/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2624029
>profitable
Why don't you tell us how you expect to make a profit?

>>2624029
As part of a hobby it can make you some coin.

As a primary source of income you'll be priced out by economies of scale.

I've got a half gallon canister of foils and tabs from printer cartridges from work. Not sure how much gold is actually in them but I didn't see any sense in just throwing them away

Someone told me the foils are 1/17 gold by weight

>>2624079
Measure how long it would take to extract and melt 10g of gold out of those.
Then measure how many hours of work you spend on that.
Calculate your hourly wage from this kind of work

My bet is that you wont be able to even get a minimal wage rate out of this. Otherwise there would already be businesses doing this

>>2624091
There *are* already businesses extracting gold from e-waste but on a huge scale.

I've tried heating them and crumbling them. That seems to work pretty well for the foils. The tabs are more annoying

>>2624091
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/20/royal-mint-electronic-waste-precious-metals/

I suspect if they were allowed to use mercury on an industrial scale, it would cut costs 75% at least. Mercury rapidly amalgamates with gold and can then be burned off

>>2624079
>how much gold is actually in them
100 cartridges would be about .1 grams of gold. So, you'd need 1,000 catridges to produce one gram. One gram of gold is worth roughly $63 right now. Once you factor in the time and materials to extract the gold you will have lost money.

The cartridges are actually worth more whole. Sell them on eBay.

>>2624058
You'd need to scrap large quantities of junk electronics to make it worthwhile. If you're just goofing around then go for it and save your bars. You could actually make decent money scrapping all kinds of metal if you take the time to sort it all properly so you get the maximum value for it. Right now is a great time to do it because scrap prices are ridiculously high right now.

Better recycle copper
Much easier to extract in large quantities, much easier to sell
Or if you are a real G you can try stealing any big electronic garbage or copper wires, usually hospitals have big electronic devices with a lot of copper inside so look for this kind of stuff

Why do you assholes even entertain stupid shit like this? Is it to show everyone how smart you are?

>>2624091
>Calculate
Here's a short hand for profitable acquisition and processing:
Would niggers steal it?
No nigger is running around stealing printer cartridges for the gold. Hell, they aren't even stealing the printers.
Copper? They'll pull that shit straight outta the walls.

>>2624054
if you buy 300 dollars of scrap, jewelry gold and melt it down/refine/cast it and end up with like a 70 gram gold bar. You'll have made 4k.

>>2624152
>300 dollars of scrap
>70 gram gold bar
Those numbers still reek of your ass.
They are not real.
You are not buying 200g of scrap gold for $300.

>>2624131
>Why do you assholes even entertain stupid shit like this?
OP is too lazy to look it up himself so he decided to waste space posting his dumb fucking question here when he could have posted it in the /SQTDDTOT/ thread.
The others here indulge him with answers either to show off what they know or to kill time in-between doses of their autism meds.

>>2624154
you obviously have never been to incredibly sketchy Mexican flea markets, you can buy bags of that shit for 50 to 70 bucks. All legit.

>>2624156
>All legit.

>>2624160
in terms of quality, it's all gold. Not pure of course, but it's gold. I bring a dice-sized magnet with me and check out all of them and about 95% of them don't stick.

>>2624152
Wow, your math is astonishing.

To yield a 70g bar of pure gold you would need to melt down about 94 grams of junk jewelry (assuming the jewelry is all 18k which is unlikely). 94g of junk 18k gold jewelry has a melt value of about $4373, so I doubt you'll find anyone dumb enough to sell it to you for $300 unless its stolen.

In other words go fuck yourself.

>>2624164
You underestimate the Hispanic communities ability to undercut and undersell from stupidity.

>>2624162
>don't stick
shhhh
no one tell him about copper or zinc or tin or nickel or aluminum or silver or magnesium or lead

>>2624167
doesn't matter, even if it's 16k or like 40% gold, you'll still get gold. just buy in bulk.

>>2624174
you seem sure
obviously so much smarter than the all legit mexicans who could smelt it themselves
so what's the point of this thread?
get to work
laugh at me from the deck of your mega yacht

>>2624179
ok i will FUCKER

>>2624166
You can just say it's stolen.

>>2624029
You will never be a foundry.

>>2624191
Shhhhh, we don't say that around it.

>>2624191
WEEWOOWEEWOOWEEWOOWEEWOO

ALRIGHT MOTHERFUCKER

STEP OUT OF THE THREAD WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR

DONT EVEN THINK OF FUCKING WITH ME

>>2624029
Give the gold fillings back, Himmler.

>>2624029
Very, as long as you use stolen gold and don't get caught. Also, kys.

I have access to a lot of discarded servers and computer parts, would it be worth the time trying to pull gold from them?

>>2624029
We need a pinned post saying no one wants to buy your bullshit no information no proof of what alloy is used dog shit bars. Same with every retard asking if he should melt down soda cans and sell the bars.

>>2626394
If you want to do it the risky way with mercury, sure. Just respirator up and keep gloves on

>>2626394
Youtube it and tell me what you learn.

>>2626540
you didn't put sage in all fields you dumb nigger

>>2626543
respirator will do fuck all against mercury vapors

>>2628474
>>2626543
https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/v101067018/

Nightmare. I was in the gold business for years. You need to assay every batch you refine. Then you have to find someone to purchase. Not easy. The purity is always a big issue. If you have a 10 oz bar you'll be lucky to net out 5 oz.

>>2624029
No one will buy your gold because your not a jew. They never mention that with all these 'buy real gold/silver for your Ira account' schemes

No.one wants to buy your shit. You'll see the spot price of gold and go 'Yes this is a good time to sell

Then you'll take it down to the friendly gold merchant and it will disappear behind the counter and he'll say oh see yes the spot price hmm yes but I'm taking such a big risk with you see and my operating expenses. Surely thw best I can do is $1000. Oh you'd like you're $600 of gold back certainly. Let me turn around here and look for that $500 coin you gave me....

>>2624029
Not very. People will assume you stole the gold and won't buy it.

>>2624029
>How profitable is gold refining and selling your own bars?
It depends how much you buy your gold for.
I have a "we buy gold" business on the side and offer between 60-80% melt value. I considered refining it myself, but after breaking down all the costs it is much more cost effective to outsource the refining to a professional. My refiner charges me 1% of melt value and issues me a notarized lab assay report along with my bar.