Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 07 14:52:09 EST 2003 | caldon
Any company reclaiming desired metals will be interested. Some of the companies also take used PCB's for the metal content. It is not very profitable but does help. Metal reclaim companies can be found on the net. One company that might be interested
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 16 07:06:10 EDT 1998 | Gerry Gillies
In the past year I have introduced a component reclaim process. There are a number of machines on the market, though it's true that reclaim is still a fairly labour intensive activity. We have had good results with a German machine manufactured by Ro
Electronics Forum | Sat Aug 28 09:11:38 EDT 1999 | Mike McMonagle
| Recently, our solder dross reclaimer refused to take our | used solder paste tubes. He said the small percent of paste | remaining in the tube is now considered hazardous waste. I'm interested in advice on how others are disposing of this "hazardou
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 14 17:42:17 EDT 2008 | gregoryyork
use solder with tin phos additive and throw the spud and tea strainer away
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 21 13:53:36 EDT 2008 | ccouture
Could you elaborate a bit? What is tin phos additive?
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 30 07:52:39 EDT 2008 | ccouture
Thank you Dave and BLT, very informative replies.
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 01 13:44:42 EDT 1999 | Dave F
| Recently, our solder dross reclaimer refused to take our | used solder paste tubes. He said the small percent of paste | remaining in the tube is now considered hazardous waste. I'm interested in advice on how others are disposing of this "hazardou
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 20 11:33:54 EDT 1998 | Kallol Chakraborty
Posted by Kallol Chakraborty on August 20, 1998 at 09:33:52: Hi folks, Is there any reclaiming process for bent leads(mostly QFP). Root cause seems to be handling and packaging. Also like to know if there is any equipment that we could consider for t
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 13 11:27:51 EDT 2008 | dwelch123
For 15 years I have used a similar method, only I used two bread pans. You can fit alot more solder in them. In one pan I drilled holes very similar to the photo in one pan and used a reclaiming agent such as Kleenox to prep it a bit. Then used the o
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 10 13:53:27 EDT 2008 | ccouture
Has anybody ever use this method to reclaim the solder from dross. I tested this $10 gadget, it's used to press potato to make mash potato. The result is comparable to a $20k machine that basically does the same thing, i.e.: compress dross to squeeze
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