Thank You!! I love doing these videos. I do 98% of the work off camera, and I can share so little of what I do. Most of it is so boring to watch. Sort / trim / stack / sell ... repeat. But I do love it. :) If you have anything want to see on the channel, let me know.
Just started watching. I like to remove the actual chips before grinding up the rest. Hoping to make a mosaic of the interest side of the chips. Hope to use a flour mill to reduce the ash to a very fine powder with the gold / copper rolled up into balls. Trying to do the entire process without the use of acids. Just finished. Nice little gold bead.
:) Doing this with no acids is rough. But it is doable. The gold bond wires are so darn thin that it does not take much to break them. When I try to get them out by hand prior to using the grinder (prior to this video), I could find broken bits of wire, but they were no longer attached to the silica die. The only time I have successfully pulled out the cluster was when I wet ashed using sulfuric acid. It took days, and I had a cough for a little while after... but I was able to dissolve the carbon off and it was fun to see. I have not seen it since due to the violent nature of the crushing process. If you find a way, let me know :) It would be fun to do something with the silica dies ... maybe make something super shiny with them.
@@badideametals I have separated the bits into two piles. Magnetic tabs with gold wires attached and non-magnetic with gold wires attached. (Since then, I have started to separate IC chips into magnetic and non-magnetic piles) Took a long time using the gold panning method. Have not decided how to remove the gold wires yet. May just melt it into a 'dirty' gold nugget.
Good effort buddy. But I noticed two things wrong. If you don't mind me saying. Firstly you made the gravity separation look so much harder than it needed to be. And second, you went straight to AR instead of doing a nitric bath first to remove base metals
True, I did go straight to AR. I was planning a re-refinement, but when the bead was so small, and it was pretty gold in color, I figured I would just catch any base metals in there when I do my general refinement of my collection in the future. And yes, the gravity separation was a mess for me. I usually use a bigger bucket, but I had this wild idea that I would be able to show more through the glass for the video. That meant I was using a container I would have lost gold over the edge ... I like my 5 gallon bucket way. I just needed to do that way and deal with the lack of visibility for the video. Not that it mattered. There was no way to see what I was doing as I dumped the water into the blue recycle bin. I am planning DDR2 / DDR3 chips soon, and the gold corner BGAs too. I just was tired of seeing my mess of green sludge that had been sitting for so long. Thank you so much for the advice and criticism. I have not done enough ashing to even know where all my flaws and failings are yet. I know I expected more then I got. So please, always feel like you can give me pointers on what you see :).
I have a video I am editing this weekend where I do a lot of these types of chips. I did not get the result I expected sadly, but I did get a pretty decent return.
The video got really long. Sadly, I left in too much of the water draining and trimmed out more of the other things ... I put more SMB in then I needed. I was a little careless by not measuring it out. I just did not show that part.
Just started watching love the channel 🎉
Thank You!! I love doing these videos. I do 98% of the work off camera, and I can share so little of what I do. Most of it is so boring to watch. Sort / trim / stack / sell ... repeat. But I do love it. :) If you have anything want to see on the channel, let me know.
Just started watching. I like to remove the actual chips before grinding up the rest.
Hoping to make a mosaic of the interest side of the chips.
Hope to use a flour mill to reduce the ash to a very fine powder with the gold / copper rolled up into balls.
Trying to do the entire process without the use of acids.
Just finished. Nice little gold bead.
:) Doing this with no acids is rough. But it is doable. The gold bond wires are so darn thin that it does not take much to break them. When I try to get them out by hand prior to using the grinder (prior to this video), I could find broken bits of wire, but they were no longer attached to the silica die. The only time I have successfully pulled out the cluster was when I wet ashed using sulfuric acid. It took days, and I had a cough for a little while after... but I was able to dissolve the carbon off and it was fun to see. I have not seen it since due to the violent nature of the crushing process. If you find a way, let me know :)
It would be fun to do something with the silica dies ... maybe make something super shiny with them.
@@badideametals I have separated the bits into two piles.
Magnetic tabs with gold wires attached and non-magnetic with gold wires attached. (Since then, I have started to separate IC chips into magnetic and non-magnetic piles)
Took a long time using the gold panning method.
Have not decided how to remove the gold wires yet. May just melt it into a 'dirty' gold nugget.
Good effort buddy. But I noticed two things wrong. If you don't mind me saying.
Firstly you made the gravity separation look so much harder than it needed to be.
And second, you went straight to AR instead of doing a nitric bath first to remove base metals
True, I did go straight to AR. I was planning a re-refinement, but when the bead was so small, and it was pretty gold in color, I figured I would just catch any base metals in there when I do my general refinement of my collection in the future. And yes, the gravity separation was a mess for me. I usually use a bigger bucket, but I had this wild idea that I would be able to show more through the glass for the video. That meant I was using a container I would have lost gold over the edge ... I like my 5 gallon bucket way. I just needed to do that way and deal with the lack of visibility for the video. Not that it mattered. There was no way to see what I was doing as I dumped the water into the blue recycle bin. I am planning DDR2 / DDR3 chips soon, and the gold corner BGAs too. I just was tired of seeing my mess of green sludge that had been sitting for so long.
Thank you so much for the advice and criticism. I have not done enough ashing to even know where all my flaws and failings are yet. I know I expected more then I got. So please, always feel like you can give me pointers on what you see :).
Not bad
thanks, interesting.
I have a video I am editing this weekend where I do a lot of these types of chips. I did not get the result I expected sadly, but I did get a pretty decent return.
nice recovery. what is the model of the blender?
It is the Hamilton Beach model sold at Walmart in the USA:
www.walmart.com/ip/Hamilton-Beach-Custom-Grind-Coffee-Grinder-14-cups-Black-80393F/247410200?athbdg=L1200&from=/search
I also noticed you put hardly any smb in there and you didn't do a stannous test to make sure all gold had dropped
The video got really long. Sadly, I left in too much of the water draining and trimmed out more of the other things ... I put more SMB in then I needed. I was a little careless by not measuring it out. I just did not show that part.