escrap questions - Page 5

Okay, so apparently now IC Chips are valuable too. But how the heck do you remove them? Is there a simple process? If not, I am not going to bother and just take that small loss.

George...Do you pay attention to anything that goes on around here?

Originally Posted by KZBell

George...Do you pay attention to anything that goes on around here?

LOL KZ Im seriously wondering these days.

George todays lesson is a freebie :-p. Put a flat head screw driver under it and twist flat head and the chip gets removed. Throw in bucket.

Originally Posted by KZBell

George...Do you pay attention to anything that goes on around here?

I always look forward to your comments KZBell. Thanks for not letting me down!

Originally Posted by Dunemaul

LOL KZ Im seriously wondering these days.

George todays lesson is a freebie :-p. Put a flat head screw driver under it and twist flat head and the chip gets removed. Throw in bucket.

I have tried that with the ones that have like 20 or 30 silver looks pins all around them, and the ones that don't. All it manages to do, is break chip apart.

Originally Posted by KZBell

George...Do you pay attention to anything that goes on around here?

Agreed you would think with a join date of sep 2011 and close to 2000 posts you would pick up on things.

I think some one needs to go back too the noob section and read up, many of these questions have been answered many many many times and most are just common sense.

Originally Posted by drozenski

Agreed you would think with a join date of sep 2011 and close to 2000 posts you would pick up on things.

I think some one needs to go back too the noob section and read up, many of these questions have been answered many many many times and most are just common sense.

My apologies for not having as much education in the world of electronics/technology that you have.

wierd i have never broken a IC chip. Are you sure they are the socket-ed ones?

Originally Posted by Dunemaul

wierd i have never broken a IC chip. Are you sure they are the socket-ed ones?

Thanks Dunemaul for trying to help and answer my question. Apparently this is causing everyone to get their feathers in a fluff, so I am not going to worry about it. Not that important.

I am referring to these types of "IC Chips" perhaps are definitions are different, but these are what I am referring to.

On your top picture you can take a wood chisel and get under it but don't break the black top off. On the bottom picture you can use the corner of the chisel or a utility knife and score the les and it should pop off.

You commented recently it was just easier for you to start a new thread and ask a simple question, then to do some research. Well it's one thing for a noob to do that while they are getting started but come on...we expect a little more effort out of someone that owns so many businesses.

Originally Posted by KZBell

You commented recently it was just easier for you to start a new thread and ask a simple question, then to do some research. Well it's one thing for a noob to do that while they are getting started but come on...we expect a little more effort out of someone that owns so many businesses.

I said that I was guilty of doing that. Never said that it was easier.

Me owning more than one business has nothing to do with it. One business has not a thing to do with another.

You dont like the posts, there is a report button.

I asked a simple question. If you can provide an answer, great, if not, then don't, etc.

GEO those chips should be left on the board. If you take them off you will devalue the board. Unless your just taking them off the low grade stuff. I also use a wood chisel.

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

GEO those chips should be left on the board. If you take them off you will devalue the board. Unless your just taking them off the low grade stuff. I also use a wood chisel.

Will in that case, I wont worry over them. I was curious, as I know recently members have been talking about them, so I figured that they might be working the effort.

George no offense but you ask a lot of newbie questions..........My suggestion is find one of everything (EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO BUY IT) and take it apart and sell it.........Figure out what it's worth, if it's worth breaking down, and how much to pay again.....Monday I'm picking up four old gas pumps (Not antique or anything) I payed $80 bucks for.......To me $80 is worth the price of admision and I will know exactly what they are worth......I wish you all the best but I knew the feedback your getting was coming sooner than later..........Oh well to answer your question I don't ever remove those chips but some people sware by it

Originally Posted by mikeinreco

George no offense but you ask a lot of newbie questions.....

Yes, sometimes I do. I am good when it comes to metal recycling, and even junk recycling. However, the world of ewaste, is real different to me.

Not saying that I am totally dumb when it comes to it, but for those of you who can look at a PC and tell that it is a p4, p3, etc, or tell the full details of a stick of ram, or a hard drive, etc.

Well, I am still learning it all. I cant tell all of that stuff. I mean I get the differences between IDE and SATA hard drives if I look at them, the difference in motherboards if I look at them and their color, etc.

Just like with anything, it takes time, and when you don't know anything about sometime, you ask a question, so you can hopefully not make a mistake.

I use Google a lot to find answers to a lot of things when I get stuck.

I use this same software for my own site (and no I am not advertising anything admins/mods), and like it has been said before, the search functionality sucks. It only works if you d 2 or 3 keywords, but if you type in a sentence, well good luck.

Originally Posted by scrapperben

I think no matter how much is written it just doesn't sink in for me, but show me, just once, maybe twice, and i'll master it.
so I guess doing at least one of everything will give me just what I want to learn.
although I don't think i'll ever find an erotic vibrator out on hard rubbish day, and I do want to scrap one,
so there will still be newbie questions as there must be someone here that scrapped one?

But yeah, i'm holding at least one of everything, and some things different brands/models.

LOL buy a couple storage units and I garuntee you will find what your looking for in the BUZZ department

George, those chips are called flatpacks, it looks like a green board there, are you sure that is not a mid grade? If so it is worth it to leave them on, we usually pull the IC chips (that's the ones with legs on just 2 sides) off the brown boards only.