This is the best video I have found yet. I am breaking down any electronic/electrical items to raise funds for the 3 Veterans organisations that support me. Veterans Outdoors, Endeavour Wheelchair Rugby Club, and Veterans Sailing with PYS all based in Plymouth. In the 1st year I have raised about £200 split 3 ways.
I salvage boards for components for my own use and for repairing other equipment and for electronics projects. I have been overlooking the tantalums and ceramic capacitors (basically all the SMD types) as cannot reuse them. You gave a good idea to save them at least for scrap. Cheers for that.
I am happy to see that I'm not as crazy as people around me are calling me for collecting the same stuff like you. I don't expect to become rich from them but I have great time taking a part old electronic and electric devices and sorting the components. Although I don't make recovery of the precious metals, I have done small- scale tests on most of them and I know for sure what they contain. I can tell you that the tantalum capacitors are also a great source of silver, also the fuses have most of the times a silver wire inside the ceramic tube. The transistors, as you called them, also contain gold bond wires especially the ones with more than three legs.
Thank you brother, these are just the open boxes. I have so much more that is full. You're welcome, always got to get a Scrapitall mention in now and again 😀
I micro scrap as well as refine the gold and silver. Not getting rich but I have a nice workshop that my wife barely comes out to. Gives us both time alone.
Very informative video, thanks! Got years of old electronics in my place I was abot to dump, thank goodness I came across this vid I will dispose of them in the right way.
at 29:04 those could be diodes where the slanted edge is a polarity sign. At 29.32 mosfets, there could be gold bonding wires there. At 34.25 Inductors, don't throw away the ferrite iron casings. Crush them into a fine powder and sprinkle onto your instant glue before mating the two joining pieces of anything. The ferrite iron will add holding power to the glue. At 15.50 MLCC, you did not mention that the small totally black ones are MLCI inductors and have silver in them. Good video.
In the mlcc's, the orange ones are tantalum capacitors. The black with plus sign is also tantalum, the second 2 groups of black pieces next to those are not tantalum, they are junk but look very similar. Dude, where are the gold corner bga chips? Them are the best yielding and easiest to sell by far and I didn't see any. Great video, very well put together. I'm a big time e waste hound myself. Happy hunting.
@philipcahill4190 I did mention bga's but yeah, I never showed the gold corner ones so that's a good point. Thanks for the extra info buddy as well. It helps out the community. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. I appreciate your feedback
Hi, good video. I am a hobby scrapper and do micro scrapping when Quebec winter is ruling the place and scrap is scarce. Here I share other video infos I found. The fuses would have their inner little wire made from silver. May be when the fuse is too hot, the silver melt and goes on the brass fuse ends ? Although their value is probably higher for copper, some videos have showned that musfet also contain gold. Finally, on the right side of the board you use at the beginning of the video, the metallic boxes are mostly of brass. I can see that while using the file on them. If not yellow and magnetic, they are iron. Some of them are partly brass, partly iron so they stick to the magnet. Rarely, they are of stainless steel or nickel plated copper. They adds up to the piles. By adding small brass pieces to the bigger ones I find (like the tap), I succeeded to have a 5.1 litter bucket that weight 90 pounds.
The plain black tantalum looking components could be inductors, which contain small copper coils. It is usually easy to tell when they are on the circuit board, as the silkscreen number for the component will start with "L" for inductors, and "C" for capacitors, or "D" for diodes.
Nice video. See you keep the disc capacitors too. I also saw the Dusan vid where he had soviet era capacitors of a dull brown colour supposedly they should have silver or palladium content. He also found some large resistors with hidden gold inside the end caps though i guess those are going to be mostly very old tech as well. I keep everything now 😁
Nice video and you provide clear and comprehensive descriptions. I think what you call "tactical" switches are better known as "tactile" switches, because one must actually touch them to make them operate. Also, just as a general point, when I remove aluminum heatsinks, they often come off with a bit of steel which needs to be removed to get "clean" price. Finally, I also really like the channels you gave shout outs to as well!
Thank you for watching and for the comments. You are if course correct. I always get tactical and tactile mixed up. I do the same with platinum and palladium for some reason. Yes you do need to clean the heatsimk before you can put it into clean ally, a good point to make.
Thank you for this video. I have a new scrapper at my house. My 4 year old grandson. Yes a 4 years old pre-schooler😮. He asks me, “what’s this” or “why” about everything he takes apart. Now I can say let’s see what that is. Lately he has started to want to “pee-pop-you-ate” (depopulate for English speakers). So we have a 2 quart jar of his treasured parts.
Excellent video, this will help me make a devide sorting box. It was very well explained and easy to understand. The experience you have shared is so valuable to those who do this and gratefully appreciated.
Loved the doco style of this video! I believe the other black capacitors are tantalum too. There is also silver and lead in tanties, lots of goodies not easy to get at lol. Loved that pot of contacts, that looked so lovely!!!
Thank you Sollers. I thought those others were tantalum as well but wasn't sure. I've been putting off cleaning up those contacts. Seems like a tedious job!
Excellent video I would like to say mosfets are silver plated and have gold bonding wires also brass connectors can also be silver or gold plated they are not always nickel coated especially on pcb's.
some of those black 'tantalum' capacitors look like diodes. You can type the numbers written on them into google and it should bring up the datasheet for a component which should tell you whether it is a diode or not.
Excellent video ! Very informative breakdown of individual PCB components and their contents. Just subcribed because of this video & can't wait to check out more content.. Great work ! 👍
Absolutely awesome episode brother start to finish. You can make nitric acid £8.00 a litre (I have got the price down to.) scary the first time you make it and the second.
You are a braver man than me buddy but I have noticed that you a fine l fume hood for your chemicals so you have a good setup. I might be sending all this stuff to you then 😉
hi all scrappers Ive been scrapping for some years now mostly from cars more so the nuts and bolts in the last 3 years I have had myself a devil forge and have been scrapping all my cans and my friends to make ally ingots , I also smelt copper and brass from all electronics and cables attaching appliances to the mains lalso strip big electric motorsstarter motors from cars and trucks as well as alternators
Mosfets, as you said, are transistors. All transistors contain gold bond wires. Up to you to decide if recovery of them from mosfets are worth your time. The chips, resembling MLCCs and resistors, on the circuit board marked with the letter L are inductors - just copper. The metal and plastic transistors (3 legs) have gold bond wires, and some have gold plated legs. A few boards have silver and gold-plated fuses, or gold-banded crystal oscillators. You didn't mention diodes, which contain silver. Glass and solid fuses both contain silver. Printers and CD/DVD players are a source of gold.
@johnross8939 thanks for the information. I'm definitely still learning a lot of components so I always appreciate any additional information. Diodes is not something I collect which is why they aren't mentioned. I don't seem to come across a lot of them but might start doing that now.
@@ScrappingScotland nope. I just save all my boards. I pull some copper from low grade, but haven't started depopulation yet. I'm waiting to see if we ever get a buyer here.
@@ScrappingScotland you’ve covered virtually all the good stuff mate , there’s only 2 more things I would say that are very good to look out for that are a bit different looking to the usual types , are gold cap fuses they they have gold plated ends and gold wire inside , smaller and different shape to the normal type fuse , other is gold band crystal oscillators , gold plated band around outside plus gold inside , a lot smaller and look different to usual crystal oscillators, I look for them and even I miss them till second time I look over the boards , a lot of people miss those 2 items and they are high for gold recovery when have a load of them, plus keep them separate from the others
This is a great video. Very helpful. I am a beginning hobbyist microscrapper. It answered several questions I had. Your fingers look like mine. ...lots of tiny scrapes and cuts.
Great video,perfect job. Thanks for sharing you r knowledge with all of us vievers. You got my SUB. - LIKE and support for you r work. We have the same hobby and I learned a loot of things by looking you r videos so thanks from my hard. All the best wishes for you r future work I wish you from Serbia(Europa but not EU).
@scrapingE-wastebyMarsi thank you for your support and kind comments. Glad to have you here as part of the Scrapping Scotland family. Cheek my email in my bio. Happy to send you some channel stickers as my first Serbian subscriber of you'd like.
@@ScrappingScotland yea pretty sure its for the high melting point to avoid contacts getting welded together, the percentage in there can vary but yea if you try to melt them youll probably find it very hard
The brass connector if you separate them put the real brass in a separate tube and the silver type separate or Mey scrap yard is mixed brass We're do you sell you stuff we have no sale in ireland
Hello friend, do you know if it is dangerous for some of these chips to break due to extraction? Can they release toxic components? Is it safe to trim green motherboards? thank you!!
grind everything up, into powder form, pour in "Aqua regia" to dissolve all the gold, then refine the gold using the "Wohlwill process" through electrolysis
@@ScrappingScotland not necessary as the dissolved metal will gather at the cathode, all you need is to have at the start is a thin golden thread or thin gold wire that's all you need
@@ScrappingScotland the pure gold bar is to perform the final 99.999% purification process what you need now is to have this process to get you the initial, not so pure gold
a few years ago a factory near my house, they do dissembling electronic parts, closed down they had bags and bags of old cpus i bought a couple of them, grind them up to powder, and did that At the end I got some gold, not very very pure, only like 92% or something like that, which I sold.
You have lots of stuff! Very helpful video when I’m trying to learn about e-waste myself buddy! Thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed watching this helped me learn more about e-waste! I say it’s too far to sell to board-sort so does your scrap yard take that? Awesome video!
Thank you buddy. Glad you found it helpful. Yeah we don't have a boardsort here. Somebody needs to fix that for sure. My plan is to sell it the gold and silver bearing items on ebay or something but you never know, maybe I'll get the opportunity to try and recover it myself one day.
Fantastic explanation of ewaste recycling at a component level this is Mr SS. I’m a UK scraper too who has been saving most these components for years. Do you think in the future that the chemicals required for recovery will be available to us mere mortals in the UK or has that ship sailed?
Personally I think it's sailed my friend. You can obtain a licence for using the chemicals but you would need to have a good setup. Fume hood etc. Besides nitric is expensive so would cut deeply into any gold or silver profit. Better to save them and sell them.
@@ScrappingScotland I’m hearing you SS, just not viable for us UK micro scrappers to process. I like yourself scrap for the interest and enjoyment but do find it frustrating that we can’t further our interest much like the likes of 999 Dusan, S Irish and indeed the rest of the world! Keep up the good work chap. 👍
I'm not sure how the lacquer could be removed to be honest. I'm not sure it would cost effective to do so. Dirty copper is usually categorised that way because it's attached to other metals. If its difficult to separate them then sometimes you just have to take the hit
Enjoyed your vid. Are you doing refining or just selling on the recovered components? Just a note, it’s not illegal to have Nitric. You need an EPP licence which is straight-forward to get as long as you’re not a bawbag 😁
That was my understanding too but there are little mlcc like things on the boards that have an L before the number. They may still be inductors but they look like mlcc's for some reason
But if a Part Works , You can Sell the Part for more than the Gold , Imagine Little Johnny in 2034 Looking to Build his first Pentium Pro or 486 DOS Box and almost all the Parts are gone . :( QC
Not sure to be honest as I haven't tried to sell them yet. Also when selling online, they are only worth what someone else will pay for them. I haven't found a business that will buy the individual components yet
This is the best video I have found yet. I am breaking down any electronic/electrical items to raise funds for the 3 Veterans organisations that support me. Veterans Outdoors, Endeavour Wheelchair Rugby Club, and Veterans Sailing with PYS all based in Plymouth. In the 1st year I have raised about £200 split 3 ways.
What an amazing thing to do. Congratulations, my friend. ⭐️
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. 👍
Best video I've seen on micro scrapping. Very helpful. I been looking for information on what to pull off boards. This is the best I've seen.
Thank you buddy for the kind comments. Glad you found this helpful
I salvage boards for components for my own use and for repairing other equipment and for electronics projects. I have been overlooking the tantalums and ceramic capacitors (basically all the SMD types) as cannot reuse them. You gave a good idea to save them at least for scrap. Cheers for that.
I am happy to see that I'm not as crazy as people around me are calling me for collecting the same stuff like you. I don't expect to become rich from them but I have great time taking a part old electronic and electric devices and sorting the components. Although I don't make recovery of the precious metals, I have done small- scale tests on most of them and I know for sure what they contain. I can tell you that the tantalum capacitors are also a great source of silver, also the fuses have most of the times a silver wire inside the ceramic tube. The transistors, as you called them, also contain gold bond wires especially the ones with more than three legs.
@@ИлияАсенов-е8й thanks for watching. Keep collecting buddy
You have a beautiful collection.
A+ video brother, A+!! Very well done, explained and recorded.
Thank you for the mention my friend!
Thank you brother, these are just the open boxes. I have so much more that is full. You're welcome, always got to get a Scrapitall mention in now and again 😀
@@ScrappingScotland that’s amazing brother.
I sure do appreciate you!
I micro scrap as well as refine the gold and silver. Not getting rich but I have a nice workshop that my wife barely comes out to. Gives us both time alone.
Everyone needs their scrap shed for a bit of therapeutic scrapping, my friend. It's good to hear yours is used for scrapping as well. 👍🔧🔨🪛🏴
Where do you get acid from?
I have made my nitric by distilling sodium nitrate and sulfuric acid. But I recently bought 6 liters from xlexo. That was easier if more expensive.
@@richardhulbert9480where you from?
@@muhammaddawood9486 I am in Florida USA
Very informative video, thanks! Got years of old electronics in my place I was abot to dump, thank goodness I came across this vid I will dispose of them in the right way.
at 29:04 those could be diodes where the slanted edge is a polarity sign. At 29.32 mosfets, there could be gold bonding wires there. At 34.25 Inductors, don't throw away the ferrite iron casings. Crush them into a fine powder and sprinkle onto your instant glue before mating the two joining pieces of anything. The ferrite iron will add holding power to the glue. At 15.50 MLCC, you did not mention that the small totally black ones are MLCI inductors and have silver in them. Good video.
In the mlcc's, the orange ones are tantalum capacitors. The black with plus sign is also tantalum, the second 2 groups of black pieces next to those are not tantalum, they are junk but look very similar. Dude, where are the gold corner bga chips? Them are the best yielding and easiest to sell by far and I didn't see any. Great video, very well put together. I'm a big time e waste hound myself. Happy hunting.
@philipcahill4190 I did mention bga's but yeah, I never showed the gold corner ones so that's a good point. Thanks for the extra info buddy as well. It helps out the community. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. I appreciate your feedback
That was excellent! Thanks for being so specific for us newbies! 👍🏼
@claytonschemper8375 thank you for watching
Hi, good video. I am a hobby scrapper and do micro scrapping when Quebec winter is ruling the place and scrap is scarce.
Here I share other video infos I found. The fuses would have their inner little wire made from silver. May be when the fuse is too hot, the silver melt and goes on the brass fuse ends ?
Although their value is probably higher for copper, some videos have showned that musfet also contain gold.
Finally, on the right side of the board you use at the beginning of the video, the metallic boxes are mostly of brass. I can see that while using the file on them. If not yellow and magnetic, they are iron. Some of them are partly brass, partly iron so they stick to the magnet. Rarely, they are of stainless steel or nickel plated copper. They adds up to the piles. By adding small brass pieces to the bigger ones I find (like the tap), I succeeded to have a 5.1 litter bucket that weight 90 pounds.
Awesome collection you have Sir.
The plain black tantalum looking components could be inductors, which contain small copper coils. It is usually easy to tell when they are on the circuit board, as the silkscreen number for the component will start with "L" for inductors, and "C" for capacitors, or "D" for diodes.
Nice video. See you keep the disc capacitors too. I also saw the Dusan vid where he had soviet era capacitors of a dull brown colour supposedly they should have silver or palladium content. He also found some large resistors with hidden gold inside the end caps though i guess those are going to be mostly very old tech as well. I keep everything now 😁
Yeah I kept the resistors for a while but I never found one with gold caps so I don't bother with them anymore
That was a great informative video. Love depopulating boards
Great video im happy too scrapping thanks a lot friend ...
Nice video and you provide clear and comprehensive descriptions. I think what you call "tactical" switches are better known as "tactile" switches, because one must actually touch them to make them operate. Also, just as a general point, when I remove aluminum heatsinks, they often come off with a bit of steel which needs to be removed to get "clean" price. Finally, I also really like the channels you gave shout outs to as well!
Thank you for watching and for the comments. You are if course correct. I always get tactical and tactile mixed up. I do the same with platinum and palladium for some reason. Yes you do need to clean the heatsimk before you can put it into clean ally, a good point to make.
Thank you for this video. I have a new scrapper at my house. My 4 year old grandson. Yes a 4 years old pre-schooler😮. He asks me, “what’s this” or “why” about everything he takes apart. Now I can say let’s see what that is. Lately he has started to want to “pee-pop-you-ate” (depopulate for English speakers). So we have a 2 quart jar of his treasured parts.
What a lovely story. Feel free to email your address and I'll send your little grandson out some Scrapping Scotland stickers
Excellent video, this will help me make a devide sorting box. It was very well explained and easy to understand. The experience you have shared is so valuable to those who do this and gratefully appreciated.
Thank you for taking time to watch the video and to comment. I appreciate your feedback my friend
I will keep following you to show you my collection. Thank you
Thanks Scotsman, good reference material.
Anytime, thanks for watching
Loved the doco style of this video! I believe the other black capacitors are tantalum too. There is also silver and lead in tanties, lots of goodies not easy to get at lol. Loved that pot of contacts, that looked so lovely!!!
Thank you Sollers. I thought those others were tantalum as well but wasn't sure. I've been putting off cleaning up those contacts. Seems like a tedious job!
@@ScrappingScotland haha yep agreed
Excellent explanation of ALL the ins and outs of things
Excellent video I would like to say mosfets are silver plated and have gold bonding wires also brass connectors can also be silver or gold plated they are not always nickel coated especially on pcb's.
Thank you for the info. I am aware there are other metals at play with mosfets but didn't know they can be silver plated so that's a new one for me
@@ScrappingScotland your very welcome I don't know if you know @999DusanGoldrecovery but he has a video on those.
some of those black 'tantalum' capacitors look like diodes. You can type the numbers written on them into google and it should bring up the datasheet for a component which should tell you whether it is a diode or not.
Thanks for the information 👍
Thank you for sharing your knowledge about e mateials, be wortfull.
Thank you for tuning in
these are valuable informations. thanks.
You are very welcome. Thank you for watching. I really appreciate it
Very good presentation for micro-scrapping!
Thank you for watching
Very informative, thank you for this well done video.
Thank you, Greg. I appreciate you watching and commenting. Glad you liked this one.
Excellent video ! Very informative breakdown of individual PCB components and their contents. Just subcribed because of this video & can't wait to check out more content.. Great work ! 👍
@@chrisyateswebdev thank you for watching and joining the channel. Great to have you here
Great video.
Thank you for your time!!
Thank you for watching and commenting. 👍
Preciate ya. New sub from Florida.
@@Domicle I preciate ya right back my friend. Thanks for joining
Nice video. I am only getting started in micro scrap. I have been saving motherboards for almost a year now.
You'll have a pile of these components soon then 👍
Absolutely awesome episode brother start to finish. You can make nitric acid £8.00 a litre (I have got the price down to.) scary the first time you make it and the second.
You are a braver man than me buddy but I have noticed that you a fine l fume hood for your chemicals so you have a good setup. I might be sending all this stuff to you then 😉
I'm just getting into board stripping, so this is real useful. Thanks mate.
Thanks for watching 👍
Nice video, actually the best I have seen around, definitely deserve a subscription... Looking forward to see more videos from you...
@@Lord_8_1 thank you for joining the family buddy. Glad to have you here
@ScrappingScotland glad to find ou here mate ...
Great video! Love the way you have things sorted/ categorized. I have a very similar list.
Thanks for watching and commenting. Glad you liked it
hi all scrappers Ive been scrapping for some years now mostly from cars more so the nuts and bolts in the last 3 years I have had myself a devil forge and have been scrapping all my cans and my friends to make ally ingots , I also smelt copper and brass from all electronics and cables attaching appliances to the mains lalso strip big electric motorsstarter motors from cars and trucks as well as alternators
Sounds like a scrapper to me 🔧🔨🪛
great informative video, thanks bud
Thanks for watching Shaun
Very helpfull video mate. Thanks
Thank you my friend
Great guide great job
Thanks buddy
Mosfets, as you said, are transistors. All transistors contain gold bond wires. Up to you to decide if recovery of them from mosfets are worth your time. The chips, resembling MLCCs and resistors, on the circuit board marked with the letter L are inductors - just copper. The metal and plastic transistors (3 legs) have gold bond wires, and some have gold plated legs. A few boards have silver and gold-plated fuses, or gold-banded crystal oscillators. You didn't mention diodes, which contain silver. Glass and solid fuses both contain silver. Printers and CD/DVD players are a source of gold.
@johnross8939 thanks for the information. I'm definitely still learning a lot of components so I always appreciate any additional information. Diodes is not something I collect which is why they aren't mentioned. I don't seem to come across a lot of them but might start doing that now.
Super vidéo
Great tutorial video !! Ive been micro scrapping some myself !
Great video my friend
Smart video my friend.
@@lukechasteen-pi8fg thank you for watching
Good video scrapping Scotland
Thanks for the great video
Thank you for tuning in 👍
Great video! Doing most of these, but always have the wrong names in my mind xD thx again, will subscribe!
@@Stinow thank you sir watching
Very good info for when I start micro scrapping
You haven't started yet?
@@ScrappingScotland nope. I just save all my boards. I pull some copper from low grade, but haven't started depopulation yet. I'm waiting to see if we ever get a buyer here.
@@HHRecycling I pull the copper first as well and then come back from the rest when I need something to do
HHRecycling, where are you at?
@@urbanprospector3007 Hudson's Hope in northern BC
This was a great video
Thank you for that kind comment. Glad you enjoyed it
22:30. I always pull the prongs back to take the plastic off my brass connectors. Always felt like it was a waste of time but I can't help myself 😂
@@carpentryfirst3048 I do the same 😄
In your contact bin i definitely see sme platinum or palladium contacts. The are more white.❤
@@TheSbaillie oh, that sounds promising 😀
i like this is ....this is what they E-waste mining...😊
Great video and explanation! It really helps
Glad you found it useful, thanks for watching.
Loved this video
Much appreciated Paul
Excellent video bro 🎉
Thanks for watching
Thank you Scrapping Scotland Cheers,...
Subbed your channel buddy, thank you for supporting mine.
@@ScrappingScotland Thank you as well mate all good Cheers P.S I learnt a lot from yours and other scrapping channels ...Cheers to you all...
Great video mate , think you’ve covered everything 👍😁
Thanks buddy. If there is anything else then I don't know it's worth taking off the boards 😀
@@ScrappingScotland you’ve covered virtually all the good stuff mate , there’s only 2 more things I would say that are very good to look out for that are a bit different looking to the usual types , are gold cap fuses they they have gold plated ends and gold wire inside , smaller and different shape to the normal type fuse , other is gold band crystal oscillators , gold plated band around outside plus gold inside , a lot smaller and look different to usual crystal oscillators, I look for them and even I miss them till second time I look over the boards , a lot of people miss those 2 items and they are high for gold recovery when have a load of them, plus keep them separate from the others
That’s silverback gorilla part got me rolling😆
@@stargate905 🤣
I liked and subscribed to your channel
Thanks buddy
This is a great video. Very helpful. I am a beginning hobbyist microscrapper. It answered several questions I had. Your fingers look like mine. ...lots of tiny scrapes and cuts.
@onyxfire7511 yeah I've had more cuts than a barber shop 🤣
Awesome video!
Thank you David 👍
Great video,perfect job.
Thanks for sharing you r knowledge with all of us vievers.
You got my SUB. - LIKE and support for you r work.
We have the same hobby and I learned a loot of things by looking you r videos so thanks from my hard.
All the best wishes for you r future work I wish you from Serbia(Europa but not EU).
@scrapingE-wastebyMarsi thank you for your support and kind comments. Glad to have you here as part of the Scrapping Scotland family. Cheek my email in my bio. Happy to send you some channel stickers as my first Serbian subscriber of you'd like.
@@scrapingE-wastebyMarsi subbed you as well
thank u for a very good vid
@tedthornton3741 thank you Ted
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Great video pal
Thank you so much. Glad you enjoyed it 😊
The yellow round one are tantalum as well
Them little brown/tan and silver bits are the Monolithic ceramic capacitors and they contain small amounts palladium
@joshuatremper5026 yes, I do mention this in the video. The newer they are the less likely they contain palladium
nice one scotland
Thanks buddy
mosfetts can also contain pm`s gold / silver
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@@geofferyromany4634 😀
those silver contacts are usually silver and tungsten which make them hard to melt down and process
@@whatarewedoing0 really, tungsten? That's not something I was aware of
@@ScrappingScotland yea pretty sure its for the high melting point to avoid contacts getting welded together, the percentage in there can vary but yea if you try to melt them youll probably find it very hard
The brass connector if you separate them put the real brass in a separate tube and the silver type separate or Mey scrap yard is mixed brass
We're do you sell you stuff we have no sale in ireland
Thanks Patrick, my yard takes it all as clean brass so no need for me to separate
Hello friend, do you know if it is dangerous for some of these chips to break due to extraction? Can they release toxic components? Is it safe to trim green motherboards? thank you!!
@eltrasterovintagebikes yeah it's safe to trim off the chips and to depopulate motherboards. If you don't want to smash chips off then use a heat gun
@@ScrappingScotland thanks!!
grind everything up, into powder form, pour in "Aqua regia" to dissolve all the gold, then refine the gold using the "Wohlwill process" through electrolysis
Don't you need an almost pure gold bar to act as an anode for that process?
I think even the cathode needs to be gold?
@@ScrappingScotland not necessary
as the dissolved metal will gather at the cathode, all you need is to have at the start is a thin golden thread or thin gold wire
that's all you need
@@ScrappingScotland the pure gold bar is to perform the final 99.999% purification process
what you need now is to have this process to get you the initial, not so pure gold
a few years ago a factory near my house, they do dissembling electronic parts, closed down
they had bags and bags of old cpus
i bought a couple of them, grind them up to powder, and did that
At the end I got some gold, not very very pure, only like 92% or something like that, which I sold.
Amazing eh! Beats gold panning any day.
@jamesmonoghan1281 definitely a worthy stream of gold income
The one ya get in the uk with fish taste better !!!
Jk ….nice well organized bits !
Thanks buddy
You have lots of stuff! Very helpful video when I’m trying to learn about e-waste myself buddy! Thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed watching this helped me learn more about e-waste! I say it’s too far to sell to board-sort so does your scrap yard take that? Awesome video!
Thank you buddy. Glad you found it helpful. Yeah we don't have a boardsort here. Somebody needs to fix that for sure. My plan is to sell it the gold and silver bearing items on ebay or something but you never know, maybe I'll get the opportunity to try and recover it myself one day.
Thank you for the share as well buddy. Very much appreciated
Fantastic explanation of ewaste recycling at a component level this is Mr SS.
I’m a UK scraper too who has been saving most these components for years. Do you think in the future that the chemicals required for recovery will be available to us mere mortals in the UK or has that ship sailed?
Personally I think it's sailed my friend. You can obtain a licence for using the chemicals but you would need to have a good setup. Fume hood etc. Besides nitric is expensive so would cut deeply into any gold or silver profit. Better to save them and sell them.
@@ScrappingScotland I’m hearing you SS, just not viable for us UK micro scrappers to process.
I like yourself scrap for the interest and enjoyment but do find it frustrating that we can’t further our interest much like the likes of 999 Dusan, S Irish and indeed the rest of the world!
Keep up the good work chap. 👍
Any thoughts on magnets that are with electronics wiring? Great video!
@dfox7093 I do scrap the copper out of electromagnets but commonly I put them in the shred steel. Not sure there is much more you can do with them.
very nice video i would like to know how to remove the lacquer from the copper wires and how to clean dirty copper thanks
I'm not sure how the lacquer could be removed to be honest. I'm not sure it would cost effective to do so. Dirty copper is usually categorised that way because it's attached to other metals. If its difficult to separate them then sometimes you just have to take the hit
What town is home travelling Scotland in june .Enjoy your channel cheers Ron
Hi Ron, I'm from Edinburgh
Thanks spending two nights there all the best I wish you well !!
@@RonKnowles-ex4yc hope you have a great time my friend
Enjoyed your vid. Are you doing refining or just selling on the recovered components? Just a note, it’s not illegal to have Nitric. You need an EPP licence which is straight-forward to get as long as you’re not a bawbag 😁
I can't claim not to be a bawbag 🤣. But yes only illegal if you don't have a licence to use those chemicals
Once you collect all those things, can you sell them?
@stephangerlach23 yes you can sell them to a refiner or on Ebay
Did you ever find out what the ceramic capacitors have in them or are they worth anything
I'm afraid not. There is a general belief that they can contain some silver though
@@ScrappingScotland great video tho thanks for the tip on the tantalum
Do you break up all motors all sizes
Absolutely
What price do you get for copper bearing motors
30p a kg but I can stick all transformers and little motors into electric motors whether they are copper or aluminium.
I think pulverising most most these would be the best option
Definitely on a bigger scale than what I do it would be.
Hey mate do thy scrap boards in the UK??
@aledhughes6000 they do mate. Not a lot of places in Scotland but you can find them in the uk for sure
19.05, my scrapyard takes them as aluminium bits
Is that the same price as dirty aluminium at your yard?
Um , the equipment you took those from , were they still functional ?
I gather the equipment was none functional before you dismantled it for scrap .
@@jamesbeemer7855 They were absolutely non functional. I donate working equipment to charity
@@ScrappingScotland bully for you ! Good job . See , some people don’t know to check it before they scap it .
@jamesbeemer7855 thank you for watching and taking the time to comment James. Much appreciated
think L is usually inductor not resistor, that would be R
That was my understanding too but there are little mlcc like things on the boards that have an L before the number. They may still be inductors but they look like mlcc's for some reason
You have been busy stepping lots of boards
Am i watching an asmr video
@rblxp4radise696 buddy, if it helps you relax and you enjoy it then that's a win for both of us. 👍
The small transformer my yard says shred
I take them apart so nothing but copper for me. I could put them in motors as well
But if a Part Works , You can Sell the Part for more than the Gold , Imagine Little Johnny in 2034 Looking to Build his first Pentium Pro or 486 DOS Box and almost all the Parts are gone . :( QC
Send little Johnny my way, I've got plenty to sell him 😃
How much money per pound? On each type?
Not sure to be honest as I haven't tried to sell them yet. Also when selling online, they are only worth what someone else will pay for them. I haven't found a business that will buy the individual components yet
Ye me to
can't beat micro scrapping