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Checking to see where this would be graded. I have a handful and the backside is naked. Bracket is easily removable.

Pull the bracket for clean gfc

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Or leave the bracket on and sell it as is for a slightly lower rate and higher overall amount.

Weigh with and without to determine that for sure.

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So. I did. What? Weighed it out myself. I did a comparison of clean. Versus unclean.
I just came across about 80 Gold Finger Boards. My thinking is clean it. Go for top price. Was I surprised.
Ahh! Cptnspaulding has a point. Sadly.
So. I took two test lots of 7 GFC boards. One being small boards. The other. Larger boards. I weighed both lots with and without brackets and other metal and/or battery.
See pictures of my typical random selection.
My first lot of small boards with brackets compared to without. Came out in favor of leaving brackets on by 68 cents.
My first lot of larger boards with brackets compared to without. Came out in favor of
of the without brackets by 15 cents.
My conclusion. Leave the brackets on for small boards. Take the brackets off for larger boards.
Now. Hold on. I did a second lot of 7 boards. Same weighing. Bracket on. Against bracket off. Small board against large board. GFC of course.
Small board with bracket on came out 98 cents ahead of bracket off.
Larger board with bracket on came out ahead by 22 cents.
My conclusion. Confused.
One would think. Cleaning metal off of a board always increases value.
After all. You put in the work to clean.
I personally believe it is so random on board weights and amount of metal on the board. It is a toss up. When and when not to clean.
My 2 tests. To explore this issue. Tell me one thing for certain. Small boards with brackets can pay more.
But. Now. Having brackets doesn't help packing a box for shipping.
In my personal situation. I have relatively small quanities compared to full time scrappers. No Gaylords here. I mail all my escrap by Ground Advantage. Have done some Priority boxes.
My point. Flat Rate. So I stuff as much scrap in those boxes to build escrap weight against the Flat rate. Which means. Boards that are consolidated and compressed as close as possible. Fill the box. Add escrap weight against the postage. Brackets. Large capacitors. Other parts on the boards that add no value to the board. Keep me from a tighly packed box. I will bend over all capacitors. Even cut down plastic from input connectors. Just to pack tight as possible.
As far as I am concerned. That strategy puts me on top of postage etc.
See pictures. Of stacked GFC with brackets. Without. Then components bent over and plastic connectors cut down.
So. For me. Doing mail in. I consider board profile. To pack tightly.
As a sidenote. I am retired. I got time to search out stuff like this.
In the end. You got to make your own decisions on your own unique situation.

I almost mentioned the density issue when shipping but wasn't sure how to best phrase that when I posted so stuck to the value per weight issue.

Very nicely put catwhisker.

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Thanks for doing the research! I've always wondered if the weight of the bracket would make up enough difference to equal the time spent taking the bracket off. The other part is when you ship a larger box that does cost by weight, the brackets will cost more to ship!

For density and packing logistics, that would make me want to go through the effort to remove the brackets. But for overall price, the rate difference between having the bracket on vs off just isn't high enough for the amount of weight you lose on the overall piece of scrap. I think I average about $1 per pound shipping scrap via PirateShip, so as long as I still clear $2 per pound on the BoardSort rate I am willing to box it up and ship it, hence the 60 or so pounds of Gold Connector Ends I shipped them last week.

Most of the time, leaving things that are qualified or , "okay" to be left on instead of cleaning, result in a higher payout; even if the clean price is more $.

but... there are times when this is not the case. You just have to simply weigh with it on, check price, weigh with it off, check price n difference.

I would say it's a 80/20%, almost 90/10%, NOT going for the clean price.

Quantities , is what drives the clean price to be better. You got the load, it's probably worth the time for the money.

I feel I should again mention. I am only a casual e-scrapper. I am in retirement. I have time to do these comparisons on cleaning a board vs not cleaning. Not just Gold Finger Card. I did a decent weight comparison on Shielded RAM. I did my my weigh compairsons and payouts when Clean Gold Finger Ram was at $60 a pound. I think Shielded RAM was $22 a pound. I had about 100 clean Gold Finger RAM. And a decent quanity of Shielded RAM.
Found the average weight to be .5 to .7 ounce. For the Unshielded Gold Fingered RAM. Then through some calculations and weight measurements. I found that if a Shielded Gold Finger RAM weighed 2.1 to 2.2 ounce. It was NOT worth removing the shielding.
Again. I am coming from a casual e-scrapper point of view. Not. A full time e-scrapper point of view. Time = money. So an individual has to manage his own personal circumstances.
I am actually echoing what Spence1015 posted. But. The payout comparisons do exist. And along with shipping considerations. I only mail in boxes below the USPS Ground Advantage rate. I find packing as tight as possible is the way for me. I lay back the output jacks on Motherboards to get room. And squeezed them together. For an example
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