RE: Recycled Magnetics II (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:40:26 -0600
From: Daniel Barrett <dbarrett1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE: Recycled Magnetics II (fwd)

	Try methylene chloride. If you can't find it straight, use paint stripper
from the hardware store. This will allow you to break slightly fewer cores
;) Let it soak in the stuff for a day or so then try to separate the core.
db


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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>



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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:40:12 +1030
From: Matthew Smith <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Recycled Magnetics II

Hi All

Thanks to those who responded on my query on checking permeability of
'recycled'
ferrites.  (Or was that the TC list?)

I have a number of 'dead' SMPSs, some of them with pretty meaty ferrite
transformers in them.  I would dearly love to take them apart to re-use the
bobbins and cores, but attempts so far have normally resulted in a pile of
shattered ferrite.

What DO they use to glue them together, and can I dissolve it with anything
without trashing the plastic of the bobbin?

Cheers

M

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Matthew Smith
Kadina Business Consultancy
South Australia
http://www.kbc.net.au