Back Plane Expansion Board w/ Gold fingers

[HonestScrap]

What grade is a Back Plane Expansion Board w/ Gold fingers on one edge?

Do you cut the fingers off and sell the board as a back plane
or leave alone as another class?

[wadarbr549]

i leAve them as is, and add to finger cards.....i was told if i had a large amount i could possibly negotiate a higher price......i do not cut the fingers off...i am by no means an expert and im sure other more knowledgable ewaste folks will touch on this.....it will vary from buyer to buyer also

[eesakiwi]

Boardsort.com is a good website to find answers from.

I think ewaste may have a website too.

Its actually pretty easy, there's set grades and mostly its motherboards, and the smaller boards and CPU.
Each one of those is divided into sub grades, like small and large sockets and laptop.

There should be backplane boards as their own grade though.

Biggest thing is, NO batterys. And NO excess metals, bolts, tinsel and CPU fixings.

[EcoSafe]

They should be finger card grade. cutting the fingers off down grade the board, cutting fingers depends on several decisions. I have been doing it for a year and processing them my self, option 1. but in a year, and I get a lot of servers, I have only a total of 20 grams of processed fingers. so some one smaller then my operation ???

Option 2. cut them off and sell them to one of our buyers.

Option 3. cut them off and sell them on pain in the a** e bay.

small operations I would just sell the boards whole and move on.

[spinroch]

Sell them as is to a SMF buyer, like Mario, or one of the others with a good reputation.
It all evens out in the wa$h

[HonestScrap]

Just to clarify...
I have visited Ewasted & Board Sort & understand most of the grades.
I realize cutting fingers downgrade a board
I found the Back Plane prices per pound, but it did not mention any fingers. I have Back Plane boards originally with and without fingers.
I was wondering if back plane extension boards w/ fingers would still be considered finger cards due to the lower ratio of gold fingers to overall board weight.
Many back planes are heavy due to large number of connection slots.


Thank You all for your input.

[saabsw]

$1.65 Finger Board Trimmed/Devalued
$4.10 Finger Boards (Only need to remove OVERSIZED heatsinks, battery... metal bracket is OK)

$52.00 Gold Fingers (Pricing is for quality cut trim. Little to no Green, otherwise deduction)\

The answer is right here, these are some prices for boards that I copied from the buyers section. In my case, I like to hoard certain items. The smaller and the more valuable they are, the better they are to hoard. I do this on the side, so I don't need the money as of yet. All of that considered, that $52 a pound price for fingers looks pretty good, but your situation may differ.

[Mechanic688]

All of that considered, that $52 a pound price for fingers looks pretty good, but your situation may differ.

But it does take a lot of fingers to make a lb.

[saabsw]

But it does take a lot of fingers to make a lb.

Yea, it does, but like I said I won't need to sell these fingers for a long time. Hopefully by the time I decide to sell I'll have a couple pounds and the price will be up!