I have a bunch of computers that I picked up a while back. I have finally been able to break them down and was excited to find some copper surprises inside them. As many of you know, the processors typically have a large aluminum heat sink mounted to them. Well, I haven't been e-scrapping for very long so I just figured all heat sinks were aluminum. Well, I pulled off one heat sink and it had some copper coloring in the middle of it. Huh, I wonder if that is a hunk of copper in there. Out comes the hack saw and I am gonna find out. I'll be ****ed, that is a nice heavy hunk of copper. I found two other heat sinks with a solid copper cylinder in the middle. Then, I looked in my box of heat sinks and found more copper. I am really pumped that I found all of this copper. I think I may keep all these nice chunks of copper or I may check the bay and see how much I can get for them. Check em out.
The cylinders are all about the same and weigh about 6.5 ounces(about 6ish troy oz for all you bullion collectors). The larger rectangles weigh about 10.5 oz each and feel like my silver 10 ozers. That is so cool.
The thinner cylinder reminds me of Ag rounds. It weighs 4 oz.
I had to lightly grind off some sort of zinc coating on the 10ozers. I will probably buff them with the dremel and see if I can get a mirror type finish on them.
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