You're still a rare breed my friend, the reason everyone is trying to "recover gold" from scrapping, is because they want "fast money", they have this dream of making huge gold bars out of scrap and selling it for thousands of dollars, and doing so in a week, or a month, etc.... YOU have the exact right idea, and you know what it takes... Also, be careful man, there are people out there who want what you have, who have no problem stealing for themselves everything you've put the sweat into... So please be careful broadcasting all of your various projects man... and THANK YOU! I'm a new subscriber, I'm not a scrapper, but I'm also new to this sort of methodical approach to scrapping, and I'm all ears... I really appreciate all of your videos and work you put into making them... Congratulations on all of your momentum man, it feels good to have such an operation up and running so smoothly... and a lot of work obviously... Good Job!!

Had to watch this again! I've been sorting my precious metals over the last few weeks a little more diligently than before, so I wanted to follow up by watching this for the 3rd or 4th time!!! Have a GREAT Day Ben!!!

I am just starting and this really helps with the understanding of scraping. Thanks!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and all of that experience you have. You are great; here in Spain we do not practice scrapping at all, and new scrappers need someone like you helping us optimizing our methods.

You really held your composure well during the earthquake.

One of your best vids, the whole scrap life explained perfectly.

When i first saw your videos, i described it to a friend as "something that a person "doesn't want to watch" [because you sometimes repeat the same things over and over again] but it should be something every one "should watch". But since then i have watched many of your videos Ben and i can tell you that i am evermore impressed with the way you scrap and even your ways of thinking about scraping because its all based on your real life experiences as someone who "HAS DONE IT". And that is far more meaningful than people who talk about it or just give up after a few months. In any event, good on you Ben. Your channel is far more valuable than most people could ever realize! Much respect for all that you do and make videos on!

Another good vid Ben, thanks. I think you're spot on. I've been following a similar strategy since I started about three years ago. I sell the steal, copper, Al, boards, etc when I have a reasonable amount and stock pile the gold and silver bearing, tantalum, MLCC's, etc., for the future. Looking forward to putting what I've learned about chemistry to work when I think I have enough. Till then, I keep stocking, watching and learning.

Great video ive been scrapping all metals and saving up my proceeds and i have been converting to gold ozs and silver kilo bars - gonna start stockpiling e waste great vid !

Looks great! Congratulations on getting this far!

George from America here again. Soaking up all your videos like a sponge cause I love to depopulate everything and break it all down. That's the most exciting part for me. Can't wait to have as many bins as you Ben. Thanks for teaching me so much. Keep on scrapping mate😁👍

Incredible ! You rock ! Awesome stuff dude!

It's cold out, and I picked this hobby up since I can't garden. I love it!

Ben you're absolutely wonderful for being quite the knowledgeable resource for anyone and everyone who may or may not necessarily be interested doing this themselves to whatever extent; weather it's a die hard born in the wool out of the fryer and into the pan kinda hardcore scrapping enthusiast to the specific "gold + silver & OTHER VARIOUS prescious metals seekers" type scrappers !!! I myself admittedly over the years I have also come to understand and learn a handful of bits and pieces of information which had quite a wonderful practical application in my specific ways of how I do my scrapping. Blacksmithing is an additional hobby/love of mine Ben. I've done it off and on since the young age of 16, and I'm 39 now. Having all sorts of knowledge of various metalurgy, including the scrapping knowledge gained over the past 3 1/2 years I've actively delved into doing that, I will happily admit that I have experienced multitudes of instances with which all the top 5 money making items thus far have been: (listed highest to lowest) #1 - steel, #2 - #1 & #2 copper wire, #3 - extruded & cast aluminum, #4 battery cores & lead, and lastly #5 brass *clean, dirty, and cast)

I always enjoy watching your video's Ben. I like the way you are organized and had broken everything down,separated them and "know" what is in each piece. There might be a book/manual out in the bookstores that details what is in each piece encompassing everything worth keeping in the E-waste business,but i doubt it. So when are going to put out a book on the business Ben? All you need to do is really take a photo of each piece,then put a description of the metal content. Hobbyist E-waste people like me, don't need to know what the component does,we just need to know what part is worth keeping and what is in them. Yeah i like running my fingers through the stuff too..lol. So yeah..get a small E-waste booklet out there and really stack the gold and silver. Cheers!

That's a $#@%load of capacitors! If/when the price of tantalum goes through the roof you can retire Ben. LOL

You feel like Scrooge McDuck, that's the feeling when you're running your hands through all the precious metals. :P

I love your approach. That's all money in the bank.

Huuuuge respect to you sir, as well as all the other scrappers!

Thanks eWaste Ben, we appreciated this Vid! Scrap On! The Scrap Fam

I learn so much watching your videos, thank you for passing your knowledge on! About e-waste as a business.... I am really interested in learning more and therefore, seeing new video editions on that subject.

I'm just getting into doing this and I think it's a great idea. I've watched videos on how to extract gold from gold fingers and they use a lot of harsh chemicals that I personally don't want to go anywhere near, so I thought to myself that this is the way to go for the time being. It's really cool to discover the amount of precious metals that are in electronics and not just the gold.

Maybe the best scrapping video l have seen, certainly great advice mate, thank you

This kind of storing is a great idea! I will have to try it sometime! [When I have the room!]

If I filled up a small container of mixed ic's, I'd get several other containers fashioned after watching this awhile back and separated. I'm doing it almost identical to the way you do it, only on a micro level. I've also filled a container of mlcc's so I got another empty one and separated from big mlcc's and small mlcc's. Thanks to you Ben!!!

Thank you for the encouragement. Joe

Awesome video. I do the same thing I used to try and refine my stuff but it was totally not worth it. Better to sell the other stuff and hoard all the precious metal components. Thanks for the video!

A hammer mill will sort those crystals nicely. I have an old one I picked up when a lab I was working at threw it out but you can find them second hand rather easily. The mill will smash the metal casing to small pieces and the crystal and associated valuable metals inside will completely separate. They tend to contain only gold and silver so it's a simple process to recover the values, and as the mill will have smashed everything into small pieces the chemical process will recover everything quickly and cheaply. Use either an appropriately sized wide mouth beaker or an Erlenmeyer flask if you prefer, place the crushed up crystals into the beaker and pour on just enough concentrated HCL to cover them. Apply a low heat and if there are any base metals present they will be removed (this will mostly be tiny amounts of tin and lead). Once that's done give them a good wash with water until the pH is neutral and then treat with nitric acid to remove the silver, drain off the nitric and again give the remnants a good wash with water until the pH is neutral. Now use Aqua regia to collect the gold (and very rarely platinum). Even with the volume of crystals you have there you won't have to use a lot of chemicals and so it's perfectly economical to recover the metals.

Great advice. Thanks for sharing.

great video Ben. yes I heard umicore, Belgium has now a system to process all the metals in one go. I am also doing the same here in Brazil.

SCRAPPING SMARTER NOT HARDER!

Ben, I like your videos good one as always Thank you

great vid ben!

Great video! Very helpful

all those boards at 11:03 someones been busy keep the videos coming :)

I just love seeing Ben bend that ewaste to his will.

some good information!! i am a 16-year-old scraper and i am doing e-waste to but i scrapp the most for just metals not for gold

Ben has lots of energy!

I'm in the process of building a large tumbler with erosion/crush media ranging from micro abrasive to a 30lb ceramic sphere and a 20lb ceramic pyramid. I believe mechanical processing and separation is the key... or at the very least, space saving storage. Many of the ceramics used in modern electronics are finite resources. It is only a matter of time before before the recycled material, even in base form, become valuable.

Hey Ben, I'm a big fan. I'm 27 and live in Minnesota, U.S.A.. You inspired me to start picking up ewaste a couple years ago. I'd love to get in contact and learn everything you know. I've been making great money at this, and I really appreciate everything you've taught me. Thanks buddy!!! -Cavin The Scavenger

Hey bud might wanna check those Perth Mint Gold ingots because a lot of them have shown to be counterfeit. They say you should open them to make sure they are not plated, foiled or filled. Not having the pack doesn't bring down the value of the gold, gold is gold.

The cost of the bullion premiums in the end may be less than the cost of all the equipment and chemicals and time used to get a few grams of gold. As a dentist I turn in the dental crowns that were extracted or cut off due to decay and the refiner sends me bullion or a check. They have a flat 5% processing fee for their labors. They assay it and send me a check or coins/bars. Scrapping is my part time hobby. I enjoy recycling and taking stuff apart and a little cash in the end. I trade metal for metal (I get gold, silver, lead, I like to buy ammo to shoot!) I scrap small scale, so refining is too much for me. I’ll let someone else do that. Thanks Ben!

You are rich. Love your work

One word: Legendary!😎

Wow great job sir

Good start..like asmr..😁

I love this idea

great stacking video ...

Hope you are keeping those buckets well away form the UV as they will break down costing you more in bucket replacement over time than the scrap value u store. Im sure you are doing that but just for others that see this and may not think of the consequence of storing in plastic with even a little incidental sun.

scrapping the mlcc's was a good idea , the palladium price is going through the roof !

Ben, would you be able to process BGA, IC chips and flat packs in the same way? ID rather not seperate them if I can process them all the same way for gold eventually

When I could afford to stock pile my stuff, I sold the scrap and stock piled mostly silver coins and bars and a little gold. Now days I just survive.

You should do a cross-over with Cody's lab, he could definitely help you extract the precious metals!

amazing .that's a lot of work to collect

To help remove the gold from ram boards use a soldering iron it works not to bad tedious but worth it.

true. great speach

This video sure beats the so-called 'Extinction Group'.

do you also salvage all the heatsinks of the motherboards to sell on ebay?

For storage you should use 5 gallon pickel buckets. Get them for free behind restaurants. Plus they stand up to uv better than that clear plastic stuff.

Tantalum will be worth so much in the future.

If you still have this and you got all that stuff from that house,wow man

Very informative

Do you check the selling value of all those ICs ? There might be some in there that are worth a lot of money when selling. Especially this DIL-Packages. For example here in Germany a 68k is worth around 30€, a MOS6581 50€ or even the modern version is of the Z80 is still worth 5€ (older versions much more).

good job, 100% Scrapper.

i know you have told that you do what you like but you would probably earn more by reselling apple pc and parts. obviously depending on the deal you get from school/company just remove the hard drive. you could also sell memory and cpu's on ebay. the electronics on har drives you might get money for from the large hard drive recovery. you already have a large following here that would purchase something to support you.

good video!!!

I'm interested to know where to sell this waste??!! I can't find anything locally

Great advice, as usual! Ben, is there any value in those silicone looking "chips" embedded in some of the BGA chips? Thanks

The number of views when I clicked was my birth year. Maybe the God of e-Waste is trying to tell me something. _Keep Stockpiling!_ Then I saw the mountain of mobos and fell off my chair :o

I am at the peanut butter jars for my stockpiles and doing same as you here , researching the ways of refining , till I find a method that works for me , do not have enough yet and a biggy is not enough space . Another issue I am looking at is when refining , there are so many [ mainly copper ] other values in solution when most are just chasing he gold - rough numbers , lets say we have 100lbs of chips with 1% gold , but 70% copper in chemical waste , I do not want to through away the 70% copper ? Thanks again for one of the better scrap videos .

I think i rather but my gold instead and continue with dealing with copper wire. Great Ben i washed half of it since i do or deal with boards since i don't find them that much here where i live. Thanks

My chips always shatter when I try to scrape them off with my chisel. Any suggestions?

Ben should i try some industrial parks to start out?

28:40 my precious!

Have you checked online what the chips/motors/etc sell for? As in specified part, and not "misc junk" Some would likely be willing to pay for the rare ones. Reuse is better than recycling anyway!

Hey Ben, I'm just wondering, why do you stockpile gold at all? Is it like an investment for you instead of a 401 K, mutual funds, etc?

This seems to be the equivalent of collecting cats to a crazy cat lady. Especially considering you'll be dead before your "future" arrives. Same with the collecting of the novelty gold chips, you can't use them as currency when you need to.

In Sweden the price of transformer and el-motors are almost the same. Transformers are worth more than el-motors. El-motors used to be worth about 10 cents more.

Holy shit this is such a great way to get rich!!! Really unbelievable to see what precious stuff people throw away every day!!!

Another element “palladium” is now worth more than gold. So some of those white gold fingers might have a mix of gold and palladium

The thrill of turning unwanted trash into money that you know would have otherwise gone into a fill for future generations to clean up. So satisfying. Imho

I do this to

do you sell your gold to the scrap yard or does it go some where else

are you thinking about selling off any of those BGA chips?

Love it! How can you make a real living doing this?

how much gold do you think is there once refined ?

What can I get from all these waste pieces? Is there a thorough guide for precious metal recovery?

On the crt board there is like a small thin metal box, inside of it there should be a Crystal.

This is very good information and i want to stabilizer your video for you and have you work for us.

Nice

Hey Ben, where do you get rid of your plastics and other waste that you can't sell/refine?

A typical hoarders logic... "someday it might be worth something".... lol... It's OK, I'm a hoarder also :)

In all the years ive been scrapping, ive never seen so many crystals in one place

Hi Ben, excellent video as always! Maybe you should consider buying gold coins instead of 24K gold bars in small increments. 20 Francs LMU coins (france or swiss) are quite cheap and have 5,807g fine gold and certainly look much better than the bars.

Hey Ben, I watched one of your videos about cdrom drives and you said you weren't sure what was in the readed module but you save them any way. I've taken apart a bunch of them and there are 2 round small gold parts with 2-4 very small gold wires attaching then to the ribbon. I believe these parts are gold, but I've never tested them son I'm not 100% sure. I can send you pics of what they look like. But maybe you can investigate it and let us know please. Thanks buddy.

I like refining but I really wish I would have waited as it takes up so much of your time and you get very little back right now. Very good video Ben.

same as you doing, just stockpiling.

Ty ben for your info help alottttttttttttttttttt ps lenny

Not to worry my friend if the government believes there's enough value in it they will first try to tax you if you refuse to pay they'll just come take it all good luck

Hi How many grams/ounces of gold plated pins do you need to create a one ounce gold ingot? cheers