Another hidden GOLD trace board!

[Abuilder]

No it is not an LNB like the last user of this forum played games about!!!!
The next time you rip open a laptop pull the touchpad out!!! That board is a very solid GOLD trace. Have a look.


The touch pad has some very sticky double faced tape on the top side of the board.

[parrothead]

I have always pulled these. Very nice board. Wish they were heavier.

[Abuilder]

Parrot
Some boards and other such stuff have a class of there own.

[ITBoneyard]

They look real nice after stripping the mask off, but the plating is very thin and yields are lower than you might think. (I threw mine in with some other stuff so I don't have data)
Still nice to have a bunch of them though!

[theelectronrecycler]

I have scrapped a few laptops and I don't think I remember those kind of boards. I wonder if I wasn't tearing them down as far as I thought I was. Gotta look into this. Although the board is small, it is still added profit for a small timer like myself.

Thanks so much for the info Abuilder.

[ScrapYaHerd]

Always metal backed also...I throw them in with high grade usually.

[eesakiwi]

I have a few of them put aside.

The other real good gold finds I have are.

Security alarm system boards, inside the control keypad & the actual box circuitry.
Business telephones, the kind with heaps of buttons on them.
Rotary dial telephones, little gold bars on the contacts.
Industrial motor speed controllers, circuit boards & relay contacts, when you pay $2500 for one, you expect the best....
National Genius II Microwave. Amazing find this one, real thick gold layer on the keypad