I just received a small digital camera the other day and found it to be inoperable, I spent the time and took it completely apart and shorted all the metal and plastic, I was bout to throw the ribbon wire in the wire bin when I noticed gold plating on the ends of then where they connect to the pcbs. I was wondering how do you remove the plastic coating to recover the gold trace or is it just on the ends and I should cut them off and save then for future recovery.



Please do not say its not worth it, I am bored when im not working both my jobs and this is a good way to keep me busy, I don't care of the gold plating isn't even worth $0.00000001