 6 full bigtower hp servers for free so well worth it. 5 pc's will sell for 10 each, steck cards and almost a kilo ram pay for the rest. everything else is free!

hey" Ben" yes i pickup the 40 switch boxs all cisco real nice im having fun now" tthank you for your heads up on the Servers info" they were $4.00 ea and know free deals.

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Very Informative. Thank u very much 👏👏👏🙌

hey"Ben real nice job" i know a place in san diego were i can pick up 40 switch box's with 24 ports thank you for the in sight " ther asking about $4.00 EACH FOR THEM IS that a fair price ? and do you think ill get my $$ back out of them ? thank you for all you do for all your fans !

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wish i knew what everything was

is it possible to start a small business doing this?

If i was to depopulate the whole board can you put the capacitors in dirty alloy tub etc then at the end just put empty board in the steel bin need a basic beginners video on scrapping the whole of the units cheers Ben

If i only had a dollar for every time he says . . . " DEPOPULATE " . . .

Nice video but switch the steadicam option off or whatever is doing that wiggling in the picture it is very irritating to watch especially on long videos.

uhhhh E Waste ben.exe has stopped working 41:20

The camera is kinda swirly...

anti shaking setting makes video looks weird

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wow! that wibberly wobberly effect is really odd! accidental but wowah does amazing things to your eyes! lol great vid tho!

my name Ben I got a lot Nintendo game a lot gold ok

i loved the video but the wiggling of the picture is not good

You have to have at least 100 pounds of it to make any kind of money.

You talk too much, get on with the bloody show!