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 Post subject: Individual components
PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:41 pm 
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Resistors: cbm #1

Potentiometors :
Anything with switches or dial cbm2
Small squares cbm1 or ag#3 (same price)

Caps:
Tubes are au#2 copper ones from game boards and gigabyte etc go cu#2
Rest of packages go cbm#1

Inductors copper yoke in bulk. Cbm#3 in small quantities

Crystals: if you spend the excessive time to look up part numbers some have silver and palladium bases +the gold. A few pennies more. Normally cbm1 or gold heavy breakage (close values)


Mechanical relays cbm3
Solid state relays cbm2

Transformers
Open loose cbm#1
Solid (most from the link) cbm2
Sealed cbm3 or sealed unit

Fuses
Tube fuses are silver or tungsten
Ag#3 or ag heavy
Slot fuses (like in cars)
Ag3 (or silver brass)
Solid bar fuses (the wrench looking things) can be aluminium nickel platinum silver or rhodium or anything else. Rhodium is the only thing worth sorting always will have a red/pinkish tint or blueish tint.
Rest i toss in cbm1 and forget

Diodes
Cbm2

Transistors
Vacuum ag2
Can (short stubby fat) ag3
Tube (tall skinny) cbm2 or cbm1
Glass cbm3
Sip (3 leg silver back) cbm2 or better

Bridges cbm3

ICs... duh.

As to taking them somewhere... that's the hard part. And up to you. Do your research download the iscrap app. Make calls. I've been in and out of the Chicago area since i was born and while living here I've used the same 3 yards for 20 years. I've tried others. Some pay more. Some pay less. Some take other things. But find yards you trust and build relationships with the employees and owners.
Discuss differences never fight. And remember there are FEDERAL not just state laws governing recycling and recovery. If you're not happy take your load and go somewhere else.

Watch commodities prices. Learn to use recovery calculators. "Know before you go"
Copper is not $5 a pound anymore and don't ask for $1000 for an ounce of gold pins.
If you got more then you expected you did something wrong. If you got a little less the markets fluctuate by the second not minute or day. And you can bet bigger yards have a commodities ticker running in the office.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 1:04 am 

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lostinlodos please add some photos. I can look them up but multiple results come up.

You should expand on this list too!

STICKY!

Finally warming up though huh


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 1:16 am 
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I need to find it but one of my posts has a link to a parts guide with gorgeous photos I couldn't easily match. I'll look for it and plug it in the top of this once I find it.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 1:57 am 

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Hope it shows the difference between the different capacitors.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 2:35 am 
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lucas01230 wrote:
Hope it shows the difference between the different capacitors.

1) CMCs (aka mcc, solid state ceramic caps) Platnium, paladium for refining if your're really adventurous.
2) organic (copper) caps
3) Canister caps. Top row, bottom row the left 3. all canisters. All 7 of those go in the aluminium class.

4 is also a copper cap, but in the silver recovery class. I'm looking to see if I still have any copper canister caps here.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 2:51 am 

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What about those other ones in pic 3? I see those alot too


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 1:28 pm 
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The canisters in 3 all go aluminium breakage
The rest are cbm.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:26 pm 

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the pallidium capacitators in the first pic..silver ends and tan in middle...does some body buy them?...i have some laptops and there are some big ones on there..i usually leave small ones on...it would take a lot to get an oz.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:57 pm 
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For those you have 3 reasonable choices

Ebay
Silk road
A small refiner. Normally I suggest people RUN from we buy gold places but in this case it may be advantageous. Especially if you don't have/want a paypal or bidpay account. But only if they have a scanning gun, not an acid test kit.

They are valuable but difficult to move. I batch them on ebay at 8oz to a pound at a time, and take whatever i get. Starting at 99c n/r and usually get 10-20 from 10 day auctions.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:40 pm 

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thanks...i'll have to think about that one...i would say thats a lot of work but i just took a 100 lbs of empty computer cases for clean lt. fe and only got $3 so i guess its all relative


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