Hi everybody!
I'm quite a newbie around here (and dealing with recovering gold from scrap), so I'd like a small piece of your wisdom if it's not too much to ask.
First of all say that I checked the forum and I realize that most of you don't see very useful the use of the soldering iron because it takes a lot of time and effort to get the gold fingers, but I'd like to explain my point: for me probably this is going to be something I'd do once in my lifetime, something more like for the pleasure of doing it and to see if I can do it, more than for the gold itself. So, after being a time researching and looking at different ways of getting the gold I found this and I liked it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPXY8e7-J9Y
Take in consideration that I have a lot of respect to the chemicals, so I'd like to avoid a big use of them because of that, because it isn't going to be a big operation (I just got about 60 ram sticks and 30 old firewire PCI cards) and because probably I won't be using them again. That's why this method seemed to fit to me, it's true that it takes time and dedication, but looks like it can be done with not too much resources and I can borrow most of them.
I'll save the IC from the ram because who knows, maybe in a future I'll try to get the gold from them, but for now only the gold of the fingers. So, looking at my situation, do you think that this is a good approach? Do you have any suggestions or advices?
Thanks in advance for your time and knowledge!!
I'm quite a newbie around here (and dealing with recovering gold from scrap), so I'd like a small piece of your wisdom if it's not too much to ask.
First of all say that I checked the forum and I realize that most of you don't see very useful the use of the soldering iron because it takes a lot of time and effort to get the gold fingers, but I'd like to explain my point: for me probably this is going to be something I'd do once in my lifetime, something more like for the pleasure of doing it and to see if I can do it, more than for the gold itself. So, after being a time researching and looking at different ways of getting the gold I found this and I liked it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPXY8e7-J9Y
Take in consideration that I have a lot of respect to the chemicals, so I'd like to avoid a big use of them because of that, because it isn't going to be a big operation (I just got about 60 ram sticks and 30 old firewire PCI cards) and because probably I won't be using them again. That's why this method seemed to fit to me, it's true that it takes time and dedication, but looks like it can be done with not too much resources and I can borrow most of them.
I'll save the IC from the ram because who knows, maybe in a future I'll try to get the gold from them, but for now only the gold of the fingers. So, looking at my situation, do you think that this is a good approach? Do you have any suggestions or advices?
Thanks in advance for your time and knowledge!!