i just recently got into scrapping myself and im currently doing micro scrapping to learn all the basics thank you for the informative video really love it !

Hey Tin Man, Those transistors connected to the heat sinks are silver plated copper and also contain a small gold bond wire! Approx 0.02g Au/100gm and 0.4g Ag/100g.

Good day James Thanks for showing.

Just wanted to say you have the best presentation and personality of any scrapping channel. I am a former scrapper but still find your cost breakdown videos insightful. Recently I processed some finger card trimmings to show my kids the chemistry of it. Used hydrogen peroxide and cleaning vinegar to dissolve the copper that the gold is plated to. Wanted to take the process further and used electrolysis to yield back out the copper from copper acetate. Used a carbon electrode and pretty sure I ended up with vinegar again. I looked at the economic viability and electrolysis from copper solutions is significantly profitable.

Really well done video, helped so much. Thank you!

Thanks! You get about twice what I get but still enjoy the process.

98 cents ones i have huge ones. From a 360 game and android boxes,computers. Aluminum.thx for showing. Great video.

Last I checked, I was able to put the big black (top right corner of the board for most of the video) into my CBM bucket. Being out in the western canada, where I live we don't have all the categories you do so I have to break down things as much as possible to get every penny ;) Good vid bud, have a good day.

Great Video!

Great video

I like the way you show from start to finish

Solid resale item to snag off the old tube tv/monitor boards is the tall item in the top right. Its called a fly back transformer. Huge resale market as they produce insane voltages and are used in almost every high voltage hobbiest build. People want them undamaged so desoldering or breaking that section of the board off to keep the pins intact is best. Ebay ranges around 20$ for it alone. 👍

The white spools are easy to harvest, when you take the black mount of en putting a thin screwdriver in the shaft, you can unwind it easily then. I also take off the crystals, transistors and LED's for PM's.

I tend to clip the MOSFET wires and break off all the extruded and sheet aluminum heat sinks with them attached (I’ve seen some heat sinks that are nickel plated brass or copper, they are heavier!) Then I’ll remove all the screws/pins and copper parts, a bucket of them at a time with a drill. Sometimes you have to hold the nut on the other side with pliers while you remove the screw with a drill. I have a bucket of silver contact relay switches I have to microscrap someday…👍

8 oz. extrusion ($0.50), 4.5 oz. #2 copper $1.05), etc.

Those components are called Mosfets. #2 copper all day like you said.

Cool!

You just recovered about 10 % of the value of that Printed Circuit Board (PCB). I make US$ 250,000 a year processing PCBs in my garden shed. I spend less than 1/10 of the time on each board, compared to your old fashioned way, and I recover 100% of the values. First the most valuable fraction is recovered: The solder. A two step hydrometallurgical process removes all traces of solder. From lead solder the Tin and the Lead are recovered. From lead-free solder the Tin, the Silver, and the other metals are recovered. Tin is worth four times more than Copper! I never waste time cutting off any electric wires attached to the board. After solder removal, all wires and all electronic components simply fall off the boards. These components are easily sorted in the individual types for further processing in separate batches. All wires and all components containing plastic are then pyrolyzed (in separate batches), yielding Raw Pyrolysis Oil, for later cracking into free petrol/gasoline, diesel and fuel oil. After pyrolysis the metal part of the wires are processed, without wasting time cutting off any of the connectors. They are melted and then electrorefined. The same process done is with the majority of all the other metal components (some require other treatments), thus resulting in full recovery of all base metals, silver, gold, platinum, palladium, ruthenium and tantalum, and lesser quantities of other metals. Finally, the bare boards are processed for Bromine recovery, and separation of the thin Copper layers and the Glass Fibers. Virtually every value of any PCB I get is recovered; nothing is lost. I process tons of PCBs a year. Picking off a few of the components by hand will never make your rich.

Do you remove all of the different color and shaped ceramic capacitors? I'm on the fence whether I'm going to mess with them or not.

There’s a solution for that it’s called a fan. Recycling you expend more energy than you realize, and it gets hot real quick. 🐎✌️

Hi Tin man you do good work but it is always good idea to be wearing gloves especially when dealing with circuit boards as they have very sharp points the board should also be secured so components can come of easily

That big black thing on the corner is a Transformer too

The big black ones are aluminum and I will scrap those. I have a separate bag with small aluminum scrap. I’ve never known what the substance inside is do you? ✌️

There is a big difference between TIN and light iron tin shred. Tin scrap value is almost 6 bucks a pound around here.

I take the big ones off and remove the inside. Then put the aluminum in my mixed bag. 🐎✌️

Another question. Do you know what you can do with the heat elements that you find in electric grills and ovens? They are metal outside, but on the inside they are ceramic.

You looking sound like Tom from I Scrap App.

5 cents a pound?! Someone saw you coming! I get $3.18 a pound at my local scrapper...

What is the difference between Canadian price and United States how much more do you get and how much left do we get

hello!

I’ve got about 20lbs of number 2. It all adds up. 🐎✌️

i am new to scrapping - where would I go to find all these all these computers & all other types of stuff I can tear apart ?

Quick question. When you're saying tin do mean shred, or tin is clean steel? Thanks.

Hi Tinman, what do you do with the flyback transformer.

2 cents per pound for E waist in Montana Extruded aluminum is only 25 cents per pound. 😢

I always remove the plastic. 🐎✌️

Some of them little pins in the heat sink are aluminum or stainless

Can you make a poster with pictures of the part and it's value like #2 copper, silver tip. And put them on sale.

Is there not a board buyer where you live? That one would go as a power board which would be way better than just ewaste price.

Where does a guy take those components for cash redemption? To my knowledge, my local recycling center that I bring my plastic bottles and aluminum cans to accept electronics but i don't think they offer any cash value for them much less the directed components?

Ohhh you made $3.75 cents lol

.8 CENTS A POUND FOR TIN? if you take 2000(pounds) and multiply it by 0.08 you get $160 a ton!!! tell me just where i can get $160 a ton for my tin!!! im a 65 year old man and ive done scrapping since i was a child!!!

the planet is doing just fine. i'm just here for the money

Love your vids man, but please stop calling your iron/steel "tin". It has no place in a tutorial and could be confusing. Your actual tin is the solder holding all of the components in place on the board and has a much higher value than shredder iron (as you well know 😉) LME Tin price @ $11.50 per pound at time of posting.

Stop with all “tin”, it is not. I will allow steel, but it is iron, not tin, man.

Enjoy your videos.... just wondering if you could heat the spent boards to recover the solder ? Solder is expensive to buy, maybe there's a market ? Thanks