Good to see a life sign from you !!! You are a great inspiration for me from day #1 and the way, you handle your hobby the way you treat things, the way you find soutions for processessing your material in a reasonable and say "least hazardous way" possible really was a huge inspiration for me and encouraged me to start following your foot trails. You covered so many interesting topics on ypur route. The way you do it, is sympathetic to me. You are blessed with a gifted mindset. Patient, analytical, inventious, respectful. And you influenced me in a more deeper way, looking closer to the topic, encouraged me to start trying and figure out things on my own. I am 45 and run a server network trading business for 20 years, which really started to bore me. Now I have a new hobby and enough "ressources" left and right to try out things. I started welding, building, milling, grinding, experimenting, and best of all: learning. Thank you for being a true inspiration and making me -curious- again. Keep it up. Sebastian

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the kind words mate, stay safe and feel free to get in touch if you ever need any guidance!

thanks for sharing your gold recovery journey sir..

Hi Successful Engineer, You videos are priceless. I have learnt a lot from it and I will miss new input already. You are the one that show every step in the process and explain on top of that, no short cuts. Thanks again for all your effort.

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great message mate, appreciate it.

You're intelligent and thoughtful videos have been truly enjoyable. I hope we can see more content from you in the future covering your other hobbies

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment mate, much appreciated. Yep, will certainly upload if I think I'm doing something that can help someone else!

It's good to see you back. I've learned so very much from you and others about safety and being environmently friendly. You can't control what others do in the refining hobby we chose. Watching your videos have helped me and others. We all make mistakes. I just thought someone should tell you that all your video work was very much appreciated.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment John, much appreciated. Always here and always happy to help wherever I can.

Hi, thanks for all the info you've uploaded! it's been very interesting to take a look at your channel and great that I can see the actual value of various things so I can take a more educated guess at what I should be paying for things.. I was looking into this as more of a hobby and a little savings account, literally spend little and often and then hopefully double up over a while. I've definitely learned a lot watching and hope to see a bit more from you in the future!

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great comment, yeah, that is exactly how I saw this, a fun hobby that makes a bit of profit. The main thing is to just do everything as safely as you can.

Good to see your still out there ole mate,keep those videos coming cheers for now

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the message mate.

Result is impresive for "a hobby" :) Good luck on your other projects and I hope you are not leaving us forever :)

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment mate, will definitely be back, just a break for a while.

Hey man! Hope you and your family are doing well.. don’t park the gold recovery videos too long.. i really enjoy watching your gold recovery videos, specially recovering the gold in a more efficient and eco friendly way! Stay safe!

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind comment Willy, much appreciated. Yeah, I'm fairly sure it will come back, I already have "the itch".

Always good to see another update :-)

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hi mate, nice to hear from you again, hope everything is going well!

That's a great seen, seeing those 11 or 12 pieces of gold!! BEAUTIFUL!! Have a GREAT Day!!!

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the comment Shane!

Bravo good sir. Congrats on a nice little haul. Do as you must and enjoy your life along the way. Maybe one day I will be on your level. Nice to see you back and as always take of you and yours..

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the kind comment Jon, always here and always happy to help.

As always great advice, I had a great conversation with you last year about frit funnels and smelting, glad you had a good weight on all of that - I understand the time and effort in that work, as well as safety concerns. It's a great thing to do on the side if you have a passion for it as you must be patient and safe. Again congratulations and glad to see the update.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Kaisernine, absolutely, I remember your emails very well! I have been busy with other things for the past 6 months or so and am already feeling the "itch" to get back to Gold, I think once I do, I will definitely start going in the smelting direction we discussed and see how that path works for me! Also, if you ever feel like doing any videos, I think they would be fantastic and I will be your #1 subscriber!

@kaiseredge

4 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer maybe someday with the videos, I get so side tracked with working on other inventions it is very hard to do. I do not think people understand how much time it takes to edit and set up - which is why I say your videos are always appreciated it is nice to see the dedication along with honest information, you do not get a lot of honest information with gold refining which is why I try to steer people here, You break it down to individual chips and material which is very important to see, it is not a get rich quick thing and it requires safety at every turn. Very nice haul on gold though I only managed 3 ounces this year with time off. Look forward to seeing your next adventure.

Your channel is a model for gold refining. I follow by begining and never be disapointing. Very good hope you ll make other videos. Take care

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment mate, much appreciated!

This is the second time watching this video. I gotta say to those people talking about money and if it's worth it or not are not in it for the same reasons you and I are. This is a hobby for most of us, a hobby is for fun! Some people have hobbies and spend thousands to tens of thousands a year on it. We are fortunate to have a hobby that gives us something of value in return!! It can't get better than that!! I must say it has been a pleasure watching your videos. I watched all of your ewaste videos either in the last few days or some a few months ago. You have the best ewaste KZread channel out here. Sreetips is really good with karat scrap, but if you wanted to be the biggest and best out there you could do it. You'd have to put out weekly videos, but you could shoot to 100k subs in a year and probably 250k subs in 2 years!! I don't know what kind of money you could make with 250,000 subs but it's gotta be good. We need someone like you to inspire and teach us. I hope one day you decide to go all the way with this because you definitely have exactly what it takes to do it my friend!! No matter what, I look forward to seeing any new ewaste video you put out!! Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!! P.S. I'll be rewatching some of your videos again in the future!!

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Shane! Been busy for the last week, so just catching up on comments and questions now. Yeah, I'm generally not too worried about trying to earn an income from the youtube videos, when I started there was basically no good videos dealing with E-waste for beginners, so I figured out would just video as I learn. Been lucky to make contact with lots of good people as a result, so very happy overall :)

@shaneyork300

3 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer That's awesome, alot of good people in the Ewaste world!! I hope all goes well with you and if you do put out more videos, you have people around the world in need of them and really wanting them!! I love the math that you put into your videos, it's really great to know what each piece is worth!! Take care until your next video or me rewatching your old ones!!

Beautiful, gold is too cool. I love how you can stack it and hide it so easily. Hope all is well.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

All good here Mike, coming into winter for us now, so might head into the shed a bit more! Keep safe, hope everything calms down for you guys in the States.

Great -well done ; the fun of learning and experimenting is also worth a lot

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris, yes, I loved every minute of it!

Glad to see you're still kicking. Nice results. I'm still only getting about 10g per year, but also only a few hours a week. Fun hobby.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, probably one of the better hobbies I have pursued in my life, haha, pretty unusual to end up with more money after a weekend of playing on your hobby! 10g per year is still 10g more than most! Things really escalate quickly when you happen to come across a lot of the same thing that happens to be very good, I remember getting some boards of ceramic memory that yielded almost an ounce from an ice-cream container of ICs!

Good day my friend, how are you and yours, hope fantastic👌thank you for all your help over the years. Meeting up with you was a great honour. Still trying to wrap my head around some things. Just collecting and not doing much tolling. Have around 50 kg fingers. I did make a few buttons, about 40 grams. Tested 998 one refine bond wires hence the 9’s. Len 👌 actually searching for your vid on fingers.

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Len! Long time no hear! I don't think I ever did a whole video specifically on fingers, but there are a bunch around, and you can always get in touch if you have specific questions. Come round for a sweet tea next time you are in Auckland!

@lenchurchill741

3 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer thank you sir, might take you up on that. I buy the biltong and then pick your brain.👌

glad to see another video it's been awhile .good gold collection

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the comment, yeah, going into winter here, so I might spend a bit more time in the shed in the coming months. Definitely still have a few things to experiment and learn.

Absolutely have enjoyed the video series I hope you will do more similar topics.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! Yeah, I'm already feeling the "itch" so I guess I will start up again at some point!

It's good to hear your voice! I like how you approach e-waste recycling.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment mate, much appreciated.

@Adikon100

4 жыл бұрын

Successful Engineer hey there I was wandering if it is possible to contact you via email to ask some questions regarding electrolysis and the entire process? I don’t want to bring up and essay in comment. I really like your channel and I do some experiments myself so wanted to consult and learn something new. Please hit me up

Been watching most of that time . Just started my 1st batch processing of foils from memory & slot cards . about 1,100 grams . And next of pins / connectors and over 2 lbs. Using AP method for all of the above . One of my big issues is not enough volume , the above is about 6 or7 yrs. of gathering while doing electronic repair , that sometimes was more scrapping that repair ;) Thanks again

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hey mate, yep, I actually remember all the people that I have been talking to over the years, always appreciate your comments. That's great, that is the exact kind of volume and process that I always recommend people start with. Careful, it is easy to get hooked once you have your first Gold drop and melt! As always, I'm here and happy to help.

I am also a part timer in my garage. Love the videos.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment mate, much appreciated.

thank you for sharing

Thanks for the info.

Who cares what people say? As far as scrapping go, I get all my material free. Well worth it. I'm nowhere on your level yet, but you are an inspiration and your format is very well detailed and explained. I love your videos, and am interested to see what other videos you make

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Jerry, thanks for the comment, yeah, sounds like you pretty much have it sorted, always nice if you can make a few bucks out of something you actually enjoy doing !

Greetings here from Denmark 👋 (the actual opposite side of the earth) I just binged all of your refining videos. Very informative, very impressive result. Beats delivering pizza imo. and thank you for that. 👍 Just started the refining journey myself and my first results was 0,46 grams from 200g of mixed fingers. Hey. It’s a start 😎 Have a awesome day and good luck with your electric motor bike project.

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Hi mate, sounds like a great start, if you got anything at all on your first attempt, you did better than most ! Appreciate the comment and feel free to ask if you ever get stuck with a process.

Every time someone hears that I am a hobby gold prospector they immediately ask how much money I’ve made. When your friend loads up his $35,000 bass boat for a guys weekend out fishing you certainly don’t ask him how much money he made. It’s funny how peoples brains work. Amazing how you can enjoy your time pondering away and if you’re lucky even make a little money at it

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Amen to that!

Nicely done mate! Indeed maybe not the most profitable hobby, but still, an interesting journey!

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Dion, long time no hear, hope you are doing well, need to catch up again sometime soon !

Nice video. As a fellow scrapper just nice to see the natural resources being diverted from landfill. I keep my silver contacts also to one day make a silver bullion too.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! Yeah, I actually have a pretty decent sized Silver button that I poured a few months back, that was basically just "bycatch" from the Gold recovery. It looks very impressive, but unfortunately Silver value is so low that it is only really worth $100 or so.

@TinManScrapper

4 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer yeah but who knows what prices will be like in future

I am interested to find out if you ground up let's say some cellphone boards and run it in the blue gold bowl would it work on recovering the gold. I know it works on a gold shaker table. But what about the blue bowl?

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Sure, all the various water separation methods separate similar sized particles by density, the problem is that there would be so much gunk if you ground up entire cellphone boards that is would take a long time to run through a typical sized blue bowl.

I liked the ball mill and chain mill videos and builds. Would you consider a video on making a dyi shredder. Like a paper shredder on steroids?

Great video and is always good to see you update. How is the copper cell going and are you going to do a video when you process the slimes?

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for the comment, yeah, have a look through my videos, uploaded a video about processing the slimes a week or two after that first video (probably a year ago now)

@royalrefining6182

4 жыл бұрын

Successful Engineer sorry I must have missed it. That was kind of embarrassing lol. What’s next on the list for you? I’ll be uploading some refining videos soon

I need to get in touch with you about your ball mill. Mainly about how to adapt the stepper motor to run it. I have a heap of good, powerful, motors, 24 volt, so need some advice.

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Shane, yes, I remember that took a bit of doing, what I did was: buy a stepper motor controller board that had pulse and direction inputs, the direction input was tied high or low to get the direction right, for the pulse input, I bought a little 555 timer board. It happened to work out in my case that the 555 timer could run slow enough to drive the stepper motor without having to ramp it up. One common problem with steppers is that you often have to ramp up the speed, otherwise they wont run properly. In my case I then just used a small belt to drive an old treadmill roller directly from the stepper motor. Feel free to ask if that didn't answer your question.

Nice haul. You are lucky to be able to do this, I doubt doing it in a busy CBD would be far too dangerous to attempt. Nitric Acid is nasty stuff, and you need a good fume hood. Which in NZ may need appropriate permits to have

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, one of the benefits of living in the middle of nowhere. You would probably be fairly shocked seeing fume hoods used in a lot of labs, I am always surprised how much gets done without proper scrubbers by some medium sized companies!

Sir I am very interested on getting into this hobby. I've already ordered a tabletop melting furnace for processing gold. What best source of e scrape?

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

There are thousands of videos showing the yields from different types of E-scrap, it really comes down to what you can get hold of. Talk to friends and ask them to keep an eye out and let you know if they see any E-waste being dumped by their companies etc.

I need help I can't get the copper out of my AR and my gold powder has alot of copper in it when I melt it. How do I get rid of the copper.

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Jay, if you are getting Copper when you drop Gold with AR, you must be using too much precipitant. Are you washing the precipitated Gold powder properly (boiling water and hot HCL washes?) Another trick that can work is to wash the precipitated powder as clean as possible with boiling water washes (to remove the HCl), then use dilute HNO3 to dissolve the Copper out. Wash with water and melt.

Some capacitors contain Scandium. Is it economically feasible to recover? Spot price runs from 4 USD to 20 USD per gram.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

If you are looking at the economics of it, then it comes down to effort vs. value. If you happen to have millions of the same capacitor that you know contains a good amount of element-x, then you can set up a system that is optimized to recover that element. As long as you have somewhere reliable to sell it, it will be good. For me personally, Gold recovery was always more about the Gold, not really about the financial value. Almost everyone on the entire planet will see a chunk of Gold and be impressed and almost no-one on the planet has heard of Scandium.

Nice to see you back :)

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment mate :)

@manchaug5189

4 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer You're very welcome. I've enjoyed your videos. I too have extracted gold from PC parts. Not quite as much or as pure, but a fun hobby anyway.

Awesome. I have a lot of hobbies none of which pay off. I do them cuz they are fun. Keep doing what you are. Have fun.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I think that is the reason for the break, once you start doing the same thing over and over on the same material, it is really just a low-paying job. I have spent a bit of time this year fishing and mountain biking, both money pits hahaha!

I've always enjoyed your videos on precious metal recovery. I've been wondering if you still use the same set up as you did on your video 3 years ago or if it has changed? Hope to see more from you in the future!

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hey mate, the setup definitely evolved over time as I built and bought more and better equipment. There were a few things that most beginners don't have that make life much easier, like a decent vacuum pump and furnace.

Just a question,how much gold would you recover from 20 pinless cpus,and what would you pay for them cheers for now kind regards Trev, and hope you and your family had a merry Christmas ole mate

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Trevor, I made a video a few years ago specifically about pinless CPUs, from memory it wasn't much, something like 50c per CPU. The big problem being that they don't have any bond wires, so the only Gold is the plating on the bottom. From memory, the Copper tops were worth just as much as the Gold per CPU.

Hi, you extract it from Gold scrape or Gold foil/leaf?

@successfulengineer

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, all my Gold is recovered from E-Waste.

@alzbithkhan6154

2 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer thanks. I can't find it locally and online. Plz refer me any platform Where I can buy e-waste

Hi, love your videos. I am an engineer in the uk. I'm sure in one video you did you mentioned you were thinking about using gears to crush bga chips. Did you get any further with that idea? Best regards

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Chris, that's a great memory, yeah, using the planetary gears from a dead automatic gearbox was one of the plans I never got to, but might well be a very good way to do it! Maybe one-day.

If you don't mind me asking. What would be the cost of chemicals and equipment to start the hobby?

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Maria, I started at a pretty low level with minimal cost really. Chemical cost and availability depends very much on what country you are in. I was quite lucky that New Zealand is fairly unregulated, so we can buy most chemicals (within reason, as long as they are not used as narcotic precursors). My guess would be that you could get started with some basic glassware and chemicals and recover and refine a few grams of Gold for well under US$200. If this is something you think you may want to try, have a look for videos showing Gold recovery from ram fingers. Unfortunately I never made a good video about this, but you will find there are quite a lot of them on KZread. Feel free to ask questions if anything is not obvious from the videos.

@MariaSpooon

4 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer Thank you for you detailed response, I might just ask more questions. When the world is right again.

Please do more vids i love your videos

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Hi there, thanks for the comment, I'm not done forever, but pursuing some other interests at the moment. I do miss the excitement though!

Great video Tim from Australia 👍

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Tim, as always nice to hear from you, hope everything is going well for you guys. I promise to visit and find some nuggets "one day"

@timvivoda5208

4 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer oh I've done allot of detecting done good as for ewaiste I have more than 25 t

@timvivoda5208

3 жыл бұрын

Have been watching your videos over and over and over you have thought me allot .

WOW, awesome result for a hobby!

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark, yeah, it never seemed very much week-to-week, but it certainly adds up in the end.

@MegaPoxie

4 жыл бұрын

Nice to have that gold sitting there as it seems safer than cash at the moment, how much would you estimate was profit after taking out processing costs and buying the scrap? I guess its as much about the hobby.

I did this for 2018 and 2019, I'll be honest, I got a bit addicted to e waste but, I made 34k£ in 19months, that's a years wage on top of my standard job. It cost me almost every weekend and most nights, but, I paid my car off and still have money for harder times.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Geez, that is a pretty amazing amount for a couple of years part time! Yep, I know about the addiction and how it can eat up free time!

@iansmith101

4 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer that was with a friend helping and him taking the initiative to set up social media pages, leaflet local shops and be very active in locating E-waste. It also became less time consuming to sell a lot of broken down items on ebay etc. I truly feel it would be impossible to get 'rich' doing this as a hobby if you were to refine all the precious metals yourself. Your channel helped a lot, first time trying to recover gold from flat black chips.. Your video was invaluable. Still messed it up though 😂

I haven't heard anything from ya. Any new vids coming soon?

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Hi mate, taking a bit of a break from Gold recovery while I work on a couple of other non related projects, but storing up good material for when I come back to it in the future! Always keeping an eye on the channel and answering any questions that pop up though.

@RoeMantic

3 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer no worries mate. Hope to see ya soon!

Nice job, 1,700 an ounce, I recently heard gold was capped at 1700 is that true?

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

I have no idea, I can't imagine that it is really possible to artificially cap the price. There is a paper market and physical market, and I guess things will get interesting if they spread too far apart. I don't honestly think we have seen the peak yet at US$1700, but I have no idea where it would go.

What best method is it to make AP ? And is AP made from HCL & hydrogen peroxide (3%) or from HCL and bleach ??

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Take 30 ish percent HCl and cover your material. Add a "splash" of Hydrogen Peroxide, bubble air through the solution, depending on the material, foils should be seen floating in a day or two, all foils released in a few weeks. You only need to add Hydrogen peroxide once, continue to bubble air though the solution always. When the AP starts giving off a white milky residue and powder, the AP is saturated with Copper and you need to add more fresh HCl to keep going.

@ninjabothandyman6063

3 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer brilliant thanks for the great advice kind sir !! So I don't need bother at all when my AP solution turns that damn near brownish/blackish color to then decant, rinse with distilled, then create new batch of AP; filtering the solution I am replacing ?? Then of course store filters somewhere with which they remain moist. Best NOT allowing filters drying entirely. Is that myth only or does some kernel of legitimacy lie within this statement ??

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

@@ninjabothandyman6063 Nope, once your AP is going you basically never have to make new AP again and you never have to add Hydrogen Peroxide again. You just have to remove some of the Copper saturated AP and replace it with fresh HCL. You will end up filtering the AP anyway to recover your foils, then just store the AP in a HDPE container and use it again next time. Remember that any AP you are getting rid of is saturated with dissolved Copper, it is super duper poisonous to plants and animals and you will need to go through the standard waste treatment process or ideally pay a waste treatment company to take it. Never dissolve AP with water, only fresh HCL. Adding water will cause the Copper to come out of solution as Copper Chloride and make it impossible to filter.

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Also remember to always use an air bubbler with AP, it makes it work MUCH faster.

@ninjabothandyman6063

3 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer really appreciate all your great input and hard solid and consistent work my friend !! Thanks for doing your THANG and allowing the rest of us to join in on the action 😁

20k savings in 3 years is not to shabby! Ask all the nay sayers how much they saved up!

Go to 2nd hand shops and look for gold. I always find white gold mixed in with the sterling.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

I have tried that around here, but I think there are just too many people that are too aware. I'm sure a lot of the scrap jewelry getting sold online here is from people that basically do that as job. My best find ever was actually finding some ugly black desert spoons that had numbers like 999 and 700 stamped on the back, ended up with about 20 ounces of Silver for $2 ! Then I felt guilty and donated $100 to the shop since they were a community salvation-army type operation.

Nice

Hi between you and sreetips I have learnt heaps. At the moment I have a pile of computer scrap from nearly 200 computers . A lot were free , the most I have payed was $5.00 Have you worked your average gold return per computer? To me it’s a hobby but I suspect the copper will almost cover my costs

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Dennis, yeah, your intuition is exactly right, I'm sure you will find that the average modern computer has far more value in Copper than Gold. I believe that is pretty much how the big refineries work anyway, Copper pays the bills and precious metals are the cream on top! I have never really worked out the Gold value per computer, but it is probably not very high, I would guess certainly under $5, maybe under $2 if it is a particularly bad example!

@dennisflemming826

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks that’s the point I have been working from . It’s a hobby , mechanical reduction and volume mite even make a small profit

hey man , are you in kzn?

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

In terms of location ? I live in Auckland in New Zealand ?

cool agree on safety do not kill your self and do not kill environment around as you gonna play with that thingy make your research first stay safe all 👍😀👍 gold recovery is fun and refining is even more fun tho it can be dangerous

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hey mate, yep, my thoughts exactly!

thats why i like Sreetips....he shows how he processes his waste

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, 100% agree, I have actually tried making a waste processing video more than once, but it always ends up super boring and I give up on it. Definitely something that should get a bit more air-time

Looks good to me.. I would say you are a Successful Engineer.. Hell I should went to Engineering school. My brother the Engineer,, I went into medicine.... lol. !!! good video..

👍

That's worth $20,000. 40 years ago it was worth a few notes. Money is worthless.. Thanks for sharing though..

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, that is pretty much why I have never really wanted to sell any of it. Definitely want to hold onto it "for the family" if I don't really NEED the money.

Amazing! In three years as a hobby you have collected enough gold to buy a car. (and you can hold it in your hand.)

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Ha, yeah, I usually describe it to people as "only a nice overseas holiday". I have shifting my hobbies this year to things like fishing and mountain biking, which I can 100% confirm are not going to leave me with excess money after a few years! haha

Alot of the people who comment like that havent even saved a quarter of that in five years. Good job. Hope to start refinishing on my channel soon!

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Hey mate, yeah, always easy being a keyboard warrior! I really like what you do, making good money out of parts and even a bit of fixing stuff!

@RoeMantic

4 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer I try my best

I have a shit load of e wast i can take to flake off are you keen on doing the scary side of it

I havent met any pizza drivers with 20K of gold before haha but a Successful Engineer, yes.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Ha, I've met a vacuum cleaner repair guy with a Lambo too!

@Robonza

4 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer Hehe

You sound a bit South African?

@successfulengineer

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, spent half my lift in South Africa and the other half here in New Zealand.

If it's a hobby. That was worth it.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think so. I think part of the reason I have parked it for a while is once you have perfected a process, it can easily turn from a hobby into a job!

Australian with a Dutch Accent?

@MegaPoxie

4 жыл бұрын

@old school honour and respect. A bit of Kiwi thrown into the SA to me.

@successfulengineer

4 жыл бұрын

HA, yep, a few good guesses there, South African that moved to New Zealand half a lifetime ago.

@randomhuman1965

4 жыл бұрын

@@successfulengineer dammit I knew I was wrong about the Australian. Sorry to insult you! Great Content BTW, sad when idiots comment on shit unrelated to the video.