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Black ports. have pins on top and bottom. Does that make any difference or is it still midgrade? Aluminum had been removed as well but if its just mid grade with or without ill just keep em as is for next time. Took awhile to remive heat sinks lol.

Unfortunately there’s just nothing there.
Boardsort will take it as midgrade. A large scrap yard will take it as #3 electrical scrap which is just about the same price range. Small and local yards will probably take it as shred; if they take it at all.

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Yeah, I gues its best to leave the aluminum heat sink.

I was trying to see if taking the aluminum out will do me any good dollar-wise but even with the 6063 at $0.70 a lb. its just not worth taking unless you actually enjoy pulling them out ( I felt foolish after cleaning 4 of them )

One of our local yards is actually not too bad on lower grade boards. They even have 3 grades for it, one is misc. Brown boards from crt monitors @ $0.25 a lb., brown power boards at $0.35 a lb. which looks like mid grade green but brown in color and this type of board they call green power board at $0.55 a lb. with or without the aluminum heat sink. They have a big shredder that separates the aluminum, copper windings, and shredded portions of boards in separate containers.

Im just trying to see if theres any hope for peripheral rate after cleaning but I guess its best to cut off a bit of board to go with the connectors and separate that for peripheral rate then cut off loose coper spools and throw it in as is.

Did the math and I think im better of getting a part time job at Mcdonalds if its solely for the purpose of making money. They even give free meals and drink sometimes.

The funny thing is the same yard that pays decent for crap boards also pay very low for higher grade boards.


All rams and cpu's at $2.00 a lb, all motherboards, finger cards, telecom and other high grade boards @ $1.50 a lb.

Maybe it doesnt matter to them that they pay a lot for lower grade boards since you need tons and tons to make some beer money.

On the other hand they make it up to themselves by ony paying $2.00 a lb. max for memory ram.

I dont know if they are crazy and baiting me with high prices on low grade and then get me back on the higher grade stuff.

This sucks as my goose needs some new boots.

Sounds like one of the yards I use. Actually reputable though.
This is a common thing. Most yards have a special, be it steel of a certain class or aluminium or copper.
Everything else gets some flat grades.
Yards that specialise in electrical tend to pay more for everything. Like copper and high grade aluminium’s and boards.
These yards will then show up here on the boards every now and then because the take the effort to sell up to Boardsort.
Most yards just flat price all computer boards, at worst or have two or three grades at best.
Occasionally they “shred” them which is the first step in the refining stage.
But this is usually done by a specialist buyer from the yards.
The next step is hammer milling which turns shred into chunks. Then ball milling. That turns chunks into powder. Which is sold to another specialist.

At this point there are two methods that get used. First is the chemical method where acid is used to turn the powder into chlorites. Which are then sorted out one by one with bases, an expensive process.
The other method is electrical plating. The entire powder solution is suspended in an electrified liquid with a counter plate. The counter plates each attract a certain metal. Eg gold on a copper alloy. The plates are then sold to pm companies.

There is also a small growing industry that manually de-manufactures equipment. They buy actual raw components in bulk, eg capacitors, batteries, from recyclers but charge consumers for whole equipment recycling. Such as green disk and eco-cycle. There’s 0 waist 100% recovery though.

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Yeah, everyone has a "SPECIAL" like you mentioned. Its is business after all and I have no say or complaints about what buyers want to pay for the scrap they buy.

Its very nice to see prices posted and actually know what to expect. I have sold memory for $2 a lb. before but the local yard was upfront about pricing as well, I still dont feel like I have been cheated as I gave them the scrap after they gave me their price.

I am still confused when I go to a scrap buyer, I dont know if I am the customer or the supplier lol.

Cause you see when you walk inside the recycling center it feels very much that you are the customer and you are in their territory but the transaction goes in a way where you are the one selling and the yard is buying so it is also acceptable that the scrap yard is your customer kind of like when you go around selling those chinese ornaments you bought in bulk and you go around knocking on houses around the neighborgood.

The recycling industry is a bit wierd in its own way. I sent in small lots of memory to 10 different refiners and received 10 different prices with nobody wanting to give a breakdown on how much gold, copper and precious metals have been recovered from them.

These companies claimed they will refine and recover the metals, also gave a very low 5 lb. minimum on memory rams and then on their websites shows a percentage of precious metals you will be paid but nobody wants to give up the yield results or breakdown and the payout is about half the price or lower that what a middleman can offer upfront, why cant they just produce made-up results when they were phony from the start?

Why cant they just simpy put in say a few grams of silver, maybe a few oz of copper and this much dirt and gold, print the fake slip and satisfy the supplier?

I found a private lab who said they can actually refine circuit boards and give a proper and accurate breakdown but they charge $750 to process just 1 type of material, commodity or sample. That $750 is actually enough to buy the new WASR10 AK 47 or maybe a few puppy pets.

Easy way to find honesty.
An honest refinery that deals in with electrical and technology scrap isn’t going to accept less than 100lbs of mixed material.
When they take 5lbs; they’re tossing your 5lbs with 20 other 5lb orders. That’s why you can’t get a breakdown.
When I tried testing these cash for scrap refiners out I found myself in many arguments over what I sent vs what i was paid.
Sometimes arguments world to my advantage. Sometimes not. I took apart a bunch of old computers, and I sent identical order of CPUs plus one dissected complete computer to each. The range was so extreme I vowed to never use a cash for gold refiner again.
The computers were leading edge 486s. The cpus were 10 486s, two Pentiums, and 4 8080s. The values ranged from $10-150. I was really sad and discouraged. But I sent a batch to boardsort and got exactly what I was told up front. Been here ever since.
One of my yards specialises in electronics scrap to a large degree. So they buy my sub-$2.00pp scrap. Things I don’t want to ship. But occasionally they get computers by the pallet and sell me individual PCs at double the scrap value they paid; knowing the vast majority of the units will come back to them over-sorted. We both win. I get extra pay. They have less labour fees. :)

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