Recycler pickup issue

whenever i try to pick up the recycler (one from default config) it used to let my players and me (server owner) to pick up the recycler with a hammer over the past few months it gone from hit anywhere to hit certain locations to now you hit it it disappears with the message "Call the administrator. The recycler cannot be give" is there something I'm missing?

Hey! Yeah youre not missing anything, this is a bug on our side. The pickup removes the recycler first and only then tries to figure out which item to give back, and on recent Rust builds that second step fails. So the recycler just vanishes. Were pushing a fix in the next Crafts update, sorry about the lost recyclers!