Silver Recovery From Tantalum Capacitors part 2

[@Enjoymentboy]

I watched part 1 a few days ago and I was recently in my storage unit and found the 10+kg I have of soviet tantalum caps. I did a random 1kg sample last year and it came out at an average of 10% silver and 2% palladium. When I saw the bucket with them I started doing the mental math and I'm wishing I had made more nitric while I had the weather.

[@Enjoymentboy]

@@guytelfer1353 I keep it all in a secret place. Right now it's all just bags of caps in a 5 gallon home depot bucket. All sorts of odd looking caps in that mix. I like the soviet stuff because it usually has a higher palladium content. Luckily "i know a guy".

[@markmatt9174]

Have to say love watching you and @streetips for the silver & gold recovery from E-Waste & Scrap.

[@rockman531]

Hi Mike, Great outcome! A jar full of white metal is always a good thing!! Looking forward to the other half of your stash! The HCL acid idea sounds like a winner. Iron & tin solder would be gone. Thumbs up! Stay safe. Jim

[@Stalkerrob20]

Electrolytic cell is A+ nerd fun. i love watching them.

[@Amac-uz9hm]

@Sreetips has loads of quality silver cell recovery videos on yt Great recovery👍🏻

[@keithrodman9318]

Nice! Not too bad looking just cementing out on the copper. Looking forward to part 3 if you dissolve the other half with poor mans nitric to continue this series. Or I guess it'll be part 1 of a seperate series😅. Either way, looking forward to seeing your next video!

[@guytelfer1353]

Looking into the process of making the mlccs there's only a certain amount of metal's going into making the mlccs and there's the soldier mask over gold plated pads on the pcb's so we're only looking for those metal's. Was the mlccs used or new?

[@richardhulbert9480]

My first attempt to cement out silver with copper i came home and the copper was gone. Oopps a bit to much nitric. I also used hcl to make silver chloride i got a skim on the bottom of my beaker. That went to the stock pot. I am steady collecting gold but my silver recovery needs improvement for sure

[@rockman531]

Hi Richard! hehe Jim

[@geoffbeyrent6950]

"It's green." Scotty, from the original Star Trek, on Romulan Ale

[@omegageek64]

Ding, Ding Ding! We have a winner!!!

[@richardhulbert9480]

Lord knows I've made lots of mistakes. Best part of your way of teaching is that hey y'all this didn't work well let's try this way. You show options to get the end results. Oh you didn't weigh the bag😂

[@200932me]

Have you tried a centrifuge? Would that be applicable?

[@matthewmartinez1091]

Palladium can be green in a nitrate solution

[@colonialcharlie8702]

Hmm... maybe just combine methods if you're going to take out the iron with a magnet. Put all that magnetic fraction into hcl seperate. Then, you could use poor man's nitric for the nonmagnetic bulk of it.

[@alanhollister9122]

The green, nickel

[@guytelfer1353]

Rust? lol, what about the tantalum?

[@iamthenotbenamed365]

perhaps could melt on cement to get silver ...

[@jayhanson2224]

Why is it need to place a lid on the reaction?

[@alanhollister9122]

Nickel

[@bobsunkees3392]

Oxidize copper

[@guytelfer1353]

@@bobsunkees3392 sediment under 100 mesh at 100 micron is still solid material, it's not that it goes into solution or dissolved it's just that it's light enough to be carried away by water or float