unclecatfish70
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My name is Unclecatfish, I am from TN. I have very recently been thrust into what I believe to be a unique position. I have this friend, and he owns and operates, for the last ten years. a booming business. The nature of the business is that it is a reuse/recycle contractor for an extremely large electronics manufacturer with facilities in almost every country on earth.
Unfortunately, I am forbidden to reveal the name of this manufacturer. My friends business, lets call it "Reruns", receives tons of this electronics companies electronic waste every day. This waste consists of very high and low end consumer electronics and quite a bit of very high end tele communications equipment. There a million reasons why this equipment is sent to Reruns, but thats not important. What is important is that the purpose of Reruns existence is dispose of this ewaste in the absolute safest and most responsible way for the environment as it can be.
One of the obligation Reruns has to this manufacturer is to reuse/re-purpose the waste by assembling/reassembling and reselling the items to consumers, as was its original intent, and to this to factory specifications. If the item can not be re-utilized in this way it then falls into another potential disposal category, such as stripped down to its most basic components and these components either be sent to a landfill or be reused in another way.
ALL of this waste has some amount of precious metals and my friend and I decided we would try to reclaim all or some of these metals for refining and since my father was, on a very small scale, doing this years ago for the purpose of making jewelry, (and because were friends and I needed a job) that I was in charge of the whole "Reclamation Division", So, since my father did it a handful of times in the garage early Sunday mornings and I had watched at least 3 or 4 of those times, I went about ordering the equipment I thought the Reclamation Department needed to be successful. I ordered a couple of beaker starter kits, a couple of small filter bottles, some glass rods and of course, 55 Gallons of Nitric Acid, 55 Gallons of Hydrochloric Acid and 35 Gallons of Hydrogen peroxide oh,and a 50 pound bag sodiummetabisulfate.
I went about my first day and first solo flight much as my father had, gathering my inadequate equipment to reclaim gold from one pound of a certain connector that we both knew to have a high gold content, using the only process I have ever known, The Aqua Regia Process. I got very little gold and coughed and had nasal discharge all day after that. I still have a very large bottle of that first solution because I know the golds there.
For a fresh start I got another pound of that same connector and yesterday set about dissolving and reclaiming the gold again using AR. This time I only took of small portion of the pregnant solution to precipitate from at first. It was what I consider to be a success. I reclamed half a gram of gold from my small sample. Im not sure of its purity level at this point. The rest of the solution is now settling and I will know my full yield from this "run" tomorrow morning.
I am so sorry for the novel I have just written, but I feel like all this had to be explained before I just jump on your site and asking redundant questions and advice, which I will try not to do. I do feel like I am in a unique position to either make a lot of money or walk way with my head held down. I have safety equipment, no hood yet, but my friend will build me a fabulous facility if I can prove to him that it can be done safely and responsibly and profitably of course. Since I have no fume hood, I was relieved to read about the water and marble filter that helps reduce the BRC. I will use it tomorrow. I have no trouble reading for myself and have already started, but if anyone would like to offer any advice on what peice or peices of equipment might be most helpful to me right now or how to expand my operation quickly and within financial reason, it would be greatly appreciated. I really will listen to all advice that may be given and try to see if it will work for me.
Thank you so much, in advance.
Unfortunately, I am forbidden to reveal the name of this manufacturer. My friends business, lets call it "Reruns", receives tons of this electronics companies electronic waste every day. This waste consists of very high and low end consumer electronics and quite a bit of very high end tele communications equipment. There a million reasons why this equipment is sent to Reruns, but thats not important. What is important is that the purpose of Reruns existence is dispose of this ewaste in the absolute safest and most responsible way for the environment as it can be.
One of the obligation Reruns has to this manufacturer is to reuse/re-purpose the waste by assembling/reassembling and reselling the items to consumers, as was its original intent, and to this to factory specifications. If the item can not be re-utilized in this way it then falls into another potential disposal category, such as stripped down to its most basic components and these components either be sent to a landfill or be reused in another way.
ALL of this waste has some amount of precious metals and my friend and I decided we would try to reclaim all or some of these metals for refining and since my father was, on a very small scale, doing this years ago for the purpose of making jewelry, (and because were friends and I needed a job) that I was in charge of the whole "Reclamation Division", So, since my father did it a handful of times in the garage early Sunday mornings and I had watched at least 3 or 4 of those times, I went about ordering the equipment I thought the Reclamation Department needed to be successful. I ordered a couple of beaker starter kits, a couple of small filter bottles, some glass rods and of course, 55 Gallons of Nitric Acid, 55 Gallons of Hydrochloric Acid and 35 Gallons of Hydrogen peroxide oh,and a 50 pound bag sodiummetabisulfate.
I went about my first day and first solo flight much as my father had, gathering my inadequate equipment to reclaim gold from one pound of a certain connector that we both knew to have a high gold content, using the only process I have ever known, The Aqua Regia Process. I got very little gold and coughed and had nasal discharge all day after that. I still have a very large bottle of that first solution because I know the golds there.
For a fresh start I got another pound of that same connector and yesterday set about dissolving and reclaiming the gold again using AR. This time I only took of small portion of the pregnant solution to precipitate from at first. It was what I consider to be a success. I reclamed half a gram of gold from my small sample. Im not sure of its purity level at this point. The rest of the solution is now settling and I will know my full yield from this "run" tomorrow morning.
I am so sorry for the novel I have just written, but I feel like all this had to be explained before I just jump on your site and asking redundant questions and advice, which I will try not to do. I do feel like I am in a unique position to either make a lot of money or walk way with my head held down. I have safety equipment, no hood yet, but my friend will build me a fabulous facility if I can prove to him that it can be done safely and responsibly and profitably of course. Since I have no fume hood, I was relieved to read about the water and marble filter that helps reduce the BRC. I will use it tomorrow. I have no trouble reading for myself and have already started, but if anyone would like to offer any advice on what peice or peices of equipment might be most helpful to me right now or how to expand my operation quickly and within financial reason, it would be greatly appreciated. I really will listen to all advice that may be given and try to see if it will work for me.
Thank you so much, in advance.
