i've been looking at some of the threads and see people talking about gold being in laptops and other computers. i've also heard its in cell phones, where is it? i've never seen it or maybe i just don't know what to look for. help?
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i've been looking at some of the threads and see people talking about gold being in laptops and other computers. i've also heard its in cell phones, where is it? i've never seen it or maybe i just don't know what to look for. help?
Another one bites the dust. Or should I say concrete in this case. Flame suit on!!!
The boards containing actual Gold Bullion are really hard to find. It takes years of sifting through thousands of pound of boards to finally "strike it rich".
I have chose to stay the course and try to make it to the 1% that we love to hate now a days.
So far the best I have found is 2 twenty dollars bills that were stashed under the keyboard in a 1995 IBM ThinkPad.
The hunt goes on. From bullion to billionaires.
Electronics RecyclingQuote:
Originally Posted by bigdog72
This is where I would start, lots of discussions here on back. Just like was mentioned in another post you have to want to read cause we're not going to make you read it. See the pins?? There's pins and fingers among others.
http://boardsort.com/hdboard.jpg
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...-ehNrucyp-U8Q7
Is Skippy back?
It's inside, you have to look inside. Go to ebay and type these keywords to search for "gold recovery". You will find that most of the posts have to do with people, usually asking too much for it, selling e-waste. You will see a fairly good representation of material that is generally, for the most part, worth to process and recover the values in PMs from.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigdog72
You can skip over the hard drive platters because they don't really have anything in them worth the effort in recovering. The rest are probably good examples to learn by. You will probably see cell phone boards, ceramic chips, pins, etc etc etc.
Scott
so it's inside some ic's and cpu's? along with some connecting pins
Here you go. gold on a board.
http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...e-56464441.jpg
Forget the gold...its Leverite you should be looking for.:rolleyes:
Yup, yer on the right track now BD, a little more searching and reading on this awesome forum and U'll be tons wiser in that section of scrapping. Do you scrap anything now besides copper? :) lbQuote:
Originally Posted by bigdog72
yes, what ever i can find! haha i generally know what to look for but copper and aluminum are the high dollar ones for me, i don't yet have that much income of scrap but i'm hoping to change that soon
I have been saving up to by some 3D glasses to find it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER