i just started scrapping all the crap my mother has kept in her garage for 20years. This video is extremely helpful in explaining every piece that you can find on a board. Much thanks!
Hi Ben, For some of the things you're not sure if they are brass or gold. Just a suggestion. I would get a gold acid test kit. you can rub the piece on the stone and find out if it even tests out to be gold of any karat. It could keep you from throwing out any gold. Really enjoy your video's sir. I always learn so much. You know what you're doing. Thanks for sharing
Gold corner BGA chips, have most of the bonding wires in the top black part. Many don't even bother with the bottom green half, despite the small bit of visible gold. Certainly the tops are processed separately and among the highest yielding materials. Mast ash them, rinse with water and then pan out the pure gold bonding wires.
It varies but from what I've seen yeild wise in ewaste and precious metal refining group (great group by the way very helpful) your looking at an avg recovery of approx 1 gram of gold per 100 gram of black non heatsink BGA tops (the ones with the heat sink can contain gold but it's a lower recovery rate based on total weight because of the copper), newer chips have switched to copper bonding wires, one of the members did a refine and got the high yeild and another did a bigger batch and got nothing at all but the black tops have the highest potential for the highest yeilding item even over gold plated fingers and pins minus mill spec, hope it helps
Very helpful and informative video. I'm learning quite a bit about my wore out or non working electronics. I have wanted to this as a serious hobby for a couple of years now.
Twenty minutes in and I've already learned more about IC Chips than I've been able to learn on the entire rest of TH-cam. Kudos man! I recycle ewaste as a hobby and you've been my #1 source of knowledge since day one
those BGA chips you showed with the little gold corners contain over five grams plus per pound if processed properly. there's a web page online showing all values of various chips ect
Bake the MLCCs for several hours in a slow fire. It makes the ceramic very crumbly. You can then powder them easily. I'm doing test batches of test-tube quantities of components, determining what solutions are best for each board component.
Hi Ben! Later in this video you showed some things that I was really wondering about (around 1:21:00). I thought that perhaps some of those jacks, or those little pins, could be Beryllium Copper. It would be great if you did a video on the subject of distinguishing all your BeCu components. Cheers!!!
Hey Ben 👋🏼 glad to see you got your workshop in order, and hope your doing well. I’ve been needing a way to make money during the lockdown so I decided to take the leap of faith and do some street scrapping. I’ve been riding around on my bike with 3-4 grocery bags of electronics on my handlebars😅. Definitely jealous that you have hard rubbishy days in Australia... here in Canada I’ve got to look in all the bins and most of the time people don’t bother separating their garbage from their hard recyclables.
Really awesome video Ben! Thanks for all the knowledge. By the way, to process the "low grade gold pins" use a mixture of vinegar and table salt. That concoction is strong enough to dissolve the steel and the rest of base metals, leave the gold behind and cheap enough not to waste the good acids on that kind of stuff.
Gold pins are easy. Just make sure all the solder is cut off. Weak nitric will destroy everything else in them except the gold. I still recover all the copper, cuz it's fun to watch the crystals grow off iron, AND I can melt it down into long tapering wedges I use for silver recovery... and then recover the copper again. THEN you can recover some of your nitric acid by merely boiling the iron nitrate solution! Iron nitrate decomposes right around boiling water temp, so in a sealed set-up, you just pipe the orange NO2 through an aquarium bubbler in a long water column, and voila! Weak nitric again you can use for stripping base metals!
Well Ben, I don't do this kinda stuff. When I did salvage scrap it was for the base metals. However, I do realize, to each their own. You certainly enjoy yourself, and make a good living for yourself. Now, to me, that's all that matters, heah? I really enjoy channels like yours. Thanks for taking me on your life's journey. But please, more sit downs with the chooks!! Have a great week!👍👍
Ben did you know that if you look at a I.C. from the end you'll see two little gold dots. I believe it is also gold. One day you where holding a tool you didn't know what it was for. It looks like a 3" long silver color rake. If you remember what it looked like it's for straighting the fingers on E prom, old style processer with little fingers. And one last thing, the gold corner on some processer is for showing #1 pin. Love your show learning a lot. Thought I would help you. Bill Opstrup
@ 1:05:01 those pin can be submerged in duilited nitric acid bath and as the base metal is corroded the gold will float to the top of the bath in the exact form it was on the pins so that the gold looks just like the shape of the pins . Same way with fingers the gold plating floats to the top of the bath and the tabs of gold plating remain intact like they were on the circuit board
If you ever decide to heve your tantalum capacitors refined Id love the oppotunity to do it. I refine as a hobby and youd be welcome to 100% of the results. Im more after the recovery rate
new subscriber, not a scrapper but your videos are fantastic. I can tell that you planned it out a lot before filming and put a lot of work into your videos.
Thanks Ben. Great info. It is my understanding that the black plastic tops/caps on the gold corner BGA chips (Your #2 class), have the majority of the gold bonding wires. In other words, the black plastic tops have a much greater amount of gold in them than the gold flashing on the green fiber part underneath the black caps. In this video you say that the flashing on the green fiber part is where the majority of gold is on this type of BGA. Could you clarify, or someone else comment?
Great video Ben this is exactly how I sort my components as I strip all my pcb's. I just don't get near the volume you do unfortunately but I hope to. I am considering starting to buy E-scrap to see if I can start pulling in more volume. Just have to check to see if my current license will cover buying scrap for metal recovery. Because our license covers gifts and goodies we make and sell. Government licenses can be tricky in the buisness at least here in the USA and certain states. I should be ok as I will be turning scrap metal into gift bullion bars to sell but who knows.
Amazing to see ben its not my thing to depopulate boards i only take removable ic chips for fun cant wait that you give it a try to extracte gold from something
Those small gold band crystal oscillators are small but as good as any high level ceramic cpu, I pay good money for them so if you wanted to pick them off, i'd buy them no problem
PLEASE SEND ME ALL UR BARREN PLASTIC TOPS!!!!! LOL. seriously, very large mass of gold in the black tops vs. the enig flashing on the green fiber. Long solid bonding wires from center to edge of plastic!
999 Dusan does a lot of refining of these items and shows how much yield comes from different items, i.e. magnetic vs non-magnetic MLCCs and all kinds of chips and circuit board things.
Yes, I think learned about him from you a few years ago👍 I’m impressed how much stuff you get Ben and how you organize it all. That helps us sort out the little things. For those of you that want to see 999 Dusan refine just about every component, check him out. Some stuff is good yield, some stuff is poor. He must get Nitric acid way cheaper to play around with it. But he’s pretty thorough and shows what is worth keeping.
Dusan is on my to do list to promote him a bit, not everyone is into PM recovery but those that are would find him helpful, at least he says it how it is and that's important
All chips use gold bond wires. They use it exclusively as connectivity and the malibility or bend ability is critical. I know this as I was in the semiconductor industry. Silver and gold are the metals used in semiconductor chips. As well as palladium, platinum, copper. Nickel is used to stop corrosion.
The solder beads beneath many of the chips are sometimes a tricky tin-bismuth type. Dissolving it in nitric produces insoluble, white bismuth oxynitrate which forms when the initially soluble bismuth nitrate heats up.
@@eWasteBen Hi Ben check out some of omegageek64 videos (th-cam.com/video/PABWtihbKEI/w-d-xo.html). He processes BGA chips for gold and considers the green fiberboard part to be almost worthless. I think he's found that the black plastic part of the BGA contains about 1.125% gold by weight and considers it to be some of the best gold recovery in e-waste.
The low grade metal stuff is going to take a while to process, perhaps you could already start processing. I would throw it in a large (closed) bucket with a low concentration acid and let that eat away the base metals for a couple months. Would be interesting to see what happens.
I'm sure you already know this but if you get whole undamaged old purple or white ceramic & gold top/pin chips... they are always going to be worth more sold to collectors than for the gold value alone.
a lot of good information here. you know, a good one to pick gold out of, a lot of microwave equipment, very high frequency stuff.l in another way to make money, keep an eye on older chips you are using as scrap. I've been looking for a lot of old chips from the 70s, and I'm sure there's many other people there doing the same thing. I don't know what you get for scrapping integrated circuits, but getting from .50 cents to $10+, sounds like a hell of a good deal to me.
Would love to buy some of your gold plated connectors from your too hard basket. I could use them for my electronics cables and connectors etc. I am sydney though..😔
WOW, just wow, I recently got into this hobby (hopefully business), because I recently figured out that this is what my grandpa used to do this in the 80's, 90's so I have quite a lot of boards, and already selected parts, now my job is to find out what's what and learn as I do which I actually quite enjoy, and after reading so much and watching so many videos, this video of yours is just the top of them all. Awesome job man! Got a quick question, I keep finding this big ceramic capacitors unlike anything I can find online, without any signs on them, and no way of knowing any info about them just that they are at least 30 years old, would this mean that I can be sure that they got palladium in them? How to tell if they do? In my country no one even wants to see them to tell me what they are, let alone buy them so I have difficulties in my sorting's, thanks, and keep up with the amazing videos, I will literally recommend you to anyone who is into this for the rest of my life, BIG THUMBS UP!
The metal cap of the gold band crystal oscillators intrigues me. I've been toying with them. It's layered with multiple metals, and the final plate does not dissolve in nitric, but isn't aluminum.
This would have been a PERFECT idea for content on a live stream Ben. Just sayin mate, I'd love to crack a brew and pick your brain on E Waste gold recovery through live chat and I bet Im not alone here, especially during the lockdown.
@@eWasteBen Thanks for the reply Ben. I figure if i just keep on keepin on you might eventually give it a shot lol "Squeaky wheel gets the grease" and all that. I get your concerns about streaming. But the best thing about being here on TH-cam is its a place of limitless learning =D I've added a link to a very useful video to get you started with streaming using a GoPro. th-cam.com/video/2wy5LkLrvxU/w-d-xo.html These guys take it from newbie to pro levels,. The channel has great information on how to get started as well as how to improve your set up as you go.
Keep up the good work! Because of your videos I kept a lot of old processors and now I had the time to sort them out. The best ones I have sourced probably are thoe Intel Pentium Pro ceramic with the gold metal cap. :)
I have got loads of old circuit boards. Allsorts, from early to mid 2,000's to 2,010 PC's and lap-tops, to loads of old telephone systems, (my uncle used to be a telephone/communications engineer) from late 80's onwards. I did start stripping some of it, but it seems so hard to even get a rough estimate to it's value. People say (like you are in this video) that such and such a bit has value, and another part has value. But what is the value? I get many people do this as a hobby rather than for profit, but it would only be for profit in my case, and I really don't know whether it is worth my while stripping it? I've rang the nearest company that deals in it as scrap, but they just say, "bring it to us and we will price it up". The problem is, they are nearly 40 miles away, so I only want to make 1 trip there, but obviously I would have to strip it all first not knowing whether it will be worth it or not.
1:16:06 those pins on the CPU i had assayed at $18 for approximately 220 pins out of a single CPU they were water cooled out if commercial IBM mainframe Computers the price of gold at the time of the assay was about $350. A Troy ounce Count the number of pins in your CPU and to compare to 220 pins @ 4 time $350 = today's price of gold to get the approx gold content . Then divide by 4 to give you the maximum price you or anybody else should pay for them. The real money in those CPUs is the gold threads that connect the chips . I learned that from another channel that processes precious metal scrap. Every gold hobbyist know him
@ The 59 minute mark to process it they go for the copper. Or use to. Now days they probably go for tin in the solder and the precious metals is in the electrolysis waste What you have shown so far is fecal matter. Of course its been 20 years from what I'm use to that was worthless back then . Best way then was like you say sell the circuit boards after removing the CPU. . But back plains were more available where typically there would be 900 pins on the back plains the pins would be wound with silver plated wire for commercial stuff and solid silver wire for military stuff
i just started scrapping all the crap my mother has kept in her garage for 20years. This video is extremely helpful in explaining every piece that you can find on a board.
Much thanks!
This is incredibly long but one of the most important videos one needs to watch if interested in urban gold. Highly recommended! .
Hi Ben, For some of the things you're not sure if they are brass or gold. Just a suggestion. I would get a gold acid test kit. you can rub the piece on the stone and find out if it even tests out to be gold of any karat. It could keep you from throwing out any gold. Really enjoy your video's sir. I always learn so much. You know what you're doing. Thanks for sharing
I've learned alot from you videos on every subject from Copper to Ewaste scrapping. Separating everything to the basic value. Thanks keep it up.
Gold corner BGA chips, have most of the bonding wires in the top black part. Many don't even bother with the bottom green half, despite the small bit of visible gold. Certainly the tops are processed separately and among the highest yielding materials. Mast ash them, rinse with water and then pan out the pure gold bonding wires.
The black Top of the BGA have Gold bonding Wire in it the blacktop is the most valuable thing on the whole BGA Chip
Can't believe he doesn't know that the real gold is in the BGA tops. Video should be taken down or edited. Really bad info 😞
I don't see it but i'm happy to be wrong for once :)
It varies but from what I've seen yeild wise in ewaste and precious metal refining group (great group by the way very helpful) your looking at an avg recovery of approx 1 gram of gold per 100 gram of black non heatsink BGA tops (the ones with the heat sink can contain gold but it's a lower recovery rate based on total weight because of the copper), newer chips have switched to copper bonding wires, one of the members did a refine and got the high yeild and another did a bigger batch and got nothing at all but the black tops have the highest potential for the highest yeilding item even over gold plated fingers and pins minus mill spec, hope it helps
I was shocked to find david icke's channel removed, I guess the truth is hard to handle
SELL THEM ALL BEFORE PRICE FALLS
Absolutely the best video I've seen for a beginner like myself! Very explanatory and very helpful! Thanks for this!
Very helpful and informative video. I'm learning quite a bit about my wore out or non working electronics. I have wanted to this as a serious hobby for a couple of years now.
I love love love you cable processing videos. I would watch them all day long.
Ben....ty once again for breaking it all down.....love all your videos....don't ever lose confidence in yourself when shooting these. YOU ROCK!
Twenty minutes in and I've already learned more about IC Chips than I've been able to learn on the entire rest of TH-cam. Kudos man! I recycle ewaste as a hobby and you've been my #1 source of knowledge since day one
Great tutorial
No Joke, even though I operate an ewaste center, I learn new things from you every video, keep it up Ben!
those BGA chips you showed with the little gold corners contain over five grams plus per pound if processed properly. there's a web page online showing all values of various chips ect
Bake the MLCCs for several hours in a slow fire. It makes the ceramic very crumbly. You can then powder them easily. I'm doing test batches of test-tube quantities of components, determining what solutions are best for each board component.
Hi Ben, thank you for a new feature-length explanatory video. 😂👍 Stay healthy and best wishes from Bearlin !! 😉
Yes I also picked up on that, the plastic tops on your bag have the gold bonding wire in 2nd pile from right on top row. Great video
Hi Ben! Later in this video you showed some things that I was really wondering about (around 1:21:00). I thought that perhaps some of those jacks, or those little pins, could be Beryllium Copper. It would be great if you did a video on the subject of distinguishing all your BeCu components. Cheers!!!
Really good information. Thank you. I am collecting everything I find for free and separate it - maybe one day I will recover it in to 24K ingot
Hey Ben 👋🏼 glad to see you got your workshop in order, and hope your doing well. I’ve been needing a way to make money during the lockdown so I decided to take the leap of faith and do some street scrapping. I’ve been riding around on my bike with 3-4 grocery bags of electronics on my handlebars😅. Definitely jealous that you have hard rubbishy days in Australia... here in Canada I’ve got to look in all the bins and most of the time people don’t bother separating their garbage from their hard recyclables.
Another awesome video! Looking forward to street scrapping! Thanks.
Yea! Hey from the USA! 🌺🌺
Another informative video - thanks Ben
Really awesome video Ben! Thanks for all the knowledge. By the way, to process the "low grade gold pins" use a mixture of vinegar and table salt. That concoction is strong enough to dissolve the steel and the rest of base metals, leave the gold behind and cheap enough not to waste the good acids on that kind of stuff.
Gold pins are easy. Just make sure all the solder is cut off. Weak nitric will destroy everything else in them except the gold.
I still recover all the copper, cuz it's fun to watch the crystals grow off iron, AND I can melt it down into long tapering wedges I use for silver recovery... and then recover the copper again.
THEN you can recover some of your nitric acid by merely boiling the iron nitrate solution! Iron nitrate decomposes right around boiling water temp, so in a sealed set-up, you just pipe the orange NO2 through an aquarium bubbler in a long water column, and voila! Weak nitric again you can use for stripping base metals!
cool Ben and those roud thingy mixed with your crystal oscillator are transistors 👍😀👍
Thanks 👍
This is awesome! Thanks man!
When you close your eyes at night, I bet you see billions of little circuit parts! Lol!
Great video! Thank you for the detailed information!
Thanks for sharing this information with us
Well Ben, I don't do this kinda stuff. When I did salvage scrap it was for the base metals. However, I do realize, to each their own. You certainly enjoy yourself, and make a good living for yourself. Now, to me, that's all that matters, heah? I really enjoy channels like yours. Thanks for taking me on your life's journey. But please, more sit downs with the chooks!! Have a great week!👍👍
no worries barry, will try and bring the chooks into it more often
I've been hoping for one of these sorting or depopulating videos!!
Thanks Ben!!
Have a GREAT Day!!!
It's very interesting to sit and watch to see what the value and what's in them
Ben did you know that if you look at a I.C. from the end you'll see two little gold dots. I believe it is also gold. One day you where holding a tool you didn't know what it was for. It looks like a 3" long silver color rake. If you remember what it looked like it's for straighting the fingers on E prom, old style processer with little fingers. And one last thing, the gold corner on some processer is for showing #1 pin. Love your show learning a lot. Thought I would help you. Bill Opstrup
@ 1:05:01 those pin can be submerged in duilited nitric acid bath and as the base metal is corroded the gold will float to the top of the bath in the exact form it was on the pins so that the gold looks just like the shape of the pins . Same way with fingers the gold plating floats to the top of the bath and the tabs of gold plating remain intact like they were on the circuit board
If you ever decide to heve your tantalum capacitors refined Id love the oppotunity to do it. I refine as a hobby and youd be welcome to 100% of the results. Im more after the recovery rate
I'll keep it in mind, Thanks. From my understanding the Tantalum recovery rate is about 22% of gross weight, plus a little silver
Very informative. I actually like to use a good chisel to remove the pins of the green cpus. no heat involved so no sticking together.
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Vintage white ceramic and gold chips are collectible and some are pushing $1000 these days. Careful what you scrap.
new subscriber, not a scrapper but your videos are fantastic. I can tell that you planned it out a lot before filming and put a lot of work into your videos.
Good and informative video. I do not call myself a scrapper i identify ad a urban miner 😀
Learning so much, thanks for sharing
Thanks Ben. Great info. It is my understanding that the black plastic tops/caps on the gold corner BGA chips (Your #2 class), have the majority of the gold bonding wires. In other words, the black plastic tops have a much greater amount of gold in them than the gold flashing on the green fiber part underneath the black caps. In this video you say that the flashing on the green fiber part is where the majority of gold is on this type of BGA. Could you clarify, or someone else comment?
That's what we've been told, yeah, but I just don't see it in most of them. I could be totally wrong so keep it all and you won't go wrong.
Youre right. The fibre is useless. The gold is in the ceramic top
Great video Ben this is exactly how I sort my components as I strip all my pcb's. I just don't get near the volume you do unfortunately but I hope to. I am considering starting to buy E-scrap to see if I can start pulling in more volume. Just have to check to see if my current license will cover buying scrap for metal recovery. Because our license covers gifts and goodies we make and sell. Government licenses can be tricky in the buisness at least here in the USA and certain states. I should be ok as I will be turning scrap metal into gift bullion bars to sell but who knows.
Amazing to see ben its not my thing to depopulate boards i only take removable ic chips for fun cant wait that you give it a try to extracte gold from something
Those small gold band crystal oscillators are small but as good as any high level ceramic cpu, I pay good money for them so if you wanted to pick them off, i'd buy them no problem
@@eWasteBen ill see what i can do now that i have my little warehouse im goeing for a gouverment certificate to be a licenced pc scrapper
PLEASE SEND ME ALL UR BARREN PLASTIC TOPS!!!!! LOL. seriously, very large mass of gold in the black tops vs. the enig flashing on the green fiber. Long solid bonding wires from center to edge of plastic!
I heard the IC chips have solid gold bonding wire in them.
999 Dusan does a lot of refining of these items and shows how much yield comes from different items, i.e. magnetic vs non-magnetic MLCCs and all kinds of chips and circuit board things.
Yes i've been subscribed to Dusan for a long time
Yes, I think learned about him from you a few years ago👍 I’m impressed how much stuff you get Ben and how you organize it all. That helps us sort out the little things.
For those of you that want to see 999 Dusan refine just about every component, check him out. Some stuff is good yield, some stuff is poor. He must get Nitric acid way cheaper to play around with it. But he’s pretty thorough and shows what is worth keeping.
Dusan is on my to do list to promote him a bit, not everyone is into PM recovery but those that are would find him helpful, at least he says it how it is and that's important
Great video thank you for sharing
All chips use gold bond wires. They use it exclusively as connectivity and the malibility or bend ability is critical. I know this as I was in the semiconductor industry. Silver and gold are the metals used in semiconductor chips. As well as palladium, platinum, copper. Nickel is used to stop corrosion.
The solder beads beneath many of the chips are sometimes a tricky tin-bismuth type. Dissolving it in nitric produces insoluble, white bismuth oxynitrate which forms when the initially soluble bismuth nitrate heats up.
IAM not a scrapper but that was very interesting, thanks 🤠🖍️😎🇮🇪🚜
Love your channel
Hey Ben how you doing there. Great video very very helpful. I was wondering do you have any of those pins for sale
THAT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE INDEED - THANK YOU !!!!
Ben i highly advise you not to throw Away The Black top from bgas All The bonding Wire are in the black tops look it up
You are right I was about to comment that also there is about 12 grams of gold per kilo of tops
I don't but i'm yet to be convinced there much there
@@eWasteBen Hi Ben check out some of omegageek64 videos (th-cam.com/video/PABWtihbKEI/w-d-xo.html). He processes BGA chips for gold and considers the green fiberboard part to be almost worthless. I think he's found that the black plastic part of the BGA contains about 1.125% gold by weight and considers it to be some of the best gold recovery in e-waste.
Good video ben, I hope you the best in these times with the virus and everything.
The low grade metal stuff is going to take a while to process, perhaps you could already start processing. I would throw it in a large (closed) bucket with a low concentration acid and let that eat away the base metals for a couple months. Would be interesting to see what happens.
You should make a video about how its made.
What you call IDE style connectors are IDC - Insulation Displacement Connector
I'm sure you already know this but if you get whole undamaged old purple or white ceramic & gold top/pin chips... they are always going to be worth more sold to collectors than for the gold value alone.
a lot of good information here. you know, a good one to pick gold out of, a lot of microwave equipment, very high frequency stuff.l in another way to make money, keep an eye on older chips you are using as scrap. I've been looking for a lot of old chips from the 70s, and I'm sure there's many other people there doing the same thing. I don't know what you get for scrapping integrated circuits, but getting from .50 cents to $10+, sounds like a hell of a good deal to me.
Would love to buy some of your gold plated connectors from your too hard basket. I could use them for my electronics cables and connectors etc. I am sydney though..😔
Ben, thanks for this video. Super informative and I look forward to seeing more!
Check if you can sell the chip for more than the income from processing one, there are some "retro ones".
Hey . Thank you so much for that very helpful video 😊
WOW, just wow, I recently got into this hobby (hopefully business), because I recently figured out that this is what my grandpa used to do this in the 80's, 90's so I have quite a lot of boards, and already selected parts, now my job is to find out what's what and learn as I do which I actually quite enjoy, and after reading so much and watching so many videos, this video of yours is just the top of them all. Awesome job man!
Got a quick question, I keep finding this big ceramic capacitors unlike anything I can find online, without any signs on them, and no way of knowing any info about them just that they are at least 30 years old, would this mean that I can be sure that they got palladium in them? How to tell if they do? In my country no one even wants to see them to tell me what they are, let alone buy them so I have difficulties in my sorting's, thanks, and keep up with the amazing videos, I will literally recommend you to anyone who is into this for the rest of my life, BIG THUMBS UP!
I can help you
👍the collection is coming along I think the long piece of gold plate looks like the end of a scart lead👍
great instructive video fox
My old vinyl siding snips cut off gold fingers really neatly from the fiber boards vs breaking them off with pliers.
The metal cap of the gold band crystal oscillators intrigues me. I've been toying with them. It's layered with multiple metals, and the final plate does not dissolve in nitric, but isn't aluminum.
Do you know ano numbering of capacitors that contain palladium and where can i buy
Very good 👏👏👏
Awesome video!
Ben please do a gold melt. Look on youtube how to do it!!
This would have been a PERFECT idea for content on a live stream Ben.
Just sayin mate, I'd love to crack a brew and pick your brain on E Waste gold recovery through live chat and I bet Im not alone here, especially during the lockdown.
I don't really know how to live stream at all, I must look into it but seems complicated using the gopro
@@eWasteBen Thanks for the reply Ben. I figure if i just keep on keepin on you might eventually give it a shot lol "Squeaky wheel gets the grease" and all that.
I get your concerns about streaming. But the best thing about being here on TH-cam is its a place of limitless learning =D I've added a link to a very useful video to get you started with streaming using a GoPro. th-cam.com/video/2wy5LkLrvxU/w-d-xo.html These guys take it from newbie to pro levels,. The channel has great information on how to get started as well as how to improve your set up as you go.
The copper bga are not bad for gold but it takes a bit more time. I personally only deal with solid state bga!
great vid thanks for the helpful advice. take care
Wow! what a system!
This is a great video with lots of info!
There is gold inside the plastic on the north south bga.
What are generally the devices with the better common boards to pick up?
Great Video Ben Keep Bringing The Videos Dude 👍👍
Keep up the good work! Because of your videos I kept a lot of old processors and now I had the time to sort them out. The best ones I have sourced probably are thoe Intel Pentium Pro ceramic with the gold metal cap. :)
Good video I feel I have thrown away many valuable components
Black plastic piece on the north south bridge chips are the most important part. That is where most of the gold is.
Super interesting thanks Ben .............. Thumbs Up
Where about are you in Australia in Sydney or another state. I would be interested in buying some things
whats a good place to see motherboards? i have a bunch to sell and growing pile
Learn something new Nice.
What happens if you don't separate them? You just throw them in a bucket with vinegar or whatever you're going to use to try to extract elements?
Holy Cow, you are all over the place! A little too spastic for me, I simply could not keep up! What exactly is a "B V Jay"? Or an "Ice edge"?
Specific you mean? Lol
Bga is ball grid array so chips with solder and ic is integrated chip so chips with metal legs
Thumbs up for Ben! He is doing a great job. Feel free to email him for information as he replies and gives you good and valid information!
Has your opinion changed with regards to the recent jump in silver prices to near $39 an ounce ? Interested to hear your thoughts :)
Very good explanation brother !thanks
Is there any precious metals in the silicone chip though bro?
Breliant as usual
I have got loads of old circuit boards. Allsorts, from early to mid 2,000's to 2,010 PC's and lap-tops, to loads of old telephone systems, (my uncle used to be a telephone/communications engineer) from late 80's onwards. I did start stripping some of it, but it seems so hard to even get a rough estimate to it's value. People say (like you are in this video) that such and such a bit has value, and another part has value. But what is the value? I get many people do this as a hobby rather than for profit, but it would only be for profit in my case, and I really don't know whether it is worth my while stripping it? I've rang the nearest company that deals in it as scrap, but they just say, "bring it to us and we will price it up". The problem is, they are nearly 40 miles away, so I only want to make 1 trip there, but obviously I would have to strip it all first not knowing whether it will be worth it or not.
1:16:06 those pins on the CPU i had assayed at $18 for approximately 220 pins out of a single CPU they were water cooled out if commercial IBM mainframe Computers the price of gold at the time of the assay was about $350. A Troy ounce
Count the number of pins in your CPU and to compare to 220 pins @ 4 time $350 = today's price of gold to get the approx gold content . Then divide by 4 to give you the maximum price you or anybody else should pay for them. The real money in those CPUs is the gold threads that connect the chips . I learned that from another channel that processes precious metal scrap. Every gold hobbyist know him
cool video! I would wear gloves especially when working with the Hotter components like CPU's, I would assume there may be PCB's?
there's no pcbs, not to worry,fumes not great,pcbs outlawed in the 60 s ,far as I know,used more in hydro components
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Can I ask, how about in resistors, is there some gold that can be recovered?
@ The 59 minute mark to process it they go for the copper. Or use to. Now days they probably go for tin in the solder and the precious metals is in the electrolysis waste
What you have shown so far is fecal matter. Of course its been 20 years from what I'm use to that was worthless back then . Best way then was like you say sell the circuit boards after removing the CPU. . But back plains were more available where typically there would be 900 pins on the back plains the pins would be wound with silver plated wire for commercial stuff and solid silver wire for military stuff
How do you remove the mother boards & chips? If you hear them, what do you use?