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    Cleaning RAMBUS experiment results

    So I have seen this question asked many times...does cleaning Rambus yield more profit? I have been searching the forums trying to find out a positive answer, but I've had no luck. SO! I decided to do a little experiment myself to find out.

    First off...let's assume that Rambus is at $6.65 per lb, clean ram is $14.65 per lb (as per Ewasted's prices), and aluminum is $.50 per lb.

    I weighed out 10 Rambus sticks, all with aluminum on ONE side. The total came out to be 9.8 oz. After removing all of the aluminum (which is VERY easy with a flat head screw driver), I ended up with 5.8 oz of CLEAN ram, and 3.8 oz of clean sheet aluminum.


    Before cleaning:
    Rambus: 9.8 oz @ $6.65/lb: $4.07

    After cleaning:
    Clean ram: 5.8 oz @ $14.65/lb: $5.31
    Sheet AL: 3.8 oz @ $.50/lb: $.12
    TOTAL: $5.43




    In the end, the 5 minutes it took for me to clean the Rambus made me an extra $1.36. Not bad. Imagine this on the large scale, though. One stick would have yielded 40.7 cents at the beginning. After cleaning, however, the same chip yielded 54.3 cents, meaning you make an extra 13.6 cents for every single sided Rambus that you clean.


    I will do the same experiment with double sided Rambus, as well, but I feel the results will be very similar...if not the same.



    Thanks for reading!
    Last edited by CanIScrapIt; 08-26-2012 at 11:49 PM.
    Yeah that's great and all...but...CAN I SCRAP IT!?



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    Thank you for all of the people who clicked 'Thank you.' I'm happy to know that I helped people out.

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    I've been doing this but it always helps to see numbers associated with something. Thanks for putting the time for this together.

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    Lately I'm so overwhelmed I don't even clean it.........I just sell the stuff as fast as possible to get it out of my hair...LOL

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    That's a good problem to have Mike...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Craasher View Post
    That's a good problem to have Mike...
    I agree!

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    Mike that is a problem most of us wish we had.

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    Just picked up 50 lbs of ram and I found 80% of it was 1gig and up. I'll check all my Rambus before scrapping it.

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    I wish I had some problems like that....

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    dont forget that as you do larger batches, your speed will most likely improve


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