Originally Posted by
mike5ive
Just joined this forum, will be on the lookout for an honest (LOL, I know good luck) circuit board refinery
My old man has owned a dump yard for over 40 years and I currently have about a half acre of computers and other assorted electronics devices stacked to about 6 feet. Paying three people to disassemble them all right now but at present I have about 1,300 pounds just from laptop circuit boards with thousands more yet to be torn apart. Next will be the desktops nonetheless I'm not looking to sell the boards I want to find a place that will smelt down the things (or whatever process) for me.
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I know you made another post on here saying you couldn't find someone who will refine them for you, and I am just going to say again, that I do not think you will and also that I do not think you will want to.
You may be able to find somewhere that you can sell to that is a refiner, but most of the refiners are overseas where there is cheaper labor, and less government oversight/laws/restrictions. They can pay more but they usually have MASSIVE load-limit that even with your amount of stuff, probably wont be able to meet. I 100% truly and honestly think you will be best off having your guys keep breaking everything down, and send/sell to a buyer on here. If you have as much as you say you are probably looking at many many thousands of dollars.... its not like people on here are paying pennies on the dollar.... I don't think you can find much better prices than people are paying on here.
Nowhere will melt the boards for you and return the yeilding results because it just isnt practical/possible for them to do so and keep track of what was yours vs whoever else they are buying from. They buy in bulk, and run it all through the same machine
For example, say you have 2300lbs of laptop motherboards so far, that is around $10k to a buyer on here already.
And you say you still have tons more laptops.... say you have 3x more laptops, you are up to $30k just on laptop motherboards alone. If you are taking the ram and CPUs out of the laptops (which you should be, thats probably another $10k worth of
escrap right there..... That isnt even touching the desktops which all will have motherboards, CPUs, ram, finger cards, powersupplies, ICW, and the metal cases. If you have the amount I am picturing in my head, you could have $100k worth of scrap there. Just send it to someone here, and then buy $100k worth of gold if precious metals are what you are really after
Lastly, they do not smelt the boards.... they use a very very complex series of grinding and chemical processes that use hazardous chemicals and that you need gov approvals in some form or another to do at a large scale. That costs money, a lot of money.
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