16 Jun
2013
16 Jun
'13
11:35 a.m.
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 06/16/2013 01:50 PM, Mike wrote:
Interesting!
As for general PCB scrap last year in order to feed I got rid of some
300 kgs of various pcb and silver bearing (RF) items
I got ?800 so it can be worth it to the scrappers
Paper board stuff is down at about 12 pence a Kg , just a bit of
copper,tin and lead a lot of mine was in that category
Dave Caroline
>>
What I honestly find worse than the people that gut old gear to sell, are
>> the ones that buy it. If you were going to make a profit scrapping the
>> stuff off ebay, wouldn't those ebay sellers just go and scrap it or
>> whatnot
>> themselves? Obviously you're buying into a bad deal.
>>
> They DID scrap it themselves. The process of recovering the gold,
> however,
>
> is dangerous and smells bad. All these dolts are doing is harvesting what
> they perceive to be "gold ore" and selling it to "refineries".
There is a 'new' mercury free process that they are using in Mongolia. It
sounds like an aqua-regia digest that I used to uise in the lab. I wopuldn't
want to do it without a fume hood and the muffling process should also be
proplerly vented. I've heard that some people use their
barbeque to melt away
the cirucut boards.
Wow that must smell horrible.
How many people here would buy an untested board
for more than scrap value?
In the context of DEC boards, I would, depending on the board.
I see VAX boards being offered for a good price
but are they selling?
Less common ones sure do.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA