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I have recently learned of a gentlemen in Boston that produces small silver recovery units. Please, Sir/Madame ... identify yourself. bandit: :smile:

I would like to learn of your system, availability and pricing.
 
Thanks Bob! :smile:

I have recently learned of a gentlemen in Boston that produces small silver recovery units. Please, Sir/Madame ... identify yourself. bandit: :smile:

I would like to learn of your system, availability and pricing.

Greetings Dale !
I'm John, the guy who sells silver recovery "stuff"
I sell Silver Magnets ( they electroplate silver out of well spent fixer ) as well as Trickle Tanks.
The silver magnets need fixer to be super spent ( more than 50-52 / million ) or it will burn out ( turn black reek of sulfur ),
the trickle tanks well, they will take any concentration of silver, and will even scrub your washwater !

The magnet when its done will leave around 50parts/million you still might have to deal with, the trickle tank, can get
you below 1 part /million ...

As of today ( 3/22/19 )
The magnets cost about $76 + shipping
The trickle tanks cost about $240 + shipping ...

I also sell test kits to see how saturated your fixer or your "post recovery tailings" are if you need to know that sort of thing.

Thanks for your interest!
John
 
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Reminds me of my father's silver recovery in the 1950's. Glass jugs of exhausted fixer and he would place these little things in there, and eventually turn them in for the silver. The "things' looked like wood wrapped with a hard fabric.

I've also seen the silver recovery system in a Hollywood lab, Technicolor. Holy amperes, Batman. Tank after tank that looked like car batteries, amperes humming in the air.
 
I've also seen the silver recovery system in a Hollywood lab, Technicolor. Holy amperes, Batman. Tank after tank that looked like car batteries, amperes humming in the air.

Hi Paul
I sell those too, the ones for commercial labs, but they are a bit overkill for a regular person just trying to do the silver recovery thing..
 
John if you ever get up here to Toronto I would love for you to look at my Silver Recovery unit and evaluate it.
 
John if you ever get up here to Toronto I would love for you to look at my Silver Recovery unit and evaluate it.

It's a deal !
I hope to get up there one of these days... :smile:

In the meantime, it's easy enough to snap, and email, a couple handfuls of photos showing details of the process and the equipment used. Depending on what it is you really want John to evaluate. (Ultimately, for effluent-related "performance" of the entire system, you really need to pull a variety of chemical and wash samples, and have silver analyses done by a testing lab that knows how to handle photo effluent.)
 
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