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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2026 10:47 am 

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I’m buying a number atypical boards and need some opinions on grading to establish my buy price. I am guessing numbers 4 and 5 will be peripheral high grade due to the fact they have zero junk with good gold fingers showing. I consider them similar to the strips out of televisions with the long strip of gold fingers. Thoughts on that appreciated. The first three items are new. They aren’t stripped. There’s just nothing on them. Item 2 has some hardware on it that has never been soldered. They’re just inserted into the location. It does have numerous gold contact points for micro switches. I’m guessing they will grade as low or mid grade boards. Any thoughts that 2 will go as low peripheral? Just looking for some input. Thanks.


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2026 3:48 pm 

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I know we've had similar boards to 4/5 before but I'm having trouble finding those at the moment. I'm guessing low peripheral at the moment but that may be incorrect.

1/3 are essentially blanks. If Chris will take them they're likely low grade

2 low grade

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2026 4:26 pm 

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5. Has the style of gold pins that are probably manganese, not gold plated. Same style on MOBOs that currently don't get gold plated anymore from cost cutting. MAYBE Low Per but prob Low/Mid grade

4. Low Per, because the pins are good and the gold fingers are an arrangement I feel would recover better than meta.

3 and 1. Low grade, and possibly might not even want to be purchased because there's no population and it doesn't look like a very heavy Cu bearing PCB(bread board).

2. Low Per, and I'm assuming maybe even High Per; because those chips are SIP packages. Those are actually IC's, In-line packages*. The gold flashings might be enough to push it up too.

EDIT* 1. Is a nice green board, didn't notice the Cu and flashings but it is still only Mid grade. Def will purchase this one though. 3 is still in question, if BS will even purchase it.


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