Originally Posted by
hills
Do you get much platinum out of the contact buttons ? Is nitric acid difficult to source ?
Each magneto expect a couple of grams, nitric won't touch it, only the base metals go into solution.
Nitric is available, 5 hour drive from home two others chip in for fuel and buy me lunch for picking up some for they're personal use. We try to use it sparingly. Not much platinum used in
e-waste mostly palladium, silver and gold. i do not refine palladium but do keep it from the waste stream by cementing it out with copper after the gold and silver have been recovered.
The real money is in the paper manuals once digitized. Years ago had used OCR on a Lincoln SAE 200 amp portable gasoline welder, I had netted a couple grand from that project.
You have to hit the market fast and hard, once the document has been digitized It wont take long for it to appear on Scribd as a free download.
I'm the one who scanned Hoke's refining precious metals wastes and her companion book testing precious metals, another fellow converted the file into a friendly screen readable file and one that would print both sides of the paper in book form.
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