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Eric@RECYCLETANTALUMCAPACITORS.COM

I buy tantalum capacitors.

$20.00Lb Wet electrolyte axial
$15.00LB solid electrolyte axial
$15.00LB polycoated axial,SMD,through hole
$5.00LB foil style or arrays
$50.00LB for prepared anodes
$75.00LB silver wet caps (no leads)



I included some examples of tantalum capacitors I have more at my blog



Any questions relating to Ta capacitors in general please post. Any deals please keep to PM’s but please review your dealings with me.


I also toll refine silver contacts and solder or jewelry. I can return cemented silver melted into bars or minted silver one TOz rounds.

I do other refining from e scrap and karat scrap on a toll refining basses.

I am buying silver Oxide batteries for 1.5X silver spot per a pound of batteries. 5Lb min

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PM or email me if you have question.

Eric Tackett


Eric Tackett

Originally Posted by hobo finds

So $25.00 a pound for them??

No its $25.00 for the pellet\foil\can that is tantalum. I pay $6.00# for the caps with the poly\non Tantalum can still on the pellet. A lot of the cans are not Tantalum some are though.

I reimburse shipping on larger amounts 10+# of cap or 3+# of pellet\foil\can that is tantalum.

how long it takes you to fill up a bucket is all depends on how you get them. If you get them as NOS on reals\bags then not to long. If you do a lot of Sun servers or ham radio\milli stuff there are a lot on those boards. most of the time if was expensive to procure than you will find some on them. Some older low grade boards will have them because they have been in use sense the 60's in test equipment radios some TV's.

hope this helps

Eric

Originally Posted by LarryB

Oh wow, is that a fact dude? Palladium is only like 1000 bucks behind gold per oz today. Which ones are those again now? lb

This without a doubt a fact. I sold some monolithic SMD capacitors earlier this year for a $0.50 a gram that was at about half of what they where worth. they where brand new and had a product# to get datasheets on them. The problem is that not all contain values. this is why most companies won't buy them and why a refiner will more than likely only take them on a toll refining basses. If you are removing them from boards than a lot of your value is lost\mixed in with your solder. this should be collected to be refined as well. when you are doing this chip resistors are also on the board and they are made of the same elements so no need to separate them out. A Lot of the newer ones(monolithic SMD capacitors) contain no value the the Pd was replaced with Ni.

Some though hole caps that are mistaken for Tantalum caps are though hole monolithic cap. Do they contain values this I don't know but I can't see why they wouldn't.

Thanks for your interest in my thread.

Eric

Added trimmed ram to pricelist

now buying trimmed ram @ 7.50 a pound or five pound for a 1TOz silver round

Eric

tantalum check and price check for these: theres 2 black ones in the bottom im wondering about they are flat and black colored just like the flat yellow ones in the ziplok bag?

It looks like you have some network resister mix in with you caps. The Tantalum caps will for the MOST part only have two leads a (-) one and a marked (+) one. All of the rectangle ones should be Ta caps.

Hope this helps and thanks for saving them.

Eric

Originally Posted by etack

It looks like you have some network resister mix in with you caps. The Tantalum caps will for the MOST part only have two leads a (-) one and a marked (+) one. All of the rectangle ones should be Ta caps.

Hope this helps and thanks for saving them.

Eric

well thats easy enough to fix, fortunately i am not very far into these yet. are the network reisistor worth anything or just scrap?

Originally Posted by wayne1956

So if I am looking on the board and it has C### (with C representing capacitor and # representing a number), and it has two leads then it should be a tantalum capacitor?

NO this is just the first step in IDing the Tantalum cap. Finding out if it is a capacitor or just a resistor or diode. After you see it is a capacitor you the match it to a style SMD or though hole (has two leads and is soldered though the board). SMD will look like the picture in your post except for a blue style the are all there. If the ate though hole than they will be poly coated or can style. both styles will have at least one magnetic lead it is nickel. If the are can style they will have leads coming out of the ends and will have a weld spot to a nickel lead. If they are poly coated they will look like the pics I have.

Post any questions you might have.

Eric

Originally Posted by jghilino

well thats easy enough to fix, fortunately i am not very far into these yet. are the network reisistor worth anything or just scrap?

I'm glad to catch you early in the hunt.

network resistors are not worth any thing to me.

Eric

thanks, i am looking over these boards again and now i am noticing the black ceramic tantalum caps, argh

do you buy mlcc's by chance?

Originally Posted by rawresale

What do you think? Are these tantalum capacitors? (The circled ones)

Don't know if their tant. but their definitely can caps.

Originally Posted by rawresale

What do you think? Are these tantalum capacitors? (The circled ones)

The Proof is in the end that's not shown.

If the other side has a welded lead coming out of it your odds are in your favor.

Thanks for taking the tine to collect them.

Eric

Originally Posted by etack

Eric

Just in case, the first two caps (silver & black, - minus is marked black) in that pic are not Tantalum

Apple/mac computers seem to be absolutely loaded with Tanti caps.