I know this is 8 years old, but This was very helpful. Thank you sir.

Excellent work. Thank you.

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Mike, Great video! I have subscribed and am going to watch more. Thank you!

If you have to remove chips by hand, you can use a utility knife and cut down both sides. If you are accident prone or even a little bit of a klutz, you may want to use another method.

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Great video mike love your channel.

Cool video liked and subscribed!

Nice video mike!

Hello Mike, I'll like to add my suggestion. I'm not from USA, so it might not apply to you. However, some ICs are more valuable when they're in good shape, for example PIC microcontrollers, maybe some I2C eeproms, etc. Also, for the BGA type ICs (the one from 08:35), those can be extracted with the heat gun. It's easy to desolder almost every component from the PCB with the heat gun, since at the right temperature, they will fall off. Maybe there is a great power consumption from using it, and it might not be worth to use. However, good work.

That hammer could use a little restoration... LOL 😂

Will board sort take the depopulated boards?

Don’t forget the little black plastic boxes that break open easily to reveal a little copper spool and a couple silver contacts in the switch. Some are different colors, but they crack open easily unlike the solid resin filled look-alike resistors. Also, the little black flat things that are screwed onto the aluminum fins are copper, but coated in plastic, and usually plated in tin or nickel or whatever. Lately I’ve been snipping those off, or they break off, and putting them with copper motors/transformers like someone else pointed out. So they end up in the $0.16/lb. pile instead of the $0.04-0.08/lb. junk. One more thing, what do people do with all the big aluminum cylindrical capacitors? Do yards take those as irony or contaminated aluminum? Or do we just scrap them with the low grade as extra weight? The one yard I went to bought all the leftover low grade as “breakage” for $0.08/lb. 😕 which is better than scrap steel prices anyways.

Go to the Harbor Freight website and search "Micro Flush Cutters". 3 bucks and they are sharp enough at the tips to cut the pins like you did with the screwdriver. The ic chips with thick pins get cut like butter to. Great for cutting zip ties flush as well of course. And after they get a little dull or they start to close at an angle because I cut too much thick metal when I'm too lazy to go get the cable cutters from my tool bag(about 3-6 months of daily use) I take my receipt to HF with the old cutters and get a new pair for free through their lifetime guarantee. Also cut 95% of my wire with these. Even thick TV degaussing cables. They get down into tight spaces getting me that extra inch of wire. You'll love them, believe me.

The monolithic capacitors have silver and palladium in them . The diodes have gold as well

Great vid as usual. Surprised you didnt try the box blade method for the IC chips on mid grade boards. Little pressure down and short pull and it clears all the feet. :)

Thanks for the answer i.just liked and subscribed

Hi Mike thank you for the video , how long did it take to gut the boards in this?

So you prefer brute strength over the electric soldering vac gun?

on the square chips you should use the heat gun to melt the solder and lightly tap the pcb on a hard surface on its side and they simply slide off without them taking damage. then you can sell them on eBay way more because they will still be useable.

nice video indeed. Was wondering, does you scrap yard takes high grade or mid grade boards if the ic chips have been removed? The reason I was asking is I have some high grade boards I have previously taken the chips off of and would like to take them in. Thanks a bunch and take care. Joe in Texas.

Is that your mom's garage? Looks good! Tell her I said hello. I enjoy your videos

I like to take a dremel to the pins and solder on the back of the boards then pry the chip off with a screwdriver. works very well for me

What kind of electric desoldering pump do you use? Im thinking about getting one. So I was wondering what is a good kind to get.

why brown boards...do they even have gold in them? maybe not all them?

I use a heat gun and I can tell you hat Mike is right !!!.,.... use it outside in a well ventilated area. I got tired of inhaling the smoke and other gasses.

Which I c chips do I remove are they all the same if they have three legs or more like ones attached to heat sinks thanks for the Inspiration! Great vids ur the man!

thank u very much , but i don't find your latest video, i am new in scrap, evan i don't know which motherboards are more important for scrap i did a lot of search but nothing i got about scraping computers , i am in uae , i am alon with no money, and less knowledge but hopefully thing will be change, i will be really grateful to you if you will upload a new video on which motherboards are best for scrap..

Alright Mike Mike, G For The Video! I jus don't understand those who didn't "like", but it's based on their attitude. Can you tell us which way you prefer in removing the IC Chips??? my guess is the Metal Bender...

who can I sale the batteries to. I just want to set up an account and mail it to them. also I am going to clean up cd and dvds. where can I sale the poly to on line. set up and account and mailing it to them

How come it has been so long since you made videos? Did you decide to take a break from KZfaq?

Hello Mike. Your videos are Great. How about automotive aluminum off of cars like control arms engines and so on. Could you make a video on that. Just a thought.

I doubt most of those small logic ICs have gold bond wires

Mike I missed you, I need more videos

Use a clothes iron clamped in a vice, to loosen the solder. :)

Where can I sell the ICU chips, I live in Las Vegas and need help finding a place here.

hey mike i have a easyer way to do that faster for you ......... USING YOUR BBQ GRILL COOKIE SHEET PLAY SAND AND PUT YOUR SAND ON THE COOKIE SHEETS AND TURN YOUR BBQ GRILL ON UNTIL THE SAND IS WARM AND THEN PUT YOUR BOARDS ON THE SAND FOR A FEW MINS AND USE PLIERS TO GRAB THE BOARD AND A PUDDY KNIFE TO KNOCK EVERYTHING OFF THE BOARD THERE YOU GO A CLEAN BOARD ....happy scrapping

hey mike dont know if you are seperating out tantalum capacitors from the rest of your stuff but i know someone that pays in the vicinity of 28 dollars a pound for straight tantalum capacitors

The one tool that looks like wide jaw pliers are called seamers not metal bending tool

Now that you have removed the ic chips, could you show us how to recover the gold from them? I've seen many videos on the subject, but have not gotten a clear explanation on how to do it.

will you do a video on ALL the Tantalum chips?

i'm from the uk where could i sell ic chips online???

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this bothers me because I'm a hobbiest and work with circuit boards but you could make more money buy selling the chips to hobbiests. if so it's recommended to ulternate a screw driver from one side to the other until it comes out mostly unscathed. those chips go for a pretty good price in the computer market even if they're used, roughly at or just below $20 a piece. also if you come across a computer power supply you could convert it into a bench power supply for a shop or lab and make $30 or $40 off of it. my dad is a scrapper and I guess I am too but I see more money in repurposing things. and those transformers, if you have rearange the plates to face one way like this (E) with the primary coil on it without the (I) plates they make great electro magnets.

Isn't that a whole lotta work for $12.48?

Great video, as always Mike. Your videos just get better and better. :) Liked your price list music too. Thanks.

Excellent video Mike!!! I've been scrapping for a while but still learned something. Great job.

Mike your back! Great Video.

Thanks for sharing Mike

Great video

Interesting viewing thanks good to know stuff such as I am not the only one making goof offs keep up the good work

thanks for the info. im busy getting the ic chips off of my boards. keep up the good work

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Hi Mike. Brian from Canada.thank you I'm new to scraping.

Hey mike on the low grade board the transistors (the ones usually attached to the alum heat sinks and steal ones are copper interesting thing is if you smash the casing and pull out the copper on it there's a silver looking dot on it. curious if that's silver?

good video!

I use a Dremel tool to cut the IC chip at the board....I love the Dremel... I use it for most of my cutting ....

Hi Mike I want to thank you for the videos posted, they really are quite informative and easy to understand. Just one quick question, how much as per your experience is the yield of gold from an average 1kg mixed batch of Ram sticks.(finger and IC combined).

Great video, I learned a lot from it! (:

With the bigger thicker ic chips, you can slide a thin flat head screwdriver under the chip and pry it up and off the board.

Out of all the techniques that you have shown, do you have a personal favorite?

GRT video

hey mike, on the aluminum heatsinks they have these little pins on the bottom which hold it on the board. I have tried taking them off with no luck. could you make a video to show us how?

what's the song? kinda reminds me of some old bass patrol or someone like that

what's the song? kinda reminds me of some old bass patrol or someone like that

Hey Mike, I used Aqua regia method to dissolve gold plated pins but the entire piece got dissolved along with copper and others, now after sodium metabisilphate and urea treatment, I'm left with a thick residue, am sure it's not all gold.. How can I refine it..?

how many hours it took you to take it apart?

Check out Moose Scrapper's sand bath technique... that looks like it would work pretty well. I don't have a gas grill, though. Good stuff, thanks for the video

this is why I do the heat gun technique with plenty ventilation.

so does boardsort take the chips if they are broken?

Hi mike. I just got done taking a part my sister in laws laptop. I took a part the screen and there is a real thin green board in there with lots of gold in it. My question is can you add this to the gold cpu pins that you used. Also i was taking a part a old computer from 1996 and it has gold and silver stuff in there and as i was looking at the cables some of the pin connectors have gold pins in them too.

what's wrong with breaking IC chips? can't you still scrap them?

Nice.Boss make a video on scraping laptop board or whole laptop.

The video card you were working on should've been a high-grade board, those have gold-plated fingers like RAM sticks.

The only problem I have is the you mixed your extruded aluminum witch pays more than the sheet aluminum

thin putty knife for bga's instead of screwdriver maybe?

Do you sell purification handout chips? Please anweser me

U could have a dremmel tool hanging above the workbench with a small grinder blade on it, and just cut off all the legs. Would probably be a lot faster and less effort than other methods

is it worth getting the copper out of the transformers?

you should try simple knife

Hey Mike,,love the videos man!!! Are the circuit boards worth anything to bordsort after doing this?

Are these boards from old electronics ?

hey mike, it's a nice video, good job bro, by the way the ic price in your country is too low, in indonesia we buy square ic at $20 per kg or about $10 per lb

What is the purpose of wearing the disposable gloves?

Hii sir scarepping how values eprom chip

I know this is a really old video and stripping the boards is definitely the way to go rather than selling. But the method used is poor at best i do lots of boards. The best easiest and fastest way is first clamp boards in a vise. Then grip the parts with your pliers and gently pull them as you heat them with the heat gun. With a good hot heat gun you can completely strip a circuit board in just a couple minutes or less. I can clean a whole big box of boards in less than an hour removing everything. One other thing selling transformers for $0.16 a pound is giving copper away. It takes a little time but for $2.00 a pound i can strip the copper out of them and sell the irony parts separately.

dohhh!!!! i kinda mess up my first board lol

how mike makes an extra $2/hour after his government job.. 😞

Funny..

Dude! , you should be working for a video production company Your technque of video productiin is teriffic !!! Who knew Escrapping could be so entertaining Please look into it you have mad skillzzzzzzzz GOD BLESS!

at around 4:30... this is painful to watch, you need to use a desoldering wick, remove as much solder as you can, and then you should be able to easily slide the IC out without ruining all the pins.

by removong the i.c. chips.. you are lowering the value of the board.. therefor bringing down the price of low grade boards for those of us that do not sit around and waste time collecting crumbs.

so many tools you are using, too many tools you are using.....just use a puddy knife and a small hammer,,,,comes up with ease.