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Anyone have experience trimming gold finger boards? Tips? How do you do it? Worth it?

bankmining wrote:Anyone have experience trimming gold finger boards? Tips? How do you do it? Worth it?

band saw , Tips ? Don't lose any, finger tips that is.

Do not Breath the Fiber Glass Dust. makes you itchy to if you get it on you to.

I do not think its worth it. Maybe if your shipping them. I bring my most of my scrap to the local yards. I have started separate my peripheral(cards,modems,drives) gold bearing boards and main motherboards etc. last time I went 6/2014 got .50 a lb (Mother boards) it was mix of above.

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Here is a good site to chek out for selling eScrap boards:

http://www.boardsort.com/

http://boardsort.com/payout.php

These guys are good as well... http://www.cashforcomputerscrap.com/

Current Pricing





PRICING EFFECTIVE
3/2/15

ATTENTION: If interested in working with us, please allow us to send you a quote on shipping picked up at your door!

Pricing delivered to our dock (44146)
PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
Please remove batteries and excess AL and Steel
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$1.55 Motherboards Small Socket (All Colors - P4 and Newer)
$2.70 Motherboards Large Socket (All Colors - Slot, P3 and older)
$1.60 Finger Board Trimmed/Devalued
$3.75 Finger Boards (Only need to remove OVERSIZED heatsinks, battery... metal bracket is OK)
$3.75 Dual Socket Server Boards - Large Socket
$2.55 Dual Socket Server Boards - Small Socket
$3.95 to 6.00+ Telecom (Paid on Sort)
$2.70 CD/DVD Boards (please remove ribbon wire and brown board if attached)
$3.95+ Tape Drive Boards (Paid on sort)
$3.80 Laptop Motherboard Boards

HIGH VALUE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$5.25 RAMBUS (Memory with METAL Enclosure)
$9.25 Hard Drive Boards (Sorting fee of $.30 per lb. Hard Drive Boards paid on sort once removing Floppy, CD/DVD and Media Boards)
$9.25 Cell Phone Boards CLEAN (please remove excess Plastic, Steel, Screens, Aluminum and Battery)
$-.30/lb Memory Mixed (Sorting fee of $.30 per lb. Memory paid on sort at pricing below)
$13.35 Gold Memory
$6.20 Silver/Tin Memory
$42.00 Gold Fingers (Pricing is for quality cut trim. Little to no Green, otherwise deduction)
$11.25 Slot Processor

OTHER PRECIOUS METAL ITEMS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$0.65 Gold Connectors
$4.35 Cell Phones w/o battery
$4.35 IC Chips

CPUs (Must be Sorted)
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$100.00 Intel 386 and 486
$75.00 Motorola
$75.00 Pentium Pro Gold Caps
$35.00 Cyrix/IBM/VIA Gold Cap
$32.00 Pentium Ceramic
$27.00 AMD Ceramic Clean (without Al. Cap)
$27.00 Black Fiber CPU
$14.25 Green/Brown Fiber without Heatsink
$6.05 Green Fiber with Heatsink - Pins
$4.00 Green Fiber with Heatsink - Pinless

COMPUTER/SERVER PARTS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$0.70 Hard Drives Complete
$0.35 Hard Drives w/o Boards
$0.27 Power Supply w/ Wire
$0.17 Power Supply w/o Wire
$0.16 Mixed Floppy/CD/DVD Drives

OTHER ITEMS
PRICE/LB MATERIAL
$1.30 Laptops Complete
$0.80 Incomplete laptops (Must have Motherboard)
$0.85 Li Ion Laptop (Exposed terminals MUST be taped)
$-.30 Terminal Tape Fee
$0.65 Li Ion Cell (Exposed terminals MUST be taped)
$0.20 AC Adapter w/ Wire
$0.12 AC Adapter w/o Wire
$0.60 Mixed Computer Wire
$0.06 Mixed Computer Plastic (NO METAL!)
$0.40 Clean Aluminum Heatsink
$0.70 Clean Cu/Al Heatsink
$2.25 15" LCD [per UNIT] Whole DESKTOP LCD, Complete With Base - No screen bleeding, gouges, Cracks, Cut cables
$6.25 17"+ LCD [per UNIT] Whole DESKTOP LCD, Complete With Base - No screen bleeding, gouges, Cracks, Cut cables
$4.30 Laptop Screens [per UNIT] Must be in case, pass light test, be in tact, no bleeding or cracks. Cut wire -$1.00/unit

Prices are subject to change without notice.
Pricing is determined by date of RECEIPT of material unless otherwise noted.

Anything else, send us an email: info@CashForComputerScrap.com Thanks

Thanks for the websites. Good info

Tin snips. Good old fashion tin snips. Not the avation type but the ones that look like scissors. I can cut fingers off more boards in a hour than most guys could do in a day. And I've tried all the other methods. Breaking them off in a vice, bandsaw, paper cutter, stomp sheer, etc. I have found that with the snips and a little practice, you can get nice clean cuts with no greenboard left on the finger.

Remember, the closer the cut is to the gold, the more the fingers are worth for resale.

As to if it's worth it - I've of the not so humble opinion that it is not. I get several tons of finger cards per year.

If you look at the above price sheet, the prices for intact finger boards, cut boards, and clean cut fingers are $3.75/lb, $1.60/lb, and $42.00/lb. This means that in order to break even trimming your finger boards, those intact cards need to be at least 5.3% fingers by weight. To cover the cost of labor, they need to be much higher. If you sample modern expansion cards, the finger weight is often below 5%.

However, trimming fingers off of boards is practical for cards that have abnormally high finger ratios and for industrial boards where the rest of the board is a much lower value. It's also worth the time if you can get a much higher price for the trimmed fingers. When in doubt, do a sample breakdown as you would with any other scrap item and calculate your cost and time. Only you can decide if something is "worth it" for yourself.

To sell to the scalpers above you can't make any money by trimming. I understand they have to make money too, it's just business. But, if you go over to ebay and look at what good, close cut fingers are bringing, it's about $100.00 a pound for good quality fingers. We just had a large buyer from Dallas come up and sort 28 gaylords of boards and they did not care that the boards were trimmed or not. $3.45 a pound picked up.

Anyone know what SIM cards are going for? Do they have any gold content to speak of?

AGgressive Metal wrote:Anyone know what SIM cards are going for? Do they have any gold content to speak of?

$50+ per pound on eBay for the ones in cell phones. I've never had very many, as it takes around 1,200 pieces to make a pound. Of the cell phones I get for scrapping, on average less than 20% of them have a sim card (it's actually often below 10%). That means it takes at least 6,000 phones to generate one pound of scrap sim cards.

I don't know if the eBay price reflects the actual gold content or potential reuse value, or both.