Captobvious
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Been lurking here for a while but came on this the other day and felt like sharing this for my first post. Was processing this CPU daughter board the other day and was just hoping for some pins with the tips gold plated... little did I know that Christmas came early! This is a 6 CPU daughter card out of an old old HP Netserver... about the size of a mini fridge. All pins were completely covered in gold plating, too bad those machines don't come around everyday.
Eventually I'll get around to processing the pins and fingers but just waiting til I have a bit more volume to work with. Currently have about half a coffee can of pins and about another coffee can full of fingers plus 3 stacks of PC's 8 feet high along with a 50 gallon trash can full of motherboards, so I'll just keep plucking pins etc til I have enough supplies to process them... can't wait! Just figuring out the chemicals currently....
One question though in pic 2 the square yellow capacitors, should I bother to continue saving them or should I just chuck them? Or are these the older generation of platinum bearing capacitors that should be hoarded with extreme prejudice?
Eventually I'll get around to processing the pins and fingers but just waiting til I have a bit more volume to work with. Currently have about half a coffee can of pins and about another coffee can full of fingers plus 3 stacks of PC's 8 feet high along with a 50 gallon trash can full of motherboards, so I'll just keep plucking pins etc til I have enough supplies to process them... can't wait! Just figuring out the chemicals currently....
One question though in pic 2 the square yellow capacitors, should I bother to continue saving them or should I just chuck them? Or are these the older generation of platinum bearing capacitors that should be hoarded with extreme prejudice?
