PlainsScrapper
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Plastic or ceramic?PlainsScrapper said:Hello everyone, I hope you all are having a good day.
I have a question about this component pictured below.
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How would you go about processing these? I have seen quite a few of them on these boards.
Any help would be appreciated.
PlainsScrapper said:Any ideas?
Topher_osAUrus said:PlainsScrapper said:Any ideas?
I havent processed any of those. But, I do have ideas. (good and bad)
I would try to hit one with nitric and water in a test tube. See what happens.
Id try to incinerate one (wind at my side) to see how readily the plastic is coerced from the metal.
Id try one in AP.
Hopefully the second option works, as I think it would be best to incinerate before nuking them in nitric.
The difficult thing to work around, is some plastics will dissolve in some acids. So, nitric may cause a mess. Or the copper (II) chloride leach may as well.
Could even try the sulfuric cell.
Really, all you can do is test. See which method lends itself to the smallest mess, and choose that one.
aga said:They look like dual-gate GaAsFETs, and seeing as they're in high-freqency kit, they probably are.
The older/higher spec ones have a ceramic 'body', the cheaper/more modern ones plastic (those look like plastic).
If you have not got 1000s to process, the 'body' might pop off just using wire cutters or maybe a hammer.
In either case, do it inside a plastic bag to avoid the bits flying everywhere (like your eyes :shock: ).
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