Hello from Latvia

[rinaldss]

Hi to everyone.
My name is Rinalds i'm 24 years old and come from Riga/Latvia
For now i'm unemployed and it's hard to find job right now so i started to seek ways to earn a bit, so i stumbled over to this video in youtube about scrapping electronics.
And now i'm here wanting to learn because i find this really interesting and it's a way to earn a bit.
Thank you all for your attention and your advice.

 

[GotTheBug]

Welcome Rinalds!

You've definitely come to the right place to learn more than you ever thought possible about the processes, and at least as important, the safety.

I don't know your situation, beyond being unemployed at the moment, so I'll give you some first advice. Getting scrap for free, and lining up some sources to do that, is a good place to start.
Having an area where you can work helps a lot, though most here will tell you that you'll spend a lot of time and some money getting things together.

Cherry pick the good stuff out of the scrap (gold and silver bearing materials) and take the rest to a scrap yard for a bit of return on your time.
Metals from cases will take up a lot of room, copper from wires, aluminum from heatsinks, will probably be your first scrap yard trip, and will give you the first bit of return on time and
money spent.

After the sun goes down, DO spend time reading Hoke's book on refining BEFORE you jump into trying to extract and refine the metals. It will both save you a lot of time and help you
get better returns in the long run.

Paul.

 

[nickvc]

Welcome Rinalds!

You've definitely come to the right place to learn more than you ever thought possible about the processes, and at least as important, the safety.

I don't know your situation, beyond being unemployed at the moment, so I'll give you some first advice. Getting scrap for free, and lining up some sources to do that, is a good place to start.
Having an area where you can work helps a lot, though most here will tell you that you'll spend a lot of time and some money getting things together.

Cherry pick the good stuff out of the scrap (gold and silver bearing materials) and take the rest to a scrap yard for a bit of return on your time.
Metals from cases will take up a lot of room, copper from wires, aluminum from heatsinks, will probably be your first scrap yard trip, and will give you the first bit of return on time and
money spent.

Fantastic advice there is no such thing as a free meal and that applies here as it does in the rest of the world.
We have members who know how to refine but choose not to because they have a better use of their time and we have full time refiners, many hobbyists and the choice is yours to decide where to fit in, all the answers are here and I'm sorry but it's in English, you just need to study, read and make your mind up where you want to fit in.

 

[rinaldss]

Welcome Rinalds!

You've definitely come to the right place to learn more than you ever thought possible about the processes, and at least as important, the safety.

I don't know your situation, beyond being unemployed at the moment, so I'll give you some first advice. Getting scrap for free, and lining up some sources to do that, is a good place to start.
Having an area where you can work helps a lot, though most here will tell you that you'll spend a lot of time and some money getting things together.

Cherry pick the good stuff out of the scrap (gold and silver bearing materials) and take the rest to a scrap yard for a bit of return on your time.
Metals from cases will take up a lot of room, copper from wires, aluminum from heatsinks, will probably be your first scrap yard trip, and will give you the first bit of return on time and
money spent.

After the sun goes down, DO spend time reading Hoke's book on refining BEFORE you jump into trying to extract and refine the metals. It will both save you a lot of time and help you
get better returns in the long run.

Paul.

Hi, and thank you for advice, but i have one question.
i have seen people talking about this Hoke's book but i have never seen to any link to it or enything else.
so could you please give me the link?

 

[Harold_V]

Do a search for FrugalRefiner
He has links in his sig line that lead to Hoke's book.

Harold

 

[solar_plasma]

Here I have posted some links for beginners:

http://goldrefiningforum.com/~goldr...f=49&t=19431&p=196893&hilit=read+hoke#p196893

Other members have equally made some link lists, maybe they want to re-post them here.

 

[FrugalRefiner]

I'll make it easy. They're in my signature line below.

Dave

Be sure to read through the Tips for Navigating and Posting on the Forum thread, especially lazersteve's Guided Tour, for some more tips on getting off to a good start here.

 

[Smack]

Sold my old boat to a guy from Riga Latvia, if you get around the marinas keep an eye out for The Vagabonds.