good morning (or noon/evening/night.. whenever your reading this
I'm going to start an scrap electronics refinery (small scale). and would like your input to see if you guys think I'm on the right track.
short summary:
start with the scrap that I have.
sell the easy to separate stuff (copper from wires, Aluminum from heat sinks & HDD's)
strip all board to the bare components.
use the money from there to invest in chemicals so I can de-plate the gold fingers & pins for a semi-easy gold recovery.
'pyrolize' the ic's/flatpacks and crush them by hand, panning out the gold internal wires.
(put the rest aside for further processing later for the stuff I missed)
with the money from that gold, I'll make myself a cheap ball mill, density seperator & HHO torch.
& then I'll do the more refined processing of all the other components for silver/palladium/missed gold/ect.
then either a:
with that money I'll start buying small quantaties of scrap electronics from people/friends (or see if anyone is willing to donate for free)
and continue to process & inventing
or b:
since I live close to gold bearing ground, I might buy a claim, and mine for gold, using the techniques I've learned to get the best yield from my concentrates & make a better density separator (I think I can do better then the humble sluice)
The Long:
This is what I have:
-Free time (lots of it)
-humble little pile of scrap electronics (see below)
-lots of tools
-free electricity (within reason)
-space to work
-misalliances things (household items, firewood, ect)
-a wide verity of experience in almost everything from programming, to working on cars, to factory work, etc etc etc.
-access to a vehicle with free gas for smaller occasional trips.
things lacking:
cash = $0. (this project will have to be self sustaining)
I tend to procrastinate if I have to do multiple steps after each other (unless I'm on my meds, which I can't afford right now )
currently unable to land a job.
materials I have:
-glass cola/beer bottles will act as beakers for now.
-home made 'heat plate' with a infrared heat sensor for me to keep an eye on the temp.
-propane torch
electronics:
1302g of bare copper:
1400g of low grade electronics:
468g of cheap wire (but a lot of the wire's have gold plated pins still)
2446g of aluminum heat-sinks (some with a copper base)
268g of extremely low grade jewelry (i think most of it is stainless, and if I'm lucky here and there there might be some silver/cheap gold plating)
832g of IDE cables:
4926g in hdd's
983g in high quality electronics (old cell phones/satellite usb stick, etc)
5231g in optical drives
993g in floppy drives
59g fiber CPU's
&
157g in ram
1890g in computer pci boards (graphic cards/sound cards/etc)
1594g in motherboards
now I know for a fact I have more dead cell phones/mother boards/& some ceramic CPU's, but this is all I can find right now, and will serve as a nice start.
does it sound like I'm on the right track?
how would you go about things if you were given this to start with?
Thank you in advance for any input
I'm going to start an scrap electronics refinery (small scale). and would like your input to see if you guys think I'm on the right track.
short summary:
start with the scrap that I have.
sell the easy to separate stuff (copper from wires, Aluminum from heat sinks & HDD's)
strip all board to the bare components.
use the money from there to invest in chemicals so I can de-plate the gold fingers & pins for a semi-easy gold recovery.
'pyrolize' the ic's/flatpacks and crush them by hand, panning out the gold internal wires.
(put the rest aside for further processing later for the stuff I missed)
with the money from that gold, I'll make myself a cheap ball mill, density seperator & HHO torch.
& then I'll do the more refined processing of all the other components for silver/palladium/missed gold/ect.
then either a:
with that money I'll start buying small quantaties of scrap electronics from people/friends (or see if anyone is willing to donate for free)
and continue to process & inventing
or b:
since I live close to gold bearing ground, I might buy a claim, and mine for gold, using the techniques I've learned to get the best yield from my concentrates & make a better density separator (I think I can do better then the humble sluice)
The Long:
This is what I have:
-Free time (lots of it)
-humble little pile of scrap electronics (see below)
-lots of tools
-free electricity (within reason)
-space to work
-misalliances things (household items, firewood, ect)
-a wide verity of experience in almost everything from programming, to working on cars, to factory work, etc etc etc.
-access to a vehicle with free gas for smaller occasional trips.
things lacking:
cash = $0. (this project will have to be self sustaining)
I tend to procrastinate if I have to do multiple steps after each other (unless I'm on my meds, which I can't afford right now )
currently unable to land a job.
materials I have:
-glass cola/beer bottles will act as beakers for now.
-home made 'heat plate' with a infrared heat sensor for me to keep an eye on the temp.
-propane torch
electronics:
1302g of bare copper:
1400g of low grade electronics:
468g of cheap wire (but a lot of the wire's have gold plated pins still)
2446g of aluminum heat-sinks (some with a copper base)
268g of extremely low grade jewelry (i think most of it is stainless, and if I'm lucky here and there there might be some silver/cheap gold plating)
832g of IDE cables:
4926g in hdd's
983g in high quality electronics (old cell phones/satellite usb stick, etc)
5231g in optical drives
993g in floppy drives
59g fiber CPU's
&
157g in ram
1890g in computer pci boards (graphic cards/sound cards/etc)
1594g in motherboards
now I know for a fact I have more dead cell phones/mother boards/& some ceramic CPU's, but this is all I can find right now, and will serve as a nice start.
does it sound like I'm on the right track?
how would you go about things if you were given this to start with?
Thank you in advance for any input