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Cash for E-Waste
Buying all Circuit Boards & E-Waste Scrap
Motherboards, RAM, CPU's, Slot Cards, Gold Fingers & Pins
Tantalum Capacitors, IC Chips
Telecom Boards, All Circuit Boards, Hard Drives
Buying all Circuit Boards & E-Waste Scrap
Motherboards, RAM, CPU's, Slot Cards, Gold Fingers & Pins
Tantalum Capacitors, IC Chips
Telecom Boards, All Circuit Boards, Hard Drives
Note: I no longer buy Low Grade Power Boards, Best to either depopulate the non-ferrous items and send the left overs as scrap steel.
MID GRADE BOARDS - 1.70 kg
COMPUTER MOTHERBOARD - 4.00 kg
LAPTOP MOTHERBOARD - 5.30 kg
SERVER MOTHERBOARD - 5.30 kg
TELECOM BOARDS - 5.90 kg
GOLD CHIP BOARDS - 8.50 - 30.00+ kg
SLOT CARDS - 4.25 kg
SLOT CPU - 8.20 kg
RAM - Gold - 15.00 kg
RAMBus - 7.00 kg
RAM - Silver - 3.40 kg
RAM - Trimmed Off Fingers - 4.70 kg
Gold Plated Fingers (High - full plated) - 78.00 kg
Gold Plated Fingers (Low - untrimmed green board) - 27.00 kg
CPU's
8000 Series - Gold Cap / Gold Legs - 185.00 kg
8000 Series - Gold Legs / No Cap - 125.00 kg
8000 Series - Gold Cap / Tin Legs - 105.00 kg
Intel 186/286 - $330 kg
Intel 386 - 170.00 kg
Intel 486 - 160.00 kg
Motorola - 110.00 kg
Pentium Pro (Ceramic) - 100.00 kg
Pentium Pro (Plastic) - 285.00 kg
Double Sided Gold Caps - 65.00 kg
Cyrix / IBM / i960 - 58.00 kg
Pentium / Mac - 35.00 kg
Black Fibre - 30.00 kg
AMD Ceramic - 23.00 kg
AMD Aluminium Back - 19.00 kg
Green Fibre / Brown Fibre - 15.00 kg (no metal)
Green Fibre / Brown Fibre - 8.0 kg (metal tops)
Pentium 4 with Pins - 8.00 kg
Pentium 4 Pinless (current style) - 5.00 kg
IC CHIPS
DIP (legs on 2 sides) - 13.00 kg
DIP (Ceramic) - 18.00 kg
DIP (RAM) - 17.00 kg
Flat Pack (legs 4 sides) - 16.00 kg
E-Prom IC's (Silver) - 4.00 kg
E-Prom IC's (Gold) - 20.00 kg
BGA Chips (High Grade) from RAM & Boards - 62.00 kg
BGA Chips (Nth/Sth Bridge) - 56.00 kg
BGA Chips (Full Square or Round Moon Metal Tops) - 14.00 kg
BGA Chips (Fibre Silicon Chip) - 0.00 kg
Tantalum Capacitors (Yellow SMD) - 15.00 kg
Tantalum Capacitors (Black SMD) - 13.00 kg
Tantalum Capacitors (Mixed) - 13.00 kg
Crystals & Crystal Oscillators - 2.20 kg
Crystal Oscillators Gold Band - 105.00 kg
Gold Plated Pins (Low Grade) - 5.50 kg
Gold Plated Pins (Mid Grade) - 20.00 kg
Gold Plated Pins (High Grade) - 40.00 kg
Gold Plated Jacks (audio) - 3.50 kg
Gold Plated Fingers (High) (Trimmed) - 78.00 kg
Gold Plated Fingers (Low) (Untrimmed/blanks) - 27.00 kg
Keyboard Mylar - 3.00 kg
Power Supplies (complete) - 0.35 kg
(PC With Wire or Server with Plugs or Fingers)
Power Supplies (wire cut off) - Not Buying
Hard Drives (complete) - 0.90 kg
Laptops (complete & Intact, with or without battery) - 1.30 kg
i3-i5-i7 Laptops
Paid Per item - Varies with model & condition
Prices are current and are only updated when a price change occurs.
Prices quoted are for delivered goods to my residential workshop West of Melbourne, 6 klm from CBD.
Payment is by bank deposit only.
All items must be sorted into their corresponding grades to receive full value
10% will be deducted if major sorting is required.
Except for new scrappers, I will spend some time to help you sort your stuff so future drop off's will go quicker.
Drop off available most weekdays and some weekends
Booking required
Email me to arrange a day & time or for any enquiries regarding the grading of boards
If your unsure with what you have then send a few pictures of different boards, I can quickly advise of grades etc.
email... weeeben@optusnet.com.au
PH: 0421 449 478
Grading circuit boards can be tricky as there's so many different boards manufactured, including many custom & unique boards.
Many boards will easily fall under one of the above grades but sometimes boards need separate evaluation.
One common misconception is gold plating on circuit boards, Hard Gold plating is mostly used for contact points, like pins, gold fingers or bonding wires.
The gold we see on most boards is not gold plated like we know, it's gold flashed (enig) which is 5μ - 15μ thick, that's millionths of an inch.
Normal gold plating like gold fingers or gold pins is 30μ - 60μ thick, so a big difference, Don't judge a board by the gold you can see unless it's gold caps on top of chips.
Another one is Telecom grade boards, Just because the board came out of telecom equipment doesn't automatically mean it's a telecom grade board.
A Telecom Grade Board generally has IC chips all over it with no transformers or large capacitors, if they do then they get down graded to server grade or less, Server Motherboards are identified as dual cpu socket boards, some have 4 or more cpu sockets, a single socket server board is just a regular pc motherboard grade.
Q; Can I remove a few components off a board and still sell it to you?
A; I generally grade boards as expected, so a pc motherboard would be complete, if you remove the main chip it can turn that motherboard into a mid grade, some boards you can get away with removing a chip here & there, especially the removable e-prom type, also a few mlcc's or the crystal is usually ok but if boards are noticeably partially depopulated then price deductions will apply, 10%, 20% etc
So, my advice is when choosing to depopulate components off a board because you feel it has better value that way, depopulate the whole board instead of just a few items and take it out of the system completely.
Note: I no longer buy Low Grade Boards, Best to either depopulate the non-ferrous items and send the left overs as scrap steel.
MID GRADE BOARDS - 1.70 kg
COMPUTER MOTHERBOARD - 4.00 kg
LAPTOP MOTHERBOARD - 5.30 kg
SERVER MOTHERBOARD - 5.30 kg
TELECOM BOARDS - 5.90 kg
GOLD CHIP BOARDS - 8.50 - 30.00+ kg
SLOT CARDS - 4.25 kg
SLOT CPU - 8.20 kg
RAM - Gold - 15.00 kg
RAMBus - 7.00 kg
RAM - Silver - 3.40 kg
RAM - Trimmed Off Fingers - 4.70 kg
Gold Plated Fingers (High - full plated) - 78.00 kg
Gold Plated Fingers (Low - untrimmed green board) - 27.00 kg
CPU's
8000 Series - Gold Cap / Gold Legs - 185.00 kg
8000 Series - Gold Legs / No Cap - 125.00 kg
8000 Series - Gold Cap / Tin Legs - 105.00 kg
Intel 186/286 - $330 kg
Intel 386 - 170.00 kg
Intel 486 - 160.00 kg
Motorola - 110.00 kg
Pentium Pro (Ceramic) - 100.00 kg
Pentium Pro (Plastic) - 285.00 kg
Double Sided Gold Caps - 65.00 kg
Cyrix / IBM / i960 - 58.00 kg
Pentium / Mac - 35.00 kg
Black Fibre - 30.00 kg
AMD Ceramic - 23.00 kg
AMD Aluminium Back - 19.00 kg
Green Fibre / Brown Fibre - 15.00 kg (no metal)
Green Fibre / Brown Fibre - 8.0 kg (metal tops)
Pentium 4 with Pins - 8.00 kg
Pentium 4 Pinless (current style) - 5.00 kg
IC CHIPS
DIP (legs on 2 sides) - 13.00 kg
DIP (Ceramic) - 18.00 kg
DIP (RAM) - 17.00 kg
Flat Pack (legs 4 sides) - 16.00 kg
E-Prom IC's (Silver) - 4.00 kg
E-Prom IC's (Gold) - 20.00 kg
BGA Chips (High Grade) from RAM & Boards - 62.00 kg
BGA Chips (Nth/Sth Bridge) - 56.00 kg
BGA Chips (Full Square or Round Moon Metal Tops) - 14.00 kg
BGA Chips (Fibre Silicon Chip) - 0.00 kg
Tantalum Capacitors (Yellow SMD) - 15.00 kg
Tantalum Capacitors (Black SMD) - 13.00 kg
Tantalum Capacitors (Mixed) - 13.00 kg
Crystals & Crystal Oscillators - 2.20 kg
Crystal Oscillators Gold Band - 105.00 kg
Gold Plated Pins (Low Grade) - 5.50 kg
Gold Plated Pins (Mid Grade) - 20.00 kg
Gold Plated Pins (High Grade) - 40.00 kg
Gold Plated Jacks (audio) - 3.50 kg
Gold Plated Fingers (High) (Trimmed) - 78.00 kg
Gold Plated Fingers (Low) (Untrimmed/blanks) - 27.00 kg
Keyboard Mylar - 3.00 kg
Power Supplies (complete) - 0.35 kg
(PC With Wire or Server with Plugs or Fingers)
Power Supplies (wire cut off) - Not Buying
Hard Drives (complete) - 0.90 kg
Laptops (complete & Intact, with or without battery) - 1.30 kg
i3-i5-i7 Laptops
Paid Per item - Varies with model & condition
Prices are current and are only updated when a price change occurs.
Prices quoted are for delivered goods to my residential workshop West of Melbourne, 6 klm from CBD.
Payment is by bank deposit only.
All items must be sorted into their corresponding grades to receive full value
10% will be deducted if major sorting is required.
Except for new scrappers, I will spend some time to help you sort your stuff so future drop off's will go quicker.
Drop off available most weekdays and some weekends
Booking required
Email me to arrange a day & time or for any enquiries regarding the grading of boards
If your unsure with what you have then send a few pictures of different boards, I can quickly advise of grades etc.
email... weeeben@optusnet.com.au
PH: 0421 449 478
Grading circuit boards can be tricky as there's so many different boards manufactured, including many custom & unique boards.
Many boards will easily fall under one of the above grades but sometimes boards need separate evaluation.
One common misconception is gold plating on circuit boards, Hard Gold plating is mostly used for contact points, like pins, gold fingers or bonding wires.
The gold we see on most boards is not gold plated like we know, it's gold flashed (enig) which is 5μ - 15μ thick, that's millionths of an inch.
Normal gold plating like gold fingers or gold pins is 30μ - 60μ thick, so a big difference, Don't judge a board by the gold you can see unless it's gold caps on top of chips.
Another one is Telecom grade boards, Just because the board came out of telecom equipment doesn't automatically mean it's a telecom grade board.
A Telecom Grade Board generally has IC chips all over it with no transformers or large capacitors, if they do then they get down graded to server grade or less, Server Motherboards are identified as dual cpu socket boards, some have 4 or more cpu sockets, a single socket server board is just a regular pc motherboard grade.
Q; Can I remove a few components off a board and still sell it to you?
A; I generally grade boards as expected, so a pc motherboard would be complete, if you remove the main chip it can turn that motherboard into a mid grade, some boards you can get away with removing a chip here & there, especially the removable e-prom type, also a few mlcc's or the crystal is usually ok but if boards are noticeably partially depopulated then price deductions will apply, 10%, 20% etc
So, my advice is when choosing to depopulate components off a board because you feel it has better value that way, depopulate the whole board instead of just a few items and take it out of the system completely.
Note: I no longer buy Low Grade Boards, Best to either depopulate the non-ferrous items and send the left overs as scrap steel.
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