Hi there from the middle of Europe

Originally Posted by Mario85Poland

Sonn i will show photos of my boards and bestscrap like old russian resistors, diodes etc. made with various precious metals
and i will have FINALLY! russian capacitors made with platinum and palladium ( they have up to 90% platinum and palladium )

WoW! I'd LOVE to see some photos of what you are getting.

I try and find a escrap buyer, test them out with a few smaller amounts of boards to see what they are specifically wanting, and to find out their prices, their turnover of escrap & their knowledge.

If there are any Copper mines around your area, some of them also buy escrap because they can use escrap as feedstock & they can process out the precious Metals later since they often do that to the Copper they mine anyway.

Germany, with its advanced ecological & environment Laws would be a good source of escrap buyers too, i think.

Its probably best to aquire as much escrap as you can get, i wouldn't be buying it unless its really cheap. You have to clean it down & that gets you some Steel scrap, Brass & Copper too. Thats good for a few Zlotys while you process it.
Picking off individual IC chips & Capactors might be counter productive. The actual boards hold a lot of Copper tracing & they recover that too, they also get Lead, Tin & Silver from the solder, Brass, Copper & Gold from the contacts.
Even after that, they sometimes sell the processed mulched boards to metal refiners to use as a flux on their metal melting furnace pots.

Find out exactly how they want it seperated, figure out what you have to take off the boards ( Batterys !! ) Heatsinks & ferrite coils.



Do you scrap CRT TV's? Fridges? Washing machines? Theres plenty of information here about them.

Take care & use proper Ear & Eye & Hand protection. /e