Hi all,
should have started from this post really, but I barely have any time for myself, so I left it till today.
I've booked a week of chill out in my diary and planning to use it for some lab-fun :mrgreen:
36 of age,
Chemistry became my hobby on first chemistry lesson back at primary school. Even before High School I focused on inorganic chemistry, and especially electrochemistry. Four years of chemistry in High School, 3 years at University, the last one mostly organic as that's what they mainly teach on Biology.
Starting from around 16 or 17 years of age started recovering PMs from goldsmiths waste. Mainly spent liquids from electroplating and polishing, sand papers, dirt, paste and all type of waste coming out of jewelers workshops
Good thing was that my dads good friend had pretty big goldsmith workshop, small factory in fact, where he was casting few kg of rings, bracelets, chains etc every day. After test recovery it turned out I gave him 40% more gold recovered than the refiner he was using to date, so I got myself a contract 8) That was going very well for few years.
After University I left the city and stopped playing around with chemistry. Years of work as networking and embedded system programmer. Learned a lot about electronics during that time. Enough to design my own circuits, however even now happens that when I show my design to my mates (proper electronic engineers) they just laugh at me and redesign the same thing from scratch for me :mrgreen:
Years ago I was writing software for energy meters for some big company. They though I must do electrical qualifications, so I know all about electricity before doing software for them, I thought it might be a nice break from staring at screen all day long. It actually was great thing. Now, I work as an electrical engineer and every now and then doing software contracts as a freelancer.
Back to chemistry. Never done any e-waste before seeing this forum.
Popped in here looking for something not related to PMs recovery or refining, but after few posts I got hooked.
Old sentiments reborn. Time to learn new tricks :mrgreen:
Few days ago started to redesign my electronic lab into a chem lab .... :roll:
should have started from this post really, but I barely have any time for myself, so I left it till today.
I've booked a week of chill out in my diary and planning to use it for some lab-fun :mrgreen:
36 of age,
Chemistry became my hobby on first chemistry lesson back at primary school. Even before High School I focused on inorganic chemistry, and especially electrochemistry. Four years of chemistry in High School, 3 years at University, the last one mostly organic as that's what they mainly teach on Biology.
Starting from around 16 or 17 years of age started recovering PMs from goldsmiths waste. Mainly spent liquids from electroplating and polishing, sand papers, dirt, paste and all type of waste coming out of jewelers workshops
Good thing was that my dads good friend had pretty big goldsmith workshop, small factory in fact, where he was casting few kg of rings, bracelets, chains etc every day. After test recovery it turned out I gave him 40% more gold recovered than the refiner he was using to date, so I got myself a contract 8) That was going very well for few years.After University I left the city and stopped playing around with chemistry. Years of work as networking and embedded system programmer. Learned a lot about electronics during that time. Enough to design my own circuits, however even now happens that when I show my design to my mates (proper electronic engineers) they just laugh at me and redesign the same thing from scratch for me :mrgreen:
Years ago I was writing software for energy meters for some big company. They though I must do electrical qualifications, so I know all about electricity before doing software for them, I thought it might be a nice break from staring at screen all day long. It actually was great thing. Now, I work as an electrical engineer and every now and then doing software contracts as a freelancer.
Back to chemistry. Never done any e-waste before seeing this forum.
Popped in here looking for something not related to PMs recovery or refining, but after few posts I got hooked.
Old sentiments reborn. Time to learn new tricks :mrgreen:
Few days ago started to redesign my electronic lab into a chem lab .... :roll:
