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[lasereyes]

I have seen this listing several times now: http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-10-Lbs-Gold-platted-pins-Gold-Scrap-Recovery-/250740497706?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a614c5d2a#ht_499wt_1155

He claims that 7 pounds of pins = 1 toz Au, which would be close to 4.5 grams/pound. Seems kind of unrealistic.

He might be off. I'm finishing up on some small ones hopefully this weekend.

I've seen that picture before, didn't you mention that it was from a manufacturer? I'm really curious as to where you can get pins like that in such great quantity...

I think the guy I work with got them from a guy that had them stored in a warehouse for a number of years.

If you can procure materials like that, then I wish I had "a guy" to work with. Out of curiosity (I do not mean to be rude), I wonder, are you paying him based on the value of the metals refined, or did you acquire all of it outright?

 

[Barren Realms 007]

From closed down places like manufacturing plants.
My friend got approx 3000 kilos of electronics for price of 2 euro a kilo. There were few hundred different types of stuff like gold plated connectors you see on wi-fi cards, gold plated motion sensors, garmin gps-15f modules, telite GSM/GPRS modules, fs oncore motorola gps receivers, rechargeable batteries, and many more... Imagine 2 euros for kilo of them

Deals like that you get to have a field day with and sometimes make a real killing on them. 8)

 

[Anonymous]

Seller states the yield on these Pent Pros is 3.5 grams per pound.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-16-Pentium-Pro-Processors-Gold-Recovery-/120681171833?pt=CPUs&hash=item1c19288b79

 

[lasereyes]

Seller states the yield on these Pent Pros is 3.5 grams per pound.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-16-Pentium-Pro-Processors-Gold-Recovery-/120681171833?pt=CPUs&hash=item1c19288b79

even worse, "Lot of 16 pentium pro processors. Potential yeilds for recovery of 3.5 grams of gold per processor. Sold for scrap, not guaranteed to work- for recovery of gold only."

 

[patnor1011]

Starting price is not bad. We will see how far it will go.

 

[samuel-a]

Starting price is not bad. We will see how far it will go.

He is claiming to have 2430$ worth of gold in those pro's...
I'm going only by memory here, but if it serves me correct Steve posted yield data for pro's at about 0.5 or 0.7 gram in a unit...

 

[patnor1011]

That is what I said. Starting price is not bad.
The rest depend on how acute gold fever will be amongst bidders. Seller is:
a) simply uninformed and dreaming
b) greedy scammer

 

[kdaddy]

He changed the listing to .35 grams per processor. He must have took a beating from someone.

 

[lasereyes]

http://cgi.ebay.com/70-Lbs-Gold-Plated-Military-Aircraft-Pins-Scrap-/180621513410?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a0de192c2#ht_3246wt_1137
:shock: the starting price is a little high...

 

[Barren Realms 007]

http://cgi.ebay.com/70-Lbs-Gold-Plated-Military-Aircraft-Pins-Scrap-/180621513410?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a0de192c2#ht_3246wt_1137
:shock: the starting price is a little high...

I like this comment from the seller:

***Sorry, but due to the Low Price that we are selling these items for WE CANNOT COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS OF THESE ITEMS.

 

[Anonymous]

He changed the listing to .35 grams per processor. He must have took a beating from someone.

Yes......me.
I was tactful about it,but he replied to me and told me that he mistakenly placed the decimal in the wrong place.May be true,may not be true,but at least he has it right now.

 

[copperkid_18]

http://cgi.ebay.com/20-Pentium-PRO-...944?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e6153c5c0

I still dont know about these people.... :lol:

 

[Barren Realms 007]

http://cgi.ebay.com/20-Pentium-PRO-...944?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e6153c5c0

I still dont know about these people.... :lol:

Over priced as most thing's on Fleabay.

 

[Irons]

Anyone need a large Crucible?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Crucible-Silicon-Carbide-Large-Foundry-31000-/230587082464?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b00fa6e0

 

[shaftsinkerawc]

Thanks Irons, I've got the material just don't have enough heat to do the melt.

 

[old thompson]

I'm thinking of getting one of these to keep next to my "ENGALHERD" 5oz. silver bar.

http://cgi.ebay.com/4-7oz-OUNCE-SIL...97?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c38c09e9l

 

[Irons]

I'm thinking of getting one of these to keep next to my "ENGALHERD" 5oz. silver bar.

http://cgi.ebay.com/4-7oz-OUNCE-SIL...97?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c38c09e9l

Those Chinese are pretty smart. They knew a few hundred years ago, how to make 5 nines Silver and mark it in Arabic numerals so you could understand it.

These are modern tourist sucker bait, made by the thousands every month. :mrgreen:

 

[shyknee]

Irons saves another one :lol:

 

[goldsilverpro]

It looks like the 999.99 (fineness, it sounds like) was written in Helvetica font, which was developed in 1957. Also, I don't think "Fineness" has been used for more than the last 75 years. Also, it says it's silver plated Ni/Zn, so the fineness imprinted is meaningless

 

[old thompson]

"ENGALHERD" 5oz. silver bar.

"ENGALHERD", a product of China, is not to be confused with Engelhard.