I collect them as well, hopefully one day I can make a silver bullion. Glad to see a fellow scrapper and person diverting our natural resources away from the landfill.
Actually in the more advanced countries, e-waste is not going to landfill but diverted to metal recycling and recovery businesses and they are recovering the pm's. More and more of us backyard scrappers are wising up and getting the pm's for our own benefit for hoarding and possible future value growth. The very best way to do this if you can is to get all your electronics from free curbside disposals from private homeowners. To protect yourself, as permission from the homeowner first. Your local councils frown on this practice because they want to get the value from e-waste. They say that the e-waste is meant for the councils and you are not allowed to pick it up from the their nature strips. I say that the e-waste is abandoned property and first come first serve. If you have to pay anything for e-waste then your profits will be reduced.
Great video Dusan!! I have been saving these switches and thought they contained Gold.. Glad I watched the video and will now process them for Silver!! Many Thx!!
More than I expected from a jar of switches. I noticed some of mine when they break open appear to be gold plated and I would have to separate those. I guess I’ll keep collecting them. Thanks!
Ah, I thought that was silver in there! Good thing I saved them! Now I need a method to separate tantalum from silver and palladium from thousands of little capacitors... ugh.
Hi Dusan! I always wondered if it's worth to collect them. BTW A few days ago I took the panel from a car computer that contained switches like that. It was a big surprise because the switches were gold plated inside! They had a large gold-plated membrane and contact points. Greetings from Poland!
hello.love watching your videos..just something I was thinking off.aftet you burn the material and you starting crush it. would it be quicker and better if you got a old blender and put the burned material in and blend it to dust and use a shiv for the dust..has anyone tryed this
i had a similar bunch of switches. instead of melting them with acid, or heat, i took each one apart, and kept each dot of silver. (had no idea these dots are silver!) can you melt these?
Dusan my bro, I am in the UK, have you got an email address or whatsapp I can talk to you on? I have a LOT of ic chips, gold pins, cpu feet, gold flashing on pcb, lots more. But in uk I can't buy Nitric or sulphuric, so come chat to me about what I have.
