Telecom Grade Boards great to scrap for Gold Recovery

[@shaneyork300]

Some of the BEST BOARDS I ever seen! 👍👍👍👍

[@nickhouck4309]

I found good telcom boards like that in a couple of dumpsters. They both seemed like collections that were thrown out. The one dumpster had 7 valuable vintage computers and like a hundred boards. The other had everything from radios to rack servers completely filled the dumpster twice. I hope to find more of these type of clean outs! I looked for 2 months and didn't find anything then all in a few weeks I found a bunch.

[@LuisRodriguez-xf9lv]

Nice Find!! those are the tipes of boards most wanted.i get exited every time i find one like that. good video you have a lot of work to do, keep those videos comming. i`m also saving any good board and depopulating by hand with very sharped spatulas of diferent sizes and a smal hammer. but your method or air chissel is faster. lets make a mountain of boards. Them we will be the miners of that mountain and at last, be refiners.

[@mattyreardon3593]

4 years later: what was the precious metal recovery finally like? Do we have any high end refiners here in Melbourne? I'm south.

[@wally8075]

This was a great video ben!!

[@JohnDoe-gm5qr]

Hiding the screws under the label is a good way to make something tamper evident. I see it on hard drives now, one screw under the label.

[@TheEScrapMan]

Great video, eWaste Ben! The yellow components with multiple legs are known as resistor networks, and not IC Chips. That is why they are labeled RN. Hope this information helps you!

[@eWasteBen]

+The E- Scrap Man ok thanks, I can look 'em up now and see what they're all about.

[@DavidBerquist334]

If brass is ceroaded. Can it be cleaned with contact cleaner make shure its totaly dry before using

[@michaelkoonce4463]

Ben seeing new laws in uk concerning ewaste disposal going to make curbside finds impossible.are you considering opening a recyle drop off station or pick up service

[@rafaljadaski4644]

Thank you for mentioning the amount of money you can get for it. That is the interesting part. I'm always curious to know how much time you have to spend and how much money you can make of it. Please mention (if possible) the approximate amount you're expecting to get from things you're decomposing. Thanks~!

[@edmondedwards6729]

what are these MLCC things he is describing? He says that have palladium in them. .... are they caps? What does the abbreviation break down to mean in the full defintion? Thanks..

[@eWasteBen]

multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC)

[@TiborRoussou]

multi layered ceramic chips ;)

[@vanbemme]

Great video Ben thanks!

[@lauraramage261]

i have some ericson mobile mass things like this, model rus 02 b8. i cant find a brake down or a price for these, i live in yorkshire and will donate you one if you have a minit to come show me how to break it down while explaining whats what or make money off the parts.

[@theillustrator7437]

this was OMEGA satisfying

[@stanislawiak1]

Those 68xxx Motorola processors are worth 25 bucks for 68040, 30 bucks for 68030 and almost 100 bucks for 68060. They are used in Amiga and Atari turbo cards. And those cards are still in production. Dont destroy 68040 pls, it is EC version, still 25 $.

[@willynebula6193]

stanislawiak1 was about to say exactly what you said

[@RoeMantic]

Those boards gave me a woody

[@rubber20021]

dip ic chip, usually resistor network surface mount.

[@pacoblancosmith]

Great vid! I recently had an odd and old (1976 date on it) data memory board with little on it but thick, gold colored pins around the entire edge and gold legged IC's (which I hadn't run across until now). The pins barely move at all with my strongest neodymium magnet. Do you think these would be brass instead of gold? I only depopulated them last night so I haven't dug into them again but thought I'd check with you as well! Thanks!

[@eWasteBen]

I'd imagine gold plating over either tin, brass or copper, hard to say but don't think straight out brass.

[@vasapitta7521]

How much gold can be recovered from such single board?

[@govinddandi2209]

What's the price for gold kit for per Kg ?

[@zackcat276]

Are you sure those yellow things with the multiple legs are tantalum capacitors? Capacitors only have 2 legs, one positive, one negative. I don't know what those multiple leg things are, but I don't think tantalum. I'm interested to know what they are.

[@eWasteBen]

+zackcat276 they're resistors, but I did mention that in the video

[@zackcat276]

+eWaste Ben Ok sorry I missed that. They're definitely not tantalum then, correct?... I've been trying to research ewaste scrapping so I'm commenting to learn, not to criticise your video. Just wanted to point that out. I have learned a lot from your videos. thanks and keep them going

[@eWasteBen]

definitely not tantalum, maybe ruthenium being thick film resistors I think

[@zackcat276]

+eWaste Ben Ok thanks

[@20kilovolt]

+eWaste Ben 103 means .01µF so i think its a capasitor the multiple leg is because there is the same type of capacitor is used so it is cheaper to combine 8 capacitors in 1 part they call this a capacitor network array or resistor network array. Search in google for the datasheet number below or above the 103 on this part for example: "411gr-001 datasheet"

[@pacoblancosmith]

I wouldn't think they are pure brass either....they're 40 years old and would be oxidized like crazy. They probably haven't been in any system for 20+ years. Have you tried reverse electroplating yourself?

[@eWasteBen]

no I haven't but would be good to try

[@JohnDoe-gm5qr]

If they are brass, a drop of acid will remove the tarnish and reveal that. Gold does not tarnish.

[@muhammadwaseem-ob1xl]

I like ur videos

[@aga5897]

The yellow bits with lots of legs are just resistor arrays. They have many resistors inside them, that's all. Tants have just two legs. Cisco stuff tends to use only tant caps, mostly the old 'blob' style which are also yellow.

[@JamesOscar]

15:00

[@xylz1798]

nice job

[@ohioguy727]

some of the.best telecom.boards i get come out of printers about the only thing worth taking from them.

[@stephenfarrington2337]

when you depopulate does boards what do you do with them do they still buy them at a reduced rate for what

[@eWasteBen]

+Stephen Farrington yeah boards that were high grade sell as depopulated boards, about 30c lb

[@davidfontenot6703]

Do you process your own gold

[@victorrivera8910]

do you know who buys tantalum capacitors in bulk. I have about an ounce and a half of them. heard they sell for about $75 an ounce.

[@eWasteBen]

+Victor Rivera no, tantalum isn't worth that much and 1.5 oz is not bulk

[@victorrivera8910]

eWaste Ben,cool thanks for the insight my friend....

[@whoismarkjones9283]

Wat h how these guys do the extractions of MLCCs in india. Its nuts. They have gallons of molten material.. Itll give you a better idea on what is considered bulk

[@whoismarkjones9283]

In the back yard dirt wearing flip flops almost everytime lmao

[@kathy5939]

What method would you use to take off all of the items off the boards?

[@eWasteBen]

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[@guevarachearnesto9162]

hello. i am from germany thank you

[@manoelramon8283]

how much gold you were able to extract from this equipment ?

[@eWasteBen]

+Manoel Ramon there's a whole lot of things going on in scrapping before we go for gold, gold is the cream on the top and it takes some time to accumulate, but end of the day the idea is to make some cash scrapping whilst we build up gold nest eggs for the future.

[@manoelramon8283]

yeah.. I am asking because there is a lot of these equipment near by my house.... I would like to have some idea

[@noahhaley9418]

Wish i could get one of those lol

[@MdAmin-el5lq]

No gold fake video I am the money loss 4000