Scrapping circuit breakers and relay boxes for FREE SILVER.

Hello scrappers and planet lovers. This is another video showing you where you can find free silver while scrapping. Circuit breakers and relay boxes are loaded with silver and a great place to find that precious metal.

[@irishgoldstacker8018]

My channel is all about copper and brass, but I do collect silver contacts as well. Here in Ireland scrap yards will give you bare bright for almost any stripped copper. Even that really thin spool in your video there. Greetings from Ireland 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇸

[@TinManScrapper]

Wow. That is good you get bare bright prices for all. Just amazing the prices right now. Thanks for watching, stay well.

[@ltdan2990]

great video! Thanks for sharing your information. I didn't know the relay boxes had silver. Was just crapping them for the #2 copper. Will start getting the silver also. Thanks again.

Good video, I'm learning a lot, I started to pick up the electrical circuit contacts for silver!!!

[@aidavewaste2576]

2 nil up..sollers..gave ya the thumbs up tin man as I know it's going to be a good video.👍👍👍

[@TinManScrapper]

Thanks again. Stay well.

[@JohnnySwedishScrapper]

boom brother great video

[@RuthWambugu]

Wow that's a great find.Thanks for the informative post.

[@TinManScrapper]

Thanks Ruth. Stay well.

[@jamessloan960]

I'm enjoying your informative videos. Thanks for all your help. In the spirit of service to others may I offer a couple of suggestions: 1 get a wood handled, small sledge hammer. Much more efficient in controlling the force necessary to break plastics , iron, etc. In time you will quickly learn the leverage points for safe separation of various materials. When avoiding the spray of plastic parts hold the handle at the iron base of hammer where it joins the wood. #2: to save damage to hearing find a rounded granite rock from a river or stream. Use this instead of an anvil or any iron base for separation of metals, plastics, etc. I have been using the same rock for the past 6 years. Retired another rock after 8 years of usage. Again, I so appreciate your generous sharing

[@TinManScrapper]

Thanks for the advice, I actually have one of those sledge hammers you suggest. Honestly, did not think the plastic would be so hard.

[@maxcloutier5285]

Ha ha, thank you for the VIP service video ! Just after I ask you for those relay boxes, I was lucky to find a dismantled oven where I found those relay boxes. Two blacks plus five smaller blues. If I add the silver contacts that where on the weird brass fingers, I found more than 50 silver contacts. Not as thick as the ones of the circuit brakers although. Havent found one of these yet. I made my first sale at the scrap yard this week. I had a good price for higher grade metal but almost nothing for the lower ones. I was paid 4.40$ for good number 2 copper in Montreal.

[@TinManScrapper]

Nice price for sure. Glad I could help. Stay well.

[@fazotakeiteasy]

Love your videos !!!

[@TinManScrapper]

At 1:16 I mean relay box

[@teamSHTF]

Nice break down! Unfortunately that was a contactor not a breaker. Relay boxes off your power board and the third is a limit switch. You should also note that some of the contacts may not be silver but rather tungsten.

[@TinManScrapper]

Agree, yeah my brother the electrician said the same about the contractor, but both have nice pieces of silver.

[@juanzamorano3075]

Another aswome info video keep them coming

[@TinManScrapper]

Thank you for watching. Stay well.

[@lizzard16]

Hey, Tin Man! Thanks for all your videos, I'm learning a lot! You mention in one of your other videos that you don't take the silver from the buttons on circuit boards. Is there a reason for that? Is it not as good as the silver on the switches? Would there be 2 pieces of silver in the buttons also?

[@TinManScrapper]

just extremely small content. I just bring in as ewaste circuit boards. small dot. Thanks for watching and the comment. Stay well

[@tommyulman6623]

would like to see you use the vice more for holding things save on your hands

[@TinManScrapper]

Lol, honestly I did not think the plastic was going to be so hard. Stay well.

[@DavidGS66]

I don't want to deal with nitric acid to get silver. I have a big jar of silver contacts & I'd like to know where I can sell them. Maybe you should buy silver contacts.

[@TinManScrapper]

Sell online, people do buy. You could also try Boardsort.com they buy items from circuit boards. Also computer repair or builders will buy relay boxes.

[@Pigpen-l2i]

What's the metal on the end of that little metal thing that you took out first

[@TinManScrapper]

The back of the breaker was a piece of tin.

[@skipjohnson7425]

WHAT DO YOU CALL THE TYPE OF SCALE YOU USE AND WHERE DO YOU BUY ONE ??

[@ScrappingwithGrandpa]

I have a whole bunch of breaker boxes how about I break them all apart. Take all the precious metals out of them like the silver parts and send them to you and after you get them you can decide how much you pay me. Maybe that will work what do you think I really get a lot of that stuff not to mention all the silver that you told me about on the dryer and the washer and anything that has a clicker. If you’re interested I’ll sell you all my silver pieces

[@vincentsmith9937]

What are the mechanisms behind the knobs on a stove? I threw away the other ones I came across because I didn't think they're was anything valuable in them but I was wrong I'm pretty sure there are silver contacts in them but the brass looking metal are magnetic that's why I threw out the one's before but I took a better look again what are they called?

[@TinManScrapper]

Oh yeah, stoves have a nice chunk of silver contacts.

[@countryfriedhvac]

Do scrapyards buy the silver unrefined? Can I store up a bucket full of contacts and sell them by the pound?

[@TinManScrapper]

I would actually look into selling them online as parts. A lot of people that rebuild are looking for relay boxes

[@TinManScrapper]

If not it would go in ewaste probably

[@muhabatbat3829]

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[@ironangel667]

Its better to pop those silver tabs out when you get them rather than letting them pile up into a huge, imtimidating project.

[@shaystern2453]

interested to see how much you make out of the silver contacts

[@TinManScrapper]

So am I, but not enough to hit with nitric acid yet to make a bullion. In future plans

[@scotthoward4836]

How can you tell if they work or not?

[@timothylongmore7325]

plug them in. nobody is going to buy a used breaker. scrap it. waste of time testing. every company has a different format too.

[@stephensmith3708]

I sure can kick myself in the butt!😠 I can't believe that I pass them breakers, AAAh! Thanks fot that info, cousin up there in the North!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 PS, has anyone have heard from freeisbetter86? Missed their vids!

[@TinManScrapper]

Thanks for the comment, cousin from the South. Amazing what we all have passed up in the past. I used to pass on ceiling fans.

[@jasontaylor9871]

thats a contractor off something like a heatpump

[@darcybrawataakaontariostac6835]

How do you test the circuit breaker if they are good or bad, and is it easier just to get the silver.

[@TinManScrapper]

Reset was not popping out, got at a job site from a friend who said it was not working.

[@TinManScrapper]

I wish it was easier to get the silver, but have not found a way. Thanks for the question.

[@darcybrawataakaontariostac6835]

@@TinManScrapper where in Canada are you?

[@TinManScrapper]

@@darcybrawataakaontariostac6835 Near Forest, On, but I teach in Petrolia.

[@darcybrawataakaontariostac6835]

@@TinManScrapper i’m north of Toronto and south of Orrilia

[@ironangel667]

1. You're doing it wrong. 2. Those silver buttons can easily be remove with some pliers and wire snips.

[@darkwing4475]

I would recoment using a portable drill to drill out the rivets holding the cirduit breaker together,, Much faster and cleaner than using a hammer,,, :-)

[@TinManScrapper]

Thanks for the suggestion. Stay well.

[@cindystevensdiy1932]

smelt your copper and get even more for it!!!

[@TinManScrapper]

Some yards will not accept metals smelted into bars as they question the bar’s purity.

[@letsgobrandon313]

What rating silver is used? 925?

[@TinManScrapper]

Not sure, imagine pretty pure

[@joandorsey2242]

You don’t have to do all that hammering. I just use my cutters to break the plastic.

[@TinManScrapper]

Thanks for the tip!

[@tonyaleman1591]

Let’s talking more working buddy