Using electrolysis to strip plated items

[SteveevetS]

Using peracetic acid (Vinegar 5% & H2O2 3%) electrolyte to strip a silverplate dish. The solution came from the other silverplate stripping, that was used after electrolysis to get the slimes into solution. Turns out copper acetate is percipitating the copper as the reaction occurs. I have to keep scraping the cathode off for, the copper in the solution is percipitating on it.

 

[Martijn]

The solution came from the other silverplate stripping, that was used after electrolysis to get the slimes into solution.

? This scentence is unclear to me. What are you saying?

I thought we made it clear you should not use vinegar in recovery and refining.
Why continue anyway?

 

[Martijn]

The blue color is copper in solution. Electrolysis will electrowin it out on the cathode, and if reactivity permits it will cement(precipitate) out on any more rective metal when electricity is off.
After reading about it, try tap water. And a silver plated anode and cathode.

You made a copper cementing vinegar battery. Not a silver stripping cell.
Which is great to learn how to 'deal with waste'.

Study and read a lot, ask and present your plan before you go and copy another youtube 'tutorial' please.

 

[Martijn]

Using peracetic acid (Vinegar 5% & H2O2 3%) electrolyte to strip a silverplate dish. The solution came from the other silverplate stripping, that was used after electrolysis to get the slimes into solution. Turns out copper acetate is percipitating the copper as the reaction occurs. I have to keep scraping the cathode off for, the copper in the solution is percipitating on it.View attachment 65155

if your positive is on the red wire, you are stripping silver from this wire and using the spoon as a cathode?

 

[SteveevetS]

? This scentence is unclear to me. What are you saying?

I thought we made it clear you should not use vinegar in recovery and refining.
Why continue anyway?

after I stipped some silverplated items I used the peracetic acid to see if I could get the other metals into solution and it worked with the copper & I am not sure what else went into solution.