All About Keyboard Mylars - Page 2

Originally Posted by taterjuice

So what exactly are these mylars worth per pound ?

if you save up a stack of them and you have a dollar or two you can get a ride on the city bus

According to the OP's figures, 2 lbs of mylars contains 1Toz of silver. So, at the price of silver around $23/Toz, that is your total value. Obtaining that amount for them is a different story.

Yes, but he has suspended his purchasing for the time being. jghilino buys them for 0.10 each, and had mentioned recently that he needed some.

Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER

If 78 mylars equal a pound then he is buying at $7.80#. Not bad if you can move some serious weight and he will buy at that price. I am currentley saving all mine. Cut them in half and the go nicely into a box in a corner of my garage.

I agree. I have two bankers boxes that I save them in. One for nice and clean ones. The other with sticky stuff/excess junk on them. These mylars come out of a lot of things..phones, credit card machines, cash registers, calculators...

Odd...mine weigh in at 1lb 7oz with 50 of them. All keyboard mylars..I don't get the other kind Ryan spoke about.

JG not forgotten! Got busy, but still got them for ya.

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thank you for he intormation I was going to ask about yeild if I didnt find anything in my search. I would also like to learn how to refine them myself out of personal curiosity. I have more than a gaylord of keybords im going to end up taking apart one of these days when im bored.

Originally Posted by njscrapper88

thank you for he intormation I was going to ask about yeild if I didnt find anything in my search. I would also like to learn how to refine them myself out of personal curiosity. I have more than a gaylord of keybords im going to end up taking apart one of these days when im bored.

I don't have much knowledge about refining, but I do know that you need to spend some money on equipment for safety and need basic chemistry knowledge that will probably seem advanced.

Just make sure you research it well before you make an attempt. most stuff like this requires chemicals.

I am not telling you not to do it, I just want you or anyone reading this to be safe and responsible.

An to add on to what Matt said, if your interested in the in the process, head over to the GRF forum, an do some reading. As your not going to find much here on refining, other then us telling you to go to GRF. Those posts here tend to get shut down quick as we're not refiners. Excellent info over on GRF just know they mean serious business over there, an don't tolerate foolishness when it comes to refining. If your already a member there..you can just ignore the above. Just felt it should be said.

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I've been pulling something similar out of old printers. They're about 2" wide and maybe 16" long. Are these mylars too?

The nicest mylar I have seen is in the 'Ergonomic' keyboards. Big thick bands of Silver all over it.

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What happened to Mrmylar? I would like to know more about what he has found out about the yeilds. I have been saving mylar from key boards for a long time. I sold about 30# for 3.00# and now have about 20# saved up. Thiere is a couple buyers down here in Florida that buys them, they where about 4.50 back when silver was close to 40.00oz but I think it's about 2.50# now. I know I should take you tube video's with a grain of salt but thiere is a video on you tube that shows how to recover silver from key board mylar.

Don't know what happened to that guy. JG pays good for Mylars an was needing some. Same with BumperX(I think, sorry if I spelt it wrong bump!). I've been slacking off on my keyboards, trying to get more before I take the time to bust them down. couple hundred is a good way to kill an hour.

Sirscrapalot - Best way to screw with a computer techie..Move their keyboard buttons all around.

I used to throw them away until I learned there was sliver on them. Sadly I processed quite a few keyboards before I knew about that. Oh well. Lesson learned. Now I have a nail in the wall of the garage I hang them on. Only have about 10 of them at the moment, but just keep saving until I get enough.