darinventions
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So I’ve been reading different threads on recovering Indium out of LCD screens...Everything I’ve read so far leads to recovering everything but the Indium,,, So this left me with one question,, HOW CAN I GET THE INDIUM OUT? Most all of us have had to come up with some way to dispose of these pesky screens that you can’t do anything with,, an is not economically feasible to recover the Indium out of unless you have tons of them,,not to mention all the waste byproduct produced dealing with the liquid crystal inside of them... So I had a IDEA....And please share your thoughts,,,I’m under the impression that when Indium melts, that it like most other metals will bead up and bond with one another,,So if you were to crush them up, place inside a steel drum with a lid removing the plug in the lid of course,covering all the broken material with a high temperature oil like cooking oil,and building a bonfire around it if that would work for extracting the Indium,,and simply saving the oil for another extraction later on? Now before someone has a fit about this possible method I should add that I have no idea about the liquid crystal in the screens,, so take it easy on me,, as far as the glass,i know of a few places that take all glass no matter what condition as long as it’s not leaded TV glass...And I will add that I’ve got about 5 acres of empty land to do this on if it’s a feasible idea..