help with getting paid right

[sh3030]

FO

 

[LeftyTheBandit]

The only high yield items I see worth your time are the pins extruding from the board and the CPU chips. Unfortunately the cpu chips look like the fiberboard low yield type.

Sheer or clip these pins off and any other item gold plated that is easily removed from all non metal parts. Use the gold stripping cell on lazersteves web-sight to strip these. The rest I would list on eBay. Dealing with the gold on your boards is a very up in the air item and not a lot of people can pull it off financially viably. List them at $0.99 and let the market decide what they are worth. Odds are they will pay too much, just get your shipping price down so it attracts more buyers.

The connectors, smash them up and see if you can expose the pins and only the pins to use in the gold stripping cell. The cell should only have metal pins with no other material as it relies on conductivity to work and plastic will hamper this.

Check out lazersteve's websight.

 

[Chumbawamba]

I concur with Lefty. There's not much there to pick over. How many pounds do you have? If it's not a ton or more than that further reinforces the consensus.

 

[sh3030]

how much value do you see in the green board that you can see on this message board, ever seen anything like this before?

 

[Chumbawamba]

Weigh it and multiply that by about a buck, which is what you'd probably get for it from an electronics recycler.

 

[sh3030]

this is it? anyone else?

 

[Chumbawamba]

You can't squeeze lemonaide out of a lemon.

 

[sh3030]

and what type of test did you run there....... hmmm.....

and you are sure no more than $1 from a large recycler...... hmm....

not to point out the obvious, but you are wrong......

 

[g_axelsson]

If you want to determine the approximate gold content of your boards just calculate the area that is plated on each pin, then assume 0.5-1 um thick gold and multiply it by the number of pins and the density of gold. Then you should arrive at a decent approximation.
What's a fair price then depends on how much job it is to process it and the costs associated with that.

The easy way is just to put it on eBay and see where it ends. It seems that the sellers rarely get too little for their scrap.

/Göran

 

[sh3030]

thanks g_axelsson.


multiply by a dollar..... LOL.... i sell reg mboards for more than 2x that..... LOL

just trying to get a rough estimate... like is it a 3 a lb or a 10 a lb type ... know what i am saying?

 

[patnor1011]

to call somebody who did his estimate and try to help you a waste of time is showing that a bit of yellow colour on your pins effectivelly blackened your brain. he backed lefty who told you what to do or expect. if it is not what you think and clearly it isnt why do you asking if you already have answer. if you think that somebody is going to look on ten or so pictures and going to tell you how much are they worth check memebers section of forum there is no holy father or wizzard merlin signed up here. if you by any chance know how to squeeze lemonade out of lemon we will be happy to learn that process from you.

if you are going to follow gorans advice /btw he told you the same as lefty and chumba/ do your math right as you have to take into consideration year of manufacture, how long or often those pinslots were used and so on...

then be so kind and share your experiments and yields with others on this forum.

 

[Palladium]

thanks g_axelsson.

people like Chumba are a waste of time on these message boards.

Be it as it may, because you didn't find the answer you were looking for, i don't think Chumba was trying to be sassy.
Considering he has 93 posts and has put together several good sources of information and posted them here on the forum i would say he is a contributor. Your total is 13 posts with all questions and no contributions. Sometimes your post show impatience and now i see disrespect on that list. This is a free forum where people answer questions from the goodness of there heart trying to help others out. If it would make you feel better about the answers you receive then pay a professional to give you his unbiased opinion. I don't think alienating people is the real answer you’re looking for.

 

[silversaddle1]

I don't really see anything that stands out as far as high grade goes. The wire wrap backplane in the first pic has tin plated pins on the back side, low grade. The second backplane looks good as the pins on back are plated, but with the plastic still on the card side, you can't tell if the pins are 100% plated. The backplane #3 is out of a StorageTek Powderhorn control unit. again, most of the pins are only 1/2 plated, low grade. The processors are low yield, fiber type. Around here, there $10.00 per pound. Next photo you have pins pulled from buss & tag connectors. Looking at the color of the pins, I'd say they are newer connectors. Not thick plated like the old IBM's were, low grade. Photo 6 shows connector pins for power supplies to connect to a backplane. Lot of plastic and silver-plated copper, low grade pins. Photo 7, again low grade buss & tag type connectors. Photo 8 is a black piece of plastic. Next is another power supply type of pin, lots of base metals, little gold, low grade. #10 looks to be ribbon wire jumpers. Little gold in them as just the tips are plated, low grade.

So to sum it up, I think the best stuff on the whole page would be the 2nd backplane. I would pull the plastic sockets off the pins and list the boards on e-bay. They will bring good money. Be sure to tell the weight of the board and the # of pins on each board. As far as the rest of the boards, throw them in with your motherboards and get your $2.40 a pound. The rest of the stuff (and we have no idea how much you have) might do well on e-bay as well, but I doubt it.

 

[markqf1]

Good points Patnor and Ralph,
I agree.

Mark

 

[Palladium]

Maybe this will help you. http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=3033

 

[butcher]

Great new's I found a mountain with rock in it, has gold in the rock, lots and lots of microfine gold.
I will be rich beyond belief :!:
there is X amount of gold per pound of rock, and the spot price of gold is $$$, so I should get $$$ rich beyond my wildest dreams,for each pound of rock,
OH wow. surely my rock is worth a fortune and the mountain will make me rich.OH wait, it will take labor, materials and other things to get this gold out, gold fever, well this rock will look good around my garden, gold fever, tell me my rock is worth what iI want it to be.
I can't be wrong I have gold fever, well maybe I should just spend my time and work on the rock before I tackle the whole mountain and prove to myself that my rock is worth a fortune, (nobody else will agree with me it's worth a fortune), or I could just blame them because they don't agree with my Gold Fever. it may be worth as much as someone is willing to pay for my rock, wish someone would buy it. I keep tripping over it every time I go out to the garden. my gold fever rock worth $$$,

for sale rock full of gold worth a fortune.

 

[Palladium]

for sale rock full of gold worth a fortune.

P.M. sent. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

[patnor1011]

butcher Ill pay you 100 trillion dollars for that mountain. /the dollars are off zimbabwean currency/

 

[sh3030]

The boards have all been priced as high grade by buyers. We have been paid for these types in the past --- MUCH MUCH more that what your responses on here have been.

Your responses were golden!

No wonder some of you reside on here all day while we are getting paid (without having to mix the nasty chemicals ourselves) and you are giving incorrect data.

I guess this board wasn't what we were looking for.... LOL.

For those of you who responded sincerely I applaud you. For those of you just spouting off bs - you get what you deserve.

Everyone have a blessed weekend!

 

[Palladium]

Ugh !

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

Have a blessed weekend friend.