Melting silver plated items into ingots 

nice bars, thanks for the video...

I was pretty surprised to see any sort of silvery appearance on the finished ingots. I'd have thought they would look like brass, which I am assuming is the main underlying metal, although some could be pewter. Also surprised to NOT see the normal scabby surface appearance of pure copper and to some extent, brass. I'd reco doing a specific gravity test (hang with string in water) on that smaller bar to get an idea of the composition, just for giggles.

That's cool. For some reason I figured it would still look like copper, with silver plating only being 7% of the make-up. Good to know though. It has a nice color to it. I have a bunch myself, I may have to melt some down. Nice goin'.

Well done.

Those were actually some pretty cool cowboy boots 👢👢

Looks like a good old black and decker drill still going strong.

The little boots one was definitely either steel or lead, i have a pair of them, they are mad heavy!

That was great to watch yeah some aluminium get oxidised leaving more dross when melted but nice once cleaned up into ingots , nice days work brother

Being silver plate is the result a .925 bar? Great pour fun to watch. Thanks for sharing.😎😎⛏⛏🔥🔥

It’s so interesting to watch this pour. I’m so accustomed to aluminum that seeing something silvery but without the same surface tension is hard to process in my head. Great video Ipswich!

You could recover the silver from surface first, then melt.

Before you melt this kind of stuff take a grinder & see if its Copper, Brass or stainless, You have Lead + Pewter Contamination, No scrap yard will buy them as Cu Or Brass maybe Lead as they pay the lowest, Some are made of brass with Lead handles, Also since your melting Lead mixtures check & see if your filters are rated for Lead?

I detected zinc smoldering andthe video showed a piece melting quite quickly like aluminum so I would bet you have copper, brass, aluminum and a possibility of pewter but from what I read pewter is to costly to silver plate.its a " pot luck pour!"

This reminds me of the gold-plated brass pins that are being melted down, cast into ingots and sold on eBay by unscrupulous sellers in the middle east. You are just taking an item that is easy to extract the valuable plating from - and making it completely uneconomical. You might just as well spend the gas and your labor to melt down and sell zinc scrap.

That is some very dirty silver. Refine 999.

Why would you not refine the silver out? From what I see the items on the table were more valuable as antiques. For instance I have sold the small boots for around €10 and €30 for a pair. Some plated items still have value, not a lot but more than low end scrap as has been noted. But a nice job on the smelting and the ingots.

Does the silver pour out first, guessing that the copper is heavier and takes longer to melt? What is the material that the silver is covering?

Are you in Ipswich, MA?

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2:13 how lucky are you that this did not blow up a soon as you put that in? I did something similar with a small copper elbow and had molten metal blow all over the place.

Its alloy now 😂❤

i would be guessing that was pewter

So, a silver rich pewter?

I'm confused, if it is only silver plated, where did the other metal go?

16 lbs of what? What is the chemical composition of your end product?

75 percent silver 25 percent tin copper and silver do not look silver when melted .silver and brass not likely as the silver would start burning off before the brass melts. lead no chance . That's my opinion awesome melt brother

Too bad the boots weren't your size. They wouldn't be comfortable, but style usually isn't.

Can u sell them for profit?

How much silver can successfully be extracted 40 % silver

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So you're just melting it all together into one chunk without separating the silver from everything else and making it seem like that's just ok for everyone who watched your video and didn't know any better?? Irresponsible.

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What's the device that you need for melting down the metal so I could buy it for me