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    Cell phone cameras and speakers. What to do with?

    Hi I was wondering what you guys do with scrapped cell phone cameras and speakers? On some phones Ive been scrapping there is only a little bit of copper but in this sony one there was what looked to be a gold plate speaker. If the speaker is not solid do you just throw it in a speaker pile? Do you guys make a phone camera pile? Thanks I got a pic attached of a motorola phone that I just dismantled. Any advice would be nice.
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    Any gold plated metal goes into the gold plated metal pile, when i get enough i sort it out by grade and type. The best thing to do would be to tear it down to clean gold plated metal, if you cant get it clean id just put it in the dirty pile.
    I buy and sell all types of scrap and escrap. I buy specialty and hard to sell escrap. I buy resale items. PM me or contact me at jghilino@hotmail.com
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    I don't break down cell phones, just take the battery out and sell it whole.

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    The few i;ve broken open (cell phones with cameras) the camera unit was separate of the board and other goodies. I sort them to their rightful pile and move on. Camera unit I just toss in its own pile..I have..4 of them...lol. Like Happy though I prefer to just sell them whole, I hate those tiny screws.

    Speakers go in my speaker pile, which is a big metal desk i just stick them on there for when I need a magnet. Once I get a good number of them, I drop a few off at the yard I use and they hand'm out to folks who need one when they pass through.

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