The Gustavus Thread

[miked]

What is the material? Mike

[gustavus]

What is the material? Mike

Incinerated IC's, then ball milled.

[Bear]

Groovy! Dude I've thought this, but never said anything, on drilling rigs we used centrifuges to separate heavier fluids. Have you ever looked at one of theirs, or considered using them ? No doubt there's some in surplus, discards, or secondhand sales floating around(unless they've all gone to iran ; )

[BRASSCATCHER]

Are they all regular ic's or are they the ones with the gold and silver windows?

[miked]

Gus, have you ever tryed using a blue bowl? Mike

[gustavus]

Bear centrifuges are expensive, like $200,000.00 for a large one found in the oil field. The small commercially made one shown above is $8820.00

Brasscatcher just regular IC's and surface mount capacitors, cpu's, ram plus a few other goodies sheared from motherboards.

Yes miked I had considered the blue bowel as an option along with building a shaker table, the centrifuge won hands down on recoverable metals.

[Bear]

capacitors have gold? What type capacitor would you look for on that?

[gustavus]

capacitors have gold? What type capacitor would you look for on that?

Surface mounts, palladium and silver.

I don't cherry pick, everything gets sheared, incinerated, ball milled then concentrated. This is the reason behind building a centrifuge I'm no good at panning and needed a much faster way to get those concentrates into the lab.

[BarrenRealms007]

Excellent job.

[gustavus]

Excellent job.

Thanks Barren, what I find most despicable is that a whole truck load of mother boards is reduced to a few pints of concentrates

I've learned so much by building this small centrifuge that I'm already planning a much larger build.

[BarrenRealms007]

Thanks Barren, what I find most despicable is that a whole truck load of mother boards is reduced to a few pints of concentrates

I've learned so much by building this small centrifuge that I'm already planning a much larger build.

Yea I know what you mean. It all goes up in smoke with a lot of useless ash. I'm anxious to see what your final out come is on this.

[gustavus]

Yea I know what you mean. It all goes up in smoke with a lot of useless ash. I'm anxious to see what your final out come is on this.

I'm about half done with the run when the motor went up in smoke, anyhow I brought the small plastic tobacco tub in to scale, half full it weighs 2.70 lbs. of concentrates

[BarrenRealms007]

I'm about half done with the run when the motor went up in smoke, anyhow I brought the small plastic tobacco tub in to scale, half full it weighs 2.70 lbs. of concentrates

That sounds like it was working then before the blow up.

[gustavus]

Incinerated IC's come out as black ash, this is the concentrates I'm getting from my ash, should make a very nice button.

[gustavus]

From the first picture this is the black colour of incinerated IC's the second picture same colour after being run through the centrifuge - black.



Discard trash no value.

[gustavus]

A ton of motherboards whittled down to 6 lbs.. I'm guessing your looking at a tad over $10,000.00 in that plastic tub.

[PartTimeScrapper]

A ton of motherboards whittled down to 6 lbs.. I'm guessing your looking at a tad over $10,000.00 in that plastic tub.

How long before you will know?

[gustavus]

How long before you will know?

Been at this project two years already so there's no rush on my part, one thing I've learned over that period is that the price of precious metals keeps going up.

In truth maybe a month or two, I would like some hard cash to purchase a milling machine, maybe have a new water well drilled. A man has to look after his priority's.

[gustavus]

I sent some pictures of the tan coloured cons to a friend who has advised me not to send this material to a refinery but to process in house. When this friend gets excited I listen up.

[EcoSafe]

Gus, is that estimated $10,000 yeald from 2000 lbs of computer mother boards alone. if so, then, would the yeald from server M boards be much greater. and what % i=of increase would you expect from ram ?