Experience from Bulgaria

[glorycloud]

The pentium MMX chip you show they pay 83 cents per chip. 8)

 

[plamenppp]

Not bad at all I can buy the green ones for less than 0.1 USD per piece and I can have motherboards for free.

 

[Irons]

Not bad at all I can buy the green ones for less than 0.1 USD per piece and I can have motherboards for free.

You might be able to make a profit on Palladium recovery at that price. 8)

 

[plamenppp]

Palladium? I don't think so. There is no one in Bulgaria who buys palladium. Moreover it is much cheaper than gold.

 

[plamenppp]

You will surely like this!!!

I got these for a high price - I had to spend an hour fixing a stupid PC an half a litter diesel fuel. Some of the items have been "robbed" as there are missing gold plated transistors Fortunately, some of them are still fine. I can not take a picture of all of them because there are some rally big "animals". Any idea how much Pt and Kd contains the "things" from the other picture?

 

[patnor1011]

I would like to remind you about your language. I am quite sure that you will not find sentence like this in all 51.500+ posts on this forum. I am glad that you are happy but next time please show that in some other way.
As for your scrap in last pictures this is not looking to me as some high yield boards, they may produce some silver or Pd certainly more than gold.
Except from one board with fingers in the middle I cant see that others will produce any gold at all.

Thank you, patnor, for your diligence in keeping watch on the board.

Harold

 

[plamenppp]

Notice taken. I apologize for my language but I was too excited.

Today I found some more of these "ИЗОТ" parts. About 10 kg. The cost me a bottle of bier - 2 L.

Black and white TVs are also a good place to find some precious metals. I should post some pictures.

 

[teclu]

Pt and Kd!?

The parts of the first picture are transistors in TO plastic package, may contain some gold, break/crush a few and you will see...

In second picture you have 15 piece of СП...(3 or 5) russian variable potentiometer, the cursor of these potentiometer is AgPd20 alloy.
As Patnor said, the gold are in fingers, I see 3 boards with unused fingers, maybe russian fingers-1mg/pin, Au and Pd in 2 RFT connectors, and gold also maybe in IC's, 0-4 mg/ piece.

About language please follow the advice of Patnor!

teclu

 

[plamenppp]

Yes, teclu. It is written PtKd on them. I am gathering more of them now. And on the second picture everything is from Bulgaria. There might be some russian parts and chps but they are not many. I still can not find a big calculating machine "ЕЛКА" (some of the parts on the second pictures are from there). I know that inside there is as much Au, Ag, Pt and Pd as to buy a four room apartment. Probably someone else has known this in 1989 when the communism felt down and chaos began ...

 

[teclu]

Notice taken. I apologize for my language but I was too excited.

Today I found some more of these "ИЗОТ" parts. About 10 kg. The cost me a bottle of bier - 2 L.

Black and white TVs are also a good place to find some precious metals. I should post some pictures.

Can you make a few pictures with TV boards where these golden transistors are mounted?
You have 10Kg of these parts?
In your picture, in the left side, are some AgPd cursors from russian potentiometers?

teclu

 

[plamenppp]

Telcu, is the potentiometer the square part with the circle on it and the long rectangle part? The have place for a small screwdriver on them. I have 10 of the square ones from 2 Pravetz's monitors. They have a small thin metal circle inside - Pd 600 (60% Pd). Pleace, telcu, if you have time and wish draw some red circles on my pictures and post them

 

[gorfman6154]

plamamppp, it's great you are aquiring scrap. Just remember you need to amass large amounts of each type to get a gram or two of PM's.

Google search engine is a very good resource to identify unknown parts. Typing in the part number brought up many links to your TO-92 transmitters. Here is one link.

http://www.tinyurl.com/5r2kxo

If you do a little research, you can find the material makup of the part.

As for the boards, clip the fingers, gold plated parts, and clip open some of the small ic's to see if any are gold inside.

When you get around to processing the parts, it's always best to do batches of similar items. Each item might have recovery methods best suited for them. That is where this Forum will be invaluable. Learn to use the search feature, and read, and study the posts. Of great importance are the Safety (for yours and others)and Disposal and neutralizing(of chemical and metal residues) threads.

Good luck in your treasure hunt, Gorfman.

 

[plamenppp]

Notice taken. I apologize for my language but I was too excited.

Today I found some more of these "ИЗОТ" parts. About 10 kg. The cost me a bottle of bier - 2 L.

Black and white TVs are also a good place to find some precious metals. I should post some pictures.

Can you make a few pictures with TV boards where these golden transistors are mounted?
You have 10Kg of these parts?
In your picture, in the left side, are some AgPd cursors from russian potentiometers?

teclu

No, telcu. I don't have 10 kg of them. I have about 10 kg of the "ИЗОТ" parts. Most of them are worthless - the may contain some silver but nothing more - just big communistic surface with some chips on it (even the pins of the chips are not gold plated). About the TVs - I am not able to make pictures - the boards are in a room full of boards and I don't know what is what any more Sorry ...

 

[teclu]

Yes, teclu. It is written PtKd on them. I am gathering more of them now. And on the second picture everything is from Bulgaria. There might be some russian parts and chps but they are not many. I still can not find a big calculating machine "ЕЛКА" (some of the parts on the second pictures are from there). I know that inside there is as much Au, Ag, Pt and Pd as to buy a four room apartment. Probably someone else has known this in 1989 when the communism felt down and chaos began ...

Ok, plamenppp now I'm understand, because in tv's is not realy find such parts.
I know about cold war and about communism , I'm your neighbor, I'm from Romania.
Do you know about http://www.iestmetal.com from Silistra?


teclu

 

[plamenppp]

Telcu, I had no idea about this in Silistra. I'm pretty sure they buy & sell all the stuff I'm gathering but they how much profit man can made from them and prices will be high ... I will go there in the next few week. If they sell something for a good price I will buy it but I deeply doubt about it. Where in Romania are you from? If you are near Constanca we can meet at ***** Voda (RO) or Kardam (BG) and exchange some experience.

 

[gorfman6154]

plamenppp, now that's more like it, the gold plated transisters run around $180-$200 a pound.

As in mining, you want to high grade, or get the good parts. Cpu's, fingers, pins, and other gold plated components. Your starting to get a good eye for your e-scrap.

Those transisters, after you snip them open, work very nicely in Lazersteve's stripping cell.

Good luck, Gorfman.

 

[plamenppp]

plamenppp, now that's more like it, the gold plated transisters run around $180-$200 a pound.

As in mining, you want to high grade, or get the good parts. Cpu's, fingers, pins, and other gold plated components. Your starting to get a good eye for your e-scrap.

Those transisters, after you snip them open, work very nicely in Lazersteve's stripping cell.

Good luck, Gorfman.

180-200 $ pound? What kind of pound? Transistors with heads/hats removed or not? There are a few kinds of gold plated transistors - fully gold plated, bottom gold plated with plated legs and only legs plated.

180-200 for which one?

 

[teclu]

Telcu, is the potentiometer the square part with the circle on it and the long rectangle part? The have place for a small screwdriver on them. I have 10 of the square ones from 2 Pravetz's monitors. They have a small thin metal circle inside - Pd 600 (60% Pd). Pleace, telcu, if you have time and wish draw some red circles on my pictures and post them

http://i23.tinypic.com/hfml65i.jpg
http://i65.tinypic.com/4gop561.jpg
http://i14.tinypic.com/hd4gf44.jpg

Brasov-Transylvania

teclu

 

[plamenppp]

Thank you, telcu. This is a good website. I will remember it. My first hand experience is still sleeping in Varna and I know from him about the square ones I wonder what else can I find in the scrap buying companies around They usually buy Al, Fe, Cu, Zn, Ni, brass and stuff like these. I'm pretty sure they buy computers for scrap.

I have two types of long potentiometers - the first ones are made of plastic and the second ones are made of Al. On the picture the firs one is from an Al one and the others are from plastic one. There is a big difference in the color. What are second ones made of?

 

[gorfman6154]

The quote of $180-$200, is for a U.S. pound(#). With a mixed lot it would be hard to tell. Fully plated, usually would yield more than partially plated.

To get around that price, you would need to refine these your self. If you have a large quantity, you could send them to a refiner or other forum member for processing.

Are you just looking to sell the parts, or are you interested in refining them yourself?
Gorfman