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I am not sure to be honest. I am not familiar with what you have. Can you link me a picture from google images?

Hello I can’t figure out how to include a link I’m out of the country right now and my service is horrible. Most of my 700 cards look like the Schneider ACO02000 if you could Google what those look like each plc card is about the size of a nvidia gpu thanks again for any help and info

wow ... how did you guess?

True. I should do a follow up. Sadly, I am planning surgery in 4 days and I won't have access to my arm for 3 month. By then, it will be the dead of winter. I will need to try this follow up for Spring/Summer 2025. I will see what I can do.

:) it is easier for some then for others I am hearing. Good to hear you got it figured out quickly.

Um, ...

Hey thanks :)

My experience with RAM recovery has been pretty close to what I said in the video. DDR3 is pretty good to recover from. That RAM may not get $600 ... it is an estimate, but the last run I did got me over $1K ... but I did not count the sticks... just the weight of the chips. And that did not include the fingers. But at the end of the day, the machine was saved for me to do just this with it. It was an old enterprise machine that was to be dismantled for parts. So, it is now dismantled...

If Kamala gets elected the price of gold will be sky high, it won't take much to reach $600. If we are around to use it.

lol ... gold and stock prices are indicators for global and domestic economic health. $600 per gram will be a bad day for all of us. But gold will be nice to have on that day :)

True. And to have 2 sets of them. It just had more drive bays then most servers I have worked with or torn apart. But I agree with you now. :) And to have 2 sets of quads... I wonder why the system was so stacked. I am very curious what it was used for before it got decommissioned.

I had a small Dell Power Edge R630 that cost too much to run at home :) ... This AMD rig would have been a hungry one with 8 CPUs on 2 main boards. So hungry.

I'm a noob, calling out RJ11's etc, you been here before, 56k days and before, am glad I sub'd

I am glad you sub'd too :) To answer as many questions at once as I can: - I have been programming computers since I was 8 ... ya, that labels me as a nerd. I was building computers at 15. I graduated school before the Pentium 3 came out, so building computers meant (back then) that I had to be able to recognize ports, chips, and card slots for compatibility. - I went on to be a hardware and software tech for a help desk while getting my CS (Programming) degree. My first job out of school was to work for 2 companies getting servers configured and maintained as well as other hardware repair duties. - Now I kind of do a little of everything, including recycle ... Most things I knew before starting the channel... many things I learned as I have been going. When I identify things incorrectly, there are enough smart people that help me in the comments ... I am grateful for those who call out the correct identity of things when I slip up. I have a server teardown I am posting here soon. I hope to post Friday. Then a gold recovery to edit and post. Followed by an Apple M1 that went nunts and needs to be openned up. That one may be interesting too ... that is for next week.

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.

Thanks for that suggestion :) There are a few ways to all scrapping problems. I have found that my "favorite" ways may not be everyone else's and just as you pointed out, I may have thought of something (in this case, you have thought of something) that works that others may not have considered. Good luck scrapping, and stay safe.

Awesome! My first pours of copper and aluminum were pretty much practice. I could not afford real sand, so for $7 I tried making my own :) which "worked" but there is no replacement for the real sand. Glad to hear your weights went well. What do you use for your cast materials?

I have been looking over this comment for the last few days, and I am still not sure if I understand it. Are you saying you can't get chemicals? If so, I have found that lab providers carry basic things. Nitric although dangerous, is very common. Hydrochloric Acid is also called Muriatic Acid and can be picked up at home improvement stores near the paints departments. If picking it up directly is tough, look on ebay. Some of my best providers were on ebay until they got bought by bigger companies. I am sorry if I did not grasp the purpose of your comment. Thank you for leaving one :)

I have learned a lot since posting this video. Thanks for checking this out.

Can you rephrase the question? It does not make sense to me. Sorry.

They still are in good operating condition. I don't put too much load on them anymore. I had to run power out to my shed so I could run a greenhouse fan 12 to 18 hours a day. I did not want to risk my plants to a small capacity battery pack. So I use it for lighting. I have not had to resurface or treat the coating since recording this video. Hard to believe that was so long ago. The panel has not yellowed or cracked with the heat of daily exposure to sun and weather. I may get a new charge controller that would allow a wind turbine to be added to the system. That would be my biggest disappointments is that I have too small of a system for what I would want to do with it.

I am not sure what options are available. I am in the US, so the basic model has a 120V plug.

Why not ... besides, people will just have watched it so they would read your comment, so your warning will be too late.

Nice pun… actually, it is pretty bright when it is reflecting the sunlight :)

@@badideametals :)

I don’t think you are understanding the point of the channel… I openly show my learning and growing over years of trial and error. This was one of my first attempts to make a copper ball. I do get one eventually :)

Umm, I can't tell if you are teasing me on purpose :) or if I am just reading in your sarcasm accidentally ... I do and say enough on this channel worthy of mockery ... I am not sure if you are offering up a great moment of humbling for me, or if you really have a request here... If you are serious, and there is something you "can't see", I will see what I can do to fix for future videos. If this is a moment of humor, I can for sure fix the "get farther away" for you... :)

I understand your side. I work for a group that supports financial and government policy makers that all insist destruction instead of reuse. The need for certain levels of assurance are sometimes out of our hands. This video is how I destroy the drives that I have to destroy. Those that can be reused are certainly saved for use again :)

@@badideametals I work for military and government with data security, even IBAS can't recover a single thing on the hard drive with the right erase tool that rewrites the disk bios and changes the rotation in hard drive and overwrites with zeros and changes the rotation again to ordinary and overwrites one more time with zeros. On SSDs, the chips are swapped and overwritten with zeros and swapped several times. The SSD Bios has been upgraded after solid deletion and can be used completely again. Yes, the disks can be sold as brand new disks, that's how good the technology we use in Norway has come.

As I said, I understand your side too. My signed agreements with the owners of the drives says is that the drives are destroyed. As a former CIO of a small business, I know there is always more then one "good way" and often a better way then what we have implemented. However, to get the contract (or in this case, the agreements), sometimes we have to do things their way... and in this case, they have asked for drives to be destroyed. So I made a video explaining the process I use when I am asked to destroy the drives.

The solution was left to sit for a year, and there was no change. Not even the solution changed colors. Sadly, weak piranha solution is not a viable option.

@@badideametals thanks for quik answer

:) a teaser for next video… these are DDR2/3/4 IC Chips getting burned so I can get all the gold out … they are finishing their refinements next week. I am excited to show it all off.

​@@badideametals any new videos coming?

I still like mine, but one a little bigger would have been nice :)

@@badideametals for sure I looked at the one you got, then seen vevor just released a nice looking one that basically the same for half the price. I am just using mine for annealing marbles so it's good enough size for now but plan on building my next one. Kilns are Wayyy to expensive for what they are. I'm glad your is working out and still kicking, fingers crossed mine does the same

Once I got moved used to how to program the kiln, it is pretty nice. It is a little small though. But if the size does not bug you, I like it enough to recommend it.

Thanks ✌️

Some people do sell them already assembled. These are good for sealing food and material that you want to keep dry. We keep rice and flour in bins like these in a food storage, as well as in our pantry. I was surprised at how difficult they are to put together when they are sold separately. There were enough videos showing how to jump on them to seal them, that it implied that a number of people have trouble getting these together. When I got the first 2 together in just a few minutes, my wife recommended that I do this video. The other ways (like jumping on them) must have some people going to the hospital after the bins squeeze out from under them. I fear for those trying the "acrobatic" approach. I do have some fun videos coming out. I have 3 started ... none finished. I hope to drop all these videos soon :) I can't wait to show everyone what I have been up to this summer.

@@badideametals actually, the method is similar to, how put a lid on a paint can.

It is pretty similar.

It is sad I destroy so much history. Most of what I tear down off camera are Core2 systems and old Power Edge Dell servers ... much of these are so common, many people and companies just drop them into landfill. That is sad for so many other reasons. However, there are some machines that come to be for recycling that I am asked to deconstruct for the benefit of the channel, and for those viewers who are also curious to see how they are constructed. That Dell, I was messing with computer upgrades and building my own before that machine was constructed... however, laptops were hard for my family to come by when they were new back in the late 80s to mid 90s. I bought my first computer in 1991, and upgraded it after I sold my drums and walked away from the band I was in at the time in favor of computer graphics and animation... huh, that was so long ago. And laptops were for the rich. So, that was the first time I have ever looked in a Dell that age. And those Compaqs too for that matter. To your point, those proprietary modules such as RAM and other add-ons are sometimes very hard to find. I will keep the boards and see if there is any value in a re-use market instead of a recycle market. Thank you for your comment.

@@badideametals At least you make the best of it by filming it.

Added: I just looked over the Dell board. You are correct. It is a 386. NG80386SX-20

I like to turn the circuit boards into trophies as well… most of the time, the systems come to me with cracks and holes, stains and missing parts… the boards inside are usually still clean and worth putting in A-frame displays. But hey, I can’t save everything either :) … some things get torn apart for the silver and sometimes gold… like these. I am saving that 486 though. That was a rare find.

@@badideametals I was gifted an 'amdahl 470 memory module', from the late '70s, that I consider a SUPER trophy. I plan to make a video about.

I look forward to seeing it :)

This represents about 800 to 1000 random computer expansion cards. Don’t toss out the black chips… I am doing a video real soon about the gold value in the different ic chips.

Good news… it still works today. Does this update help?

Sodium Hydroxide can cause major irritations which lead to nausea and vomiting, and even necrosis or dying tissues which can be very serious if not treated. When sodium hydroxide turns into a vapor due to boiling, the lye compounds are transported with the evaporating water in the form of steam. It can get in your eyes and burn. But worse yet, it can get in your lungs and do nasty damage. In short, be aware of where and how you are working with Lye. Know how to protect yourself. Masks and eye protections are recommended.

:) I have learned so much since this video. I have also acquired better tools and equipment in general. I do appreciate the insights. I have a new solder mask video coming up in the next month or two.

Oi, vou tratar responder em português :) … Uso HCl pra renovar as folhas. Uso também uma “bubbler” por Oxygen. Oxygen vai ajudar com a reação. Espero que minhas palavras são correctamente. Eu vivei em Recife em 1997 por uma ano. 😬

Obrigado mesmo por ter respondido moro aqui perto do Recife tô começando a com esse tipo de mineração

Estava em Sao Lorenso e Rio Doce. Muito perigroso... estavo um poco loco. Boa sorte com e-waste mineracao. Fica ... um ... "safe" ... e-waste esta muito divertido.

Thank you so much 😁

Thank you

I share the steps in previous videos... but the basics: 1. Soak fingers in HCl for 1 week with O2 injected in with a bubbler 2. Rinse and isolate fingers with water 3. Refine using 3 parts HCl + 1 parts NHO3 until Au is in solution 4. Neutralize with Sufamic Acid 5. Drop Au with Sodium Metabisulfide 6. Rinse and Melt with the help of Borax Those are the steps. The art of refinement is ratios, and filtering. But do be very careful when dealing with acids and heat. Accidents can be fatal. Always understand what can and will happen. Have a plan for when bad things to happen.

Thank you my guy

Dont forget to stir it!!!!