Hi.
Topic say it all
I have been watching a ton on youtubevideos of crapping computers for gold, but most of them seem quite selective in the things they go for.
Some only go for IC´s other go for the golden fingers, however i can see that there are many places in a pc that contain gold,CI, ISA slots, to jumpers and other connecters.
My son and i tried to dismantle a pc to the fulle extent, taking every single chip of all the cards, taking of the crystals, unvinding all coils including inside the psu for copper wires, taking those damn small thingys containing the platinum. yeah basicly everything.. and it took forever.
we even ended up burning the now empty motherboard to get the copperwires inside the board itself and besides the time, smell and angry wife, it just dont seem worth it.
So now the question from the topic.
Would it be possible to either dissolve a complete motherboard without depopulating it first, and the later retrieve the different metals from the sollution, by different types of precipritation
Or would it be possible to crush tho whole thing in a mill and then either melt it down to 1 lump of stuff for later treatment to burn away as much plastic etc.
Topic say it all
I have been watching a ton on youtubevideos of crapping computers for gold, but most of them seem quite selective in the things they go for.
Some only go for IC´s other go for the golden fingers, however i can see that there are many places in a pc that contain gold,CI, ISA slots, to jumpers and other connecters.
My son and i tried to dismantle a pc to the fulle extent, taking every single chip of all the cards, taking of the crystals, unvinding all coils including inside the psu for copper wires, taking those damn small thingys containing the platinum. yeah basicly everything.. and it took forever.
we even ended up burning the now empty motherboard to get the copperwires inside the board itself and besides the time, smell and angry wife, it just dont seem worth it.
So now the question from the topic.
Would it be possible to either dissolve a complete motherboard without depopulating it first, and the later retrieve the different metals from the sollution, by different types of precipritation
Or would it be possible to crush tho whole thing in a mill and then either melt it down to 1 lump of stuff for later treatment to burn away as much plastic etc.