I think it's pretty cool how you gave someone else a shout out . A lot of people don't do that. Also appreciate you getting straight to the point with valuable information I learned a lot thanks a lot I appreciate it.
I do my best to connect people to other youtubers who are sharing good information! I’d love to think there are people mentioning me when relevant, but it’s ultimately about creating value for the viewer.
eWaste Ben operates on an industrial scale. But he has his streams figured. He has an immediate market for his circuit boards. He has two simultaneous things in mind as he deals with each circuit board, that being what to depopulate as against the quality of the board he wants to send on to his board buyer. It is what he wants to retain for future recovery as against what he wants to more immediately send on for processing by operators who will retrieve all the available metals. It is more cost effective to limit board depopulation to maintain board quality for his buyer. It is a categorical case of if you want something done right then you gotta do it yourself. If he let other people in to do it for him then it would get all fouled up. He's got quite a niche going there.
here's a year-late tip: do NOT over look the gold corner BGA chips on circuit boards. forward to 4:09 in the video. The large chip with the silvery looking circle in the middle. Those can contain ALOT of gold compared to other IC chips. remove the epoxy body from the fiber base. You will see gold foil on the fiber base, but the vast majority of the gold is in the bonding wires encapsulated in the black resin. There are a couple way to economically process them. Good Luck!
for someone like me that doesn;t do this type of thing but enjoys watching ...this was soooo informative and entertaining at the same time....excellent content ..look forward to more !!
gold isn't used for conductivity, as silver is much more conductive. Gold is used, especially on contact points as gold doesn't oxidize or tarnish, so the contact stays clean and allows conductivity to continue. silver or copper can tarnish making the contacts less reliable. its reliability is the key, not the conductivity itself.
I watched a video from this dude and decided to get all of my back up devices...ya know tv's, computers, game systems and stuff....i am a dude in Kentucky with access to scrap electronics regularly and I mean 6 days a week I can load my car up.... I used to fix them just because I could then squirrel them away... Now I'm teaching my 7 year old son who is "teaching" his 11 month old sister about what's in what....Thub I believe they stated as your name keep going brother inspire the next generation
I wish I had the scrapyards for boards that you folks do down in the states! Idk how much influence I have personally but I hope I contribute a little bit to helping people think about the end-of-life recycling of the products they spend hard earned money on.
@@melvado same, i did it 10 years ago and now im in again, i missed out on so much scrap! f.e: ceramic cpu's and ram, i had about 30kilo of them but somehow i lost them, i cant find them.
E wast Ben is amazing. I'm inspired by him. I just need alot more dumpsters. Iv got a ton of the gold e scrap just waiting for the right buyer to come along and make it worth my time to sell.
Ik you are stock piling your gold circuit boards for a time in which you feel comfortable enough to attempt to carry out the process of gold recovery successfully and document it on camera to share with us. I can only ask you what is the wait for? You have experience enough to extract the gold from computer components now i think its time to figure out the next step. Today again I carried out the successful aqua regia process and it is much easier than you think. You need muriatic acid sodium nitrate urea and sodium metabisulfite. It is a $50 bill. It is awesome being able to extract the gold from what 99.99 percent of the world consider trash. A lot of people also sell you the concept of needing large amounts of circuit boards to get anything worthwhile but initially the most important thing is to discover that you have the ability and that simply requires a small amount. And by small amount I mean less than a lb of gold fingers will suffice to get you some beautiful brown pay dirt ready to be melted down. Simply one piece of advice is do not sell that stuff it is more valuable than you know. People down play its value yet buy it up for themselves. I will not sell my circuit boards anymore.
I tried recovering gold from circuit boards and ended up stopping once the gold had fallen off the boards because the first attempt I lost everything when I dissolved it into solution and couldn’t get it back out of solution
This and all of your videos have been the best, especially the way you explain, break it down, show pictures etc! I just found your channel a few days ago whilst searching for an explanation on #1 vs #2 copper. I don't throw any electronics away, I tell my family, "it's NOT trash, there's precious metal in there...somewhere!!" Now, thanks to you I know where and how to dig it out! We have a HUGE, heavy 70" tv from when they first came out, I think.. anyway, it has a removable adapter pack that people could buy after tv's upgraded instead of having to buy an entire new one, which were thosands of $$ back then, this giant thing has a pop up camera, HD, 3D, wave motion, voice command awesome picture & sound, I love it but when the Chiefs won the Super bowl over the Eagles, (we live in Philly), my hubby threw something very heavy and it hit the tv somewhere, IDK where it hit, i don't see any damage at all, (I wasn't t there for that scene lol) all know is when I plug it in it just buzzes then the pitch gets higher but theres no other sound or picture. Now, I know what to look for in it anyway.. Thanks Again! You're awesome!
i watched 2, 2 hr long videos from your shout out with the chickens, almost pt e to sleep. Thank you for being more direct and informative in a fraction of the time.
Hey Thub, I really like your videos and have been subscribed for a while now as your channel has really helped me to learn a lot about scrapping and metal recovery/recycling. I just wanted to say thanks for this video. I have watched as many videos as I've been able to find from different creators on identifying tantalum capacitors , but for the most part they have been vague, and unfocused with too little information on what the different types actually look like, or if the videos did have good information it just wasn't presented well. The 30 seconds or so that you took to explain what to look for when it comes to Tantalum was better than all the videos entirely dedicated to the subject that I have seen so far. Clear, close up pictures of the notable types and identifying features! Hooray! Thanks again. Keep up the good work. Cheers!
Hello Thub, Sweden here again. My regular yard pays flat rate for circuitboards, doesnt matter if it's a board from a TV remote or a telecom board. Check the currancy, I get 4 swedish krona per kg. The other yard takes high grade boards only, minimum 100kg. Stay safe and take care.
Oh wow, that’s pretty low... I guess it’s not bad if you have a lot of lower grade stuff or you leave all the steel on them. Yeah, I’d be happy to have someone offer me that. What’s the other place do for high grade?
@@thubprint I even leave the aluminium on the boards, board price is higer at the moment. The other yard, last time I took in high grade boards it was 20 swedish krona per kg, they also pay more for copper wire and non ferrous. What is your limit for high grade wire? Here it's 60% cu. I can check with the yards and do the math for you in CAD. Just for fun.
Nice Thub - you just need the white lab coat now to complete the mad scientist look! 🤣 I do like how the world wide scrapper community supports each other! I'm sure ewaste ben appreciates the plug! 😊👍
The Ultimate Recycler that’s a great idea! It can be my Smart Guy Does Science Worksona! 🤣 I’m sure Ben doesn’t need my help but I respect his work and he’s a mentor to me even if he doesn’t know about me lol. Would love to crack a beer with the guy and talk shop 👌
@@thubprint Yeah, I've been watching Ben for yonks! He's only an hour and a half down the road from me actually. He was nice enough to help me with some things when I first started my channel! 👍 Perhaps a scrapper's BBQ at Ben's place when we can all travel again! You must wear your lab coat & glasses tho! 😉🤣
Thubprint, Cheers and Thanks for your consise video re ; Gold and other metals, there are too many videos Online which are way too long in relation to precious metals in computers etc.
Thank you! I have mountains of respect for the intelligent and informed folks who make those videos, I’ve enjoyed quite a few of them myself. I felt like there needed to be a short list version though, for those of us with short attention spans
My old job had a long room with towers stacked to the ceiling, all late 90s early 00s. There were seriously 100 in there. I was asked if I wanted them and said no. They paid someone else to take them all, and a month later I learned about old computers having gold and the good chips
Another gem Thub. Happy to heat that you're saving the worth while stuff and things. I also started depopulating boards months ago and have started to build a solid collection. It's more a hobby then a money maker. We see the value that is there, plus no one should want toxic substance's going to a landfill. Lastly I love and respect E-Waste Ben. I have been subbed for over a year and learned a ton of stuff. Keep Doin' The Thing buddy!
I cracked open a relay on an older computer board just to see what kind of copper spool was inside. There was a spool of wire inside, but it is gold colored. Was there ever a relay made with a spool of gold “wire” or is this some other type of metal like a mixed copper?
everyone says gold is used because of it's high conductivity, but I really don't think that is the case. sure, gold is a great conductor, but not as good as copper or silver, so it can't be primarily because of it's conductive properties. i think it has something to do with it being a very resilient metal: it won't oxidize and is difficult to tarnish. but i'm not sure how these properties compare to silver, which is the greatest conductor and much cheaper in comparison. also, we have to remember about solder-ability as well as how expensive it is to actually apply the material, let alone the material itself. i've been looking for the whole answer for nearly a half year now.
A relay note to add… I’ve come across relays &switches with all solid gold guts once you get through the plastic housing.. little tiny gold balls, and clips. Only ever milspec & medspec
Im going to try and use the same rules for tvs and other electronics. I find a lot of discarded things id love to chemically separate for some more cash
Thank you! I know it’s kind of a boring answer but I think it’s better to be realistic instead of getting caught up in some massively impractical fantasy after watching a few too many videos. Just because you could doesn’t mean you should lol
Thub, great video and very informative. I am glad you explained that selling the boards as is, is more lucrative then trying to recover the precious metals. Here's hoping that Canada eventually has a way for you to do so.
I'm so glad I watched this. Now I know that recycling precious metal from my old laptop is more work than I want to do for the little money I would get for just one laptop.
That was the idea! Of course there are many in-depth videos for folks who want to get right into it, but I figured there must be a handful of people who just want an easy quick-start guide. Hopefully they can find it!
Basically most of people are giving their valuables away for free when they recycle their electronics and recycling companies just say "you are such a good and planet caring person" when they turn these valuables to cash lol
Great video! I've just started stripping out about 100 old computers from an office that closed up, and gave the computers to me. So thanks good to know what items to save or toss! Thanks
Michael you should watch REAL ! Scrappers... Recyclers... And most of all, REAL refining videos ! Nevermind the AMATEUR stuff... That's out in Tube You land.
For any and all? That’s pretty decent! Well... I guess it depends, I wouldn’t want to sell my ram for that. If I had one of those nearby though I’d be there all the time!
@@thubprint price varied depending on quality of components, but I'm glad I called around for pricing because it was about 2100 pounds of circuit boards that I thought I was going to need a dumpster for
Thank you! That’s what my aim was, some folks were suggesting I take a crack at it and It’s been covered a lot already so this seemed like my best shot at adding some kind of value.
Few video's i have watched of people doing it with mixing acid's then dealing with all the toxic fumes and it can take 2-3 day's and you get a little dot of gold.
Oooh, I’d love to go through some of that old stuff! I’ve been watching omegageek64, he’s started a series where he REALLY gets into what you can find on those kinds of boards. There’s a lot to know!
Thank you for this informative video. I have been stripping down boards for Palladium, Silver, Gold & Copper, & hope to recycle to the bullion dealer from which I buy my wire for my craft work. I haven't actually sent any yet. Do I send it in it's raw state, as it is recovered from the phone/computer etc? Would appreciate your feedback, thank you..
Question... obviously removing batteries, cases, glass, etc. In the right safe circumstances could you just melt everything to get to the gold rather than removing each different type of part?
I always buying computer waste from home to home, and it's worth the effort, especially the older and ancient hardware contain a lot of precious metal.
Oh for sure! I could do a whole video on... waitaminute 🤔😆👍 got an idea!!! Lol yep, you can get paid for anything if you have enough of it. Old clothes, cardboard, used fryer oil, plastic film canisters.. anything.
Finally! You Rock! And you did it in less than 5 min! Thank you! Honestly this is the 1st video I personally have found that actually explains what "Exactly" to keep. Every other one I have found says "keep this, but no explanation as to why and which one is or isn't except save them up"! But not that to do with them once I have them saves up?? Thoroughly appreciate you! I was in the middle of deciding to throw out the rest if what I've gathered as I took 3 bins of boards to salvage along with a bin of thick aluminum and a bin of copper. I walked out with $80. I was crushed as I knew there was more $$ in there I just didn't realize they actually want us to remove everything. They don't care or want boards with stuff on them! Who knew! Needless to say I'm now ready to do this correctly and have found an on liberal very reputable company to mail it to for maximum cash flow! Was the point, right! Again, many thanks!
Nice! I was in the same boat, I’d been digging through everything I could find to try and understand but nothing seemed to “sum up” the basics. Basically a continuation of the video series I was putting together. As a Canadian outside of Ontario I don’t have a decent buyer of boards so I just pick off the best bits and take the 10cents/lb I’m given for the leftovers, but I don’t process enough Ewaste to put together a shipment worth sending through the post.
