20kg low grade power board improving value

Here I have 20kg of low grade power boards , I remove a few items of each board to see if I can increase the value without affecting the quality of the boards to much , and see if can increase overall value plus have spare items left over

[@empirefinds]

What you on about there is no boaring parts just fun. Awesome episode brother. looks much brighter now in the workshop. Ceramic tantilum capacitors. nailed the transistors. Count how many components on a board I get 15 types minus the processors.

[@rixismetals]

Me too there no boring parts lol but there’s few people might think some parts are boring lol I’ll be doing that on the 50kg boards to bars series total depopulation and categorising all components see what get lol

[@sandgstacker9881]

Good video , I agree with your thoughts you wouldn’t go and buy a small bag of chips and be happy if they just give you a few chips and say that’s a small bag lol keep up the good work

[@rixismetals]

Yes like I say keep the board buyers happy and there will always be buyers of boards ,

[@scrapnjunk81]

Great information video

[@rixismetals]

Thank you mate 👍😁

[@Bob_Sacamano]

great vid!

[@rixismetals]

Thank you , glad you liked it 👍😁

[@zero-waste]

Why do you only recover 10% of the value in Printed Circuit Boards? It's so easy to make decent money from PCBs. I never waste time manually removing anything from PCBs, instead I keep them intact. First step is hydrometallurgical removal of the solder for Tin and Lead recovery (Tin is worth five times more than Copper). After this initial process all electronic components simply fall of, thus they can easily be sorted in correct categories for further processing. A lot of these components contain Silver, some contain Gold, and many contain other valuable metals; a few even REEs (Rare Earth Elements). All contain various base metals worth to recover. The components are processed by several different means, like pyrolysis, mechanical separation, hydrometallurgical separation, electrorefining, or electrowinning. Every single component is money! I don't spend any time cutting off electric wires soldered to the boards; the solder removal step takes care of that. All wires, still with plugs/connectors attached are pyrolyzed for complete removal of insulation/plastic parts. Pyrolysis yields not only clean metals but also Raw Pyrolysis Oil, which is later refined into free petrol/gasoline, free diesel, and free fuel oil. The wire strands and connector pins are then melted into a flat anode and electrorefined to 99.9% pure Copper. All other metals (including Gold from pins) remain in the bottom slime and are of course recovered. Depopulated boards are then processed for recovery of the Gold plating. Even the extreme thin ENIG plating (Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold) is recovered. The bare boards are pyrolyzed for Bromine recovery (the Fire Retardant in the boards) as well as for the yield of Raw Pyrolysis Oil. Finally the ultra thin Copper layers are separated from the glass fibers. A glass recycler pick up all glass residue from processed scrap material. When I process PCBs nothing leaves my workshop in any other form than valuable end-products!

[@rixismetals]

Hi thank you for your comment , it’s was interesting to read what you do with your boards , this video was to show people if they were going to sell there boards as they are but want to increase the value of what they will get overall , plus for the people selling boards and not able or willing to go after the other precious metals they contain , I also depopulate boards to a further extent but not to a degree that you do as at moment I haven’t got the room to do it until I finished moving my workshop and then getting it set up for better processing of boards , until now it was just a hobby of mine I like taking things apart but like I say once I get my workshop sorted I can take it further then just as a hobby 👍😁

[@zero-waste]

@@rixismetals. It could be interesting to discuss further with you in the future, and share experiences in scrapping/refining. I have many more processes running almost daily that has never been shown by anyone on YT. 99.9% of all scrapping/refining videos on YT are made by amateurs, showing fx. how to disassemble e-waste manually; the simplest task, but doing it by hand takes too long. You need a few machines to make decent money. I'm a full time scrapper/refiner making almost £ 200.000 a year in my garden shed. Manual scrapping and a limited or no refining afterwards will never pay off, barely a little pocket money. Small scale home refiners most likely fight with just breaking even. I process tons of material every month.

[@kevinsturgess1475]

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[@patrickwilliams4613]

I'm in ireland no sale for boards at all

[@rixismetals]

So you’ll 100% benefit from totally depopulating the boards for what they contain , more places/countries should start to buy boards for the recovery of the different metals they contain so less goes into land fill