UPDATE. Aluminum cutout frame, to which are fastened card slot sockets, with heavy pins protruding from the back of the sockets with wire wrap. I delivered to Boardsort last Friday, and at the last minute threw on one of these twenty pound units to cover the top of a box of smaller boards, to keep them from flying off in Mid Kentucky. Decided to take it and ask specifically what it would classify as, and if it would benefit from stripping, parting out, or further processing. The particular unit I grabbed was trooublesome as it did not have gold plating on the pins, but a weird not silver/not copper/not aluminum/not what I don't know, a weird brownish oxidation/ on the pins. Turns out "boards" don't always have to be seven layer fiberglass. In this case, just a large array of many components viewed as "one board". The one I took was given a "non published class" rating as palladium wirewrap board" which brought a smile to my face, as the total payout on this one item was over a Hundred dollars, when I had resigned my self to maybe getting connector ends price. The bad news for my payday is that I had four more identical boards at home. The good news is I have four more boards weighing total 80 pounds ready for my next load...Oh, and when I walked in the door back home, found the latest MB box I had just finished for this trip sitting there, along with the GF cards and memory sticks... BUT since I am the type who cannot believe good fortune_ if I won the lottery, I would argue with the officials that surely they had made a mistake, I am intending to take another board to the local recycling place and let them use their RF Gun on it to tell me the composition of the pins, and if the readout does not show palladium, then I will inform Boardsort of their mistake. I took an unmarked gold item in to my local yard and had them analyize it, and it readout Au roughly 55 %, Cu 23 %, Sn, 2%, Ag 5 %. Then took it to gold buyer who did his analysis and bought it as 14 K scrap.
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