Removing Gold Fingers & Pins from RAM & CPU's

Here's an easy way to remove gold fingers from RAM. Slot Cards & LCD Finger Strip Boards.
please discuss & share your ideas on how we can use a soldering iron to help with gold recovery better, remember we are all learning and any new ideas will help everyone in becoming better at refining and recovering precious metals from out e-waste.

[@ephraimt1]

18:58 "Man. That felt good" You just made my day mate!

[@riverboat28]

Bro, you had a pile of gold with a modified soldering iron tip in minutes on your first try!! Great video and thanks Ben

[@shaneyork300]

I will definitely keep this procedure on my list of, ways to recover gold! EXCELLENT VIDEO BEN!!!

[@corbettsantanavideographer364]

Wow Thanks for taking the time to show us!

[@1966wardog]

you are the number one source for this information appreciate you .

[@RafalScrapper]

didn`t expect that result of that thing , just great and quick thanks men

[@ryanstruble5381]

Thank you for doing this video. I am just starting to think about how to get into escrapping and this will help tremendously

[@brendaicronk6794]

So pleased to see u do this. I did not have the strength to cut the board. Guess I know what I will do tomorrow. Thanks so much

[@CraztIsraely]

That is awesome you really have something with using the soldering iron I like it thank you.

[@judybeckner5623]

Absolutely amazing, thanks for sharing Ben

[@bodyfitnessbodybuilding9005]

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[@marcrochefort4483]

Thank you Ban! Just getting into e-waste side of scrapping. I am starting with silver contacts out of all the switches from the appliances i get for scrap. I don't know if I am going to make any money scrapping gold and silver, but I am having fun and that's the whole point. Gotta go now, going to pick up a free aluminium boat.

[@mattcourty6322]

How about a "slot" with soldiering irons angled in and braced on both sides and just run them through like a credit card?

[@maidirebyte]

This is the smarter way to remove gold pins from cpu i found in KZbin. Congraturation Ben!

[@eWasteBen]

Thanks Fabio

[@maidirebyte]

Just one question, Ben. How many watts power has your soldering iron? Thanks.

[@eWasteBen]

it was 30w, I tried with a 40w but it seemed a little too hot inside, but outside I think 40w would be best because of wind cooling the tip.

[@corystreat8037]

Thank you again Ben!!!!!

[@MoneyMedley]

Excellent Video Ben!

[@clickforfreedom7267]

Good sharing, buddy... cheers!

[@jr-a-cat]

making money is always FUN Thanks for the vid Ben

[@TheRealSaintNever]

This is great Ben!!! I've been wondering what to do with all the gold on those video boards other than sell them for peripheral board prices! Thanks again!

[@hansomdaley3365]

Just Brilliant. Thanks

[@JustJeff420]

Very cool!!! I'm going to break out the soldering iron right now!!!

[@jr1jr881]

I like what you do good hobby to stay busy I enjoy your videos. Not only that you can be a bit funny my wife hates me laughing sometimes looking into my phone. You have it a lot easier with the way people dump trash on the side of the curb over in the United States in Jersey City New Jersey people use trash cans and bags to dump the trash in so it's a quite that hard to find cell phones old phones and other stuff that contain precious metals so it's not like we can go through every bag just to see if by any chance of something good in it like I said you have a little better over there I enjoy watching you my name is Joe keep up the good work. And bless us all.

[@markselten4985]

Great tip, cheers Ben. Only thing I could think of to improve would be making a shorter iron.

[@cricketman7335]

Great tip as another method! I'm glad you mentioned the separating of the recovered material. For those who would have the bad luck of the soldering tip finding it's way to your fingers *ouch*... some sort of holding apparatus or affixed block would be helpful, also possibly a little faster, since you won't be worried about your fingers getting burned.

[@pierreqiu8147]

Beautiful Firecrackers sound(increase the volume) good on you mate

[@harley4856]

i have watched lots of your vids this one is awesome,i am collecting a lot of phones ,im thinking this method must be of the highest grade possible,but hard to belive the boards are still worth money,in canada they charge to get rid of everything,small town,

[@mikekarrie3412]

Ben great video ive seen em all one of my favorite Great Show

[@eWasteBen]

Thanks Mike

[@johnkirnberger9366]

I would use a wider soldering tip!

[@PinkPoo]

That looks so so fun 😃

[@AdamArmstrong]

As a collector of old computer hardware, this is the most painful thing I've ever watched on youtube. D:

[@CuSTACKS]

Love these videos great tip for mining

[@rarerecordreporter]

Great tip!

[@GotrekGurninsson]

I cut the fingers using my vice (bent and snap), then use warm HCl and peroxide to dissolve the base metal/copper underneath. And process the foils. Much less work.

[@simplifygardening]

Thats a lot of work Ben. much easier to process the entire ram board together in AP that will take the chips and gold foils off in one go then process as you would normally in AR

[@eWasteBen]

but fun work

[@ohioguy727]

+eWaste Ben agree love scrapping mind at ease heart fulla happiness lol

[@Milkman12114]

Thanks Ben!

[@restinpeacemyfaderseeyouin3866]

Thank you so mch sir for sharing this video for us to know that easies way to recover gold

[@dannosdive8552]

Did it and it works great! Thanks Ben!

[@eWasteBen]

great, yeah it's very simple but works a treat

[@paulscottpadgett1996]

Much Respect

[@tonyjensen8847]

I do this all the time work well

[@RoeMantic]

I watched this video so many times now LoL. I think I might make a video like this some time in the near future!

[@karensotherdimwits4939]

Most of my e-scrap gold comes from these types of sticks. I haven't processed any yet as I was just waiting to find out the best technique. This one seems really good. I was just wondering tho, what sort of temperature should the soldering iron be at? Can you vary the temp on a s.i.? Would be really grateful for some info in this. Fantastic vid btw. Would really love to see more.

[@adamdahlberg3401]

Ben great video, I was wondering if you could flux the tin out of that copper heat sink for more copper ewaste Ben bars?

[@evanmcafee]

if you plan to sell the gold for cash, Process it to make it pure gold. if you are making jewlery, DO NOT seperate the other alloys because the alloys make it stronger.

[@quagmier3]

Wow Ben another awesome video. You could get a cheap oxygen and map gas torch and melt those unrefined gold foils into a small nugget. It would be 10k or 14k gold but could be sold to a jewelry store or kept as a nice homemade nugget. I was trying to refine gold to 24k but it was too much work for me and too dangerous for me. I sold $1000 US dollars worth of unrefined gold to a jewelry store and put the rest of the nuggets into a safe deposit box. Your new process has gotten me excited to dig out all of my ram sticks and see how much of a nugget I can make in one rainy day worth of work.

[@eWasteBen]

Coincidentally I had a friend stop by today on his way to do exactly that, sell his gold blobs to a dealer in town, I was impressed with how they looked but I would of kept them if they were mine. so I take it if I melted the foils they would be similar in karat, say 10-14k, but if I melted the pins from the cpu's that would be considered gold drop and not something a jewelry store would buy?

[@quagmier3]

Yes exactly at least the ones I go to. They sell the ingots made from melted pins on Ebay but the gold percentage at that point it is so low that I look at that as sort of a scam. And also if when you are melting the foils some of the copper will burn off with a blueish green flame if exposed to any oxygen. This will make it more pure but hard to get all of the copper to burn off.

[@LuisRodriguez-xf9lv]

interesting, I have the same idea I will put that material in a small batch of AP (less dangerous) and get more clean and closer to 14k that is considerated a piece of jewelry. melt in a crucible with your favorite shape. i like the mini ingot or maybe a coin size.

[@eWasteBen]

yeah, I think for many it's the way to go, the same 14k blob could be turned into 24k but it really won't be much different in value because it will be much smaller, so selling as 14k or even 10k kinda works out the same, except no mney is spent on chemicals and much safer.

[@zachamy4444]

I do the same thing but I pre heat them in an small cheap oven on low heat and it takes the chips off as well .

[@scottv6358]

Hey this would be a good challenge ....how can you do in an hour or something..Thanks for all your videos

[@leonmarut7092]

thats a handy idea

[@xylz1798]

nice job

[@yusufabdulmatinu7389]

Good job

[@einstein9901]

This needs an ASMR video all by itself! #asmr

[@LuisRodriguez-xf9lv]

Hi Ben very interesting idea. I was thinking if a 45 to 60 watt and a little wider iron sharped like you did will remove easier the large fingers from cards and more area with the processors. and maybe if you try to screw a piece of wood or aluminum on the desk and put the processor against the force direction to remain it still on place. keep coming those new efficient ideas. regards Luis.

[@eWasteBen]

30w is all I had but yeah not so much the wattage but more the width of the tip, wider would be good.

[@ourodolixo-e]

very nice

[@GoNZO-rs5oi]

Gold pins flying everywhere.

[@israelsoto4518]

I am new for depopulating boards can you please show me how to do the gold recovery process with the chemicals and what are the chemicals that I will need to do the process!

[@tombenes4461]

thank you ,now I'm kicking my self I've had a lot of computers!?!

[@loklishplays9562]

What a simple way, have been looking for these kind of videos, but is that like pure/only gold?

[@angelgrant3845]

What kind of surface do you need to work off to take off the gold from the boards with the iron

[@paulyagoda142]

Excellent video Ben! I have several pins waiting to process. What is your recommendation for processing the pins?

[@eWasteBen]

thanks! i'm only up to processing the foils, in the simplest of ways. for pins you can't avoid the chemical process to remove the gold foils and i'm just not experienced enough to give advice, so all i can say is, keep stacking them up or send them to someone that refines. 50/50 nitric acid & water does the job to get them to foil stage.

[@eWasteBen]

But new technologies, like concentrated vinegar solution is not far away from being available to the public, wgen this happens gold recovery will be safe and simple for everyone, so just keep stacking it up

[@paulyagoda142]

+eWaste Ben I saw a video on concentrated vinegar. It almost looked to good to be true.

[@mindofmetal]

Yeah I saw too Ben,had a lot of stages to process though. Still looked much safer :-)

[@bantalee2002]

Hey that is real slick. my problem is i already clipped the fingers off. Thanks Ben good video Ben. Kinda curious over how the crushing went with tumbler. I seen somewhere where a fella rented a small cement mixer,tossed all his chip in it with 2 bowling balls and let it mixer run for about an hour. chips were all crushed up.

[@eWasteBen]

i've tried using the air hammer to crush them, didn't work that well but broke 'em up into smaller bits. yeah a cement mixer might be the only logical way, bowling balls would be funny but I can see how that would work

[@uzi1951]

Angle iron rock crusher that powders everything. No more unincinerated chips. But the soldering iron is cool, would like a bit larger tip. Food for thought. Thanks. Maybe solar for the electricity so as to save money.. Can't see much room for expenses. www.goldrushtradingpost.com/cobra_crusher___portable_rock_crusher

[@The3Radan]

Awesome video. One question, what do you do with them after, how do you make gold for sale from pins and gold foils?

[@eWasteBen]

foils are the easiest because you don't need chemicals, just melt down into a blob an sell as is because it should be around 14kt. pins need chemicals to remove the gold off the pins first.

[@The3Radan]

+eWaste Ben Thanks a lot for the answer.

[@andymck6323]

Great idea big saving on chemicals but is it viable with the cost of power ? make a jig for soldering iron and run the board through it

[@badsantaclaus4522]

File down the tip and look for a wider tip may work better Watch before forgot to like thanks for sharing

[@salescounter]

A 1500 watt heat gun does not use much electricity at all. Where I live (Tennessee Valley) electricity is billed at 11 cents per kilowatt hour. That means I could run a heat gun at full blast for an entire DAY and it would only cost around $4.00 total. That's running the heat gun 24 hours straight. I'd imagine I could remove a lot more pins than you could... I guess you have to find the right balance. If you are doing 500 chips you might say "screw it" and hit 'em with the heat gun and use sulfuric to kill the solder, whereas if you only had 10 chips the soldering iron might be the way to go.

[@faithwaipouri8472]

awesome technique, are the fingers pure or do they still hold impurities

[@eWasteBen]

gold is plated onto a layer of nickel, then copper, you need to remove that to turn the fingers into pure gold.

[@jetman1963]

Ben there is an even easier way, heat the chip till it is just about to glow and smack the side of a Pyrex bowl the pins just drop off. saw this on another video.

[@robinjocaldwell1449]

Hello Ben, just a quick note. If your removing gold fingers outside, make sure its not a windy day!!!! Also NOoooo sneezing it could make a have a bad day of it. HA Ha Ha!!!! Later, stay safe Robin Jo

[@Goldnugget47]

awesome video can you still sell sticks after remo

[@eWasteBen]

yep, lots of gold in the chips still

[@MegaPoxie]

That will greatly reduce the costs of your chemicals as you are only dissolving a tiny area of copper. It should clean off now with something really cheap like vinegar or even lemon juice if your not in a hurry.

[@Terry-io8ji]

How many fingers from boards or pins from cpu chips to reclaim a gram of gold , typically...? and the average time taken to achieve this ....?

[@dionkastrati488]

i have a lot of ram sitcks old ones i am rich thenks you

[@vinayakmulagund6727]

Sir which soldering gun be used send me details

[@todortenkov527]

Is it good to mix cpu gold pins and pins from molex cable?

[@SeanTHirsch]

where do yall collect your old electronic parts from? I live in a small Texas town and don't find all these but I am wanting to collect and refine gold and silver.

[@eWasteBen]

I advertise commercially as a recycler so I get all kinds of e-waste, for a start you might want to try with pc repair shops, tv repair shops and schools, most schools have technicians so they are the guys you want to catch up with.

[@SeanTHirsch]

Thanks. Never considered those things. I need to start thinking outside the box more.

[@dansosper5249]

Hi Ben my name is Dan my borther built and fxed computers for a livong before he moved out I have alot computer parts and gold pinned chips is it better to remove the gold or sell the parts whole with gold still on them

[@evanmcafee]

omg i have that same iron

[@Grayando1]

watched so many of your videos now I feel like we are family... '' } You said you just need 100 000 cpu's and then you will be good.... what do you think 100 000 would get you back in gold?

[@bmxtwins5685]

Shouild be some, after SOME time ;)

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

Where do you score all of this ewaste. Idk if you’ve said it before or keep it secret

[@russsherwood5978]

what is under the colored mask of the boards?

[@iddrisskhalid6238]

nice video, thanks for the new trick, can any one help me out, after removing the gold pins, what is the next step one can use to fully recover the gold. thanks.

[@eWasteBen]

facebook gold recovery channel

[@megotmesources]

can you sell the foils to a jewelry store?

[@frediew8010]

Hi" Ben" need some help heatsenkes with copper in th center . how do you get them out what tools to use ? thank you"

[@eWasteBen]

maybe this video..kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4Gpk5yfmdZ_e7c

[@tracemitchell7358]

If you could cut down a razor blade then rig it to the iron it would work even better I bet with a nice sharp edge

[@mpetrus100]

I wonder if you could use this to remove MLCCs, thin film resistors and other things on the boards.

[@eWasteBen]

mlcc's just pop off with a screwdriver but yeah for resistors it might be helpful

[@historyhunter5215]

I never like to just sit there and cut my fingers off...🤣😄🤣😄🤣

[@jessenorris1672]

i wonder if you could use a razor blade on your soldering iron

[@eWasteBen]

I did try it as the kit came with a sharp blade, it was too thin for the job.

[@theaussienurseflipper.8113]

I though cbu has gold wire inside the chip cheers Graham

[@woodworkingandepoxy643]

Ben do you still do this? I haven't seen any other mention of it

[@chrissettles4127]

Why cut off or up the chips and boards because the entire circuits board has the gold through and through. The computer companies I read about said all circuit boards since the 20s and 30s had gold through the entire circuits board

[@vijaycv4556]

Can you sell the foils to the jewelry shop

[@exojazzyjazzythomas7979]

👍🏿🧐

[@strontvliegable]

Don't you have to use acid to purify them and to get the rest of the metal out? Or can you just melt it then and sell it?

[@sweegyboii7095]

How many carrat gold is ram fingers??

[@nileshdesai8958]

Which ram & Processer you collect provide ram & Processer name

[@Chaosman88]

what temperature do I need to loosen the pins but not to melt the board?

[@eWasteBen]

Usually a cheap 40w soldering iron will melt the solder

[@Chaosman88]

yes I know, but I'm curious about the temperature I should use. My station has adjustable heating from 150 to 450. I would like to know what is the correct temperature setting that loosens the pins, but not melts the plastic. Obviously I don't want to inhale all these nasty plastic smokes..

[@kamiyabikaraaztvchannel289]

I try soldering iron 40 Wtt/60 wtt cannot fingers pls how much sir use

[@kamiyabikaraaztvchannel289]

Sir soldering iron how much Wtt

[@readoryx373]

its nickel above copper, then gold

[@youpooper18]

Honestly the process is cool for dead parts, but honestly you're not really making big bucks unless you're making more than you've spent on the tools and chemicals. You could sell the ram and processors for more than their gold value, especially early Pentium processors.

[@bogdaniojescu5889]

hy ben,do you know by any chance how many grams of gold are in 1 kg of cpu pins?

[@eWasteBen]

just guessing about 12 - 16 grams

[@bogdaniojescu5889]

tnx alot

[@edwardervin879]

This is like a infomercial. Talk for 20 minutes just to get to the part people want to hear.

[@mindofmadness5593]

My Life: "So you lay the board down and run the Soldering Iron over it like this....and this...now we are getting a nice pile so let's do ano- ACHOO! Shit."