I tried depotting my AA eyeshadows this way. They are in the same mesh housing (not a metal pan) and they sorta fell apart. Well the one I did depot fell apart. Because they were not on metal pans, I also could not glue a magnet on the bottom so I was unable to put the eyeshadow into the MAC palette without it moving around. I have depotted a LOT of htings but I def would not recommend depotting anything with the mesh bottom. It is the first time I destroyed something and in the end I was not able to get it into my magnetic palette either. ARGH.
I ended up mushing it into powder, adding alcohol, adding it to an almost empty pan to try to rescue it. Now it's way too powdery. I am going to have to just bite the bullet and replace it with another sometime... prob through eBay since it is sold out.
Wish I knew this beforehand.