Tantaline buys Tantalum Scrap

[Anonymous]

For those not sure how to refine Tantalum, this would be a good choice.

Sell your scraps to Tantaline http://www.tantalum-coating.com/Prodmet.htm

FYI: I recently found that old electronics ( vacuum tubes type ) have some very large tantalum capacitors waiting the be harvested.

Also some vacuum tubes have tantalum emitters, with perhaps some tubes containing other precious metals. Nickel is almost sure to be present.

 

[macfixer01]

For those not sure how to refine Tantalum, this would be a good choice.

Sell your scraps to Tantaline http://www.tantalum-coating.com/Prodmet.htm

FYI: I recently found that old electronics ( vacuum tubes type ) have some very large tantalum capacitors waiting the be harvested.

Also some vacuum tubes have tantalum emitters, with perhaps some tubes containing other precious metals. Nickel is almost sure to be present.

Hi Gustavus,
Thanks for the address, I'll check it out. I have several pounds of tantalum caps I've been collecting. I bought a CD about precious metal recovery on Ebay a few years ago, and it mentioned tantalum caps as an overlooked source of income from scrap boards. Apparently there was a large spike in the price of tantalum back around 1979-1980 when it was in the $200 range? I believe it's in the $30 range now though.

Here's what seems to be an interesting report on tantalum. I'm going to read it one of these days if I ever get some free time.

http://tinyurl.com/2p686x

Also I seem to recall that it's Barium that was used as an emitter in vacuum tubes?

macfixer01