Just wondering what these chips are?
And if they have a category on there own?

Board is broken so I would just remove these

Those are transistors, not ICs. The board is midgrade

Will Boardsort still accept this even though it's only part of a board?

Don't intentionally send in pieces like that all the time but yes there is still some value so it can go.

Transistors typically have a plated copper backing to help dissipate heat (and are often attached to a block of aluminum). Depending on your local yard if you have loose transistors they may take them as copper breakage or copper content.

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local yards around here are useless. They buy ewaste in a whole for 10cents a lb.

Peripheals at 3cents a lb.

Now this is Canadian money to, so might as well be Monopoly Money compared to U.S. curency lol.

SO it's pretty much useless as a small operator too make any money :(

I have the same issue in Texas, though it's getting better as more companies realize there's value.

But just the transistor without any board is largely copper, if you can convince a local yard it is what it is then that is just another option if you end up with a large number of loose transistors.

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Thanks Marked141. Wil be heading to my local yard n Friday so I think I will bring in a few and see what they have to say or offer :)

Cheers

Dug up a couple of Lostinlodos' old posts about these.
Here:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21301&p=42165&hilit=Transistor#p42165
And here:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1212&p=4078&hilit=Transistor#p4078

Looks like I generally remembered correctly but Lost is far more experienced so if there's any discrepancies I defer to Lost.

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Thanks for the info Marked141.

Interesting to say the least :)