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markk

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I got some touch pad mylar from cell phones. It is different from keyboards so I wanted to make sure of what it was. They are thick and firm like tin and look like chrome plate. There are also some thin ones like on a keyboard but they are also very shiny like chrome.
thanks
 
Pictures would be nice. Are they gold or silver-plated? I have some of these as well, so interested to see what to do with them.
 
The ones on left are a light pink color that looks kind of like cad plating only pink and are hard metal.
the ones on right are shinier than they look in pic . They look just like silver solder. Also hard metal.


Could not get the pics to show up
 
forgot all about posting this question. Lots on my mind lately.
On a second look I see that they are mostly the same . The pink looking ones I was looking at the underside of them, the side curved in like a bowl, on the top side they all look like solder color only shiny which I guess is silver.
I have always just tossed them in the trash. Never thought it was silver . Tossed probably fifty from old keyboards in trash. Probably would have tossed them even if knowing they were silver since I consider silver to be be a waste of time to recover. I guess if you had a large amount of it to recover it might be worth the effort.
 
Something else I would like to know is about where the silver is . Is it actually just plated on the metal disc that just pops off the plastic or is that disc solid silver? also are the traces on a keyboard made of silver?
 

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