Depopulating circuit boards for GOLD, PALLADIUM, SILVER, COPPER, and ALUMINUM.

Hello scrappers and planet lovers. In this video, I do a massive teardown of almost 65 pounds of circuit boards from various appliances and electronics. for precious metals and non precious metals. I will show you how to identify and sort the material in order to help maximize your profit.
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[@thadofalltrades]

The little "chip" with gold band around are gold band crystal oscillators. The gold on the LCD boards is flashing, not plating. It's a lot thinner.

[@jeffrinkes3652]

This one your best informative videos....maybe do one breaking down the silver and palladium stuff

[@geowebster29]

Hello TM. The copper components attached to the heat sinks are diodes called mosfets. I was surprised that the scrap yard would take as #2 copper since they are only 70% copper. I go ahead and bend them to crack off the plastic. I am glad my scrap yard takes low grade boards at 0.15/lb. Ewaste Ben says throw them in with shred/appliances which seems counter productive since they have already been sorted out. Love to see you passion. Thanks for sharing.

[@TinManScrapper]

Thanks for the comment. It is amazing what some yards take and what some don’t. Even 70% copper that is why it is #2 copper price I think, as well as with the plastic.

[@Takin-It-Day-by-Day]

This video was really helpful, per usual! Thank you for always being so descriptive and passionate about scrapping! Excited to see more about your extraction projects!

[@TinManScrapper]

Thank you for the support and watching. Stay well.

[@TinManScrapper]

FYI, chip with the gold plated prongs are CPU chips, not sure why I was not saying that each time!

[@rixismetals]

I depopulate boards and I still like to watch other people do it and people showing what items they go for

[@theviolentvixen2231]

you are awesome! thank you so much for your videos!

[@TinManScrapper]

Thank you for that huge compliment and support! Stay well.

[@bohemianmystik8602]

Those mosfets are silver plated over the copper

[@bohemianmystik8602]

By weight the board themselves are like 80% copper after processing pretty sure scrap yard will not take it though

[@TinManScrapper]

They will only take as ewaste unfortunately. But still better than nothing and better than ending up in the landfill.

[@mariomurillo7620]

Thank you for your content it has been helpfull in consonsidering to do such things as this my friend showed me different things and he's gone so that's for inspiration

[@DracironSmith]

Capacitors contain toxic substances. Depends on how old they are what substance you'll be exposed too. Wear plastic gloves when handling them.

[@jeffrinkes3652]

And one day do a silver refining video then a gold one 👍👍👍👍

[@TinManScrapper]

Maybe one day!

[@bouchtaferhane502]

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[@maintenanceman6526]

Great information

[@TinManScrapper]

Thank you. Glad you found it informative. Stay well and thanks for watching.

[@scrapbongo786]

Great job, a lot of micro work /cheers

[@MrEastsidejamie]

I love your videos, what yards do you go to?I found one good one in Toronto(Manville Recycling)

[@TinManScrapper]

Zubicks in London gives the prices I quote on the video. Only problem is that it is an hour away so I have to make sure I am loaded up or going to London anyway to make it worth my while. Thanks for watching and the comment. Stay well and happy scrapping

[@wildwisdom56]

Like to see you get the silver out please. Thanks

[@dousiastailfeather9454]

Prongs? Called "pins" here in us!

[@michelebreese5940]

Is there any thing in there that will shock you

[@GuyTraveler]

One thing to be careful with is larger capacitors. So the large round tube components. They are higher voltage and have the possibility of holding a charge. Most advice is to short them with an insulated screw driver by making a connection between the two leads. I will hold the screw driver with a set of insulated pliers to be extra cautious. I have never found one that held a charge.

[@Kreacher1974]

I just broke down a computer tower and found the heat sink was sheet copper attached to aluminum instead of extruded aluminum. First time I've ever seen this.

[@TinManScrapper]

Nice. I too have only seen a few like that. It is amazing the different styles of items out there. Great score though.

[@RedWhiteBlueYo]

Where do you sell the gold to? who gives you the most money for the gold and silver?

[@TinManScrapper]

Boardsort.com will buy either gold plated fingers on own or circuit boards intact. Other places are online like mining pr eBay, people buy these items in bulk to refine them themselves and store the precious metals.

[@RedWhiteBlueYo]

@@TinManScrapper So at the end of the day.... What is the most important thing you can find on circuit boards? Goldfingers, Ic chips, gold pins? Processors? It's hard to really figure out what is tantalum and palladium and some of these other crazy metals

[@willthecat163]

@@RedWhiteBlueYo The amount of tantalum... and in particular palladium... is minuscule. Even the gold is very very thin plating. Unless you are an industrial scale scapper... spend your time... which you must have plenty of... collecting beer cans, and wine bottles, in any big city. One guy I know makes enough for a couple of bottles of wine, and a case of beer... every few days... which is the object of most of this nonsense.

[@GuyTraveler]

Scrapping is not a get rich quick endeavor. One way to think about escrap is that you can make ~$10 on a small 20 pound computer versus a 200+ pound appliance. I think that is one appeal.

[@TinManScrapper]

@@GuyTraveler you are right. And helping divert all of these reusable materials away from the garbage is priceless. Stay well and thanks for the comment.

[@ramonhart2052]

Can you please do Some reshearch About gold corner bga chip They are the best chips for gold recovery the one next to the memory card and flatpack of chips are the second best

[@TinManScrapper]

Those are the ones I call “ic chips with no metal heat sink” I think they are called different things depending where you are. But I will do some research.

[@user-hj4ym3fs7t]

I just retired .I was looking for a nice little way to bring in some extra money for my wife & I. I just started micro scraping and found your channel. I find micro scraping very refreshing and the surplus of stuff available is endless. This video is great and easy to understand and very helpful. I just wanted to say thanks from a old man and a very young new scraper.

[@TinManScrapper]

@@user-hj4ym3fs7t First off, happy retirement! Thank you for the comment and kind words. Scrapping is a good side gig for sure and for me as well it is relaxing. Glad you found the video informative. Stay well and happy scrapping.

[@willthecat163]

Too bad your're so ham fisted Tin Man... some of those parts you are destroying are worth one hundred times what you get for the scrap you make them into. By beating them off circuit boards, and pulling out copper plated steel parts... you're cutting your revenue 100 times what it could be. Used electronic parts.... especially vintage ones... are expensive... and hard to find.

[@chrislangowski4438]

Using the word mold talking about extruded aluminum isn't a good word to use considering thats how cast is made

[@TinManScrapper]

Yeah, but just want to highlight that it has a type of grooved pattern.

[@andreabc1469]

paintet Alu do not oxidate with 02, all oxi is lost Alu

[@CyLopes]

How do you sell capacitors ?

[@TinManScrapper]

I leave the little ones right on the circuit board and sell as ewaste. The larger ones I find in places like microwaves I also bring in as ewaste.

[@CyLopes]

Interesting ! Thank you for sharing your Information with me