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Ok so now I have about half a 5 gallon bucket of phone plugs and jacks. Is there anything I can do with these? To me they almost look like gold inside where there is a friction connection. Or is it just brass?
Would do a search, but not sure how to do it on my phone.
if it is what i am thinking you are talking about, yes there is gold. worth roughly $2lb to the buyers on here
Yes they are gold plated. Contact etack in the buyer section. They do not weigh much and he thinks the return is much more then other gold ends per pound. I am going to send mine to him and he will tole refine them and send me back gold!
If you don't want to do that contact me before you sell them. I can not PM you, you need to have more posts before you can use the PM.
Chris
Are we talking the little plastic thingies on the ends of modular phone cords here?
That's what I'm talking about.
Well I'll be hornswoggled! Here I've been throwing phone cord in my number 2 with the ends intact.
Here's a pic of the male end of a phone adapter, so you can see the "gold",,,Quote:
Originally Posted by BurlyGuys
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"RJ11 4 Wire, 6P4C Telephone Plug for Flat Stranded Phone Cable, 6 Micron, Gold Plating",
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Female replacement jack,
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I hate taking these gold plates out. Some are so hard to get out..
I'm with you Burly, I haven't been able too find anybody to buy them so I've been throughing them out or leaving them on the wire. I'll have to look up Etact and see what his prices are. If anybody else buys them please send me a PM.
I just mix these in with my other gold connectors and send them off to a buyer. Never had a problem getting $2+ per # for them...
Yep i buy them as gold conector ends $2 a pound.
There's a lot of buyers that buy them, they just go with all the other connectors.
Thank you everybody that posted on this thread, great info.
Just an FYI it takes 14 square inches of 6 micron (235 micro inches) thick plating to make a gram of gold. The plating is only that thick on the small area that contacts the other wires, but the other part is flash plated. Not all are 6 microns or 235 micro inches most are around 50 micro inches which would take 65 square inches to make a gram.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mechanic688
I say save them and have them refines only because the amount of phone jack plugs to make a pound is huge and the amount of gold plating is far more than what is in regular monitor plugs or USB plugs per pound. this is just my thinking on this if I had a five gallon bucket of phone jacks I wold't sell them for $2.00#
I think I will do some measurements tomorrow on this to get a better idea in the amount of gold per phone jack and Ethernet jacks.
Eric
Sounds like you just found your niche besides tcaps? Make up a price for all the different types of gold conectors and start buying. You can be rich :) Personaly I just offer $2 a pound because its a good average and ive never had enuff to warrant sendig them in all by themselves. They do make good filler to a gaylord box though thats going to the refiner.Quote:
Originally Posted by etack
Dang!!!! I always thought they were brass. Thanks for the post! I learn something new everyday!
That is for the whole connector, plastic and all right?Quote:
Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper
Yep, even these, metal and all.Quote:
Originally Posted by smvulture
http://boardsort.com/connectorends.jpg
Ok, while on the subjects of plugs, I have a 5 gall8n bucket full of plug ends. What's the best way to classify them and what the hell do I do with them? I was told by a friend to hold and sell them as non ferrous. What do you think?
I have a ton of these I have been holding as well.
yep gold ends i separate a little just for a nice look upon sorting to buyers and also do a nice trim of the cords so its not access weight incase of deduction but ya $2lb is average i sell them for some go higher on ebay but its always worth trying to sell on ebay first as whole cord lots here and there i can get $1-4each cord in lots that way
$1 each for used cords is good. I buy new 12 foot cords in boxes of 100 for $90.
Eric,Quote:
Originally Posted by etack
I already talked to you about the 80186 CPU's and these cable ends but thought I would ask this here so everyone can see it.
If someone was sending you just the plugs and jacks how many would you like to refine a batch?
Chris
I learn something new every time i get i get on here. If i only knew back then what i know now i would be...............
I found this old thread interesting as I never realized the contacts on those phone plugs had gold. I just figured they were brass or such.
What got me interested is that I have lots of old modular phone stuff as telephones and their related items has been one of my favorite collectable curios themes. Just thinking on how many pounds of those connectors must be here. I wouldn't scrap anything that was usable & quality.
I still find some of the old modular home wall phone jacks at thrifts and sales and will buy all I find if the values are good. WHY do I seek those out?
SAME reason that I keep a eye pealed for the old formed steel or cast mounts that hold a vintage porcelain or cast iron sink on the wall.
They are needed if you want to mount a vintage wall phone or vintage sink and they are about as rare as hens teeth for original vintage stock.
I have hundreds of the phones and sinks,
so it don't hurt to have a few extra cartridges around to go with your boomsticks...
p.s. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?
With the gold prices falling I may just bring my gold ends to the yard here, could get $.14 a pound for them as copper content that's where they put plug ends. Shipping costs are more than the $.50 a pound for them... but will likely hold on and WAIT for Gold to Rise!
I read this thread again to refresh my memory on these cord ends. I know I have many of the phone cords as well as plenty of other computer and other high quality RCA plugs that are gold plated. I do put the usable in like new shape cords away for use.
I still use landlines as I've never had a use for mobile phones and devices. And I have plenty of electronic items that use the cords with RCA connectors.
I still will find boxes with many pounds of cords and cables at sales for free to a few dollars.
I wired all the bedrooms,kitchen,and living room with phone jacks back 25 years ago. We even had two phone lines coming into the house. It probably seems excessive but it made sense when we had four generations living under one roof. The teenagers were always talking on the phone.
Times sure have changed. I don't really have any need for a cell phone so i never bothered to get one but we're going to be going to fiber VoIP next month. All the traditional copper phone lines in this area are getting near end of life. They aren't rock solid reliable like they used to be. The phone goes out two or three times a year now. They're out for a week or more when they do fail.
I guess i gotta change with the times. It doesn't make sense to pay $ 60.00 / month for unreliable copper when i could get unlimited VoIP that is reliable for $ 15.00 / month.
My landline hasn't had any outages for years and it costs about $30.00 a month including unlimited high speed internet.
But it sounds like it might go up soon and how much is not known.
My 6 month vehicle insurance just went up about 20%.
The economy is catching up fast as prices for most consumer items and services is rising as they try and make a profit or keep from going bankrupt.
It's pretty much the same here in regard to prices going up. Electricity has just about doubled over the last few years. Prices at the grocery store are crazy. A dozen eggs are up over $ 4.00 again. About the only thing that has stayed even are fuel prices.
Ahh well ... there is one upside. You can pay off your debts with inflated dollars in times like this. We should be completely debt free in a few weeks if all goes according to plan.
With the phone thing .... our area has been in the process of converting over to fiber optic for the last few years. I'm thankful that it came in. We had broadband over the copper wires for years. That worked pretty well for our purposes when it started out but it was barely functional toward the end of it. I remember it was a lot like when we were doing the change over from dial up to broadband years ago.
I've just been hesitant to go to VoIP over the fiber network because we have a lot of storms that tear through the place every fall & winter. The utility lines get taken out with downed trees and broken poles. It's easier for them to fix a broken copper line than a fiber optic cable. The funny thing has been that the copper lines have been getting damaged but we haven't had a single service interruption since they installed fiber for our internet. That's not what i would have expected.