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On 06/12/2014 04:09 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
No, there is a large economy that thrives on dissembling circuit boards. The rip out the small gold wires inside chips and few other things.
And they also sell some of the circuits as new. I saw a documentary on tv the other day. Apparently there has been a train accident in Germany because of such used circuits burning, and more incidents everywhere. It is apparently a big problem for manufacturers, they have to X ray new chips to verify that they are really new.
Of course, you can not sell such a board for use. The price goes down a lot, to perhaps cents.
This reminds me of a shifty sot I knew in the mid 1970's who would round up all the e-waste he could find. He would then process it through a cyanide bath that would extract the gold plating for recycling. The "bath" was in an old child's wading pool and the whole operation was run in the back of a boat construction yard. Life was simple in the old daze... Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org