Sell Boards or depopulate and refine yourself?

again, study the buyers thread and use what you learn to make your own choice/. it is not fair play to recommend a buyer. just be sure to choose one from the buyers we have here, and you cant go far wrong. If you choose a buyer not in our list it's a crap shoot. you may get $300 or you may get $3. it happens away from this forum all the time.

There is a well known scam co. (not a member of this board) out there with a name very similar to one of our best buyers. so be careful. I have been selling to him for over 4 years with out even a sign of a hic-up,

Sry to be so hard on you but I studied for nearly 2 years on a very Anal refining/ recovery board before I even tried to refine the simplest product after 4 years I wouldn't even consider trying to refine any of the more complex like whole boards.



Pop some pop corn grab a Coke and spend a couple of hours each night for a couple of weeks. You will be amazed at what you will learn. I was amazed at how really dumb I was. mcw

Originally Posted by seth1984

Thanks for the advice I am still intimidated by the whole idea of using chemicals at this point but if I could do a hot sand bath to remove capacitors and such off these low grade boards that don't pay much to start with I thought it might be more profitable. I have managed to collect about 12 PC's thus far

Heat gun or maybe a used hair dryer but I can usually get all the stuff of value off by manually pulling/cutting them off. I don't know of too many small components (cap's-resistors-diodes) that have any value worth taking off. Low grade boards (usually brown on one side) are not worth shipping. Double green boards have about 8 different categories, that's where we come in by educating you about the different classes of boards.
I just sold some greenies that paid low price of .25 a lb.