Silver Contacts Recovery & Refine Complete Process (long video, but worth the watch)
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- In this video we will go thru the complete process of recovering and refining silver contacts to see how much silver we can get from them. I know this is a little long, but its worth watching. It answered some questions for me anyway, LOL
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Hey man, thanks for this video! I've been collecting breakers for a few months and have built up a decent stash of contacts. I know I'm not going to turn a profit after subtracting all of the time and supplies, but I really want to hold that ball of silver just so I can say "I made this out of trash!"
After your process in this video, what percent was that button? Also, when you were "distilling" the silver with the copper coil, what was the liquid in that beaker? Is that process called distilling? thank you for showing us this process. Very informative. Can't wait to see your silver cell video.
Yield was 1.65% per pound of arms. The fluid was a mix of silver and copper nitrate, adding the copper coil forced the silver to fall out of the solution as the copper replaced the silver. This is a replacement process where one metal replaces the other. Hoped this help to explain what was going on.
I run contacts from the relays out of junkyard cars. Im fortunate that the junkyard charges me $10 for a canvas grocery bag of them. I'll pull em apart and refine those contacts. Im getting between %60-70 yields. It is very laborious and kinda tedious, but the yields are real. I've always wondered why everyone says they're only plated when my experience is that they are alloy.I've posted a few videos if you're interested. Not trying to promote myself, just saying. The copper i get from the spools and legs almost pay for themselves in scrap value. The legs are also plated (very very thin) with silver as well. Good run-through, tho. Also, i thought the type you're processing contained palladium, but i guess not?
Thanks for the info about the cars! Things are a bit crazy around here still, but when thing settle a bit I will check out your channel!
Just started doing contacts myself, hope they are worth the time. Also new friend here.
good luck with them, hope things pan out for you, and thanks for the sub!!
Great tutorial!
Thanks so much!!
That was cool
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
New sub here. Love the videos. Love the skulls. I made a silver skeleton key with silver Scorpion last week
Thanks for the sub, got ya back!!
Nice walk threw! Ive got about 5oz of contact buttons ready for refining. And have you tried any of the woven copper inside the breakers? Some of those are high in silver %.
Not yet, but I have everything saved, also have some silver plated arms I want to try, think I'm going to do them with the sulfuric nitric, mix, should work good because of all the copper, it worked real good for plated flatware so I don't see why it won't do the same on breaker parts. Guess there's only one way to find out, right!
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I have many questions. I work in a scrapyard and have been collecting these for years. I’ve always got them for free. I have more than 15 five gallon pails full of the silver contacts removed from the copper. I would love some advice. These are all large contacts with no tugston steel
Wow that's a ton of silver there!! My contact and website info is in the description are of all my videos, you can get ahold of me that way if you like. I am having surgery, Halloween, so I will be out of commission for a while. Don't be alarmed if you don't hear back from me right away, a lot going on right now!!
Any tool cutter plz help me
you can clip them off and dissolve the base metal in AP (hcl & peroxide)
silver is about 0.7 euros worth per gramme
if you have 23 grammes thats about 16 euros worth, bought it at about 20 euros price
As I have said in many other answers, I am aware that its cost me more to recover this then it was worth. This video was a "Test" to see what we would get and if it was worth it to do them.
It’s not a tungsten alloy. It is actually a silver tungsten ceramic. These probably came from circuit breakers. About 40 percent silver. Contacts from starters are much better. 70 to 90 percent silver and those are alloys.
Figured it had to be tungsten of some sort because of the density, LOL knew it wasn't gold ☹🤬 Thanks for watching.
Backyard Scrapping, yes tungsten has such a high melting point that if it were tried to become alloy with silver the silver would simply evaporate before the tungsten reached its melting point.
Backyard Scrapping, I think tungsten is right next to gold on the periodic table. I think a Niton gun would confuse tungsten for gold when combined with silver.
Tes they were from breakers.
@@iamanempoweredone6064 True true! 😁
Nice video. Do you recycle also waste water with base metal chlorides or nitrates?
Waste water I just use steel or iron to drop the copper which I recycle, then I use sodium hydroxide to drop out everything else, filter and neutral the water to dispose, and I have a bucket that I keep the filters in. When I get a full bucket of hard waste, i will see if I can sell it off or give it to a larger company that can recover the rest. Great question thanks for asking!!
Perfect. I try to be responsible for waste/nature, in past I tried conversion to hydroxides but they are mostly gelatinous and is problematic to filter residual water or salts out. At least make sense to recover copper and tin because they cost some money. Regarding contacts, sometimes you can have Au-Ag alloys, sometimes more like palladium content ;-)
Yes, in the past I have gotten a few silver over gold, don't know what they were used for, but they were a super heavy silver plating over a super heavy gold plating on a base metal of some kind. The silver and gold yield were both good from these, but I have only come across them that one time. Haven't gotten many with palladium yet, maybe one day I'll get lucky and find some!
Did you ever figure out what kind of metal the remaining part of the contact was?
@@Kinneycc123 best guess was a nickel alloy of some kind, with out extensive testing or one of those $20,000.00 nice little testing guns, don't really know for sure. What I do Know is there was little to no precious metal.
Thanks for the informative video! I’ve been stockpiling all my contacts from ewaste over the years. I do have a question. Can you just toss all the arms with the contacts still attached in the nitric acid solution or is it necessary to remove the contacts like you did with the torch?
I the arms are silver plate or copper I do not recommend putting them in your nitric as there is to much copper. Its pretty much always best to remove the contacts or you will be dropping the silver as fast as your dissolving it and going in and endless circle.
If you wanna get free stuff, be sure to make friends with your local electricians and plumbers
I have, pretty amazing, many already save the stuff, I guess as stuff gets more and more expensive, people are realizing that its not garbage anymore and they are keeping the scrap and leftovers! Thanks for watching!!
Pet the cat please!
LOL she never shuts up even when you pet her LOL 😺
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You missed a lot of silver
I know this is from a while back, but I just got the notification!! For the life of me I can't figure out why I am just now being notified about a comment made 4 months ago!
Where, the arms were copper??
Maybe flatten the little buggers with a hammer before nitric dissolve? If there is tungsten, it will show and same time increase surface area for faster reaction. Great vid tho!
That'a a good idea, normally I try to bend them before I do anything to see if they are solid or alloy, but wackin um with a hammer would be allot quicker!
Very cool process. That is a sweet looking button you made out of them. Could you do a video explaining how you know if something is .999 Silver or .925 or .800 or whatever, if it’s not marked. I just wonder how they test that? Some rounds are .999 others are .9999? How do they earn a extra 9? Just wondering and you seem to be the guy to ask!
.999 and .9999 are so close there is pretty much no why for us as laymen to tell the difference. To get to at least .999 as a home refiner you have to use a "silver cell" and I am working on that video now, but fair warning, its gonna be another long one, there is just no other way to explain everything. Going to try and have it done in a week or so. thanks for asking. P.S. .999 or (3) 9's as they say is the industry standard.
lol, not sure i'd have my drink that close to any scrapping going on, granted it's up wind but still you know how stuff gets around... are you wearing goggles or mask thru out? and i had no idea they still make those mickey's, i was a kid many moons ago when we drank those things. not sure what you listen to but there's a real early video of eddie van halen practicing with a mickey sitting on his amp. 1970's i'd guess.
I do have and use proper protection, but waring the respirator when videoing makes it nearly impossible for anyone to understand me when I'm talking. Best I can do then is stay downwind. I was happily surprised when I spotted the Mickeys in my local store, years ago it was all I drank so it was really nice to find it again, and also nice to find that they haven't chanced it, or made it new and improved! And whats up with everything being "New And Improved" these days?? what were they selling us before?? Old crappy stuff I guess!! 🍻🍺
You are blowing the fumes towards me, the viewer!! Pretty irresponsible of you! I had to stop watching the video before I got sick!!
(Clearly a joke) thanks for sharing 😊
I know this is from a while back, but I just got the notification!! For the life of me I can't figure out why I am just now being notified about a comment made 3 months ago! LOL Thanks for watching!!
I use a course bastard file to file off the silver contacts. It's a little more time consuming but I'm not spending money on gas.
Good idea, we save where we can!
Ok, so here's what I don't get. WHY?
Nitric Acid is VERY expense. Although he didn't use all that much, it's not hard to spend $50 on a bottle.
So, we used $5 worth of Nitric to get about a $6 button of silver.
I don't get it. Why would you do this?
I don't know how or why many do not understand that this was a test to show what 1 pound of these would yield. I did not nor do I do a lot of my videos for profit, this is my hobby as I have said over and over, I do not suggest anyone give up their day job to become a scrapper. Scrapping is like prospecting, some times we get lucky and hit up on something where we can make a little money, but more often then not your lucky to break even on your cost, and for sure NEVER get paid for your time. Some people pay hundreds of dollars to smack a little white ball around a field and try to get it in a little cup. I choose to spend my time keeping as much precious metals out of the "Mines Of The Future" (Landfills) as possible. Hope this cleared things up. Thanks for watching.
I pay $0.035/ml when I buy nitric in 10 litre cases. Shipping and haz-mat fees included.
I wouldn't rinse the dropped Ag powder with HCl first... you run the risk of creating AgCl in your Ag powder. There is ALWAYS residual Ag still in solution after dropping with copper. Probably why your powder looked more gray- AgCl contamination. Rinse dropped Ag powder through a filter with copious amounts of DI-H20 instead. Final rinse with 250mL boiling hot DI-H20. This has been enough for me to get .999 purity on first refine (if parent material wasn't too dirty- mostly sterling and coin Ag). I follow up with silver cell refine to get to .9999 fine.
Hey Michael, I didn't show it in the video but I actually did rinse before putting it in the hcl, I just didn't show it, most of the time I don't show the rinsing in my videos because of time, and my videos are long enough most of the time anyway LOL, so I cut out as much as I can. I probably should have been clearer about that in the video though, as a newbie could assume they could do exactly what you said. I have found since making this video that it just seems to be the newer circuit breaker contacts that do this, and as I'm really not doing tons of new ones I just keep the silver from them separate, and then toss it in with the next refine to clean it up. Thanks so much for pointing this out, I will do my best to remember & be a bit more descriptive in the future!!!
@@BackyardScrapping Is it okay to rinse with HCI after a really good rinse? then rinse again after the HCI bath plus the boiling water rinse? I see that @Michael Trone said it could risk AgCI contamination, is that only if you dont rinse really well before you do it? I like the thought of rinsing like you did to get the impurities.
This is my 1st video I've watched I also subcribed and should get notifications on new vids. I opened this one because I just got a load of silver contacts. My Ewaste silver is starting to build up, probably a three and half pounds I've been doing this (Ewaste Scrapping) for about 2 years and have alot of family and friend just dropping stuff at my door, I also go around on trash days and get alot of good stuff!!! It's REALLY FUN!!!!
THANKS FOR THE VIDEO, I'M GOING TO WATCH SOME MORE THIS WEEK!!!
Thanks for subbing and watching, I just subbed you back so I'm number 2 LOL. I did this video because I wanted to see what a pound of breaker arms would yield. I've seen so many people WAY over paying for these on eBay, and I wanted to know, and to let others know just what the were worth. Thanks again for subbing and watching!!
Best silver contact video on RUclips!!! Thanks again
Thanks so much!!
I don't know the actual names of the different types of breaker box things but in my experience, the ones with a switch that have little braided copper wires attached to the arms that hold the contacts are most definitely a very low percentage of silver. Not even 10 percent. I don't even bother with those. The ones that are silver are in the breaker box thing that has a single spring button on the top. The contacts in those are always at least 85 percent silver. Sometimes almost pure.
I noticed u use 2 different torch heads can u explain
One is a working flame, one is for melting.
I'm really enjoying your videos. We have a lot in common. Thanks for the great info. I e-scrap also.
Cool really glad you like um!!
Any components with silver I have is from scrap stuff I disassemble for fun. I also collect the copper and brass. Certainly I would not buy silver contacts from anywhere because as you demonstrate, it's mot worth all the work, time and expense. I do not even buy what is called dirty silver. I rather buy pure silver in rounds; do not even care for collection items. Any way, thanks a lot for all the experience and knowledge you share.
You're very welcome, thanks for watching and commenting!! 👍😃
Thanks for the video. What tanks are you using with that jewelers torch? I have the torch but haven’t been able to find what bottles it uses
VERY COOL LIKE THEY SAY IF IT WAS EASY EVERYONE WOULD BE DOING IT LOL NOT ME PEACE MY FRIEND
I know this is from a while back, but I just got the notification!! For the life of me I can't figure out why I am just now being notified about a comment made 4 months ago! Anyway Thanks!!
Same here. The RUclips studio is better for seeing the comments
Hello sir , your using equipment name? for silver remove from contacts ,
Its call a "Little Torch"
Yea dude the real high yield contacts come from relay boxes in industrial plants and stuff. Those typically yield 2+ ounces per relay and it takes 2 minutes to take them apart, and a very short amount of time to knock the silver off with a torch. I accumulated 3 pounds of raw contacts like this.
Cool thats a nice haul, I just wanted to see what a pound of these little guys would yield because I sometimes see them selling for "Ridiculous" prices, defiantly not a bunch of silver on um, but still a land fill rescue.
Many contacts use Palladium especially old potter Brumfield
True, but I haven't got my hands on any in a while. Sad thing is I remember when it wasn't worth no where near what it is now, it was used for many things back in the day, boy if we only knew it was gonna go from about $80 an ounce to over $2000, hind sight is always 20/20 right!
whats that nifty little torch called you are heating the contacts with and where can i get one?
Its called a smith little torch, you can get a clone on ebay for about $25, mine is a real one that I paid about $125 for years ago. Got a clone for a backup and it seems to work just as good.
$6.60 of silver and juw much did U pay? $20?
Don't remember exactly what I paid for these, its been a while ago. I do know I paid more then they were worth, I have seen them go for REDICLOUS prices which was part of the reason for making this video. Just wanted to let everyone know that for the most part these are not worth what many are asking for them.
@@BackyardScrapping thx mate
@@theaussienurseflipper.8113 no problem 😄
Very informative, that was a lot of effort for $5 of silver, assuming it's .999
Yes it was, I mainly did this just for the video as I have seen many people paying WAY to much for these on eBay, and I want to see exactly what one pound would yield. Thanks for watching, I subbed you, good luck with your next pours!
In the future the price of silver will be huge so I am never worried about the dollar price today.
I agree
New to opening avenues scrapping. Also new to the notion my yard has been bending me over! I have about 30 or more breakers and bus bars that are silver/silver coated. Im not a well versed scientist or anything of the sort. Could you possibly point me in the direction of the safest,easiest and most layman (dumbed down fool proof) way of extracting the silver? Or would it be beneficial to just try to sell the pieces without refining? I hate loosing money at the scrap yard and I feel that they enjoy that notion....
There are many ways to recover the silver, but for me only one way of refining it, and that is going to involve nitric acid. That is the method I use, maybe slightly less dangerous is melting your recovered silver, and cupelling it, which involves mixing with lead and heating at a high temp in a furnace or by using a torch. The last method is reverse electroplating, but chemicals are involved there as well. There may be other ways of leaching the silver, but I am not aware of them. All the methods I've talked about have varied dangers, its just a matter of what you are comfortable with. If your unsure, my suggestion would be to just recover the silver and send it to someone else for the refining part. Most home refiners like myself charge about 25% of the yield, some a bit more, I haven't seen any for less. Hope this was of help!!
Reverse electrolysis
The Mickeys grenade bottles!
Love it
Jesus always raining there mate.
It sure seems that way, or I guess I choose the wrong times to go outside LOL
Very interesting video. thumbs up!
Thanks!
Don't drink that coffe :-)
LOL OK
Just what I'm looking for. Thanks for the video. Thumbs up!
Thanks, sorry for the late reply, I try to reply to all my comments, but it seems some fall through the cracks, I think sometimes youtube just messes up!
How to open small silver points on copper
If I understand your question, you will need to dissolve the copper away to end up with just the silver contact.
With a yard like that, anything you do is profitable and pleasurable.
I do enjoy being out there thats for sure!!
Great video keep up the great work.... Thank you for the information too
Thanks, glad you liked it!!
Great video. Awesome channel.
Thanks!
Are silver contacts solid silver or is it another metal plated with silver?
The ones in this video are coated tungsten.
@@BackyardScrapping are there any contacts out there where it isn’t plated but still mixed allow of silver kind of like in silver coins that it’s just silver mixed with another metal?
@@alexyu1236 Yes, many larger contacts are alloys, normally they will be smooth, the tungsten usually have a kind of waffle pattern on them.
@@BackyardScrapping interesting
Very awesome video glad to see have you ever grown silver out of ore
Thanks Man, I just love messing with silver!!
Silver contacts have cadmium
Yes they do, but the cadmium remains in solution after the silver is dropped. This is why I do not just neutralize my solutions and dump them, I considerate them down and pass them along to a friend who then removes the other metals from it. You just need to take care when removing the contacts from what ever they are mounted to by not overheating them enough to vaporize the cadmium, this is best done out doors. I have fans directing any fumes that might be generated away from me. As with anything like this, you just need to prepare and take care when doing it.
Hey man great video. I was watching a sreetips video and he mentioned if the nitric has a green appearance there is paladium present. Maybe it is just the camera, but your nitric solution looks blue green to me!
The green can come form that, but other things as well. I do test my solutions for other PM's before clean up, so no worries there 😁
Hey u got any for sale
Sorry sure don't, don have any of my own right now.
There's a guy on here called the 'lock-picking lawyer' who defeats all these bike locks using picks. All anybody needs is that neat little torch you use here.
LOL never thought bout that!
13:00 that cat in the backgrounds getting all excited to hit some gas
LOL she loves it when I'm out there!
silver forms a protective coating around itself to stop nitric getting to it , which is why you need to inquart karrat jewery . you woud have been better off melting the contact and including some copper . then make it into shot and then soaking in nitric . my guess is what you had left over was silver
No it actually was tungsten and tungsten dust, it would not melt, I tried. In fact trying to melt silver coated tungsten contacts can actually cost you some silver unless you have a very controlled temperature. Also you really want to refine them before melting because some will have cadmium in them and its really not a good idea to vaporize that. Thanks for watching.
When dissolving gold you Inquart silver. Not the other way around
@@jessiemonahan9868 yeah I know. I never said it was the other way around.
Mmm MICKEYS!!!
Yeah!!!! I was very happy when my grocery store started handling it, it had been years since I had had any. Thanks God they didn't change anything but the cap, they still tasted the same!!! 😃🍺🍻🍺
Where did you get that little torch that you used?
Years ago from a jewelry supply, its a smith little torch, BUT don't pay $125 for it like I did you can get them on ebay much cheaper, in fact I bought a clone for $20 and it works just as good as the smith!!!
Thank you. I bought two different ones on amazon and they are from China and I cannot get it to attach to the regulator. The smith company said it is because they are basically counter fit products. Maybe I will try eBay.
I wish we as watchers could post pictures in with the comments, I have some contacts almost the size of a dime, I don't know anything about the chemical process I would just like to take them off the copper bus bars and try to sell them, where did you buy the torch you use, great video
Got it on ebay
I have some contacts that are 3/4"x1"x1/8" and weigh half an ounce that come out of nema size 5 contactors
Lovin the Mickeys making an appearance 😂
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I always sold mine as copper and brass scrap and didn't bother with the buttons. Or removing the silver plating never thought you would get anything with it.
When you were getting the silver or of the nitric acid did you just use a copper coil to get it to drop out or do you need to add another chemical I'm currently looking at doing this with half a pound of fuse Silver, trying to find some good methods to try as a fun project.
I actually have a video on fuse foils, it shouldn't be to far back if you want to check it out. & yes copper coil.
@@BackyardScrapping brilliant I'll have a look this weekend
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Yeah Mickey's good stuff
Think its about the only one that hasn't changed over the years!
Yup love me a Micky's hard to find in Florida n expensive here watching cause I got buckets of relays outlets n switches I hadn't gotten many circuit breakers but I'm always on the lookout for them great video now I'm going to get me a 8 pack of Mickey's tonight LoL
Oh yeah you think a solder gun will work to get them off?
I don't think so, it will have to be a super hot one, it might just depends on the heat. Here in NC the Micky's is only $4.95 a six, guess no one knows what it is here LOL hope it doesn't catch on I like paying that price!!!!
Mickey's is 8 something a six here FL idk why
Sir, how do you silver polish on steel pot? please make video
will try
There is something beautiful about that silver cementing on that coil.
Sure is, its just amazing to sit and watch it happen!! So cool 😎😎😎
amazing video
Thanks ! Silver is just about everywhere, we just got to take a little time to snag it up!
Neat video. Seems like a pretty involved process.
Yes, alot involved, but now we know not to pay an arm and for these. Thanks for watching!
Where do you often find the contacts?
You can get contacts from just about anything that has a switch on it, and I mean just about anything. They can range in size from the point of a pin on up depending on what and where they were used. The ones in this video were from old broken circuit breakers.
@@BackyardScrapping Thanks, for the advice! And, the subscription ^_^ !
large switches relays cutlery everywhere
good demo
Thanks so much!!
Very interesting thanks for sharing !
Not a problem, hope it was of help!
...so....all that used energy for about $10 ?....
The knowledge gained was worth far more then $10
@@themyceliumnetwork Thank you very much Lord Inquisitor Tylion
for explaining to the "JERK DAVID CLARKE" that the contacts do not contain beryllium, the only worries with heating them is cadmium, and that is only if you get them hot enough to vaporize it. I should really delete this comment, and block this, "JERK DAVID CLARKE" for using the F-Word in my comments area, but I choose to leave it just to show what an absolute idiot he is! Had he watch the entire video this genius would have heard me say there were fans directing the fumes, if any away from me. As for beryllium poisoning, it seems the genius DAVID CLARKE must have cracked open a few microwave magnetron's and got beryllium poisoning him self, as it seems his mouth works without the use of his brain!!
What do you do with all the left over chemicals? Can they be reused?
It depends on what was used, but I do distill my HCL back out and reuse it.
@@BackyardScrapping 👍 thanks for the reply .
How long did the total process take ?? Id like to learn how to extract the silver!!
Also I just subbed!
This was quite a while back, but I would say afew hours over several days.
@@scrappingonthefly77 😀
Wow
@@scrappingonthefly77 Yeah a lot of work for a little silver, but remember, this is a "Hobby" so what you end up with is better then nothing, as long as you paid nothing for what you are scrapping. More then anything I just wanted to show people that for the most part they are paying WAY to much for some stuff. To me, if you get it for free, most things are worth the time, but there is still some things the recovery & processing just isn't worth the time.
What do you do with all the used acid?
To lengthy to explain here, I have gone over it in other videos, but I can tell you it is properly handled. Some is redistilled and I recover and reuse the acids, others are properly neutralized and disposed of, and some are simply reduced by evaporation. The recovery method kinda depends on the refine, but recovery and reuse saves a bunch of money so I do that when ever possible, the more I save the more I make.
Where did you get the small torch ?
you can get them from a jewelry supply or on ebay
Where you get that little torch? I want one
Jewelry supply, or you can get um on ebay
You made $5.95 on the one piece.
You would have made more by Not melting it down. Around $23.00 by doing all the smelting.
The video was made to show the yield and answer a question, not to make a profit. Most if not all scrapping you don't get paid for your time, that is why it is a hobby.
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I have been saving elecrical contacts and have about 15 lbs of raw contacts. Saving for retirement lol
Cool thats great, if you ever want to get them processed send um my way! Check out my refining page on my site for more info 😁 www.backyardscrapping.com/page8/page-8-refining-info.htm
I save a huge amount of silver for retirement! Everything silver. It's a very good investment.
Dude your backyard... Its gorgeous!
Thanks!!!
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Thanks
I bet you have jar for that tunston
I don't, but I should, haven't really come across that much, just a few grams here and there.
Another great video bud
Thanks Man!! Take care!
Not long only has to be accurate
Thanks, LOL some think if a video is over a few minuets, its to long.
Do you ever just melt the contacts into ingots without refining and sell them?
Great question! No I don't, I refine most everything I get in scrap. The problem with just melting stuff down is you don't really know what you have. For example some contacts are just very heavy plating on Tungsten, and they can also range widely in purity, 10% up to almost pure. By refining, I know exactly what I have, and should I sell something I know exactly what I should get paid for it. If you just melt something, and then need to sell it you have to take who ever you selling to's word on how much you should be paid for it. Like I said above this way I know. Hope this helps!
When you melt the contacts there is quite a bit of cadmium as well. Cadmium can cost money to get rid of. Also tungsten has an extremely high melting point. It is not an alloy your dealing with. It is made like a ceramic.
What is the coil thing?
Copper wire
@@BackyardScrapping is it hooked up to electricity? Or just hanging
Just hanging, it is a displacement reaction, when you put the copper in the silver nitrate, the copper dissolves into the solution and forces the silver to come out of the solution. In essences to 2 metals are trading places.
@@BackyardScrapping thanks for that info.
Your Welcome!
That good ol Malt lickie
Love my Mickys when its hot outside!
Love that keep up the good work
Thank you 🇺🇸
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That was awesome! Thanks for the info.
You're welcome, I've seen so many of these being sold for "MUCH" more then they are worth, I wanted to see what this type of contact would yield. Glad it helped!
@@BackyardScrapping what size breakers have to most silver?
@@silverserpent1776 To be honest I'm not really sure, I've seen many different sizes in the household breakers, even some that are from the same companies end up having different size pads in them.
grerat vid
Thanks so much!!
Great!!! been wondering about buying these, you have answered allot of questions! THANKS!!!
No problem, glad it helped
Did Palladium dissolve in boiled hcl master.
No
Ok thanks you are the best master.
@@BackyardScrapping if hcl + h2so4 to dispose of iron and tin in alloy / matrial whether the palladium is dissolved in the master.
@@layarsentuh7665 The powder in this batch did not end up being palladium, it was other metals.
@@BackyardScrapping 1.5 kilograms of mlcc magnets I was off but could not find the error palladium dimna master. The first step I did was burn it until it was red like charcoal, then I ground it into flour. the second step I put in a pyrex glass then I boil using a single hcl then the water changes the color to red which I assess is nickel water, I drain it I wash it a few times to get rid of the hcl, then I soak it using h2so4 to remove the iron and then I wash it , after that I just boiled using hno3 to get palladium and silver but I didn't get it using potassium iodine.
The mad scientist Uncle “Mean Dean” Dino!! And people wondering why I always like spending summers with y’all!! Another awesome video
Thanks Rooster!! So you did learn a little something way back when!! LOL!!
Where did the larger pieces of silver come from?
Which piece are you referring to?? The one at the end??
Backyard Scrapping those large pieces we see in your blue bowl. Where or which part are these found in?
@@winterfrinzl7386 They all came off electrical circuit breaker arms, the contacts on the arms were all different sizes, the larger ones may have been 30 amp and the smaller ones were probably 15 amps. hope this helped.
This looks like a fun process, especially it you're teaching a kid some chemistry. However, it's definitely not worth the time. That's like 5 dollars worth of silver.
Actually did this video because I have seen people paying ridiculous prices for these breaker arms on ebay and I wanted to try and show exactly what the would yield. As I said in the video, if your getting them for nothing its worth doing as a hobby thing, but for sure you shouldn't be paying $10 or $20 a pound for these things!! Thanks for watching & commenting!
Great video! I lost you at about 15:16 Is that some kind of electrolysis procedure? Also is that a mini oxy acetylene set up you have for heat?
At 15:16 I was just adding a bit more nitric acid to try and dissolve the remaining metals. A bit further you see the copper coil, that is just a displacement reaction, when you put copper in silver nitrate the copper dissolves and forces the silver out of solution, no electrolysis. The torch is actually mu jewelers torch leftover from when I did jewelry repair.
@@BackyardScrapping oh thank you for the reply
@@BackyardScrapping I usually dump concentrated salt water into the solution after the displacement, as there's some silver ion left over. Silver chloride will then drop out, which can be washed when there's enough to work with, turned to silver oxide with hot lye solution, then dried and direct smelted with carbon, or reduced to metallic silver with sucrose or dextrose-rich Karo corn syrup.
@@charlesdecharleroy7209 Yes, I do the same, I have some other videos showing that. I don't show doing this on every refine because I save the solution up until there is enough to mess with, I have showed it when doing much larger refines.