Melting CPU Heat Spreaders into a Copper Nickel Bar
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Melted down some copper heat spreaders from CPU's which are nickel plated into a copper ingot.
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99.51% Copper
00.49% Nickel
Since scrap copper is getting harder to find and gold recovery from modern day CPU's is low, these copper heat spreaders are a welcome bonus to the copper stacking bucket
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Nickel oxidizes very easily, if you want to try and salvage that, I'd recommend putting a cap on the crucible (While melting). Even though I doubt there would be much nickel.
I love your channel!!! Thank goodness you finally got that 925 bar assayed.
I've been dying to know!
"Keep scrapping"
you sound like bearing. it isn't just the accent. I have learned a lot watching your chanel, thanks.
Thanks for doing the hard yards, now I know % of copper in the IHS's I have! Cheers, keep it up!
Hey bud been watching your vids from the south of the US. I enjoy them and your narrative in your videos is enjoyable. So thank you
That copper bar looks like a Tunnocks caramel wafer!
Peony Poni reminds me of a single twix :)
I myself have been holding off on selling or smelting down my heat spreaders. Those with gold brazing and indium, or iridium... whichever it is, solder I have in a separate stack until I figure out the best way to get the gold off first. The solder is easy... just heatgun it and collect.
Great video, slowly working my way through all your vids really enjoying them, keep up the good work
whenever the round heating indicator-light lits up, your lamp gets a bit darker :D
I know this from living in the countryside ;)
The great question is, a 1kg copper bar has a value of about US$6, so given that it takes an hour of your time, and electric power for the heating, is it actually worth it?
Heat spreaders without a hole in them use normal thermal conducting grease for contact with CPU die (super easy to clean). Ones with holes in them are soldered (hole is for the gases to escape when soldering). Those kind of heat spreaders will have an indium based solder with a very thin layer of gold on the nickel, because indium sticks to gold much better than to nickel. So when you melt heat spreaders with holes you get more metals mixed in in the ingot.
I wish our streets had so much scrap on them like yours do. Over in the UK scrappers have to hold permits.
Nothing stopping you from doing scrap in the UK it's what I do.
Hi Ben, just wondering if you know how easily solid Copper objects e.g., block/sphere/bar (~1kg) dents if they are repeatedly dropped onto tables/wooden surfaces? Is there any risk of damaging the Copper?
Copper is pretty malleable. If you drop it on something hard it will get a little flattened spot. On wood, you might not have a problem (except for denting the wood!) but on metal / concrete you'd probably ding it.
Yeah, I wasn't too sure how well it'd handle something like an solid wooden table. I was thinking of something along the lines of an large chunk of copper for usage as gaming/hobby dice lol. Having never handled large (~1kg) blocks of copper, I was just concerned that the copper might deform from repeatedly dropping/rolling them on table tops.
Yeah good call on "what to melt" !!! ..... [hears the FINAL percent] ... NICE , man !!! ~ Cheers
Where did you find your smelter at? Are some better then others? What model is yours? Your scale where as well ... Ty
I wonder how you manged to get all of those IHS`s.
He scraps a butt load of computers
another very informative video ben i thank you personally
Could.you re heat dip your copper bar to take off the O.49 percent nickel just as a way of seeing if the last bit is removable then bar it again and weight it would love to see you do this as a kind of peice of mind copper 100% piece
Thanks for the info! Love your channel!
Did a fly land on it at 15:45 ~ and burn up?
naa its some junk from his hand
Thanks, Ben.
Does your bullion buyer use a XRF gun to analyze the metal content or are the results from an actual fire assay?
it's a table top scanner
What can you get for the copper bar ? Just wondering if it's worth the effort as opposed to just scrapping them ?
What's the name of The Foundry you're using😯
just looked at the furnace on amazon, you have to have it cranked full capability to melt nickel (1453'c) try not oxidixing off all the nickel next time. that isnt an alloy
Where can I find a good reliable pyrometer
Maate. I had to watch it again. Can't wait for a new one... Hint hint.
looks good
Do you know nickel pays more than copper?
I've heard that.
What's the chance, you took most of the Nickel(almost solid with a melting point 1,455C) out with the Borax because it was sat on top of the more dense copper(melting point 1,085C) towards the end of the melt? Even though there is only a value of 1 between their atomic weights, Nickel being lighter. I bet your Borax extraction blob is Nickel rich... Clean off all the organics with a suitable solvent pre-melt and use the Borax as a nickel trap, slag free. Stack a Nickel source that way...? Please let me know if this idea is right, works and how well?
DeeperBlue Chemist?
I have skills... Organic-Chemistry, acid and battery recycling systems designer... Currently researching an economy on recycling depopulated and redundant PCB's, the plastics and other related bits... You?
DeeperBlue I just likr and do chem as a hobby. My prefrence is electro-engeneering.
General or specialist, electrical engineering in general or a field more specific?
DeeperBlue Not sure yet. Still in primary.
can the dude keep touching-it------- lmfao----- to funny------
You do know the rubbish you scrape of is the nickel. So that bar is pure copper lol
Next time try using wood as your mold, use the same mold twice. I seen a guy on UA-cam use wood and the results were amazing, "The Bear" is what he call's himself. Give it a try see what happens.
Fun thing to do.
Where are you located?
Melbourne
eWaste Ben that is far away nvm
You keep hitting your camera. This is the third video like this the BANG in the microphone is not easy to listen too.
Maybe move camera farther awsy?
Monel
Those numbers are like any US election!
You got some good video's. But in some video's should have way less talking
Your furnace was not hot enough to get a real world result, these results on Ni are too low.
You take way way to long attempting to explain bro get to it
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In 10-20 years he will be melting AMD Threadripper heatplates... :D
And ripping chips off gtx2080s
Looks like a candy bar probably penny flavored
THERE, I WATCHED IT, IT’S DONE, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW UA-cam?
my idea of extracting gold is to melt gold plated pins into an ingot and to use this ingot as raw anode for electrolytic seperation. it would be the same way what large copper producers do to make high grade copper, e.g. for cables.
gold and other rare metals remain as fine dust in the electrolyte, that accumulates at the bottom.
did U try something like that already? what do U think, could this work in a smaller scale at home too?
It's a pure copper bar matey, well done!
Subbed.
Nice to have place (contry wise) and oportunity to collect all that e-waste staff.
my question is ben can u sell this copper to the scrap yard will they take it for regular price or do they not take it and say they cant trust its al copper?
as mentioned, if your selling copper to a scrap yard then you don't need to melt it into a bar.
Where can I purchase your copper bricks
Is the yellow under some of those gold plating always thought it was
Yes thick plating
Great instruction.
Hey Ben? Question where did you get you forge and what brand is it? also, what sizes of molds should I get?
JC Melting Furnace they sell on ali baba, at first get molds that are like the one in this video, kit kat size or the smaller ones I use. because your first pours may not come out as good as you like so then you can easily just drop the bar back into the crucible and melt again, wide bars won't fit back into the crucible so your stuck with it or need to cut it.
snickers bar
Send that one to me lol!
Still fun to watch your pour
Hi is it a way to purifie or separate that .49% nickel from the copper? Thanks for your videos, very interesting.....
That's good to know, that it has less than a half percent of nickel plating.
GREAT VIDEO Ben!
i wan t one of those melters, do you want to donate it to me? wink
ben, love your videos. just curious, how many melts do you get in your crucibles? and how many pours into your bar molds. thanks in advance and keep these great videos coming!
about 15 sessions for the crucible, molds last for years though.
👍 love watching your content my friend.
Hey Ben would a mosfet be the same? What is all in a mosfet?
yeah tin/copper
Awesome thanks! Also love the videos watched almost all of them in a couple weeks. Keep up the good work!!
so, yeah...copper melts at 1085 C approx, and Nickel melts at 1452 C approx. If you carefully control the heat, do you think maybe you could get the copper molten, then still find a way to strain out, or pull out with a tool, un-melted nickel from the batch?
You could probably bust that copper ball to break the borax layers and have #2 copper. Or melt the copper off in a crucible. It won't be hot enough to melt the steel. And if you cut it off just above the ball the steel piece will float above the copper
What the furnace brand ? your link is broken :( i'm looking to buy a furnace to melt nickel. (I'm a newbie) Thanks !
What kind of crucible is the one your using?
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Finally someone explain what borax is xD
What is the machine you got there ..name of your smelter
What is the name for the blue thing? thanks
Life is fun, isn't it!
thank you
looks good
What can i use instead of borax?
Another great vid - thanks Ben
Copper has many chemical properties with atomic number 29. Atomic weight 63.546. Its melting point is 1.083 ° C. Its boiling point is 2.567 ° C. Its density is 8.96 at 20 ° C.
Physical properties of copper
Antimicrobial, which quickly eliminates the bacteria, fungi and viruses that settle on its surface and is therefore used in hospitals.
Non-magnetic, so it is used in military equipment and applications
Recyclable
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