How do you all cut the gold ''fingers'' off the boards

**dherik** · 08-19-2011, 03:24 PM

check into boardsort they're pay $7.50 /lb for trimmed memory boards, and $15 /lb for the complete ram.

looks like clean cut fingers he's paying pretty darn good too.

boardsort.com

Looks like I'm breakin out the scroll saw this weekend.

**easyrecycle** · 08-19-2011, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by dherik

check into boardsort they're pay $7.50 /lb for trimmed memory boards, and $15 /lb for the complete ram.

looks like clean cut fingers he's paying pretty darn good too.

boardsort.com

Looks like I'm breakin out the scroll saw this weekend.

Ok..lets talk about this...

Memory is 20.6grams

Small cleanly trimmed finger is 1.1 grams

There are 453.59237 grams in a pound.

So to make one pound of trimmed fingers it will take 412.3567 / 1.1 = 412.3567 memory sticks.

It takes 22.019047087 memory sticks to make one pound (453.59237 / 20.6 = 22.019047087)

So it will take 412.3567 memory sticks (412.3567 / 22.019047087 = 18.727272728 pounds of memory

Trimmed memory is only worth $7.50 so 18.727272728 pounds of memory is now worth only $140.454545457 and the one pound of gold fingers is worth lets say $100 bucks...THATS IF you will get $100 bucks..Hell Call it $150 It wont matter much!

Same amount with 18.727272728 of memory = $243.454545459

so in fact you LOSE MONEY an thats not even counting YOUR TIME IN SNAPPING THEM OFF

p.s...No I did not need to go WAYYY past the . an give you all the 0.000000 numbers...but I did it to give you proof that you are losing money...and big time.

Its better to sell it WHOLE than snapping the fingers off...but if you want to lose money and kill nothing but time you can do something else with...thats UP TO YOU!

Pull out you calculator...do the math I laid out for you and you will SEE that I am giving you the REAL NUMBERS!!!

**PartTimeScrapper** · 08-19-2011, 04:58 PM

OK just picked a random card from my box of slot cards. Picked a PCI sound card. Weight before cutting is 100.9 grams.
after cuting card weighs 97.8 grams
finger weighs 3.1 grams
So at $4.55 / lb full board gives you $4.55/454g*100.9g=$1.01 for entire card

After cutting
$4.00 /lb for fingerless card $4.00/454g*97.8g=$.86 for card minus fingers
$78.00 for fingers $78.00/454g*3.1g=$.53 for finger

$.86+.53=$1.39 for a difference of $.38 per card.

Now it took about 5 seconds to cut that card and thats on the high side. So take 12 cards a minute and 60 min in an hour. $.38*12*60 and you get $273.60 per hour. Even if you cut in half and only cut off 10 fingers a minute youd get $136.80 per hour. I dont know about you but ide like to make that kind of money an hour.