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I came across about 60 shielded Gold Fingered Ram. Note. I keep the hot air gun on. And use it 95% of the time. Some shields will fall off after removing supporting clips. But. Not always. Of course. There is a myriad of "substances" used to "secure" contact between the heat sink and the ram. The glue. The glue strip. Etc. Remains on the ram board. It is close to stupid to try and remove it. Am I ok. Just submitting Gold Finger Ram with that residue?
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As long as all reasonable attempt was made to clean it yes.

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Removing the glue and thermal compound from Gold Finger Ram was not exactly quick and easy. I would call the process tedious and time consuming. I used a basic utility knife. Basically just scraping. The adhesive balled up and stuck terrible to the blade and board. But. I feel good about having "reasonably removed" the contaminents. Thanks Lostinlodos. But I have not seen a post exclusively addressing the subject of removing shields from Gold Finger Ram. EXCEPT. The issue of removing shields to reap more money. After all. There's quite a difference in price between Shielded and Unshielded. Which dovetails into my original interest in even considering removing shields from Gold Finger Ram. WHEN DOES IT PAY TO REMOVE SHIELDS? I did a calculation of average weight of clean Gold Finger Ram. Versus average weight of Shielded Gold Finger Ram. To those with some math knowledge. THE MEAN weights overall. I did my novice calculation with Gold Finger Ram at $60 a pound. Shielded at $22 a pound. My conclusion. At a Shielded Gold Finger Ram weighing 2.0 oz. or above I would submit to Boardsort. The payout will be greater than removing the shielding. This type of calculation is directly parallel with Gold Finger Card with bracket versus Gold Finger Card clean. A payout issue that is real. But. It is fluid. Prices change. After the downward swing of prices. You should do your own math.
NOTE. I am in full retirement. I have time to fiddle with this type of issue.
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Removing

This might sound archaic but one thing that's got me through getting adhesives and glue off is something of simple nature; wet your finger and push down hard in a rolling technique. They usually roll up bit by bit. Tedious but does work.

Irrational , foolish, and nonsensical it may be; I remove more ferrous or other materials, NOT needed, to be removed in sense and hopes that item can be recovered in a higher % or without the discrepancies or refuse added on or what would be left on that's deemed okay.

I do the same with my base metal scrap too.

To the surprise and lengths I've been doing this; I can propose or render premium prices occasionally