Alright everyone! This video is (NOT) about the value of any possible circuit breaker you have, and you know the breaker is worth more! If new, don’t sell or use old circuit breakers in your home! Anyway! This video is to demonstrate where silver can be found, it’s just a little precious metals video, to show the public, silver is in many house hold products and items and materials! Thank you all for your feedback and your support!

@Daniel12.4Ministry

4 ай бұрын

ty

@markmueller8006

4 ай бұрын

Cool thanks always wondered

@randythomas3478

4 ай бұрын

Cool. In the near future we may need this knowledge! Thank you!

@JFEnterprize

3 ай бұрын

Who makes that scale? And what other increments does it do? Fact it goes 3 decimal places I must have it 🎉😂❤

@joneastman5627

3 ай бұрын

May I ask,how many hours of your time did this take you Sir?

The thing about precious metals is they always increase in value, especially when government inflates the currency. Your $13 piece of silver you collected 2 years after this video is now worth over $20 and will continue to rise. Bravo, I loved the video.

@everyday80sdude86

26 күн бұрын

I started buying silver when it was in the $15 range. 👍🏻😉

My wife gripes cause I don't throw nothing away, I salvage anything and everything, love doing it

@danielhughes396

Жыл бұрын

I don't know why they don't get it. It's free money bro

@ghettocowboy993

Жыл бұрын

Everything is useful

@ghettocowboy993

Жыл бұрын

If you have a brain

@Cjdanks448

5 ай бұрын

I also do , it's a hobby not a money making thing for me and I learn alot.

@joestalin2375

4 ай бұрын

​@@danielhughes396you're not supposed to love anything else,buy her something with the money?

When I was young, in the early 70's, my dad would buy all sorts of mechanical junk (going for nothing, no bidders) at auction for me to pull apart. One thing I heard about but never got was a bunch of relays; he bought a crate of them for $1. After the auction a guy approached him and offered $100 for the box, which dad happily took. After the deal the guy said that the contacts on those relays were platinum.

@carljam9067

3 ай бұрын

Dad was a VERY smart man!

I have access to many breaker but that looks like a lot of work, my time worth much more than $13. Thanks for the great vid .

@MrPINKFL0YD

3 ай бұрын

Totally agree with you about this

@denialphasebitcoin5639

3 ай бұрын

Exactly

@katsdaddy

3 ай бұрын

Beats sitting in front of the tv

save the money you paid for propane and electricity and go buy a one Oz silver round.

With silver on Tungsten sponge, you melt the contacts with lead and that will draw the silver into the lead button and the Tungsten sponge will float on the lead/silver and leave very little silver on the Tungsten sponge. To remove the lead you use bone ash and the lead will be absorbed into the bone ash and the silver will make a bead that you can pick out. I got 3 55 gal drums of 100+amp industrial breakers and recovered over 6 pounds of silver from them. The company found out I had recovered them from the dump and never dumped anymore. That was no big lose to me as i recovered $1000s of scrap metals a year that they dumped over the years. I worked for them during the day and after work would stop at the dump and fill my truck with scrap and take it to the scrapyard and sell it.

@travismiller5548

6 ай бұрын

Not worth exposing yourself to the cadmium

@Dpowell28

5 ай бұрын

What has cadmium? Is there any PPE to protect from it?

Wow...had no idea that those breakers had silver. Great video Martin....THANKS!!!

Thats Awesome, glad I found you. Had a stroke a few months back, and looking for ways to make some money out of my shed. This looks like a great hobby and good for the mind. Gonna check out the rest of your videos. See what I can learn. Keepin' busy in the shed is the plan.Thanks

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

5 ай бұрын

Greatly appreciate your support, and thank you for subscribing!

@michaelbielikjr6295

4 ай бұрын

I hope you heal and recover quickly. God bless.

@joestalin2375

4 ай бұрын

Yup stay busy and creative,heal fast !

Thanks for your time and input 👍🏽

I WANT MY TIME BACK FOR WATCHING THE WHOLE WIRE WHEEL CLEANUP!

Glad to be associated with you because you have a great attitude 😊

Very nice, I love collecting precious metals and melting them. Something pleasant about it. Loved your video.

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

Жыл бұрын

Greatly appreciate your support, your kindness! Thank you for watching! Thank you again!

hello, im an electrician and have hundreds of old circuit breakers sitting at home, thanks to you i surely not throw them directly into the garbage now ;-) atleast i keep the metals from inside with these silvercontacts :)

That's cool. Great video. Thank you for sharing

Awesome video. Thank you so much for that. You've definitely inspired me...

I scrap out hundreds of breakers and save all the good parts .I have three large Folger coffee cans full of the silver buttons but they are still attached to the other materials.

Great video. Thanks, I'll never look at a old breaker the same.

If it is not 100% silver and some of them are silver plated then it's not pure silver but use nitric acid and then once you have everything dissolved in nitric acid that has been diluted in distilled water you can stick a piece of copper in there and precipitate the silver as cement silver which is generally 98 to 99% pure after it all has submitted out on the copper filter it and rinse until all of it comes out clear and then take that and melt it it's far quicker and far more efficient to do it that way and in the end you end up with a far more pure product

@johnhaaff5930

Жыл бұрын

Personally I am a fan of cupelletion, for anything 99.9% or under. A common earth metal like zinc, tin, or lead, and a bone ash cupelle some heat and you are done. To get 99.99% or better (medical grade), acids and pretty much a lab setting is the only way.

@JamesWayne-kn1yg

Ай бұрын

This process is highly inefficient.

Well done Martin and thanks for the instructional video. 🤙

Great video! Nice silver button! Super videography!

Well it is pretty pure. I hit the like button my friend 👍😊.

Great info. Great video

seems like an absolute massive amount of effort and time for less than $15 of silver

@ChrissyLarson

5 ай бұрын

Depends if your doing little breakers like he did it's some work. I get industrial breakers and starters for electric motors. There starters I get have 12 big points that weigh almost 2g each so I'm getting a ounce in about 6 min from the starters . The 600 and 1000w breakers have sometimes 3 but usually closer to 2oz per. So personally if I get 2 of each i can get 6 oz in under 45 min. And I'm in Canada our price is $31 per oz

@michaellind3653

5 ай бұрын

@@ChrissyLarson how in hell are your price per ounce different from the international spot price? I'm honestly curious! Do you have a ton of taxes added in there some place?

@TheogRahoomie

4 ай бұрын

@@michaellind3653no it’s cause the Canadian dollar is weaker than the USA. $1 Canadian dollar is less than an American dollar.

@tyfreeze6600

3 ай бұрын

Not to mention destroying $500 worth of breakers. SMFH

I've been throwing away breakers for years. I bet I could collect a couple hundred by the end of the week. One problem, I burnt myself three times just watching this video!

@andrewcristo2012

Жыл бұрын

How do you get access to so many breakers? If you dont mind me asking

@mr.hanger

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewcristo2012 I do volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity. You'd be surprised what gets tossed in the dumpster.

I'm a HVAC contractor bro.. Great information...I'm on it💯💯💯

Three hours of labor. A bottle of propane- $7 All for $13 worth of silver. You’re killing it..

@adamwest3266

Жыл бұрын

haahaha...remember that we live in a society that says you have to congradulate the stupid, therefore your comment was offensive and dangerous. People are dying left and right by negative comments on KZread videos.

@michaellind3653

Жыл бұрын

Yup, massive waste of time and effort when you could easily make $100+ for just going to work let alone working for yourself

@BigCheech-wy9os

5 ай бұрын

Why you hating? The guy enjoys it who are you to judge him

@richardmccallum2735

5 ай бұрын

@@BigCheech-wy9os damn rest a second and put it on your shoulder your jaws must be getting sore.

@willylickit8694

5 ай бұрын

Fuckin people are harsh lol you wasted 16:42 watching the video to talk shit this is great

Nice breaker clean-up.

Time is the one thing that can never be recovered. You can lose all your money and earn it back. However, not with time spent. When I was a child, all the futureists would tell us that in the future the measure of true wealth would be how much disposable time a person has. So, if the focus is to aquire knowledge, I would say your video was worth it. If it was too make a profit from the silver, I would say no. Still, friend, do whatever floats your boat. That's where the value really is at.

Not everyone owns such a box of machinery needed to perform this, and I am sure that your time is also worth something. Wish you the best.

I had fun watching ! Thanks !

@jennibartlett2029

5 ай бұрын

Fun watching, are you serious, I fail to see the fun factor, are you brain injured or born stupid, wtf!

Excellent video 👍 you taught me just what I needed to know ! You explained the process very well and it was easy to understand ! Can't wait to see what you go for next 😉

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

Жыл бұрын

Otis, thank you so very much! Man, I greatly appreciate your input, it brightened my day! Honestly! Thank you! Greatly appreciate your support and subscription! Three thumbs up 👍 👍👍

Enjoyed watching this 👍🏽

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, appreciated

Your awesome brother do what you do and God bless ya brother

Love the Detex station in your video!

Super job!

Thanks for the information!! Great video!!

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

3 ай бұрын

Thank you 4 watching

Cool I like this kind of stuff, scraping is fun I started scraping in my early teens and I bought my first car from my aluminum pile

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

3 ай бұрын

Sweet! Great story! Proves my point Thanks 🙏 for watching

I love it , it's fun , I do it year round , I strip large wire and collect circuit breakers and boards

@Cjdanks448

5 ай бұрын

I have a load of circuit boards about 20 percent de populated ( I'm sure you which percent I'm talking about) I was going to eventually separate all the metals from them but now I'm just wanting to get them gone ,any idea what I should do with em

Cool! I'm gonna be rich! My apartment building has a ton of these stuck in this weird metal medicine cabinet!

go ahead bro, thanks for your Video, very nice😀😀

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

Жыл бұрын

Many many thanks

Have @Wonderful New Year's !//thanks

I liked it! good job!

Crushed the like button! Excellent video and thank you so much for sharing!

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

3 ай бұрын

Greatly appreciated, thank you

Got a buddy in Dallas does big electrical shut downs. He gets those huge disconnects with big ass tear drops of silver. He just melts the contacts into a bucket of water. Interesting look into that whole world

I dissolved one troy ounce of contacts collected from relays I got at the junkyard. They worked out to be about %60 ish silver. Started with 31.1g contacts and yielded a 19.6g silver button.

@travismiller5548

6 ай бұрын

Did you XRF? Were the contacts alloyed with cadmium? 😬

@silver_salvage_savage

4 ай бұрын

@travismiller5548 did not xrf. Alloyed with something.....had a milky white sediment after I dissolved them. Could be tin oxide, though. I'm not positive. Definitely had some copper alloyed as well. I didn't melt the raw contacts as the small size made it an ideal size already. My understanding is when cadmium is heated/melted is when it gives off toxic fumes.

Thanks for your knowledge

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, 4 watching

1st Time visited you Channel and i Love it

great job

Gr8 vid mate

$13 for all that time and effort, not to mention the euipment and gas, you lost money

@cryptozeus2354

2 ай бұрын

Indubitably

Great video 👍

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit

I'm in recovery too!!😊❤

Some May say $13 not much, But You did more than Sitting around watching TV.

This is totally awesome. I'm an electrician. Now I'm going to be a rich electrician

@asiapartridge138

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you are not going to be rich lol newer breakers the contact is a silver alloy and youll need a skyscraper worth of breaker to get a decent amount of silver

Ok I understand you man I get ac units loads every week I seen this I’ve been throwing them in steel pile bro thousands I’ve threw in there

Good video. I scrap them on a regular

thank you. I shared this with my son.

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

4 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Thank you for watching! Greatly appreciated

lotta work but as a hobby, why not, good job !

I liked the video, good job. Do you know if old bad switches have silver, more specifically light switches?

Thank you 😌

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome 😊

The contacts that look like waffles more than likely have tungsten in them, you can process them with nitric acid ( longer boil required) then cement out with copper

I want to know how long it takes you from the beginning to the end to recover that little bit of silver is it really worth it?

So I don't know if it's possible, but have you ever thought of using induction heating instead of gas??

I hope youre also collecting the copper & brass in all those breakers!!!

Interesting way to recover the silver. It’s not pure Ag but still a fun project and worth recovering the alloyed silver. I recently scrapped house hold circuit breakers. I got 67g of contacts. I refined and got 20 grams pure silver.. roughly 1/3 the original weight. Good job sir thanks Peace Prospector Tripp

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

5 ай бұрын

You did better then me! LOL 😆 but I’m impressed! Thank you very much for watching and your kind words! This was more of a show case, a how to or where silver is! Allot of people write terrible stuff, but don’t understand, I’m no professional! I’m just a man who lives the hobby, and wanted to share what I’m learning! Thank you again

@ProspectorTripp

5 ай бұрын

@@GoldenpaydirtReviews understand.. I too am a professional Nonprofessional 😂

I have a huge collection of these that I need to process! How do you break apart the circuit breakers with the hammer and avoid creating a huge mess? Do you wrap them in a towel or do you have some kind of box that you could stick your arms into (kind of like you see in chemistry setups)

Thank you

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

New sub here, i have about 250lbs of breakers. Just no time to play with. Great video.

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

@akexwilliams107

Жыл бұрын

Where you at? I’ve got time and a lot to add to them

Thank you very much for your presentation regards silver,, aswell it was a joy to watch as I noticed that you have fun and joy in your curiosity regards it,. Yes to gain some money but aswell the knowledge and understanding and pleasure in it,, that made me happy aswell

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you!

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

Жыл бұрын

No Thank you! Appreciate your support! It’s greatly appreciated!

Hmm i have a 34 gallon bin full of large industrial breakers. Wonder what id pull from those bad boys!!!

Years ago I stopped the electrical supply house to pick up a 100 amp two pole circuit breaker and it was a $1 more then a week earlier. Monday morning I picked up another one up and they said it was $2 more because price of silver went up.Told them to grab a breaker that was on the shelve at least a week and only charge me for that. Told them bet they don't even have a $1 worth if silver on the contacts.

As a electrician the breaker I used were far more valuable than the meger amount of silver they contained. 3 phase breakers and single phase 277 breaker are expensive.

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

6 ай бұрын

I understand! This video is not meant to show the value of any circuit breaker! This video is meant to demonstrate, where silver can be found! That’s all! Thank you for watching, appreciate your support and feedback!

@Castro4L

4 ай бұрын

@patrickmorris9710 Do you a good company that will buy new phase 3 breakers?

Great video with free breakers to glean from. What was the cost of gas for melting process?

once you get to the point of knowing what to do how long should that take

You should try to get a bunch of old Allen Bradley Bulletin 709 and 509 starters/contactors. They have easily removable contact sets that are heavy with silver.

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

4 ай бұрын

Okay! That’s my new goal! Thank you! For the feedback and 4 your support!

I love your videos

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

7 ай бұрын

Thank you jack! I’m coming back hardcore 2024! Rebrand and new things! Stay tuned! Again thank you so much

So.... how did we determine it's purity? Because it's shiny?

Now that is recycling , love it

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

3 ай бұрын

Appreciated! Thank you very much

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

3 ай бұрын

Much appreciated! Thank you

I Appreciate the tip God bless you keep on keeping on No matter what the haters say pay them no mind and just let there words run off you like water off a ducks back!

Great job good work,if silver hits over a thousand dollars a ounce,mmmmm

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

4 ай бұрын

That would be cool

Super cool

@ewastemike7700

Жыл бұрын

What up Silver :)

I love this sh%t ive been saving scrap metals brass. Copper silver spoons cups awesome vid that cherry red button WOW NICE KID

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yep you in the right boat! I do the same thing!

@mykillprospecting

2 жыл бұрын

@@GoldenpaydirtReviews by the way i let golden nuggets for sale know you reccomended them to me today i dropped him a message with an order keep on doin what your doin man your makin bank $$$$$

How long did it take to break 56 breakers apart

Cool thankyou

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

Жыл бұрын

Your very very welcome

Nothing wronf with having a hobby, "but" if the energy is expended to see a profit with your hobby, best to keep the breakers as breakers, far more money and less energy and costs!

Thank you very much for the info!

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

rock on brother

I got a load of ac units did I got like 50 brakers from them 3 hrs but I’ll save them for rainy days since I don’t want them

@goldenpaydirtreviews where do you get the smelting tools you’re using? They seem simple and effective wanting to start just don’t know where

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

4 ай бұрын

Everything is in my description page below 👇 easy links! Thank you for watching greatly appreciated that! If those links don’t work lmk

Which torch (pls add link) did you use to smelt the silver buttons? It looked different to the jewelers torch you used to loosen the solder - thanks!

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

4 ай бұрын

Let me check I’ll get all the links. A lot of the links are in my description page on the list and there but I’ll double check and let me get back to you. Thank you very much for watching the video and your positive comment. I greatly appreciate your support.

Ive been collecting scrap computer boards and fingers, plus the copper but dang its gonna take me 10 years just to get one button. Im only doing this as a hobby and hooes to give my grand children the buttons once they are adult's. Thats if i can get 4 buttons before they turn 18..lol.

@GoldenpaydirtReviews

Жыл бұрын

You’ll be able to make a button in no time, breakers are found if your looking in the right place! Thanks for watching

30 grams of silver, is it worth it? Especially if the breakers work.

$13 , i was thinking after all of that work it'd be atleast $50. So 500 breakers will get you about $130 worth of silver which means you need 5000 breakers to make a decent weeks pay after expences.

TIP. Use channel locks to hold on to a button when polishing , LOL was this worth your time? and electric and gas used time ?

Its all worth it in the end! Save it for your kids. Nitric would have taken the borax off instead of losing bits of silver with the wire brush. Thanks Martin for the ideas.

@noecarrillo4391

2 жыл бұрын

Nitric acid dissolve the silver buddy 🤘🤘

@bobcansee

2 жыл бұрын

@@noecarrillo4391 Dont leave it in there. (Sreetips).

@bobcansee

2 жыл бұрын

@@noecarrillo4391 buddy.

@noecarrillo4391

2 жыл бұрын

So how you do it what's the process

@bobcansee

2 жыл бұрын

@@noecarrillo4391 sulfuric acid to remove the flux

I would say that it cost 7.50 for this round of silver very well worth it

Better than sitting in front of the T.V..

So glad your back!!! I had the same problem with the contacts that weren't solid. Do you use propane or mapp gas? I wasted so much mapp trying to smelt down my pile of contacts. I'm on the fence about this one. I love doing pours but the frustration of trying to get the silver recovered from contacts is over the top. Mapp gas is what....$12-$14 a bottle. I still have that meteor looking clump of mess in my crucible all stuck together with borax...lol...I use the bernzomatic ts8000 on my smelts. That thing melts everything except those DAMN CONTACTS! Awesome video brother! Thank you!

@_FJB_

Жыл бұрын

Try using a gas with oxygen setup. Minimize any heat losses you can. Oxy/acetylene will deffinately melt it with ease quickly but there is more investment. I've melted in my coal stove before aswell.

@JustJeff420

Жыл бұрын

@@_FJB_ Thank you!

@travismiller5548

6 ай бұрын

You're trying to melt tungsten. Wash it with molten lead