Anyone have experience with recovering silver from fix?

[mesa]

We go through an inordinate amount of fix in our photo labs (20+ gallons/week) and are interested in trying to recover the silver. An electrolytic cell seems like the way to go. Anyone have suggestions, tips, or advice in general?

 

[AlephZero]

Work out the economics before you start. With the silver price around $20 an ounce, you probably won't make much money from this.

Remember that much of the value in objects made from silver (jewellery, antiques, etc) is in the workmanship and/or the scarcity of the object, not the value of the metal

 

[mesa]

Work out the economics before you start. With the silver price around $20 an ounce, you probably won't make much money from this.

Remember that much of the value in objects made from silver (jewellery, antiques, etc) is in the workmanship and/or the scarcity of the object, not the value of the metal

With access to campus resources (machine shop) building something will have a cost near zero (also it should prove to be a fun project as well!).

 

[AlephZero]

With access to campus resources (machine shop) building something will have a cost near zero (also it should prove to be a fun project as well!).

So you don't put any value on your own time?

This might be worth reading. www.kodak.co.uk/ek/uploadedFiles/J215ENG.pdf

 

[mesa]

So you don't put any value on your own time?

The school pays me minimum wage so I am worth at least $7.85/hr

This might be worth reading. www.kodak.co.uk/ek/uploadedFiles/J215ENG.pdf

That is a good link, very complete!

So do you have any experience building electrolytic cells? The last one I built (many, many years ago) worked great until it blew up