e-waste gold recovery classes?!

I get people all the time asking if I refine the PM's, and I just laugh an say "Nope, I value my health and leave it to the folks with the experience to refine. An if your smart, you'll do the same."

My friend up at the trash co. asked me one time if I did any refining, and while we were talking his grandsons were breaking down the magnetron's (sp) from some microwaves. I was kind of watching them out of the corner of my eye when I see one getting ready to smash the beryllium wafer in the one he was working on. After I hollered "Stop" and then gently explained to all of them what that was and just how dangerous it could be to smash them, the owner thanked me and later I took him a copy of a sheet I printed off, to let him know I was not blowing smoke up his skirt. Also gave him a sheet about some of the dangers of the chemicals used in refining. I think that might be another reason why I'm still picking up computers and circuit boards from them.



He had no idea how dangerous some of this stuff could be. He does now,,,