I have a few gold fingered boards to send at $10 a pound. I already followed the no fan, no sink, no bracket but I have questions about them
after removing those.
Should I remove the mutiple black capacitors on video card?
Should I remove the gold connector on the wifi card?
Should I remove that yellow box or capacitors on the comm card?

It's been a long time since I've sent anything and I'm trying to read
and I've watched videos. Help is appreciated. I assume the most I can
get is as gold fingered cards. I've more but a couple might sell on ebay so I will wait.

Pop the shield off on the wifi card and they should be good to go

Probably that transformer on the middle card should go as well

Done, Thank you

Only pop the shield, leave the Cu transformer on. Small ones are obsolete.

When popping the shield just be careful when you're sliding a flat head or plyers around.

You don't want to knock off the small MLccs, tiny ICs, or caps underneath.

I might be dead wrong when I say this but I have a general rule for the sake of my current processing that if a capacitor is larger than the diameter of a No.2 Pencil and/or it is taller than lets say 3/4th of an inch, I remove it. The weight for them added up is maybe a couple pounds over a full box of orders. The benefit of removing them in my opinion is that you can fit more boards per box and I have never known cylindrical capacitors to contain anything of true value. At least some of them have a brown liquid. I view them as junk and part of the cleaning process to provide a quality product to Board-sort. Now for the left most board if I am feeling particularly nitpicky then I might remove those two or three largest capacitors but none of those particularly stand out to me as a nuisance against storing more boards per box (aka better space utilization)

For shipping purposes, 100%

There's many forms of capacitors and many have value. Most caps are a film or ALU rolled dielectric with oil or a liquid to cool. Those are easily permitted to be removed since, half the time, it gives you a bump or upgrade. Collect those and throw them into a ALU shred or ferrous pile.

Multiple other caps that you want to leave on your board for more value would consist of:

Tantalum caps/SMDs and tantalum powder rounds(contains tantalum)
Titinate barium caps(contains titanium)
AG mica caps(contain AG)
SMCC(contains base metals and nickel)
MLCC( contains PD and AG)

Questions on what, just search the label name on the board and it'll give you a reference or general idea of what it is.

In summary be careful removing something that could contain value or have a precious metal be thrown away instead of recovered.

Thank You to everyone.

I did what the first poster suggested. I read the rest of the replies I did not send the motherboards which appear to me be only $4 a pound. That advice might be useful for them.

Tried to take the pins off the server board cpu slot, but if anything small on the server board is worth anything I can learn more and strip it.

If I made a mistake by not taking enough off any of the 4 cards I've sent, it is a small amount. I will learn by my mistakes when the money hits or doesn't hit the bank.

The motherboards I posted one photo, if anyone thinks they are worth more than $4 a pound, or the parts should be taken off for future boxes, like the gold pins on the server board comment.

I had suggested to some Ladies in Animal Rescue they get donations of memory sticks as well as money, I don't think that went anywhere.

If you ever do send motherboards to Boardsort, don't remove anything soldered on. The one board still has over half of the pins so maybe you'd be lucky to retain motherboard rate.

The black one is a P4 from the looks of it, currently $5/lb
The green one, do pull the aluminum heatsinks and battery. Looks like a metal socket grade but not sure which of the two. Again missing pins might affect value.

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