The best desoldering station...

[ondreji]

quick and efficient:
(the first minute shows what's possible...)

[AntiProtonBoy]

Man, he goes through a lot of effort sorting them out. I wonder how much time it takes, and whether it is worth doing it in terms of profit.

[nctnico]

This must be the first time I've seen someone work on a PCB with a jack-hammer. 

[Brumby]

This must be the first time I've seen someone work on a PCB with a jack-hammer. 

Definitely a first for me.

My first reaction was WTF?  Then as he describes what he's doing, it makes perfect sense.


It did round out my day, though.   

[MosherIV]

 

[KD0CAC John]

Throwing thinks away is not for me .
Lots of reasoning got me into scrapping , being around surplus stores , lately ham radio related .
Then getting into repair of ham gear , test gear - learning to repair , practicing soldering / desoldering - I would rather damage beyond repair a scrap mother-board , than my computer that I am wanting to fix .
Then this stuff starts piling up , and others start calling you to pickup / move there stuff etc. - making money just as labor .
In any kind of mining , most everything is collected as very small percentages - oz. per ton .
I've done that too , no. California , the majority of gold is dust & slightly larger , nuggets is a very small part of the volume .
The trick is to constantly find more efficient ways to process / work - in any type of work .
And the really hard part is having space for all this , not just the scrapping , but there are lots of good working gear that piles up , and with limited space , trying to figure what to keep & what to do with it .
THERE IS NEVER TOO MUCH STUFF , JUST NOT ENOUGH SPACE
I've worked with guys that had 2 20 acre lots filled with almost anything you could imagine for government & utility auctions .