Originally Posted by
BuckStacyBuck
so you're saying there are brass tabs in the plastic ends that connect the wire to the board?
Yes, the bigger ones are usually plated brass tabs, don't know about the tiny bits and pieces.
So what do they buy the low grade boards for? What do they recover off of them?
They recover it all, mostly copper and alum. I was working on some old tv boards today that had gold plated legs on some of the transistors. Certain capacitors have some PM'S in them but in very minute quantities. Some looked like this, definitely worth the time to pull them, if you take it easy with the needle nose you can get the legs to release from the solder.
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