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I feel I should again mention. I am only a casual e-scrapper. I am in retirement. I have time to do these comparisons on cleaning a board vs not cleaning. Not just Gold Finger Card. I did a decent weight comparison on Shielded RAM. I did my my weigh compairsons and payouts when Clean Gold Finger Ram was at $60 a pound. I think Shielded RAM was $22 a pound. I had about 100 clean Gold Finger RAM. And a decent quanity of Shielded RAM.
Found the average weight to be .5 to .7 ounce. For the Unshielded Gold Fingered RAM. Then through some calculations and weight measurements. I found that if a Shielded Gold Finger RAM weighed 2.1 to 2.2 ounce. It was NOT worth removing the shielding.
Again. I am coming from a casual e-scrapper point of view. Not. A full time e-scrapper point of view. Time = money. So an individual has to manage his own personal circumstances.
I am actually echoing what Spence1015 posted. But. The payout comparisons do exist. And along with shipping considerations. I only mail in boxes below the USPS Ground Advantage rate. I find packing as tight as possible is the way for me. I lay back the output jacks on Motherboards to get room. And squeezed them together. For an example
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Prior to shipping pallets/skids I would ship RAM in a flat rate USPS box so removing the shields was definitely beneficial. Squeeze as many sticks in as possible, use laptop sticks in the middle so they didn't stick up too far so I could lay more flat on top.

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He has ram!!! get him

But no, how do you find so much ram?

Old picture of stuff I sent in, just collect over time and you'll get there.

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