Silver contact?

Morning all.



I was hoping someone would be able to help identify if the item pointed at in the picture would be silver. It's non magnetic (don't have a magnet big enough to let it slide down), and it's ductile (not brittle like I would expect if it was aluminium).

easiest thing to do is cut it in half with side cutters... lots of time when I get them, they are brass or copper on the inside....

Thanks! Looks silvery-ish all the way through. I've read a couple of articles about making some testing solution, so I might look into that to be sure. It's going in the "maybe" pile!

Bend it in the middle back & forth untill it breaks.
Then have a look at the broken end. I expect that its Silver coated Copper & if its got a Silver contact on it like i expect it has.
Then it will be soldered or spot welded to it.

Could you show photos of the other metal bits in that connector/contactor please?

So looks like there's a bit of brass color at the bottom half of the contact after bending it till it broke - tried to take a picture, hard to get the details.

The other picture is the only other part of that contactor : the picture on the first post had everything that was in that thing.