Re: How to get free desoldering braid...
Its actually pretty easy figuring out what to do with the rest of the guts. The degaussing wire goes towards my magnet wire collection provided of course it is in a size that I don't have already. The PCB is scavenged for inductors, mosfets, low tolerance ceramic and film capacitors, current sense resistors, zener diodes, and whatever else looks interesting. Then on the back of the tube the yoke is stripped off and the copper wire is put back to sell for scrap along with any degaussing wire that I don't need. Finally the tube is "necked" to remove the vacuum inside the tube to prevent it from imploding when it is moves, the set is put in or on top of a barrel or other large container capable of holding glass shards and the tube is smashed to make room for another one. The plastic part usually goes in the burn pile.
Its actually pretty easy figuring out what to do with the rest of the guts. The degaussing wire goes towards my magnet wire collection provided of course it is in a size that I don't have already. The PCB is scavenged for inductors, mosfets, low tolerance ceramic and film capacitors, current sense resistors, zener diodes, and whatever else looks interesting. Then on the back of the tube the yoke is stripped off and the copper wire is put back to sell for scrap along with any degaussing wire that I don't need. Finally the tube is "necked" to remove the vacuum inside the tube to prevent it from imploding when it is moves, the set is put in or on top of a barrel or other large container capable of holding glass shards and the tube is smashed to make room for another one. The plastic part usually goes in the burn pile.
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