I'm a little jealous, looks like a beautiful summer day in Australia. Brutally cool Chicago weather

Hi, I'm Tobias from Germany I live in the near from Frankfurt. Sorry for my English. I watch your Videos since 2 weeks and now I'm rallye big Fan! Thanks for the amazing content.

An absolutely terrific episode. I used to drop off my boards at a local recycling facility, after removing anything copper or aluminum for melting. Your videos made me aware of what's on the boards and I started depopulating them about a year ago. Every video informs me of other items that I should have been removing and ones I shouldn't bother with. Thanks 😊

Always fun to watch Ben. It is not lost on my how lucky I am to have so many selling options here in the US.

You need a pair of what's called flush cut wire cutters. They're machined so they'll cut flush to something as opposed to dikes, which won't cut flush to something. Disadvantage is the tips are delicate and easy to bend.

That’s something I love watching 🌟 🌟 🌟 👍

cool Ben that bigger version of mlcc are actually fuses (polimer PTC Resettable Fuses ) cheers buddy 👍

You've come a long way from airhammering the shit outta everything a few years ago to now nitpicking everything lol

Great video, Ben!! Appreciate you taking the time! I'm one of those people with no company to sell boards to! I de-populate everything. Have 20 tubs just like you. Jim in Phoenix.

Thats a lot of information to take in, I think I will just sell any boards i get. Great informational video.. thanks

Weather looks awesome!

Great information

Brilliant Stripping of Boards and a Fantastic Explanation as well ! Cheers from us in QLD !!!!

Someone doing the depopulating like you should come up with a home sifter. Layers of screens large to very fine. Would make sorting a little easyer. Just make this about 12" x 18". Easy to pick up and shake.

Great video Ben always learn from your channel thank you for sharing five stars my friend

Love your videos! Have begun to depopulate my low grade boards since I didn’t want to sell them as scrap steel. At the small two pronged chips IC as well? Keep it up!!

I like you showing the things

I love your videos another Awesome video Ben.

I hope I have time to watch this before work tomorrow 🤞 I'm off to bed now so will have to be in suspense until morning 🙃

Little by little and it all adds up.

When it comes to depopulating E-waste Ben is a treasure of knowledge.

Great video. Thanks! If you didn't know you can strip the green solder masking on those boards that are full gold flashing under with lye and hot water - see your video at 45.24. You can actually get a lot of gold if the whole board is covered in gold under the green masking.

What you call monkey grips I would call Channel locks. If the start to ware you can sand / grind the tips slightly to square up the edges. Works great! And I find having two pair at hand is nice. One set wide one set narrow. Saves me changing the size of the opening back and forth.

You know, those boards from modems are often gold flashed All over the boards under the solder, just like HDD boards.

Love from London Ben x

Love it Ben.

Thanks for everything

Hi Ben. Great educational information. Please stay safe. To you and all members also. Talk to you later my friend. 🙂🙂🙂😇😇😇👍👍👍❣❣❣❤❤❤

True to form... GREAT VIDEO!!

Awesome

Great video

Thanks Ben! 👍😊

Great Video Ben Keep Bringing The Video's Dude 👍👍

There is some more to pick from the boards if you want... At ~ 43:00 the metal casing on the network ports is (usually) brass, sometimes it's just steel. At ~ 46:00 there's a red switch with gold plated legs. At ~ 49:00 another red switch, and two relays on the right side (the white blocks) which can contain silver/gold contacts. At 1:10:00 not a transformer, but a relay again. You could also get the transistors. They can contain gold bonding wire too. As you mentioned it all depends on how much time you have to depopulate the boards. I even take off the crystals from mainboards, and here and there a few capacitors or pins (not too much). The midgrade boards you are selling with the heatsinks on them would go as low grade here in germany. The same with slot cards and mainboards with metal parts or fans, they go as midgrade if you don't remove that dead weight.

Just watched and say hello to friend in scrap buisness!

good stuff as always. would like to a video on the different Cpu's that you buy explaining the differences. particularly though would like to see one about the 3 grades of gold pins that you buy and where you can source them. for example pins from IDE cables...(im assuming these would be low grade rating)

Prices are very different here in UK, before I started saving for the board buyer I sold more chips on ebay, you may have seen my video showing what I get and my copperless top gold corner bga's typically sell for £90-£120 per kg, so I still cherry pick some 😉 Loved this video, always such amazing advice, glad I got to watch before work 🙂😁

Hurray thank you🙂😁

New subscriber from Alberta Canada 👋 heard about your channel from the Tin Man! Cheers

If you heat the copper tops with a heat gun they just pop and slide off pure copper scrap also the micro chip comes off and is great for art projects with lens showing magnified size for sale.

Hi Ben Just started watching your videos, I like them a lot, one thing I get a lot of value from is your knowledge of what components and parts contain what metals, I'm more into metal recovery than the scraping aspect..I was wondering if you would consider doing an in-depth video on what components contain what metals, cand if you already have one can you put me on to it ..thanks ..new subscriber from Canada

Ben you are a genius... When you have time is there anyway that you can make a video using ceramic mlcc and showing us the process of breaking them down to make pladium please

in the states Gold pin connectors (plastic, steel still on ) go for about a dollar a pound

Thanks ben

Ben, The brass speaker disc. What is the spot of flaky substance on one side of them? Any PMs present there?

I just did the low-grade video and I'm ready for the next level.

You make the most off of tantalum I'd imagine

love it

First time I've even heard of ruthenium tbh :)

Got to say I do love your depopulation videos that’s why I now and again I come back and rewatch the 😁

I'm not gonna lie but after fixing a bunch of boards, and now watching you with a monkey wrench ripping them off, make me feel a little bit nervous

I have a important question now when you were removing the flat pack with the grip tool is that the way your supposed to remove those because what i do is use a flat head screw driver and try to cut the pins with it than hit the corner with the flat head screwdriver and a hammer

Hi Ben, great video. I'm very new to this. Do you remove the gold in USB ports?

I have a question about hard drive. Is it more profitable to take them apart and sell individual pieces or keep the hard drives whole and sell for scrap?

Where do you have a posted list of your board prices and other prices

My bench looks a lot like that. Piles of misc containers filled with components. I don’t have a rice cooker for BFAs though. Haha

I want to see you refine the waste now.

How much those tanton capacitors blue and yellow ones worth? Thanks

Thank you very much for these videos. I have no one to sell bords to, or rather, I have a lot o mid-grade boards & they will only by server grade boards. Consequently, I depopulate all my mid-grade boards. I'm pretty sure I have resin-dipped tantalum capacitors straight, but I'm intrigued to know how you identify resin dipped MLCCs? I mean, the capacitor is just marked "C", so, are all resin dipped capacitors marked "C", & are not tantalum, MLCCs? I'd appreciate your, or anyone else who maybe able to enlighten me, because I hate to think about what I may have not been keeping.

big microcircuits convenient to remove - oscillator multitool

you wouldnt happen to know where i can get wire strippers would you. im on diability and time is all i have, that and about 2 tons of old copper wire from pcs id like to strip.

How you tell from ceramic to others

Have you done a video on gold recovery, do you smelt your own bars

Finally!

Those oscillators can have as much as 50 grams of gold so close to 6000 US dollar, I would be curious how much your paying for those

Noob here but any advice on how to buy/get e waste at a big scale. So far I harass thrift stores once a week and pick up stuff off the street . Also im from Orange County California , anyone buy boards in this area ? thanks !! LOVE the episodes , really the only thing to relax me tbh

Any tips on starting such a business?

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how in the world do you get all this?

What do you pay for mother boards I have a. Bunch I also have 4 55 gallon trash cans full of cpu chips

why dont you use an electric chisel tool to remove the parts?

I see chips.

try a toaster oven you will get it all .

I love recovering parts with silver because I know silver will be worth a lot more in the future and people will want this stuff very badly.

DO YOU BUY FROM JUST LOCAL? OR OUT OF COUNTRY?

Anyone know a board buyer in Sydney? Thanks

Great videos, very useful informations right here, keep up the good work. PS: I know that it's not my bussines, but I think that something is not right with your lungs, hope it's just a flu.

Need you to open a school.. I'll be on the next plane for class

Whats what's elium aluminum Alamo think that's aluminum

A lot of time & work.

مرحبا صدديقى العزيز انا اسمى محمد من مصر عندى اكثر من1300جراما من مكثفات lcc ولا اعرف كيف ابيعها هل يمكن المساعده ومنى التحية والاحترام والتقدير واشياء كثيرة جدا من هذه الاشياء ونرجوا منكا الرد عى هذا التعليق وشكرا لك

Feels like you have to have a degree in electronics engineering just to be a scrapper.... 😂

Bro if you find old computer sound card u can sell and get more money

If you sell this items contact me

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