cd-dvd roms, r\w. etc

[no1special]

Is there any significant scrap value in desktop or laptop cd-roms or dvd roms or their boards. I tried a search on this and came up blank.

 

[maynman1751]

Not much. There are gold pins in the connector and some chips and smd's on the boards, but I don't know if the chips have any values. Other than that there's the steel frame and small amounts of copper.

 

[patnor1011]

Most of black IC chip packages there contain gold bonding wires. Small resistors and monolithic capacitors for silver and possibly Pd.

 

[gold4mike]

Boardsort is currently paying $2.40 per pound for CD-ROM boards under the "Peripheral boards" category.

We tear them apart and sell the motors, steel and wire to the local scrap yard and the boards to Boardsort.