Electronic buyers, did i hit the mother load?

Well i picked up some boxes from a IT guy. 5 in total i only looked in three of the box's because the guy only wanted $50 and the first box alone was worth $200.

So im looking through them and i get to the 4th box. It's full of unopened box's of CPU thermal paste. I roll my eyes and am like oh great. More junk to fill my trash cans.

Well im playing with a tube thinking it's funny to squirt on random things when i start to read the label.

CPU Thermal paste - 1oz - contains 10% silver :eek:

So i go back and count i have over 500 tubes!



Does that mean i have 50oz's of silver? Oh please Oh please let it be true.

Never heard of that one... i would imagine it is worth more for resale.

This is what they kind of looks like. Though they are much bigger. I think they were for when his company built 50-100 machines a day back in the early 2000's he said.

http://www.xoxide.com/arcticsilver5.html

Not enough there to make it worth while on the refining end... unless its a hobbyist or small operation with extremely low overhead. If I were you I would look at the resale end of it. A few emails could get this sold fast with little to no effort, or waiting for money!

silver, anyone sending it out for recovery - freight, fees, market, etc all variables

Yea resell on this item...go to a few computer repair shops and try to sell them as lots on ebay...you will make a pretty penny on them.

Quantities is king, make them a package deal. That stuff works, as Snodley was building a competitive computer and the processor kept getting hot so he went to R.S. and bought a tube of that and it dropped the temp on the processor about 30 degrees. The different ingredients may be trying to separate but it's still a usable product. Anyone building a fast 'puter, use that to keep processor temps down.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Quantities is king, make them a package deal. That stuff works, as Snodley was building a competitive computer and the processor kept getting hot so he went to R.S. and bought a tube of that and it dropped the temp on the processor about 30 degrees. The different ingredients may be trying to separate but it's still a usable product. Anyone building a fast 'puter, use that to keep processor temps down.

All computers need them...not just the "fast" computers...a old p4 cpu can get over 200f with out cooling...just putting a heatsink will help...but it will still get to hot and will kill the cpu...you have to have some cooling paste...now...you have cheap ones that work..but not good and then you have the good ones...if this one has silver..this for sure the high end of cooling paste...he should be able to get whole sale 50cents to a buck for each one.

All computers need them...not just the "fast" computers...a old p4 cpu can get over 200f with out cooling...just putting a heatsink will help...but it will still get to hot and will kill the cpu...you have to have some cooling paste...now...you have cheap ones that work..but not good and then you have the good ones...if this one has silver..this for sure the high end of cooling paste...he should be able to get whole sale 50cents to a buck for each one.

Yep, your right. Snodley was using heatsink compound from my old store (the regular white paste) and the 'puter kept getting hot like I stated. The silver stuff brought the temp down 30-35 degrees.

Use it as a Give away! Have a local printer fashion up some 3 fold brochures,

I used to use a M'soft printing program and I could design and print my own brochures. I'd then just take a master to Staples and run them out on their copy machine. Might be a good use for all those Staple rewards from recycling the ink cartridges.

That's awesome! So Staples offers rewards points for toner and ink carts?

Yes, I think they allow you to recycle 10 per month.