Quote Originally Posted by Scrapcrazy View Post
You'll find an abundance of information on that exact question multiple times here on the forum. Do a simple search on gold fingers and that will populate threads related to them. My opinion after reading many of the threads was it was not cost effective to remove them but like PTS said, it really depends on your buyer. If your buyer buys cut gold fingers at a fair enough price that merits removing them, then I would go ahead and do so. As long as you're using the right tool, removing them shouldn't take touch time or effort. Just make sure not to leave too much board on them.
I imagine if you remove fingers from motherboards you will change them to mid-grade at the most. You have just taken them from +- 3.50 lb down to +- .40-.50 lb.