Proper way to clean those splitters/connectors

[rtm]

How do you removing the core?
I`m cutting it with saw for metal, but it`s too slow.

 

[goldenchild]

Seems like what you have in the picture can be disassembled somehow. Those type of parts are usually assembled using multiple components so I guess you would have to perform the reverse. Whatever you do remember the gold part doesn't have to come out pristine.

 

[g_axelsson]

Get an anvil and a hammer and flatten it until it breaks, sometimes it's easier to turn it 90 degrees and flatten it again. The gold plated parts can be picked up among the other pieces.

Göran

 

[rtm]

Good old hummer will do the trick.
The metal shield is not flexible, and it will crack easy.
Thanks for the tip.

 

[alexxx]

sell them right away and spend your time on collecting more valuable scrap.
instead of trying to retrieve those tiny pins with hard work, make phone calls to get more scrap...
I think those connectors are made of brass, use a grinder to validate and sell them right away for brass, you will make more money at the end...

too much work for little return

my2c

Alex

 

[Smack]

I throw them in with circuit boards to be refined.

 

[rickbb]

They are gold plated, but it will take a ton to get any sizable amount of gold out of them.

Brought back memories of my first computer networking job. BNC T connectors for a bus coax topology on a IBM mini-mainframe with "dumb" terminals. Giant green screen CRT jobs.

Ran at a blazingly fast 1mgb. We thought that was something.

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