How do you all cut the gold ''fingers'' off the boards - Page 2

Originally Posted by Scrap Master J

PTScrapper said high grade boards were $4.55 lb, but if you go to Boardsort you will see that there category “motherboard grade” is $4.55 lb. “Telecom High Grade” is currently $5.15 lb.

$4.55 - .55 = $4 not $2.50 - $3.00

Also their price list is updated frequently to reflect changes in the underlining metals market prices. Other buyer’s prices seem to be stagnant while gold is up around 15% in last 30 days.

It is important to know the competition as well as yourself.

Knowing your competition is a big deal. But you are a scrap yard....do you watch what all other scrap yards pay? No why not? Because there are many yards that pay many prices?

I have not heard of them before and I was over looking some of there prices. One thing I was able to note very well is that they wont say where it go down stream even with me trying to get as much info...and still unable to know where his stuff go down stream.

With my scrap I can tell you where every bit of scrap goes even down to the last bit of scrap I take it. I make sure its NOT going to a 3ed world country an if he is paying those kind of prices for both small and large...makes me wounder where he is selling it. 3ed world country's will pay the most on e-waste than anyone else but they do not care about there workers...they can have kids as old as 12 working and doing things that will kill them to recover the gold and silver.




Anyone who wants to know where my scrap goes I will tell you. But you SHOULD do the RIGHT thing and make sure e-waste is not being sent out to a country like that....they pay the most...but it costs kids lives...kinda like the blood diamonds

Originally Posted by Scrap Master J

Many yards and many prices is correct. That is why giving an example based on your own numbers and insisting that any other way is stupid is completely biased.

Good point on the health concerns. Be careful on the last statement. If you don’t have documentation and were wrong that could be considered libel and could have legal ramifications.

I did not know of that company so I was making a total guess thats all.

And yes there are some laws based on where what can be shipped to where. But what happens most times its shipped to one country and then sold from there to the third world country. So if you don't follow the scrap from start to end...you will lose it fast. I request the shipping logs of export an where it is going. So I do know the end refiner. I don't have a load that will be worth sending in alone..thats why I send mine with another yards so that it can then be refined.

In short..thats how scrap brokers work.

If you are going to remove the fingers from boards, the easiest method I have found is to simply take either a 2x4 or 2x6 piece of strong wood, cut a slot across it and then feed the boards finger end into the slot, while sitting or anchoring the other end of the board, and pushing on it in one direction until it snaps cleanly off. In this way you are not creating particulates by sawing that could be breathed in and cause health issues later down the road. It's fast, and easy.

In some cases, depending on who it is purchasing the boards, it might be more profitable retaining the fingers with the boards, or not. There is evidence on either side.

Scott

We used industrial sized paper cutters with the one large knife on a handle.
8 hour day cutting fingers...truckload after truckload