E-waste GOLD Recovery | Recycle Broken Electronics!
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 19 май 2024
- Recycling my own electronic waste to recover gold.
0:00 Intro
1:22 Collect and sort components
4:29 Separate gold plating from PCBs and other metals
7:20 Dissolve gold
8:33 Precipitate gold
9:20 Solid gold
★Patreon★
/ blackbeardprojects
★Website★
blackbeardproject.com/
★Follow me★
Facebook ► / blackbeardprojects
Twitter ► / blackbeardproje
Instagram ► / black_beard_projects 
Хобби
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
L😊
Pl@@robertmuller1894
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 😅
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.
I didn't know how involved the process was, very cool thanks for sharing.
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
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!
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.
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!
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
finally a video with voiceover, i've been waiting for this for so long
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
@@DanielBulyovcsity good thing i don't have to do that,my dad have a lot of chemical like that including nitroglycerin
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!!!!!
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,😅
This guy is very humble and honest. Keep it up bro.
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
I live for new experiences. Thanks for sharing yours! Cool to see you mix it up.
I've seen several videos of this type before and yours was the best by far.
Great video, loved the golden color of the dissolved gold. Glad you got a nice bead of gold from the hard work.
Another fantastic video. I always appreciate your genuineness, and attitude. Thanks you.
Nice job doing the recovery. Thanks for the look.
You are an awesome teacher. Thank you for what you do. Never stop.
Thumbs up.
Testing a new process for the sake of a new eperience. That's the Blackbeard style.
Wow, that was amazing. I guess the manufacturers do know how to make efficient use of a very small amount.
Great vid of the process. Always like to see the melting process.
0:29 the dream of anyone interested in electronics
A lot of aluminum/copper/brass in the rest of the "junk". Also worth $$. And a lot less processing! Love your channel!
Nice work man. I do enjoy your out-of-the-box content.
That was awesome to watch. Thanks for sharing the experience!
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. ;)
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. :)
Chemist here, that was a fantastic process to watch!
You have a golden pea, Very cool 😁 Really enjoyed watching the process
wow! super cool that you got pure gold from recycling ! love it!
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
@@motivationstation1462
He had losses because of haste let the material soak and vibrate for a week then siphon the fluid out .
Awesome mate, thanks for the video. Fantastic as always. Keep up the great 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
Excellent job. I appreciate your willingness to try that.
So much work for such a tiny blob of gold, but it was a joy to watch.
New sub, I have watched hundreds of e waste to gold videos and yours was awesome
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.
This was really fascinating stuff, even though it didn't produce much it was still a good experiment to learn how things work
Make a go of the other components. Great content! Keep 'em coming!
Very cool stuff. Thanks for sharing and explaining everything.
You are far smarter than you give yourself credit for! Very good video!
Glad you did it for fun. I had fun watching.
Thanks for sharing that, it was fun watching!
Awesome, very informative and you saved me a heap of trouble!
Very enjoyable and interesting video! I also like the narration - maybe you should incorporate more of it in your videos! As always, excellent work and keep it up! 🤘
😱😱👍👉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.
As an italian I love all the stuff from chinese stores, Lidl or Brico that you use, it's super recognizable lol
Your hardwork is really gold😍😍😍😍
What a cool video , and all the way you broke it down was fun to watch
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....
yes, bill all to this guy, another knowledge, lots of e-waste,thanks for sharing great video sir..
Absolutely fascinating. Thanks 😊
Wow amazing skills. Great job as always sir.
Brilliant, really enjoyed this.
You are a Genius……..how do you know all of this…….Bravo!!
Really fun video, BBP! Thanks!
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
Great video man, really glad to see the little gold pebel.
The coolest guy in Internet. Very fun video!
Thank God a channel that speaks.
you are the best and I love you vids thanx for sharing
Enjoyable to watch 👍
That was great, I can now bin all those bits I have been keeping for years 🤪
Wicked cool! Absolutely love your videos!
It's been very interesting to watch the video! Thank You very much!
Good idea, recycling electronic parts 👍😉
Very intriguing and it'd be nice to see another video of you trying to do the same with the other scrap parts
You’re the the good perfomancer😊💪
It opens my mind
Loved the video and subscribed.
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.
pretty neat experiment, it's nice you managed to have fun :D
damn, the process is super time-consuming.
maybe the extraction costs are worth it
nice work
bring more
Thank's bro .good job.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. 👍
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
Very cool to see !! I enjoyed it !! 👍👍
Cool experiment, glad I have not tried this. Please keep up the good work. God Bless.
Very enjoying to watch
Thx for the explain that, that make your video more interesting 👍
Camera modules from smartphones contain pretty much gold. The internal wiring to the chip is done with gold fibers.
That was fun. Thanks!
I'm not sure but buying those chemicals cost more money than the gold you recovered.
Chemicals could be reused!
That was fascinating. Thank you 😊😊
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?
...looks like fun, good one, keep safe and have a great weekend..
Super collection my friend:)) Great video. New subject! I like it
Really interesting how much gold is actually used with the connectors
Love your work.
That was wild! Really cool video!
genius ! you need to do another channel with chemicals
Really interesting never new you could do that in a home environment
Awesome video! Like it a lot when you talk to the camera 😎👍
i really like your job and your method
i have learned many things from you
Great video man.
Surprisingly easy to do with some common ingredients and other easy to acquire ones. On a small scale not monetarily worth it but fun.