Silver Contacts

Originally Posted by Ballymoss

A friend of mine is a forklift truck engineer and he swaps out similar contacts regularly.

He used to just bin them but he saves them for me and he gets beer money in return.
Maybe there are a few fork lift maintenance companies near you?

A word of caution.....be very careful if you decide to melt these down into a bigger bar, the Cadmium is very poisonous when it vapourises.



Ballymoss

What is the silver content in forklift contacts?

i just grabbed a few off the top...i have bigger ones and smaller ones but these are about average sizes..you have to be careful when buying these...some have a criss cross design on the "silver" and those ones arent actually silver lol

The ones with the criss cross pattern do contain Silver but at a much lower percentage, probably in the 25% range.
The pattern indicates that the contacts have Tungsten in the alloy.

I have not refined any of these yet as i only have a few.
I'm saving them up until i have a couple of KG's.

Ballymoss

what i meant by not really silver was it makes the good stuff lower quality if you mix them and try to sell them as a whole...even though tungsten is a great metal to mind and is worth quite a bit..it will still downgrade your silver lol