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bamos86
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 5:25 pm 

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Just a few items I have questions about. Thanks for your help!


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File comment: With these not having Chips on both sides are they still considered RAM? Also have a few silver ones with chips only on one side.
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lostinlodos
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:13 pm 
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In order
Mid grade
Low grade
Hard drive no board (better as Al#2 at a local yard)
Small socket
Gold ram
IC chip
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bamos86
PostPosted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:01 am 

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Just curious, what makes #4 a small socket?
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lostinlodos
PostPosted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 1:48 am 
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evilrick81
PostPosted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:36 pm 
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bamos86 wrote:
With these not having Chips on both sides are they still considered RAM? Also have a few silver ones with chips only on one side.


yes as long as you did not remove the ics it will go as gold ram
and the tin ones are the same way as ;long as you did not devalue them it will go as tim/silver/ram.
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lostinlodos
PostPosted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:51 pm 
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I'm going to Change my own statement on the hard drives.
Actually looking now while awake they may be magnesium...

Though not actually an alloy (duh)
If so bring them to a large yard that buys ewaste. You should get Al iso#12 alloy.
#12 alloy is a mix of Aluminium nickel and a special bronze made of copper magnesium and gold @ 1/20th rl-ml. It's commonly found in industrial laser scanners.
Try iscrapapp for local yards.
Al ay-12 is 68¢ this morning

This is something you'd be best local because of the weight

As an alternative you can strip old ones like these. If the platters are a brown colour the platters are a then-standard nickel disc with a gold layer. Not the micro sprayed platinum on aluminium
Gold platters run nickel rate ($4.15/lb) +20%-25%
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bamos86
PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 1:04 pm 

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Thanks for all the input. Unfortunately, The area in which I live does not have much as far as recycling centers. I am planning on taking another trip to Cleveland next week so I think I will just take them as HD w/o Boards.
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flippy
PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:27 pm 

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Are these the brown disks we are referring to? I have placed a silver coloured one in the photo for comparison.


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lostinlodos
PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 11:41 pm 
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Yes that is them!
Nickel is running 3.80-4.10 during the week. Gold rate fell below 950 this week at one point.
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The platters still run around $4/lb if they buy precious metals though.

Or acid bath them for nickel and gold split.
There's a thread on the gold refiners forum under escrap that's stickied for those platters. If you're into that sort of thing but there's not enough in just a handful to cover the cost of refining.
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flippy
PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:56 am 

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Would you be able to direct me to the topic, I just tried searching but couldn't find the topic you re referring to.
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