IP STB's,and such, Worth it??

[Rag and Bone]

Hey Rag and Bone,

It sure doesn’t hurt anything learning on pins and chips, it’s what I started out on. It sounds like he is already looking to other sources and it wouldn’t be a bad idea him getting a few blisters on his fingers before he has karat gold and no experience.

So have your blisters turned into calluses yet? I’m still waiting on mine.

I don't mean to discourage him. Snap that loot up and dive in. Take it all! There's good value there, depending on how you approach it. It's easy to work money OUT of your pocket, assuming your time has value.

Yeah I still got blisters on my fingers, from tree planting though. Worse yet I got all cut-up dumpster diving without my gloves

 

[Oz]

Yea, I’ve processed my fair share of gold for about a penny an hour as I was learning. But it was well worth the time for what I learned.

 

[Heaven's Pavement]

"depending on how you approach it."
Could you please expand on this, as I will be on a budjet(starting from scratch and all),
safety being my first consern,
gettin gthe most out of what I got the second.
Thank you for your honest input.

 

[Platdigger]

silversaddle, are you sure these boards could be called "high grade"?

I wouldn't think they could be worth much more than a dollor per pound...the best ones.

If you could get up to 2.70 for these, I would like to know your buyer.

please!....
Randy

 

[silversaddle1]

Well they would have enough gold on them to make the grade around here. I would throw them right in with all our other mother boards, cards, etc. Our local buyer here is Alters trading and they would buy them as high grade boards. If you would like, I can send you a name and #, if your willing to ship from Washington.

Scott

 

[SapunovDmitry]

Hey Heaven's Pavement, the gold content of pins can be determined very easily. Just count the surface and multiply it by 30 or 50 microinches to get optimitstic value. Then weight 10 or 20 of them to be more precise and try to find out the weight of one. Then divide the gold mass by full mass.
After that, find out the gold content of pound of these or maybe of a kilogram.
Then throw everything in AR, use urea or vapourization, filter, drop with SMB,filter,then smelt the stuff you've got.You will get a nugget,not very pure nugget, but still a nugget.
Then refine it second time as it was shown in Hoke's book. (You better ask for advice of professionals here if you want to get something reeeally pure.Try asking Harol,Noxx,Steve,GSP or others for help after the first refining).
If everything will be OK you will be able to post your first nugget. 8)

 

[Rag and Bone]

AR on low grade pins? Overkill.

 

[SapunovDmitry]

It's the easiest way for the starting guy.
You almost automaticly get gold with this method cause it's the easiest and fastest for the first time.

 

[Rag and Bone]

You have easy access to nitric. It's expensive and hard to find in some places, like the U.S. Even using poormans AR adds additional steps that are unnecesary.

AP for recovery and AC for refining foils is another option for those interested in the "guerilla warfare" approach.

 

[SapunovDmitry]

Yeah,that's true. We have good nitric source here 8) , but it is very hard to find sulfuric and muratic.

In this case AP is better.

 

[Oz]

SapunovDmitry,

I have even run into limited difficulty in getting sulfuric here in the US as they are using sealed batteries for cars and trucks now so are not carrying it. But alternative energy is big now and home systems are using large lead acid batteries such as used in fork lifts. It may be worth trying companies that deal with these in your location as well.

Oz

 

[SapunovDmitry]

Selling sulfuric and muratic to non-companies is restricted in Russia. Thanks to Drain cleaners we get our sulfuric, but you cannot find sulfuric drain cleaners in every store. And muratic is sold off trucks in one of our heavens for radioamateurs (kind of open air market in the outskirts of Moscow ) .

 

[goldsilverpro]

I agree. They look nowhere near hi-grade to me. Of course, I've been out of touch for awhile

 

[Heaven's Pavement]

Pins, LOL even being a greenhorn, I'd say low grade for sure, the boxes are RCA brand.
At any rate just snipping the pins down to where the gold ends gives almost 4 grams, plus there are 2 flatpacks with gold corners, so lets say4 grams total..
More Questions...


1)besides the 2 gold corner chips, any others???

2)also other contacts that are not gold are silver in color, with out chem testing any guesses??? just aluminum, maybe silver(looks the same on the ribbon cable "fingers")
3)the main weight on these is the metal casing(not much plastic)like on metal casing vcrs, ect, what could this be, we are taking hundreds of pounds here.
Thanks eveyone for taking the time..
BYW I'm enjoying the videos that(I forget who) is linked to(need password to get into)
some of the vids need auser and password, any info on that??
I love learning....

 

[lazersteve]

The videos above the letter S alphabetically were still locked until 5 minutes ago..

Sorry, I just fixed that. They all work now.

The housings are most likely galvanized steel or aluminum. Check them with a magnet.

The silvery pins are likely just solder coated, but possibly Pd plated. You'll need chemicals to test them.

Steve

 

[Heaven's Pavement]

Ah yes "Lazersteve" its your site
Thank you sooo much for your work, MUCH appreciated.
I just love seeing this stuff in action.
I almost went over my gig limit for the month watching them, LOL.
Well chit chatting the the warehouse guy , the first batch is batch is spoken for, but there are about 800 units to still get phased out.
The metal casing is magnetic(galv.steel).
Any value there, scrape yard?
Do not know what to do with the plastic, although not much.
I do not think there are any facilities to handle plastic, need to check on this.
Thanks for everyones help.
HP.