Need e scrap advice

I pull the mlcc caps off boards, theyre worth about $100 pound so its like free money, so far ive accumulated about a pound worth of them

ribbon cables are easy to process, i pull the connectors off the ends then pull the gold pins out of the them. I am left with plated gold pieces at $40 pound and insulated wire at $1 pound.

The payout on the gold plated metal over leaving the connectors intact is about 3 to 1 so i take the time to pull the pins.


AS VERYOLDGUY SAID
You can make money 2 ways.
1 - Do what others won't.
2 - Do what others can't.

The cable I am talking about are the small ones that run the laser.
About 3- 6" long depending. Have no idea what these people are doing with them because they are not even gold plated. Scrap value can't be much.
I was wanting to sort of help because of the people here are great! But also was wondering if there are other items that are this way inside the computers. I mean besides the cpu's etc...

I will try to post some later today. (tonight). Hope it will help you guys I found this out by a fluke and being an$l retentive. Business and engineering have made me some what paranoid I check and recheck everything.

Originally Posted by VERYOLDGUY

The cable I am talking about are the small ones that run the laser.
About 3- 6" long depending. Have no idea what these people are doing with them because they are not even gold plated. Scrap value can't be much.
I was wanting to sort of help because of the people here are great! But also was wondering if there are other items that are this way inside the computers. I mean besides the cpu's etc...

you must be talking about silver mylar ribbon, i havnt seen a buyer for it yet