Gold! In Them Thar Brown Board Buttons ?

[Bear]

I've found a lot of these lately, and thought of how many I've thrown away. They're mostly on brown boards, found in printers, copiers, VCRs, etc, etc, etc. Most I've seen are on brown boards, but, if you pop the top off of the push button, there's a little springy insert, that's usually gold on both sides. Are these actually gold? or just the older ones?

[jghilino]

did you test it for gold, it looks like yellow brass

[Bear]

gold looks like yellow brass to me. Has anyone else ever looked inside these things? The one pictured is from an early 90s dot matrix printer board. Not a great catch actually, on the photo. Lots of old phone buttons, etc, were gold, just not sure about these

[Ecycle Atlanta]

what you got there is worth about a quarter from what I can tell!

Seriously, I would like to know because I have more of these boards than I want to think about. I'm not wanting to have them put in with shred because of all the chips on board that dont belong in a landfill, and doesnt pay to ship. Kinda stuck at the moment without direction and if it has gold value that might make it more feasible to ship. Thanks for the post!

[CarolinaEwaste]

what you got there is worth about a quarter from what I can tell!

Seriously, I would like to know because I have more of these boards than I want to think about. I'm not wanting to have them put in with shred because of all the chips on board that dont belong in a landfill, and doesnt pay to ship. Kinda stuck at the moment without direction and if it has gold value that might make it more feasible to ship. Thanks for the post!

So your saying there are no buyer in Atlanta that take low grade boards? If not there is nobody really recycling electronics there. Build it they will come.

[Ecycle Atlanta]

So your saying there are no buyer in Atlanta that take low grade boards? If not there is nobody really recycling electronics there. Build it they will come.

Atlanta is an interesting market. There are buyers paying basically what I pay, but not like some of the members here on the forum who are dealing directly with refineries. I've looked, and maybe they just know how to hide really well Its actually surprising considering the size of the city. No offense to buyers here, but it sure would save me a ton of time in packing and $$ with shipping to have someone local to sell to that paid decent.

[BarrenRealms007]

The disk should be gold but I have not run any of them to get a value on them but .25 is over shooting the value of the little disk.

[joebob49]

The disk should be gold but I have not run any of them to get a value on them but .25 is over shooting the value of the little disk.

Maybe the reference was to the quarter in the pic lol. Just jokin buddy. Iv been wondering about the value aswell I see them lil buggers ALOT. Guess ill have to break a heap down and send the disks to u so we can give an answer huh.

[Bear]

Atlanta is an interesting market. There are buyers paying basically what I pay, but not like some of the members here on the forum who are dealing directly with refineries. I've looked, and maybe they just know how to hide really well Its actually surprising considering the size of the city. No offense to buyers here, but it sure would save me a ton of time in packing and $$ with shipping to have someone local to sell to that paid decent.

for several years I accumulated a fairly large pile of motherboards that nobody wanted. The dump didn't want em, the scrap yard checked tower cases to make sure no boards were there etc. I searched high and low for a better way to just dispose of these boards, and by today's standards they would make people drool. Prior to moving I was getting rather desperate and contacted a computer recycler in town, who said he'd take them(for free). I didn't much have a choice at the time so I took them down there.

While me and a worker there on the dock were loading the boards from my truck into gaylords, the worker told me I could have sold them to a place in Atlanta for like $1.50 lb. Even at that rate it would have been beneficial to have made the trip, but I was on other tangents then.
It may have been a refiner, but I'd expect they're still around there

[pcecycle]

Some of the little round button springs are gold plated. Also, if you find red dip switches, they will have a tiny gold plated ball inside each switch.

Mike

[Kochy]

You have a 170 Ohm resistor there and a .37pF Capacitor aswell as a Light Emitting Diode. You can scrap them for more!!!

Looks like yellow brass.

[Bear]

You have a 170 Ohm resistor there and a .37pF Capacitor aswell as a Light Emitting Diode. You can scrap them for more!!!

How? Do you know of any threads on the subject?

[pcscrapper]

i've come across those, gotta becareful. They are yellow brass in some.. and some don't have yellow brass its gold..

use a tester.. I just don't bother with those,, its just not alot of it, to save.. so I toss it into my brown scrap tv boards,

[mseashell]

Maybe the reference was to the quarter in the pic lol. Just jokin buddy. Iv been wondering about the value aswell I see them lil buggers ALOT. Guess ill have to break a heap down and send the disks to u so we can give an answer huh.

Just wanted to pull this thread back up and get some more feedback on it. I'm still wondering about those little boogers. I have a gallon ziplock bag full and wondering if they are even worth pulling off the boards. I have half truckload of low grade boards imma gonna take to yard soon, and need to know if I should go through and pull them off and continue to save them or leave them on.

[Bear]

I don't believe anybody ever took it far enough to come up with a value, or even a concise estimate of what they're really made of, or how to sell em.
I think there were photos in that post but the host must have lost em