Pic's of Satellite Amp board

[Mechanic688]

These are some pic's I took of a satellite amp board I removed from it's housing(housing was cast). Don't know the name of the amp as the top had been removed before I got it. Well worth removing the 15 or so screws. On the first one all those little round dots you see are gold plated also.




And this side is almost totally plated. This board is 1 1/2" by 10".

[parrothead]

Nice board.

[NHscrapman]

whisles*

[cobre collector]

How does a board like that get priced? There seems to be very little undesirables on that board and hardly any low value weight. It looks like about 70% of it is plated overall. What do you guys think?

[Mechanic688]

How does a board like that get priced? There seems to be very little undesirables on that board and hardly any low value weight. It looks like about 70% of it is plated overall. What do you guys think?

That one went into my "special" box for all the unusual boards that have a lot of plating on them. When I get enough then someone is going to win them on Ebay. That looks to be my best bet, any thing else will probably be under priced.

[cobre collector]

That one went into my "special" box for all the unusual boards that have a lot of plating on them. When I get enough then someone is going to win them on Ebay. That looks to be my best bet, any thing else will probably be under priced.

I wondered if that was probably best. There are other things on the board that make up some of the weight in this case but with that much plating you would think it would be close to the same margin of gold recovery as trimmed finger cards. I know you would never get $60 a lb for that board but imho it's got about as much gold per sq in.

[ryanw]

The area of gold may be the same, but the thickness isn't. Gold on finger cards are thicker to withstand plugging in/unplugging.

[Sirscrapalot]

That is a sexy board.

Mech with all these 'sexy' boards you find, you should make a month pin up. :P

Sirscrapalot - Soon to be publisher of Letters to Scraphouse..?

[Mechanic688]

That is a sexy board.

Mech with all these 'sexy' boards you find, you should make a month pin up. :P

Sirscrapalot - Soon to be publisher of Letters to Scraphouse..?

Are you talking about a different board for each month of the year, I might have to get pic's of a couple more.

[Sirscrapalot]

Yes I sure am. Call it the smf centerfold of the month!



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[etack]

That board came from hughesnet satellites the board in the LNB http://i50.tinypic.com/2dv09op.jpg. That is some thick RF shielding I did one only once and the Au plating came off in a single sheet of gold. That plating thickness should be around 105 Sq inches per gram of gold

FYI this is not my photo its one I got from a google search. so the other pics aren't mine

Eric

[Mechanic688]

Yep, that's exactly what the cover looked like.
Etack, look at the small board next to the ram on the right and let me know what you think is the plating on that board.
I have taken a few of the LNB's apart and this is the only one (so far) that has that silver (or platinum) color. Thanks,,,
http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/elect...nics-down.html

[TheSheenyMan]

Did you ever end up selling this board? I came across two of them about a month ago.

[lousypirate]

Looks like I'm pulling the sattelite dish from my roof. Thank you landlord.

[Sirscrapalot]

Check out the others posts on LNB's Lousy, before ya go yanking down your dish. lol.

They are light, but a fun find when you yank them suckers out. I know Mech, myself, an Trot have all posted on them in past. Not sure if Mech gets as many as me an Trot but, I think we can all agree it's good to have a direct tv, dish, or Hughes connection. I don't get many dish ones myself, but Directv ones can be gold plated, or silver. An according to Etack Hughes tend to be the best. I've never had one, but he's a source you can trust for info on them, same with Mech an Trot.

That said..I love them, an have been collecting them for awhile now. They've filled up most of my "OMG ITS GOLD™" bucket.

Edit to add: Make sure you enjoy removing screws. There are a lot in them!

Sirscrapalot - Golden on all the way.

[lousypirate]

I have cable, I don't know what the left over dish is, but we'll find out lol.

I'd rather learn by doing then learn by others mistakes. If it's free it's only a bit of my time

[Sirscrapalot]

I hear ya. Just saying, get a bunch before ya do anything with them.

Let us know what kind of Dish ya take it out of, an share a pic!

Directv boards from LNB's.

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The 2nd pic, yes the other sides are gold plated.

Sirscrapalot - stashing away his lovely boards.

[doyousmellit]

Crikey I've thrown so many dishes in with shred. Well now I know and knowing is half the battle

[Sirscrapalot]

Toss the dish in your shred, it's the LNB your looking for.

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Enjoy.

Sirscrapalot - Being helpful again...oops.

[doyousmellit]

Yea I'm talkin with the lnb on it. I see somethin that coax attaches to and start thinking about how much I hate coax. Then I get all red in the face and bam shred pile. I'm trying to get into escrap though I need to start keeping a sharper eye on stuff like this