I have a friend that taught me how to do this in his garage, back in the late 1980's. Obviously we didn't do it on a scale as large as this though. We would drive around and find electronic equipment being thrown away, take it to his house and separate the parts and pieces. We would take the metal housing and other parts to the recycling plant as well. It does take a lot of computers and stereos and televisions to make an ingot though. In fact, sometimes it would take a few months of collecting and smelting to make any money though. The best time to collect is spring, when many are cleaning their houses, and the Christmas season, when people are throwing out their old stuff to make room for their new stuff. He also had a large bin in front of his house with a sign saying to throw old electronics in for recycling, as well as an ad in the newspaper.
I had a customer years ago who recycled computer trash for big corporations. He also hauled off copiers.They would pay him $20 each to disconnect them and haul them away. Part of his contract required wiping the hard drives clean. Spot checks were made by grabbing a few computers and trying to see if there was any data on them. After he'd gotten the precious metals he had a scrap yard buying the steel from the cases. Another company bought the ABS plastic and ground it into pellets. It would then be purified and made into things using steam injection into molds. GE used to be a big buyer of ABS plastic. Even the plugs on telephone cords and telephone jacks had 50 mils of gold on them. He also got to keep all the power strips even brand new ones in the packages. When a company buys a thousand computers they start with everything new even the battery backups. In the end he had very little scrap that needed to go to the dump.
it isn't profitable to recycle computers which is why it cost money to recycle them. The chemicals are expensive, transporting cost, you have to breakdown each component, and them sort them.
@@nolickspittle4753 It is largely variable on how you can obtain the parts. Most PC parts aren't going to be worth the chemicals to get the gold. You are at best breaking even with labor unless you have a really good source for older and very particular parts. If you were just recycling w/e you were given. You would be taking a loss disposing of them.
Don't forget this was a professional production. The least they could do is 5 minutes of research. Any script writer with a brain would have used the word "computers" anyway.
+Keuzy If you are appealing to the layman then what's the big deal? I've heard many people refer to the tower or the desktop unit as the hard drive. I'm sure we all knew what the narrator meant.
The sad truth is that most computers still work completely fine aside from a single component. I've been to many recycling centers and scrapyards, gotten computers from them, and they still work just fine. I'm not talking old stuff either. i7 6950x systems with 1000W PSUs, 500gb Samsung SSDs, 4TB hard drives. HP Elitebook 840 G2s. It's pretty sad how much stuff gets tossed for no reason that still works just fine and is super nice. 4GB DDR3 sticks are also super easy to come by. Most people will give you this stuff for free or very close to it. So in a lot of ways, companies could make tons more by reselling the components or even complete systems.
@@zuccerworm8402 If there are any scrapyards in your area, there's a good chance you might be able to find stuff there. The people at those places usually have no idea about the actual value of the components. They usually just care how much gold is showing. So if you can find a PC you might want to take, just shove a bunch of other good stuff inside. That way they won't see the gold, just the metal case.
@@novertrunnions2721 We have scrap yards, but I do the opposite. I gather wire from any discarded electrical/electronic items (I belong to a computer club.) When I have 20 or 30 lbs I bring them to the scrap yard, and they pay me for the copper by weight.
One correction, please: at 5:40 near the end, under "Did you know?": the term carat is applied by error as it is only used for the weight of gemstones and diamonds. It was indeed based on the carob seed (that weighs quite accurately 0.2 grams). However, this video talks about gold, where fineness is expressed in karat (not carat), which has nothing to do with weight, or the carob seed.
If 1000 people got together, we could crowd-fund a recycling plant. 20 or 30 of use could work in the plant, the others could be gathering up old PCs from homes, businesses, schools.
I love how they make it sound so easy lol, they don't show how many thousands and thousands of ol PC's it takes to make a gold bar like the one they showed. I watched a guy cut off the teeth of about 60 memory sticks one day, put it in numerous solutions and then over a kiln, the total time he had into this occurred over 5 days, he pulled 1.8 grams of gold lol, that's like getting paid .60 cents an hour
+Admiral Ackbar The actual die is a silicon wafer and the metal that forms the the circuits inside the wafer is normally aluminum. The circuits inside the wafer are called "gates" which are either open or closed (1 or 0 in binary code). It's the metals outside the wafer but part of the CPU as a whole that are so diverse. On CPU's that plug into a socket, the pins are made of an exotic alloy called "Kovar" that has the same thermal qualities of expansion and contraction as borosilicate glass. This allows the entire CPU to heat and cool without causing stress fractures and structural failure. The Kovar is an alloy that contains iron, nickel and cobalt. CPU's also contain copper, silver, palladium, tin and aluminum. Palladium (Pd) is very toxic when dissolved (in an ionic state) to all living things as is all platinum group metals (PGM's). Nickel and cobalt are heavy metals and when condensed in the refining process, can exceed the LD50 quickly upon medium exposure.
Sorry for such a alte response, you are very smart, but how should they extract all of that other stuff? without loosing gold or any other minerals and would it be profitable enough to follow-trough, or just too expensive in terms of chemicals and refinery needed, than just dissolving by ignoring all of that just to get the gold.
I worked in this company from the video.... not much money but really fun. in a separate room, we cut the thick cable from the monitors and television sets to get the copper seperate from the plastic... in sommer it was a very sticky job
I used to know a guy who had lived on the streets for decades and salvaged all the metal he could find (that was valuable enough, of course) and told me you could salvage gold from CPUs. I should've saved all the ones I tossed out over the years :( What I think is truly funny about this, though, is that they extract all the gold from the other parts and _sell it back_ to the companies that make processors.
They will ask you for a certificate. Too many rules regarding gold. No. Ask the local jewel shop. The have to stick to the current market value of gold.
To recycle is $30? ._. Seems like a ripoff. Could've taken the gold out and the metal out. Mold the gold into an ingot and throw it at the person who said that. after all gold is dense
Sell it online, either in parts or as the whole unit, or give it to someone who builds retro PCs. There's an enthusiast market now to keep the original hardware working.
gold was valuable even before the industrial age. People used gold as money. Also, ur comment about gold not true Because pure silver is the greatest conductor.
I never knew there contains gold in computer chips & rams!!! I gave my old computers to garbage collectors almost for free! Now only I got new insight. Thank you!
Never had any use for the damn things. No real gaming to speak of and nothing else to do with it besides playing their so-called games. Consoles are the bane of my existence. Now a PC or a Mac...
I had a job at a place like this, wasn't the best job in terms of pay or conditions but it was fun. I would often rebuild working computers or find working parts for people who needed them. Was good. Pull CRT TVs apart is a bitch, they are heavy, unwieldy and full of shit that gives you cancer.
***** Probably, I was made redundant but not because of china, the factory owner was a fuckwit and was not following council guidelines he was hoarding a large amount of surplus CRTVs to the point it was becoming dangerous due to the huge pile and so he was closed down. It was a fun job I would not have stayed regardless due to the pay.
SwordMasterTala I just wish people would realise that it's better to repair or upgrade a computer than just throw it away, those parts need to go somewhere, they cannot just be buried due to the carcinogens.
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+William Wright *Brittish worekr comes home from the factory* "Darling, here's ya gold ring for today. Now where's me food?" (say it in a brittish accent)
lol that's precious metals... those workers are always monitored. they couldn't let out a fart without the security picking it up, Let alone steal gold. LMAO
Super cool video man. 1st time watcher. I gave you a sub. I know a place where there are thusands of old pcs dumped over a hill...I am going to go tear them apart--and GET THAT METAL
for people that think that there is f tons of gold in their old computer, there isn't. for the majority its gold plating. so trying to salvage it on your own is not economical unless you go big scale like these people do. fun for an experiment though. :)
This video reinforces the MYTH that people desperately want to believe: that there is a quarter ounce of pure gold in every computer just waiting for those who can figure out how to get it. The persistence of this delusion is astonishing!
man, a while back i brought my HP Elitebook up to a best buy to have a new hdd installed as i was traveling and had none of my tools, they couldnt do it and offered me to have it destroyed, i was like bro its barely 3 years old and its hardware still blows alot of your guy's new stuff out of the water. $1,500 ain't being wasted like that
Well another excellent video about the recycling process. Sadly this video fails to mention that this is atm highly depending on its economic feasibility. Easily a third of the produced electric waste is not recycled, and a high percentage is just recycled thermally and an alarming amount is shipped off to Africa where you forgo the cost intensive process of recycling and just burn the stuff for easy access to copper. Not only is this causing severe environmental damage but also is wasting the more valuable materials.
Well, dealing with acids is quite easy, if you know how to. And cyanide is quite easy too, if you know how to deal with it, but it is really really dangerous for obvious reasons.
Mazaroth I might agree with you had i used it. I know it powerfully works well leaching gold out of rock ore. It has gotten a bad rap in so many ways i just as soon stick to using a slower chemical process.
Time is not an illusion, well real time anyways, not human clock time. If time is an illusion, then your implying that time doesn't exist. So then how do we age if time is an illusion?
we age because cells make copy errors. *potentially* time exists because we made it exist. *possibly* what we infer as time is just gravity, which also may or may not exist technically, affecting space and the change from one moment to the next. which yes I am explaining the lack of time by using time as a passing method because there no way to say "if then because" since we acknowledge it as "if then because"
Dude if time doesn't exist, then the universe wouldn't have even got this far or even close. Time exist dude. What about forth dimensions? One person stays back and the other goes in under the same gravitational pull and then the next time they meet, oh its been 7 years even though it has only been a half an hour for the other person. Time is speeding up on a part and not the other in the forth dimension.
Anyone expecting accurate information out of one of the "How it works" documentaries is a fool. The most glaring (of many) is where they stated that the carat was the measure of gold purity, which is absolutely wrong. The carat is a unit of measure for the weight of gemstones. Karat is the unit of measure of gold purity - with 24 karat being pure gold. It is a linear scale, so 12 k is 50% gold and 50% other metals.
It's faster than acid, well reverse uses sulfuric but it's faster and easier. But only worth it if you have a lot of material Plated jewelry was abundant before you tube I swear that certain things just vanished from junk shops and flea markets in the last few years
now i know .. recycled anything still have a value .. good jobs for this review .. if fabric can recycled all stuff, world can go green and decrease resource mining .. well done science
The other video I just watched about computer recycling was all about how the real money is in reselling the chips instead of scrapping it all for metals.
Back in the 90's and early 2000's we were throwing out bad circuit boards that were beyond repair (burned, lightning damaged) or financially unfeasible to repair and I checked with some companies that bought junked circuit boards and they wanted a minimum load of a 25 foot dumpster full at a time. Even with how many we were throwing out it would have taken forever to fill that up once so we just kept throwing them in the trash.
I have a friend that taught me how to do this in his garage, back in the late 1980's. Obviously we didn't do it on a scale as large as this though. We would drive around and find electronic equipment being thrown away, take it to his house and separate the parts and pieces. We would take the metal housing and other parts to the recycling plant as well. It does take a lot of computers and stereos and televisions to make an ingot though. In fact, sometimes it would take a few months of collecting and smelting to make any money though. The best time to collect is spring, when many are cleaning their houses, and the Christmas season, when people are throwing out their old stuff to make room for their new stuff. He also had a large bin in front of his house with a sign saying to throw old electronics in for recycling, as well as an ad in the newspaper.
some dummies out there will spend 50.00 to get 20.00 & brag they made 20.00
@@briannotafan3368 Are you referring to me?
You guys were doing great work, for youself and even for the society. I am pretty sure in my country most of such e-waste ends up as garbage mountains
You guys are legend
Hi can you send me your email so I can contact you?
I had a customer years ago who recycled computer trash for big corporations. He also hauled off copiers.They would pay him $20 each to disconnect them and haul them away. Part of his contract required wiping the hard drives clean. Spot checks were made by grabbing a few computers and trying to see if there was any data on them.
After he'd gotten the precious metals he had a scrap yard buying the steel from the cases. Another company bought the ABS plastic and ground it into pellets. It would then be purified and made into things using steam injection into molds. GE used to be a big buyer of ABS plastic. Even the plugs on telephone cords and telephone jacks had 50 mils of gold on them.
He also got to keep all the power strips even brand new ones in the packages. When a company buys a thousand computers they start with everything new even the battery backups. In the end he had very little scrap that needed to go to the dump.
R.I.P. old computers, I will miss you! I always loved you.
What's sad is the computers that still had life in it are trashed.
@@fwingebritson at least take the hard drive.
As a electric technolog I love this kind of videos :)
Imagine all that data that was on those computers...Homework, old photos, games, porn, etc.
The Outsider Studios hahahaha true
The Outsider Studios one contains New York governor spitter tryst qithou take off his sock
golden porn
The Outs
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@AirsoftSlo
LMAO!! Oh the struggle of a real wanker...... LMAO!
Learn this lesson, kids: it's never about the environment. It's ALWAYS about the money! Bwahahhaha
Yep. "Recycle" is good for the environment lol.. We all know it's a fraud
Money uber alles
it isn't profitable to recycle computers which is why it cost money to recycle them. The chemicals are expensive, transporting cost, you have to breakdown each component, and them sort them.
@@WhyDoThat exactly what is profit on gold after extraction?
@@nolickspittle4753 It is largely variable on how you can obtain the parts. Most PC parts aren't going to be worth the chemicals to get the gold. You are at best breaking even with labor unless you have a really good source for older and very particular parts. If you were just recycling w/e you were given. You would be taking a loss disposing of them.
"gold in old hard drives."
>proceeds to show gold in PCI components
>these guys just called the tower a hard drive
Don't forget most people are computer illiterate, I seen people who couldn't tell the difference between a hard drive and a processor
Don't forget this was a professional production. The least they could do is 5 minutes of research. Any script writer with a brain would have used the word "computers" anyway.
+Keuzy If you are appealing to the layman then what's the big deal? I've heard many people refer to the tower or the desktop unit as the hard drive. I'm sure we all knew what the narrator meant.
+Keuzy Ive had people call the tower a "modem" before. Usually the older generation dont know.
trip2themoon sure, but again... research.
The sad truth is that most computers still work completely fine aside from a single component. I've been to many recycling centers and scrapyards, gotten computers from them, and they still work just fine. I'm not talking old stuff either. i7 6950x systems with 1000W PSUs, 500gb Samsung SSDs, 4TB hard drives. HP Elitebook 840 G2s. It's pretty sad how much stuff gets tossed for no reason that still works just fine and is super nice. 4GB DDR3 sticks are also super easy to come by. Most people will give you this stuff for free or very close to it. So in a lot of ways, companies could make tons more by reselling the components or even complete systems.
I wish I had something like that in my area, people are so uneducated about computers and I've seen some insane deals on marketplace though
@@zuccerworm8402 If there are any scrapyards in your area, there's a good chance you might be able to find stuff there. The people at those places usually have no idea about the actual value of the components. They usually just care how much gold is showing. So if you can find a PC you might want to take, just shove a bunch of other good stuff inside. That way they won't see the gold, just the metal case.
@@novertrunnions2721 Ahhhhh thanks, I'll give it a go and check out the area
@@novertrunnions2721 We have scrap yards, but I do the opposite. I gather wire from any discarded electrical/electronic items (I belong to a computer club.) When I have 20 or 30 lbs I bring them to the scrap yard, and they pay me for the copper by weight.
"This salt may not be good for fish and chips, but it's excellent for computer chips"
So much cringe, I even grinned
it’s so bad that it’s funny
One correction, please: at 5:40 near the end, under "Did you know?": the term carat is applied by error as it is only used for the weight of gemstones and diamonds. It was indeed based on the carob seed (that weighs quite accurately 0.2 grams).
However, this video talks about gold, where fineness is expressed in karat (not carat), which has nothing to do with weight, or the carob seed.
Thanks! I noticed that too.
When I want to recycle an old computer I just install linux in it and runs like a charm.
Centos
+MaghoxFr Ubuntu to be precise.
2016 and still commentin
It depends. I'm quite underwhelm with the direction Ubuntu is taking.
I would love to do this sometime as a kid I wanted to do it
*****
lol
I’ll be searching for old ass computers from now on thanks 👌🏾
if it was of any real value we wouldn't ship our waste off to third world countries.
Watch some of sreetips videos on gold separation and distillation. Very informative and he answers most any question about the subject.
@@Haywood-Jablomi costs so much for the labour to seperate the parts though....
There's gold in them there microprocessors!
Easier to extract gold from computer parts than pan it in nature.
If 1000 people got together, we could crowd-fund a recycling plant. 20 or 30 of use could work in the plant, the others could be gathering up old PCs from homes, businesses, schools.
I'm actually down for this
2:53 is called "electro plating", i remember reporting on that topic back then when i was in high school
I love how they make it sound so easy lol, they don't show how many thousands and thousands of ol PC's it takes to make a gold bar like the one they showed. I watched a guy cut off the teeth of about 60 memory sticks one day, put it in numerous solutions and then over a kiln, the total time he had into this occurred over 5 days, he pulled 1.8 grams of gold lol, that's like getting paid .60 cents an hour
Processors have nothing but gold metal? Sure, if you exclude all of the iron, copper, nickel, tin, cobalt and a few other heavy metals.
+BassJoga24 Black metal, norwegian death metal, hair metal...
+Geo Baby Metal
+Admiral Ackbar The actual die is a silicon wafer and the metal that forms the the circuits inside the wafer is normally aluminum. The circuits inside the wafer are called "gates" which are either open or closed (1 or 0 in binary code). It's the metals outside the wafer but part of the CPU as a whole that are so diverse. On CPU's that plug into a socket, the pins are made of an exotic alloy called "Kovar" that has the same thermal qualities of expansion and contraction as borosilicate glass. This allows the entire CPU to heat and cool without causing stress fractures and structural failure. The Kovar is an alloy that contains iron, nickel and cobalt. CPU's also contain copper, silver, palladium, tin and aluminum. Palladium (Pd) is very toxic when dissolved (in an ionic state) to all living things as is all platinum group metals (PGM's). Nickel and cobalt are heavy metals and when condensed in the refining process, can exceed the LD50 quickly upon medium exposure.
The most important is the silicon
Sorry for such a alte response, you are very smart, but how should they extract all of that other stuff? without loosing gold or any other minerals and would it be profitable enough to follow-trough, or just too expensive in terms of chemicals and refinery needed, than just dissolving by ignoring all of that just to get the gold.
That was really fascinating and makes me want to start collecting old base units but there's no room in my man cave hmmmm!
Free documentary - wow, thanks, I am really sick and tired of paying for my documentaries.
How are you doing
you honestly think you are not paying for this documentary. either r/woosh or really ignorant
I worked in this company from the video.... not much money but really fun. in a separate room, we cut the thick cable from the monitors and television sets to get the copper seperate from the plastic... in sommer it was a very sticky job
What was the name of the company? Is it still around?
I used to know a guy who had lived on the streets for decades and salvaged all the metal he could find (that was valuable enough, of course) and told me you could salvage gold from CPUs. I should've saved all the ones I tossed out over the years :( What I think is truly funny about this, though, is that they extract all the gold from the other parts and _sell it back_ to the companies that make processors.
They will ask you for a certificate. Too many rules regarding gold. No. Ask the local jewel shop. The have to stick to the current market value of gold.
i tried recycling a old computer at a best buy once, they wanted me to pay $30 to recycle it lol
I would have laughed myself into their bathroom where I'd shit on the floor then recycle it myself.
To recycle is $30? ._. Seems like a ripoff. Could've taken the gold out and the metal out. Mold the gold into an ingot and throw it at the person who said that. after all gold is dense
lol just tell them there is gold on the CPU
Partofme @ same with me, hhh
Sell it online, either in parts or as the whole unit, or give it to someone who builds retro PCs. There's an enthusiast market now to keep the original hardware working.
This was recommended to me by one of my subscribers. Love these old doc vids! I tear electronics down in a not so delicate way!!! 😂
I didn't know that Thanks for enlighting me. I'l take my computer to the bank right away
This video was really just about extracting the precious metals from a computer. It will take a lot more to recycle the majority of the parts.
This is why gold has so much value today. It's by far one of the greatest conductive matters in the world.
No it’s cause gold can be used to make goldputers
Gold is mostly valuable because if it's resistance to corrosion..that's why it's the first choice for dental work,for those who can afford it...
gold was valuable even before the industrial age. People used gold as money.
Also, ur comment about gold not true Because pure silver is the greatest conductor.
I never knew there contains gold in computer chips & rams!!! I gave my old computers to garbage collectors almost for free! Now only I got new insight. Thank you!
Yes, there are. They're just as conductors because gold are almost unable to corrode.
Even though those pcs are pretty much useless nowadays its uncomfortable to see all those motherboards and CPUs being thrown around
Yep, I would have kept those processors
Why don’t they think of vintage computer collectors???
DID YOU JUST SAY THERE USELESS YOUR THE PROBLEM NOTHING IS USELESS YOUR EVIL
Right now there's some high school kids asking their chemistry teacher, "When are we ever going to use this".
How’d u know
Why would anyone use a computer as a paperweight? That's what my xbox is for.
xXxLoyaltyxXx1 That was a colorful choice of words.
& this is why the world looks on PC gamers with such distain & sees them as nothing but potential schoolyard murderers.
Fuzzy Duo I don't know why it escalated to that but I guess it did.
+xXxLoyaltyxXx1 Xbox is the worst console ever, all of the xbox consoles are but the worst is xbox one.
Never had any use for the damn things. No real gaming to speak of and nothing else to do with it besides playing their so-called games.
Consoles are the bane of my existence.
Now a PC or a Mac...
I am always fascinated by recycling videos, restoring old HiFi, Furniture, or Cars
me too! Glad you found your way here 😃👍🏻
at 1:20, that looks really nice with all of those CPUs shining with gold. They make a nice sound as they are dumped out too.
California women's prison I was in was one of those "plants" they used to salvage the metals. It was called a Computer Tech Vocation.
I had a job at a place like this, wasn't the best job in terms of pay or conditions but it was fun. I would often rebuild working computers or find working parts for people who needed them. Was good. Pull CRT TVs apart is a bitch, they are heavy, unwieldy and full of shit that gives you cancer.
thanks for the info.
actually... people thinks everything is happy and green
***** Probably, I was made redundant but not because of china, the factory owner was a fuckwit and was not following council guidelines he was hoarding a large amount of surplus CRTVs to the point it was becoming dangerous due to the huge pile and so he was closed down.
It was a fun job I would not have stayed regardless due to the pay.
SwordMasterTala I just wish people would realise that it's better to repair or upgrade a computer than just throw it away, those parts need to go somewhere, they cannot just be buried due to the carcinogens.
Fenrir
Same with the new light bulbs
Thats why I see recycling pitstops everywhere in town now almost every weekend now I know why.
thanks dude you saved my life in school
Metal housings and wires are valuable
There is metal under the gold pins on processor.
"this salt may not be so good for fish n chips, but it is excellent for computer chips"
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_Jesus Christ loves you. Repent and be saved. Only Jesus Christ saves. God bless you, and the grace of God be upon you and your family in the name of Jesus Christ..._
Absolutely brilliant great to see and amazing
This is why I'm doing some scrapping e waste because it's my hobby doing it and to keep it away from landfilds.
Amazing how humans figure this stuff out and build the machines necessary. Brilliant!
Only humans who spend time learning science instead of wasting time praying to me and bible studies etc...
@@PutsOnSneakers actually, this video has more to do with the Bible and your son Jesus, than you might think.
@@jesscorbin5981 GOD IS IN THE WIRE, PRAISE THE MACHINE SPIRITS, PRAISE THE OMNISSIAH
@@sketchiefello9002 God is online :)
This is an old video. The amount of precious metals in computers gets less and less as the components get smaller and smaller.
which is why you do it now and find the old computers kids. Same thing that started the dell company, recycling...
and you do have a fair point..
@@ultravioletxrays125 India has heaps and heaps of old computers...i say heaps and heaps.
Great, watch it for first time, I subscribed ur channel.
Wow, what a amazing process
I love how the background music in these 5min docos were "salvaged" from 90's porn, then comes the bloody turn off of an English accent..
Shit. Your right!! Didn't realize it until you mentioned the 90's porn music. . gonna have to go back and listen to it again. LMAO.
Indeed. That British accent is thoroughly annoying. Also, Fuck The Queen!
Better than a yank accent
Anyone else irritated by how the guy says Gold?
Gooooooooooold
But sir-
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllld
LOL this comment made my day !
Gawlld
ghowld
ghould
HAHAHAHA i came to the comment section to see if someone else was annoyed by it
I haven't seen one of those large CRT monitors in years. It's been even longer since I've seen ISA slots.
That gold recycling is amezing and awesome to watch, i can watch this video 24;7 a day.
as a result,,, GOLD, GOLD, all i can see is GOLD!!!
I bet some workers took some gold.
+William Wright *Brittish worekr comes home from the factory* "Darling, here's ya gold ring for today. Now where's me food?" (say it in a brittish accent)
they could
+William Wright bet thats the easiest way of getting sacked though.
Its precious metals im sure they are watched everywhere at all times
lol that's precious metals... those workers are always monitored. they couldn't let out a fart without the security picking it up, Let alone steal gold. LMAO
that 386 cpu now is more expensive than its gold scrap value, just crazy
Not really. You can even go on ebay and order old fully functional i386 processors for only 20 bucks.
Ctn com
@@0xD1CE so gold on i386 cpu worth more than $20?
@@warpspeed8305 The amount of gold on CPU's is significantly less than $20
Super cool video man. 1st time watcher. I gave you a sub. I know a place where there are thusands of old pcs dumped over a hill...I am going to go tear them apart--and GET THAT METAL
Well that was informative!
for people that think that there is f tons of gold in their old computer, there isn't. for the majority its gold plating. so trying to salvage it on your own is not economical unless you go big scale like these people do. fun for an experiment though. :)
Yes true very true
If you enjoy dying of cyanide poisoning
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This is the hardest flex of all time
Amazing, great work.
Genius. Glad to see such a degree of recycling.
Makes sense since Wonka's chocolates in the movie had the "Golden Ticket!"
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Hello Anna
very good excellent documentary 👍
This video reinforces the MYTH that people desperately want to believe: that there is a quarter ounce of pure gold in every computer just waiting for those who can figure out how to get it. The persistence of this delusion is astonishing!
+sreetips In the video, they made it look like there is a tablespoon of gold plating on one CPU.
sreetips I watched your video of the 1.5g bead !!! So cool
i know a guy who started up his own business doing this and he does extremely well. Plenty of money to be made
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If you understood that, you aren’t very bright.
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This salt may not be so good for fish and chips but it is excellent for computer chips.
Anyone knows on what kind of liquid bath do they put in the plates to recover the copper and silver?
man, a while back i brought my HP Elitebook up to a best buy to have a new hdd installed as i was traveling and had none of my tools, they couldnt do it and offered me to have it destroyed, i was like bro its barely 3 years old and its hardware still blows alot of your guy's new stuff out of the water. $1,500 ain't being wasted like that
Well another excellent video about the recycling process.
Sadly this video fails to mention that this is atm highly depending on its economic feasibility. Easily a third of the produced electric waste is not recycled, and a high percentage is just recycled thermally and an alarming amount is shipped off to Africa where you forgo the cost intensive process of recycling and just burn the stuff for easy access to copper. Not only is this causing severe environmental damage but also is wasting the more valuable materials.
Actually the cables are not "disposed of." They contain copper and are recycled, too.
rgarito I was thinking the same!
Th"au"ks for your video.
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Not something you would want to do at home, eh, with all those chemicals.
Sorry to say,.but you really do look like it.
Well, dealing with acids is quite easy, if you know how to.
And cyanide is quite easy too, if you know how to deal with it, but it is really really dangerous for obvious reasons.
Mazaroth I might agree with you had i used it. I know it powerfully works well leaching gold out of rock ore. It has gotten a bad rap in so many ways i just as soon stick to using a slower chemical process.
***** most acids can be neutralized. Some can be made inert using baking soda.
Vermilicious my grandparents do and make really good money from it
So many CPU's. :( R.I.P
The question becomes how many are borked and how many are just perfectly fine for reusing.
Thank you for the beautiful red heart and the lovely message
THANKS, VERY USEFUL INFORMATION
0:49 honestly kinda shocked that no one has commented "DAMN BOI HE THICC" or something along those lines yet
yea....
Since time is gold, can they use it as a computer chip?
no time is illusion hehehehe
Time is not an illusion, well real time anyways, not human clock time. If time is an illusion, then your implying that time doesn't exist. So then how do we age if time is an illusion?
Zzzzzz...so tired...
we age because cells make copy errors. *potentially* time exists because we made it exist. *possibly* what we infer as time is just gravity, which also may or may not exist technically, affecting space and the change from one moment to the next. which yes I am explaining the lack of time by using time as a passing method because there no way to say "if then because" since we acknowledge it as "if then because"
Dude if time doesn't exist, then the universe wouldn't have even got this far or even close. Time exist dude. What about forth dimensions? One person stays back and the other goes in under the same gravitational pull and then the next time they meet, oh its been 7 years even though it has only been a half an hour for the other person. Time is speeding up on a part and not the other in the forth dimension.
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Fascinating. Thank you.
Nooo the mechanical keyboards :(
+Tara Strong Shut up, what do you know about mechanical keyboards, you stupid bitch.
Sorry I just have to laugh a bit, mechanical keyboards fell out of style for the mainstream in the early 90's
+Tara Strong These are most likely MY switches, they aren't that good(source: have one on the attic from early 90s)
Justin Noker you clearly don't know anything about of gaming
+XBOYS He wasn't wrong.
And today is April 1st.
that's why they say OLD IS GOLD...
that spinning forklift was cool af!
1:28 3 parts hydrochloric acid to 1 part nitric acid. ... Aqua regia
Anyone expecting accurate information out of one of the "How it works" documentaries is a fool. The most glaring (of many) is where they stated that the carat was the measure of gold purity, which is absolutely wrong. The carat is a unit of measure for the weight of gemstones.
Karat is the unit of measure of gold purity - with 24 karat being pure gold. It is a linear scale, so 12 k is 50% gold and 50% other metals.
Very informative, thanks ! 🙄😏
Though even for CPUs reverse electroplating would be a better option than conventional chemical treatment. 🤔
It's faster than acid, well reverse uses sulfuric but it's faster and easier. But only worth it if you have a lot of material
Plated jewelry was abundant before you tube
I swear that certain things just vanished from junk shops and flea markets in the last few years
thanks for the info. great video
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Anyone got any old computers they don't want anymore.?? 🤣
I almost threw up when they dumped all the cpus, poor poor PGA cpus
I learned more about the uses and fabrication of salvaged gold then computer recycling. What happens to the rest of the computer parts?
now i know .. recycled anything still have a value .. good jobs for this review .. if fabric can recycled all stuff, world can go green and decrease resource mining .. well done science
those old crt monitors nowadays cost around $100 - $200
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sometimes more than $200 depends on the quality and brand
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HOW DARE YOU RECYCLE THOSE PROCESSORS I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A LONG TIME FOR A 386 PROCESSOR must have been some old 8088's and 80806's in there too
+Sony Trinitron Because they're garbage.
+Sony Trinitron the A 386 was not working...
kant Garbage? sure perhaps running the latest software but for playing older games they're so much better.
Sony Trinitron
Just use an emulator? Seems like an awful lot of trouble.
kant if its working its worth it, emulating is like comparing a handjob to sex, just dont feel right nigga
Satisfying!
Very informative video !
There is more gold in a modern touch phone than the ore it comes from.
+little stripes i got a old ass vaio computer but im gonna keep ti till ze harddrive fails
+tails doll black you can replace harddrive with ssd.
Саша Олейников i could. vhat i just never have ze time
tails doll black it's like 10 minutes dude.
did not know that .. however i do not have a ssd card that would fit it tho
Can I have one of those gold bars, pretty please?
The Van Halen belt is not going to tell me how to rock I don’t need instructions to rock !
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i saw a 387 in there , man the feels :(
1:26 lower right. Intel i387
Here's a fact:
-You never searched for this.
gd131 I did
actually i did
The other video I just watched about computer recycling was all about how the real money is in reselling the chips instead of scrapping it all for metals.
Back in the 90's and early 2000's we were throwing out bad circuit boards that were beyond repair (burned, lightning damaged) or financially unfeasible to repair and I checked with some companies that bought junked circuit boards and they wanted a minimum load of a 25 foot dumpster full at a time. Even with how many we were throwing out it would have taken forever to fill that up once so we just kept throwing them in the trash.