A scrappers guide to micro scrapping - precious metals from ewaste
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- I love a bit of micro scrapping but what is worth taking from circuit boards and electronics?
Here I guide you through some of the best components to look out for when you are scrapping electronics and depopulating circuit boards.
Remember that precious metal recovery requires the use of dangerous acids.
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This is the best video I have found yet. I am breaking down any electronic/electrical items to raise funds for the 3 Veterans organisations that support me. Veterans Outdoors, Endeavour Wheelchair Rugby Club, and Veterans Sailing with PYS all based in Plymouth. In the 1st year I have raised about £200 split 3 ways.
What an amazing thing to do. Congratulations, my friend. ⭐️
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. 👍
Thanks Scotsman, good reference material.
Anytime, thanks for watching
great informative video, thanks bud
Thanks for watching Shaun
You have a beautiful collection.
A+ video brother, A+!! Very well done, explained and recorded.
Thank you for the mention my friend!
Thank you brother, these are just the open boxes. I have so much more that is full. You're welcome, always got to get a Scrapitall mention in now and again 😀
@@ScrappingScotland that’s amazing brother.
I sure do appreciate you!
Best video I've seen on micro scrapping. Very helpful. I been looking for information on what to pull off boards. This is the best I've seen.
Thank you buddy for the kind comments. Glad you found this helpful
Awesome collection you have Sir.
Excellent explanation of ALL the ins and outs of things
Hi, good video. I am a hobby scrapper and do micro scrapping when Quebec winter is ruling the place and scrap is scarce.
Here I share other video infos I found. The fuses would have their inner little wire made from silver. May be when the fuse is too hot, the silver melt and goes on the brass fuse ends ?
Although their value is probably higher for copper, some videos have showned that musfet also contain gold.
Finally, on the right side of the board you use at the beginning of the video, the metallic boxes are mostly of brass. I can see that while using the file on them. If not yellow and magnetic, they are iron. Some of them are partly brass, partly iron so they stick to the magnet. Rarely, they are of stainless steel or nickel plated copper. They adds up to the piles. By adding small brass pieces to the bigger ones I find (like the tap), I succeeded to have a 5.1 litter bucket that weight 90 pounds.
Great video my friend
That was a great informative video. Love depopulating boards
Very informative, thank you for this well done video.
Thank you, Greg. I appreciate you watching and commenting. Glad you liked this one.
Very good presentation for micro-scrapping!
Thank you for watching
Great tutorial video !! Ive been micro scrapping some myself !
Good video scrapping Scotland
these are valuable informations. thanks.
You are very welcome. Thank you for watching. I really appreciate it
Very helpfull video mate. Thanks
Thank you my friend
Thank you for sharing your knowledge about e mateials, be wortfull.
Thank you for tuning in
Loved this video
Much appreciated Paul
I'm just getting into board stripping, so this is real useful. Thanks mate.
Thanks for watching 👍
Thanks for the great video
Thank you for tuning in 👍
Great video! Love the way you have things sorted/ categorized. I have a very similar list.
Thanks for watching and commenting. Glad you liked it
Great guide great job
Thanks buddy
This was a great video
Thank you for that kind comment. Glad you enjoyed it
I micro scrap as well as refine the gold and silver. Not getting rich but I have a nice workshop that my wife barely comes out to. Gives us both time alone.
Everyone needs their scrap shed for a bit of therapeutic scrapping, my friend. It's good to hear yours is used for scrapping as well. 👍🔧🔨🪛🏴
Where do you get acid from?
I have made my nitric by distilling sodium nitrate and sulfuric acid. But I recently bought 6 liters from xlexo. That was easier if more expensive.
Nice video. See you keep the disc capacitors too. I also saw the Dusan vid where he had soviet era capacitors of a dull brown colour supposedly they should have silver or palladium content. He also found some large resistors with hidden gold inside the end caps though i guess those are going to be mostly very old tech as well. I keep everything now 😁
Yeah I kept the resistors for a while but I never found one with gold caps so I don't bother with them anymore
I salvage boards for components for my own use and for repairing other equipment and for electronics projects. I have been overlooking the tantalums and ceramic capacitors (basically all the SMD types) as cannot reuse them. You gave a good idea to save them at least for scrap. Cheers for that.
Nice video. I am only getting started in micro scrap. I have been saving motherboards for almost a year now.
You'll have a pile of these components soon then 👍
Loved the doco style of this video! I believe the other black capacitors are tantalum too. There is also silver and lead in tanties, lots of goodies not easy to get at lol. Loved that pot of contacts, that looked so lovely!!!
Thank you Sollers. I thought those others were tantalum as well but wasn't sure. I've been putting off cleaning up those contacts. Seems like a tedious job!
@@ScrappingScotland haha yep agreed
Awesome video!
Thank you David 👍
nice one scotland
Thanks buddy
Nice video and you provide clear and comprehensive descriptions. I think what you call "tactical" switches are better known as "tactile" switches, because one must actually touch them to make them operate. Also, just as a general point, when I remove aluminum heatsinks, they often come off with a bit of steel which needs to be removed to get "clean" price. Finally, I also really like the channels you gave shout outs to as well!
Thank you for watching and for the comments. You are if course correct. I always get tactical and tactile mixed up. I do the same with platinum and palladium for some reason. Yes you do need to clean the heatsimk before you can put it into clean ally, a good point to make.
Excellent video bro 🎉
Thanks for watching
You have been busy stepping lots of boards
Great video and explanation! It really helps
Glad you found it useful, thanks for watching.
Great video pal
Thank you so much. Glad you enjoyed it 😊
can't beat micro scrapping
Very good info for when I start micro scrapping
You haven't started yet?
@@ScrappingScotland nope. I just save all my boards. I pull some copper from low grade, but haven't started depopulation yet. I'm waiting to see if we ever get a buyer here.
@@HHRecycling I pull the copper first as well and then come back from the rest when I need something to do
HHRecycling, where are you at?
@@urbanprospector3007 Hudson's Hope in northern BC
I liked and subscribed to your channel
Thanks buddy
some of those black 'tantalum' capacitors look like diodes. You can type the numbers written on them into google and it should bring up the datasheet for a component which should tell you whether it is a diode or not.
Thanks for the information 👍
Great video mate , think you’ve covered everything 👍😁
Thanks buddy. If there is anything else then I don't know it's worth taking off the boards 😀
@@ScrappingScotland you’ve covered virtually all the good stuff mate , there’s only 2 more things I would say that are very good to look out for that are a bit different looking to the usual types , are gold cap fuses they they have gold plated ends and gold wire inside , smaller and different shape to the normal type fuse , other is gold band crystal oscillators , gold plated band around outside plus gold inside , a lot smaller and look different to usual crystal oscillators, I look for them and even I miss them till second time I look over the boards , a lot of people miss those 2 items and they are high for gold recovery when have a load of them, plus keep them separate from the others
Thank you Scrapping Scotland Cheers,...
Subbed your channel buddy, thank you for supporting mine.
@@ScrappingScotland Thank you as well mate all good Cheers P.S I learnt a lot from yours and other scrapping channels ...Cheers to you all...
hi all scrappers Ive been scrapping for some years now mostly from cars more so the nuts and bolts in the last 3 years I have had myself a devil forge and have been scrapping all my cans and my friends to make ally ingots , I also smelt copper and brass from all electronics and cables attaching appliances to the mains lalso strip big electric motorsstarter motors from cars and trucks as well as alternators
Sounds like a scrapper to me 🔧🔨🪛
Absolutely awesome episode brother start to finish. You can make nitric acid £8.00 a litre (I have got the price down to.) scary the first time you make it and the second.
You are a braver man than me buddy but I have noticed that you a fine l fume hood for your chemicals so you have a good setup. I might be sending all this stuff to you then 😉
You have lots of stuff! Very helpful video when I’m trying to learn about e-waste myself buddy! Thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed watching this helped me learn more about e-waste! I say it’s too far to sell to board-sort so does your scrap yard take that? Awesome video!
Thank you buddy. Glad you found it helpful. Yeah we don't have a boardsort here. Somebody needs to fix that for sure. My plan is to sell it the gold and silver bearing items on ebay or something but you never know, maybe I'll get the opportunity to try and recover it myself one day.
Thank you for the share as well buddy. Very much appreciated
The small transformer my yard says shred
I take them apart so nothing but copper for me. I could put them in motors as well
mosfetts can also contain pm`s gold / silver
But if a Part Works , You can Sell the Part for more than the Gold , Imagine Little Johnny in 2034 Looking to Build his first Pentium Pro or 486 DOS Box and almost all the Parts are gone . :( QC
Send little Johnny my way, I've got plenty to sell him 😃
Fantastic explanation of ewaste recycling at a component level this is Mr SS.
I’m a UK scraper too who has been saving most these components for years. Do you think in the future that the chemicals required for recovery will be available to us mere mortals in the UK or has that ship sailed?
Personally I think it's sailed my friend. You can obtain a licence for using the chemicals but you would need to have a good setup. Fume hood etc. Besides nitric is expensive so would cut deeply into any gold or silver profit. Better to save them and sell them.
@@ScrappingScotland I’m hearing you SS, just not viable for us UK micro scrappers to process.
I like yourself scrap for the interest and enjoyment but do find it frustrating that we can’t further our interest much like the likes of 999 Dusan, S Irish and indeed the rest of the world!
Keep up the good work chap. 👍
A tipp: The 2 sided microchips contains silver and the 4 sided microschips contains gold!
Really? The two sided don't contain any gold?
@@ScrappingScotland really
Enjoyed your vid. Are you doing refining or just selling on the recovered components? Just a note, it’s not illegal to have Nitric. You need an EPP licence which is straight-forward to get as long as you’re not a bawbag 😁
I can't claim not to be a bawbag 🤣. But yes only illegal if you don't have a licence to use those chemicals
Ye me to
What town is home travelling Scotland in june .Enjoy your channel cheers Ron
Hi Ron, I'm from Edinburgh
Thanks spending two nights there all the best I wish you well !!
@@RonKnowles-ex4yc hope you have a great time my friend
25:55 is it worth separating the brass and copper from the plug fuse holder. Thanks
Yes absolutely, copper is worth more than brass. I didn't do that in the video but mentioned it. I will separate these before it goes into the brass stockpile. Thanks for watching and for the comment.
No problem. Thanks for your time replying.
The brass connector if you separate them put the real brass in a separate tube and the silver type separate or Mey scrap yard is mixed brass
We're do you sell you stuff we have no sale in ireland
Thanks Patrick, my yard takes it all as clean brass so no need for me to separate
I think pulverising most most these would be the best option
Definitely on a bigger scale than what I do it would be.
grind everything up, into powder form, pour in "Aqua regia" to dissolve all the gold, then refine the gold using the "Wohlwill process" through electrolysis
Don't you need an almost pure gold bar to act as an anode for that process?
I think even the cathode needs to be gold?
@@ScrappingScotland not necessary
as the dissolved metal will gather at the cathode, all you need is to have at the start is a thin golden thread or thin gold wire
that's all you need
@@ScrappingScotland the pure gold bar is to perform the final 99.999% purification process
what you need now is to have this process to get you the initial, not so pure gold
a few years ago a factory near my house, they do dissembling electronic parts, closed down
they had bags and bags of old cpus
i bought a couple of them, grind them up to powder, and did that
At the end I got some gold, not very very pure, only like 92% or something like that, which I sold.
Did you ever find out what the ceramic capacitors have in them or are they worth anything
I'm afraid not. There is a general belief that they can contain some silver though
@@ScrappingScotland great video tho thanks for the tip on the tantalum
What price do you get for copper bearing motors
30p a kg but I can stick all transformers and little motors into electric motors whether they are copper or aluminium.
19.05, my scrapyard takes them as aluminium bits
Is that the same price as dirty aluminium at your yard?
Do you break up all motors all sizes
Absolutely
great channel by the way just found you thumbs up and comments ( informative but not out to be little you because you just dont know step up and learn
Thanks for watching and stopping by
I dont want money I just want the precious metals themselves. I dont want it in scrap form though I want it in bar and coin form.
It's the scrapping that I enjoy but as you know this is just the beginning. Scrap and refine enough of it and you might get that bar or coin. A lot of work and effort though which is why I just sell the components. I would love to be able to refine it and make a bar or coin
Mosfets my yard will give me number 2 if I burn I get number 2 as everyday sollors did on her live put in coke number 1 all the way
Very thorough video brother. The red on your skin looks irritated, hope its nothing serious.
( Edit: I can't believe how much I've thrown away in the past...smh)
Thanks Dale. I have a skin condition called psoriasis and it creates this red patch on my face unfortunately. Sometimes you can't notice it and other times it can be very red.
@@ScrappingScotland Always looks painful.
@dalemills8052 it doesn't hurt buddy. The skin just renews itself to quickly and can become red. It looks really red after showering and washing my face but it calms down quite quickly. Had it for over 20 years now. It's doesn't bother me anymore.