OT: Scrapper question

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote: Yes, tantalum has a good scrap value. The last I sold brought over $5 per pound....and tantalum is heavy. That was about 10 years ago when I closed out my business. One of the things I learned was to trim all the tantalum off the boards before going into the scrap bins. Intel was particularly heavy users of Tants. All aluminum had to be stripped from the boards also, and that included aluminum capacitors. We took all the iron and tin off also. We were preping boards to go directly to the refiner we had. Tantalum is magnetic, that is how we sorted the small capacitors. I don't think many circuit cards goes to China any more, 15 year ago, that was true. We also salvaged Beryllium, Mu metal and Alnico. They all brought significant returns. There were times we stripped chipsets and sold the chips, not to mention eproms and processors. Those were interesting times in Portland town. Paxton -- Paxton Hoag Astoria, OR USA