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[AUH-R]

Might be someone who repairs laptops, not for gold content.

These have been taken from working laptops and the vast majority will be working perfectly but i have not tested every single one.

Dave

I hear you Dave, problem with that theory is I see lots like that go for between 0.99 and £8.00 all the time. Maybe a rare one in the mix? or just a couple of stubborn people bidding on the same lot. I was going to bid £6.00 just for the pins but then it went mad!

Best wishes,
AuH-R

 

[Palladium]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Technology-Electrically-Powered-Dual-Cell-Gold-Pt-Pd-Ag-Refining-Process-/300859980413?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item460ca6fa7d

 

[AUH-R]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Technology-Electrically-Powered-Dual-Cell-Gold-Pt-Pd-Ag-Refining-Process-/300859980413?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item460ca6fa7d

LOL, thanks for putting a smile on my face before I leave for work!

 

[Woodworker1997]

I'll bet he is selling a link to GRF! :lol:

Derek

 

[butcher]

Hard to make a misteak with this system.
:lol:

 

[ilikesilver]

Hey All, new to the forum, love reading all the post. I have been a coin collector all my life. About the only thing i melt down is culled coins, been doing that for years. Have been very interested in starting on computer boards, but from what i've read, i don't think i will be. It just doesn't seem profitable in any way shape or form. It seems to me like this

older boards and parts are better, higher quality than the stuff made now aday's,hard to come by.
the stuff on ebay is pretty much junk including gold drops

pins take way to much to bother with

am i pretty much summing it up. Then why bother? yeah a fun hobby. But i just don't see anyone spending more money and time not to get back some sort of gain. or am i off? I metal detect also, i do that as a hobby, and pretty well at it, but i started it to help my coin collecting, yet there is a gain.

So cost effectiveness, chemicals and time to get tiny amounts of gold, is there a gain, has anyone actually figured this out?

I was very interested in the gold drops on ebay, but after reading so much on here about them being mainly brass or copper, i will stay away from them. Now what to do with several hundred pounds of computer boards that i have stashed in my garage. sell on ebay so someone else can mess with them, or should i partake in this venture.

I guess my real question is, why do you all do this?

Thank you


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[patnor1011]

Most of us do this to make money.
You need to figure out how much is your time and work worth. Then you will have your answer.
I do have a lot of time and my muscles are put to better use than laying in front of TV drinking beer and talking about politics.

 

[AUH-R]

Most of us do this to make money.
You need to figure out how much is your time and work worth. Then you will have your answer.
I do have a lot of time and my muscles are put to better use than laying in front of TV drinking beer and talking about politics.

Well said!

 

[g_axelsson]

I guess my real question is, why do you all do this?

Thank you'

For the pure joy of seeing the pure metal in the end, knowing that I did it all by myself.
Dropped 3.5g gold yesterday and it always puts a smile on my face when the color of the solution changes and I get that dark heavy powder on the bottom of my beaker. :mrgreen:



Göran

 

[Palladium]

I guess my real question is, why do you all do this?

Thank you'

I do it for the glory! :mrgreen:

Just kidding. I guess for me it's about the people. You would not believe some of the nicest, honest people i meet in this business. Their are also the crooks and scammers also. I do a few commercial accounts but that is not where i gain my satisfaction from. One of the first questions i ask a potential customer is: " Are you in this for the gold or for the profit?"
One of my customers from Texas is a retired military man in his 60's. His wife has cancer and he pulls pins and what have you in his free time to help him be doing something other than thinking. They travel back and forth between Arkansas so she can take her treatments and every time he comes home he mails me a new package of materials. It's never really more than a few grams at a time that i recover for him. I don't charge him anything for processing and i actually pay the return postage of $6 to get the gold back to him. He takes those little gold bars and gives them to his wife. He says she's so proud of him and she lights up like a light bulb every time she gets one. They show them to the grand kids and plan on giving them to them one day. I always try and mail the bars out to him so that when they get home she has something to look forward to sitting there waiting on her. I've developed a very personal relationship with this particular client. It's the little things that make this job worth doing. The money????? It's alright i guess.

 

[glorycloud]

The good that your do will come back to you - it don't cost very much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxpr0oJHbm0

 

[ilikesilver]

Great answers guys. This is the type of forum that i want to be a part of. Sorry just testing the waters. Many of a forum on the internet are jokes, and i can see in your answers here this is a very honest and good natured forum. Palladium, i think you made me cry. lol.. great answers thankyou very much for being so honest. Thats what i want to see. You will see more of me here.

Good day

 

[ilikesilver]

Most of us do this to make money.
You need to figure out how much is your time and work worth. Then you will have your answer.
I do have a lot of time and my muscles are put to better use than laying in front of TV drinking beer and talking about politics.

Patnor, i read your guide on chips and crushing them. What was the quality of gold you got at the end? 24K? I like your guide, i think this is the way Im going to start on my projects. Tim

 

[patnor1011]

It was as pure as I could get it. I would say minimum 99X lets say around 995. I tried several tweak and upgrades but lets say that basic is still the same, incinerate, crush, wash, refine. One of extra step I currently implement is that I crush them in hand, slowly as I try to remove center piece intact. It is glass like thingy I like to keep for who-knows-what but that make it all even more time consuming.

 

[Palladium]

Wasn't somebody looking for one of these the other day? Scott?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Coors-Table-type-Removable-Plate-Buchner-Funnel-/221189306243?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item337fe8f783

 

[ohminator]

wtf ???? much $/€ for stripped housings

http://www.ebay.de/itm/330868463413?nma=true&si=ZZJMmDqYefKRbVPDO9B3rkVUYuQ%3D&rt=nc&_trksid=p4340.l2557&orig_cvip=true

I don't get it...

 

[g_axelsson]

If you add the price you can get for the ceramic bases after you recovered the gold then it actually becomes profitable to buy and refine processors from eBay.

:mrgreen:

Göran

 

[Palladium]

wtf ???? much $/€ for stripped housings

http://www.ebay.de/itm/330868463413?nma=true&si=ZZJMmDqYefKRbVPDO9B3rkVUYuQ%3D&rt=nc&_trksid=p4340.l2557&orig_cvip=true

I don't get it...

:shock:

:mrgreen: http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=17112

 

[Palladium]

I'm almost tempted! :twisted:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Groen-DH-1-40-Stainless-Steel-Gas-40-Gallon-Steam-Jacketed-Kettle-Kitchen-/271156360347?pt=BI_Steam_Cooking_Warming&hash=item3f222db49b

 

[cyberdan]

Now what to do with several hundred pounds of computer boards that i have stashed in my garage. sell on ebay so someone else can mess with them, or should i partake in this venture.

I know a guy in FL that pays $3.00 lb and picks up the freight. He has posted on this forum before as a buyer.