The way you turned scrap steel into silver at the end was galaxy brain stuff. Love it.

Great video and safety information. Nowadays not many people try to let viewers know how dangerous things are. You definitely nailed it. Great job

For promoting fine silver, you earned yourself a like.

Great advice. I sell all types of computer components, such as motherboards, RAM, hard drives, gold plated pins, etc. People ask me why I don't do the gold recovery thing? You answered the question exactly the way I do!

Very glad this was the 1st video watched on collecting silver, saved me from another "rabbit hole to nowhere" hobby ha

Impressive video Thub!!! Love the blurred image then focused again sequence too! but my favorite of all is the sound of your voice, some people go to training to sound a little bit like you!!!!Good job!

You're precious Thub! Could send scrap silver to a smelter too. Have a great weekend.

I completely agree with you! The last method was the best and most effective way to get silver as a scrapper.

For being just plain smart, defining the line between money and a hobby and putting the important things on the right sides of the line just got you a follower.

Love the way you look to see the best option for silver recovery. After all the stuff you need to do to get a minuscule amount of silver using dangerous acids and then show how easy it is to buy a coin which is far more less expensive and time consuming. It certainly made me think about how I will be going about it now. Thanks heaps, learning the from a person who has a lot better understanding about the issues that other people don't tell you about.🙂

I love how honest and helpful you are

What an incredible video, Thub! Sooooo impressed by all your time and hard work. Looked like you even had some fun doing it. Well done! I learned a lot, and here's some learning back: any piece of unpolished (matte finish) obsidian will work as a touch stone. You just make my Fridays.

Massive respect. I like how you articulate. Job well done.

Every couple of months I collect a small batch of old dental crowns I have to cut off or extract. I make sure patients don’t want them, if it’s gold, I will give them a fair discount off the dental work if they let me have it. I send the crowns to Garfield Refining. They melt and assay it for Au, Pd, Pt, Ag. I request silver bullion, U.S. or Canadian 1 oz. coins. Free silver coins for me! 😁

Your videos keep getting better and more polished!

Great job. To the point and very practical.

Great video! Always leave it better than you found!! I live by this!! Thanks

I’m with you 100% on this. Keeping stuff out of landfills while stacking investment metals is a true win win that we rarely get in this kooky world. I have a bunch of hobby jobs like scraping and I invest a percentage into precious metal. 100% of what I get from scrap jewelry goes into metals by trading with a jeweler friend.

I'm glad I found your channel, thubprint. Thanks a lot for the information and advice. On this video, I totally agree about collecting pure silver with scrap metal recycling. Even by saving the money earned, eventually one can have enough to buy a little gold.

Amazing!!!! I love the message.

Just what I needed. Keep doing the thing Thub.

this guy is SUPER SMART and helpful. thanks thub

Mooooooooose!!! He started me down this path as well. Informative videos my man. Thank you very much!!!

Informative, humorous, and definitely deterring for me. Taking that much time to take apart tiny pieces stopped me. Your microwave disassembly video, from a few years back, helped me take apart one last night. Awesome time. Minimized trash, maximized cash from a dead, 20-year-old micro. I'd like to take apart my dead mower and a dead washing machine next. Still researching.

That was a good video, and the end was direct and to the point.

Nice ! A video right up my street . Never found it scrapping but found it loads at flea markets endless amounts of time .

Great video! Love the conclusion.

Learning more here then I did in school.

Your videos are very helpful and informational, and show the better ways of collecting Silver I would love to watch them.

Great video Thub! I knew back in the day they used silver wiring but I had no idea the many ways we use this noble metal. I guess solar panels too.

Respect. Great Information,

Love the ending its so true that's the best way to get silver

I enjoy your Videos very informative and Interesting.

Great video bro

Always a watch. 🙏

Another fun and informative video, thank you for sharing. While I do scrap professionally, I leave the refining to other pros. I'm happy to sell them my material and turn those $ into silver/gold bullion as you did near the end of your video. Stay safe.

Great video, dude!

You've got to admire this guys positive attitude!

Very nice video! Keep it 1 hundred!

@thubprint 👍👍 thank you for sharing your knowledge very appreciated it. Very well spoken and very entertaining. Namaste 🙏

Im with you on our time is worth more than a cpl bucks. I don't do silver but appreciate your research and all your videos. From Sacramento, CA USA keep doing the thing.

Love it 😊

It’s interesting to see how it’s done but it will never be something I do myself. Maybe the easiest way if you have lots of gold plated pins, fingers and other materials is to ship them off to a refiner and have them refine it for you for a cut of the yield. I have not done this yet, but I have enough material to do it. I just need to research which refiner to send it to and what to set my expectations to.

Good info. Thanks

Awesome a new video

Well done. Cheers.

Actually you can extract precious metals without acid, look up cupelling it's a method of melting your precious metal bits with lead in a special container or using Portland cement.

OK I'm out, ta hell with all that chemistry stuff, I will stick to metal detecting my silver and scrapping for my copper. Thanks for the video Thub, very informative.

I add nitric acid to my cinnamon toast crunch for added flavor and makes it digest so much easier then i eat my silver contact tips and crap out bars of silver its a really amazing way to refine and its really good for your digestive system... Way better than probiotics.

Haha. Bait and switch at the end sort of. I was not expecting that. But again, I wont be running out trying to salvage silver from scrap any time soon either. I like that you are honest about the costs involved and that it is not profitable. So many videos leave all that out.

your awesome !!!

You're my favorite scrapper, my friend. I do miss the mega man sound bytes though. :)

I really like you. Your kindness exceeds your intellect and it shines thru your eyes, I bet you didn't know that. Thank you for taking your time to help others understand the importance of making wise decisions concerning these matters. You did a great job. Wish I had a friend just like you.

I found a couple of battery silver looking wire harness plugs are they silver coated and if so can I put it in with my silver contacts? I scratched it and it's copper underneath

Effin A... Well done. Moose did gold... Good shout out to Maine!!!

Thanks

Wow. They say genius is taking ten thousand words and purifying them into a sentence. You did that here. What a great ending!

Stack to the moon!!!

Really cool video, informative and well done, just got a new sub. Ps: I don’t know what microphone you’re using but sounds great

Hi i have try today some circuitboards for the gold in ap. I do the same like in the vid 2 parts and 1 part, with the same stuff. How long i need to wait for it works? Answers or tips are welcome. Im new with this.

welcome to the stacking world ,,,keep stacking them high

Can you just scrap the buttons as dirty silver? Or is it still just not worth it? I'm just curious because I have a nice collection of them started but don't really want to deal with chemicals

Really liked the picking much better not so much of the science, but to each thier own...

Keep in mind, separating out precious metal bits is still worth your time even if you don't care to do the refining yourself, as there are others who love the chemistry fun and will buy the bits.

Is there any scrap silver you can find that has something instead of tungsten? If there is, how could I tell the difference between them?

Great video, was curious about the contacts. Probably going to melt off the contacts outside and smelt them down into a crude silver bullet. You know… just in case those werewolves come a knockin. 🇨🇦👌🏽🔥

"It turns out I have a lot less silver than I thought." -This is all of us.

time and health are important. I like the final method ;)

Hello! New Subscriber here 🤗 glad to find your channel 👍

awsome video, but how is it work whit weedvinegar and tabel salt, that will remove the gold flakes, but how does it work in silver

Precious metals for the win!

Bullion buying is easy in some places but in small region there is no outlets for it. Or if there ia they charge huge premiums that defeats the investing part. I do look for canadian scrap silver change. Maybe you could make a video on that. 5c, 10c 25c and 50c coin were made on 80% silver before a certain date I don't remember right now 😅. There is coin hunting channel that buy boxes of coin rolls and search trough them to find those old coins.

Hit the scrapyard up hard today. Man the prices are up a lot down here in Lake Charles

Im with you on the methods for silver, but gold, platinum, palladium, etc. Can we get a video on that?

Hey Thub. You will be my life saver - please make a video/ guide on wire scrapping. I own a small ewaste business and there all sorts of different types of wire. Power cables, keyboard/ mice wire, little computer bits wire and etc. Please make a video on what is worth scrapping, worth stripping and what's better to avoid. Many thanks!

i appreciate your videos they are all put together absolutely amazing I learned quite a bit and these are questions that I am having as I have gotten more into scrapping I came across quite a bit of silver didn't even know what it was it was in some breaker boxes huge ones from the hospital that I found in their dumpster massive circuit breakers like probably about 20 times the size of your common residential breaker anyway it's a silver on the contacts were about the size of Nichols and so I took them to a scrapyard and they told me it was aluminum even though I told him where I got it so now I'm doing more research and it is absolutely impossible these people are simply incorrect it is silver that I have found I have 3 ounces of it 104 g actually most of it from this one set of breakers that I had recovered from a hospital dumpster kind of cool I'm hoping to make about $30 off of it total I don't know I'll see I'll let you know when I do cash in lol definitely not worth the time but just cool to do and have the experience

Is there a follow up to this vid?

I very recently found an abandoned scrap metal and antique bottle dump. It was burned up pretty good somewhere along the way. I could describe contents for days. But I want to know about all the metal blobs I've found some are clearly coins melted together because of the ridges going around coin like outer parts of blob!

I enjoy collecting scrap silver. I have another danger from breakers however... pre 1970 breakers contain asbestos! Also bakelite might as well. I'd already smashed into 5 before I realised..

I like the ending. I kinda wonder about Hazardous Waste and just how much it's monitored or even enforced. Then again I am in Texas not sure how easy it is to get a maple leaf here. But I used to make stamps, like rubber stamps, self pre inked not the stamps on mail. They also made name plates,Award plaques(Brass) and Vynal Signs. But the ink and other stuff, like denatured alcohol even down the drain or in the dumpster. no warning once in the 7 years I worked there.

these professor Thub videos have me wondering if you will go full Heisenberg on us lol /cheers scrapbongo

Old electronic fans one might find in old stove overheads we neglect to clean the Greece off / well find the center of that tootsie pop

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you can also use peroxide to test if silver.. silver acts like a catalyser but does not change the silver.. you will see bubbles of oxigen gas it can mean it is silver but this also happens with platina. platina will give faster oxigen bubbles than silver may take a minute before visible

“Vampire or werewolf problem” *Dean Winchester has entered the chat*

Is there any point to asking our scrap yards if they have a "dirty" silver category? Or sending them to one of those "chash4gold" "webuygold&silver" places?

You can clean and reuse AP solution just go down the reactivity list and precipitate everything out also you can directly smelt and purify via a cupel

You are the Alton Brown of scrapping

Scrapping as a professional is definitely a fine art of balancing MONEY - TIME - RESOURCES. How can you invest the least amount of time and resources to make money. However, if you are a hobby scrapper, time may be your greatest profit maker. If you collect a bunch of material, it may be worth more to the hobby scrapper to strip wire versus turning it in as insulated. Taking apart a motor to separate the steel from the copper windings. Best piece of advice I could give as a hobby scrapper - ORGANIZATION. Nothing sucks up time and resources faster than handling materials more often than you need to. I use 55 gallon plastic drums to sort my stuff (excluding larger steel pieces). Use my 2 wheel dolly to help move or load my stuff, have the yard mark the tare weight of each drum, and you spend less time at the yard. The workers at the yard love being efficient. Also get a category list of what they are paying for so you can separate your materials accordingly.

I have an old motor 50 H, that came out of a silo unloader,..and it looks like the wires and contacts are silver,...anyone familiar ?

Thub do you have a PO box so things can be sent to you?

Scrapping always leads to precious metal collection.

Did you just call me a panda?? Wtf?!?

Good one. Don't really understand but, nice video anyways.

you can use ferric chloride (circuit board etcher ) to dissolved base metals away from both gold and silver .

ok i noticed now only this last month that coin shape anything any kind of metal like brass aluminum or copper is about $12usa dollars for aluminum and brass and copper up to the same as silver for an ounce but if scraped about 0.70 cents an ounce for aluminum ect...so i bought a smelter

I agree with you buddy. Yes you can extract silver from board's but in the end you will not have a profit. I tried once to do it but just for entertainment. Well said 👍

Do a video game vid... Great vid

That conclusion makes me think about my recent idea to scrap aluminum cans on a daily health walk and pile the pennies until they buy shares of blue chip dividend stocks that pay me pennies indefinitely. Turning trash into valuable assets that will appreciate and earn long term is, I'm thinking, the real scrap game. Now if I could just find this magic pile of brake rotors he's always got.

Rediscovered you after seeing a couple of your videos a few years ago. Keep up the great work man, love the vids! Scrap silver is one of my favorites👌🏼