Blair, I am guessing the gold is electroplated.  Based on what I've seen for recycling ENIG in scrapped PCBs, my wild guess is an ICT fixture might have a few dozen to upwards of 100 $ worth of gold. So it may not be worth the de-pinning time and paperwork.  I'm curious to hear what others might think. Louis Hart



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Happy New Year, Technetters!



I've been asked if there is much value in recycling old ICT fixtures for the gold content on the probes. I personally don't think that it's worth the effort, and we simply let the recycler do whatever they do. Have any of you had this come up, is there enough there to worry about it?



Thanks,

Blair