Silver Recovery with Reverse Electroplating - Spoons & Forks Test! 

Hi, for such amount reverse electroplating is too slow. Easiest way is to dissolve all wire in nitric acid, if you can find it cheap.

To clarify, it was working fine previously.

Hi, looks like a new solution needed. To be honest I always create a new solution for each batch I process, so it never happened to me in the past.

@@escrapchannel Thank you so much!

Thanks!

Looks small, I remember I read long time ago about silver plating and it should be multi-layer ... will check if I correctly remember next weekend :)

Hi, it is not working for gold plated items, unfortunately.

Yes, for me it is a hobby! I do not count the time invested and do many experiments for fun, not for profit. I know at least two people making their living recovering precious metals from electronic scrap, so maybe if correctly organized as full time job it is possible to have profit. Never tried! From my perspective, the main bottleneck is to organize a constant supply of good quality electronic scrap to have this hobby profitable.

@@escrapchannel cool yes i also do it just for fun

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Hi, reaction goes slow so hydrogen gas is not an issue. Also an open window helps for that amount.

Hi, if I decide to use sulphuric acid I will not use reverse electroplating. Quickest silver plating removal is a bath of concentrated sulphuric acid and 5% concentrated nitric acid. Just wash out all silver really quickly!

Hello, ammonium nitrate also works well.

@@escrapchannel wow, I am surprised you responded. Thanks a lot!

How do I make sodium sulfite? I have sodium sulphide is that the same?

Hi! No, it is not the same. I buy it.

Hi, do you have analysis of the content, to k now which other metals are present? Yes, you can recover silver from any alloy.

@@escrapchannel nickel bronze and sylver

@@georgevala3245 It depends on silver % if worthy or not. But if you just dissolve 40 kg of alloy in nitric acid you will need 120 litres of acid. So it is not cheap and quick. If profitable depends on the silver content in the alloy.

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Hi, I did not check the weight of the silver plater material, unfortunately. Silver is from 10 spoons and forks. You can’t really predict the result as different material was used more or less and respectively more or less silver scrubbed during usage.

Können Sie Löffel ve Gabel Länge sagen?Gleiche Löffel und Gabel finde ich schon, dann kann ich Gewicht raus finden. Lg.Senel

I usually substitute silver with zinc. I use zinc granules with stirring and 80-100 degrees heating.

Hi, copper bar/wire works too. Just takes time.

@@escrapchannel one more question is ther silver in solution mine is reddish brown do i just filter and wash it until its clear then use copper not sure if u used any acid to redcue the other mewtals in this soltuion

@@bestworst1979 Hi, you have silver in two forms - 1. Small pieces of the silver plating visible and floating. This is metal silver. 2. Silver in the solution as Ag+ cation. Metal silver you can filter and collect from filter paper. Filter from solution should go to silver chloride residue or to metal silver after reduction with copper.

@@escrapchannel ok im just worried abgout the salt will that affect the precipitation of the silver

Hi, you should first filter the metal silver. If you see black to purple color - no worries. This is silver that goes from solution to metal silver forced by sun light :) After you’ll remove silver metal filtering you can follow the table silt and sugar recovery path for the solution.

Hi, no. It was not refined to 999.

Hi, usually I pay below 50 cents.

@@escrapchannel per piece? How about larger plates and pitchers?

@@jenmatters9159 when I buy silver plating I basically spend money on base metal, so per kg price of base metal.

@@escrapchannel how do I contact you to sale you what I have

@@jenmatters9159 Hi, I am working on a project in Switzerland now, so I can’t do my hobby and don’t buy scrap items.

Hi, silver chloride I waited to drop at the bottom and then I recovered silver from it with Zinc granules. Zinc replaces silver and we get metal silver.

@@escrapchannel It would be great if you can make a video on this too :)

Hi, I have a video on this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L7WDN7rFlyA.html

Thanks!

Thank you!