Recycling A Computer And Where You Can SELL For Scrap.

Computers contain 3 rare metals Gold, Silver and Platinum. Once you break down the computer your left with a list like this

Casing
Circuit Boards
Plastic
Hard Drive
Cd Rom
Maybe A Drive ( Depends how old)
Power supply

Most circuit boards can be sold for gold recovery to a metal scrap yard. Typically they pay about 1.00 USD a pound

Then you have the steel Casing again scrap yard

Hard drive are aluminum so it pays to break them down even further and sell them as aluminum not Dirty Aluminum ( You will make less)

other than the plastic it will all go to the metal scrap yard.

( If your yard does not buy the boards and some won't try an e waste facility.)

If you wanna try to do the gold recovery yourself you can buy nitric acid and mix it 50/50 with hydrogen peroxide. That will dissolve everything but the gold.

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[goodster14]

Sure thing. laptops also contain gold in them

[BillKville]

Who do you sell your circuit boards to? Are they national? What percent do they hold back for their profit? Awesome video. Thanks.

[goodster14]

Most local scrap yards will buy the board off of you for about 1.00 a pound! Im not sure on their profit but it takes thousands of boards to make an ounce of gold soo it is small @BillKville

[hovbri31]

what in a hard drive and what tipe of metal is in side

[goodster14]

the main housing is aluminum the circuit board off the hard drive can be sold for gold recovery and the only other metals inside are steel. plus 2 very strong magnets.@hovbri31

[bankai7771]

Thanks for the vid. How much gold can get from an avarage old PC?

[goodster14]

theres not a lot of gold. When it goes to the refinery as a board they refine the gold to a dust. it would take thousands of boards to make a decent amount of money on the gold inside. On another note I scraped out 17 computers the other day and make about 80.00 with scraping the steel plus the circuit boards. Hope that helped. @bankai7771

[scrapenscraper9060]

power supplies are $0.43 a pound where i sell them which is more than $0.10 a pound for steel

[eightballbank]

get this man a ratchet handle screwdriver and a Ricola maybe it's all the lead dust?

[LongBean420]

If you cut the ends off (White caps) of the color wires the pins are gold plated, but some are not, Same with the IDE cables, there gold plated pins in the black plastic, Hard drives have gold plated pins and inside theres platinum and gold and also copper, CD Rom drives have gold copper inside plus the reading laser, "A" drives have gold, copper inside as well, all cards with intake slots at the back have gold plated pins, and all card slots on mothboard have gold plated pins

[fieryphoenixe]

Great video! Thanks! Where do you get your computers if you don't mind me asking?

[Lmidden2]

all the wires are copper steel resists the current to much to be worth using

[Rogue4891]

pga370 socket I had more dust in one I have taken apart

[Rogue4891]

take the hardrives apart you have nice magnets and platters have a thin coating of platinum the rest is the board and aluminum

[Rogue4891]

cut the ribbon cable or power supply the thin wires are copper not steel

[Rogue4891]

wire is copper not steel  ribbon cables can be IDE or scsi

[DirectSkating]

@Quaaludedude714 Get over it dude. Who would want to build an old PC? Most likely in the future we wont have the same outlets.