Gold From Electronic, Telecommunication & Computer Scrap, Part 1
Gold from Electronic, Telecommunication & Computer Scrap Part 1: To locate the “gold” keep your eyes and ears open
06/29/2009
Right Place on the Right time:
To find the “gold” keep your eyes and ears open.
RecyclingSecrets.com
by Michael Meuser
This is the primary in an ongoing series of articles about my experience within the electronic salvage, recycling and gold recovery business. At the beginning, i used to be going to put in writing this up as an ebook and sell it, but i made a decision – given the cruel economic times all of us face – to provide it away in installments. This short first article is ready the the significance of not just being inside the right place on the right time, but additionally keeping your eyes and ears open. New installments, resources, how-to articles and news are available at www.RecyclingSecrets.com.
In the early 1980s I happened upon a bit booklet entitled, Surplus & Salvage – the 20 to 30 pages I read changed my life forever. I went to work immediately doing building deconstruction, rural salvage of all types, metals recycling etc. Soon i used to be presented with the chance to go into the electronic surplus recycling and gold recovery fields. Here’s how I entered into this business.
During my workdays I frequented a close-by rural coffee shop in California’s Mother Lode region. many of the guys in there have been getting coffee before they were going off to work for an immense telecommunications company. This was the time in their breakup in the course of the 1980s. I got to grasp these guys and one fellow, peculiarly, told me that they were converting all the long distant microwave repeater stations radios from tube type to solid state.
He said that there have been tons and a whole lot scrap aluminum, copper, gold plated items, batteries, racks … on and on and on … at each station and that there have been 18 stations that needed this scrap hauled away.
Up so far of this major changeover from tubes to solid state, the smaller amounts of scrap ended up in local landfills, but this was way an excessive amount of to remove on this manner.
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