Board Sorting - how to sort circuit boards for max value

Shark Scrapper just returned from a board pick up. Let's dive in and see how we sort these boards to maximize our return.
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[@krismcdonald6538]

I've said this before that watching your channel helps me learn about computer scrapping and just sent my first box to board sort and after shipping costs I made 238 dollars in profits, Chris was great to deal with but I'm having a hard time in identifying CPU,S for there correct category so I did my best separated them. Thanks for helping people try to figure it out

[@sharkscrapper]

Kris - congrats on sending your first box to Boardsort, that's awesome. I'm happy to help you with the CPU's. You can reach me at [e-mail]. I'll work on a CPU video as well.

[@javajeff3772]

You did the seller a favor by sorting their scrap for them. Usually if you bring a load of soup, you get paid the least common denominator. That is because the yard (I.e. you) has to spend time sorting and processing the scrap.

[@sharkscrapper]

New client and trying to help him out. Plus I remember when I was new to this and some folks took the time to help me. Just paying it back.

[@Alrik.]

Nice scrap materials and a very cool Florida storm! 😃👍

[@sharkscrapper]

Thanks 👍 we get some awesome storms here.

[@EricScrapping4Dinidog]

I learn everytime I watch your videos! Thank You

[@sharkscrapper]

Happy to hear that! Thank you for the feedback.

[@virginiasherrill9124]

I am new at this and I appreciate everything you are teaching us

[@sharkscrapper]

Welcome aboard Virginia, it's great to have you here. Happy to help you as you grow your knowledge, skills and abilities.

[@barrywest3758]

Awesome pickup! 👍 Love ⚡ storms I doze off quickly during them. Must be the cow in me. Enjoyed 👍👍

[@sharkscrapper]

Do you also sleep standing up? New game, Barry tipping!

[@perez-gaara]

Thanks you shark. For the video thank you for teaching us hope you make some more videos likes these

[@sharkscrapper]

Thank you for watching. Happy to make more videos like this.

[@afineliner740]

Very good, a new customer with a nice variety of e-waste. #1 hdd boards. 👍

[@sharkscrapper]

Indeed - should make for some great pickups moving forward. I should have picked harder boards for folks to ID 🤣

[@gulfcoastacrscrapper6523]

good morning Shark Scrapper

[@sharkscrapper]

Good morning sir - here's to another awesome day.

[@jonathanlincoln7381]

Learn a lot thanks for the video 😃

[@boardsort]

Awesome video Shark! If you ever find yourself relocating to NE Ohio, you have a job waiting for you at our scale! The pay is crappy but the work is always entertaining! LOL!

[@sharkscrapper]

Hey wait, people get paid to do this? 🤣

[@josephcormier5974]

Excellent I love to learn what to grade even though I have no place to sell them I just depopulate and process My self great video very interesting five stars my friend thank you for sharing

[@sharkscrapper]

Thank you Joseph, glad you liked it even if it doesn't directly relate.

[@marthashipman9010]

Nice video great storm!

[@sharkscrapper]

Thanks Martha - we get some great storms down here.

[@cuscrapping]

First!! Rare for me, but can't sleep tonight.

[@gulfcoastacrscrapper6523]

🏆

[@YouCoontsSeeMe]

Morning Roger.

[@sharkscrapper]

Damn, sorry to hear that Roger. All that wire have you over tired?

[@cuscrapping]

@@YouCoontsSeeMe You're up early, too!! 😂👍

[@cuscrapping]

@@sharkscrapper Got me stressing a bit with the prices. Good thing is, they finally cashed my checks...bad thing is I no longer have $5k in my account!! 😂🤣😳

[@korbinadkins2610]

I like to collect old circuit boards from scrapping so this video was helpful.

[@sharkscrapper]

Wonderful - happy I could be of assistance.

[@SilverScorpion]

I love storms

[@sharkscrapper]

So do I. We get some awesome thunderstorms down here.

[@Dav3Campb3ll]

Great information Professional upload 💥 👍

[@sharkscrapper]

Thank you 👍 I'm glad you liked it.

[@mborowski2010]

My uncle's a scrapper he has 55 gallon drums filled with boards and electrical scrap sitting behind his shed. It's not worth his time to take to the scrap yard so I strip all the IC's, transformers, caps, and more off the boards to use in my electrical projects. I go over there with a hot plate and leave in 2 hours with $1,000 of components that I could sell on ebay listed as a used IC. All I know is watching you go through that I saw pure gold you threw aside. Gold to me at least. I seen a board with a heat sink that probably had the right kind of mosfets I currently need for my next project.

[@sharkscrapper]

Hey Michael - that's great that you're able to collect and resell those components. Trust me, nothing was just "thrown aside". I have buyers for this material. After I grade it out I decide what is getting sold to who and through which of my sales channels. What you saw in this video is just the beginning.

[@BushDogScrapper]

Those sharky are hard drive boards I believe in bag #1

[@sharkscrapper]

This was way too easy for the Shiver. Next time I'm picking something harder.

[@nachostuff]

Would love to learn more about grading - there are not really any yard around here that deal in ewaste so I have passed on the sort. They basically called everything low grade unless it has stuff on both sides. Most Mothertboards are not 2 sided so they pay low grade 15 cents a pound. A video called ewaste for dummies might be a great one going over the top 5 or 10 things that are worth spending the time on whether you use a yard or board sort. Food for thought. Thanks for the knowledge.

[@sharkscrapper]

An interesting idea Nacho - I'll cogitate on that and see what I can come up with. Thanks

[@SilverScorpion]

O yea!!!

[@sharkscrapper]

Was hoping you'd enjoy it.

[@souldasherjoanie7517]

Beautiful rain

[@sharkscrapper]

Yes it was - I love thunder storms.

[@ewastemike7700]

I didn't know Crown Royal made hd boards. Good to know. :)

[@sharkscrapper]

Ewaste Mike at the liquor store..."How much is a gallon of Crown Royal HDD boards?" 😂

[@user-mi3bs3dt4c]

Board number one hard drive

[@sharkscrapper]

👍🏻

[@SilverScorpion]

Board # 1 Prif high

[@sharkscrapper]

HDD

[@THEATREGOD3]

😂your truck bed similar to mine as far as scrap bins 😅

[@scrappinge-wasteholland460]

wow what materials nice

[@sharkscrapper]

Thank you

[@THEGOODRIDE01]

1st crown bag boards from hard drives

[@sharkscrapper]

Nailed it

[@wadebrinson8977]

Would you please tell me what material is used to print the circuit boards? I always thought it was silver but no one seems to mention scraping it!

[@sharkscrapper]

The PCB's we find in PC's, servers and peripheral devices are essentially very thin copper laminated onto a non-conductive substrate which may be hard plastic/fiber board or flexible plastic depending on the use. Some boards can have gold or tinned silver tracings. Lower grade brown and brown/green boards like we find in power boards or older TV's may or may not have the copper laminate.

[@RafalScrapper]

👍

[@edchlarson4547]

as a newbie it would be helpful if you could explain the descriptive terms you use for the different components

[@sharkscrapper]

thanks for the feedback Ed. I'll also be populating entire playlist dedicated to board identification.

[@edchlarson4547]

looking forward to it

[@Yogenh]

What do you do with all the old boards

[@sharkscrapper]

I sell them to buyers such as my local scrap yard and BOARDSORT.COM. I also have specialty buyers for vintage boards. If you're in the US you should check out BOARDSORT.COM.

[@jr-a-cat]

Don't just love the extra paper work and you don't have an AC office to do it in . The dinning room table dose not count . Thanks for the sorting lesson .

[@sharkscrapper]

If it wasn't for all the crooks and criminals trying to get rich quick with scrap, I wouldn't have to go through all this. But such is the way things are.

[@EricScrapping4Dinidog]

How should I start getting customers for mother boards? I live in LaSalle Illinois and there’s no one buying them around me. So I’m going to start buying them. Thank You in advance for your help!

[@sharkscrapper]

If you're going to do this as a business the first thing you need to do is research the laws in Illinois for setting up a company and operating a scrap/recycling biz. Every state is different and I'm not familiar with IL laws. Getting clients just comes down to building a network. Visit businesses that are likely to generate escrap. Write letters - you'd be surprised how effective snail mail can still be when it is specific and directed. Get on Nextdoor, or similar app and let your community know you're in biz. Maybe even try some targeted facebook/google ads. But be careful with those - they can get expensive and if not well targeted be a waste of money. Also tell as many people as you can. I've picked up a lot of biz from people who knew someone who told someone...

[@EricScrapping4Dinidog]

@@sharkscrapper Okay! Thank You very much! Also, is flat screen TV’s worth picking up for the boards going to board sort? I know most TV’s, the boards are low grade but I didn’t know about the flat screens for sure

[@sharkscrapper]

The big challenge with flat screens is what to do with what remains after you remove the boards. Depending on your buyer the boards my range from low to mid-grade. Boardsort buys the gold finger strip boards as peripheral. But you're left with the plastic housing and, depending on the type of flat screen, tubes containing mercury. You also need to know what your local laws are regarding the disposal of these items. Bottom line - there's very little value and a lot of waste.

[@EricScrapping4Dinidog]

@@sharkscrapper Okay. Thank You very much. I’ve looked the regulations up. It’s the same in Illinois as Washington State, where Scrapitall is from. Manufacturing has to set up ways of disposing of electronics but I’m not finding anything about anyone else. I’m glad I asked. I seen two TV’s outside a dumpster but they’ll stay there because it’s illegal to landfill any electronics. I did see that. I appreciate your help!

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

What’s the diff between a large socket and small socket motherboard. Still confusing to me

[@sharkscrapper]

If you can fit a US quarter in the CPU socket it is a large socket and therefore a large socket motherboard.

[@andrewpowell6457]

HDD or cd Boards of course, I'd really have fun with those motherboards with cpus & ram on them

[@sharkscrapper]

It was fun going through them without having to remove them from shells first. Sort of like eating oysters that someone else has shucked.

[@andrewpowell6457]

@@sharkscrapper 🤤

[@drskull9]

Ones in metal cases are out of the back of All in Ones..

[@keithgriner330]

😎👍

[@sharkscrapper]

😎

[@mikeahl5123]

Board number one is a hard drive board.

[@ewaste-jd-preciousmetals3723]

That's the hard drive boards.

[@budderking5462]

I believe board #1 was from an optical drive.

[@sharkscrapper]

HDD's

[@urbanprospector3007]

Logic boards for HDD's

[@sharkscrapper]

Next time I'm picking something harder for the steely eyed members of the Shiver.

[@flipjunk1998]

Intel core i7 stackkk brotha

[@sharkscrapper]

I wish man, that would have been nice.

[@dr.a006]

The customer will probably get paid fairly, then you have a chance to scrap it out a little more for more value. I wish it would rain like that in Utah more often! Hot and dry!🥵

[@sharkscrapper]

Yes, I consider my value add a fair relationship. Florida summers are all about afternoon thunderstorms.

[@DanielJBrodie]

IDE or SATA Hard Drive Board

[@sharkscrapper]

yup HDD

[@virginiasherrill9124]

I just don’t know where to find big amounts of computer to breakdown, I do dumpster dive and drive the roads

[@sharkscrapper]

A lot depends on where you live but I found success in good old fashion cold calls, letters and visits. It took me years to build my network and I never stop working on it.

[@scrappinnanny5836]

Board Number #1-CD ROM Boards?

[@sharkscrapper]

👍

[@ScrappingIrish]

i like when the hdd boards have gold cornered bga on them and i needed a cold shower after that board

[@sharkscrapper]

Such a beautiful board 🤣

[@moondog4313]

I think them thats from a TV is off the tube tv's

[@sharkscrapper]

If you're referring to the mystery boards, they are HDD boards.

[@dylanfox2134]

I have some boards if you want them

[@sharkscrapper]

Sorry for the delayed response. I've just moved and have been busy setting up the new house and looking for a new place of biz. Feel free to reach out to me at [e-mail] and lets chat.

[@dylanfox2134]

@@sharkscrapper okay

[@larissaritteger]

Thanks but it would be more helpful if u explain everything and not assume I know anything why is it a large socket or what mid grade or higher reason for such grading the only thing I get is green and color

[@sharkscrapper]

I go into great detail on these very things in other videos. Check out my playlist about board identification.

[@jayetzell8428]

hard dr boards

[@sharkscrapper]

👍🏻

[@jonathanlincoln7381]

Bag 1hard drive board

[@sharkscrapper]

I should have picked some thing harder.

[@jonathanlincoln7381]

@@sharkscrapper 🤣🤣 learn it for watching the shark

[@sharkscrapper]

@@jonathanlincoln7381 👍🏻

[@MrShekoexile]

Board #1: hard drive

[@sharkscrapper]

Next time I'm picking something harder. 🤣

[@proctorleo]

Comes from a hard drive

[@sharkscrapper]

👍🏻

[@gutz323]

Ive got probably 50 to 60 kilo of circuit boards, mostly of 80's and 90's telecomunications equiptment and computer mother boards. I cannot find any "idiots guide how to grade it" nothing makes sense, people talk jargon i know nothing about. Big sockets! Little sockets! Different components. They all talk like you are suppossed to know what they are talking about without really explaining, or without showing a close up of "a big socket!" For instance. Where is this socket? And what does it look like? I think i might just auction it all on Ebay as a job lot. I have about 30 or 40 CPU's too, but god knows the difference. People tend to say what the difference is, without actually showing you.

[@sharkscrapper]

This link should take you to my playlist where I help folks like you identify the boards they have: kzbin.info/aero/PLPCBlDcDB_dwM2w8yUTbQT_nba8DMJBuO In those videos I go into a lot more detail. I also point out many of the components in my computer scrap out vids. For instance, I'll point directly at the "socket" which is the CPU socket and explain if it is a large or small socket and why.

[@gutz323]

@@sharkscrapper thanx! I will have a look, and hopefully it will help me.

[@tomiadventures]

Quality/Angle isn't the greatest, but at 5 min mark, looked like low grade sata hd boards. At 14:30 you said peripheral low. I am new at grading, but no way that's low peripheral. I'd say high. I'm very inexperienced, so I would invite someone to tell me I am wrong and why. Only judging based off of 18 boards audited on forums, and viewing a dozen or so other threads. Your looking at $2.40 vs $0.75 per pound so it's important to not be too cautious IMO.

[@sharkscrapper]

A good observation. That board is borderline high/low because it has so much junk on it. My nature is to lean towards the conservative side of grading or error in favor of BOARDSORT. I've never had them downgrade any of my loads/boards. You'd likely be fine putting that board in a box with a bunch of peripheral high-grade boards.

[@billyb5057]

seems need to have some knowledge when sorting the pc boards for best value *full watch🥸Au👍thumbs up*

[@sharkscrapper]

It helps