It could be Indium, its abnormally soft, like i can quite easly score it with my thumbnall & theres no way i can do that to solder.
Even Silvers too hard to do that too, but i did wonder if its a high Silver solder, dunno yet.

I got a email back from the guy in Aussie who buys escrap. It would cost too much to send the CPU with the Copper heatsinks on them to Aussie, from NewZealand.
He says that the Gold amount on those Copper caps is quite low & that the value 8n them is mostly the actual Copper value, the CPU itself does add some value, but on a typical Gold fingered contact PCB level of value.
I guess when they melt down & refine the Copper that thats when they get the Gold off it. Thats standard practise, thats when they get the other metals back from the electroplating refining sludge, they will get the Silver & such back from the Silver solders left on Copper piping & what else that they get off slightly dirty Copper.



So im only going to send him the Purple Ceramics CPU, but i will work out postage to see what the $ return is on the Green fibre CPU if i send them as well.

If its anything, its worth it, I still end up with a Kg of Copper Domestic heatsinks though ( inc Gold, LoL )

He didnt mention anything about the rest of my escrap. I guess its not worth it.
Coronas just arrived in NZ, mostly by airplane on its host already, but theres a few cases locally already, scarey. Given that 3 weeks ago was the first case, fotp, now in the last 7 days its jumped from 3 to 20, mostly fotp.
Supermarkets were packed with people today but plently of stock, except for what I wanted, which was Methylated spirits... To distill down to clean ethanol. I have been using it as a cleaner for the last 6 months.

Oh, and those CPU, i heated them up in the stove to remove the cap. A couple or 3 got too hot & boy does it stink!!! Its going to take a week or more to get rid of most of the smell.
So if doing it again, do it outside, with a solid hotplate, no flames or it burns.