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[maynman1751]

I believe that you're right Pat! It's more than I was willing to bid. :roll:

 

[MarcoP]

Unrelated to refining but it's great to see how ingenious are people, a led tube with toilet rolls: http://www.ebay.it/itm/161222605545

 

[patnor1011]

I always try to find ways to reuse material. I use washing tablets boxes for packaging small stuff I send and as filling I use teared egg cartons. It saved me quite some money switching from bubble padded envelopes and polystyrene ready made filling. My wife is sick from my hoarding of different boxes and containers. I also started hoarding plastic sheets from laptop screens, I do have feeling I will use it for something in future, however I still do not have idea what that will be. :mrgreen:
I would even hoard abs plastic as I know it will have bigger value in future but I do not have space for that. My friend grind that to 1-2 mm pieces and mix it with concrete - heat insulation and it add volume / reduce cost of building.

 

[mls26cwru]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/70-Pentium-Pro-Cpu-Chips-Scrap-Gold-Processor-Recovery-Vintage-Collect-/321706173099?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ae72ea2ab

LET THE PARTY BEGIN!!!!

This one has some potential to be very entertaining

 

[edsikes]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/70-Pentium-Pro-Cpu-Chips-Scrap-Gold-Processor-Recovery-Vintage-Collect-/321706173099?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ae72ea2ab

LET THE PARTY BEGIN!!!!

This one has some potential to be very entertaining

holy crap there are some crazy people out there 2 days left and they are currently at 20.69 each!!! ive added this to my watch list just like the morgan dollar roll i watched go insane...a single roll of cc morgan dollars started at 9.99 and ended at 7899. i would put the link here but i seem to have deleted it from my watch list

 

[edsikes]

and according to average calculations that is only 23.1 - 35 grams of gold so thats 890$ to 1348 dollars. someone is going to be incredibly unbelievably disappointed

 

[patnor1011]

It is more expensive now than all time high gold price if calculated with .35g a piece. Which is generous yield estimate.

 

[jason_recliner]

Craziness is on the small dollar scale too, only proportionally it's far worse. If I guess correctly, using others' stated yields, an ounce of well trimmed fingers is worth about 0.1g of gold. :?: Or about 50% the opening bid. Not counting small scale losses, postage & chemicals.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1-Oz-Gold-Double-Sided-Plated-Computer-Fingers-Scrap-For-Gold-Recovery-/311325276347

 

[edsikes]

wow... and the amount of overage of green board still attached to the fingers... a simple jig on a scroll saw with a bi-metal blade does wonders no curly fingers and very little dust if you set the shop vac up while you are cutting...

 

[Barren Realms 007]

If you look you will see he has 2 auctions like this.

 

[METLMASHER]

wow... and the amount of overage of green board still attached to the fingers... a simple jig on a scroll saw with a bi-metal blade does wonders no curly fingers and very little dust if you set the shop vac up while you are cutting...

Neat idea! A vacuum only used for that will yield, at some point, dust worth recovery. ( I get vacuums free all the time. )

As for the ebay auction, would a re-use option even be viable?

Seems for recovery, maybe high grade scrap nets a premium, and I get it, people want a wack of gold in the beaker. C'mon, you do too.

But the value is so much less, might as well ask a pawn shop for broken jewelry @ spot, and repair the finest, refine the rest.

You'd be ahead of that auction.

 

[resabed01]

I will say that 40% will be worthless. I have seen many kilograms and many piles of this type of material. If you look very carefully you will even see BGA with slicone die, those with no black top at all and where there is one there may be more. Quite a lot of them do have black top removed and I have seen only one separate black top on that picture. For the price it sold buyer did not gained anything. He will break even and get back gold to cover purchase, shipping and chemicals involved.
Whoever bought it actually bought himself some extra work.

The results are in! The lot weighed 3599g. Of that I picked out 448g of duds which calculates to 12.4%. Found maybe 3 flip chip style BGAs, the rest were missing their tops. The tops were not in the lot so either the seller threw them away or is keeping them. :shock:
Regardless, I have over 3Kg of good BGA chips to process. I figure somewhere north of 16g of gold.

Better get started on peeling them.

 

[edsikes]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/70-Pentium-Pro-Cpu-Chips-Scrap-Gold-Processor-Recovery-Vintage-Collect-/321706173099?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ae72ea2ab

LET THE PARTY BEGIN!!!!

This one has some potential to be very entertaining

holy crap there are some crazy people out there 2 days left and they are currently at 20.69 each!!! ive added this to my watch list just like the morgan dollar roll i watched go insane...a single roll of cc morgan dollars started at 9.99 and ended at 7899. i would put the link here but i seem to have deleted it from my watch list

wow.... this lot finished they wound up going for 26 dollars each what are people thinking???? i wish people would pay that much when i list stuff... 1834.00 plus the 13 dollars shipping... whoever bought these is going to be quite sad once they finish refining...

 

[patnor1011]

I will say that 40% will be worthless. I have seen many kilograms and many piles of this type of material. If you look very carefully you will even see BGA with slicone die, those with no black top at all and where there is one there may be more. Quite a lot of them do have black top removed and I have seen only one separate black top on that picture. For the price it sold buyer did not gained anything. He will break even and get back gold to cover purchase, shipping and chemicals involved.
Whoever bought it actually bought himself some extra work.

The results are in! The lot weighed 3599g. Of that I picked out 448g of duds which calculates to 12.4%. Found maybe 3 flip chip style BGAs, the rest were missing their tops. The tops were not in the lot so either the seller threw them away or is keeping them. :shock:
Regardless, I have over 3Kg of good BGA chips to process. I figure somewhere north of 16g of gold.

Better get started on peeling them.

You got lucky, you are not going to lose money. You may get about 200$ profit on this one.
Auctions like this one are tricky and I always assume much less as you do not have guarantee whole pile look like top layer. I mean some sellers may intentionally put good material on top, I am glad it was not this case. Let us know yield if you plan to process it as separate lot.

 

[FrugalRefiner]

I must be missing something :!:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/55-66g-of-925-sterling-silver-scrap-and-re-sale-/161651531871?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25a32ea05f

He's selling 55.66 dwt of sterling scrap with some stones in it. It's up to $224.74 with 7 hours to go! He listed it as 55.66g, and the picture shows that the scale is set to dwt, but that's still less than 3 troy ounces of sterling (with stones). Seller started it at $0.99. He must be pooping his pants by now! :lol:

Dave

 

[maynman1751]

I must be missing something :!:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/55-66g-of-925-sterling-silver-scrap-and-re-sale-/161651531871?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25a32ea05f

He's selling 55.66 dwt of sterling scrap with some stones in it. It's up to $224.74 with 7 hours to go! He listed it as 55.66g, and the picture shows that the scale is set to dwt, but that's still less than 3 troy ounces of sterling (with stones). Seller started it at $0.99. He must be pooping his pants by now! :lol:

Dave

I'd have my drawers filled by now. Over $200 for 87g of silver!!!!!?????? :shock:

 

[resabed01]

"AFTER SEVERAL MINUTES THE GOLD WILL BE REMOVED FOR YOU TO MELT DOWN AND SELL."

If it were only that easy!! :roll:

Reverse Electroplating cell

 

[Barren Realms 007]

"AFTER SEVERAL MINUTES THE GOLD WILL BE REMOVED FOR YOU TO MELT DOWN AND SELL."

If it were only that easy!! :roll:

Reverse Electroplating cell

Just because that has "007" on the end of the user name, I have nothing to do with this sale... :roll:

 

[edsikes]

"AFTER SEVERAL MINUTES THE GOLD WILL BE REMOVED FOR YOU TO MELT DOWN AND SELL."

If it were only that easy!! :roll:

Reverse Electroplating cell

wow i emailed these people once just to ask a couple questions about the cell itself, and the person who replied was so nasty to me it was ridiculous. accused me of trying to infringe the copyright for their cell, that it was a totally proprietary design and if i wasnt planning something nefarious i wouldnt be asking those questions. not to mention 40 dollars for shipping???? what are they sending you??? ten pounds of gold plated to get started?

 

[resabed01]

wow i emailed these people once just to ask a couple questions about the cell itself, and the person who replied was so nasty to me it was ridiculous. accused me of trying to infringe the copyright for their cell, that it was a totally proprietary design and if i wasnt planning something nefarious i wouldnt be asking those questions. not to mention 40 dollars for shipping???? what are they sending you??? ten pounds of gold plated to get started?

Just out of curiosity I checked out the sellers other items and had a good laugh. Issues of morality and legality aside, it shows where the seller's head is at with safety.