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[leelandbullock]

Somewhere around here I have a roll of Teflon insulated silver plated wire.

Burning Teflon can be quite dangerous, I wouldn't strip it by burning.

yeah i am stripping with a razor blade now but even getting it started then pulling the coating off is BLAH long work. it took two hours to strip just half of what i was holding in my hand. but as another poster said.

2% per meter is still 2%, and i didnt pay a dime for any of it. so its all profit to me...well after chemical expense to process the whole lot..


QUESTION!!!!!!

how do you reverse electroplate...what is the bath i place it in for gold and silver (casuse for all the wire i rather try that then process it for purity, than to waste alot of nitric to burn up the copper in it), what kind of back yard power souce could i rig up, and what do i use as anode to hold the plated materials, and what made the best node to collect the gold onto.

i cant find anyone willing to break the process down for me.

 

[goldsilverpro]

Unless you just want to waste your time, there are better things to do than mess with silver plated anything. There is just no profitable way to process it. None!

 

[g_axelsson]

2% per meter is still 2%, and i didnt pay a dime for any of it. so its all profit to me...well after chemical expense to process the whole lot..

2% is for 0.25 mm wire wrap cable. What you have looks a lot thicker and so the percentage will drop. Search the forum for silver plate and you will see that there isn't any secret process for silver plate as it isn't economically to refine it. You will only lose time and money. I sell all silver plated cables as copper cables and I'm happy with that.

/Göran

 

[patnor1011]

QUESTION!!!!!!

how do you reverse electroplate...what is the bath i place it in for gold and silver (casuse for all the wire i rather try that then process it for purity, than to waste alot of nitric to burn up the copper in it), what kind of back yard power souce could i rig up, and what do i use as anode to hold the plated materials, and what made the best node to collect the gold onto.

i cant find anyone willing to break the process down for me.

Read C.M.Hoke book. She will break all processes down for you.

 

[leelandbullock]

QUESTION!!!!!!

how do you reverse electroplate...what is the bath i place it in for gold and silver (casuse for all the wire i rather try that then process it for purity, than to waste alot of nitric to burn up the copper in it), what kind of back yard power souce could i rig up, and what do i use as anode to hold the plated materials, and what made the best node to collect the gold onto.

i cant find anyone willing to break the process down for me.

Read C.M.Hoke book. She will break all processes down for you.

i dont have the book yet

 

[goldsilverpro]

Download a copy of Hoke for free. You can read it while you're waiting for your hard copy. Other than a brief mention of the sulfuric stripper (reverse electroplating), you won't find any details in her book. The patent came out the same year she wrote the book (1940).
http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=2480

If you really want to find out how to use this stripper, find a post by lazersteve, go down to his signature, click on the link for his website, read the instructions and sign in, and go to his free videos. You'll find lots there. Also, here's a bunch of threads you can wade through.
http://www.goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/search.php?keywords=sulfuric+stripper&terms=all&author=&sv=0&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search
http://www.goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/search.php?keywords=reverse+electroplating&terms=all&author=&sv=0&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search

I might also mention that the concentrated sulfuric acid (H2SO4) stripper is the only way of stripping gold without eating the base metals that I know of, unless you want to use cyanide (a frightening thought). It will also strip silver and palladium, but recovering these from the solution is a problem. Gold is much easier since it falls to the bottom as a powder.

 

[leelandbullock]

check this out forgot i have like 20 of these rolls of ceramic capacitors.

 

[butcher]

Those may have ruthenium oxide (RuO2) film on an alumina substrate as well as silver and palladium.
http://www.megastar.com/products/megastar-ohm/pdf/RMC%20Series.pdf

 

[Woodworker1997]

The pins in the first pic look like they were made by Amphenol. I did some digging and found they are gold plated over cu alloy. I'm interested in these pins because i have ~10 pounds of them.

What would you use to process them?

 

[texan]

check this out forgot i have like 20 of these rolls of ceramic capacitors.

Actually those are resistors....not capacitors.

Just sayin....

Texan

 

[patnor1011]

He was banned.

 

[madscientist]

Ill have more pics later. Im trying to figure out what they r for sure. As for processing if its palladium i have to try frist then get back to u. Havent processed pladium..

 

[jimdoc]

Ill have more pics later. Im trying to figure out what they r for sure. As for processing if its palladium i have to try frist then get back to u. Havent processed pladium..

That you Leeland?

 

[acpeacemaker]

Wow...

 

[madscientist]

Ill have more pics later. Im trying to figure out what they r for sure. As for processing if its palladium i have to try frist then get back to u. Havent processed pladium..

That you Leeland?

Yes it is, hopefully the mods will let me back with my name. As i am sorry for any transgressions to anyone. For reasons unknown to me. But im not any less sorry.

I have come upon a plethra i think thats how its spelled. Of knowledge and met some very nice people. So id like to stay with my old name and not proxy my ip anymore.

 

[jimdoc]

Ill have more pics later. Im trying to figure out what they r for sure. As for processing if its palladium i have to try frist then get back to u. Havent processed pladium..

That you Leeland?

Yes it is, hopefully the mods will let me back with my name. As i am sorry for any transgressions to anyone. For reasons unknown to me. But im not any less sorry.

I have come upon a plethra i think thats how its spelled. Of knowledge and met some very nice people. So id like to stay with my old name and not proxy my ip anymore.

That is up to the moderators. If you use any language like you used over on Goldenchild's Youtube page you will be gone permanently. As well as any attitude or disrespect for any member.
There are a few rules around here, and Rule Number One is - Respect.


Jim

 

[jimdoc]

Ill have more pics later. Im trying to figure out what they r for sure. As for processing if its palladium i have to try frist then get back to u. Havent processed pladium..

That you Leeland?

Also use of spell check would show some respect also.
As well as no texting lingo, that is one of the rules here also.

Jim

 

[madscientist]

Ill have more pics later. Im trying to figure out what they r for sure. As for processing if its palladium i have to try frist then get back to u. Havent processed pladium..

That you Leeland?

Also use of spell check would show some respect also.
As well as no texting lingo, that is one of the rules here also.

Jim

My apologies i am on my mobil phone not at compiter right now..force of habbit on text lingo an small buttons to press. With big fingers.

 

[jmelson]

check this out forgot i have like 20 of these rolls of ceramic capacitors.

I think you'd get MUCH more return selling these on eBay that trying some process to get the
TINY amount of precious metals out of them. Realize that I pay as little as $5.00 for a reel of
4000 similar resistors, and maybe $15 for a reel of capacitors. There obviously is a LOT less
PM in them that the sale price, considering they are mostly ceramic, and there's testing,
putting them on reels, etc.

These are NEW prices from major distributors, not resale prices on the surplus market.

Jon

 

[BJL1984]

my spelling migt me off but its the capezo effect of electricity that in reality electricity tavels onthe surface area of a wire not the inner core, thus would be the cause of copper being plated with silver, I pulled some buss bars out of a 80 year old 3 phase delta configuration panel a couple of months ago they were about a quarter of an inch thick and 6 inches wide solid copper inside but plated silver I may one day strip them but for now they hang on the wall of my workshop as a prize lol