Hard Drive Platters

First I would like to say hello. This is my first attempt on this website and I am really just poking around to get the feel of the site. I have been recycling as a living for a long time. I'm mainly interested in purchasing e scrap containing platinum, gold, palladium, tantalum or other precious metal. I'm generally open to processing anything of value. My experience is in the processing of electronic scrap but I've become interested in processing catalytic converters and jewelry and have been studying the yields of both. I don't take chances and know pretty accurately how much of a particular metal I'll recover. I even factor evaporation in to the equation. Well, good luck with your recycling and may you get the best prices!



Has anyone processed hard drive platters? That's one electronic scrap I have never processed and would like to find out a little bit about it.

Thanks.

Welcome to the forum.
I find they make good targets at the rifle range if you don't mind the clean up. Good exercise, plus you get to find brass.
And who doesn't love BRASS!!!

The platinum plating is so thin it's barely there. It's like thinner then foil not cost effective at all. I just sell them to the scrap yard as clean aluminum.