How do you get around the pink stuff...I hear it causes cancer.
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How do you get around the pink stuff...I hear it causes cancer.
Use the search feature, it's been talked about a number of times.
Where is the vid? It isn't showing up.
showing up for me
Hmm I'm on my iPad I'll check from a computer later, but I guess if I get a microwaves I'll just wear a dust mask
Yup it worked on my computer, but I'll have to watch it more in depth later
dust masks will not protect you , you would need a respiratorQuote:
Originally Posted by tryingtoscrap
Watch the video, I give a safe way to get the copper out without damaging the ceramic.
Is it even worth the risk?? Will the scrapyards accept the mags whole as shred??
There is no hazard as long as you don't break the ceramic. Scrap yards will take whole mags but it doesn't take much to get the copper out of them. But if you still have concerns about messing with them, just take the whole thing in with your shred and be done with it. Everybody needs to make their own decision on whats best for them.
Alright I think I'll just shove them in my shred pile then, it's only 25 cents but whatever i don't need the cash this second
Put them in with your elect motors
Mmm I'll email my yard
Theres 80 grams of Copper in every magnetron.
I still haven't found a good way of getting the plates off the ends.
A lathe is defiantly the way to do it though.
I ground the weld off like in the video but the copper absorbs heat like crazy & next thing you are juggling the magnetron from hand to hand. Also the copper 'smears' & fills up the grindstone.
I ground a window thru the weld, then used a cold chisel to part the end off.
The vise kept crushing the copper bobbin & it slipped around a lot, also overstrikes made me cut my hands on the **** sharp stainless steel ends.
Didn't know about the toxic ceramic at the time...
I have over 30 in a box, just waiting for a center lathe.
That sucks cutting your hands an inch away from a cancerous agent...bad