Gold recovery process from 14kg high grade scrаp using the lead bath method. Music: / 1y7kx #goldplated #goldrefining #goldrecovery #smelting #owltech
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@adamhixon Жыл бұрын
Just imagine showing this to a computer geek in 1995. He would be horrified.
@_RandomGamer
Жыл бұрын
No, in those times in our area 10g of 24k gold was of ₹4,600 which is hardly 150 dollars
@olivier4916
Жыл бұрын
Why?
@Honza0297
Жыл бұрын
I am a nerd and I am horrified in 2023 as well. :) Some of those CPUs worth probably more than the gold from them.
@007leonard1
Жыл бұрын
@@_RandomGamer ask your parents how long it took them to earn 4600 rupees back in the day
@yatagarasu9274
Жыл бұрын
I'm horrified now
@udittlamba Жыл бұрын
This video has some early 2000s era KZread vibe. I dig it
@jamisontaylor878 Жыл бұрын
Wow excellent video as always thank you 😊 🙏 love how you break everything down
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@janepeacock-baillie3380 Жыл бұрын
As always your on point. Very well done m8
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@SollersSrappingandDiving Жыл бұрын
One day I'll have the courage to process my own gold but until then I'll watch the pros and just sell the gold bearing goodies (except for the bits I stock pile) those ceramic CPUs are beautiful and I'm sure you've made many collectors cry!! Interesting seeing the eproms being processed! 👍
@Chewy_GarageBandDad
Жыл бұрын
I collected for 3 years and just started to process mine. Whoooo its not easy. Shit goes sideways and before you know it, you are like where my gold.....fuk ....er? LOL One thing they do not stress enough is get your filtering process down, practiced, built, understood... before you do anything. That's where it first can start spiraling out of control. You literally forget if you keep the solution or whats on the cotton... Cross contamination starts happening as well if you are not careful. Ive been a mess for weeks now. LOL
@chrisdelaere
8 ай бұрын
@@Chewy_GarageBandDad i expect the author to reply to this
@OwlTech333
8 ай бұрын
I completely agree! Filtration is one of the most important steps in the refining process (if not the most important). If the solution is not crystal clear you’ll have a hard time precipitating pure metal
@martinslavov1449
25 күн бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Hi , I am a big fan , can you please tell me where did you buy the 14kg of CPUs and what did it cost ?
@OwlTech333
25 күн бұрын
@@martinslavov1449 they’re not mine, I only process them
@mamyramer1603 Жыл бұрын
That was badass!
@ScrappingIrish Жыл бұрын
great video as always
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Céad Míle Fáilte
@customcraft15 ай бұрын
This was a great video and project
@OwlTech333
5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@ScrappingIrish Жыл бұрын
looking forward to this one
@battleshippotemkin560 Жыл бұрын
Неплохой результат! Слиточек впечатляющий.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Спасибо!
@varlov5523 Жыл бұрын
приветствую . как всегда на высоте. отличный результат;)
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Спасибо!
@jddr.jkindle9708 Жыл бұрын
A dangerous recovery process, yet rewarding at the end!
@mjlives5428
Жыл бұрын
Dangerous how??I;m new
@wikun110
Жыл бұрын
@@mjlives5428 Lead for everyone in the neighborhood! need respirator and lead recovery hvac or he is literally polluting the world. probably the worst process if DIYing.
@kalicom2937
Жыл бұрын
@@mjlives5428 As soon as I saw what was going on I thought "Ooof, the Lead fumes! I hope he is working in a very well ventilated area and has good PPE..."
@aecetantran2 ай бұрын
could you explain the cupellation on the stainless steel part? and does that take the lead away or do you mix it with borax glass and niter salt to get a slag and the final dore?
@Triadii Жыл бұрын
You are very smart, a lot of Chemistry knowledge 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@MrSethGr Жыл бұрын
nice work guys!
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@aditya007asva Жыл бұрын
As a chip designer, watching this is like watching Mona Lisa burn down for its frame.
@roberthowkins3097
3 ай бұрын
The mona Lisa is rubbish though xxx😅
@OwlTech333
3 ай бұрын
@roberthowkins3097 lol
@MatzeMaulwurf
2 ай бұрын
Pipipipeeepipieeepiee lol.
@RealLifeFinance
21 күн бұрын
Hahahaha
@MrLukealbanese Жыл бұрын
Great video - what was that soundtrack? It was fab.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
m.soundcloud.com/owl-tech/gowl
@bobbylee781 Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this video. How do you handle the lead fumes?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Respirators
@Michel-7.7.7
Жыл бұрын
Holding the breath, as far as i know, that's how they do it in Ghana
@gelosul Жыл бұрын
Some quick maths here for whoever in interested: If average CPU weight is 60g then that would mean there would be approximately 233 CPUs. They would have to be sold at about £20 each to have the same value as the gold resulted from the melting.maybe less if I knew how much silver was melted. So conclusion is that depending how old they are it might not be worth putting them back on the market and melting is better option. I did not take in to account the time and materials of the melting process as I'm not familiar with the costs.
@joergkalisch7749
Жыл бұрын
.4 g of gold per CPU? I seriously doubt that
@twistr99
Жыл бұрын
@@joergkalisch7749 what do u think? How much gold in 1 cpu?
@joergkalisch7749
Жыл бұрын
@@twistr99 a few milligram
@twistr99
Жыл бұрын
@@joergkalisch7749 thanks
@ggoddkkiller1342
Жыл бұрын
@@joergkalisch7749 Old processors have much more gold than modern ones, some models even have 0.5 gram. So his math isn't too far away i would say around 0.2 average, still selling working processors would earn you a lot more..
@marcosantoniocosanouranga1463 Жыл бұрын
Awesome video thanks 😊
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@kienhwengtai8113 Жыл бұрын
Those are really old CPUs, modern ones have very little Gold.
@andrzejandrzejak633 Жыл бұрын
Dziękuję bardzo pouczający instruktaż.pozdrawiam
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
thanks for watching
@AndrewAndretti
Жыл бұрын
Tylko gdzie kupic te 14kg pozłacanych plastików? Jak masz pomysł to zrób to sam. Pozdrawiam,Tez Andrzej
@albusdumbledore6772
Жыл бұрын
@@AndrewAndretti to nie jest 14 kg pozłacanych plastików tylko 14 kg procesorów komputerowych. złoto znajduje się w każdej elektronice i z każdej elektroniki można to złoto wytrącić. nawet w kartach sim jest złoto.
@jumpman4497
Жыл бұрын
W drodze 11 starych AMD Athlone za grosze zobaczymy jaki będzie wynik
@arnedalbakk6315 Жыл бұрын
Hello. Arne from 🇳🇴Norway here. Exelent woork. Wow.. So muth gold. Thank you for this clip😊
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Hi Arne! Thanks for watching!
@arnedalbakk6315
Жыл бұрын
My brother was salsenior in a big company. I whis i learn that i do today. I could take what ever i like, of scrap... But so if life my friend. I love this kind of goldrefining 🙏. Thank you
@rustymotor3 ай бұрын
Well done! I have worked for many years as an electronics technician and have hoarded boxes of used circuit boards, some boards are from high end Hewlett Packard equipment complete with gold plated circuit tracks and edge connectors. I once had thoughts about processing it all for the gold but I am not going to bother, I hope to hand it all over to someone who can process it, I am sure there would be a nice amount of Gold for recovery.
@OwlTech333
3 ай бұрын
Very cool!
@DuelPorpoise Жыл бұрын
there's gentlemen on KZread, Adrian's Digital Basement, who does vintage computer restoration and he is often short on some chips, I think it would be worth your while if you asked him for a list of components to look out for when people send you scrap, you can probably get much more than melt for those chips!
@Heike--
Жыл бұрын
He has a ton of CPUs already and he doesn't do 32 bit computing anyway. Besides these chips are going to be poorly stored in hot warehouses, have bent/broken legs, etc.
@anthonyplayground1402 Жыл бұрын
Chinese resellers are electro plating gold "back on to cpus" and chips - bit it's thinner
@christopherleubner6633 Жыл бұрын
And you can save the processed CPUs and ball mill them to get more from the traces inside the ceramic. This will be 90%Au 10%Pd as well.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Nope
@steven2212 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Stay safe.
@johntherrian5365 Жыл бұрын
Perfection as always owl. Good shit Buddy.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@giorgosxyrichis3630 Жыл бұрын
Perfect !!!
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@robertdelgado1385 Жыл бұрын
Nice!!!! That is an awesome yield.. what type of cpu's were they?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
All sorts of high yielding ceramics
@carletonrutherford1799
Жыл бұрын
They cost a lot of money if you are trying to buy them as scrap from Ebay or something. Everyone knows how much gold they contain. A lot of times it's not worth it to buy the expensive processors, then do the procedure.
@chloedevereaux1801
Жыл бұрын
mainly pentium pro / pro 2's, pentium1 / 2's sx and dx 2 / 4's....
@robertdelgado1385
Жыл бұрын
Have you ever seen the ads on alibaba for cpus I emailed a company and they quoted me $10,000 to ship a ton of them and when I say a ton I mean exactly that and it was $7000 and $3000 for shipping to where I'm at in nm. Now I'm aware that most are probably scams but the quote was actually for pretty good quality ones. What is your take on these do you think its a scam? Have you ever bought from any of these people overseas ? Because I'm real skeptical
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
scam
@Berchia Жыл бұрын
You should have a rounded strainer, would make recovering the stripped ceramics a lot less time consuming and its a lot easier
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Agree
@r.o.h2104 Жыл бұрын
In Febr 2023 in my country, selling 90 gram of gold 24 karat (999) is about 4700 USD. /4500 EUR. Good job.
@walterosadtchi Жыл бұрын
Awesome video buddy. I admit, I do feel bad for all those Retro CPUs that could be playing DOS games, lol.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
You and me both!
@Joe.Rogan. Жыл бұрын
What do you mean the silver is a nice bonus at the end? Seeing how you added 300g silver... how much silver was recovered at the end to make it a nice bonus?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
The silver from the picture is almost a kg. The nitrate from the dissolution step was mixed with other nitrate from previous refining. You get silver form the CPUs as well as gold. The added bonus is the refining of this silver which usually weights more than the gold recovered.
@DL101ca
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 considering the cost of silver , it's no more than 60$ worth if even that.
@Guitarwolfluke Жыл бұрын
Ho - I am looking for a downloadable version of this song. It makes me Go Go Go GO
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
soundcloud.com/owl-tech/gowl?
@uncle_thulhu Жыл бұрын
Man...I watch Explosions&Fire, michaelcthulhu, and any number of backyard restoration channels, and yours has to be the most ghetto, backyard chemistry setup I've ever seen. It looks like a shed in a scrapyard somewhere, so well done for that. You really seem to know what you are doing, and you seem to be very successful in your extractions, even with that povvo setup. At least you're not using old jam jars as reaction vessels. Oh, btw, those beakers of yours - did you manage to find actual BSG beakers with handles, or are you just recycling novelty coffee mugs?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
What do you mean by BSG beaker?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Looks like you’ve mastered the art of observation ;)
@uncle_thulhu
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 borosilicate glass.
@uncle_thulhu
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 well, I have neither the equipment, nor the knowledge to do it myself, so observation is all I have. I just wish you'd get one of those hotplate/magnetic stirrer combos. Breaks my heart to see you having to use a stir-rod.
@OwlTech333
11 ай бұрын
I do have one but it won’t be that ghetto :)
@bartoszwroblewski8285 Жыл бұрын
Szacun. Waga marki Zelmer 🙂
@czterystronyzomu5100
Жыл бұрын
Dokładnie
@westonfurman3833 Жыл бұрын
That was cool when the torch turned it into gold!🤠👍💯
@derrecycler21848 күн бұрын
Die Ausbeute ist gut.👍
@gelanghaarteweile3048 Жыл бұрын
Holy scrap... there goes my retro PC :P
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Lol
@rafaelstauffer1 Жыл бұрын
Muito bom! Conseguiu recuperar as 300g de prata? Ou teve algum perda de prata no processo de recuperação do ouro?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
se recupero todo incluida la plata
@merxellus1456 Жыл бұрын
Meanwhile background music “kau kau kau”
@FrankLassowski Жыл бұрын
What about the lead oxide? Do you recover it or is it just blasted into the atmosphere?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Lead oxide is reduced back to lead metal by smelting with flour and wood charcoal and reused
@TheKegtwo5 ай бұрын
What is your recovery rate? I.e. have you processed the slag and byproducts to see how much gold and silver is lost during the processes?
@OwlTech333
5 ай бұрын
0.5%
@2001pulsar Жыл бұрын
Nice recovery. What weight was the silver recovered?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
700g but it is mixed with silver from other extractions
@adundeladundaz902226 күн бұрын
Hi! Is the lead bath metal reusable or do you have to buy new lead metal and silver all the time?
@OwlTech333
25 күн бұрын
Both silver and lead are reusable
@charliequincy8884 Жыл бұрын
very cool :)
@milehighnative8509 Жыл бұрын
Hey random question if your trying to make more content can I send you some things to recover the gold from ??
@chicoarraes Жыл бұрын
I've seen plenty of gold recovery videos and when I saw this title I thought it was fake. My reasoning was "If he can do it in 4 hours, why does everybody take days to do it with complicated acid reactions?" Then I saw what this guy was actually doing in the video and immediately realized "Oh... THAT'S why?" This is both real and crazy.
@OwlTech333
8 ай бұрын
There’s method to the madness :)
@frantiseklaluch6605 Жыл бұрын
Ahoj.... This looks efficient and scary... "Lead bath" is not exactly a wellness spa procedure... 😀
@user-ub6gl6ho8x
Жыл бұрын
😂😂
@tejay9416
6 ай бұрын
Do not breathe those fumes 😂😂
@escrapchannel Жыл бұрын
Perfect 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 👍
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Many many thanks
@charlesspringer4709 Жыл бұрын
Only allowed in certain unregulated parts of the world? Cupelling without a cupell must be called "sending the lead oxide downwind". But interesting for the simplicity.
@zer0deaths862 Жыл бұрын
That's almost a $3000 payout for 14k gold, since it's about 50-ish% pure. Not bad for a few hours of work.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
99.45% is the purity
@relaxitsgood6713
7 ай бұрын
Wtf
@RealLifeFinance
21 күн бұрын
It was 99% pure $7k today
@capsuleboi Жыл бұрын
Hey OwlTech, long time no see. I come to watch the video and listen to the music as well. I found out that you were the one who orchestrated the soundtrack, superb! 👍🤙💯🔥⭐
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Welcome back!
@wvcruffler1234 ай бұрын
What is the cost to run a batch like this? Will you recover market price for the gold or is it a break even type deal.
@OwlTech333
4 ай бұрын
To run it? Less than $50
@MyScreenNameIsTroubledOne8 ай бұрын
Is there no chance you’re scooping away some of the gold with that big cup thing? Does the gold sink or something?
@OwlTech333
8 ай бұрын
It’s a perforated ladle so the molten lead gold alloy runs through the holes
@MyScreenNameIsTroubledOne
8 ай бұрын
@@OwlTech333 oh I see. 👍
@goldenscrab Жыл бұрын
What type of crucible you used for the process mr owl ?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Mild steel from cut LNG cylinder
@goldenscrab
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 arigato 🙏
@CrimFerret Жыл бұрын
Cool video. I'm a little surprised you didn't redissolve the gold in aqua regia with a bit of sulfuric acid added to precipitate out any remaining lead. Still, it looked pretty good at the end and well worth the time depending on how much the scrap cost.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
The client insisted on recovery only despite the refining would have been another extra hour
@warbass5274
Жыл бұрын
That’s what I was thinking with aqua Regia could of saved time with super acid but ended up with one hour plus on lead bath
@mrkiky
Жыл бұрын
Is the scrap the most expensive part or is the fuel and chemicals?
@albatronafredo942
Жыл бұрын
lol gotta keep that lead in more $$$
@zibobpompon5768
Жыл бұрын
@@mrkiky You get the scrap for free if you are smart ,and acid is not very expensive ,and the rest is all about organisation and methodology .
@user-xg1jg5zu6q Жыл бұрын
Я просто охреневаю от количества потерь золота при таком способе! Сколько его осталось после обжига на керамике, это ужас?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Сколько золото осталось? Вы как думаете?
@user-xg1jg5zu6q
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Думаю, не меньше грамма. Надо всё кислотой обработать
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
@@user-xg1jg5zu6q грам так точно
@MohamedNabil-xz5ob8 ай бұрын
Impressive video sir 👏👏 May i ask you where did you find this large amount of CPUs and how much did it cost you ?
@OwlTech333
6 ай бұрын
It didn’t cost me a dime
@MohamedNabil-xz5ob
6 ай бұрын
@@OwlTech333 like do you go to a local e-waste recycling center to gather the needed amount or what ?
@OwlTech333
6 ай бұрын
@@MohamedNabil-xz5ob it's complicated
@MohamedNabil-xz5ob
6 ай бұрын
@@OwlTech333 complicated like what like do you steal it or what 😂😂😂
@OwlTech333
6 ай бұрын
@MohamedNabil-xz5ob more complicated than that
@derjenichederscheissebaut59223 ай бұрын
looks healthy!
@purjepurpuri8339 ай бұрын
Good work 👍😊👍
@OwlTech333
9 ай бұрын
Thanks ✌️
@adama4028 Жыл бұрын
I don't know why you all melt this gold powder with a burner from above, a blast of flame will certainly blow some of the powder out of the crucible, so there are more losses, it would be better to heat the crucible from the bottom.
@theway6745 ай бұрын
Brother please tell me you are in a very well ventilated area dealing with all that molten lead.
@OwlTech333
5 ай бұрын
We are
@loganiushere Жыл бұрын
Those poor retro CPUs
@noone8139 Жыл бұрын
I think there are many steps missing in the video, such as where is the silver, cooper & the other minerals, how pure gold dissolved in nitric aced ... etc
@OwlTech333
11 ай бұрын
kzread.info/dash/bejne/aYd4mrCrj6a7lMY.html
@sweetartis8 ай бұрын
Good job and excellent money to day ❤❤
@OwlTech333
8 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@redbaronrefining532210 ай бұрын
Would you be willing to make a video on all the materials you screen out of the lead baths and try to do a recovery video from the bits of metals left on them? I’m sure there’s a small percentage of pms left behind that alloyed with the silver/lead and clung to the materials. Thank you!!
@OwlTech333
10 ай бұрын
You mean all materials as in type or the the whole quantity I’ve processed so far?
@wessproule5779 Жыл бұрын
Heard of a company called enviro leech that did this in Vancouver I think
@LiberalEntrepreneur Жыл бұрын
Where do they get these many CPUs?
@viklund2725 Жыл бұрын
As I understand, there are gold threads left inside the ceramic plates!!! You have only taken the visible parts with gold which is a loss. Try to crush the ceramic plates into fine powder and look for the gold that remains in the form of thin wire.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
There's no gold bonding wires inside the ceramics! From GRF "A standard ceramic CPU is made of several layers of ceramics bonded together. between the layers (while the ceramics is still unfired, also called green) is screen printed conductors of molybdenum. The ceramic body is then fired and the molybdenum that is exposed is then gold plated. On the bottom or side, pins are brazed or soldered and in the cavity bond wires are used to connect landing pads on the die with the exposed gold plated conductors. For bonding wires aluminum or gold can be used. Inside the ceramic body is the molybdenum conductors and the only gold is the exposed gold and the gold under the die. To use gold inside the ceramic body would be problematic. Thermal expansion and contraction will break conductors over time unless it expands with the same rate as the ceramic body. Molybdenum is the solution on this problem and it is cheaper that gold. Göran"
@aerialenthusiast7435 Жыл бұрын
Hello @OwlTech ,how much on average would all of those cpus cost
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
2-3k
@aerialenthusiast7435
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 thanks alot for answering my question does
@dennisthgersen1557 Жыл бұрын
Love that you have sneakers on. :D Hahaha. For sure don t try that at home.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Socks with sandals are my footwear of choice
@okruiner7835 Жыл бұрын
12:12 looks like a planet got hit by a big asteroid amazing💯🔥🔥
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
well spotted
@markflores9055 Жыл бұрын
Yeah it was really impressed me if you tell me where to get that starting material might as well make a video of melting down sovereign eagles it going look at all the gold I found in all the sovereign coins I found just laying in the trash.
@DL101ca
Жыл бұрын
You need someone to spoon feed and wipe your ass too ?
@Turboy65 Жыл бұрын
Some of those CPUs would have sold for more than their gold value, to CPU collectors and retro gaming buffs.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
One or two but not all
@matthewday7565 Жыл бұрын
Did I just watch vintage CPU murder 😨
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
You just watched the price of some vintage CPUs going UP
@beatking2728 Жыл бұрын
Dude , while you were melting these stuff with hot torches and moulds, I am wondering how come his camera has not melted.? 😂
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
I’ve melted a few but then I discovered the zoom
@beatking2728
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 ohh shitt dude. I literally didn't think about it. 😂 I was so invested in the melting stuff , kinda forget 😔
@brian-doesnt-know Жыл бұрын
How much do you think you spend in fuel for heating and the wasted metals used in the extraction phase (lead). Any estimate?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
10 bucks on propane, lead is recoverd from the slag phase and reused but let's say $5 to compensate for any eventual losses
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
600ml HNO3 and about $2 on O2
@brian-doesnt-know
Жыл бұрын
That’s awesome. Do you have a chemistry background, or just self taught/ learned from experienced coworkers? When I get the space, I want to set up a vented small extraction lab
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
@@brian-doesnt-know no chemistry background, self-thaught
@VenturaIT
Жыл бұрын
Today it's about $5915 dollars in gold, without the cost of the CPU scrap, I don't know what that is.
@rockets4kids Жыл бұрын
First time coming across something like this, needed to do some math.... Assuming 40 grams per CPU average, 14 kg would be 350 CPUs. From 91 grams gold that works out to about .26 grams of gold per CPU. That jibes with what I have seen reported elsewhere, at least assuming a high yield on recovery. Also, I never realized that these old CPUs contained about $15 in gold each.
@kevinrusch3627
Жыл бұрын
Don't forget that gold in 1999 (that seems to be about the vintage of these chips) was going for $450/oz.
@rockets4kids
Жыл бұрын
@@kevinrusch3627 Oh yeah, I know that. I was just shocked when I did the math and learned how much the gold in each chip is worth today.
@scrapman502
Жыл бұрын
These weren't all CPU's. you can clearly see other Ceramic Ic's in the first batch he throws in. (Ceramic DIP Packages)
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Correct, ceramic ICs were about 1,5kg
@omerfarooq818 Жыл бұрын
Wow great video man! today I learned something thanks to you, one question though, where did you get these scraps from? after seeing your video I looked up for high yield ceramic CPUs and I saw a company selling it for 100 rupees per kg which is about 1 dollar per 1 kg do you think it is a scam?
@arthursoesman
Жыл бұрын
must be a scam.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
I know it's a scam
@bazonis1gp Жыл бұрын
👍👍❤
@evasanchezsaez868511 ай бұрын
Do you use Borax when you melt the gold?
@OwlTech333
11 ай бұрын
Yes a tiny amount
@echosmyth502121 күн бұрын
Dissolving the alloy in nitric acid is not a process identical to inquartation. They are two completely different processes, with completely different purposes, ending in completely different results.
@OwlTech333
20 күн бұрын
How is the result different?
@echosmyth5021
18 күн бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Inquartation is a process where you ADD base metal to an alloy. Which then goes without saying, the result of inquartation is an alloy with a larger percentage of base metal. Nothing has been dissolved yet at the completion of inquartation.
@bbdgha Жыл бұрын
Can you tell me how much $$ the 14kg of scrap is worth? Great video 👍
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
$3,000 roughly
@ciocoflender007
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 How is this possible? One gram of gold costs approx. $54. 90g x $54 = $4860
@jimzucker
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 so you basically made 2500 euro profit on 4 hs work?
@DuelPorpoise Жыл бұрын
that was a vintage 486 cpu! 😥
@John-sx2rf Жыл бұрын
Would it be better to break the processors before adding them them to the molten lead?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
No need to, thermal shock does it for you
@KClO3 Жыл бұрын
where do you get the cpus originally?
@memetsolder
10 ай бұрын
Scrapyard
@FollowMe2aMillion Жыл бұрын
Great video!!! Have you ever tried this process on pins?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Yes I have
@stevec00ps Жыл бұрын
All those Pentium Pro CPUs! :(
@saminathan8167 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic sir
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@danielhopwood5985 Жыл бұрын
Amazing 👍
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@saminathan8167 Жыл бұрын
I will watch more of your videos.sir
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Please do
@ameerabdalrahman2308 Жыл бұрын
Hi Excuse me, may I ask you? Is the extraction of gold and silver from electronics scrap of good financial value, or is it only for recording videos?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Depends on how cheep you can find the scrap
@ameerabdalrahman2308
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Thank you so much .
@PoorMiners321 Жыл бұрын
wow great amount of scrap sir nice result very nice process..
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks 👍
@blazeboss9748 Жыл бұрын
Wow awesome! So 90 grams of gold is like over $5,000 right? 😮
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Pretty much!
@iulianispas8634
Жыл бұрын
Yes 90 grams of gold . You can make 50.000 by selling pentium 1 cpu to retro collectors. They become rare due recycling maniacs. The price of a single cpu new was over 200 .
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
@@iulianispas8634 how many would you like to buy at $50?
@iulianispas8634
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Prohaps you can sell with 50 each if you frame them
@maphantom
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Depends on the model really, most of the ones sold for gold scrap are basically worth as much as... gold scrap. If you want i can help you point you to the ones that could be REALLY worth reselling but my guess is that the chances of finding such ones are pretty low in my opinion.
@ausfoodgarden Жыл бұрын
How much did the recovery cost?? I mean if I somehow had access to huge amounts of e-waste, how much would it cost to recover the gold from 14Kg of CPU or other electronic items?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
This is like asking me how much it will cost you to get to Paris or other cities in the northern hemisphere… for 14kg of this particular type of electronic waste (ceramic CPUs with kovar pins) using this method will set you back about $50 fuel and chemicals
@ausfoodgarden
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Thanks that's all I wanted. I understand different inputs will have different recovery costs. Oh and for me to get to Paris right now, about US$1500 😊
@martinslavov144925 күн бұрын
where did you buy the 14kg of CPUs and what does that cost ?
@JoshuaBerner10 ай бұрын
Because you didn't say you did, I'm left to assume that you didn't use any sulfuric acid in aqua-regia to remove excess lead. This is why your gold powder looked red after you rinsed it.
Пікірлер: 677
Just imagine showing this to a computer geek in 1995. He would be horrified.
@_RandomGamer
Жыл бұрын
No, in those times in our area 10g of 24k gold was of ₹4,600 which is hardly 150 dollars
@olivier4916
Жыл бұрын
Why?
@Honza0297
Жыл бұрын
I am a nerd and I am horrified in 2023 as well. :) Some of those CPUs worth probably more than the gold from them.
@007leonard1
Жыл бұрын
@@_RandomGamer ask your parents how long it took them to earn 4600 rupees back in the day
@yatagarasu9274
Жыл бұрын
I'm horrified now
This video has some early 2000s era KZread vibe. I dig it
Wow excellent video as always thank you 😊 🙏 love how you break everything down
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
As always your on point. Very well done m8
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
One day I'll have the courage to process my own gold but until then I'll watch the pros and just sell the gold bearing goodies (except for the bits I stock pile) those ceramic CPUs are beautiful and I'm sure you've made many collectors cry!! Interesting seeing the eproms being processed! 👍
@Chewy_GarageBandDad
Жыл бұрын
I collected for 3 years and just started to process mine. Whoooo its not easy. Shit goes sideways and before you know it, you are like where my gold.....fuk ....er? LOL One thing they do not stress enough is get your filtering process down, practiced, built, understood... before you do anything. That's where it first can start spiraling out of control. You literally forget if you keep the solution or whats on the cotton... Cross contamination starts happening as well if you are not careful. Ive been a mess for weeks now. LOL
@chrisdelaere
8 ай бұрын
@@Chewy_GarageBandDad i expect the author to reply to this
@OwlTech333
8 ай бұрын
I completely agree! Filtration is one of the most important steps in the refining process (if not the most important). If the solution is not crystal clear you’ll have a hard time precipitating pure metal
@martinslavov1449
25 күн бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Hi , I am a big fan , can you please tell me where did you buy the 14kg of CPUs and what did it cost ?
@OwlTech333
25 күн бұрын
@@martinslavov1449 they’re not mine, I only process them
That was badass!
great video as always
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Céad Míle Fáilte
This was a great video and project
@OwlTech333
5 ай бұрын
Thank you!
looking forward to this one
Неплохой результат! Слиточек впечатляющий.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Спасибо!
приветствую . как всегда на высоте. отличный результат;)
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Спасибо!
A dangerous recovery process, yet rewarding at the end!
@mjlives5428
Жыл бұрын
Dangerous how??I;m new
@wikun110
Жыл бұрын
@@mjlives5428 Lead for everyone in the neighborhood! need respirator and lead recovery hvac or he is literally polluting the world. probably the worst process if DIYing.
@kalicom2937
Жыл бұрын
@@mjlives5428 As soon as I saw what was going on I thought "Ooof, the Lead fumes! I hope he is working in a very well ventilated area and has good PPE..."
could you explain the cupellation on the stainless steel part? and does that take the lead away or do you mix it with borax glass and niter salt to get a slag and the final dore?
You are very smart, a lot of Chemistry knowledge 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
nice work guys!
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
As a chip designer, watching this is like watching Mona Lisa burn down for its frame.
@roberthowkins3097
3 ай бұрын
The mona Lisa is rubbish though xxx😅
@OwlTech333
3 ай бұрын
@roberthowkins3097 lol
@MatzeMaulwurf
2 ай бұрын
Pipipipeeepipieeepiee lol.
@RealLifeFinance
21 күн бұрын
Hahahaha
Great video - what was that soundtrack? It was fab.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
m.soundcloud.com/owl-tech/gowl
I enjoyed this video. How do you handle the lead fumes?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Respirators
@Michel-7.7.7
Жыл бұрын
Holding the breath, as far as i know, that's how they do it in Ghana
Some quick maths here for whoever in interested: If average CPU weight is 60g then that would mean there would be approximately 233 CPUs. They would have to be sold at about £20 each to have the same value as the gold resulted from the melting.maybe less if I knew how much silver was melted. So conclusion is that depending how old they are it might not be worth putting them back on the market and melting is better option. I did not take in to account the time and materials of the melting process as I'm not familiar with the costs.
@joergkalisch7749
Жыл бұрын
.4 g of gold per CPU? I seriously doubt that
@twistr99
Жыл бұрын
@@joergkalisch7749 what do u think? How much gold in 1 cpu?
@joergkalisch7749
Жыл бұрын
@@twistr99 a few milligram
@twistr99
Жыл бұрын
@@joergkalisch7749 thanks
@ggoddkkiller1342
Жыл бұрын
@@joergkalisch7749 Old processors have much more gold than modern ones, some models even have 0.5 gram. So his math isn't too far away i would say around 0.2 average, still selling working processors would earn you a lot more..
Awesome video thanks 😊
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
Those are really old CPUs, modern ones have very little Gold.
Dziękuję bardzo pouczający instruktaż.pozdrawiam
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
thanks for watching
@AndrewAndretti
Жыл бұрын
Tylko gdzie kupic te 14kg pozłacanych plastików? Jak masz pomysł to zrób to sam. Pozdrawiam,Tez Andrzej
@albusdumbledore6772
Жыл бұрын
@@AndrewAndretti to nie jest 14 kg pozłacanych plastików tylko 14 kg procesorów komputerowych. złoto znajduje się w każdej elektronice i z każdej elektroniki można to złoto wytrącić. nawet w kartach sim jest złoto.
@jumpman4497
Жыл бұрын
W drodze 11 starych AMD Athlone za grosze zobaczymy jaki będzie wynik
Hello. Arne from 🇳🇴Norway here. Exelent woork. Wow.. So muth gold. Thank you for this clip😊
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Hi Arne! Thanks for watching!
@arnedalbakk6315
Жыл бұрын
My brother was salsenior in a big company. I whis i learn that i do today. I could take what ever i like, of scrap... But so if life my friend. I love this kind of goldrefining 🙏. Thank you
Well done! I have worked for many years as an electronics technician and have hoarded boxes of used circuit boards, some boards are from high end Hewlett Packard equipment complete with gold plated circuit tracks and edge connectors. I once had thoughts about processing it all for the gold but I am not going to bother, I hope to hand it all over to someone who can process it, I am sure there would be a nice amount of Gold for recovery.
@OwlTech333
3 ай бұрын
Very cool!
there's gentlemen on KZread, Adrian's Digital Basement, who does vintage computer restoration and he is often short on some chips, I think it would be worth your while if you asked him for a list of components to look out for when people send you scrap, you can probably get much more than melt for those chips!
@Heike--
Жыл бұрын
He has a ton of CPUs already and he doesn't do 32 bit computing anyway. Besides these chips are going to be poorly stored in hot warehouses, have bent/broken legs, etc.
Chinese resellers are electro plating gold "back on to cpus" and chips - bit it's thinner
And you can save the processed CPUs and ball mill them to get more from the traces inside the ceramic. This will be 90%Au 10%Pd as well.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Nope
Fantastic! Stay safe.
Perfection as always owl. Good shit Buddy.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Perfect !!!
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Nice!!!! That is an awesome yield.. what type of cpu's were they?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
All sorts of high yielding ceramics
@carletonrutherford1799
Жыл бұрын
They cost a lot of money if you are trying to buy them as scrap from Ebay or something. Everyone knows how much gold they contain. A lot of times it's not worth it to buy the expensive processors, then do the procedure.
@chloedevereaux1801
Жыл бұрын
mainly pentium pro / pro 2's, pentium1 / 2's sx and dx 2 / 4's....
@robertdelgado1385
Жыл бұрын
Have you ever seen the ads on alibaba for cpus I emailed a company and they quoted me $10,000 to ship a ton of them and when I say a ton I mean exactly that and it was $7000 and $3000 for shipping to where I'm at in nm. Now I'm aware that most are probably scams but the quote was actually for pretty good quality ones. What is your take on these do you think its a scam? Have you ever bought from any of these people overseas ? Because I'm real skeptical
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
scam
You should have a rounded strainer, would make recovering the stripped ceramics a lot less time consuming and its a lot easier
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Agree
In Febr 2023 in my country, selling 90 gram of gold 24 karat (999) is about 4700 USD. /4500 EUR. Good job.
Awesome video buddy. I admit, I do feel bad for all those Retro CPUs that could be playing DOS games, lol.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
You and me both!
What do you mean the silver is a nice bonus at the end? Seeing how you added 300g silver... how much silver was recovered at the end to make it a nice bonus?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
The silver from the picture is almost a kg. The nitrate from the dissolution step was mixed with other nitrate from previous refining. You get silver form the CPUs as well as gold. The added bonus is the refining of this silver which usually weights more than the gold recovered.
@DL101ca
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 considering the cost of silver , it's no more than 60$ worth if even that.
Ho - I am looking for a downloadable version of this song. It makes me Go Go Go GO
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
soundcloud.com/owl-tech/gowl?
Man...I watch Explosions&Fire, michaelcthulhu, and any number of backyard restoration channels, and yours has to be the most ghetto, backyard chemistry setup I've ever seen. It looks like a shed in a scrapyard somewhere, so well done for that. You really seem to know what you are doing, and you seem to be very successful in your extractions, even with that povvo setup. At least you're not using old jam jars as reaction vessels. Oh, btw, those beakers of yours - did you manage to find actual BSG beakers with handles, or are you just recycling novelty coffee mugs?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
What do you mean by BSG beaker?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Looks like you’ve mastered the art of observation ;)
@uncle_thulhu
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 borosilicate glass.
@uncle_thulhu
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 well, I have neither the equipment, nor the knowledge to do it myself, so observation is all I have. I just wish you'd get one of those hotplate/magnetic stirrer combos. Breaks my heart to see you having to use a stir-rod.
@OwlTech333
11 ай бұрын
I do have one but it won’t be that ghetto :)
Szacun. Waga marki Zelmer 🙂
@czterystronyzomu5100
Жыл бұрын
Dokładnie
That was cool when the torch turned it into gold!🤠👍💯
Die Ausbeute ist gut.👍
Holy scrap... there goes my retro PC :P
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Lol
Muito bom! Conseguiu recuperar as 300g de prata? Ou teve algum perda de prata no processo de recuperação do ouro?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
se recupero todo incluida la plata
Meanwhile background music “kau kau kau”
What about the lead oxide? Do you recover it or is it just blasted into the atmosphere?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Lead oxide is reduced back to lead metal by smelting with flour and wood charcoal and reused
What is your recovery rate? I.e. have you processed the slag and byproducts to see how much gold and silver is lost during the processes?
@OwlTech333
5 ай бұрын
0.5%
Nice recovery. What weight was the silver recovered?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
700g but it is mixed with silver from other extractions
Hi! Is the lead bath metal reusable or do you have to buy new lead metal and silver all the time?
@OwlTech333
25 күн бұрын
Both silver and lead are reusable
very cool :)
Hey random question if your trying to make more content can I send you some things to recover the gold from ??
I've seen plenty of gold recovery videos and when I saw this title I thought it was fake. My reasoning was "If he can do it in 4 hours, why does everybody take days to do it with complicated acid reactions?" Then I saw what this guy was actually doing in the video and immediately realized "Oh... THAT'S why?" This is both real and crazy.
@OwlTech333
8 ай бұрын
There’s method to the madness :)
Ahoj.... This looks efficient and scary... "Lead bath" is not exactly a wellness spa procedure... 😀
@user-ub6gl6ho8x
Жыл бұрын
😂😂
@tejay9416
6 ай бұрын
Do not breathe those fumes 😂😂
Perfect 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 👍
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Many many thanks
Only allowed in certain unregulated parts of the world? Cupelling without a cupell must be called "sending the lead oxide downwind". But interesting for the simplicity.
That's almost a $3000 payout for 14k gold, since it's about 50-ish% pure. Not bad for a few hours of work.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
99.45% is the purity
@relaxitsgood6713
7 ай бұрын
Wtf
@RealLifeFinance
21 күн бұрын
It was 99% pure $7k today
Hey OwlTech, long time no see. I come to watch the video and listen to the music as well. I found out that you were the one who orchestrated the soundtrack, superb! 👍🤙💯🔥⭐
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Welcome back!
What is the cost to run a batch like this? Will you recover market price for the gold or is it a break even type deal.
@OwlTech333
4 ай бұрын
To run it? Less than $50
Is there no chance you’re scooping away some of the gold with that big cup thing? Does the gold sink or something?
@OwlTech333
8 ай бұрын
It’s a perforated ladle so the molten lead gold alloy runs through the holes
@MyScreenNameIsTroubledOne
8 ай бұрын
@@OwlTech333 oh I see. 👍
What type of crucible you used for the process mr owl ?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Mild steel from cut LNG cylinder
@goldenscrab
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 arigato 🙏
Cool video. I'm a little surprised you didn't redissolve the gold in aqua regia with a bit of sulfuric acid added to precipitate out any remaining lead. Still, it looked pretty good at the end and well worth the time depending on how much the scrap cost.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
The client insisted on recovery only despite the refining would have been another extra hour
@warbass5274
Жыл бұрын
That’s what I was thinking with aqua Regia could of saved time with super acid but ended up with one hour plus on lead bath
@mrkiky
Жыл бұрын
Is the scrap the most expensive part or is the fuel and chemicals?
@albatronafredo942
Жыл бұрын
lol gotta keep that lead in more $$$
@zibobpompon5768
Жыл бұрын
@@mrkiky You get the scrap for free if you are smart ,and acid is not very expensive ,and the rest is all about organisation and methodology .
Я просто охреневаю от количества потерь золота при таком способе! Сколько его осталось после обжига на керамике, это ужас?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Сколько золото осталось? Вы как думаете?
@user-xg1jg5zu6q
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Думаю, не меньше грамма. Надо всё кислотой обработать
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
@@user-xg1jg5zu6q грам так точно
Impressive video sir 👏👏 May i ask you where did you find this large amount of CPUs and how much did it cost you ?
@OwlTech333
6 ай бұрын
It didn’t cost me a dime
@MohamedNabil-xz5ob
6 ай бұрын
@@OwlTech333 like do you go to a local e-waste recycling center to gather the needed amount or what ?
@OwlTech333
6 ай бұрын
@@MohamedNabil-xz5ob it's complicated
@MohamedNabil-xz5ob
6 ай бұрын
@@OwlTech333 complicated like what like do you steal it or what 😂😂😂
@OwlTech333
6 ай бұрын
@MohamedNabil-xz5ob more complicated than that
looks healthy!
Good work 👍😊👍
@OwlTech333
9 ай бұрын
Thanks ✌️
I don't know why you all melt this gold powder with a burner from above, a blast of flame will certainly blow some of the powder out of the crucible, so there are more losses, it would be better to heat the crucible from the bottom.
Brother please tell me you are in a very well ventilated area dealing with all that molten lead.
@OwlTech333
5 ай бұрын
We are
Those poor retro CPUs
I think there are many steps missing in the video, such as where is the silver, cooper & the other minerals, how pure gold dissolved in nitric aced ... etc
@OwlTech333
11 ай бұрын
kzread.info/dash/bejne/aYd4mrCrj6a7lMY.html
Good job and excellent money to day ❤❤
@OwlTech333
8 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Would you be willing to make a video on all the materials you screen out of the lead baths and try to do a recovery video from the bits of metals left on them? I’m sure there’s a small percentage of pms left behind that alloyed with the silver/lead and clung to the materials. Thank you!!
@OwlTech333
10 ай бұрын
You mean all materials as in type or the the whole quantity I’ve processed so far?
Heard of a company called enviro leech that did this in Vancouver I think
Where do they get these many CPUs?
As I understand, there are gold threads left inside the ceramic plates!!! You have only taken the visible parts with gold which is a loss. Try to crush the ceramic plates into fine powder and look for the gold that remains in the form of thin wire.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
There's no gold bonding wires inside the ceramics! From GRF "A standard ceramic CPU is made of several layers of ceramics bonded together. between the layers (while the ceramics is still unfired, also called green) is screen printed conductors of molybdenum. The ceramic body is then fired and the molybdenum that is exposed is then gold plated. On the bottom or side, pins are brazed or soldered and in the cavity bond wires are used to connect landing pads on the die with the exposed gold plated conductors. For bonding wires aluminum or gold can be used. Inside the ceramic body is the molybdenum conductors and the only gold is the exposed gold and the gold under the die. To use gold inside the ceramic body would be problematic. Thermal expansion and contraction will break conductors over time unless it expands with the same rate as the ceramic body. Molybdenum is the solution on this problem and it is cheaper that gold. Göran"
Hello @OwlTech ,how much on average would all of those cpus cost
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
2-3k
@aerialenthusiast7435
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 thanks alot for answering my question does
Love that you have sneakers on. :D Hahaha. For sure don t try that at home.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Socks with sandals are my footwear of choice
12:12 looks like a planet got hit by a big asteroid amazing💯🔥🔥
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
well spotted
Yeah it was really impressed me if you tell me where to get that starting material might as well make a video of melting down sovereign eagles it going look at all the gold I found in all the sovereign coins I found just laying in the trash.
@DL101ca
Жыл бұрын
You need someone to spoon feed and wipe your ass too ?
Some of those CPUs would have sold for more than their gold value, to CPU collectors and retro gaming buffs.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
One or two but not all
Did I just watch vintage CPU murder 😨
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
You just watched the price of some vintage CPUs going UP
Dude , while you were melting these stuff with hot torches and moulds, I am wondering how come his camera has not melted.? 😂
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
I’ve melted a few but then I discovered the zoom
@beatking2728
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 ohh shitt dude. I literally didn't think about it. 😂 I was so invested in the melting stuff , kinda forget 😔
How much do you think you spend in fuel for heating and the wasted metals used in the extraction phase (lead). Any estimate?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
10 bucks on propane, lead is recoverd from the slag phase and reused but let's say $5 to compensate for any eventual losses
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
600ml HNO3 and about $2 on O2
@brian-doesnt-know
Жыл бұрын
That’s awesome. Do you have a chemistry background, or just self taught/ learned from experienced coworkers? When I get the space, I want to set up a vented small extraction lab
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
@@brian-doesnt-know no chemistry background, self-thaught
@VenturaIT
Жыл бұрын
Today it's about $5915 dollars in gold, without the cost of the CPU scrap, I don't know what that is.
First time coming across something like this, needed to do some math.... Assuming 40 grams per CPU average, 14 kg would be 350 CPUs. From 91 grams gold that works out to about .26 grams of gold per CPU. That jibes with what I have seen reported elsewhere, at least assuming a high yield on recovery. Also, I never realized that these old CPUs contained about $15 in gold each.
@kevinrusch3627
Жыл бұрын
Don't forget that gold in 1999 (that seems to be about the vintage of these chips) was going for $450/oz.
@rockets4kids
Жыл бұрын
@@kevinrusch3627 Oh yeah, I know that. I was just shocked when I did the math and learned how much the gold in each chip is worth today.
@scrapman502
Жыл бұрын
These weren't all CPU's. you can clearly see other Ceramic Ic's in the first batch he throws in. (Ceramic DIP Packages)
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Correct, ceramic ICs were about 1,5kg
Wow great video man! today I learned something thanks to you, one question though, where did you get these scraps from? after seeing your video I looked up for high yield ceramic CPUs and I saw a company selling it for 100 rupees per kg which is about 1 dollar per 1 kg do you think it is a scam?
@arthursoesman
Жыл бұрын
must be a scam.
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
I know it's a scam
👍👍❤
Do you use Borax when you melt the gold?
@OwlTech333
11 ай бұрын
Yes a tiny amount
Dissolving the alloy in nitric acid is not a process identical to inquartation. They are two completely different processes, with completely different purposes, ending in completely different results.
@OwlTech333
20 күн бұрын
How is the result different?
@echosmyth5021
18 күн бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Inquartation is a process where you ADD base metal to an alloy. Which then goes without saying, the result of inquartation is an alloy with a larger percentage of base metal. Nothing has been dissolved yet at the completion of inquartation.
Can you tell me how much $$ the 14kg of scrap is worth? Great video 👍
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
$3,000 roughly
@ciocoflender007
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 How is this possible? One gram of gold costs approx. $54. 90g x $54 = $4860
@jimzucker
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 so you basically made 2500 euro profit on 4 hs work?
that was a vintage 486 cpu! 😥
Would it be better to break the processors before adding them them to the molten lead?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
No need to, thermal shock does it for you
where do you get the cpus originally?
@memetsolder
10 ай бұрын
Scrapyard
Great video!!! Have you ever tried this process on pins?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Yes I have
All those Pentium Pro CPUs! :(
Fantastic sir
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
Amazing 👍
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
I will watch more of your videos.sir
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Please do
Hi Excuse me, may I ask you? Is the extraction of gold and silver from electronics scrap of good financial value, or is it only for recording videos?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Depends on how cheep you can find the scrap
@ameerabdalrahman2308
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Thank you so much .
wow great amount of scrap sir nice result very nice process..
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Thanks 👍
Wow awesome! So 90 grams of gold is like over $5,000 right? 😮
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
Pretty much!
@iulianispas8634
Жыл бұрын
Yes 90 grams of gold . You can make 50.000 by selling pentium 1 cpu to retro collectors. They become rare due recycling maniacs. The price of a single cpu new was over 200 .
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
@@iulianispas8634 how many would you like to buy at $50?
@iulianispas8634
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Prohaps you can sell with 50 each if you frame them
@maphantom
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Depends on the model really, most of the ones sold for gold scrap are basically worth as much as... gold scrap. If you want i can help you point you to the ones that could be REALLY worth reselling but my guess is that the chances of finding such ones are pretty low in my opinion.
How much did the recovery cost?? I mean if I somehow had access to huge amounts of e-waste, how much would it cost to recover the gold from 14Kg of CPU or other electronic items?
@OwlTech333
Жыл бұрын
This is like asking me how much it will cost you to get to Paris or other cities in the northern hemisphere… for 14kg of this particular type of electronic waste (ceramic CPUs with kovar pins) using this method will set you back about $50 fuel and chemicals
@ausfoodgarden
Жыл бұрын
@@OwlTech333 Thanks that's all I wanted. I understand different inputs will have different recovery costs. Oh and for me to get to Paris right now, about US$1500 😊
where did you buy the 14kg of CPUs and what does that cost ?
Because you didn't say you did, I'm left to assume that you didn't use any sulfuric acid in aqua-regia to remove excess lead. This is why your gold powder looked red after you rinsed it.
@OwlTech333
10 ай бұрын
Did you watch the whole video?