ya know i skipped over this post for a month, but for some reason today i clicked on it and read it.
I bought Ms Megan Roses books on Pt recovery, and its taken me awhile to understand what is written in them, and i did not buy them from ebay but directly from the publisher in Parma Idaho thru Megan herself..... I believe she has the information people want but did not put it in the book for some reason or other, in my opinion the books were not worth what i paid for them in the sense they are written haphazardly and not in a technical style i am use to reading..... that does not mean they do not contain information that is relevant to the process of recovering metals from scrap.
I bought the books from her after reading a couple of her posts on the GPAA forum [yes i am a member too of that group of seekers of yellow metal] and then seeking out the information on the web including ebay to see about feedback and negative responses to the books she has written. I too found this forum from an ebay ad, but i was not seeking refining or recovery information as such at that time, I actually was looking at equipment for gold bearing gravel recovery...... although we have other metals and gem stones in the creeks around the county i live in here in Central Idaho, gold remains the easiest to find for me. So after coming to this forum i only found one negative comment about Ms Megan Rose at that time and that came from a fella who builds and sells a machine to recover PGM so was in a direct competition with her for customers it seemed to me... toss out that type of comment and you get no negatives...
Go to the other gold recovery forums and gold mining forums and you find no one has negative comments about her books there either and her posts are rather helpful to the miners around the world. Now i aint trying to champion for anyone, but even PT Barnum knew there was a sucker born every minute and two to take him..... caveat emptor.
Ive scrapped out metal from scrounging it, it aint fun, it aint easy and as soon as someone else in the area sees a person doing that, and doing it weekly the competition gets fierce for the discarded items to the point no one makes any money but the scrap yard dealer, ergo i have scrap in my shop i have not sold and my wife wants me to get rid of it, just not enough of it to pay me to sort it down to the salable stuff and the refuse for what is there. I kick myself for tossing out all those computer components that i had from working on some many computers that died, the precious metals in them would have cost me nothing, but at the time i was under the impression that it would take literally a ton of boards to get any where near an ounce of gold back, let alone any other metal that is worth recovering... now i find that Pd is in all those little multi-layered ceramic caps MLCC and resistors too, that the folks who use tantalum pay for the recovery of those little buggers..... and the world just tosses most of this stuff in the trash cause no one has enough in anyone place to make it worth the effort it seems to make it pay back the equipment and product used to recover the precious metals.
After finding and joining this forum, I find VERY HELPFUL folks here that share information without hesitation, and watching LazerSteve's videos brought it all into line for me of what to look for in the reaction processes. Catfish has shared a couple of spreadsheets with me that he offered to others and i ask if i could have them as well, and both of those brought a better perspective into focus of what they covered. Others have shared books and thoughts that also have been a boon to my learning curve. I learn daily from the posts that are here, and a few times I have personally stumbled upon a phrase or term I did not understand and had to search a few other posts to keep from being confused but for the most part everything is here one way or another....
Ms Megan did join this forum after I emailed her and told her that a fella was discouraged with her product, so i spect she has read this thread as well as others, this I know because in an email to me she made a statement concerning one of my posts, no biggie one way or the other, and like I said I aint anyone's personal champion, other than my family. I am a seeker of knowledge which will help my family set victuals on the table in the long term and in the short term provide me with a learning experience that can never be taken away, because i am just a man, no more no less and I have people who depend upon my being around for them.
William
Central Idaho
