Knowing your Boards

[@alexanderandro1895]

It's guys like you that post free, detailed information on subjects that are obscure to most of us that help make the internet such a wonderful tool, thanks.

[@MiketheScrapper]

Thank you Alex. I appreciate the comment.

[@MiketheScrapper]

Thank you Buddy. A scrap owner helped me when I knew nothing of scrap and this is my way of paying it forward.

[@Helllllerrrrrrrrrrr]

Your videos are really awesome man. People like you on KZbin that share your secrets are great man. It's awesome that people like you are will go make videos to teach others your ways. Thanks again mike.

[@davidhauschild5584]

You had three large socket boards . It’s nice to see someone helping out scrapers. There’s a lot Scrap yards thieves out there . I’ve found a couple strait up buyers . So now I buy boards and equipment in Chicagoland. So now I can pay electronic scrapers a fair price for there boards. I have some very reliable sellers and happy with my prices.

[@Mothershipproducts]

Another extremely informative video by Mike the Scrapper. I really enjoy all your videos and can see the improvement over time. There are so many times I want to go back and see a particular part of a video but can't remember where it is, the timeline seems like a great idea. A "Table of Contents" if you will. Keep up the great work !

[@batiste1460]

I Have Given thousand of card and motherboards away not knowing,WOW!! Thanks again Mike!!

[@MiketheScrapper]

Thank you ...The table of contents came up as I was redoning my Dvd..I think this wil help my viewers find an area in the video without having to watch the entire video again...Thank you for all the positive comments...I do have some new material coming out this year and you will all be amazed of what I have found...Thank you again.

[@scrapper1019]

very very sweet resource man! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this as well as putting in the awesome timeline. I am new to selling my eScrap to boardsort and this is exactly what I was looking for to use to send in my first box of boards to them. I have this bookmarked as well as subscribed to your channel.

[@macfixer01]

No offense to SuperDave who said daughter board, but the specific item you were calling a backplane is more generally known as a Riser Board. Risers are used to add more slots to a motherboard, for example in Dell 2U-height rack mount computers which are too short to have normal sized PCI interface boards plugged in vertically. Backplane is a more generic term for any board consisting exclusively of just slot connectors and very few if any chips or capacitors. Sometimes backplanes can be quite large, and often have slot connectors that are just press-fit so the pins aren't even soldered to the board. One other thing... In the motherboard section you called one type of motherboard you showed gold-plated which is incorrect. You are referring only to the color of the solder-mask coating which is most often green, blue, or red. There is also a yellow color solder-mask material which makes the traces look like gold when viewed through it, but the traces are still just plain copper underneath. Rarely certain circuit boards (possibly some HP/Tektronix/Agilent boards, or certain PC sound boards) can be found which have gold plated traces that have been covered over with solder-mask material. You will never see that on ordinary PC motherboards though, since gold plating is costly and unnecessary for their intended purpose. In that highly competitive market it's all about low production costs and high profit.

[@MiketheScrapper]

macfixer01 every board and chip I have explained in this video, is what they are called when they are sold. I do understand they are many other names. But this not to confuse.

[@streetcopper1151]

I love all your videos.. where did you go brother

[@MiketheScrapper]

I am here. Looking at a comeback.

[@streetcopper1151]

@@MiketheScrapper that would be great your one of the reasons I started my Channel.. all the things you showed me helped me get where I’m at

[@KennyChumsky]

Love this Vid!!! Mike!! You are doing a great job and great intro as well ;)

[@moosescrapper5928]

Hey Mike!! Great video!! One quick question, is it a flat back or flat pack? The paces I have ready about them call them flat Packs, like the north and south bridge chips. Thanks

[@kgryczan]

Nice video explaining the differences between board types. I'll need to sort through my green boards again and take any that appear to be peripheral boards and put them in a separate pile. What do you do with any thin ribbon cables (like those that come out of laptop CD/DVD drives) that have gold plating on the connector end? I got a few laptops in that I'm going through the process of scrapping and pulled a few out and noticed the gold on them.

[@xIntoThePitx]

That's pretty weird Mike. I found a local scrap yard that'll take boards and now I'm going to start salvaging them and don't know too much about grading them aside from the obvious motherboards and crap boards from tv's. Logic boards from a harddrive I probably would of tossed in with the low grade lol! This yard is pretty honest though, so they prob would of took it out and said it's worth a shitload compared to low-grade. Thanks for the vid, gives me more info on grading boards!

[@donaldgorniak7910]

hey mike love your videos I take apart tvs and computers all the time you are a big help but u have a ? for you I only save copper, brass and aulm. and cans right now should I start saving other stuff too?

[@timhenry9978]

Nice video Mike. If I can't find a local scrap yard to buy boards, where would you suggest I sell them?

[@Yogamartial]

Nice start for 2013 Mike very informative video good luck.

[@paulbrink9288]

Mike I noticed your a continental scrap yard customer. I go to liberty seeing how I don't have a vechile to get there from new Britain. How does continental pay out for the I.C. chips?

[@Goodmorningroosterlive]

I just started scrapping. fun stuff. Thanks for the super helpful video. Subscribing hoping to see you upload more

[@kolobian]

Great video,the telecom transition page looked weird to me though, too long a fade in. I love the embedded links at the end.

[@terryrhuebottom]

Mike are all peripheral boards gold finger. I took apart a slightly older tower and I'm pretty sure that the contacts I'm looking at are gold but not perfectly sure.

[@scottsadventures7707]

Hey mike I have a board like the one you asked if you can find the socket in and I'm wondering is that all gold plating in the board. Got it out of an old zenith

[@ccmarshall]

Hey Mike! Long time watcher, 1st time question. ha Once I get the boards separated, where is the best place to sell them? I have considered Ebay, but not sure if I should group all the 'gold-bearing' boards together or what. Help me out, ole Sensai of Scrapping. PEACE!

[@dylanc3464]

Could you explain what you take off boards (ex. aluminum, transporter, etc) and how? Thanks.

[@MiketheScrapper]

I do have some video's coming out this year on gold refining...

[@restingmammalskeep483]

So for T.Vs (and other things) do I want to take the copper motors off or do I want to keep it as intact as I can?

[@kc9pnn]

i really enjoyed this video mike keep them coming

[@timvivoda5208]

fantastic video mike im new to this and it was very very helpfull .I've watched it 11 times and have shared with friends .TIM from Australia Victoria .Melbourne.A1 video .thank you very much .

[@mccunecp]

good info mike now I can sort my boards better. I been pretty much sorting my boards with gold on them as high grade and my brown boards as low. but I see I can sort them a little more. But my bigest problem is were to take them. do you know of a webside that will locate a place that buys them. so fare the scraps I have here dont. any ideas. because I'm running out of room.

[@timhenry9978]

If I am understanding you correctly, I could remove copper coils, and aluminum heat sinks from boards, and when I sell them, the buyer won't care. Is that correct? Thanks in advance...

[@jrockdaddy]

I have had some money misfortunes over the holidays. I scrap for the 1st time last week and it was awsome. $23 FOR GAS HELL YAA. I thank I might be hooked. Thanks MIKE

[@DannyP979]

What components other than ic chips can I sell by the pound and do broken board sell for as much

Thank you, I'm new to the e waste, your videos are very informative. You've got a new sub here.

[@Jaybird196]

Do you have any advice for how to remove solder without professional tools? I realize it probably isn't worth much (to some people), but I'd like to save it :) .

[@MiketheScrapper]

no. a lot do not have gold fingers. such as Cable box and DVDR boards

[@josephrudnicky1810]

What about the boards out of a directv lnb on the dish. Is there gold on them

[@shaneveinotte380]

You the man, Scrapper Mike, You the man!!!!

[@victordelc21]

Hi Mike, I wanted to ask you do scrap yards take the low grade boards from stuff like tv and things like that if you remove the pieces of aluminum and copper parts from the board first or should I leave everything on them, thanks for your time, Vic

[@MiketheScrapper]

victordelc21 take all that you want off the board. My yard does not mind.

[@victordelc21]

Mike the Scrapper Thanks for the info Mike !!

[@dylanc3464]

Could you make a vid on how you take the stuff off the boards? I can't figure out for the life of me how to do it. Thanks.

[@Joecs520]

I like that you added a time line very helpful thanku

[@MiketheScrapper]

Thank you. Think is so you can go back and see one item. Instead of having to watch the whole video.

[@joellyos]

Great vid Mike (new subscriber here). Question for you. I have a bunch of unpopulated green circuit boards (with what looks like silver areas to put stuff on). They are flat and green on both sides. Can I scrap these? What category would they fall into? thanks

[@MiketheScrapper]

van allen Sounds like a mid grade board

[@lamnot85]

mike could you do a vid and how you remove the copper and aluminum without destroying the board

[@MiketheScrapper]

I will have a video on the gold in the summer months...I will have a series of video's on the precious metal process...Thank you for the comment.....

[@scrapratstv2058]

The strips from flat screens in your peripheral section, can go with your gold finger cards.

[@Rob-yt5of]

Scrap Rats TV The strips from flat screens are considered finger cards as far as scrap value?I've disposed of hundreds of panels with those boards still attached!

[@ice81503]

so with the shipping how good is the money?

[@stevenrose5831]

Hey Man, You need to open the Mike the Scrapper School for Scrappers. You are good at explaining this stuff. You need to also write a book or an ebook. Dude you'd make a killing. BTW, what state are you in?

[@mccunecp]

some times I wish I new of a way to slavage the meterials my self. I do take stuff like Caps that are still good. heat sinks, switches. and plug connectors ect and save those with the wire still attatched for projects. and some times I take off bridge rectrifyers, and transistors and mosfets also. and research the part nuimber and if they are good I keep if not I throw out. so in a way I recylce in differnt ways slavage good parts and recycle the rest. wish all scrap yards would take ewast.

[@southwestmichigancla]

Hey mike is a direct tv circuit board mid grade or low grade?

[@krillin876]

where do you bring the tvs when your done??

[@haroldhoyt1838]

Great video Mike! Very helpful information. ;)

[@GDitsme]

thank you for this vid Mike, I will not be getting robbed anymore when scrapping these, peace

[@NellisBee]

Nice breakdown of all the different boards. Peace!

[@thomasseidl3654]

hey mike, i enjoy your outlook and in depth knowledge. i scrap many years ,the basics, by ton (ferris) and as much non ferris as my bins fill up and i find time to take in. so... in regaurds to knowing your boards , please help me further. do you try to pull everything from a board ? do you sell a flat board of its grade ? put all capacitors in a bin ? i know the alluminum and copper. I guess im excited to have you do a DETAILED item by item of some of these foreign things on boards.thanks in advance and i should subscribe. im also semi computer illiterate.

[@MiketheScrapper]

lets say a mother board. pull the Ram CPU and heat sink. that's it. As far as capacitors I leave those alone. I do sell the board for the grades. Boardsort.com has some pics on what you should look for.

[@dsvtechieone]

Mike the Scrapper Don't forget the CPU heatsink retainer....Boardsort.com is a QUALIFIED source for information. Remember partial information still leaves people in the dark!!! ScrapMetalForum.com is a great community of people to get many different educaded views on scrap sourcing.

[@williammccombs]

This is the first time I've Watch one of your videos. Found it very informative. We use the same scrap yard but I have a ton o questions I'd like to ask you privately. Is there a way to send you a private message. I manage a couple of buildings and have come into a lot of scrap I'm not sure what to do with!

[@offhandacoustic]

I was under the assumption that the connector pins on the floppy drive boards are gold plated.I have always removed those,am I wasting my time?

[@brandonmorris3874]

you said it doesn't matter if you break them. so do they take all the little pieces I break when im taking metal off of the boards too? every little bit counts

[@jeffpac99]

Mike could you help me find a scrap yard that accepts these things in NW Iowa

[@naimgios1578]

Hey mike i want to now where i best sell my boards But i live in belgium and iT is realy hard to find a place to cell my boards i hope you can help me

[@naimgios1578]

Sell

[@scrapthatwithmatt9520]

Hi I’m a small youtuber who teaches people people how to make Money 💵 scrapping their electronics. Most common finds and Copper and Gold which will be sold for Cash. So sub2 my channel and learn more

[@justinmocio4618]

It's March 2021 and the prices are the exactly the same via boardsort. Crap......however, best video I seen on this topic. Why can't you break other boards besides the low G? I thought it all gets shredded? To confirm. Transformers are the difference between mid and peripheral boards? Is it not worth depopulating? I got a little osalating saw that just pops everything up and was the funnest part. - Appreciate you

[@timothyclark3220]

set it face down over a bucket, and slowly heat with a torch. most chips and connectors will fall into bucket. Some may need a little "persuasion". i use a hammer to gently hit back of board. Practice on one you dont care about first, as i burned my first one. but after i got the hang of it, takes about 15 min to clear the board

[@krillin876]

Are those flat screen TV's toxic inside, what should we stay away from?

[@paulharrison868]

hi im called paul and im from the uk.im doing this in my spare time. is it better stripping the metals off the boards and selling it as is or just sell them as boards.i don,t get the allot of stuff.5 computers a week. i enjoy doing scrap as i have done this for years. beats spending ll your time in the pub and spending all your money.keep up the good work.

[@MiketheScrapper]

You can make more money if you leave the precious metal on the board. if there is aluminum. you can remove that.

[@paulharrison868]

thanks for your help

[@victordelc21]

Ps, I also wanted to ask if the scrap yards take the boards if they are broken some boards i have are broken in small pieces, Thanks again

[@MiketheScrapper]

victordelc21 Low grade boards are no problem. anything other than that you may have a problem.

[@victordelc21]

Mike the Scrapper Thanks again Mike !! Have A Great Holiday Season

[@MiketheScrapper]

I plan to make a video on it....

[@tonyrigo7750]

should I clean the board is it worth more that way

[@J0Boa]

so how much is each type of board worth per pound?

[@XtremeChiliPepper]

Wow! Very good information! Now, we need a "Knowing your GLOVES" video :D

[@Hippiecat2]

What about removing pieces that contain copper? Are you able to sell a stripped down board?

[@MiketheScrapper]

Depending on strip down. You can take the transformer & copper off a low grade board. but if you cut the fingers of a PCI card. You will not get Pci card price.

[@jcgarcia8062]

I heard that u buy boards and I have a green board with no components will u still buy it

[@zedd125]

Where do you go if your local scrapyard doesn't take boards??

[@theoutlawpreacher]

Really helped for someone who knows nothing thank you

[@steveknight4291]

Hi Mike, love your vids mate. Got a request for you, plasma tv's :) thanks Steve

[@MiketheScrapper]

I have ben cutting the connectors off for gold refining.....

[@مهندالمياحي-ج7ن]

hi my name is mohannad i am iraqi man please how can i sold my scrap because my country don't purches my hards or fingers or wires or boards please tell me how can i sold it to another country and sory for bad my languge iam arabic man

[@MiketheScrapper]

Thank you...I did not have a server board or a 2 cpu mother board but I did ok...Thank you for the comment

[@mattk1023]

Mike is it worth removing the ic chips and gold fingers or leaving them on and selling boards whole i really cant tell the difference between the boards what should i do please help

[@MiketheScrapper]

***** I would only remove the IC CHIPS from the Low Grade boards. ( Brown on both side or Green on 1 side and brown on the other).

[@mattk1023]

Thanks mike

[@dettpks8013]

Good introduction to boards. THanks.

[@MiketheScrapper]

DETTPKS Thank you..

[@debstaley4297]

the mother board you show that looks like all gold plated top and bottom.why cant I perse the gold underneath the film that covers the gold that covers the hole board top and bottom of the mother board I have several of thes board but cant get gold off of them,nothinfg eats the film cover over the board

[@MiketheScrapper]

There is a product that does, but its only in China right now. I will try to get my hands on it to show...

[@macfixer01]

That motherboard is not gold plated, it has a yellow colored solder-mask coating (vs the more common green, blue, or red) and that makes the copper traces underneath it just look like gold. You can scrape the coating away with a knife and see for yourself the plain copper underneath. Hot lye solution (sodium hydroxide) will dissolve solder-mask but it's quite dangerous to handle and work with since it's highly caustic to skin. Lye also attacks glass containers, and will dissolve anything aluminum giving off explosive hydrogen gas in the process. It will not gain you anything to remove that coating from PC motherboards!

[@Yogamartial]

Just done an Emac monitor I picked up from a high school dumpster now I know whats what thanks mike

[@les3316]

If I rip the ic chips off are the peripheral boards worth less? What if any board cracks are they then worthless or deemed low grade?

[@MiketheScrapper]

should still be ok. I have done that to low grade boards

[@les3316]

Mike the Scrapper will they take a fridge that had the Freon drained already someone cut the compressor

[@les3316]

It has no certification tag or nothing

[@MiketheScrapper]

I will try to fix those fade ins ...Thank you

[@MiketheScrapper]

Thank you... I work very hard for my viewers

[@MiketheScrapper]

Thank you...Just alot of hardwork

[@MiketheScrapper]

Thank you...Lots of info...

[@MiketheScrapper]

They usally ship fed ex... so you can weigh your own and see what the price will be...

[@terex1966]

Thanks Mike.....i learned a lot from your vidz........ YOU ARE THE KING OF SCRAPPERS. " PEACE "

[@les3316]

Awesome video man liked and subbed you da man peace

[@MiketheScrapper]

Thank you Sir...

[@MiketheScrapper]

It does happen that boards do break when removing the copper, transformers, etc...They will still give you money for the board although it is broken...They all go in a shredder. so no need to worry.

[@rewtho8113]

Much thanks for this, very helpful.

[@dylanc3464]

Hey Mike- huge fan here.

[@xIntoThePitx]

I took some boards to a local scrap yard and they said it's garbage, throw it out. So I emailed another scrap yard on the other side of town and they said they'll buy boards. (Bigger and more organized, and honest!) Hard to find reputable scrap yards.. most will rip ya off in a heartbeat if they think they'll get away with it.

[@Goldnugget47]

Great video Mike! Best ever, this will really help, now to just memorize.video's are really looking profesional will they be avalable in three D LOL. later David O.

[@AingonAtelia]

I don't find anyone in my area that buys electronic boards. How do you make money from them?

[@SuperDaveVideos]

2:56 is called a daughter board

[@scrapthatwithmatt9520]

SuperDaveVideos A good joke, why don’t you get more likes for this :/

[@MiketheScrapper]

Thank you..Worked my tail off on this one.....

[@riding2nowhere]

where are you selling your boards at? cause the scrap yard doesn't paid that much.

[@MiketheScrapper]

On low garde boards... all you remove is the aluminum and copper...

[@ThisFish888]

What am I supposed to, or should remove from boards before selling? GREAT VIDEO BTW

[@MiketheScrapper]

Yeah, remove boards and any thing heavy. go to www.boardsort.com to see what they buy.

[@ThisFish888]

I 've checked out boardsort before, left me kind of confused, your video was more helpful, I understand they want heatsinks and large capacitors removed. I have a local scrapyard, sims metal mgmt nearby that buys escrap and I've separated all my lowgrade boards (I 've been scrapping lots of tvs, crt and flatscreens) from the others, I removed the heatsinks, ICs and copper/transformers the the lowgrade boards and the power boards but I have some boards from a pc and some routers and printers and the flatscreens, they look like midgrade or periphial, they have the gold corner chips and lots o f IC's and some gold pins or plating on the boards. I'm not even sure if it is enough weight to bother selling yet, maybe 20 lbs, low grade I have alot. I will go in today to sell my wire,motors,copper and aluminum and ask about the escrap. Do you have anymore videos you'd recommend for a new scrapper?

[@yorecicloenpenaflorytu3105]

hey Mike good info but sadly forme all the companies thati found in my coutry you have to pay them to take your boards. I realy think it is a disgrace on their side as they will earn money when they sell them, but they want to get money to recieve and then again to sell.... what a shame :(

[@nickh4309]

I'm having alot of trouble telling the difference between mid grade high value and not high value mid grade. I'm prepping my first sale to buyer and he wants the " low value mid grade " separate from the high value mid grade. I mean he pays more for high value mid grade then he does for small socket mother boards. I'm thinking maybe the ones with big plugs and transformers are low value? But they still are very nice with the same components as the good ones.. just confused. I think I will just remove as much of the junk as I can and hope for the best.

[@MiketheScrapper]

Go to www.boardsort.com......they have pictures on what you should be looking for.