multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) yielding 50g+ palladium per Kg

I hit the jackpot with this device - many times higher palladium content than the one declared by the manufacturer: 0.4g vs 8.5g Pd

[@djbeacon6895]

Back in 1995 I headed up a project to replace Pd in MLCCs with Ni. Pd was then about $75 / t.o. Did calculations on how much the project would save the company if Pd went up to $100 and even 150 / t.o. We went ahead and completed in 2001. Saved the company 100s of millions of dollars per year.

[@blacklabelonthebedrocks]

Great piece of scrap, great result! Good to see you are back, looking forward to upcoming videos. Best regards from Germany.

[@OwlTech333]

Thank you very much!

[@steven2212]

Merry Christmas Owl! Great vid!

[@OwlTech333]

Merry Christmas to you too! Thanks for watching!

[@SURFEAMORETERNO]

One more time, a good job. Great video mr. Owl.

[@julianalcorso5703]

Oh, and I should have added that there has never been any doubt about your refining skills!

[@chosen1one930]

Always good to see new videos from you

[@OwlTech333]

Glad to hear it! More to come!

[@colonialcharlie8702]

Thanks for the labelled pics! There's great variety in those vintage boards, hopefully there's as good pd in the ones i find here. 😀

[@OwlTech333]

I hope so too!

[@julianalcorso5703]

Hey Owl, I haveonly just caught up with this vid. Your editing skills have improved dramatically!! Well done you!

[@OwlTech333]

Thanks!

[@escrapchannel]

When I watch your videos I feel like in medieval alchemistry lab! Beautifully explained are all processes! 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 👍

[@FollowMe2aMillion]

Great video, hope all is well. We missed you!

[@NOFX0890]

Pro recovery Owl tech, with what you had available. Thanks for the vid, a pleasure to watch. From Aus

[@cabulingue]

all Ure videos are great. and the material you recover is also very good stuff. wish you good health always

[@OwlTech333]

Thanks for the kind words

[@davidgold531]

It is a long time we havent see you!! Thanks make many videos please!!! Good new format

[@OwlTech333]

Thanks, will do!

[@royalrefining6182]

Nice work as always

[@OwlTech333]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@dr.a006]

Awesome! Those old things made back when Au, Pd, Ag, Pt were somewhat cheap.

[@OwlTech333]

Yes

[@ilmarzeiger729]

Very good videos! Thank You Owl Te ch!👍🤩👍

[@OwlTech333]

Thank you too!

[@ManMountainMetals]

Vintage electronics tremble when this man walks by.....😉👍

[@tawnihaynie1065]

Welcome back my friend. Great video. Please take care and stay safe. 🙂🙂🙂😇😇😇❤❤❤❣❣❣👍👍👍

[@SocratePrimusSapiens]

That's a great catch ! And, i may say, it's a game we love : Finding treasure where others see nothing. always a pleasure to see your vids ! Regard.

[@OwlTech333]

Thanks! Always pleasure reading your comments!

[@fazluddinmalik4271]

thanks a lot for support

[@user-le3ps2vc7e]

Nice to see you again 👍

[@OwlTech333]

You too

[@nyangotomoses6544]

Thank u for ur good lesson ,iam watching u here in kenya ,keep on buddy

[@andywhite82]

Great video. Couple of thoughts to get a higher purity button. After converting Ag with HCl to AgCl and filtering, what about adding a few ml of 98% sulfuric acid to precipitate any remaining Pb. Have you thought about using Zn to precipitate the PGMs instead of formic acid? I've found changing the Ph of acidic solutions to be too time consuming. Looking forward to your next video.

[@OwlTech333]

I only started using sulphuric acid recently, didn't have it back then when the video was taken.

[@carlogarcia6792]

well done mate! great vodeo. thank you!

[@OwlTech333]

Glad you liked it!

[@farisfaris5282]

Can you make videos on how to recover indium and gallium? They are scrap metals, but there are no videos on how to recover them and their price is acceptable, especially for people from developing countries

[@dirceudepin7755]

excelente,muito bom amigo,from Brasil!

[@vincentrousseau8194]

Na2co3, formic acid + naoh don t drop thé copper in the same time ? Or did you leave all thé copper with cuppelation ? Thank you , good vidéo like

[@hasantokgoz3069]

Allah razı olsun sağol kardeşim

[@ivsongold322]

Very good 👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

[@OwlTech333]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@mahmmud980]

Welcome tech good job

[@frantiseklaluch6605]

Great video, just question, why donť you precipitate lead with sulfuric acid and filter to remove lead? It is used when purifying gold, is it different with PGMs? There was quite a lot of lead on XRF analysis... Just curious...

[@OwlTech333]

I didn't use H2SO4 back then, instead I used sulphamic acid , but didn't have any. It was a recovery process anyway that't why i didn't bother melting in a dirty crucible.

[@frantiseklaluch6605]

@@OwlTech333 OK, so get all the precisious metals, clean later (or sell as is...), legit... As I have heard, purification does not increase the price so much or not at all...

[@hasantokgoz3069]

Sağol kardeşim teşekkürler Allah razı olsun senden çok çok çok teşeķürlér diliyorum size Aslan kardeşim

[@saint27573]

what kind of metal analyzer machine do you have ? Where did you purchase it ?

[@mike99deanmike76]

Only the best! What XRF do you use?

[@OwlTech333]

Olympus

[@gold999gang]

Nice video 🦉

[@OwlTech333]

Thank you 🤗

[@Amac-uz9hm]

What is the silver cement are where do you get it great to watch 👍

[@OwlTech333]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIPKmaCbr8Zpgc0

[@tinsoffish1810]

Very nice💪

[@OwlTech333]

Thanks ✌

[@varlov5523]

Сова как всегда на высоте. Спасибо за видосик и инфу.

[@OwlTech333]

Спасибо за просмотр

[@varlov5523]

@@OwlTech333 нет проблем привет из эстонии таллинн.

[@dizzious]

I noticed you didn't grind them to powder this time. Does all mlcc ceramic dissolve in pb/ag alloy?

[@OwlTech333]

The video was shot a couple of years ago, only edited and uploaded now at that time I didn't grind the ceramics Wich resulted in longer processing time.

[@jamisontaylor878]

Excellent video we're you guys bin

[@AnggaSaputra-gj5xc]

how long does the process take when you add sodium carbonate+formic acid and naoh to get a black powder?

[@OwlTech333]

10-15min

[@chosen1one930]

What are the rectangle red boxes? They look like trimpot resistors but bigger

[@OwlTech333]

yes they are

[@asdepicas24]

Que tipo de aparatos llevan esos condensadores?

[@quintonharvey1501]

Where did they come out of

[@leventesomogyi622]

Hello OwlTech, I can see after the first "burning out" you always use high temperature smelting. I'd like to avoid this and was wondering if a "wet process" e.g. by dissolving the burnt capacitors in nitric acid or nitric acid / hydrochloric acid mixture could be used as well. Basically dissolve everything then selectively precipitate what you are not interested in then the PGMs. I would like to use the PGMs as catalysts hence not interested in producing a nice Pd/Pt ingot or medalion in the end. :-) It seems you have quite an extensive knowledge about these things, maybe you know a few things about the wet process as well. By the way, I'm curious why those old ex-Soviet capacitors contain so much PGMs? Thanks!

[@ilmulogamdantehnikpelogama9569]

when giving caustic soda what while it is heated, sir

[@user-zw4nu3mo5p]

Супер теперь пересмотрю разочков 5-шесть

[@TrinityGoldRecovery]

to melting palladium which kind of crucible you use?

[@OwlTech333]

Alumina crucible

[@bazonis1gp]

👍👍

[@spfein]

All that alchemy looks fun until the math starts lol

[@whatwill1812]

After long time

[@OwlTech333]

better late than never ;)

[@romanpankin5412]

Лайк как всегда! А сколько золота в нем вышло в итоге?

[@matthewcurry3565]

I'm just curious on "dropping" metals from solution using SMB, and other's like you use. What exactly is dropping the metals? Is it just reducing the PH of the acid, or is there a real reaction going on to create the metallic forms thus "dropping" them from solution? If it really is just reducing PH wouldn't you be able to use like baking soda, or even water? Been a little confused on the chemistry of the formation of the aqueous solutions back into their metallics.

[@OwlTech333]

For a metal to be in solution means that it has donated electron or electrons becoming a positively charged ion. In order to get it out of solution, or to "drop" it, the ion neeads to accept electron or electrons. SMB, and other precipitants give the electrons to the metallic ion so it becomes atom and drops out of solution.... The way I see it

[@matthewcurry3565]

@@OwlTech333 okay okay, so you need to dump in a negatively, or a reactively (-) charged substance to drop it out if I'm understanding that correctly. So in SMB it is the bisulfate (-) that actually does the work, and the sodium which is (+) doesn't do much. Thanks for the very insightful reply, and wanted to say I thoroughly enjoy your "outback hands on" style setup there. Especially using concrete as a cupel for example. So cheap, yet seems highly effective. Great stuff, and thanks again! (Let me know if I have that twisted, or backwards. Lol)

[@OwlTech333]

In a nutshell yes!

[@matthewcurry3565]

@@OwlTech333 NICE! Glad I can comprehend these things now haha. Glad to hear that. Thanks again, and keep up the great work!

[@matthewcurry3565]

@@OwlTech333 So what I am reading is sodium carbonate should do the trick. It is also -2 valency just like SMB really. Unsure if the charge is the only factor, but it seems from our description that it works. Why would people use anything else with the prices I wonder?

[@user-oj8ve2pt2x]

رائع جدن وممتاز مقطع جميل كيف يمكن تحضير حمض الفورميك الترسيب

[@OwlTech333]

Watch my last video

[@mehmetuygur8528]

Eloktironik kartlardan kalay metali nasil ayristirabiliriz ????

[@quintonharvey1501]

Does this apply with old American electronics old school stereos or the old projector tv

[@OwlTech333]

Don't think so

[@ilmulogamdantehnikpelogama9569]

In this video it is not shown when it is time to give a formic acit sir

[@fherdian100]

How are u my friend ...

[@thegolddrop7668]

I can only get 67.5 percent nitric acid is this normal and what are you using to test the button what xrf analyzer is that

[@user-bw6mo7cc1b]

مرحبا عمل رائع جدن هل يمكن صهر المكثفات مع الرصاص الوحده فقط بدون فضه ومن ثم تبخير الرصاص بل البوتقه الاسمنتيه والحصول على البلاديوم تستحق تقدير والمتابعه والاحترام

[@OwlTech333]

Yes you can melt them even without lead, but you’ll need very high temperatures

[@RizwanKhan-bi1ki]

How to wash silver chloride completely free from PGM. I tried but can't satisfy.

[@OwlTech333]

try with dilute HCl

[@Avci__]

Sir, I extracted palladium of a very high caliber, but I was not able to melt it. Do you have a suggestion for me in the process of smelting?

[@alexhsabro2028]

Хотелось-бы посмотреть на иностранную технику с подобным содержанием.

[@muriaticacid7004]

Thumbs UP

[@SashaRybachok]

👍

[@yuryandy861]

Спасибо за ролик, отличная работа 👍 и с возвращением, отдельное огромное спасибо за русские субтитры, мой англиский далеко от совершенства 😁 Будь здрав!

[@OwlTech333]

Спосибо за просмотр!

[@yuryandy861]

@@OwlTech333 написал в контакте, если не против есть моменты которые хотелось бы обсудить

[@habeebnawab421]

Can u help show how to separate pd & pt

[@OwlTech333]

Ok

[@sxfvvgcd4829]

فيديو رائع ماء المواد التي رسبت البلاديوم او ماء المواد التي حايدت النتريك

[@muhammadshahzad360]

website name where you find contain detail of frequency comparator

[@OwlTech333]

dragmetinform.ru/spravochnik-soderzhaniya-dragmetallov/kontrolno-izmeritelnye-pribory/chastotomer/ch7-12-id75561.html

[@muhammadshahzad360]

@@OwlTech333 thanks a lot for support

[@user-dv4eb7yt3d]

Что за модель РФА?

[@rohitlkv]

First sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate I'm confuse. Please write subtitle so everyone can understand easily. 😉

[@OwlTech333]

@6:23 NaOH - sodium hydroxide, @10:59 whatever base you have handy Na2CO3 milder reaction - slower, NaOH vigorous reaction - faster

[@rohitlkv]

@@OwlTech333 nice bro and one more question when u added formic acid. Thanks 😁

[@mouhametmana3051]

bienfait

[@tawnihaynie1065]

🙂🙂🙂😊😊😊

[@AaaBbb-xn8bk]

А при купиляции в щолочи...потери палладия? NaOH-растворяет при сплавлении палладий

[@OwlTech333]

Нет

[@sheilaboothroyd4293]

We watch all that and then he never says how much precious metals are worth at the end??? What your doing is ace but I'd like to know how much money you've made, that's the whole point of what your doing?l.🛡️🧐

[@OwlTech333]

you can make the calculation yourself 9.9g Pd times the spot price today it is $56.8 per gram which ads to $562

[@user-sd1ur4bn2r]

Даже не удевлен)) Щас подобные ковыряю Добро народов СССР не экономили на производстве

[@user-ed5wv7fb3y]

Здравствуйте! Купаж ето хорошо 👍 но я предпочитаю кислоты!) ЛАЙК вам ✌️

[@OwlTech333]

Привет Руслан! Спасибо за просмотр!

[@user-ed5wv7fb3y]

@@OwlTech333 незашто 😉👍

[@shaneyork300]

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