Thanks to both Brasscatcher and olddude coming from two respected and veteran scrappers that is important. I'm really just trying to "give back" to a group of people that have helped me.
Brass thanks for the info on the dip switches. I have taken them off of low grade boards, will choose to not take them off of this keyboard processor "interface" board. I don't want to devalue this board, as it should be high grade with the gold and amount of IC's on this board. I have taken only the one gold top/pin IC off so far, but will take the remaining non soldered IC's (9 still on in this picture). That will still leave 49 IC's that are soldered, 14 tantalum capacitors and a bunch of gold plated pins for a future buyer.
Blue414 the mustard yellow tantalum capacitors are by far the easiest to find, I would say they out number the other colors by a 2 to 1 ratio. Other colors are blue (second most likely color), orange, red, green, purple, grey, and black are all colors I have found in the epoxy shape so far.
One of the things I tried to show that Tantalum capacitors have better value than most scrap. Also tried to show that they are found on a variety of boards and size of boards. From the lowest grade of brown/brown circuit board (Color TV/Panasonic), to a tan/green commercial grade thermostat, green/green low end power supply. Showed two higher end boards, the Gamma camera had the best type of tantalum capacitor, a silver/tantalum wet capacitor. The last board from a keyboard, has ten removable dip IC's and lots of extras including tantalum capacitors. The last two boards I will ship to a buyer on this forum and the low grade will go to a local
e-waste broker/R2 that will ship them to a refiner in Japan. I plan to keep adding to this thread as I keep educating myself, hoping in doing so I can help others as well.
Burt
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