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I have just got back into scrapping. It is refreshing to know there are people like you and Moose out there that share all. About ten years ago I tried my hand at e-scraping and got burnt. I did make some gold but it was at a premium. I listen to everyone I can now. I am retired and need something to stay busy. Thanks so much for the info. I like your candor and it is the type of down-to-earth style I appreciate. I try to be as honest as possible and loathe those who aren't. Keep up the good work. I am looking forward to future videos.
You are correct in saying the "Gold plated" items are 10k.. Yet Gold recovery from E Waste is NOT base on the Gold plated items.. Gold recovery in E waste is based on the "24k GOLD BOND WIRES IN THE CHIPS".. AND the Gold bond wires are 24k.. That is confirmed.. Good video..
Thanks for the videos. I bought two Lucent telecom boxes today the guy at the scrap yard said he had sold two tractor trailer loads of these boxes for $25 each. I know the guy personally so i trusted him. Not sure how much gold is there but your videos help. They have more boxes but not biying anymore till i know what i got. Probably a bust.
Just 1 mistake bro, the second ceramic procesor is an Amd k6, has no gold inside except the pins, Amd k5 worth much more like 5 dolars, for 0.25 points of gold each. Thanks for videos and explanațions. 😁😁😁. Second mistake, it is gold inside cooper procesor radiator.
Finally a video telling the truth about the value of scrap. To many people make videos implying that the average person can make decent money scrapping average items around the house. Like pointing out there's copper on pcb and transformers but nobody points out the value of copper is around 2-4pence and the same with gold.... it's no get rich quick scheme. Even for scrapers collecting enough gold plating items to reclaim or recover takes time to make it worth while
Very informative video. A lot of info not found in other e-scrap videos. I also enjoyed the passion you obviously have for this hobby of yours, however you may want to wrangle in some of that anger. You sounded like you had "Angry Dad Syndrome" working every once in a while. 😲 (A.D.S. example: the son will politely ask dad if he had toast with breakfast and dad will reply, "Toast!No I didn't have toast this morning! I had a muffin! Why would I have toast! Who said I had toast?! No one in his right mind ...etc." The dad then walks away still angrily talking.) Anyway, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Greatly appreciated. ☺
where the best place to sell telecom boards I've got alot of cisco and sever and hard drive boards I'm an electrician at a data center and they let me take home all the outdated crap. ???
Wow a real video with some that has done his homework. You deserve many trophy's sir. Im impressed. Thank You so!! I will recommend your video for ever!!
I seen a guy on RU-vid use a hot plate to heat the gold up enough to melt the pins off a CPU . It looked real easy. Of course he did tell what his electric bill was.
lol at 46:-01 you do the acid test on the processor and go into a rand about not getting 24 k gold. You're so right! if they see gold they think it's 40 dollar a gram 24k and we just pull it out without any troubles. I do have to agree that there is a lot less gold in things (and mostly 10 - 12k not 24) than people even realize.
So you can cut your cost by using hho or biogas for your melting , sulphuric can be easily obtained as drain cleaner at 93% concentration nitric can be made as well as aqua anything that applies to Aqua applies to poor man's Agua and you can precipitate with iron sulfate which can be made with sulphuric and clean iron
I fricken ;ove ;ove ;ove this video!! the no bullshit ( and I like that u sy the word bullshit!) fact based humour filled video is refreshing good sir and I applaud you! you hve a new follower , subscriber again my hats off to you.
i am learning and watching your vids at the moment.... also a hobbiest just made a smelter for may ...laying around aluminum and cans so much fun anyways i am trying to understand not my gig so having a hard time
I average about 25 to 30 an hour scrapping. I'm not good at e scrap though. I need to save up my e scrap and process it better. My one scrap yard will actually buy anything with a wire big speakers and things un processed. It pisses me off the stuff going in the land fills.
Greetings from northern Sweden and fellow Scrapper and new subscriber. I do microscrapping and take off what gold I can find, I do not refine it as I'm not familiar with the chemistry. Saving up pins, connectors, IC chips, tantalum and MLCC to sell it once I get enough. I just got a huge load of older electronics from mid 80's I think. Really good plating on those 😀
The guy that made the video has no clue about refining or how anything works, just like you can't test gold on that's on a board because it's so thin and the copper underneath will screw any results, you can only test to see if gold is present because computer manufacturers only use 22 to 24 karat gold. Don't waste your time with newer mlcc and tantalum, tantalum doesn't sell for shit and only a very few people buy it. Newer mlccs have little to no precious metals BUT old school mlccs are the ones you want. yielding 30 grams of palladium per kilo and silver. Check out owltech
I looked and was depressed to see that you only made a few videos!! I love the way you explain things and you are very informative!! Way ahead of your time!! I hope that you're ok and not sick or hurt! If you are still doing scrap and recovery and refining we could use you out here in the RU-vid world!! I found one guy who does really good with it and that's Sreetips, but he mostly does karat scrap! I can't find anyone was is recovery gold and explaining things well in the ewaste world! You would be GREAT at this and there's a big demand for it right now!! I knew that you were right about the 10k on scrap. In fact I was thinking it was 8k at best, except the older stuff!! Have a GREAT Day and hope to hear from you!!!
He is a moron and nothing he saidnwas true. Gold isn't used so the pins won't corrode this is common sense because they Plate the pins fully in nickel ie no Corrosion. Gold is used for better connector, transmit data and charging. Power charges for phones are a great example, they have only a certain number of times you can plug the charger in, this is because of the gold. Everything you plug it in the gold strips down a little until the charger will no longer work. I forget how many times it is but linustechtips made a video
At 31:52 Where you show an opened copper cap from a processor and say, "This is not gold" yes it is, 61 (1kg) of those will yeild exactly 1/10th of a gram of 24 Karat. I've done it on JUST those caps. Sooooo... it's gold, just so you now know.
One pound is 453.59237 grams, one troy pound is 373.242 grams. Good video, do you know where I can go to find a list of gold content in an item? I have been recycling electronics for about 13 years as a hobby, but never got into gold recovery.
Hi, appreciate the info, just started watching your videos but will surely try and watch them all. I have a question about the hard drive platters.. All I've heard is they are not worth saving because it takes a ton to get a significant amount of platinum. I heard u say about 50 average size makes a gram and was wondering if that's true? Because in that case they are definitely worth saving them. I know you have a lot of processing under your belt so was wondering if u personally recovered that much yourself?? Please let me know and again, thanks for the info.
Why did you not tell your viewers about the high grade aluminum that the HD's are housed in? Those things are housed in 6 ounces of aluminum. Also, the magnets in the HD's are worth a lot of money, too.
Thats all i get is free stuff one time i did give a guy $25 but it was 2 pickup loads of tv's and computers with boxes of computer parts. He didnt ask for anything but they was just so much stuff i didnt feel right taking it for free. I will still pay something in a similar case if i make a pickup where they have a lot of good scrap. But generally i pick things up for free.
Dont listen to this fool, he knows absolutely nothing about yields because you cant test gold purity on a board period, its to thin and reacts with the copper. He has zero skill in recovering gold because his yields are so far off and doesnt know a K6 from a K5
Than why do they use nickel on all of these pins? It isn't bare copper or brass the nickel stops any pins from corroding but I guess you missed that since you have no common sense, why would they only plate part of the pin and leave everything else exposed? You have no clue about refining or why you can't even test gold on boards due to it being such a thin layer with copper underneath screwing any test.
The Sega games are worth more than any of the metal inside it. Depending on the game, obviously, but scraping any retro game would be a loss in money in my opinion.
Have you thought of putting the legacy gaming rigs online, assuming they are functional? The value is much higher than the value of the metal. Some of the systems like NES are going for HUNDREDS of dollars, and it's only going to go up. If I were you, I'd be archiving and speculating on all functional gaming consoles.
+Go Go Gadget Reviews Have you been on scrap gold category on Ebay? add something to your watch list and see what it goes for. You can actually make more $ selling gold electronics scrap on Ebay than recovering it. I want the gold. It's real $ always has been It's untraceable and TAX FREE.
dadrules714 Waste of time. Too much effort. I do thing's differently to get 100 percent profit. Without even trying. I already know about scrapping on ebay. In order to make a lot, You have to scrap so many parts.
+jamie grocott I really have NO clue. I've taken that info from sites like OZ Copper -Gold& scrap.Aluminum is one of the best heat absorb /disperse metals. To my knowledge it's an Alum alloy. The K5-6 are 100% alum. If you place them in your aqua peroxide solutions it does collect a lot of the copper from sol adding a little life to it.
Better late than never removing pins from ceramics MAAP/MAPP/MAP gas. And a high quality carbon vice. 3 minutes with a map tourch will start to disable the bonds in the ceramic. Though this itself is very expensive and I only use it on 4004/4040 class chips and earlier (which were, in many cases, very high content gold alloys, not plate) on the underside of caps: The brass/gold looking layer on the underside is actually gold, though in such a minute plating most tests will miss it. A scan with an XRF gun will show sub whole percents (.002-.009) depending on the processor. Which is the reason you're seeing a delay in the melt through. It's not plating by any common standerds. It's actuall mist applied. As in air misting. I've seen the construction of these in the factory and it blew my mind how LITTLE gold makes such a nice gold looking layer. Unless your Finally if you are really interested in aerospace scrap; email me
Just break the ceramic, a lot easier and you have the same results. If you think they use gold bond wires inside the ceramic to connect pin to contact isn't true. They use copper or aluminum and that's how they have been doing it for a long time, than gold bond wire from that contact to the silicon die
@@lostinlodos when decades ago? It doesn't matter if chips work OR DONT only a small portion of collectors actually use these chips for anything. You lost tongs of money for a very small amount of gold and guess what, 99.9% of all chips sold are untested because people don't have the means to do so
Here are some numbers for everyone this is whats honest and what you ahould expect out of a pound of certainn things im not going to list cpus cause people usually dont do them right like this guy here as example, pound of closely cut fingers from pci, isa cards 2 - 6 grams of gold....100 memory sticks just the fingers not including the ic chips on them, .8 - 2 grams of gold flatpacks 3 - 6 grams of gold ic chips can vary due to the different sizes and some only having pins on 2 sides and others 4 sides, but average 1 - 4 grams of gold monolithic caps do not bother refining them unless you know some chemistry good chemistry, but silver is the main thing you get out of them unless you know they are prior to 1992, no gold jus silver and palladium
Dude!!!!!! Havee you ever noticed people selling unfinished ceramic cpus on ebay? Your on there enough you should notice them!!!!! But there are gold wires all through the ceramic part, the ones you have already done your recovery on. Pentium pro's and K5's have about .5 of a gram of gold in them. +/- a .1 of a gram cause every processing plant is going to be different, thats just the way it works...and K6's have .1 to .15 of gold. Seriously read learn than do it all over again before spreading false information. Download a app called scribed it has books on there giving you the amount of items you need to make a ounce of things, plus how much each cpu has in gold, than other things like the caps fingers off of isa, pci cards.
Perry Seay Those sites are run by recovery Co's(buying your scrap)giving you extravagant #'s, then send you a check for far less(than you're expecting) telling you you didn't have what you thought ask for your scrap back(rolls eyes). Research who's giving you your info first. There is EXACTLY .337G of gold in a pentium pro. I've done enough of them independently and NEVER come up w/ .5 grams.
dadrules714 Oh and there's no gold inside the ceramic. Just copper thread wire. Only where the connection is exposed to possible oxidation is where gold is found. It's why they use it.
+dadrules714 you need to get better and your process buddy....and yes there is gold wire connecting the gold pins to the chip?inside the ceramic, but only in the ceramic not newer green fiber....
+dadrules714 with you saying there is exactly blah blah number in pentium pros you dont know what you are talking about, every processing plant varies with the amount of gold but all are very close and each year there process may of gotten a little better. read on other gold recovery forums other people leave there ceramic chips once they process pins than ball mill down and recover the ret of the gold wire. they are just like ic chips...cpus are the most important part of a computer for it to work, so you need better connectivity without lossing data or transmission. they wouldnt skimp out on them and just use copper. they started using copper once they learned how to better the process and that is with the fiber cpus....also military grade equipment uses higher grade gold ie 18k and up
+dadrules714 oh and that is not a site, i was trying to understand what you were saying but these are books made by guys who have been doing this much longer than us, not guys trying to rips us off. it is also very detailed information to help beginners start somewhere, they are very good books that you should take a look at it.
+Adam Rendale Yes ferric chloride will strip gold off. Radio shack has it for $9 pint You still need to add HCL 32%. 1 gal HCL 32% is $5 $0.98 qrt hydrogen peroxide do the math. Works just as well.
I'm trying to find info on grading mid grade. Cashforcomputerscra.com pays good money for "mid grade high value circuit boards" well what is the boundary between low and high mid grade?. I mean I know a modern router board is a high grade mid grade but what about a tee con board?
+bhearts77 The copper wire(rubber coated ect) Aluminum steel tin even PC Boards worth $ 0.10 lb. I take to scrap yard Casella waste for $. The plastics are TOP GRADE and I take them to the Indian res because no-one up here is smart enough to recycle them. The Mohawks do.
+Pop M this guy doesnt know the first thing about this stuff and he is lying about everything the amounts he got and so on just read my comments and his. watch other peoples videos and gold forum if your going to do this.
+Perry Seay Your just pissed because i've called you Ebay scam on scrap. Loose some customers did we? How about you go pull the legs of a spider instead TROLL.
He loves nasa stuff! So smart is the man who loves Hollywood props and cgi realities. I wonder if the white house uses 24 crt. I bet the Cia uses it in their spy ops. Even if nasa did use 24-karat I think any intelligent person would come to the conclusion, no one is getting that scrap, smart guy.
I know that these parts are out dated , but in my OPINION scraping working parts who are probably put together with very high cost is not really the efficient way of using them , I am not just here to say you are doing a mistake by destroying these parts but I think there would be a better way of recycling them into useful things that might make them into use again I don't know exactly what could be those useful things but I just know that taking them apart for the gold only many not worth the effort that much ( it is just my opinion on the matter )
+احمد يونس I dead CPU is a dead CPU makes a pretty(not functional) paper weight. As you can see I use the ceramic for scratch stone when I test my gold. Then I can soak it in regia and still get the gold from the test.
+احمد يونس There is also a loss of productivity when you use something that is THAT outdated. I don't know how much you know about computers, but you can't very well go running Windows 7 on 15-20 year old CPUs. Furthermore, there's the overuse of electricity that comes from using such old higher-micron equipment -- causing you to spend more for electricity for using such outdated electronics. All in all, I would agree with you up to a point. I'd draw a line in the sand, so to speak, for all CPUs and gear up to a specific date (which keeps getting pushed ahead, as time progresses). Even if something works, I'd destroy it for the gold content if it fell behind that line in the sand. I'd keep some old motherboards to test things like RAM and CPUs up to that same line in the sand -- recovering the gold from any that don't work, no matter how new they are. Sell the working RAM/CPUs on eBay for as long as they have a demand, and then destroy those too once they pass that line in the sand.
andromeda1892 Incorrect It can be done electrolytically. If when you get to the portion where your gold is in the pure chloroauric solution part of the experiment, using an anode/cathode you can plate in 24k(requiring only a battery charger)But to the best of my knowledge Only NASA/ aerospace and nuclear tech/medicine(makers of hadron collider etc) use 24k in their applications. Military eqpt ranges from 18-20k Cyanide is used to dissolve rock from load called "leaching.'Try getting a permit for that in U.S.
no cpu have 1 g of gold or even o.5 the most you geting out of an intel pentume is o.35 of a gram and thats the best cpu you can find never 0.5 trast me its a lai
1.30 for a k5? Its an 88gram chip i get 1kg for 18 dollars... ummm that's 20 cents per CPU... your selling prices can't compete in the world market. There's no money in trying to upsell garbage EVERY scrap dealer can get from hundreds of millions of tons laying in landfills. The supply isn't getting smaller either. Your competing against FREE.
You need to stop giving false information, 45 hard drive platters does not yield 1 gram of platinum. 2nd Most if not all monolithic caps after 1992 are not made with palladium, and even the ones before 92 were not all palladium based. Your information on cpus is right but other things you need to study a little. It is about at most 2mg per hard drive platter. If you do the math it. Takes a lot to get a gram. Older platters do have more platinum but not amounts you are lying about.
Perry SeayMy results are based upon my experience in scrapping these items. if your scrapping the cheapy Dell./compaq home units your results WILL be lower. Or maybe your method is incorrect. As far as monolithics past 1992 Your info is incorrect. Or ALL the other recovery sites/vids are wrong hmmmmm?
+dadrules714 No i am pretty spot on, palladium was used at a much higher rate 92 and before, you can expect 1 % to 3 % back on monolithic ceramics...its so little its not worth the time nor the danger because it is much harder to recover than gold. That is why I state what I did because epople should not be messing with them cause it is not worth the time nor the risk your taking
+dadrules714 So where are your receipts from where you've sold your precious metals to someone after recovery and refining? anyone can have some money sitting around in a video or a thumbnail preview for a video. I ask this cause where in the world did you get your number for a ounce of platinum in platters. i know for damn sure no1 bout that from you cause it wasnt platinum you refined down.....
+Perry Seay I DON't sell Troll. I keep it. It's untraceable TAX FREE GOLD. It's always been REAL money since the beginning of time and when Wall Street says Paper is now worthless(it's happened before) How much I have is my Biz Not Yo tubes. What the Gov't doesn't know you have...they can'y take away. In 1932 an elderly couple from Hungary with 2 grams of gold got out of hungary on a ship and to the U.S. Paper $ was SO worthless they burned it as firewood. A wheelbarrow full bought a loaf of bread. I highly recommend you save it too. the market is being set up for another 2008 but worse.
