I volunteer to ask the stupid question of the day. I have scrapped for over 50 years, and have seen silveride fuses mentioned by Lost and others. Now sometimes a lightning bug is more brilliant than I, so I am having trouble finding any reference on the internet (my browser loves to pitch commercial products with a similar sounding name, like Chevy Silverado) So what is a silveride fuse, what does it look like, and what other name or designation does it have. Thanking someone in advance.

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Search for silveride turned up a few things.

Based on Lost's definition, I would assume a silveride fuse would be a fuse whose element primarily consists of silver. I've gotten some of these and pulled out silver and tin. Such as this:

https://kaizerpowerelectronics.dk/teard ... 0-v-200-a/

This of course may have nothing to do with whatever was being referenced. But thought I'd give it a shot.

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Thanks. Now I have a starting point, and a simple explanation of the fuse. Now all that remains is to identify which ones are this type...and what equipment/devices most likely to contain them. This is what I was requesting, fuse wise.

Oh good! I was afraid I wasn't going to be any help.

The fuses I had were also medium voltage if I remember correctly. There were silver strips made up of rectangles joined at the corners. Every 3-4 rectangles one would have a tin rivet. Another similar fuse instead of rivets had little divets in the silver and the tin was soldered into that. The rivets were great, just bend the silver and pop the tin out.

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silveride Is an olde term. Lol.
Comes from alchemy. Was popular in coin collecting, not often on the internet but you’ll find it in old coin magazines and books.

It’s basically any silver alloy that is mostly silver.
A silveride fuse is one that has a something-silver-oxide filament.
The up side is the cylinders usually have silver caps as well.

You’re not after the filament. That would be like pulling tungsten out of lightbulbs.
It’s the caps.
Silver based wedge fuses are also good sources.
Look like automotive fuses. They Were popular in the 8-bit era.
But canister fuses with silver based ends add up quickly.

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Here we go
Photos stolen from ebay:

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Lost,

Are you saying that lil fuse also has some type of silver content in the end caps?

I’ve saved every one I’ve ever pulled. You know, for “just in case I need one”.

Don’t have a ton, maybe a pound or so.

Hm, interesting.

RFIII

Yep. Think I’ve probably gotten a few hundred dollars from them over the decades
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Lol.

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One more clarification request: is it only the glass type fuse which is worthwhile for silver content? I acquire many from Circuit Interrupters in the KV range that are big as a cigar or old style flashlight, which obviously have the copper and brass value. I even have one ceramic fuse about 18 inches long and four inches in diameter.

Over 3 decades now, I’ll still miss as much as I catch.

Glass fuses, and old tubes, great sources.
Again though, all sorts of fuses have silver to some degree. Those wedge fuses are nearly all silver in the early 80s computers, if the fuses are original.





(On tubes 9:10 if it looks gold, it’s gold. If it looks silver, it’s silver or better).
I pulled platinum c9, c12c18, and c19 bases out of old radios, etc.

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