Welcome to Boardsort™ - Learn - Sell - Profit -

Learn to properly Sort, Sell, and Profit from your electronic scrap material.
It is currently Thu May 07, 2026 11:37 am

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 9 posts ] 
Author Message
 Post subject: Connector Ends
PostPosted: Tue May 05, 2026 4:06 pm 

Joined: Tue Mar 24, 2015 6:41 pm
Posts: 69
I understand that some of these things may not qualify but I planned to put each of these three things in with connector ends. Does that work? Are they really something Boardsort accepts? Are they something else? Thanks, Gizz


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Connector Ends
PostPosted: Tue May 05, 2026 7:51 pm 

Joined: Sun Jan 15, 2017 5:03 pm
Posts: 318
If they’re gold. And an end. They’re gold connector ends. But you basically have trimmed gold fingers mixed in there which would be a higher grade


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Connector Ends
PostPosted: Tue May 05, 2026 8:53 pm 

Joined: Sat Nov 29, 2014 9:44 pm
Posts: 2124
Location: I'm right here :D
Ignore this (Right the gold you're cutting off of boards are what's called gold fingers) Lost has a better eye for these, especially once they're off the board, the connectors with pins are connector ends. You do want to trim as much of the green off the gold fingers as you can manage. Boardsort is able to pay as well for them as they do when everyone removes as much waste material as possible.

_________________
Here to learn more so I can recycle more
My grades are my own opinion and not an official grade from Boardsort


Last edited by marked141 on Wed May 06, 2026 11:37 am, edited 1 time in total.

Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Connector Ends
PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2026 9:13 am 
Site Admin
User avatar

Joined: Tue Feb 03, 2015 6:57 pm
Posts: 10350
Location: Low DOS
Those are not gold fingers
They are Gold markings from the edges of boards
This is considerably more board and considerably less Gold, they go as high peripheral

_________________
42 6F 61 72 64 73 6F 72 74 2E 63 6F 6D


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Connector Ends
PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2026 9:16 am 

Joined: Sun Jan 15, 2017 5:03 pm
Posts: 318
lostinlodos wrote:
Those are not gold fingers
They are Gold markings from the edges of boards
This is considerably more bored and considerably less Gold, they go as high peripheral



Ah you’re right! My mistake.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Connector Ends
PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2026 9:33 am 
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:30 pm
Posts: 410
Location: Ohio
lostinlodos wrote:
Those are not gold fingers
They are Gold markings from the edges of boards
This is considerably more bored and considerably less Gold, they go as high peripheral

wait they do??? I have a bunch of it and I'll need to send it in lol.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Connector Ends
PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2026 1:45 pm 
Site Admin
User avatar

Joined: Tue Feb 03, 2015 6:57 pm
Posts: 10350
Location: Low DOS
Nearly any board with these gold trim markings is already high peripheral or better, so cutting the flashing off for high peripheral is not profitable.

_________________
42 6F 61 72 64 73 6F 72 74 2E 63 6F 6D


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Connector Ends
PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2026 1:55 pm 
Site Admin
User avatar

Joined: Tue Feb 03, 2015 6:57 pm
Posts: 10350
Location: Low DOS
Merkman wrote:
Ah you’re right! My mistake.



I should restate:
There are what look to be memory card ends. If they are clean and have no plastic or metal those can get clean gold finger.
Those square blocks though are simply high peripheral.

I wouldn’t make a habit of doing this though. I’m not sure to what extent of volume the limit is here, as it’s an off/over processed material.

I only sent this stuff in from blade power supplies since I can process those boards to a better payout myself than selling to scrap here, but wind up with a blank board in the end worth midgrade, aside from the gold flashing.

How Chris would value 10lbs is an unknown, the most I ever sent was a few ounces or so at a time, along with pounds of high peripheral.
I’m kinda bending the rule that anything that WAS previously peripheral when the peripheral class split would remain as high peripheral.

_________________
42 6F 61 72 64 73 6F 72 74 2E 63 6F 6D


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Connector Ends
PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2026 2:49 pm 
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:30 pm
Posts: 410
Location: Ohio
lostinlodos wrote:
Nearly any board with these gold trim markings is already high peripheral or better, so cutting the flashing off for high peripheral is not profitable.

nearly any... but not all


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 9 posts ] 

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Jump to: