Depopulating Mid Grade/Peripheral Circuit Boards
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- Опубликовано: 11 янв 2022
- Mid Grade Circuit boards contain a fair amount of gold recovery items that I or others can buy.
For those that have no access to local boards buyers, this is a good option if you have the time.
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I'm a little jealous, looks like a beautiful summer day in Australia. Brutally cool Chicago weather
How you feeling Paul
Wishing you and your son a speedy and quick recovery
Hey Paul I hope you and your son are well today xxx
@@joan7823 it was because he tested positive for covid
@@joan7823 we are just about back to 100%. We both tested negative now. I still feel a little bit of a cold but I think that's just my immune system on high alert
Hi,
I'm Tobias from Germany I live in the near from Frankfurt.
Sorry for my English.
I watch your Videos since 2 weeks and now I'm rallye big Fan!
Thanks for the amazing content.
An absolutely terrific episode.
I used to drop off my boards at a local recycling facility, after removing anything copper or aluminum for melting.
Your videos made me aware of what's on the boards and I started depopulating them about a year ago.
Every video informs me of other items that I should have been removing and ones I shouldn't bother with.
Thanks 😊
How do I know what to depopulate or what to leave behind. Also how do I know the difference in grades???
@@WhatsthePOINT_EDC sorry, I'm just a hobby scrapper looking for materials to melt (aluminum / copper)
I keep all IC chips for future gold recovery adventures.
Pins with gold plating for future gold recovery adventures.
Various colorful bits for potential future whatever art krap I may make.
Some items have exposed gold wires inside (discovered when cutting them open).
Tantalum MLC (probably a waste of time for me because I will probably never do the chemical processing to get the precious metals)
Relays for copper and silver.
Good luck with your adventures.
@@cptrikester2671 good stuff. I also at one point attempted to save up for gold recovery but that didn’t last long. Lol.
@@WhatsthePOINT_EDC I don't have high expectations. When I started collecting I learned that the best way is multiple acids, but dangerous gases are produced. Very nasty and I'm leary of doing that.
Separated the bits into five 'grades' of potential results and planning on trying smelting method, I have the equipment for that.
Always fun to watch Ben. It is not lost on my how lucky I am to have so many selling options here in the US.
I’ve learned a ton of him starting several years ago. I’ve always had two yards close to me that take everything but circuit boards. Then I finally found one 30 mins away that takes them, currently up to $1.50/lb. and they even pay higher on non-ferrous, so I save up for a big load of boards and wire, etc.
I did learn from Shark more about Boardsort. I have to send higher paying items usually in the $3-$4 and higher range to offset shipping.
Either way, it all free $$
Thats true its easy for us to take that for granted
@@dr.a006 so usa i guess? Thats like copper price right wtf?
@@fightington I wish I could get more for circuit boards in Utah, USA, but ya, there’s always a middle man scrapyard that makes more on volume than me just scrapping stuff.
@@fightington also, yes they pay more for boards far away, but shipping isn’t worth it.
You need a pair of what's called flush cut wire cutters. They're machined so they'll cut flush to something as opposed to dikes, which won't cut flush to something. Disadvantage is the tips are delicate and easy to bend.
cool Ben that bigger version of mlcc are actually fuses (polimer PTC Resettable Fuses ) cheers buddy 👍
Great video, Ben!! Appreciate you taking the time! I'm one of those people with no company to sell boards to! I de-populate everything. Have 20 tubs just like you. Jim in Phoenix.
You've come a long way from airhammering the shit outta everything a few years ago to now nitpicking everything lol
Thats a lot of information to take in, I think I will just sell any boards i get. Great informational video.. thanks
That’s something I love watching 🌟 🌟 🌟 👍
When it comes to depopulating E-waste Ben is a treasure of knowledge.
I like you showing the things
Weather looks awesome!
Great information
Brilliant Stripping of Boards and a Fantastic Explanation as well ! Cheers from us in QLD !!!!
I hope I have time to watch this before work tomorrow 🤞 I'm off to bed now so will have to be in suspense until morning 🙃
Someone doing the depopulating like you should come up with a home sifter. Layers of screens large to very fine. Would make sorting a little easyer. Just make this about 12" x 18". Easy to pick up and shake.
Great video. Thanks! If you didn't know you can strip the green solder masking on those boards that are full gold flashing under with lye and hot water - see your video at 45.24. You can actually get a lot of gold if the whole board is covered in gold under the green masking.
Love your videos! Have begun to depopulate my low grade boards since I didn’t want to sell them as scrap steel.
At the small two pronged chips IC as well?
Keep it up!!
Little by little and it all adds up.
I love your videos another Awesome video Ben.
Thanks for everything
Great video Ben always learn from your channel thank you for sharing five stars my friend
Great video
Hi Ben. Great educational information. Please stay safe. To you and all members also. Talk to you later my friend. 🙂🙂🙂😇😇😇👍👍👍❣❣❣❤❤❤
What you call monkey grips I would call Channel locks. If the start to ware you can sand / grind the tips slightly to square up the edges. Works great! And I find having two pair at hand is nice. One set wide one set narrow. Saves me changing the size of the opening back and forth.
We call them water pump pliers, 5 holes or grips as an electrician in the UK! :)
Thanks Ben! 👍😊
Got to say I do love your depopulation videos that’s why I now and again I come back and rewatch the 😁
True to form... GREAT VIDEO!!
Love it Ben.
Prices are very different here in UK, before I started saving for the board buyer I sold more chips on ebay, you may have seen my video showing what I get and my copperless top gold corner bga's typically sell for £90-£120 per kg, so I still cherry pick some 😉
Loved this video, always such amazing advice, glad I got to watch before work 🙂😁
That's about right for BGA's on ebay, maybe a little cheap but leaves enough for the buyer to make a profit on recovery
Love from London Ben x
Great Video Ben Keep Bringing The Video's Dude 👍👍
Hi Ben Just started watching your videos, I like them a lot, one thing I get a lot of value from is your knowledge of what components and parts contain what metals, I'm more into metal recovery than the scraping aspect..I was wondering if you would consider doing an in-depth video on what components contain what metals, cand if you already have one can you put me on to it ..thanks ..new subscriber from Canada
hes done a couple if vids explaining what is the best stuff to remove. Just look up waste ben stockpiling and you should find sumn
He has lots of old videos just go through them and look
Just watched and say hello to friend in scrap buisness!
You know, those boards from modems are often gold flashed All over the boards under the solder, just like HDD boards.
Awesome
There is some more to pick from the boards if you want...
At ~ 43:00 the metal casing on the network ports is (usually) brass, sometimes it's just steel.
At ~ 46:00 there's a red switch with gold plated legs.
At ~ 49:00 another red switch, and two relays on the right side (the white blocks) which can contain silver/gold contacts.
At 1:10:00 not a transformer, but a relay again.
You could also get the transistors. They can contain gold bonding wire too.
As you mentioned it all depends on how much time you have to depopulate the boards. I even take off the crystals from mainboards, and here and there a few capacitors or pins (not too much).
The midgrade boards you are selling with the heatsinks on them would go as low grade here in germany. The same with slot cards and mainboards with metal parts or fans, they go as midgrade if you don't remove that dead weight.
If you heat the copper tops with a heat gun they just pop and slide off pure copper scrap also the micro chip comes off and is great for art projects with lens showing magnified size for sale.
good stuff as always. would like to a video on the different Cpu's that you buy explaining the differences. particularly though would like to see one about the 3 grades of gold pins that you buy and where you can source them. for example pins from IDE cables...(im assuming these would be low grade rating)
Hurray thank you🙂😁
in the states Gold pin connectors (plastic, steel still on ) go for about a dollar a pound
Thanks ben
New subscriber from Alberta Canada 👋 heard about your channel from the Tin Man! Cheers
Ben you are a genius... When you have time is there anyway that you can make a video using ceramic mlcc and showing us the process of breaking them down to make pladium please
love it
I just did the low-grade video and I'm ready for the next level.
Hi Ben, great video. I'm very new to this. Do you remove the gold in USB ports?
Ben,
The brass speaker disc. What is the spot of flaky substance on one side of them? Any PMs present there?
Looks like it might be flashed with silver, not totally sure unless it's put under an xrf but it does look like silver flashing
I’ve always wondered that too. I couldn’t find anything online yet, although it looks like silver, it could be something else.
I have a important question now when you were removing the flat pack with the grip tool is that the way your supposed to remove those because what i do is use a flat head screw driver and try to cut the pins with it than hit the corner with the flat head screwdriver and a hammer
You make the most off of tantalum I'd imagine
First time I've even heard of ruthenium tbh :)
Thank you very much for these videos. I have no one to sell bords to, or rather, I have a lot o mid-grade boards & they will only by server grade boards. Consequently, I depopulate all my mid-grade boards. I'm pretty sure I have resin-dipped tantalum capacitors straight, but I'm intrigued to know how you identify resin dipped MLCCs? I mean, the capacitor is just marked "C", so, are all resin dipped capacitors marked "C", & are not tantalum, MLCCs?
I'd appreciate your, or anyone else who maybe able to enlighten me, because I hate to think about what I may have not been keeping.
I have a question about hard drive. Is it more profitable to take them apart and sell individual pieces or keep the hard drives whole and sell for scrap?
I'm not gonna lie but after fixing a bunch of boards, and now watching you with a monkey wrench ripping them off, make me feel a little bit nervous
you wouldnt happen to know where i can get wire strippers would you. im on diability and time is all i have, that and about 2 tons of old copper wire from pcs id like to strip.
Where do you have a posted list of your board prices and other prices
big microcircuits convenient to remove - oscillator multitool
How much those tanton capacitors blue and yellow ones worth? Thanks
I want to see you refine the waste now.
Sreetips latest vid was a bag of pins, so perfect timing. He's used to working with much larger concentrations of gold, so he did this vid just for the electronics scrap crowd. He got two grams from a sandwich sized bag of pins. His method was to dissolve out the base metals from under the gold plating, so lots of acid and time.
Large scale refiners probably do electrolytic refining, which MBMM is about to try. It's all stuff commercial processors have been doing for a long time, but they're not going to share their secrets.
Ben hasnt started refining his own stuff yet
Have you done a video on gold recovery, do you smelt your own bars
No. He hasnt done any gold recovery yet. Hes said before that the actual gold recovery is in the future for him. Hes just stock piling for now until hes good and ready and has all the proper equipment chemicals and knowledge
try a toaster oven you will get it all .
My bench looks a lot like that. Piles of misc containers filled with components. I don’t have a rice cooker for BFAs though. Haha
Finally!
How you tell from ceramic to others
Those oscillators can have as much as 50 grams of gold so close to 6000 US dollar, I would be curious how much your paying for those
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Any tips on starting such a business?
Noob here but any advice on how to buy/get e waste at a big scale. So far I harass thrift stores once a week and pick up stuff off the street . Also im from Orange County California , anyone buy boards in this area ? thanks !! LOVE the episodes , really the only thing to relax me tbh
What do you pay for mother boards I have a. Bunch I also have 4 55 gallon trash cans full of cpu chips
$4 kg for motherboards, a lot more for ic chips
how in the world do you get all this?
I love recovering parts with silver because I know silver will be worth a lot more in the future and people will want this stuff very badly.
I see chips.
Need you to open a school.. I'll be on the next plane for class
Anyone know a board buyer in Sydney? Thanks
DO YOU BUY FROM JUST LOCAL? OR OUT OF COUNTRY?
Not worth the postage costs
A lot of time & work.
Great videos, very useful informations right here, keep up the good work. PS: I know that it's not my bussines, but I think that something is not right with your lungs, hope it's just a flu.
why dont you use an electric chisel tool to remove the parts?
I think over time he's used just about everthing anyone else might try, but he doesn't bring out a power chisel for a small task.
Large scale processors tumble or shake circuit boards within a machine in the presence of enough heat to melt solder.
Whats what's elium aluminum Alamo think that's aluminum
Bro if you find old computer sound card u can sell and get more money
مرحبا صدديقى العزيز انا اسمى محمد من مصر عندى اكثر من1300جراما من مكثفات lcc ولا اعرف كيف ابيعها هل يمكن المساعده ومنى التحية والاحترام والتقدير واشياء كثيرة جدا من هذه الاشياء ونرجوا منكا الرد عى هذا التعليق وشكرا لك
Feels like you have to have a degree in electronics engineering just to be a scrapper.... 😂
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