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.

[ephraimt]

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

[shaneyork]

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

[riverboat]

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

[mattcourty]

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

[wardog]

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

[jrjr]

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.

[maidirebyte]

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

[brendaicronk]

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

[marcrochefort]

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.

[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

[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.

[harley]

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,

[JustJeff]

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

[cricketman]

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.

[pierreqiu]

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

[markselten]

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

[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!

[ScrapFatherScrapSon]

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

[ryanstruble]

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

[quagmier]

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.