Question about capacitors

I've been saving these capacitors off any boards I've came acrossed, is there any scrap or resale value to them? I got thousands of them

Originally Posted by CopperMine

I'd imagine you could get more than scrap value for them on Ebay. A quick ebay search confirms this, check it against scrap prices because a lot of the time for very light/small objects selling online is dominated by Chinese sellers who have a government-subsidized shipping option, so they can offer much lower prices.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from...citor&_sacat=0

I wasn't even sure what to scrap them as so I've saving them forever.
In the beginning I would smash the cores out of them cause most were cardboard inside. Then I'd throw the case in with aluminum. Too time consuming though

You might dig through the weeds for old forum threads. The subject has come up before.

The consensus seems to be that they don't have any value but it would be better to read up and judge for yourself.

+1 on the no scrap value.

Maybe you could fill up a fridge with them and dump it in the shred pile. The only way they would have value is it you desoldered them properly and were going to use them yourself. Sometimes if I run out of a capacitor I will go in the garage and pull a few off a board that meet the specs I need, but generally, if I'm going to repair something I spring for the .25 cents and put in a new one rather than use one with an unknown history to save a quarter.

I throw those in my irony aluminum (dirty aluminum) bucket as is.

ebay is your best bet on these - open auction a few of em and let em sell. Other then that, they don't have value.

In a nutshell...
No.
Theres hardly any Ali in it, the foils covered in oxide, theres too much other gunk in there and it'd cost more to convert the Ali oxide back into Aluminium in a arc furnace than its worth.
Plus all the enviromental stuff........

The smelters make a metric ton of Ali per day per cell, in rows of 50, about 10 rows per smelter.
From Alumina that costs US$350 per ton and its 99.998% pure Ali.
That then gets made into capactors......