kjavanb123
Well-known member
All,
As I am waiting for the assay results from shaker table discharge, I decided to give my induction furnace a try with about 2lbs of mixture of SMD capacitors and resistors and MLCCs recovered from telecomm boards.
I used a 4lb cruicble added boarx, then the materials, top it with four spoons of cryolite. Fired up the induction furnace till it was pretty much boiling like lava, here is a cool picture of smelting progress,
I did not time it but shouldnt take more than 30 minutes, I poured the molten to the v-shapped mold, and this is what I got, seems like most of the materials consolidated but slags still contained some tiny beads,
My next steps are to re-melt the slags to allow beads become a single bar, add the solid pieces with half of borax used, drill a sample and send it for assay in local labs, based on the result take the next path.
Regards
Kevin
As I am waiting for the assay results from shaker table discharge, I decided to give my induction furnace a try with about 2lbs of mixture of SMD capacitors and resistors and MLCCs recovered from telecomm boards.
I used a 4lb cruicble added boarx, then the materials, top it with four spoons of cryolite. Fired up the induction furnace till it was pretty much boiling like lava, here is a cool picture of smelting progress,
I did not time it but shouldnt take more than 30 minutes, I poured the molten to the v-shapped mold, and this is what I got, seems like most of the materials consolidated but slags still contained some tiny beads,
My next steps are to re-melt the slags to allow beads become a single bar, add the solid pieces with half of borax used, drill a sample and send it for assay in local labs, based on the result take the next path.
Regards
Kevin