Introductions

[thackerglhs18]

Greetings everyone,
I am very excited to learn about this field and what it has to offer. I work in the medical imaging field and have been given free reign to circuit boards from all sorts of high end machines ranging back to the 70’s. I am enjoying all of the resources available on this forum and excited to eventually get to the point of being able to harvest gold from what my company has otherwise kept as waste.

 

[eaglekeeper]

Medical e-waste is usually pretty good stuff.

You mentioned imaging equipment, which raises some concerns. I'm pretty sure there's a legal process to decommission equipment that contains dangerous materials. I recommend that you make sure that has been done before you start ripping things apart.


Enjoy

 

[thackerglhs18]

All imaging equipment I’ll really be working with is x-ray and ct related so no radioactive sources. We do make sure to properly dispose of oil from tubes and hv tanks. The only thing I’ll specifically be working on for this is strictly circuit boards. Is there anything specific that raises alarms to you?

 

[Justincase]

All imaging equipment I’ll really be working with is x-ray and ct related so no radioactive sources. We do make sure to properly dispose of oil from tubes and hv tanks. The only thing I’ll specifically be working on for this is strictly circuit boards. Is there anything specific that raises alarms to you?

A lot of facilities left their black-and-white developing equipment in place after they converted to digital reusable media.
Check where the darkroom facilities used to be and see if there is any sign of a large tank filled with iron wool.
It would have originally been attached to the drain of the sink.
This is a silver trap used to recover value from the old developing fluid, also if there are large stocks of old transparencies that need to be disposed of they have proven to be good returns if you can put a large enough lot together.

 

[eaglekeeper]

All imaging equipment I’ll really be working with is x-ray and ct related so no radioactive sources. We do make sure to properly dispose of oil from tubes and hv tanks. The only thing I’ll specifically be working on for this is strictly circuit boards. Is there anything specific that raises alarms to you?

I don't know what equipment does what, I seen "imaging equipment" and that incident came to mind.

If you find any cool looking boards post some pictures.

 

[thackerglhs18]

A lot of facilities left their black-and-white developing equipment in place after they converted to digital reusable media.
Check where the darkroom facilities used to be and see if there is any sign of a large tank filled with iron wool.
It would have originally been attached to the drain of the sink.
This is a silver trap used to recover value from the old developing fluid, also if there are large stocks of old transparencies that need to be disposed of they have proven to be good returns if you can put a large enough lot together.

Oh when it comes to film we do disposal for it to reclaim the silver but we send that to someone else to do. The actual chemicals used to develop film we don’t touch too often. I will keep an eye out for the silver trap. I’ve only been in the industry for three years so I rarely touch film and was unaware of that.

Thank you for the heads up!

 

[thackerglhs18]

I don't know what equipment does what, I seen "imaging equipment" and that incident came to mind.

If you find any cool looking boards post some pictures.

Definitely will post any cool looking boards incase there’s components that have something I’m unaware of.