3 Jun
2007
3 Jun
'07
9:16 a.m.
That is what I was trying to say. Yes there is gold
but 100lbs of boards
is not enough to get excited about, even with mil parts and gold leads.
It is, however, extremely common for people to stockpile boards until
they get a few tons.
Each part has a few cents of gold or it couldn't
have been manufactures
in the first place.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. The "purple" ceramic DIPs and PGAs have a
LOT of gold in them.
Additionally, some printed circuit boards have quite a lot of gold -
older HP being the standout, of course. At USR, the quad modem boards
had every via and pad gold plated. This gold is hidden under all the
solder when the product comes out of the line.
--
Will