I worked in a massive E-waste company for about 10 years. High grade boards were absolutely the moneymaker, as well as gold contacts. But there’s were big beefy gold plugs. We had 2, and later 3 main contracts. One was office E-waste, the other was in dismantling decommissioned mobile technology, the infrastructure. Near a phone mast you will see a series of huge green cabinets. They are FULL of gold contacts. Later on we got a contract with BT, decommissioning all their old exchanges from decades ago that were just shuttered all over the country. It was full of gold and palladium. The company expanded so much we ended up with our own shredder warehouse with belts, vibrating tables, magnets etc and visual sorting system. It would recognise a piece of shredded material and jet it off into different boxes. I miss working there now. The owner started like you, scrapping electronics in his garage. He ended up with 2 Ferraris and a lambo 😅
Really enjoyed the video. I think you should narrate your videos more often as you have a good sense of humour and are humble enough to not take things too seriously. Always enjoy your content!
First I have to say thank you, as an IT professional I truly enjoyed you destroying all of those components :). My company has over 130 locations, 40K employees and we recycle all of our E-Waste. I got to visit the facility that processes it and the place was massive. At the heart they had a 3 story grinder/sorter, electronics go in, get ground up, then are sorted by floating them in higher and higher density liquids, they skim the floating material off the top and collect it. They process so much and the operation is so large, they turn a very decent profit. Yes some of the electronics are repurposed and sold to other companies but hard drives and memory storage devices are destroyed (I'm in healthcare, that's important). Really nice to see you do this project, it might not be profitable, but it's a learning experience and fun. Take care!
I worked in a big E-waste company like this, we had a shredder shed just like this but instead of a water sorting solution we’d run the product through different processes, a shaking table, magnets and eventually a rig that visually identified what passed through it and would jet/zap anything on the belt into its correct table. Sometimes the odd bit would get through so there was always one guy last on the belt to do some picking of whatever made it through. Whenever we did hard drives I had to make sure to get photo and weight proof that they had been destroyed. Was a fun job, I miss it now.
Wow! That was a lot of work for a little pay off. I’ve always thought about doing this but I’m glad you did it first and shared your curiosity with the rest of the world. Great job!
I remember NileRed doing a similar video where he processed computer parts to get all the gold out of it and had a similarly tiny amount. Apparently its very common for pawn and gold-trade shops to actually refuse hardware due to how little they get out of it.
@@AEcclesiates Yeah his refinement was insanely wasteful/low yield. As a chemistry major I was cringing at a few of the steps he took. Even just the melting at the end was pretty awful. You could see how much debris ended up on his table from directly using the propane torch on that filter. He lost a ton of his gold just by blowing it out of the crucible.
Outstanding. I think most of us have always wondered how much gold could be recovered from waste like this, and also how much work it would be. Love your vids.
Love the more laid back talking head and voice over. Much better than awkward ad reads any day! I love your videos and always watch them when they come to my feed! Keep up the great work!
Suggestion: You might want to watch Sreetips and see how he does this. He has done this type of recovery a couple of times on this channel. You get a piece of gold about the size of a Green Pea.
Nice video 👍 Looking forward for the next one. Just wanna mention out some points. Adding the SMB to the gold solution is an exothermic reaction. You might have a boil over effect because this. My advice. Use a taller beaker. Also. The SMB reaction is kinda slow when the gold concentration is low. I noticed that the colour of the waste changed after you filtered it. Definitely a loss of gold there. My advice. Let is set over night. It will collect in the bottom of the beaker. Then filtration is not necessary. You can siphon of the liquid. Then test the waste with Stannous. (Tin2 chloride) so you are sure that everything is precipitated 👍
More interested in the copper separation, which is the bulk of the weight of the PCBs. Not to mention using that to cast brass/bronze parts for machining later. ;)
The real gold is your positive and humble attitude. I can respect a man who has no problem admitting he doesn’t know how to do something and can poke fun at himself. Everyone is new and not knowing what they’re doing at some point but hey, we all can’t get good at something unless we try and keep trying. That’s how we learn. Unless you’re a freak genius like that guy off Rainman lol
That was very interesting and like how clear the steps were on every stage you took.. plz make more and I'm very interested on what I will see next. Thank you for the knowledge..
Thanks for doing this. Really good to see how much waste went in versus the labor and the result. I can now stop dreaming about all the e-waste that has collected at my house. ;-)
Thanks I have always been intrigued by this! I have done plating before(damaged my wife’s kitchen) but never reclamation very honest you have saved me much time and purchas of chemicals by watching this I will move on to my other crazy ideas hence the donation for saving me time tears and money. Be lucky mi amigo,😅
I like that you specified that this is not a money maker... I can guarantee you're gonna get a zillion clicks from ppl thinking they can harvest old electronics into solid gold bars and stack them like Scrooge McDuck
You lost a 2 to 3 grams of gold because you did not let it precipitate out nearly long enough. I could see very clearly that you poured out alot of the gold, too bad!! It would've made your regular viewers alot more excited!! It's a spectacular thing to see the transfer of the sodium metabisulfite to gold. Two to three hours or over night is best. The liquid would be as clear as water on top. I'd highly recommend buying or finding another load of ewaste, but study the dropping of the gold a little bit more. You'd love it even more if you had a nugget that was 10 times bigger, because that is what you would've had. Good try for first time. I'll give you sub anyway though! 🙂
I had a hunch you were a magician! You could make a wallhanging/framed picture with the remaining components. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe and keep up the good work. :)
The extraction would be much better if you used a larger glas container which holds everything (pcbs and stuff) and where you are able to trap the emerging chlorine fumes in order to create a internal chlorine environment. Sadly nitric acid is hard to buy so hypochlorite has to be the oxidizing agent combined with chlorine gas the extraction should be comparable with aqua regia (HCL + HNO3 3:1) Btw you lost a lot if gold in the process too
Haha! Very nice. Great job. Yeah, the cost of the chemicals alone, far exceeded your gold value.... Still, it's super cool, to have that piece of gold, that you yourself, pulled out of old electronics....... The value of THAT, is priceless..... You DID it. No one can ever say, you couldn't do it... You did it....
As a vintage computer and electronics enthusiast (hundreds of dollars worth of parts destroyed for a few dollars worth of precious metals), this video was very painful to watch but at the same time interesting from a metallurgy perspective.
That was really interesting for me. I did a few years of a chemistry degree 15 years ago and it was fun to see what I could remember/ work out. Thanks for the video!
I realize you don't yeild much recovering gold from electrical places, but I was wondering if the materials you used cost more than the recovered gold you ended up with? Either way, I did enjoy your process... Thumbs Up!
Bro this video is so awesome and entertaining to watch u did a wonderful job. But i can't imagine the patience and pain of the whole process of collection cutting removing and sorting 😵😵😵😵 it must be a hell lot of work right brooooo a big HATS OFF FOR THAT WORK BEHIND THE VIDEO
Thanks for sharing the process it was fascinating to watch it may be a little bit of gold but imagine if you did it all the time at the end of the week those little bits could add up to some serious money lol all the best
If you refine the silver, you can alloy it with the gold to make something called electrum. It's also known as green gold. It's really unique looking. You won't have enough for a ring, but maybe a small earring.
what sad is there was stuff in there worth way more than the gold you could get and this is why so much rare computer vintage parts gets destroyed that are worth $100's for $5 of gold.
You know what would also be amazing? Making a rainbow-shining mosaic from ICs from all these. You can get them out of plastic with hot air or straight up burning it off, but the second one wouls need a good wash.
I have always been interested in doing that as well. I have a ton of e-waste ive collected over the years. Maybe once I retire in will look into doing this so i will have all the time I need to do it. Would definitely like to see the rest of it processed.
"Two guineas!" roared Merry, shaking it at Silver. "That's your seven hundred thousand pounds, is it? You're the man for bargains, ain't you? You're him that never bungled nothing, you wooden-headed lubber!" "Dig away, boys," said Silver, with the coolest insolence; "you'll find some pig-nuts, and I shouldn't wonder." "Pig-nuts!" repeated Merry, in a scream. "Mates, do you hear that? I tell you now, that man there knew it all along. Look in the face of him, and you'll see it wrote there." Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Man, you should try gold-coated wrist watch cases. The old ones can be found for quite low price and there’s only gold and brass in it. Amount of gold would be much higher and process not so complicated.
You probably lost a small amount of gold due to adding peroxide to your HCL for the first process. I prefer using HCL only but leave it longer and/or heat it. You might also have not dropped all the gold with your SMB ... only way to know is with a stannous test on the pregnant solution followed by a stannous test on the liquid left after dropping the gold. Your best yield items there, anyway, are the chips which I hope you will have processed :)
I worked in a massive E-waste company for about 10 years. High grade boards were absolutely the moneymaker, as well as gold contacts. But there’s were big beefy gold plugs. We had 2, and later 3 main contracts. One was office E-waste, the other was in dismantling decommissioned mobile technology, the infrastructure. Near a phone mast you will see a series of huge green cabinets. They are FULL of gold contacts. Later on we got a contract with BT, decommissioning all their old exchanges from decades ago that were just shuttered all over the country. It was full of gold and palladium. The company expanded so much we ended up with our own shredder warehouse with belts, vibrating tables, magnets etc and visual sorting system. It would recognise a piece of shredded material and jet it off into different boxes. I miss working there now. The owner started like you, scrapping electronics in his garage. He ended up with 2 Ferraris and a lambo 😅
The real gold was the fun we had all along
Spoken like a team player.
And the friends we made along the way.
My man spittin facts right there
And also the gold.
But what about the gold.
Really enjoyed the video. I think you should narrate your videos more often as you have a good sense of humour and are humble enough to not take things too seriously. Always enjoy your content!
He does on Patreon
I actually enjoy non narrated videos more because I can relax well to the working sounds. Especially in the faster sections. :P
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First I have to say thank you, as an IT professional I truly enjoyed you destroying all of those components :). My company has over 130 locations, 40K employees and we recycle all of our E-Waste. I got to visit the facility that processes it and the place was massive. At the heart they had a 3 story grinder/sorter, electronics go in, get ground up, then are sorted by floating them in higher and higher density liquids, they skim the floating material off the top and collect it.
They process so much and the operation is so large, they turn a very decent profit. Yes some of the electronics are repurposed and sold to other companies but hard drives and memory storage devices are destroyed (I'm in healthcare, that's important).
Really nice to see you do this project, it might not be profitable, but it's a learning experience and fun.
Take care!
What company?
I worked in a big E-waste company like this, we had a shredder shed just like this but instead of a water sorting solution we’d run the product through different processes, a shaking table, magnets and eventually a rig that visually identified what passed through it and would jet/zap anything on the belt into its correct table. Sometimes the odd bit would get through so there was always one guy last on the belt to do some picking of whatever made it through. Whenever we did hard drives I had to make sure to get photo and weight proof that they had been destroyed. Was a fun job, I miss it now.
The thickness of gold on edge connectors has gone down by a factor of over ten in the past few decades as process technologies have improved.
oooh I should salvage commodore 64s and IBM 8088s from the dump!!!
@Suros A skip full of 10BASE-T cards is more like it.
Wow, and from an old fossil's viewpoint...Look, something shiny just floated by....🤓
I'm too out dated to get this. It sure is interesting though.
@@thisolesignguy2733 there is more value in the complete Atari thing than the gold inside for sure
I didn't know how involved the process was, very cool thanks for sharing.
Wow! That was a lot of work for a little pay off. I’ve always thought about doing this but I’m glad you did it first and shared your curiosity with the rest of the world. Great job!
0:29 the dream of anyone interested in electronics
I was a little surprised by just how little gold you got out of that. But I'd love to see you process the rest of it.
That's how little gold you need to protect those pins from corrosion
I remember NileRed doing a similar video where he processed computer parts to get all the gold out of it and had a similarly tiny amount. Apparently its very common for pawn and gold-trade shops to actually refuse hardware due to how little they get out of it.
@@cyqry it was not a similar amount if you compare the amount of parts
You are right budd
@@AEcclesiates Yeah his refinement was insanely wasteful/low yield. As a chemistry major I was cringing at a few of the steps he took. Even just the melting at the end was pretty awful. You could see how much debris ended up on his table from directly using the propane torch on that filter. He lost a ton of his gold just by blowing it out of the crucible.
Outstanding. I think most of us have always wondered how much gold could be recovered from waste like this, and also how much work it would be. Love your vids.
Love the more laid back talking head and voice over. Much better than awkward ad reads any day! I love your videos and always watch them when they come to my feed! Keep up the great work!
Suggestion: You might want to watch Sreetips and see how he does this. He has done this type of recovery a couple of times on this channel. You get a piece of gold about the size of a Green Pea.
I also recommend Sreetips. Best all around precious metals recovery channel on RUclips by far.
Watching how to melt the gold without torching it all away would have probably helped the yield for sure.
@@jasonjennings8465 there are also platinum group metals and silver inside the other components, as well as gold inside the chips themselves
It's not even worth pursuing this guy in the video gathered electronic scrap for 10 years
Nice video 👍
Looking forward for the next one.
Just wanna mention out some points.
Adding the SMB to the gold solution is an exothermic reaction. You might have a boil over effect because this. My advice. Use a taller beaker.
Also. The SMB reaction is kinda slow when the gold concentration is low. I noticed that the colour of the waste changed after you filtered it. Definitely a loss of gold there.
My advice. Let is set over night. It will collect in the bottom of the beaker. Then filtration is not necessary. You can siphon of the liquid. Then test the waste with Stannous. (Tin2 chloride) so you are sure that everything is precipitated 👍
СОГЛАСЕН!!!!!
ПОТЕРИ там были!!!!!
😱😱👍👉Electronics has a lot of gold for you to find. Good idea.😱😱
They don't have much
You will definitely give up before finding all that gold fortune.
This is great,now i can do something with old broken electronics from my office,reducing dump money and getting something and possibly extra payment
Evaluate if the sourcing of chemicals and time spent reclaiming will be covered by the price of gold
@@TechTinkerWorks good thing i don't have to do that,my dad have a lot of chemical like that including nitroglycerin
More interested in the copper separation, which is the bulk of the weight of the PCBs. Not to mention using that to cast brass/bronze parts for machining later. ;)
This guy is very humble and honest. Keep it up bro.
finally a video with voiceover, i've been waiting for this for so long
The real gold is your positive and humble attitude. I can respect a man who has no problem admitting he doesn’t know how to do something and can poke fun at himself. Everyone is new and not knowing what they’re doing at some point but hey, we all can’t get good at something unless we try and keep trying. That’s how we learn. Unless you’re a freak genius like that guy off Rainman lol
A lot of aluminum/copper/brass in the rest of the "junk". Also worth $$. And a lot less processing! Love your channel!
Chemist here, that was a fantastic process to watch!
Wow, that was amazing. I guess the manufacturers do know how to make efficient use of a very small amount.
Thank you for solve the "what if question" in my mind.
That was very interesting and like how clear the steps were on every stage you took.. plz make more and I'm very interested on what I will see next. Thank you for the knowledge..
New sub, I have watched hundreds of e waste to gold videos and yours was awesome
Thanks for doing this. Really good to see how much waste went in versus the labor and the result. I can now stop dreaming about all the e-waste that has collected at my house. ;-)
im now discouraged i was thinking of doing this
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He had losses because of haste let the material soak and vibrate for a week then siphon the fluid out .
Thanks I have always been intrigued by this! I have done plating before(damaged my wife’s kitchen) but never reclamation very honest you have saved me much time and purchas of chemicals by watching this I will move on to my other crazy ideas hence the donation for saving me time tears and money. Be lucky mi amigo,😅
So much work for such a tiny blob of gold, but it was a joy to watch.
Great video, loved the golden color of the dissolved gold. Glad you got a nice bead of gold from the hard work.
I'm not sure but buying those chemicals cost more money than the gold you recovered.
Chemicals could be reused!
You are far smarter than you give yourself credit for! Very good video!
Thumbs up.
Testing a new process for the sake of a new eperience. That's the Blackbeard style.
Wonderful video! Wish I would have seen in earlier, have watched over 50 videos, this is by far the best and most helpful.
That was fun to watch, please one day break down the rest of those components if you haven't already.
Camera modules from smartphones contain pretty much gold. The internal wiring to the chip is done with gold fibers.
I like that you specified that this is not a money maker... I can guarantee you're gonna get a zillion clicks from ppl thinking they can harvest old electronics into solid gold bars and stack them like Scrooge McDuck
And products to extract the gold cost 10 times more than the actual gold you find
Excellent Comments, congratulations and best regards 👋😀.
yes, bill all to this guy, another knowledge, lots of e-waste,thanks for sharing great video sir..
The coolest guy in Internet. Very fun video!
Thank God a channel that speaks.
I've seen several videos of this type before and yours was the best by far.
You lost a 2 to 3 grams of gold because you did not let it precipitate out nearly long enough. I could see very clearly that you poured out alot of the gold, too bad!! It would've made your regular viewers alot more excited!! It's a spectacular thing to see the transfer of the sodium metabisulfite to gold. Two to three hours or over night is best. The liquid would be as clear as water on top.
I'd highly recommend buying or finding another load of ewaste, but study the dropping of the gold a little bit more. You'd love it even more if you had a nugget that was 10 times bigger, because that is what you would've had.
Good try for first time. I'll give you sub anyway though! 🙂
I think so too Brother. I will do Soon my first Extraktion and from the calculatuon he should have get at least 2g
@@Addmaster1 yep
I had a hunch you were a magician! You could make a wallhanging/framed picture with the remaining components. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe and keep up the good work. :)
Great job every little bit adds up so don't be discouraged you did very well for your first time let's see how you do on the rest two thumbs my friend
what surprises me is that such a small nugget was enough to plate all that electronic material
The extraction would be much better if you used a larger glas container which holds everything (pcbs and stuff) and where you are able to trap the emerging chlorine fumes in order to create a internal chlorine environment.
Sadly nitric acid is hard to buy so hypochlorite has to be the oxidizing agent combined with chlorine gas the extraction should be comparable with aqua regia (HCL + HNO3 3:1)
Btw you lost a lot if gold in the process too
Do you think chemicals cost more?
Good work and thanks for the fun. I like to keep some distance to chemicals so I glad you do the work.
wow! super cool that you got pure gold from recycling ! love it!
Glad you did it for fun. I had fun watching.
What a cool video , and all the way you broke it down was fun to watch
As an italian I love all the stuff from chinese stores, Lidl or Brico that you use, it's super recognizable lol
Haha! Very nice. Great job.
Yeah, the cost of the chemicals alone, far exceeded your gold value....
Still, it's super cool, to have that piece of gold, that you yourself, pulled out of old electronics....... The value of THAT, is priceless..... You DID it. No one can ever say, you couldn't do it... You did it....
As a vintage computer and electronics enthusiast (hundreds of dollars worth of parts destroyed for a few dollars worth of precious metals), this video was very painful to watch but at the same time interesting from a metallurgy perspective.
Watching you destroy the boards etc at the start caused me physical pain 😁 even though I knew they were no longer useful haha.
That was really interesting for me. I did a few years of a chemistry degree 15 years ago and it was fun to see what I could remember/ work out. Thanks for the video!
Great vid of the process. Always like to see the melting process.
Awesome video! Like it a lot when you talk to the camera 😎👍
I realize you don't yeild much recovering gold from electrical places, but I was wondering if the materials you used cost more than the recovered gold you ended up with? Either way, I did enjoy your process... Thumbs Up!
He made $7. He probably spent hundreds on all that brand new equipment. YT revenue is what it's about.
You are an awesome teacher. Thank you for what you do. Never stop.
Great video man, really glad to see the little gold pebel.
Awesome, very informative and you saved me a heap of trouble!
Bro this video is so awesome and entertaining to watch u did a wonderful job. But i can't imagine the patience and pain of the whole process of collection cutting removing and sorting 😵😵😵😵 it must be a hell lot of work right brooooo a big HATS OFF FOR THAT WORK BEHIND THE VIDEO
Thanks for sharing the process it was fascinating to watch it may be a little bit of gold but imagine if you did it all the time at the end of the week those little bits could add up to some serious money lol all the best
You are a Genius……..how do you know all of this…….Bravo!!
If you refine the silver, you can alloy it with the gold to make something called electrum. It's also known as green gold. It's really unique looking. You won't have enough for a ring, but maybe a small earring.
what sad is there was stuff in there worth way more than the gold you could get and this is why so much rare computer vintage parts gets destroyed that are worth $100's for $5 of gold.
You know what would also be amazing? Making a rainbow-shining mosaic from ICs from all these.
You can get them out of plastic with hot air or straight up burning it off, but the second one wouls need a good wash.
Your hardwork is really gold😍😍😍😍
I enjoy the video 📷
All the process is funny, but the chemical's are way more fancy than the results, nice video
You’re the the good perfomancer😊💪
genius ! you need to do another channel with chemicals
Surprisingly easy to do with some common ingredients and other easy to acquire ones. On a small scale not monetarily worth it but fun.
It's been very interesting to watch the video! Thank You very much!
I have always been interested in doing that as well. I have a ton of e-waste ive collected over the years. Maybe once I retire in will look into doing this so i will have all the time I need to do it. Would definitely like to see the rest of it processed.
"Two guineas!" roared Merry, shaking it at Silver. "That's your seven hundred thousand pounds, is it? You're the man for bargains, ain't you? You're him that never bungled nothing, you wooden-headed lubber!"
"Dig away, boys," said Silver, with the coolest insolence; "you'll find some pig-nuts, and I shouldn't wonder."
"Pig-nuts!" repeated Merry, in a scream. "Mates, do you hear that? I tell you now, that man there knew it all along. Look in the face of him, and you'll see it wrote there."
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Very intriguing and it'd be nice to see another video of you trying to do the same with the other scrap parts
I love the pneumatic chisel for chip removal xD
Так, пойду старые компы скупать на золото)
Классный ролик, как всегда!
Он как минимум половину выкинул. Уж очень у него грязный процесс
@@accckiy думаю больше половины ушло
Very cool to see !! I enjoyed it !! 👍👍
More please. Big Scale. All the nuggets.
This is why I also love my e waste it gives me some profit from recovering precious metal.
Really fun video, BBP! Thanks!
Make a go of the other components. Great content! Keep 'em coming!
Wow amazing skills. Great job as always sir.
Man, you should try gold-coated wrist watch cases. The old ones can be found for quite low price and there’s only gold and brass in it. Amount of gold would be much higher and process not so complicated.
Thank you. More useful than sharping a knife.
This was really fascinating stuff, even though it didn't produce much it was still a good experiment to learn how things work
Thank's bro .good job.
Another fantastic video. I always appreciate your genuineness, and attitude. Thanks you.
i really like your job and your method
i have learned many things from you
Thanks for sharing that, it was fun watching!
Excellent job. I appreciate your willingness to try that.
I really enjoy your videos. It makes me mad that there is someone on Tik Tok Stealing you videos
Good idea, recycling electronic parts 👍😉
That was great, I can now bin all those bits I have been keeping for years 🤪
I live for new experiences. Thanks for sharing yours! Cool to see you mix it up.
You probably lost a small amount of gold due to adding peroxide to your HCL for the first process.
I prefer using HCL only but leave it longer and/or heat it.
You might also have not dropped all the gold with your SMB ... only way to know is with a stannous test on the pregnant solution followed by a stannous test on the liquid left after dropping the gold.
Your best yield items there, anyway, are the chips which I hope you will have processed :)
Very nice & interesting experiment 👍🏻
damn, the process is super time-consuming.
maybe the extraction costs are worth it
nice work
bring more
Please put a guard on the metal cutter to preserve your fingers!