The real gold was the fun we had all along

Really enjoyed the video. I think you should narrate your videos more often as you have a good sense of humour and are humble enough to not take things too seriously. Always enjoy your content!

I worked in a massive E-waste company for about 10 years. High grade boards were absolutely the moneymaker, as well as gold contacts. But there’s were big beefy gold plugs. We had 2, and later 3 main contracts. One was office E-waste, the other was in dismantling decommissioned mobile technology, the infrastructure. Near a phone mast you will see a series of huge green cabinets. They are FULL of gold contacts. Later on we got a contract with BT, decommissioning all their old exchanges from decades ago that were just shuttered all over the country. It was full of gold and palladium. The company expanded so much we ended up with our own shredder warehouse with belts, vibrating tables, magnets etc and visual sorting system. It would recognise a piece of shredded material and jet it off into different boxes. I miss working there now. The owner started like you, scrapping electronics in his garage. He ended up with 2 Ferraris and a lambo 😅

First I have to say thank you, as an IT professional I truly enjoyed you destroying all of those components :). My company has over 130 locations, 40K employees and we recycle all of our E-Waste. I got to visit the facility that processes it and the place was massive. At the heart they had a 3 story grinder/sorter, electronics go in, get ground up, then are sorted by floating them in higher and higher density liquids, they skim the floating material off the top and collect it. They process so much and the operation is so large, they turn a very decent profit. Yes some of the electronics are repurposed and sold to other companies but hard drives and memory storage devices are destroyed (I'm in healthcare, that's important). Really nice to see you do this project, it might not be profitable, but it's a learning experience and fun. Take care!

I didn't know how involved the process was, very cool thanks for sharing.

I was a little surprised by just how little gold you got out of that. But I'd love to see you process the rest of it.

Wow! That was a lot of work for a little pay off. I’ve always thought about doing this but I’m glad you did it first and shared your curiosity with the rest of the world. Great job!

This is great,now i can do something with old broken electronics from my office,reducing dump money and getting something and possibly extra payment

Love the more laid back talking head and voice over. Much better than awkward ad reads any day! I love your videos and always watch them when they come to my feed! Keep up the great work!

The thickness of gold on edge connectors has gone down by a factor of over ten in the past few decades as process technologies have improved.

Outstanding. I think most of us have always wondered how much gold could be recovered from waste like this, and also how much work it would be. Love your vids.

Nice video 👍 Looking forward for the next one. Just wanna mention out some points. Adding the SMB to the gold solution is an exothermic reaction. You might have a boil over effect because this. My advice. Use a taller beaker. Also. The SMB reaction is kinda slow when the gold concentration is low. I noticed that the colour of the waste changed after you filtered it. Definitely a loss of gold there. My advice. Let is set over night. It will collect in the bottom of the beaker. Then filtration is not necessary. You can siphon of the liquid. Then test the waste with Stannous. (Tin2 chloride) so you are sure that everything is precipitated 👍

This guy is very humble and honest. Keep it up bro.

Suggestion: You might want to watch Sreetips and see how he does this. He has done this type of recovery a couple of times on this channel. You get a piece of gold about the size of a Green Pea.

I live for new experiences. Thanks for sharing yours! Cool to see you mix it up.

finally a video with voiceover, i've been waiting for this for so long

Great video, loved the golden color of the dissolved gold. Glad you got a nice bead of gold from the hard work.

‏‪0:29‬‏ the dream of anyone interested in electronics

Nice job doing the recovery. Thanks for the look.

Another fantastic video. I always appreciate your genuineness, and attitude. Thanks you.

Thanks I have always been intrigued by this! I have done plating before(damaged my wife’s kitchen) but never reclamation very honest you have saved me much time and purchas of chemicals by watching this I will move on to my other crazy ideas hence the donation for saving me time tears and money. Be lucky mi amigo,😅

I've seen several videos of this type before and yours was the best by far.

Wow, that was amazing. I guess the manufacturers do know how to make efficient use of a very small amount.

More interested in the copper separation, which is the bulk of the weight of the PCBs. Not to mention using that to cast brass/bronze parts for machining later. ;)

Nice work man. I do enjoy your out-of-the-box content.

You are an awesome teacher. Thank you for what you do. Never stop.

That was awesome to watch. Thanks for sharing the experience!

Thanks for doing this. Really good to see how much waste went in versus the labor and the result. I can now stop dreaming about all the e-waste that has collected at my house. ;-)

Very cool stuff. Thanks for sharing and explaining everything.

Thumbs up. Testing a new process for the sake of a new eperience. That's the Blackbeard style.

You have a golden pea, Very cool 😁 Really enjoyed watching the process

Excellent job. I appreciate your willingness to try that.

So much work for such a tiny blob of gold, but it was a joy to watch.

A lot of aluminum/copper/brass in the rest of the "junk". Also worth $$. And a lot less processing! Love your channel!

New sub, I have watched hundreds of e waste to gold videos and yours was awesome

wow! super cool that you got pure gold from recycling ! love it!

Good work and thanks for the fun. I like to keep some distance to chemicals so I glad you do the work.

You are far smarter than you give yourself credit for! Very good video!

I had a hunch you were a magician! You could make a wallhanging/framed picture with the remaining components. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe and keep up the good work. :)

Chemist here, that was a fantastic process to watch!

Awesome mate, thanks for the video. Fantastic as always. Keep up the great work!

This was really fascinating stuff, even though it didn't produce much it was still a good experiment to learn how things work

I have always been interested in doing that as well. I have a ton of e-waste ive collected over the years. Maybe once I retire in will look into doing this so i will have all the time I need to do it. Would definitely like to see the rest of it processed.

Really fun video, BBP! Thanks!

As an italian I love all the stuff from chinese stores, Lidl or Brico that you use, it's super recognizable lol

Great video man, really glad to see the little gold pebel.

Thanks for sharing that, it was fun watching!

Wow amazing skills. Great job as always sir.

Great job every little bit adds up so don't be discouraged you did very well for your first time let's see how you do on the rest two thumbs my friend

Make a go of the other components. Great content! Keep 'em coming!

Awesome, very informative and you saved me a heap of trouble!

Your hardwork is really gold😍😍😍😍

Glad you did it for fun. I had fun watching.

Absolutely fascinating. Thanks 😊

yes, bill all to this guy, another knowledge, lots of e-waste,thanks for sharing great video sir..

Wicked cool! Absolutely love your videos!

Thank God a channel that speaks.

Very intriguing and it'd be nice to see another video of you trying to do the same with the other scrap parts

Very enjoyable and interesting video! I also like the narration - maybe you should incorporate more of it in your videos! As always, excellent work and keep it up! 🤘

What a cool video , and all the way you broke it down was fun to watch

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. 👍

Super collection my friend:)) Great video. New subject! I like it

Haha! Very nice. Great job. Yeah, the cost of the chemicals alone, far exceeded your gold value.... Still, it's super cool, to have that piece of gold, that you yourself, pulled out of old electronics....... The value of THAT, is priceless..... You DID it. No one can ever say, you couldn't do it... You did it....

The coolest guy in Internet. Very fun video!

Thanks for sharing the process it was fascinating to watch it may be a little bit of gold but imagine if you did it all the time at the end of the week those little bits could add up to some serious money lol all the best

Brilliant, really enjoyed this.

Loved the video and subscribed.

If you refine the silver, you can alloy it with the gold to make something called electrum. It's also known as green gold. It's really unique looking. You won't have enough for a ring, but maybe a small earring.

...looks like fun, good one, keep safe and have a great weekend..

You are a Genius……..how do you know all of this…….Bravo!!

Camera modules from smartphones contain pretty much gold. The internal wiring to the chip is done with gold fibers.

Awesome video! Like it a lot when you talk to the camera 😎👍

pretty neat experiment, it's nice you managed to have fun :D

Very enjoying to watch

Very nice & interesting experiment 👍🏻

You’re the the good perfomancer😊💪

awesome experiment!

The extraction would be much better if you used a larger glas container which holds everything (pcbs and stuff) and where you are able to trap the emerging chlorine fumes in order to create a internal chlorine environment. Sadly nitric acid is hard to buy so hypochlorite has to be the oxidizing agent combined with chlorine gas the extraction should be comparable with aqua regia (HCL + HNO3 3:1) Btw you lost a lot if gold in the process too

It's been very interesting to watch the video! Thank You very much!

That was wild! Really cool video!

Cool experiment, glad I have not tried this. Please keep up the good work. God Bless.

Really interesting never new you could do that in a home environment

More please. Big Scale. All the nuggets.

Enjoyable to watch 👍

Surprisingly easy to do with some common ingredients and other easy to acquire ones. On a small scale not monetarily worth it but fun.

Nice video and great effort!

Thank's bro .good job.

you are the best and I love you vids thanx for sharing

i really like your job and your method i have learned many things from you

That was great, I can now bin all those bits I have been keeping for years 🤪

Muito bom seu vídeo Parabéns

what surprises me is that such a small nugget was enough to plate all that electronic material

very interresting process!

Great video man.

That was fun. Thanks!

Love your work.

Super Cool! Thanks!

All the process is funny, but the chemical's are way more fancy than the results, nice video

Good idea, recycling electronic parts 👍😉

Realmente me encantó el proceso 😮