Quick question about gold plated ribbon cable pins

**lousypirate** · 02-12-2014, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by etack

they came from ide ribbon cables.

Eric

any idea of what they are worth value wise per lb/oz? just curious as to why they are a waste. I think I can do about one connector every 20 seconds if I'm opening up the plastic while it's still connected to the ribbon and pulling pins that way.

**etack** · 02-12-2014, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by lousypirate

any idea of what they are worth value wise per lb/oz? just curious as to why they are a waste. I think I can do about one connector every 20 seconds if I'm opening up the plastic while it's still connected to the ribbon and pulling pins that way.

about $10.00# or .25g/# in recovered gold.

Eric