with apologies to the moderator, no real place for this.
After much hem hawing and procrastination, my first batches are under way.
So far my expenditure for chems and scrap has been significant, flying blind here a little cause i have no experiential data on yields.
Outlay includes shipping
Scrap 33 lbs of ram from ebay cost $179.61
50 slot CPUs $36.98
1 LB COMPUTER FINGERS HIGH YEILD <--these were nice, love to have a few hundred pounds 8) $67.51
so the total just for scrap to process was a whopping $284.10
:shock:
Acid, buckets and other chems ( i aint done either)
3 gals of HCL, 4 or 5 buckets, peroxide, etc guesstimate at $50.
so my total is $335.00 assuming my time is worthless :lol:
My scrap trimmed out was equal to 1,460 grams of fingers....
now the question is can i recover exactly 12.6410 grams of 24K to break even, assuming my time is worthless :?:
We shall see!
My first observation is that this is a hard way to make a living. I suppose that with the proper scale of production one could make a bit of cash. for 5k a month at today's melt you would have to process enough scrap to recover 189, 24k grams per month....of course 5k doesn't go that far so the number is low ball
the cost of chems
the cost of scrap
the cost of man hours
industrial rental space
waste elimination
liability insurance
Tough racket....
will the noob lose his shirt, will he make a profit, will he scream in exhasperation, will his wife grow tired of the Dr. Frankenstein routine and kick him out, because of the chems, smells and odd behaviors in the garage; will the black SUV's show up and and disappear our intrepid N00B to a bunk at Guantanamo?
Stay tuned
After much hem hawing and procrastination, my first batches are under way.
So far my expenditure for chems and scrap has been significant, flying blind here a little cause i have no experiential data on yields.
Outlay includes shipping
Scrap 33 lbs of ram from ebay cost $179.61
50 slot CPUs $36.98
1 LB COMPUTER FINGERS HIGH YEILD <--these were nice, love to have a few hundred pounds 8) $67.51
so the total just for scrap to process was a whopping $284.10
:shock:
Acid, buckets and other chems ( i aint done either)
3 gals of HCL, 4 or 5 buckets, peroxide, etc guesstimate at $50.
so my total is $335.00 assuming my time is worthless :lol:
My scrap trimmed out was equal to 1,460 grams of fingers....
now the question is can i recover exactly 12.6410 grams of 24K to break even, assuming my time is worthless :?:
We shall see!
My first observation is that this is a hard way to make a living. I suppose that with the proper scale of production one could make a bit of cash. for 5k a month at today's melt you would have to process enough scrap to recover 189, 24k grams per month....of course 5k doesn't go that far so the number is low ball
the cost of chems
the cost of scrap
the cost of man hours
industrial rental space
waste elimination
liability insurance
Tough racket....
will the noob lose his shirt, will he make a profit, will he scream in exhasperation, will his wife grow tired of the Dr. Frankenstein routine and kick him out, because of the chems, smells and odd behaviors in the garage; will the black SUV's show up and and disappear our intrepid N00B to a bunk at Guantanamo?
Stay tuned