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    Computer gold recovery

    On ebay I noticed someone selling a kit all made of home made items -- small vac coffee pot crock pot 5 gal bucket



    Refine at Home Portable System with Fumes Purification for Scrap Gold Recovery | eBay

    what you guys think any possibility's


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    You will be throwing away good money. The shop vac will be corroded from acid fumes after the first use. The only way to refine is optimally having a fume hood or working outside where there are no kids ,pets or other people around. If you want to learn more go to the gold refining forum. Sign up and read until your eyes hurt. Be warned questions by new people are not tolerated well unless you have some working knowledge of what you doing. Good luck.
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    After further reading of his description he should be jailed. He states there is no acid fumes produced, BS, and that he further tested the "symptoms of acid poisoning on himself". Listen if this dummy purposely exposed himself to fumes produced from using Nitric acid he would be dead or on his way to being dead!!!!
    He states that he bears no responability for something he built and is selling. Well someone better be because you are going to kill yourself or your families and neighbors using that contraption.

    DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THIS PERSON!!!!!

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    The seller said it perfectly.

    Package contents:



    1. Lid with Dust Container

    2. 5-Gal Bucket

    3. Bubbler Lower part

    4. Bubbler Upper part

    5. Adapter for two Flexible Hoses

    6. Flexible Hose – (2)

    7. Separator – (2)

    8. 2-Qt Glass Reactor - Modified Coffeemaker

    9. Motor

    10. Adapter for Crack Pot Lid

    11. 3/4" PVC Slip Cap

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    This thing looks like it belongs on one of those ghost hunting shows. I can hear the guy now "It will remove bad spirits from the room"
    I'm going to recycle the world.

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    Might not be so bad. Looks like a guy could slow cook a pork roast and brew a pot of coffee simultaniuosly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER View Post
    After further reading of his description he should be jailed. He states there is no acid fumes produced, BS, and that he further tested the "symptoms of acid poisoning on himself". Listen if this dummy purposely exposed himself to fumes produced from using Nitric acid he would be dead or on his way to being dead!!!!
    He states that he bears no responability for something he built and is selling. Well someone better be because you are going to kill yourself or your families and neighbors using that contraption.

    DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THIS PERSON!!!!!
    I think there is a section where you can file a complaint (on Ebay) against dangerous items. Might not be a bad idea to try and get it pulled before someone does kill themselves. Being that you Brass have done this correctly, you can give Ebay an "expert opinion" on why it needs to be pulled.
    I can imagine that a good lawyer could build a case against Ebay if someone died no matter how many disclaimers there are.
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    When I see these type of things I close my eyes, shake my head, and grit my teeth. This is a Darwin award in the making. I started my refining journey about two months ago. I am STILL on the reading part. It is more dangerous than people realize I think...the more i study and learn it, the more I question if I REALLY want to invest the amount of money needed to do it safely. Ok ramble rant over.

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    He has 4 different types of these things. The larger 2 "CRACK" pot and one coffee maker is $275.00 and down in the question area he says
    "I've already sold near 300 sets." Wow! is all I can say. Dude may be on to something, or just on something.

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    14 sold 100% feedback LOL

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    I'm not a E-bay person yet, why would they let this guy sell this crap?

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    I was all excited about this until I seen it did NOT come with a crock pot or lid. I could have cooked a roast at least. Now it's worthless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by unitsngold View Post
    I was all excited about this until I seen it did NOT come with a crock pot or lid. I could have cooked a roast at least. Now it's worthless.
    I hqve a crock pot I can send you for that price

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    Maybe when you don't have any gold to refine you can get Walter White to come over and "cook up" something else...???

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    A guy I know from church looks almost exactly like this fictional dude but I don't think he's cooking meth...

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    This is beyond stupid. It's downright dangerous!

    Plus, for $250, I could just buy a coffee maker and a crock pot.

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    gold refining for crackpots.... love it.

    This has bad idea written all over it.

    worst of all the glass "beaker" is not even being ventilated properly. The vacuum is sucking out of the filter part of the coffee machine which needs downward pressure to open the drain so coffee can drip out, and probably catching ...uuuuhhh no fumes AT ALL!
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    " The first reactor is standard Crack Pot (not included!) "

    The above quote from the ebay blurb, says it all.

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    Nice way to make 1000% profit, if ya don't mind killing or maiming a few people along the way. But it doesn't surprise me, Shore has been selling this kind of stuff for years, and for a lot more money.

    If this system is any value, why is he also selling gold scrap instead of refining it himself.

    It also doesn't surprise people buy that crap.

    "there is a sucker born every minute".

    "if it was that easy every one would be doing it".

    "if it sounds or looks like it is too good to be true, it most likely is."

    "some one will buy anything for any price".

    What ever happened to common sense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by olddude View Post
    What ever happened to common sense.
    It died in a crock pot accident.

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