Hello TM. The copper components attached to the heat sinks are diodes called mosfets. I was surprised that the scrap yard would take as #2 copper since they are only 70% copper. I go ahead and bend them to crack off the plastic. I am glad my scrap yard takes low grade boards at 0.15/lb. Ewaste Ben says throw them in with shred/appliances which seems counter productive since they have already been sorted out. Love to see you passion. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the comment. It is amazing what some yards take and what some don’t. Even 70% copper that is why it is #2 copper price I think, as well as with the plastic.
This video was really helpful, per usual! Thank you for always being so descriptive and passionate about scrapping! Excited to see more about your extraction projects!
My eyes don't see scrap materials, they see beautiful electronic parts for lots of experiments and projects. It breaks my heart to see them simply destroyed like that; I can't look because it brings tears to my eyes.
I guess it is different for everyone. Here I take comfort in knowing that they are at least being scrapped and recycled instead of ending up in the landfill.
True. I do love to reuse parts for electronics projects but there’s some stuff I don’t have any interest in, and it’s better to recycle it and put it in something new
Thank you for your content it has been helpfull in consonsidering to do such things as this my friend showed me different things and he's gone so that's for inspiration
Zubicks in London gives the prices I quote on the video. Only problem is that it is an hour away so I have to make sure I am loaded up or going to London anyway to make it worth my while. Thanks for watching and the comment. Stay well and happy scrapping
I just broke down a computer tower and found the heat sink was sheet copper attached to aluminum instead of extruded aluminum. First time I've ever seen this.
@@TinManScrapper be sure to take out the wire first though, so you can save it 👆 up. The steel from those motors is a better grade. And all hms right now is Va. Is almost 10 cent a pound!
One thing to be careful with is larger capacitors. So the large round tube components. They are higher voltage and have the possibility of holding a charge. Most advice is to short them with an insulated screw driver by making a connection between the two leads. I will hold the screw driver with a set of insulated pliers to be extra cautious. I have never found one that held a charge.
@@TinManScrapper ooohhh... So ironically, "Tin" is "Thin"? That's interesting. In Singapore it's 29¢/kg for all ferrous metals. So you have to be careful with your stainless.
@@TinManScrapper I wonder why scrap sells for so much more over here. I get 80¢/kg for non-magnetic stainless. But Singapore's pretty deregulated, so I guess there's more competition amongst scrap buyers. I found some poor fellow paying $6.50/kg for motherboards with the RAM and CPU slots removed.
My scrap yard calls it steel shreds, and they take anything that’s attached like even wood arms on chairs plastic , cloth ect.. and price right now is 7.25 cents
Boardsort.com will buy either gold plated fingers on own or circuit boards intact. Other places are online like mining pr eBay, people buy these items in bulk to refine them themselves and store the precious metals.
@@TinManScrapper So at the end of the day.... What is the most important thing you can find on circuit boards? Goldfingers, Ic chips, gold pins? Processors? It's hard to really figure out what is tantalum and palladium and some of these other crazy metals
@@RedWhiteBlueYo The amount of tantalum... and in particular palladium... is minuscule. Even the gold is very very thin plating. Unless you are an industrial scale scapper... spend your time... which you must have plenty of... collecting beer cans, and wine bottles, in any big city. One guy I know makes enough for a couple of bottles of wine, and a case of beer... every few days... which is the object of most of this nonsense.
Scrapping is not a get rich quick endeavor. One way to think about escrap is that you can make ~$10 on a small 20 pound computer versus a 200+ pound appliance. I think that is one appeal.
@@GuyTraveler you are right. And helping divert all of these reusable materials away from the garbage is priceless. Stay well and thanks for the comment.
Can you please do Some reshearch About gold corner bga chip They are the best chips for gold recovery the one next to the memory card and flatpack of chips are the second best
Those are the ones I call “ic chips with no metal heat sink” I think they are called different things depending where you are. But I will do some research.
I just retired .I was looking for a nice little way to bring in some extra money for my wife & I. I just started micro scraping and found your channel. I find micro scraping very refreshing and the surplus of stuff available is endless. This video is great and easy to understand and very helpful. I just wanted to say thanks from a old man and a very young new scraper.
@@DaveJames-s6q First off, happy retirement! Thank you for the comment and kind words. Scrapping is a good side gig for sure and for me as well it is relaxing. Glad you found the video informative. Stay well and happy scrapping.
Too bad your're so ham fisted Tin Man... some of those parts you are destroying are worth one hundred times what you get for the scrap you make them into. By beating them off circuit boards, and pulling out copper plated steel parts... you're cutting your revenue 100 times what it could be. Used electronic parts.... especially vintage ones... are expensive... and hard to find.
Depends on what it’s from there’s so much electronics out there. But for sure vintage communications boards can fetch thousands!got to do your research .
Hello TM. The copper components attached to the heat sinks are diodes called mosfets. I was surprised that the scrap yard would take as #2 copper since they are only 70% copper. I go ahead and bend them to crack off the plastic.
I am glad my scrap yard takes low grade boards at 0.15/lb. Ewaste Ben says throw them in with shred/appliances which seems counter productive since they have already been sorted out. Love to see you passion. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the comment. It is amazing what some yards take and what some don’t. Even 70% copper that is why it is #2 copper price I think, as well as with the plastic.
This one your best informative videos....maybe do one breaking down the silver and palladium stuff
This video was really helpful, per usual! Thank you for always being so descriptive and passionate about scrapping! Excited to see more about your extraction projects!
Thank you for the support and watching. Stay well.
Thank you. You explained it very well.
Thanks for watching.
The little "chip" with gold band around are gold band crystal oscillators. The gold on the LCD boards is flashing, not plating. It's a lot thinner.
FYI, chip with the gold plated prongs are CPU chips, not sure why I was not saying that each time!
My eyes don't see scrap materials, they see beautiful electronic parts for lots of experiments and projects. It breaks my heart to see them simply destroyed like that; I can't look because it brings tears to my eyes.
I guess it is different for everyone. Here I take comfort in knowing that they are at least being scrapped and recycled instead of ending up in the landfill.
True. I do love to reuse parts for electronics projects but there’s some stuff I don’t have any interest in, and it’s better to recycle it and put it in something new
you are awesome! thank you so much for your videos!
Thank you for that huge compliment and support! Stay well.
I depopulate boards and I still like to watch other people do it and people showing what items they go for
Thank you for your content it has been helpfull in consonsidering to do such things as this my friend showed me different things and he's gone so that's for inspiration
Those mosfets are silver plated over the copper
Great job, a lot of micro work /cheers
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Great information
Thank you. Glad you found it informative. Stay well and thanks for watching.
By weight the board themselves are like 80% copper after processing pretty sure scrap yard will not take it though
They will only take as ewaste unfortunately. But still better than nothing and better than ending up in the landfill.
No they will take them , they have silver solder all over the back
And one day do a silver refining video then a gold one 👍👍👍👍
Maybe one day!
Like to see you get the silver out please. Thanks
I love your videos, what yards do you go to?I found one good one in Toronto(Manville Recycling)
Zubicks in London gives the prices I quote on the video. Only problem is that it is an hour away so I have to make sure I am loaded up or going to London anyway to make it worth my while. Thanks for watching and the comment. Stay well and happy scrapping
Prongs? Called "pins" here in us!
I just broke down a computer tower and found the heat sink was sheet copper attached to aluminum instead of extruded aluminum. First time I've ever seen this.
Nice. I too have only seen a few like that. It is amazing the different styles of items out there. Great score though.
You can get HMS prices for any motor armature. 👍
Thanks for the tip. we get motor price in London about $0.40lb
@@TinManScrapper be sure to take out the wire first though, so you can save it 👆 up. The steel from those motors is a better grade. And all hms right now is Va. Is almost 10 cent a pound!
@@deniserawls1528 Yup
How do you sell capacitors ?
I leave the little ones right on the circuit board and sell as ewaste. The larger ones I find in places like microwaves I also bring in as ewaste.
Interesting ! Thank you for sharing your Information with me
Capacitors contain toxic substances. Depends on how old they are what substance you'll be exposed too. Wear plastic gloves when handling them.
Is there any thing in there that will shock you
One thing to be careful with is larger capacitors. So the large round tube components. They are higher voltage and have the possibility of holding a charge. Most advice is to short them with an insulated screw driver by making a connection between the two leads. I will hold the screw driver with a set of insulated pliers to be extra cautious. I have never found one that held a charge.
Wait.. when you say "Tin" do you mean literal "Sn" on the periodic table? Or does tin refer to an alloy of some sort in Canada?
When we say tin/shred it is just a category at the scrapyard. Any magnetic metal thinner than 1/4 inch. Thicker than 1/4 inch goes in steel pile.
@@TinManScrapper ooohhh... So ironically, "Tin" is "Thin"? That's interesting. In Singapore it's 29¢/kg for all ferrous metals. So you have to be careful with your stainless.
@@shannonlim739 Yeah, non-magnetic stainless steel here is about $0.77lb.
@@TinManScrapper I wonder why scrap sells for so much more over here. I get 80¢/kg for non-magnetic stainless. But Singapore's pretty deregulated, so I guess there's more competition amongst scrap buyers. I found some poor fellow paying $6.50/kg for motherboards with the RAM and CPU slots removed.
My scrap yard calls it steel shreds, and they take anything that’s attached like even wood arms on chairs plastic , cloth ect.. and price right now is 7.25 cents
Where do you sell the gold to? who gives you the most money for the gold and silver?
Boardsort.com will buy either gold plated fingers on own or circuit boards intact. Other places are online like mining pr eBay, people buy these items in bulk to refine them themselves and store the precious metals.
@@TinManScrapper
So at the end of the day.... What is the most important thing you can find on circuit boards? Goldfingers, Ic chips, gold pins? Processors? It's hard to really figure out what is tantalum and palladium and some of these other crazy metals
@@RedWhiteBlueYo The amount of tantalum... and in particular palladium... is minuscule. Even the gold is very very thin plating. Unless you are an industrial scale scapper... spend your time... which you must have plenty of... collecting beer cans, and wine bottles, in any big city. One guy I know makes enough for a couple of bottles of wine, and a case of beer... every few days... which is the object of most of this nonsense.
Scrapping is not a get rich quick endeavor. One way to think about escrap is that you can make ~$10 on a small 20 pound computer versus a 200+ pound appliance. I think that is one appeal.
@@GuyTraveler you are right. And helping divert all of these reusable materials away from the garbage is priceless. Stay well and thanks for the comment.
Can you please do Some reshearch About gold corner bga chip They are the best chips for gold recovery the one next to the memory card
and flatpack of chips are the second best
Those are the ones I call “ic chips with no metal heat sink” I think they are called different things depending where you are. But I will do some research.
I just retired .I was looking for a nice little way to bring in some extra money for my wife & I. I just started micro scraping and found your channel. I find micro scraping very refreshing and the surplus of stuff available is endless. This video is great and easy to understand and very helpful. I just wanted to say thanks from a old man and a very young new scraper.
@@DaveJames-s6q First off, happy retirement! Thank you for the comment and kind words. Scrapping is a good side gig for sure and for me as well it is relaxing. Glad you found the video informative. Stay well and happy scrapping.
paintet Alu do not oxidate with 02, all oxi is lost Alu
Using the word mold talking about extruded aluminum isn't a good word to use considering thats how cast is made
Yeah, but just want to highlight that it has a type of grooved pattern.
Too bad your're so ham fisted Tin Man... some of those parts you are destroying are worth one hundred times what you get for the scrap you make them into. By beating them off circuit boards, and pulling out copper plated steel parts... you're cutting your revenue 100 times what it could be. Used electronic parts.... especially vintage ones... are expensive... and hard to find.
Depends on what it’s from there’s so much electronics out there. But for sure vintage communications boards can fetch thousands!got to do your research .
How to remove gold from chips?
I know chemical way of removing gold but I can't use chemical like i want. It's not legal in my area.
The chips with the gold prongs you can use a heat gun