Very helpful video. That tip about the mercury was huge, I'd of never known that. I grabbed a bunch of junk printers from my job and started tearing them down today. Super cathartic and this video will help me be much more efficient.

I've been scrapping for about 29 years, and I was just like Ben. I liked alot of the window types of chips, have got a good collection of every type I ran across. Collected oodles of stuff from everything. All the stuff that had gold on it, too. I've paid rent of 900.00 a month for years with the money I got from processing the gold and from recycling everything else. I'm from Silicon Valley in California. I'm in my early 60's, now and have retired from scrapping, but I still do it once in a while cuz it's fun.

Great break down 👍 but look closer. I have been collecting the scanner boards like the one at 22:19 for easy gold. If you look along the rail using a magnifying glass, you can see and directly harvest gold wires. Sometimes there is also a chip with exposed gold wires. Yield is to be determined. Try not to touch the surface, they break easy. I have also found several electronic components that when split apart, show gold wires.

I see a lot of remarks from people who think they are going to do as well as Ben... with minimal effort and huge returns? Ben is clearly an anomaly among us wee humans. His passion for this trade is unlike anything else I have ever seen. His ability to GET scrap is awesome because he understands it. ALL of it. And it also helps that he lives in AUSTRALIA. Home to the some of the most EXOTIC, LARGEST and the MOST PRODUCTIVE mining areas in all of the World. Way to go Ben. I have learned so much from this guy...

Good video Ben. Never thought to sell motors and steel bars on Ebay. Good tip. Thx

For DIYer's: The steel bars in the rollers are really high quality stainless steel... (Funny I typed this and just as I finished he says it.)

man........ I have thrown hundreds of the scanners in as shred. I didn't think they was worth tearing down. Now I know. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Love the videos Ben I'm learning tons and getting a good start into recovery and reclamation

Well, what I was going to say on this matter, Matthew just said everything I intended to verbatim. Way to go Ben! Keep up the great work!

I wish I knew about this a few years ago.. Thanks Ben great video!

17:00 as a machinist. i can confirm that that bar is valuable... if you keep one. it will probably not be worth it to sell... but if you have lots of printers to scrap. hard stainless steel costs quite a value 👍🏼

all printers have a tiny speaker inside, which ive remoced, and put in digital tape players, and made am/fm digital radios (which cost $100).

Awesome vid.... (thats where the bowling ball will come into use) a big ball for a ball mall... Watched that vid yesterday... LOL

Great info thanks alot!!!

I love printer scrapping. I've been very surprised with some. Some of the best ones are better than the worst pc. Except for the time, plastic, & can be very messy!!!

the cartdrige carrier , besides the cartdriges cip and connector pins , underneath the ink coinduits have a little more gold , might be even more than the gold pins combined

Hey Ben so underneath the strips there's also gold underneath those two just so you know mirror looking thing they're under that

Those cheap ones with the long skinny boards behind the light scanner there has the gold platting also has gold bonding wires on all those gold squares to the glass that runs down the center of the board

Hey Ben. Those spring pins on that printer ink caddy that u shown in this video, are they phosphorus pins like you’ve shown on computer motherboards? Can u explain that phosphorus pin info and what should I be doing with those types of pins. How can I tell if it’s that phosphorus as you explained in a different video?

On the cartridges with ribbon, check the rectangular connection that the ribbons ends with, it has gold underneath it as well. Caution, when you remove the connector ink will come out, but it's worth it.

Nice vid yet again bud, great idea for the motors, i always stripped the wires and put them with transformers but putting them in boxes of 50 or more and selling them (EBay or craft sales) sounds better. isnt that our creed,,,,, EVERY BIT COUNTS. merry Xmas bud

Hi Ben, great video, very informative. I just found your channel last night so looking forward to catching up with all the videos you've posted so far. Great job. Poo

Hi ben have you tried scrapping satellite dish LMB’S not the Chinese ones but the better quality ones think you’ll be very happy 😃

I know this is an old video, but are those gold bits off the front of the cartridges worth anything to collect and sell as they are by the pound, or only to melt the gold out of?

I always wondered why they would use gold on what is essentially a throw away item like an ink cartridge

Yeah Ben another good vid, I have a few boards out of printers some are just amazing hey, but I have noticed that the scanners I get are just cheapies but still check anyway as for the metal rods and the belts I save them I might make a once a year market to get rid of them same with the motors which I have hundreds at the moment, I have fun just looking

A question please i have been collecting, gold from tel, palladium silver platinum, ram boards, sailboat, monitor, tv, tablet, do you know a factory where it is made? thank you greece

Great vid Ben thanks for sharing,a question how do you take off the gold from the chips ,boards?How do you now those parts/pieces are real gold?do u use aqua regia or similar? Thanks

what do you do with all the left over scrap pieces.

Omg.the dream.bldc motor. Steper motor.....

I'm not sure if there's anything like the U.S. Staples deal in the U.K. at present... W.H. Smiths used to run a similar scheme, but I don't know what the situation is now, What I do know is that Tesco gives you ClubCard points for your used inkjet cartridges, & the British Cancer Research Charity is always asking for them too. They have some sort of deal with the big recycling companies to get more cash than usual for them.

You can't never have a big a nuff working Bench! Lol..😂😂😂

those cartridges that have the ribbin on it , on the back side , it has a piece of what looks like glass . under that is some more gold . just thought you guys should know .

On the cartridges with the ribbon, there are nozzles also. Are they made of anything valuable? They are all a part of what looks like some sort of chip.

Hi Ben, have you ever seen those bars where they are made from Brass? If so which brand of printer would I find a brass bar in?

Printers are messy. You don't take printers when you street scrap so ate these printers from rewaste pickups? Thanks for sharing Ben

Do You recover silver endings from white tapes?

Hi Ben ! thanks for your video .....how do you get the black bot of resin epoxy off the bord ??

That Canon large format printer is probably worth more repaired than it is scrapped for its gold content. In the UK anyway.

Can anyone tell me if the Canon Pixma cartridges for IP4200/5200/IX4000/5000/MP500 have any gold?

Where do u get all these stuffs?

I think the printers in Uk are slighty different to yours Ben. Ive never come across CCD's in printer/scanners like the ones you have there. They all seem to be a much thinner bar with a long thin board backing on to the tube and though there is a thin strip of gold flashing running right across it its nothing compared to what your getting there. Maybe all the decent ones have long gone in the UK with our higher waste turnover and now we have an advanced model where the manufactures are using a lot less gold...who know ? its a mystery!! I hope now I said that I "actually" come across one with the stack of 30 scanner/printers Ive got to work through,because even just finding one of them would be sweet ! As ever nice vid.

Hello! 1st of all, thanks for this video! I've learned with it. Now a question, please: I got some toner cartridges, and I need to disassemble them into parts. So far, so good. But how can I remove that sticky deep thin dark dust? Please tell me something I can do about this! Thank you very much!!

can't you use an air bubbler in the acid solution to extract the copper from it...?

How do you get all of this stuff? I hardly believe that you simply have 20 printers lying in the back of your garage, so where do you get all of this stuff?

I would think over time if you have enough the gold might be worth it but you have to take alot apart

How much gold may recover from 1 printer? i mean the minimum value

What happens to all the plastic? Is it worth anything?

What a man has maked will be braked,,,,,for gold!!!!

Sorry to tell you this, but at 2:27, the gold visible on that cartridge is approximately 200 micrograms in total worth about 1c. The only way to extract useful metals from electronics like that is in very, very large quantities and that means containers-full daily emptied into a huge purpose-built furnace.

I like smashing the glass from them at the scrap yard

Waiiijaa on the mouuuda xD

Is their gold in the cartridge ribbon or not?

what tools do i need to get rid of the hex shaped screws on my printer?

check out a site called tonerbuyer.com - they purchase used cartridges and pay for the shipping - may make more money that way -

10:25 Um, yeah, some recyclers.... you could 'give away' the printhead assembly on ebay for 250 USD.... Just saying some recyclers, well, thnking way to 'outside of the box' for their own good....

very long process for little return unless you have a lot

I am Brazilian come to your videos tou envestindo about 500.00 reais in protutos that are expensive here . in my city does not buy the livre.moro market in the state of maranhao city of pine with some 100,000 abitantes and region nordeste.ja have about 100 cell phones, also mother prosseçadores plates memorias.aqui nobody does this cost friend

now I see why you dont process printers....