Just another "please help me grade my circuit board" thread

[dakmik]

Deng that sucks. I've handled a ton of high quality boards in my capacity as QA for a board assembly company and I was hoping that the unusually heavy weight was indicative of precious metal content inside the board since these boards aren't particularly larger or thicker than others but are so much heavier.

[Mechanic688]

Deng that sucks. I've handled a ton of high quality boards in my capacity as QA for a board assembly company and I was hoping that the unusually heavy weight was indicative of precious metal content inside the board since these boards aren't particularly larger or thicker than others but are so much heavier.

As far as I know, unless you can scrape off the green masking and there's "gold" plating underneath then the only thing of some value is the copper traces and a big thick fiberglass piece of board. Pick you a good buyer from our list and send them a couple of good pic's and see if they'll price them. I'd say all you have there in the first pic is a "depopulated" board worth about .05-.10 a lb right now. (that's with no gold showing)

If your in QA (something to do with quality) then you should know what the boards are made of but I don't think you'll find any precious metals hidden there.

[Flinthills]

The boards in post #5 are much more photogenic than those in your first post. I really like the way the blue contrasts with the gold.