Welcome to the forum. Take the time to read the sticky threads first and then branch out with your studies. Mike.
Welcome to the forum. Take the time to read the sticky threads first and then branch out with your studies. Mike.
"Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}
Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked
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Thank you for the welcomes! Bear, my nickname is usually Jillbear - nice to meet a fellow ursine.
Mike, been working through the stickies and a few hundred threads of interest. Learning a lot about escrap and plucking apart some boards as we speak. Lots of fun learning what capacitators, transformers and inductors are.
Some early ewaste thoughts, if anyone has answers: One person wrote about silver in the crystals, but he didn't sound certain about that one. They appear to be aluminum? I'm picking them off anyway, since the mindless picking is relaxing. It would take a whole lot of these things to make a pound.
The ICs are hard to pry off with a screwdriver. Someone mentioned using a wood chisel and hammer, but I need to find a wood chisel first.
Another person mentioned 35% palladium in the 5-10 tiny chips between the normal chips on the ram boards, but I can't seem to figure out where those are - are we talking miniscule IC sizes?
More about me: living this month in Orlando, and after that, either somewhere in AZ or North Carolina. I'm addicted to scrapping, but never took anything apart before. It's a whole new world, and a fun one - even though I already gouged a flap off my toe on a heavy iron motor. I had my tetanus shot last year, so that's good.
My goal is to save up enough in junking metals to use as a down payment on a house. Tired of living on the road.
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