How to find Silver in Tactile Switches from PC's & TV's

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eWaste Ben

eWaste Ben

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@kenayala111
@kenayala111 9 жыл бұрын
thanks for the visual demonstration, I had heard about silver in switches but never know where to look, I would have thought the copper disk was the silver.
@eWasteBen
@eWasteBen 9 жыл бұрын
+Ken Ayala the underside that makes contact could also be silver plated, probably depends on who made them and for what application so you could keep them too and process together.
@zartan7779
@zartan7779 7 жыл бұрын
I also thought the silver disc was silver .,.doh I now know thanks
@shaneyork300
@shaneyork300 6 жыл бұрын
I try to scrap as I go, it just seems to work better for me. But yes I keep every switch of every kind. Like you said there everywhere, if you hear a click there's a switch some of the best ones I've found are on Electric stoves, washers, dryers, etc. I've had many that weigh 1/4 to 1/3 of gram each. might not sound like much but they do "add up"!!! I might do a test to see with tv switches only (the smaller ones) how many it takes to get an ounce. I always look ahead with silver prices. Less than 20 years ago $5.00 an ounce or less was the norm. Now it moves on average $17 + or - a couple of dollars, with a shoot up price of $48 back 5 to 6 years ago. That's a 400%+ increase with a shoot up of 1,000%. That would put averages in 20 years around $60 to $75 an ounce, with a possible shoot up range hovering just under $190. None of this is guaranteed, I'm just looking at the history of silver from 1960 to present. If you do the math you'll see for yourself the possibilities! FYI, all of these figures are in U.S. currency!!!
@torchandhammer
@torchandhammer 5 жыл бұрын
I've peeled those all apart and they're all the same metal within the plastic. The central button has legs and the two little flag things on either side are connected with legs. It's all made of the same stuff, hopefully silver!?! I melted a handful of them down and got a silvery looking blob that I would say doesn't look like pure silver but I haven't found anywhere to get it tested for content.
@Magisktification
@Magisktification 4 жыл бұрын
If you melted everything you have the base metals like copper in there. Not the way to go.
@NOFX0890
@NOFX0890 3 жыл бұрын
Make your own Schwerters solution.... potassium dichromate and nitric acid. A reddish reaction will be a positive indication of silver.
@torchandhammer
@torchandhammer 3 жыл бұрын
@@NOFX0890 Schwerters, my favorite brand of ginger ale.
@NOFX0890
@NOFX0890 3 жыл бұрын
@@torchandhammer i like ginger ale too... i like silver more.... Try putting your blob into schwerters ginger ale.
@torchandhammer
@torchandhammer 3 жыл бұрын
@@NOFX0890 Good heavens! I rarely get that kinky.
@whatsthetruth7961
@whatsthetruth7961 3 жыл бұрын
On silver toggle switches the 8 or so looped connections on the bottom, silver plated or silver? 1970s era.
@Newmath907
@Newmath907 8 жыл бұрын
appreciate your channel eWaste Ben! hey what is going on when you do a close up of the parts your talking about it gets all wavy i thought i was having a flashback! lol trippy Thanks!
@eWasteBen
@eWasteBen 8 жыл бұрын
Hi, Thanks, yeah I used to use youtubes anti shake feature, it really distorts the picture so now I don't use it anymore but can't remove the anti shake in older vids now.
@Newmath907
@Newmath907 8 жыл бұрын
whew! thats good news thought the Chemtrails were finally getting to me lol (chemtrails aint funny... its genocide btw)
@MrGWN7
@MrGWN7 5 жыл бұрын
So you take the top off them, then remove the copper plated round disc. What do you do after that? Cut the whole switch off the board with side cutters? Surely your not saving the whole boards? Need to redo this video showing the complete teardown of them. :)
@petecurtice6340
@petecurtice6340 9 жыл бұрын
Ben any word on recovery and refining silver from x ray film. Read your article on line and it seems to be some big secret unless you want to send someone you don't know $400-500. I have a lot of film but not to sure of the formula
@eWasteBen
@eWasteBen 9 жыл бұрын
+Pete Curtice don't think any small operation has done it successfully which is why there's not much info out there, would selling the x-rays to a commercial operation be easier at this stage?
@bradleymcewen4654
@bradleymcewen4654 6 жыл бұрын
There is platinum too!!
@NOFX0890
@NOFX0890 3 жыл бұрын
Look up Sreetips... he rips it off with bleach i think. Ill go rewatch it... its slower, but cheaper.
@torchandhammer
@torchandhammer 9 жыл бұрын
Is it just the center button or also the two little flags on either side? I've pulled all the metal out of these and it all seems to be the same material. It's a bugger to get it out of the plastic matrix though. Lately I've been smashing the plastic with big pliers and then I can usually pry the metal bits out of there. Something to do while watching KZbin scrapping videos! Maybe smashing them with a hammer would be more fun. I recently melted down a bunch of the bits into a blob and I'm looking for somewhere to test it to figure out what I ended up with.
@eWasteBen
@eWasteBen 9 жыл бұрын
+torchandhammer pretty sure it's just the raised circular part, but there's no harm in keeping all the metal bits as there's different quality switches so some they might of plated with silver too.
@MSApeace
@MSApeace 9 жыл бұрын
they are more worth reusing them or selling them as they are .. at least in my opinion
@Magisktification
@Magisktification 4 жыл бұрын
Who would buy a used tactileswitch? Noone i ever heard of...
@kamisama9715
@kamisama9715 4 жыл бұрын
Excuse me is that middle part solid silver or just silver plated?
@MichSignMan
@MichSignMan 6 жыл бұрын
I was hoping to see you process them
@Alex-kp3hr
@Alex-kp3hr 2 жыл бұрын
See 999Dusan for processing tactile switches for silver
@stephenp4553
@stephenp4553 9 жыл бұрын
did you push that little round tin between your thumb and nail?
@stephenp4553
@stephenp4553 9 жыл бұрын
+stephen p at 4:55
@eWasteBen
@eWasteBen 9 жыл бұрын
+stephen p yeah it went in there somewhere :)
@keytefirerefining1355
@keytefirerefining1355 5 жыл бұрын
2 kilos yield about an oz
@markleffler2275
@markleffler2275 8 жыл бұрын
mine look rusty.. does that mean no good?
@eWasteBen
@eWasteBen 8 жыл бұрын
you mean on the outside? silver itself doesn't rust or the copper underside, if you see rust on the silver bits it's just rust washed over it from the outside, silver will be all good.
@markleffler2275
@markleffler2275 8 жыл бұрын
+eWaste Ben ok ty :) thou they look copper like underneath
@markleffler2275
@markleffler2275 8 жыл бұрын
+eWaste Ben oh and it's after tear down of button. the tiny piece that come out
@eWasteBen
@eWasteBen 8 жыл бұрын
that would be rust that leaked from outside in
@katecoombes1000
@katecoombes1000 8 жыл бұрын
Are they the same as the ones in mobile phone boards as well?
@eWasteBen
@eWasteBen 8 жыл бұрын
not really, phones have buttons which are usually on contact pads, I guess it's similar because they do have silver or even gold
@katecoombes1000
@katecoombes1000 8 жыл бұрын
eWaste Ben. So it's not the silver shinny disc that comes out but what's under it? If that's the case I have been chucking them out for the last 6 years of scrapping.
@Alex-kp3hr
@Alex-kp3hr 2 жыл бұрын
@@katecoombes1000 Right. The shiny small round disk is only a tin/copper spring. No silver
@xylz1798
@xylz1798 9 жыл бұрын
show us how u would get them out lol
@luckybambooguy6084
@luckybambooguy6084 8 жыл бұрын
little isn't the word I would use and with some being plated..... Ahhhhhhhh Noooo
@Magisktification
@Magisktification 4 жыл бұрын
Cars have quite alot of switches...
@abunsonproject1779
@abunsonproject1779 8 жыл бұрын
pure???
@kenayala111
@kenayala111 9 жыл бұрын
thanks for the update. so much to learn.
@PinkPoo
@PinkPoo 4 жыл бұрын
I love you, I'm sorry to be a creep, actually I'm not sorry, thank you for the knowledge you share
@xylz1798
@xylz1798 9 жыл бұрын
how u get it out
@eWasteBen
@eWasteBen 9 жыл бұрын
+Nate Chaps Just break the plastic up and keep the metal bits
@xylz1798
@xylz1798 9 жыл бұрын
hey ben, do you know about older computers from the 80-90-2000? would an older computer that has a big block as a Pentium processor with and heat sink on it be old? and if i found a computer with the memory boards that have what it looks like is silver on the bottom strip is that really silver and what about the contacts it connected to? what do you think of this?
@eWasteBen
@eWasteBen 9 жыл бұрын
+Nate Chaps They will be Tin plated
@xylz1798
@xylz1798 9 жыл бұрын
do you think there is tin on the memory cards or the ram cards cause they look like they are silver. you think it is tin? sorry for being pain in butt
@eWasteBen
@eWasteBen 9 жыл бұрын
Personally I believe they are silver because why would they do gold and tin? common sense says silver but everyone thinks it's tin because of a buyer who says so, so to not argue with uninformed people I just go with tin, but yeah I personally believe silver so it's your decision, the ic chips on 'em have gold, gold on gold, silver on silver so the pins on the boards would have to be silver plated but there's not enough today to justify a proper testing and assay, main problem is people read things and don't do it to say for sure.
@brendone171
@brendone171 9 жыл бұрын
Good one ben very informative and I have been throwing them out and keeping the manual ones oh well, better start saving them then from Bren Gun21
@akgoldbear7669
@akgoldbear7669 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the information. Like 306 from me 👍😉
@filamrider
@filamrider 5 жыл бұрын
Wattttttttttttt thank Ben keep it up sir. Greeting from Oakland califa.
@vanbemme
@vanbemme 9 жыл бұрын
Great vid ben thanks again!
@xylz1798
@xylz1798 9 жыл бұрын
ty i was just gonna throw them away
@cherylashton6926
@cherylashton6926 7 жыл бұрын
You'd need 100 pounds to make any kind of good money.
@Alex-kp3hr
@Alex-kp3hr 2 жыл бұрын
Most people are just too impatient and want immediate fortune now. Stash the stuff away for the future when pm prices skyrocket.
@kylegeorgebeckstrom4993
@kylegeorgebeckstrom4993 Жыл бұрын
omg get to the point
@peteregan5346
@peteregan5346 9 жыл бұрын
Thx 4 the video, but GET TO THE POINT DUDE!
@eWasteBen
@eWasteBen 9 жыл бұрын
+Peter Egan just chill dude, it's all fun
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