plamenppp
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Hello, everone. I am new in this forum but I've been keen on precious metals for a few years. Recently, I started collecting old computer parts (cpus, mainboards, video cards, ttc.) from everywhere I could. I have 15 cpus with pins (in Bulgaria we call them legs) cut, 15-20 mainboards from socket A computers, 3 mainboards from comunistic computers called PRAVETZ ( http://www.pravetz.info - click on the british flag to read in English), 5-6 HDDs (they are rich in aluminium, whis is expensive in Bulgaria - 2-3 USD per kilogram), 5-6 CDs, 5-6 FDDs, 20-25 video cards and some other stuff. Today I started looking for useless parts in the firms dealing with repairing computers, and guess what? Most of them gave me parts for free! And they promised to call me when they gather more of them. Some gave me nothing, at all 
But one asked for money. We negotiated and the agreed to sell me cpus (socket A) for 1 lev (lev is the currency in Bulgaria - BGN) whis is less than a dollar (1 USD = 1.32 lev) and mainboars for 1.5 levs. I wonder if this is a good price. I prepaid 30 levs for 30 mainboards and 30 cpus. I looked last night at the forum but the information is so much that I can not read it. Moreover I am a student and I have to study hard. So, my question is: "Do they worth the price?" A wage here is 25 levs (this is a middle wage after taxes) and goldsmiths buy 1 gram 14k gold for 21 levs (and sell it for 30-40-50 levs after the melt it and make new jewels), that is why I start wondering if I can gain some profit. I cut the pins of the cpus because I want to use as less acids and chemicals as possible. It is hard to get acid because they do not sell it to everyone anymore - many people were splashed with acid for revenge. It will cost me more hours with the scissors for wire but I will damage my health less with chemicals. Am I right?
From the Pravetzs I got some very interesting chips - eprom (or something like this). They have small round transparent window in the middle and under it there is a silicon crystal. Under the crystal there is something, that in my opinion is palladium (or may be not). On each one mainboard of the computers there are 7-8 of these. Not only this but also 8 cuplungs/slots(if it is called cuplung) which has gold plated pins (legs) - heavlily plated - all plated from head to toe (about 480 of them). And this is not all! There are also a few transistors with plated legs (3 legs) and plated "bottoms". The one I am really interested in are the condensators (not the cylindric ones). I was told they contain palladium. There are three types of them - blue, brown and green (15 years ago - 1kg of the green ones = 1000 levs). I have collected them in a small box and wonder what to do next - to gather more or smash what I have with a hammer There also a large number of these in the FDDs (HUGE FDDs I think 9" or something like this. The diskettes are soft.). There are also trimers - plastic parts with 3 pins/legs. When I smash them inside there are three gold plated parts but the trimers are very small, unfortunately. There are also some other gold plated parts but they are few Some of the cables have also plated "end parts". There is also some copper - about 300 grams, some aluminum - about 300 grams, some iron -about 1 kg or more. In the monitor the situation is much different - the are poor in precious metals But they are rich in alu, fe and cu. I wonder if there is silver film on the other side of the glass.
I wonder if anyone has ever faced a communistic stuff like this and you tell me how much it cost in gold. A guy asked me for 50 levs per computer + monitor without the floppies.
I also have a friend who can arrange some "cats" for me (the catalyser system in the exhaust system of the cars). How much can I earn from European cats? How much cost the refining of one of them?
Is the surface under the "Pentium pro" gold plated (look at the pictures)?
So, I can get a lot of scrap and I've only searched for it in one town (400 000 residents). I wonder how much costs the mainboard scrap per tone?
I apologize for my terrible English
But one asked for money. We negotiated and the agreed to sell me cpus (socket A) for 1 lev (lev is the currency in Bulgaria - BGN) whis is less than a dollar (1 USD = 1.32 lev) and mainboars for 1.5 levs. I wonder if this is a good price. I prepaid 30 levs for 30 mainboards and 30 cpus. I looked last night at the forum but the information is so much that I can not read it. Moreover I am a student and I have to study hard. So, my question is: "Do they worth the price?" A wage here is 25 levs (this is a middle wage after taxes) and goldsmiths buy 1 gram 14k gold for 21 levs (and sell it for 30-40-50 levs after the melt it and make new jewels), that is why I start wondering if I can gain some profit. I cut the pins of the cpus because I want to use as less acids and chemicals as possible. It is hard to get acid because they do not sell it to everyone anymore - many people were splashed with acid for revenge. It will cost me more hours with the scissors for wire but I will damage my health less with chemicals. Am I right?From the Pravetzs I got some very interesting chips - eprom (or something like this). They have small round transparent window in the middle and under it there is a silicon crystal. Under the crystal there is something, that in my opinion is palladium (or may be not). On each one mainboard of the computers there are 7-8 of these. Not only this but also 8 cuplungs/slots(if it is called cuplung) which has gold plated pins (legs) - heavlily plated - all plated from head to toe (about 480 of them). And this is not all! There are also a few transistors with plated legs (3 legs) and plated "bottoms". The one I am really interested in are the condensators (not the cylindric ones). I was told they contain palladium. There are three types of them - blue, brown and green (15 years ago - 1kg of the green ones = 1000 levs). I have collected them in a small box and wonder what to do next - to gather more or smash what I have with a hammer
There also a large number of these in the FDDs (HUGE FDDs I think 9" or something like this. The diskettes are soft.). There are also trimers - plastic parts with 3 pins/legs. When I smash them inside there are three gold plated parts but the trimers are very small, unfortunately. There are also some other gold plated parts but they are few Some of the cables have also plated "end parts". There is also some copper - about 300 grams, some aluminum - about 300 grams, some iron -about 1 kg or more. In the monitor the situation is much different - the are poor in precious metals But they are rich in alu, fe and cu. I wonder if there is silver film on the other side of the glass.I wonder if anyone has ever faced a communistic stuff like this and you tell me how much it cost in gold. A guy asked me for 50 levs per computer + monitor without the floppies.
I also have a friend who can arrange some "cats" for me (the catalyser system in the exhaust system of the cars). How much can I earn from European cats? How much cost the refining of one of them?
Is the surface under the "Pentium pro" gold plated (look at the pictures)?
So, I can get a lot of scrap and I've only searched for it in one town (400 000 residents). I wonder how much costs the mainboard scrap per tone?
I apologize for my terrible English
