How to easily recover gold from scrap computer chips
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Part 1: In this video I'm recovering gold from computer Memory Chips (RAM). Use this process to get gold from scrap computer parts.
DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME.
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I love that you guys are having so much fun doing this together - that's more precious than the gold to reclaimed. Next time take your spray bottle and wet your filter before you start pouring. It works better.
love the way your coffee is next to the 2nd day container when you pour, hope no splashes =)
No worries, the coffee cup is just a prop for the shot.
@@LifeBuzzN
DOUBTFUL !
@@LifeBuzzN try to be a bit more safe
6:06 Is that his coffee mug next to the filter? Oh dear.
my chem teacher would castrate me if he saw me that sloppy
I'd castrate myself and bypass natural selection. Call it auto-artificial negative selection.
+Jason Hungerford my mammalogy professor would drink his coffee in the lab next to the specimens and said do as I said not as I do
"This is ACID!"
yeah, just like he did at home and desc said dont do it at home lol.... peace!
That is amazing to think of all the old phones and computers I have thrown away over the years not knowing there was treasure in that junk! Thanks for showing me the way!
Many years ago I worked for a company that made circuit boards and the amount of gold used to plate contacts is very very small - around the equivalent of one ounce per square yard so I am not surprised at the low yield. Regarding alternative methods of getting the contacts off of the circuit boards - if you melt them off you need to find a way of removing the copper and nickel from the gold. Typically the gold layer is about 1 to 1,5 microns thick (that's 1 to 1.5 thousandths of a millimetre) the nickel is 4 to 5 microns and the copper is normally about 35 microns thick. The dissolving method is the best way to remove the copper and nickel to leave just the gold as melting the contacts first would produce a gold/nickel/copper alloy which is much harder to separate.
You're a modern day alchemist! Congratulations on extracting gold!
"Alchemist"......ha.....I like it!
My wife works for a recycling warehouse. They take in lots of stuff of a wide variety. Some is electronic junk and computers. Some is sold as computers or parts. Some is sold as scrap. A Chinaman usually buys the scrap by the pound, currently the sale price is $11/lb. The warehouse has $0 cost to acquire inventory. The Chinaman then sells to a company in China and the waste is shipped to China for recovery of metals, mostly gold. The Chinese company makes enough cash on the process to pay for the market up on the $11/lb. and the shipping cost to China plus their costs to recover. Yes, you can make money on scrap computer stuff. Here we have a warehouse, a middle man and a Chinese refinery all making a profit. You can make a profit in micro doing recovery. You need a low acquisition cost. What I have seen on ebay is 95% priced way out of wack. You need some volume. P.S. I am a gold mine owner and assayer. My first inclination on this is to mill it all down to 100 mesh, then leach the gold and silver into solution, then precipitate and smelt to dore bar. Using acids and high temps, like 2200 F is all in a day's work. You must know what you are doing. Beware of what I call "hearsay" knowledge. Which is what is plentiful on youtube. Read a book and study it. I own 8 manuals and college texts just on fire assaying.
yes, i think if you had a good source for the material, there could be high potential!
"chinaman" wtf
+Lu Tze Prospectors round here regularly get stuck in the 1800's.
Uh oh PC police. Soon to be followed by the thought police
David Howard I know this post is three years old but I have recently become fascinated by the potential of this sector. Do you have any other resources for info you can point me to?
I never realised (when I was younger) that gold was in these...I was mentored in a computer repair shop for senior year, and while I was there they were going through inventory, and threw out about 10 desktops and 20 laptops, that were really old and they kept for spare parts...looking back, if I knew this stuff know I would be stripping them all out for the gold lols
blademan sixonenine Live and learn...huh?
Yea...crazy how time flys too
I've seen the first half of your video but I'm waiting for you to put out the second half to it. I learned how to break it down but put it back together
I'm trying to learn it because I have a lot of DVD flares. I've got printers and I've got old stereos with all these chips that you guys talk about and I have probably about 12 cellphones just laying around doing nothing. They don't work no longer. Don't know how to get rid of him without spending money. So I figured maybe refine it. Recover it back but I don't know all of your step you only showed half
@@curtismiller7948 You commented on an individual comment. I didn't create this video and as such won't be putting out a second half. However, you are in luck. The creator of this video did in fact put out a second video, 10 years ago. I would link it for you but its stupid for you to be clicking on potential malicious links on the internet. It should be pretty easy to find though, if you simply go to the creators channel and look at the videos posted 10 years ago. I think he mentions it took 100 memory chips to make just under 2 grams of gold, which is roughly $120 right now. You'll likely spend that just in the chemicals and equipment necessary to process it. If you have way more than 100 memory chips, it might be worth it then. Either way, I wish you the best of luck and have fun.
Might be better to sell on ebay for $2, ship in envelope for .50, you make about 1.25 each after fees. No lung damage. No blindness.
That just destroys the fun.
Hey uh.. just wanted to say that, I love you, debbie and the dog. I've watched all your videos. It has inspired me to go find old computers anywhere I can. In fact, i have been researching this stuff for the passed 12 hours. I should probably go to sleep. But im an unemployed biology major right out of college and need money. So i dont know. I would need some 50kg of computer parts a week. Get a commercial license to dispose of the large amounts of chemicals... I would use the cheapest acids available on the market... geez i love your videos. i dont know if its a dream or something I should pursue.. lol. thanks for your videos
I would like to make comment to all the haters out there this is a hobby and you want to know how much money is made per hour for the amount of work dont FFS IT IS A HOBBY how many model builders , hotrod builders , rocket fliers, model aircraft pilots how much money do they make per hour whilst doing something they enjoy doing all you trolls get a life and go back to work flipping burgers
But why on earth would you extract a precious metal for fun? Rockets, planes and model cars are all stuff that gets put on display or you can actually play with them. Gold is meant to be used as currency.. Even archaeologists who dig for fun make money off their findings, so why is it so far fetched that we'd wanna know the profit potential of this?
Ah Alas Games are you telling me that if you had a nugget of gold and you could display is safely that you wouldnt and you wouldnt play with it i certainly would play with it but dont forget most of us that play with this sort of thing are doing it for the Fun as we already have jobs we dont need to profit from it i only profit from copper and aluminium
Adam Tolley Cant really say I would.. I just cant see gold as a toy since it actually holds value. The only reason I'm looking into the profitability of this and other metals is because one of my companies has the ability to acquire large quantities of computer parts for little to nothing and wanted to see if its worth pursuing for the revenue and local press. Someone did mention though that the price of chemicals compared to how much gold it can produce per batch renders the process relatively low profit unless you're willing to smelt, so we'll probably just continue selling the scraps. Enjoy the gold. Later.
In a large quantity you can make good money but need to research on ways to get the gold components out of the computers as doing it manually is not viable if trying to pay wages for someone to do it
the yield per pound or kilo is greater than what mining the old fasioned way produces
and researching chemical suppliers can cut back costs also as most of the chemicals if cared for can be reused
good luck with your endeavours
Adam Tolley Had thought about buying wholesale, but these chemicals can be reused too? I'll definitely look into that. Sounds like theres more to this than just throwing a dozen people in a warehouse and letting them go at it. I'll definitely keep on looking in that case. Thanks for the help.
Probably one of the best ones I've seen so far, you named all the chemicals and quantities without making us run around to various other websites. I've wanted to get into this myself for a while now, are these chemicals easily bought? Any special licenses or requirements? Thanks for the vid.
You can find them without a special license. Most of the chemicals I got at local retailers, the rest were bought online. Be careful!
LifeBuzzN
Ah! Very good. I will be careful, don't worry. 10 years of engineering and dangerous chemicals experience under my belt.
Thanks a million for getting back to me, much appreciated.
Never drink a cup of anything on a table holding acid.
I don't use chemicals for the gold fingers. I use my soldering iron to quickly remove the gold fingers from all boards that have those fingers. I use a file on the irons tip,modifying it with a sharper edge. Allow the tip to reach highest temperature,then apply tip at one end and slid it on down the grid of fingers. you will be surprised as to how far up into the board the gold wiring goes. keep the tip clean by running the file over its edges. Some boards have segments of gold plating. refineries have been duping us,telling us there is not much gold in them computers at all,of course it all depends on the type and age of the boards,but the gold is there. You will find it.
make a video showing your method..
I will try this now the wet Wat worked
dude you rock man ! imma go watch the second one with the heavier acids to make the gold higher grade something I've been waiting soo long for cool man!
I like how poured acid next to his coffee but "please wear gloves folks it's acid" ha ha
Freikorps11/11 Enough about the coffee. This is a stupid video. Scratching 2micron gold and destroying useful simm.
The way you talk and your general air reminds me of Paul Gilbert (a guitar player).
Now I like really strong coffee. In fact if there is sludge at the bottom of your cup at the end you made it right. Teeth tingling is another sign. But wow. Is you coffee next to the acid strainer? I tip my hat to you sir. That's strong coffee..
+lknanml
I bet that coffee had a little more bite to it than your average brand!
That's the brew that puts hair on your ass.
it's the best one I've seen yet thank you; just curious though how many of them computer fingers did you half to do to get that jar of gold ???
Dude Ur the best.... I just tried my first.. 800ml equal parts. And it's literally peeled gold of in minuets....its been only 40mins..will check tomorrow while filtering
Wish I could send a photo
why would you pour the acid without gloves and near your coffee..
Always good idea to keep your coffee cup RIGHT next to the chemicals when your pouring it into another container!! Jeezz!
+F pav Safety First.
a very interesting video though.
F pav mdma
I hope you didn't drink your coffee after pouring acid next to it.??? Great video
Nope.....I'm good. Thanks
LifeBuzzN At 9:08 you had the gold on your fingertips, couldnt you just melted the gold from there to burn all of the extra crap away and not go thru with the other steps. of using acid.
DIYsavecash I was thinking the same thing lol!!
that is amaaaaaaazing!!!! Unfortunately, gramma here doesn't have a bunch of computer chips lying around my house.
Sue Ellis Thanks Gramma.......I appreciate you watching it even if you can't do it.
Baking soda mixed with water neutralizes muriatic acid, for future reference. It's always good to have neutralizer when working with any type of acid in case of spills or emergencies.
How to make money off gold in computers.
Step 1 make a CZcams account
Step 2 get a bunch of ads
lol i have an adblocker.
At 6:15 I'm going "Move your coffee. Move your coffee, holy crap man the slightest droplets splashing you'll be drinking, move your coffee!"
Kids, never keep your food or drinks right next to the volatile chemicals.You may have a very bad day.
i love how hes draining the acid right next to his coffee
If you want to speed up the reaction use a catalyst, like heat. However, you need to use a glass container because you are adding heat to an exothermic reaction
A few notes, since I've been studying this stuff.
1) I hope somewhere in this series you explain how to reuse/filter and safely dispose of the chemicals to avoid damage to the environment and yourselves.
2) Your safety procedures were inadequate. You should've been using rubber gloves and a respirator, plus you should've had excellent ventilation so you weren't sucking up toxic fumes. You're playing with stuff you don't seem to fully comprehend, or aren't explaining to viewers, which is irresponsible either way.
3) Computer boards these days are multilayered and some contain more than just gold. Ideally, boards should be shredded and run through multiple extraction stages to remove gold, silver, copper, palladium, platinum, etc. If you're only doing fingers, there isn't much else to get, but if you want to get the precious metals from the other parts, it's a difficult and dangerous process that you should learn about thoroughly in order to avoid long-term health problems, risk of death, environmental damage and more.
the acid's must cost more than the gold taken off surely?
It does cost a little which is why most people that do this recommend you build up a nice large amount before you start refining
It's probably the joy of recycling it.
Nope. He is just using the wrong method. Only need muriatic acid and for an oxidizer a piece of tarnished copper tubing, then no nitric is needed only household bleach. Then the use stump out to precipitate the gold.
the acid what you use cost more than the gold what you get out of the rams.
Ali Gökce How much are we talking about here?
+Ali Gökce No? A gallon of muriatic acid is $10 max. Then you can buy a kit from ebay with everything else he used for under $20 and still have enough left over for a few more batches.
+Ali Gökce the key would be to just collect as much of the pc memory and cpu and any other gold containing components for a period of time and i mean a lot so when you do it the cost becomes less and you actually see a decent profit. Far as old jewelry you can just smelt it as all garbage material can be skimmed out of the gold.
the CPUs cost more than the gold that's in them, even from the thrift stores.
People give away very old computors on craigslist all the time.
I won't be doing that myself, since I don't work with computers, so I will never have enough chips to make this worth while for me...regardless, though, it was still pretty fun to watch. You were very didactic.
Also, I laughed hard when your wife said you sounded like Kermit hahah. So true.
You're a great couple, I'm sure.
Thanks Cookie.......be sure to check out our others vids.....we try to keep them interesting.
You wouldn't believe what people throw out and the quantities!
LifeBuzzN there's plent of other computer appliances that habe the same gold fingers on them like old sound and graphics cards some of these older computers house in their casing, why does nobody collect those?
Chewbacca833 Where I live they have public service drives where people actually pay to have their old computers scrapped, next time I'll attempt to circumvent and pay them $5 instead. LOL
Eric64kid I collect cats, their fuzzy and they puuuur, kinda stink up the joint though, on second thought I haven't seen Mr. twittles in awhile?? LOL
i love the way you guys act so silly but your work is so serious. great video!
Ian Seymour Thanks, we have a great time.
intact RAM module (yours is DDR2) brings considerably more money when one sells at ebay.
Also the question is where did he get hundreds of scrap Ram cards? He had a pile of hundreds of them and didn't mention how to get those.
*Goes to abandoned computer building down the road and steals all the memory chips*
+Jordan Parkin lol
+Jordan Parkin There are gold in almost all electronic parts, since most connectors are gold plated as the properties of gold are very suitable for electronics. So you can basically any components will have a little bit of gold in them. Happy gold recovery!
+Jordan Parkin Rabbit tv sucks real bad. Its a search engine that charges and the quality sucks. I tried to watch Angel heart the other night and my girlfriend was like" This movie is to slow." :-P
gfyc
+Ace Rimmer corect i have the chip in my computer
More than the Gold, you both as a couple seem more valuable :) ;)
That driftwood in the background is gorgeous
Mark Morgan Thanks for noticing it........it's my pride and joy.
This video is very informative. I never knew that computer parts have gold in it. Time to collect all those parts. Thanks for sharing and hope to watch your other videos.
gayddo gayddo Good Luck.
welcome to my lab-or-atory where safety is number one priority....
hmm the husband with safety goggles and respirator but the wife and dog without THIS IS A SET UP RUN LADY RUN take the dog and run...poor lady she even sounded high
+Ruben Guerrero We're all good. Thanks for watching.
+Ruben Guerrero Sounds like you were high when you wrote this my friend :)
Yupp
Sweet
+Zeny Guerrero "sounds"?? you can hear text? sure it was you thats high, my frind? :D (can I have some? I've experienced seeing music but hearing text -now thats a trip!)
and all these materials needed to extract the gold, will cost you as much as the gold is worth unless you have a mass quantity of cpu's/chips/etc.
I like the dryer humming away in the background.
This video was effin awesome. I am inspired to start up something and actively collect ram sticks. I know I have at least 10-20 just sitting around the house from old comps and I imagine I could find a ton if I go seeking from people that don't need them anymore. I'm curious if you took note of costs and profit. It seems that you are probably doing the video for fun, and profiting more from the views than the gold. I'm thinking about larger scale, and I'm wondering with the supplies roughly what you could offer someone per ram stick and still profit. seems your getting about 70c a stick or so but I dont know what the average "cost per stick" comes to be with your chemicals. Beautiful video! And I love that you defend your wife as your soul mate! Spread your knowledge and stay happy my friend!
+alrachid2 You quite literally lose money on this. If you look at entire videos. 100 sticks come out to be about 75 bucks in gold. Just sell the damn sticks.
+Sean Petersen yeah but gold is "cool". I love seeing the world destroyed by pollution to find a few small flakes
+TheyGoWhootnnn umm tell me were the pollution is at sir everything except ur nitric is found in nature sooo...zip
What is the cost of the chemicals required in relation to the value of the gold extracted?
nothing if your good at chemistry
YOU CAN GET GOLD FROM ALL KINDS OF things with circuit boards, ie; mobile phones, game consoles, old game cartriges, etc ....
Alkapow Portstar You are correct. It's all over.
Do not recover gold from old game cartridges. You can sell them for much, much more if they are in one piece (the best is if they actually still work). There are many collectors that can pay quite a lot of money for them.
Teeth
I wonder if it is possible to heat everything up so that all that is left is ash and molten gold?
It wouldn't end up very pure. You would also end up with the copper and silver and other metals.
Well, wouldn't that depend on the melting point of the individual metals? It's my understanding that gold would melt at a lower temperature than those other metals? Perhaps if the proper temperature could be reached for gold, you could melt down only the gold and scrap the rest. Just a thought. :)
Melting pop cans in a home made furnace only produces minimal aluminum. The rest of the gunk is composed of other metal like substances that melt at a lower temperature than aluminum..flaky stuff. So yes, it is possible to get pure gold but you are looking at finding/or building a furnace that can support heats up to 1,100 Celcius or more... Then you just scoop out impurities and repeat the process. There is a more chemical way of seperating gold but I am not sure how that works.
For all you people who want notes without all the BS. Here it is :
Courtesy of KronicDecay :
Safety Items Needed for initial extraction of gold fingers :
Goggles
Respirator
Chems Needed :
Muriatic Acid (Brand : Klean-Strip)
Hydrogen Peroxide
(Both From Walmart)
Urea : purchased online
Sodium Metabisulfate : online
Nitric Acid (HN03) : online (video creator does not say but assuming online purchase)
Step 1:
Extracting :
- Use shears to cut off RAM fingers
- put all fingers in a large plastic container (heavy plastic : think large mayfield icecream container)
- Add equal parts peroxide and muriatic acid (enough to cover your yield)
- Let sit 24 hours (if possible let sit outside in sun during day then take inside at night for best result)
Use glass stirring tool to stir on occasion (helps gold come off fingers)
After 24 hours :
- Stir solution
- Make a container to put a strainer on (Large coffee plastic container with strainer and coffee filter)
***USE RUBBER GLOVES***
- Slowly pour solution into strainer and filter (will take a few pours)
*** USE RUBBER GLOVES DUE TO ACID PICKING UP FINGERS***
- Use distilled water in a spray bottle to spray fingers that are left in bucket
- Spray fingers until gold is off them and toss old fingers into a waste jar for further extraction
- Continue adding distilled water from sprayer to bucket after fingers are removed to get all gold out of bucket
- Add again to strainer with coffee filter
Step 2:
Refining Extracted Gold :
Safety Needed :
goggles
respirator
thick rubber gloves
Chems :
Nitric Acid
Muriatic Acid
Urea
Sodium MetaBiSulfate
- Add a shotglass each of Nitric Acid and MetabiSulfate to gold solution
- Put on a hot plate (turn it on low)
- Let Sit until gold is disssolved
- Strain solution through coffee filter and strainer into a glass container
- Use distilled water in spray bottle to get all gold out of container
- After all gold is filtered out spray under strainer for stragglers
- Add 4-5 TBSP water to solution
- Put back on burner
- Add Urea (1 TBSP)
- Keep adding until solution stops boiling
- Add Sodium Metabisulfate ( 2 TSP ) (Turns liquid gold into solid)
- Stir after seeing solution reaction
** Let sit overnight **
- Re-filter solution into another strainer and coffee filter (use caution)
- Gold should be left in original container after straining
- Add gold to some sort of smelting device and use a torch to heat up until its melted
- Continue using torch to heat gold up and then allow smelted gold to drip into a below container
"There It Is Boys"
Just saved you all an hour of your lives haha
Happy birthday Mark and Josh!!!
For all who think this is a waste of time...we live in a region where work is hard to come by...this would be ideal for unemployed people.
Kay Bear As long as they are careful, there is profit to be made.
And they have access to these Chemicals (better than meth labs) :)
Kay Bear yes I agree.
none of those chemicals can hurt you except for the nitric acid
EHH ????DON'T YOU KNOW ? MURIATIC IS JUST AN OLD NAME FOR HCL.........(Hycrochloric acid) .........not to be messed with either
his fucking coffee is next to where he poured his shit. "don't breathe that
+Nate Such language.
LifeBuzzN problem?
+nuni121 english please, dipshit.
+LifeBuzzN fuck you and your dog , he was just pointing out how fuckn stupid this retried meth lab scientist was pouring the coffee colored conCOCKion so close to his cup o coffee.
can you talk without cursing? I bet you can't.
the part on day 2 where you poured the acid, no gloves and respirator, I can live with that. But boring it right towards your coffee that is sitting next to the tub, that was priceless. I like the video though
This video has it all.. jokes, animals, science, education, high definition footage, and a shout out to the U.S.A astronauts!
a nice couple!
Thanks Corey........we are very happy.
Damn.
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I've thrown like 50 old computer away.( smacks head)
That's DDR2 RAM, old but still more valuable than the bit of gold on the connectors.
It's still used. People still buy DDR2. It's just rarer and harder to get now which is why the price is higher than newer ddr3 and ddr4. There's not many companies still making it.
+Mojo Jojo ddr2 is obsolete and worthless
U.N. Owen Not on the second hand market it's not. There's still plenty of people out there with old workstations that do the job but maybe need a ram upgrade and they don't have the money or need for a full system upgrade. I bought some new DDR2 recently for a mates old work computer.
that is honestly one of the stupidest things i've ever heard
if you're paying $100 for 512MB or whatever of ancient RAM you might as well just fucking buy a $100 chromebook with 16GB of RAM
You must be fucking stupid, don't talk about shit that you know nothing about. I've traded in computers and computer hardware for about 10 years. What is stupid is cutting the tiny amount of gold off of more valuable ddr2 ram that could easily be sold on the second hand market. Have a look at ebay sold listings for ddr2 if you don't believe me you complete bellend.
That's so cool LifeBuzzN. Loved your videos, most informative and educated I've seen on the subject. Thanks, hope to watch a lot more of your other types videos soon too.
PC Tech Will Thanks
much better more simple video than the previouse one I watched but with same end result.
"How to easily recover gold from scrap computer chips. DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME" pretty easy method. easily
tyler durden is that u ?
6:20 "I really should wear rubber gloves" _Has coffee sitting next to it_
Could I use these ingredients to make crack?
TheCarin12 That would be pretty stupid.
Looks like you already have.
No but you could use it to make meth with a few other odds and ends if my breaking bad memory is right
You could try - I'd like to see that...
Alex Perry Yeah your just missing methyl amine, or pseudo. Then red phosphorus and iodine. So yeah a "few" things not so much.
i love how u professionaly handle your cofee mug
how many ram cards did u use?
a lot
Hey says it in the 3rd video ... 100 sticks
Oh! I didn't know there was a 3rd video. Thanks!
He meant to say his old server farm lol
That's not what I said.
Am I hearing your numbers right, that you got almost 2g out of just 100 RAM sticks?
Uberownager Correct.
Lol.. £50 for all that work.
Uberownager that is not possible. i know because iv done it for years. i sent 4 pounds of metal scrap to ross metals in ny, ny i received an assey of halfe ounce to 4 pounds. latter i did government scrap in san diego halfe ounce pr. one pound. prior this co i did this for was getting 20 cents a pound for all its scrap. yes a c. paid me to show it how to do it and what to do. after i was done, the co began immediatly getting 65. 00 a pound for its scrap. i have the assey letters. sooooooo. got lots of scrap// ? e mail ill come to you!!! any wheres on the west coast!!the fact is all gold is not created equel.
normwicks@youtube I don't know, maybe I missed something but what are you getting $65 a lb for? What is the assey of half ounc to 4 lbs?
break a dollar to make a penny.
Came across this (not sure how as I wasn't looking for gold :P ), I ended up watching the 3 videos. Very good and informative. It appears to be a neat hobby.
Steven Valinski Thanks for watching.
I just started a computer graveyard. Also I WILL be trying this at home. Pretty neat process and your not in any danger of being sued. Just because I seen it here doesn't make you liable for my actions. :)
I'm sure all the people doing this are disposing of the chemical waste in a safe and ecologically responsible way. While disregarding the fact that proper disposal is costly and would severely limit profit.
It would be far more profitable just to sell the memory itself. Without the chemicals and stuff.
yeah... be responsible enough to return the favor to mother earth, after all earth provides us everything. there are things still out there that hasn't been discovered yet
The thing is, is that so many people are lacking knowledge. The amount of HCL used to eat the copper under the gold plate was through the roof.
+9
Deimos Phob 512 megabytes is obsolete, nobody wants to use the old smaller ones they're incompatible with the large needs of modern computers.. they're memories now measured in gigs
"Easily recover", my ass
Why would anyone want to recover your ass ew
+Ayyy Lmfao Not as difficult as it looks. Just take a little time.
Description:
*DON'T DO THIS AT HOME!!*
Guy:
Shows us how
to do it at home....
Tip for u,, after you separated all the fingers an u are left with the gold in the distilled water, swish a good magnet around Inthere it will attract all the other metals u don't want giving u a much purer gold end product, saves u refining it down twice😉 ✌
Not a bad video at all guys. Great information. Thanks for wearing the safety gear and using appropriate equipment, most don't. This process was very simple for me to complete in a controlled and safe environment (not at home) with spectacular results! I think if individuals utilize reasonable care and use discretion when handling the materials, it is possible to add quite a bit to your annual income.. Thanks guys :-)
Brian K Good Deal......Thanks Brian.
Where did u get the respirator from
Jjj
haha this couple cheers me up x)
Nyancat703 Ha.....Thanks. We are very happy.
what are the steps you have to take and product you have to use step by step ???
Frickn love your vids brother. I followed you some years back. I am finally stateside again and found you again. Really like the lawnmower blade knife you made!! That was awesome!!! Im going to try my hand at it too. If i get stuck during the process hope youll help me troubleshoot 😂 Hope this finds you well and hey Little Debbie Does!!! Yall are awesome people!!!
As I was watching this, I noticed how close you put your coffee mug to the acid bath. Also, you got pretty careless during the straining stage, by not wearing your goggles or gloves. This could have turned out like a Three Stooges episode. :/
Jeff Green We're all good, thanks for your concerns tho. Take Care-
Jeff Green First thing I saw too Jeff, the coffee. We don't allow food items in our lab and most people think its for contamination reasons, its for safety. Teaching people how to do things on youtube carries a certain amount of responsibility. Proper safety protocols should be used, otherwise, people that don't know any better will think its fine to have lunch while mixing up their etchant or playing with ferric chloride, aqua regia or any of the other ways to process gold bearing pc boards and pins.
Another thing, the camera woman was standing around commenting, obviously not wearing a respirator. They are making chlorine gas when they mix H2O2 and HCL. It does bad things to lungs. They are in an inclosed, garage it appears?? She was breathing it in small concentrations. Anyone want to guess where Chlorine gas was used?? Rhetorical question...... WWI yep, the Germans used it to kill thousands.
This guy needs to stop playing with chem's or at least go outside and film his own stuff before he kills his wife/girlfriend/friend
do you want to buy some old computers?
No thanks, but I appreciate it. I may want to buy some bees tho......been watching your videos for awhile and think this Spring may be my year.
LifeBuzzN swap old computers for bees? how many bees would I get for a old Apple 2? would you post them? :)
how much you want for the old computers?
I am in USA
so youll be paying for shipping of some fucked computers for a few pence worth of gold from switzerland to the usa? sounds like a good financial inestment, uh do you actually know where switzerland is?
The problem for most people would be acquiring this much RAM to begin with but I've got a small box full of really old EDO style RAM from the 1990's with some mixed in from the early 2000's - probably about the same amount he has in the video. My RAM is so old you couldn't give it away but if you had newer style RAM you'd likely earn more selling it as 'RAM' rather than breaking it down to it's gold component.
Happy birthday, Josh!
But who's going to buy it
+hallnoats4ever the gold? ... alot of places buy scrap gold and melt it down
+KappaTV those scam places, they pay dog wages
hallnoats4ever im sure you can find a good place gold shops are on every corner
+KappaTV your right, my dream life would be to go off grid in California and gold prospect for fun
hallnoats4ever hell yeah gold finding would be fun
Did anyone else cringe when he cut the ram with the tin snips?
I know it's probably old but still =(
+Scabbage It's not my favorite step, that's for sure.
Scabbage Recycle the modules. Those older ones were quality. I remember when a 4MB simm costs a month's pay and a 20MB hard drive gave little change from £1000.
OMG. Seen so many mistakes in this video it's scary. Shouldn't be propagating wrong information like this for the public to see.
Don't take offense LifeBuzzN but maybe you should stick making cooking vids.
+IsettasRock Safety First.
i usually skip the ads but that was a pretty cool kirin/sushi commercial lol
Creative and fun video. I enjoyed viewing. Very down-to-earth folks with brilliant recovered scrap gold. I hope that you both were able to recover more than a troy ounce, and possibly keeping most of the recovered gold for future investment. In my humble opinion, 2015 seems very uncertain.
How do you feel now in 2022! Even more uncertain!
$100 worth of material for $80 worth of gold
+r4hul101 Yeah, pretty stupid huh?
Rahul lol
DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME? Where should I do this then? :-)
Hilarious.
In someone else's basement silly.
Do it out in the street instead haha.
Walter White in real life
But Instead of meth it's gold
the amount of unsafe chemistry is unreal in this video.
Hey Buzz,
I'm a 19y old guy student from Belgium and your work of recycling gold inspires me!!!
You show The fun and eximant of making these videos of recycling gold.
thanx you gave me a new fun hobby!!
I collect gold materials over a half year like a MAD man!!! (also watch all your vid to inform myself)
Now i finally have 49 cpu chips and 1500gr of goldplated pins and a shoebox ful of goldfingers.
I know the proces of seperate gold and purify watch your vid 1000times!!!
But the muriatic acid and hydrogen Per. the strongness, purity of these to chemicals how much % do you use?
Can you help me?
Agus. A
dont buy to much muriatic acid at once you may get arrested
Lol no. we buy 4 gallon boxes. 3 to 4 a month its used in pools as well.
I buy a pallet at a time
I've only watched a little bit of this, and your lab technique is dangerously BAD. DON'T tell people to set this stuff outside!!! Birds don't know it's deadly. Same with dogs, cats or children. You need a fume hood to work with acids, one designed to neutralize the acid you're working with. You're a great example of how a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous.
Whitelyte Design, LLC who cares about stupid animals?
Obviously not you. Add to the list of "stupid animals" any children that might also find a tub of acid interesting.
Nice idea etching away the copper from under the gold plating leaving gold flakes.
However you could actually do this with much saver chemicals like FeCl3.
ezion67 Thanks
For future reference if you're still alive.
You have particulate/some organic vapor filters on your mask called Magenta/Black. But you need Magenta/Yellow for Acid and IDLH situations..
I should add that is if you don't want to breath in the acid vapors, if you do, NEVERMIND.
But the Magenta/Black filters while they will stop some bleach based cleansers and some minor to medium insecticides they won't stop acid vapor.
So ANYONE else watching, get the right filters !!!!
Twixter111- I disagree, they both seem to be nice people , kind enough to do a video,( great quality- well documented ).
I am just starting out on this project and have enough fingers and CPUs ( totally estimated for just under 1 oz smelted ( not troy),
BUT - I think when melting ,they use Borax or a gold flux to make the gold flow better or something, it is in a power form. There are other vids out there supporting this.We get tons of old CD Roms (Pentium 75s),computers as the ATM's are rebuilt. The scrap guy gets them but I am changing that to a degree.
Cute do dog too
Thanks,
Best regards
lazer pete Thanks
Nice work and I never ever think a 400 dollar computer can contain so o much in gold so we are disposing on waste lands tons of gold on electronic equipment and on our behavior of consumerism we are going to run out of gold in the future omg.thanks to you guys jeep the recovery.
My friend taught me to take the flakes you show and put them in a crusible with borax and baking powder and use a torch and melt them while using a rod that pulls out the impurities. Did you ever try this?
I love this shade tree recovery process, at least dude had a mask on at the start
*Safety Note* Respirators are ineffective when worn with a beard. Even 1/4 inch of facial hair will break the seal. If someone is using chemicals and requires the protection of a respirator, it is likely the person with a camera should be in a respirator as well. Coffee cup was explained ad nauseam. You did a pretty good job explaining your mistakes while you were making them. Your dog is AWESOME! Had to pee twice from the running water in the background. Alas, I can tell my wife now where the gold can be found. Thanks-
Did he properly dispose of the used chemicals or did he just pour them down the sink?