Slightly OT: how to test magnetrons?

I've collected about a dozen microwave magnetrons. I originally planned to scrap them but none of the local yards take them at all, or take them as light iron. So I want to try selling them on eBay as replacement parts. The question is: how can I test them if they are good? I pulled some of them out of working ovens and some out of broken ones plus I threw them all into a bucket so might have damaged them in the process. So how can I make sure it's actually a functioning magnetron?



Thanks!

my yard takes everything pretty much, kinda like a "I didn't see it, so it didn't happen" sort of mentality here. with the amount of scrap going into that place, it would be jam packed waiting in line for hours if they had to check every piece of scrap or paint can you bring in.

I tried taking a few to my scrap yard, but they wouldnt take them. I first tried as electric motors and was denied. And as you drive on the scale there is a giant radiation detector that you drive through. So I basically had to throw them all out

I have a few and will mix them in with my elect motor scrap will see what happens...

Originally Posted by gapajeff

I tried taking a few to my scrap yard, but they wouldnt take them. I first tried as electric motors and was denied. And as you drive on the scale there is a giant radiation detector that you drive through. So I basically had to throw them all out

What exactly is radioactive in a magnetron? There is just two magnets, copper, AL, and etc inside one. NOTHING that would set off a scrap yards radiation detector.

My scrap yard takes them as electric motors, so I don't have a problem, but if they didn't I'd stuff them in with a load of mixed metal without worry.