Disposing of old metallographic mounts
Disposing of old metallographic mounts
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Just wondering how others dispose of old metallographic mounts?
Where I work, we normally just toss them in the trash, but considering the volume of work we have, it seems like an awful lot of metal to be just tossing in a landfill.
Can we toss them in with our regular metal scrap? I am somewhat inclined to think that the scrap dealers wouldn't want all that phenolic and acrylic "contamination", but maybe it's not an issue?
Thanks in advance.
Where I work, we normally just toss them in the trash, but considering the volume of work we have, it seems like an awful lot of metal to be just tossing in a landfill.
Can we toss them in with our regular metal scrap? I am somewhat inclined to think that the scrap dealers wouldn't want all that phenolic and acrylic "contamination", but maybe it's not an issue?
Thanks in advance.





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On about 100 of the mounts where we still had the technical reports with all the raw data we made a catalogue of these mounts and gave this to a professor of metallurgy. These mounts covered the whole gambit of metallurgy and failures of same. I just wish I had taken the time to verify the man hours of analytical work involved to generate these mounts.
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Swall, did your scrap dealer have some problems with this before with one of his customers?
Maui
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Metalhead
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Burning by a metal recycler is not environmentally responsible.
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