Scrapchap: Need some scrappers knowledge

Hey scrappers! pulled this out from pulling apart some stuff. Not sure if this whole thing is copper or some type of thin plating. Need your knowledge Scrappers

probably copper. What did it come out of. Has it been burned?

I'm not so sure its all copper. It may be a double sided circuit board. One side looks like it has circuit traces. Take a grinder and touch it to the edge of the board...if it is solid copper, you will tell by the ground area. If its a circuit board, the center will be some sort of fiber material with thin layers of copper on each side.

Jon.

Originally Posted by sawmilleng

I'm not so sure its all copper. It may be a double sided circuit board. One side looks like it has circuit traces. Take a grinder and touch it to the edge of the board...if it is solid copper, you will tell by the ground area. If its a circuit board, the center will be some sort of fiber material with thin layers of copper on each side.

Jon.

I might just be a double sided circuit board. Question is do I just grind the circuit etching and sell it as a copper plate? Would the check that at a yard?

appreciate the replies

The circuit board did come from a pool light

I think it is pretty much an escrap item but I'm not well versed it how it would be graded. Your local yard would probably give you shred price for it...which is almost an insult.

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will chime in.

Jon.

Originally Posted by scrapchap

That looks black in places, why I asked if it had been in a fire. If it has, and the board isn't more distorted than that, it may be primarily copper, from which you might get as much as number 2 price

Ok I was able to get my hands on what the piece looks like before you set it a blaze in a fire. Could I still sell this is as for number 2?
Here is a front and back.

At most yards the best you might get is dirty copper price. Number two has to be free of other metals, other than possibly a little bit of solder. Yours has too much foreign stuff on it to get number 2 price, at least at all the yards I go to.

So even if i try and burn it like the ones in above picture it will be same price? Appreciate all the info scrapers!