Experience from Bulgaria

[plamenppp]

The scrap is OK. The cases are not on the picture. There are 5 cases. The iron is 0.10 $ per kg. There is also some plastic covers and some plastic things. The plastic is 0.14$ per kg. There are 5 cpus - 486 (antique), 3xPentium (antique) and AMD 6. 5 power supplies - they contain aluminum and copper. Aluminum - 0.80 $ per kg (it is light and will much less than 1 kg), copper - about 4 per kg. The power supplies contain a lot of iron, too. There are about a dozen motherboards - some of them are hidden under the others. There are 4 FDDs - 2 small and 2 big (they are antiques and I will not destroy them ), 3-4 HDDs - 1-2 GB each. There are many cables - may be with some gold on the connectors. There are some lan cards and some other boards that I have never seen before. I think 11 $ is a good price for all of this moreover the gold is expensive now. The guy I've bought this from will connect me with other people who have old stuff for sale. 11 $ is a good price.

 

[plamenppp]

After an hour hunting in the town ... 1.5 USD for this. It is working by the way.

 

[plamenppp]

Here is something I've been told about long ago by a friend - the СМ chip. I found two of them in a printer "ROBOTRON" yesterday. Inside the slots for the other chips were gold plated too. There were some blue Pd capacitators also. I wish I could get more of these ...

 

[plamenppp]

Here are some nice bulgarian capacitators containing Pd and Ag (not cleaned from the legs yet) and 174 cleaned (7-8 of them not) transistors containing gold plating. There was a .doc file with electronic components. It says there is no PM in transistors and capacitators ... There were some potentiometers containing Pd. .doc - NO PM IN POTENTIOMETERS.

All these capacitators and most of the transistors came from the big bulgarian FDDs for Pravetz 8Д computers.

 

[Anonymous]

plamenppp you should set your picture quality lower, your pictures at 1.2 meg are way to large for the folks still using dial up.

Your camera settings are.

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[plamenppp]

I will take the remark. Why are you using dial-up? Even in a country like Bulgaria people who use dial-up are less than 2-3%.

 

[Harold_V]

I will take the remark. Why are you using dial-up? Even in a country like Bulgaria people who use dial-up are less than 2-3%.

Here, there are many areas that are not served by high speed connections. It's not uncommon to have vast open areas with little population. Those of us that live in such areas have few options other than a hard wired telephone line, which does not permit high speed connections. You must post with these people in mind if you expect to be welcome on this forum.

There is absolutely NO NEED for pictures larger than 100 kb in size, regardless of the type of connection one enjoys. It is expected of you that you will respect the fact that someone, someplace, is paying for the server to host this site. If readers were to post pictures of the magnitude in question (greater than 1 mb), the site would be overwhelmed. Please restrict your picture size, for the good of all.

Harold

 

[Palladium]

Reminded me of going to IMAX.
I can read the thread count of the blanket.

 

[goldsilverpro]

There is absolutely NO NEED for pictures larger than 100 kb in size, regardless of the type of connection one enjoys.

I agree. Someone recently posted, all at once, about 35 photos on a thread - a total of about 5 megs. Took quite awhile for me and I have DSL. I can't imagine how long it took Harold. Very irritating!

 

[dorki22]

Plamen hello, I just love this thread, I live in Slovenia, there is still a lot of old electronics from Yugoslavia all around.

Are you sure, if that capacitors in the bag on the right side of the picture (blue and brown pieces) really contain Pd or Ag? They look very casual to me, I see them on old TVs all the time. Have you tested any?

Simon

 

[plamenppp]

dorki22, they contain Pd & Ag. I've seen people buying and selling them with kilos. The blue and brown are cheap - they are from my country. Teclu buys the green ones (made in Russia/USSR) for 150$/kg. Look at the sign at the top of the green one - I call it the Russian sign. By the way, the green ones do not have ceramic cover but only paint. There are russian blue and brown capacitators with this sign. If you can collect - collect as many as you can because we are running out of them

The size of the picture is 87 kb.

 

[Harold_V]

The size of the picture is 87 kb.

And it serves the purpose perfectly!

Thanks for your cooperation.

Harold

 

[dorki22]

dorki22, they contain Pd & Ag. I've seen people buying and selling them with kilos. The blue and brown are cheap - they are from my country. Teclu buys the green ones (made in Russia/USSR) for 150$/kg. Look at the sign at the top of the green one - I call it the Russian sign. By the way, the green ones do not have ceramic cover but only paint. There are russian blue and brown capacitators with this sign. If you can collect - collect as many as you can because we are running out of them

The size of the picture is 87 kb.

Vau :shock: Good to know. I've "lost" many of them, i just ignored it. Will have to pay a lot more of attention next time :twisted:

Looking forward hearing some more about more "russian" tehnologie. It looks like a big pool of PGMs, waiting to be found. Will add some of my pictures here, if you dont mind.

Simon

 

[plamenppp]

dorki22, they contain Pd & Ag. I've seen people buying and selling them with kilos. The blue and brown are cheap - they are from my country. Teclu buys the green ones (made in Russia/USSR) for 150$/kg. Look at the sign at the top of the green one - I call it the Russian sign. By the way, the green ones do not have ceramic cover but only paint. There are russian blue and brown capacitators with this sign. If you can collect - collect as many as you can because we are running out of them

The size of the picture is 87 kb.

Vau :shock: Good to know. I've "lost" many of them, i just ignored it. Will have to pay a lot more of attention next time :twisted:

Looking forward hearing some more about more "russian" tehnologie. It looks like a big pool of PGMs, waiting to be found. Will add some of my pictures here, if you dont mind.

Simon

I don't mind. The rule is "Less than 100 kb for a picture". Take close shots.

 

[golddie]

What are these capacitors used for and do they have these in Canada
The capacitors I took apart from the old television had aluminum

 

[plamenppp]

The capacitator is an important part used in the electronics. There capacitatorswith palladium, I'm afraid, can not be found in Canada. They are typical for the "Ex Glory Communistic Countries". It is normal to find aluminum capacitators in TVs. It is sad when you find the shiny Al foin inside ...

 

[Irons]

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

I guess you changed your mind. :lol:

 

[patnor1011]

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

I guess you changed your mind. :lol:

... and 20 times more expensive than silver...

 

[plamenppp]

I've tryed at least 20 goldsmiths - nobody wants to buy Pd. I've tryed some specialized firms for metals - they work only with abroad companies. Only the companies for scrap buy parts containing Pd - they pay almost nothing. I cool goldsmith told me that I can sell the Pd in Turkey. For now I'll collect only alloys containing Pd and wait for a better time ...

 

[SapunovDmitry]

I am sorry to disappoint you but only green capacitor on your picture contains Pd.It is a ceramic Russian capacitor KM5 H90 and if it is H30 or H50 it also has Pt in it. Other two are aluminium foil capacitors (well maybe i am wrong about the blue one) and are not so valueable. Believe me i know what i am talking about, the company i am working for has processed about 500-750 kg of those during it's lifetime.Capacitors from TVs are almost always foil ones. Orange and yellow russian capacitors that contain Pd and sometimes the same amount of Pt should be marked KM6 H90 or 6 H90, 6 M750 , 6 M1500 , 6 H50 ,6F, 6BF H90, 6 H30 etc.
Those usually can't be found in RFT, Orion and other non Russian apparatus.
Have fun searching.