Computer scrap gold hidden inside your old tired and broken PC or MAC? Amazing but true! In fact the older your computer the more gold it has in it most likely. When you toss out your old junk computers you are literally throwing money away. Most people who toss an old computer into their alley for garbage pickup think the only way to get money back from their old machine is to go through the hassle of putting it on ebay and shipping it out after meticulously packing it but no, there's another way too. Ok I lied, it's not easy but it's still pretty fast. Open up the computer, rip out the CPU and the memory and the hard drive and then if you have a saw, file or dremel then grab the expansion cards and saw off what are called "gold fingers". Yes, you guessed it the gold fingers have gold in them.
The hard drives have platinum in them so they should be kept. You can toss the rest of the stuff out and keep the chips as well as the sawed off gold fingers. Ok I sort of lied again even though they are gold it's not much gold but you get the picture, just find more old PCs and even the ones that have had the chips removed from them will probably have old junky video and network cards still attached which nobody wants because they are obsolete. Well guess what, those cards still have gold fingers and if you collect enough of them they can be sold to professional scrap gold recyclers for some decent cashola.
So anyway if I whet your appetite then you might be interested to learn that you can do the same to really really old telco equipment that your workplace might be planning on discarding or which some businesses in your area might be getting rid of. These will generally look similar to computer servers except they have no CD or floppy drives. Some of the big ones will be built like tiny refrigerators lol. What you have to do is poke inside and see if anything glitters like gold, and if it does then it probably is! A lot of telco equipment, most especially really old equipment has detachible chips and you just need a pocket knife to pry that out and toss it in a bag for later recycling. Old cellphones, same story but you need a LOT of those to amount to anything but those super old telephonic switches have a lot of gold plated components inside and you can tell by looking at the circuit boards if there was much gold used. V.35 connectors have pretty thick gold plating on them too and all of that stuff should be grabbed.
Anyway I'm off to salvage some more metal so stay tuned, I'll be posting a ton more info here soon as I'm learning new stuff by the day almost!
The hard drives have platinum in them so they should be kept. You can toss the rest of the stuff out and keep the chips as well as the sawed off gold fingers. Ok I sort of lied again even though they are gold it's not much gold but you get the picture, just find more old PCs and even the ones that have had the chips removed from them will probably have old junky video and network cards still attached which nobody wants because they are obsolete. Well guess what, those cards still have gold fingers and if you collect enough of them they can be sold to professional scrap gold recyclers for some decent cashola.
So anyway if I whet your appetite then you might be interested to learn that you can do the same to really really old telco equipment that your workplace might be planning on discarding or which some businesses in your area might be getting rid of. These will generally look similar to computer servers except they have no CD or floppy drives. Some of the big ones will be built like tiny refrigerators lol. What you have to do is poke inside and see if anything glitters like gold, and if it does then it probably is! A lot of telco equipment, most especially really old equipment has detachible chips and you just need a pocket knife to pry that out and toss it in a bag for later recycling. Old cellphones, same story but you need a LOT of those to amount to anything but those super old telephonic switches have a lot of gold plated components inside and you can tell by looking at the circuit boards if there was much gold used. V.35 connectors have pretty thick gold plating on them too and all of that stuff should be grabbed.
Anyway I'm off to salvage some more metal so stay tuned, I'll be posting a ton more info here soon as I'm learning new stuff by the day almost!
