Price for Sd Ram

[chrisv]

Just wondering how much would be a guide price to pay per sd ram? I recently bought 36 sd ram for £3 which is $4.20 for the lot and should work out to about $0.12 each. I've just been speaking to a bloke that can get loads of non working ram and he was asking how much I'd be willing to pay him for them.

 

[Chumbawamba]

That CPU spreadsheet floating around mention 0.4g of Au per pound of RAM modules. I'm not sure how valid that figure is but perhaps someone else who's actually processed RAM for gold can chime in.

I sold my RAM to a couple guys and in talking to them they said another guy buys their bunk (obsolete/outdated) RAM modules for $10/lbs.

 

[Barren Realms 007]

You talking about this one.


View attachment Gold content list in CPU chips.xls

 

[chrisv]

I've just stripped some ram that I purchased on Ebay as part of my trials. On the pins stripped(x18 cards) I have 22.5g of gold plate so it works out to about 1.25g per module. As I've read in previous post, I need 1lb to obtain 1-2grms gold?? So if my maths is right, I need to collect 364 sd ram cards to make up a pound of pins so that should mean that I should pay £0.03($0.04) per card and that means I be making £0.06 per card processed b4 deducting any expences incured, ie, chemicals, time, etc.. :roll:

 

[Barren Realms 007]

My guess is you are talking about fingers and not pins, right?

 

[chrisv]

You talking about this one.

Cheers for this gr8 insite of info, realy helps me alot to know what I should buy and shouldn't. The ram on this list is a bit of bad news for me and also the Intel celeron cpu's, just bought a load of them last week and I soaked them in Nitric about three days ago, was wondering why nothing was happening , I was heating up the solution last night while I was waiting for for some disolved curcuit to finishing filtering after I had soaked them, but anyway, while I was heating up the cpu's, as the solution got just b4 boiling, there were these frantick bubbles skimming across the surface so I would stop applying heat and after about 30-50seconds would die down.

 

[chrisv]

My guess is you are talking about fingers and not pins, right?

Correct 8)

 

[Barren Realms 007]

Do your own test, don't go by the values on the list. You might not recover the same yield's as in the list.

 

[chrisv]

You talking about this one.

Cheers for this gr8 insite of info, realy helps me alot to know what I should buy and shouldn't. The ram on this list is a bit of bad news for me and also the Intel celeron cpu's, just bought a load of them last week and I soaked them in Nitric about three days ago, was wondering why nothing was happening , I was heating up the solution last night while I was waiting for for some disolved curcuit to finishing filtering after I had soaked them, but anyway, while I was heating up the cpu's, as the solution got just b4 boiling, there were these frantick bubbles skimming across the surface so I would stop applying heat and after about 30-50seconds would die down.

Do your own test, don't go by the values on the list. You might not recover the same yield's as in the list.

Thats something I would like to achieve as soon as I can even perfect the recovery process, I have tried about 5 times now, I get the gold plate off and disolve the base metals fine, filter the solution and see all the gold, then I go onto the next stage of putting the gold into AR, disolve the gold, and then never see it again :|

 

[Barren Realms 007]

You might want to think about using HCL/clorox to disolve your gold till you get real familiar with what is happening during your process. You might just have too small of an amount to recover.

Is this more or less than you are working with?

 

[chrisv]

You talking about this one.


View attachment 1

Cheers for this gr8 insite of info, realy helps me alot to know what I should buy and shouldn't. The ram on this list is a bit of bad news for me and also the Intel celeron cpu's, just bought a load of them last week and I soaked them in Nitric about three days ago, was wondering why nothing was happening , I was heating up the solution last night while I was waiting for for some disolved curcuit to finishing filtering after I had soaked them, but anyway, while I was heating up the cpu's, as the solution got just b4 boiling, there were these frantick bubbles skimming across the surface so I would stop applying heat and after about 30-50seconds would die down.

Do your own test, don't go by the values on the list. You might not recover the same yield's as in the list.

Thats something I would like to achieve as soon as I can even perfect the recovery process, I have tried about 5 times now, I get the gold plate off and disolve the base metals fine, filter the solution and see all the gold, then I go onto the next stage of putting the gold into AR, disolve the gold, and then never see it again :|

You might want to think about using HCL/clorox to disolve your gold till you get real familiar with what is happening during your process. You might just have too small of an amount to recover.

Is this more or less than you are working with?

:lol: :lol: Thats quite a bit more than me :lol: , I've been doing about 4 cpu's a trial or about 1oz gold plate pins from cell phones and 1oz cut plated cuttings from cell phones. I've been trying to precess small amounts untill I get the hang of things as most of the scrap I get I have to purchase, as it is the wife gives me third degree about it, but hey, at least I'm not sitting on my fannie like most of these Brittish yobs :roll:

 

[copperkid_18]

those are mine aren't they??

 

[chrisv]

What is clorox anyway? Dont think we get that over here, I've already got 36% HCL. :lol:

 

[butcher]

bleach, sodium hypochlorite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hypochlorite

 

[Barren Realms 007]

It is liquid bleach that is used in washing clothes. Chlorine, pool chlorine.

 

[Barren Realms 007]

If you are doing less than this wait till you have more saved up to process, you are going to do nothing but chase your tail trying to process this small amount till you learn what you are doing. And if you do this small amount you should go to HCL/Clorox till you know what is happening.

 

[Barren Realms 007]

those are mine aren't they??

Yep they were. 8)

 

[chrisv]

I've just been through the cupboard, I've got 2 quarts of thick bleach, it says, " ingredients, contains less than 5% Anionic Surfactant." Its also got purfume(lemon) and disinfectant. Is this OK to use, was just going through Steve's videos on goldrecovery and was thinking of giving the AR a try :lol:

 

[Barren Realms 007]

I've just been through the cupboard, I've got 2 quarts of thick bleach, it says, " ingredients, contains less than 5% Anionic Surfactant." Its also got purfume(lemon) and disinfectant. Is this OK to use, was just going through Steve's videos on goldrecovery and was thinking of giving the AR a try :lol:

It would be better without the surfactant and the perfume but if you have nothing else it would have to do. If you have access to a swimming pool supply store they will have the dry bleach(chlorine granular). Use it in small amounts and be prepared for the smell.

 

[chrisv]

I've just been through the cupboard, I've got 2 quarts of thick bleach, it says, " ingredients, contains less than 5% Anionic Surfactant." Its also got purfume(lemon) and disinfectant. Is this OK to use, was just going through Steve's videos on goldrecovery and was thinking of giving the AR a try :lol:

It would be better without the surfactant and the perfume but if you have nothing else it would have to do. If you have access to a swimming pool supply store they will have the dry bleach(chlorine granular). Use it in small amounts and be prepared for the smell.

I'll see what I can do in the morning :lol:
Just wondering if you knew anything about extraction/ventilation.
When I started off, I had deep concerns about the gases that would be released for my, kids sake and next door floks. So I purchased a 4" inline extractor kit with a carbon filter. The extractor is heavey duty plastic but the ducting is Aluminium foil. The ducting is starting to show signs of wear, the silver foil is starting to turn black, would it be better if I used 4" round plastic ducting?