Ive got about 5 lbs of IC chips off of ram memory I might throw in an smelting Kiln, does anybody know if it is worth it?
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Ive got about 5 lbs of IC chips off of ram memory I might throw in an smelting Kiln, does anybody know if it is worth it?
Why did you remove the chips from the gold ram??
You could have sold the complete ram to a buyer here for $18.75 a pound.
If you have removed the IC chips off the memory sticks then its probably cost you some $ if you could have sold them whole to a escrap buyer.
The $ value that they see is more than what we see, theres Silver & Tin in the solder & Copper tracks inside the fibreglass & even that waste fibreglass can get them $ as a flux/cap in Steel furnaces ( i read somewhere )
But if you have a furnace kiln.
You could do 'Patnors method' ( Gold refining forum ) & roast all of them till the plastics carbon dust, sieve it to remove the chip dies & then Gold pan it to get the Gold, & maybe Silver wires.
Yeah Eesakiwi im just going to toss them in my kiln melt them down
sounds like a topic for the gold refiner forums.
Sorta, i think that anything past that is definitely GRF territory though.Quote:
Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper
Its not really "refining" & its not much different from plain Gold panning & doesn't involve chemicals in any way so its on the SMF side of the SMF - GRF border.
I'm not in favour of refining, or using any chemicals in any way at all.
I have been there a long time ago & its quite very dangerous.
Its got a huge setup co$t, its very time involving with invasive ongoing co$t$. Low return even when experience is gained, at a large co$t too and the result has to be then made into a tradable form, independantly tested in a proper Laboratory assay testing house.
And then sold.
Its a lot lot easier to just process the escrap into its grades, sell it & buy a standardized Gold coin with a known value.
Patnors method gets you Gold wires ( & probably Silver wires mixed in with them, maybe not ) out of a few Lbs of IC chips at home without much danger.
Enough to put into a tiny glass vial as a display or such demonstration.
Even melting those into a ball would be difficult without spending all of the return in a crucible.
Its not much different from collecting Silver electrical contacts & thats possibly more dangerous if the person is melting the solder backing to get the contacts off.
The reason?
I will write here because its a Safety Issue & not to be ignored.
Since the Solders quite possibly got Cadmium mixed with Silver and Cadmium is volatile & will evaporate with the heat & cool down in the air & get breathed in and/or settle out & its quite poisonous if inhaled or in skin contact.
I'm just using this opportunity to remind anybody who might be thinking of doing this.