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What he is doing is a skill most people don't have the patience to learn. It's also a beautiful form of art. ....so many people just see money, or the thought of profits. The value is in the skill and the patience required to learn and master it. Priceless. Thank you for your knowledge, your patience, and kindness for sharing it.
So cool. I wish I had the space to do something like this. I've watched 3 videos now, and the whole process is fascinating. Well done on that large bar!
Just made the 21st bid on your disc. Some may say its a steep price for a silver item. But I hold all your work in high regard. It would be an honor owning any one of your projects. Fingers crossed 🤞😉
Very nice bar. I never get tired of looking at the shine of pure silver, the most reflective metal. Back in old times the best mirrors were made from silver because of that. That's a beautiful bar, Sr. "Pay no attention to that four ounces of gold…" lol
Beautiful bar. Anyone hating on the asking price can kick rocks. Where else can you buy a bar of this quantity with a video that shows it being created and sub videos showing it being refined? It’s more or less art at this point.
Such a glorious bar of gold! I know this is a long shot, but I remember you doing a video where you walk through your glassware cleaning process, but I cant find which one it is. If you or a follower could help with which one im talking about I'll be super grateful. Thanks for all you do.
Mrs sreetips made me go higher. I would have listed it at two grand. She said, “no - twenty three.” I told her that it probably wouldn’t sell. It was gone ten minutes after I listed it. That means it was still priced too low. Glad I listened to her probably should have listened to her more throughout my life. We’d be in a lot better shape.
@@sreetips Happiness doesn't come with money. The greatest wealth is a loving family, true friends, reputation and respect. This is the greatest treasure.
Agree. But having wealth sure makes life easier. Especially now. I can’t imagine what people will do? How will they get by? I know if it wasn’t for my RUclips channel and precious metals, we’d be in trouble financially.
@@sreetips you got that right.. How I wish I had gone with my gut years ago when I could have bought silver for 5 to 10 per oz. But back then it really would have been buy the silver or put food on the table. Stretching to make ends meet sucks even if you have a great family.
No doubt! That’s crazy to pay that much when you can get it through one of the big bullion dealers for a few dollars per OZ over spot price. Truly a poor investment at $38+ per OZ
You was speaking of a ebay page. I couldn't find a link. Very nice job. Yes you definitely need a few tools. I made my own. But, we aren't melting the same metals. I am doing the cheaper stuff😊 I found it, sold quick. Pretty cool.
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips. Smart way to melting the silver. First time i see that. So beautiful crystal silver are.. And congrats whit that silver brick sir🔥 Stunning...God bless to all the sreetips family.
As awesome as a 4.5 lb bar of silver is, i am really fascinated by your silver crystal that you scooped into the crucible. I would love an oz of it. I am also really eager to see what a the gold coming out of solution magnified looks. Those kinds of unique specimens are something I would buy more than a bar.. but then again, I am more of a rock hound. I like examining rocks under a microscope or magnifying glass
A silver bar like that looks really crazy. Especially because you make it in your home workshop. Brilliantly made! But if someone later wants to use this silver as a raw material to make an object, he will have great difficulty pouring it in such a large piece. However, I think it is more practical and also easier to make smaller silver bars.
Beautiful silver bar sir!!! You’re getting better at that!! I wonder how perfect the bar would be if you used an induction heater. You would lose the rings but the surfaces might be perfect on all sides.
Or just putting the graphite in your electric furnace and adding Ag little by little till you have a measured weight if the interest is "mirror perfection". Aesthetically, the concave concentric ellipsoids are flattering in their own way. "Topography!" -- George Carlin
The fruits of your labors and boy are they beautiful you're getting amazing with bigger pours hope you still choose to offer your pure silver crystal or gold sponge from time to time on your eBay store at least hope to have some material you refined one day soon
Very nice. It's nerve racking pouring large bars. I hate it. It's like you have to have a pep talk with yourself. Ok, we have to do this now. Steady... Oh My. I wish you could fill up a mold, cap it and slide in some kinda furnace for a set it and forget it. Set the heat and timer and come back a couple hours later. I use and electric furnace. I try and keep all my methods simple and as straightforward as possible. No wammies. It's a pleasure watching you Sreetips. Fun stuff...
Have you thought about putting a silver bar into your silver crystalizing bowl ? Would be interesting to see, if crystals would grow on it and how it would look like afterwards.
ok, I saw the video. Okay, I got done watching the video. I click the link again. lol sold. Wow, do you want me do the time stamp of how fast that was? hahah yes I guess you were right it was too cheap. I feel you i would keep your gold and silver in your Pirates treasure chest
also i look at the big bar i seen other poat from other you can see it if you want butis title of item 1985 RARE Homestake Mining Company Co 100.28 Troy oz 999+ Silver 100 Mintage! is at $2,805.00 11 bids Ends in 6d 18h I want to watch it and let you know how much it selĺ For it, it would be a good way to see how much the value is at, but if only sells at 3k lol your fans are the buyers your bars at whatever prices so much love lol
Ok I did it again video was post 21hours ago on January 13, 2024, 5:26 PM the eBay item was sold on Sat, Jan 13 at 5:32 PM. making it 6minutes sold I feel I was wrong on the time if you can see how I get it wrong let me know lol
Brother, i usually don't read the comments, but i did. You walked away with $95.00 profit compared to what I get silver at. Absolutely i will pay $10 over per oz for the manufacturer stamp. Nice Work and Sale Sreetips 🤠
It might sound weird but if you do anything like this again try starting with a much smaller amount of silver/gold and getting it fully molten before you start charging it with more. Also because you're only heating it from the top it might make sense to get the crucible itself good and hot before charging it from the get go but I'm not an expert in smelting.
I know others have said this already, but the sold price of that large bar is ridiculous. At a price of 2300 for 63oz that comes out to be 36.00 an oz. Perhaps in 5 to 10 years you can get your money back. For an extra 250.00 you could have purchased a 100oz bar. Some people are just a little slow in the head. Beautiful pour by the way always enjoy the content.
My hobby is silver stacking. I would sure love to make this the base foundation of all my ownings! It's beautiful 😍 Second only to your gold bar. Fantastic job, sir. I compete with a buddy at work when it comes to how much silver we can accumulate in a given period. This bar would certainly make me top dog for sure😆. I took a cruz over to your ebay to plot how I can get my hands on this bar. SOLD?! 😭 I will bid on the leftover disc from this majestic pour.
@@sreetips Anyone who has bought it knows that it is quality refined silver. I think that such a buyer does not only look at the price. Otherwise, the current price of silver on the stock exchange is relatively low.
The current spot price of silver, as with all the other numbers we’re getting, are bogus. Silver and gold are both grossly undervalued. But silver is far worse than gold.
I ignore all the talking heads. I’m all in on gold and silver. Not for a “big bump” in price. But simply to protect the value of my savings from being plundered by the money printers.
Time to buy tools for bigger pours and a kiln like big stacks or Mount baker mining better safe than sorry and that was a beautiful bar once again awesome
Sreetips, I've been watching your channel for QUITE a long time Your premium is keeping me from buying a sweet amount of your silver crystals. Sry, I don't mean to be rude
He don't care if you don't buy it. Someone who sees the value as supporting the educational entertainment will donate the difference out of love. He'd rather keep all the silver in the world and never sell any but it is a chance for us the fans to support the work.
After you pour the bar initially put it in your electric furnace still in the graphite mold remelt it then you'll have a perfect bar no rings no blemishes
Dear SREETIPS you may try to dissolve the flux in some boiling con. citric acid dissolved in distilled water in a beaker like the jewelers do that! That is just borax leftover, right?🤔
It is much cheaper (reuseable), less dangerous and will not etch the silver. You will need one tall beaker with only 1Litre with this acid anywhere in your Lab. ready to use anytime. We are not allowed to handle with H2SO4 or HNO3 nothing in Germany! Only because of some bad guy i think...
Hey big guy BEAUTIFUL job!!! Just had a question. The prettiest bars from companies I've seen, life Geiger, put the silver in the mold and then melt it down in an oven to make the mirror loaf top. Just wondering if that's something you've considered or might show us.
Yeah but how are you gonna put in those pretty concentric wave patterns in the surface if it's in an easy bake oven . You know what I want now, an apple pie ! 🥺 I have to wait until the stores open now.
When some silver sticks on the bottom, does that mean that the crucible wasn’t hot enough on the bottom ? Could it be that the amount of heat on the top was greater than the bottom? So the crucible surface on the bottom of the crucible heat needed to be the same as the top surface ?
I think it was due to my inexperience and the crude setup that I was using. I just failed to get it all out of the crucible and into the graphite mold.
If you ever wanted to hit a specific weight very accurately, undershoot by a few grams and then melt a tiny portion of the metal onto the 'ugly' side of the bar with a torch afterwards. With the silver, this is easy-peasy since you have plenty of it in crystal form already. But gold would be trickier, since the powder would blow all over the place. Maybe make a tiny bar, and then flatten it out, and cut tiny strips out of it.
this is how those shops sell perfect 1 ounce gold bars by the truckload. after they stamp them all they go through weight certification and the rejects that are under get layers of gold foil melted on the back side, almost like it is braised on. The rejects with too much weight typically get re-melted because the chance of messing up the bar to reduce weight is just not worth the man hours.
My question is couldn’t the silver be melted directly in the graphite mold? Perhaps slowly adding small amounts directly into the mold with it preheated on the ceramic wool? I’m guessing there must be a reason perhaps the graphite can’t handle the same heat for the same amount of time as the crucible?
@@sreetips beautiful pour and silver bar by the way. Also have you ever tried or do you know if cast iron or steel moulds would work? @bigstackD does not usually pour precious metals but he uses them as well as graphite for copper and bronze and many other metals. I guess I’m trying to learn how the mold material itself affects the pour. Thanks love your content.
Yeah but silver is more versatile😮 If you're ever forced to use silver, like when our dollar crashes. For the everyday person you want to have more silver on hand than gold because most of your purchases will be made with silver unless you're buying a house or a car or something Of high value. Or if you just want to consolidate your assets into a smaller package , go with gold. And just so you know the gold price fluctuates the same as silver does is it still on a different Part of The scale so you don't notice it as much unless you're looking past the $.000012 mark
Sreetips, friendly question, roughly how much do you go through in glassware in a year? I'm assuming you get most of it 2nd hand. But I would interested to know how many beakers flasks and glass rods wind up as causalities of heat breakage and wear and tear. As always please do not share anything proprietary or security compromising in chat. as always thanks for the terrific video.
Good corning chemistry/lab glass should last a long time with what he is doing. Rarely is he using chemicals or materials that can damage the surface of the glass, even after constant repeated activity. You can even burn the inside of corning glass and it will wipe clean. I burnt some organic compounds on the bottom of one of my larger graduated cylinders and a quick boil in HCL and H2O2 and the bottom looked clean.
I don’t break many pieces. I’ve had most of it for my entire refining career, almost 14 years. If some breaks it usually do to my carelessness. I haven’t had anything break while in service.
Have you ever ran your clean and dry silver crystal back through your cell? Or though about embedding a seed crystal to your graphite plate? Big fan of your precise laboratory practices, but you need to build a bigger fume hood 😂
A question, couldn´t you melt the silver directly inside the graphite crucible ? Or would the crucible produce to much carbon dioxide and create bubbles ?
I know you are a careful person, but I was concerned that there could be moisture in the cold crucible. When you pre-heat the mold, you are drying it before pouring the melt. I'd hate to see a water vapor explosion or splatter in your crucible. Keep up the great work!
Precious metals don’t need buffing, in fact should not be buffed. They look amazing right out of the mold. Base metals REQIRE buffing, then start to oxidize almost immediately. That’s one of the unique properties of gold and silver.
That crucible setup looked liked it worked well.I tap the mold with my pliers to get tighter ripples. Is that crucible bowl shaped ,if so was rockwool rolled under it ?
@@sreetips definitely endearing - ot was in response to your quip about Mrs Sreetips threatening to spank you. We Brits consider that very cheeky in a loving kind of way
For your melt table, why don’t you just have a small furnace like other channels for these big pours? They’re like 200 bucks. That would pay for itself in MAPP gas.
I’m just a hobbyist. I normally don’t make big bars very often. So I don’t need a big furnace. But I’ve shown that i don’t really need one. I have an electric furnace. But the torch is easy, cheap, and faster.
Sreetips, you put a decent amout of time and effort into the bars etc that you make. I'm sure any price you (or Mrs Sreetips) set is fair. Also, the price of Silver seems a bit low to me atm. Not that I have any idea what it has been historically.
What he is doing is a skill most people don't have the patience to learn. It's also a beautiful form of art. ....so many people just see money, or the thought of profits. The value is in the skill and the patience required to learn and master it. Priceless. Thank you for your knowledge, your patience, and kindness for sharing it.
So cool. I wish I had the space to do something like this. I've watched 3 videos now, and the whole process is fascinating. Well done on that large bar!
Thank you!
Just made the 21st bid on your disc. Some may say its a steep price for a silver item. But I hold all your work in high regard. It would be an honor owning any one of your projects. Fingers crossed 🤞😉
Very nice bar. I never get tired of looking at the shine of pure silver, the most reflective metal. Back in old times the best mirrors were made from silver because of that. That's a beautiful bar, Sr.
"Pay no attention to that four ounces of gold…" lol
I love your large pours. Absolutely stunning bar this time. You have outdone yourself again!
Beautiful bar. Anyone hating on the asking price can kick rocks. Where else can you buy a bar of this quantity with a video that shows it being created and sub videos showing it being refined? It’s more or less art at this point.
Another absolutely beautiful 63.3 Oz of silver bar getting pretty good at pouring silver bar's thanks for sharing sreetips
My favorite Alchemist 🏴☠️
You make it look Easy Sreetips 🙏 God Bless. Thank you for sharing with us!!
The crystals are amazing enough on their own, I almost "hate" to see them melted down... until the bar cools!
I feel like I truly understand why vampires couldn't show up in silver mirrors now after seeing this pure bar. It's so beautiful.
Such a glorious bar of gold! I know this is a long shot, but I remember you doing a video where you walk through your glassware cleaning process, but I cant find which one it is. If you or a follower could help with which one im talking about I'll be super grateful. Thanks for all you do.
I’ll do a dedicated glassware cleanup video.
Value is determined by what someone is willing to pay.. Glad for you that it sold already. Keep up the great work Sreetips
Mrs sreetips made me go higher. I would have listed it at two grand. She said, “no - twenty three.” I told her that it probably wouldn’t sell. It was gone ten minutes after I listed it. That means it was still priced too low. Glad I listened to her probably should have listened to her more throughout my life. We’d be in a lot better shape.
@@sreetips Happiness doesn't come with money. The greatest wealth is a loving family, true friends, reputation and respect. This is the greatest treasure.
Agree. But having wealth sure makes life easier. Especially now. I can’t imagine what people will do? How will they get by? I know if it wasn’t for my RUclips channel and precious metals, we’d be in trouble financially.
@@sreetips you got that right.. How I wish I had gone with my gut years ago when I could have bought silver for 5 to 10 per oz. But back then it really would have been buy the silver or put food on the table. Stretching to make ends meet sucks even if you have a great family.
@@sreetips Probably was still to low.. Have heard others talk about hand poured "artisan" bars should sell for 3x melt value.
You are welcome. The concentric rings are spectacular, and much more so when we are invited in to see how they are formed. Thank you Sir! 👍👍🤟
I always marvel at the magic that happens when you turn on the burners🔥. Right before one’s eyes, a beautiful bar appears. It’s almost mystical!🤔
Such a beautiful bar of silver. The large melt was fascinating too. 👍🏻
Wow that big bar sold for $2,300.00+ $135.94 shipping when it's worth $1500. Mr sreetips you ARE in the right business sir it's like printing money.
Plenty of suckers out there.
No doubt! That’s crazy to pay that much when you can get it through one of the big bullion dealers for a few dollars per OZ over spot price. Truly a poor investment at $38+ per OZ
Love what u do, can u sell the little silver trees that u make in the silver sell they look amazing and awesome,beautiful silver trees.
Yes
That bar is stunning! I could only imagine how shiny it must've looked in person.
You was speaking of a ebay page. I couldn't find a link. Very nice job. Yes you definitely need a few tools. I made my own. But, we aren't melting the same metals. I am doing the cheaper stuff😊 I found it, sold quick. Pretty cool.
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips.
Smart way to melting the silver. First time i see that. So beautiful crystal silver are..
And congrats whit that silver brick sir🔥
Stunning...God bless to all the sreetips family.
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
As awesome as a 4.5 lb bar of silver is, i am really fascinated by your silver crystal that you scooped into the crucible. I would love an oz of it.
I am also really eager to see what a the gold coming out of solution magnified looks.
Those kinds of unique specimens are something I would buy more than a bar.. but then again, I am more of a rock hound. I like examining rocks under a microscope or magnifying glass
A silver bar like that looks really crazy. Especially because you make it in your home workshop. Brilliantly made! But if someone later wants to use this silver as a raw material to make an object, he will have great difficulty pouring it in such a large piece. However, I think it is more practical and also easier to make smaller silver bars.
Mesmerizing! Absolutely beautiful work! Great job Street tips!
Glad you have Mrs Sreetips keeping you straight! Great job on the bar!
Ms Screetips huh?
hehe, I distinctly remember telling you about using a towel in the quenching bowl some months back.
Good advice, thank you
@@sreetips Your welcome brother.
I hope you are done doing things you don't want to do now. Bars looked really nice though. good job.
Awesome result silverbar absolute ashtonishing looking....bigbars are great mr Sreetips keep it up greetings from the Netherlands
Only the highest quality is achieved by Sreetips, well done Sir. Congratulations on another brilliant bar!
Very nice work!!👍
Beautiful silver bar sir!!! You’re getting better at that!!
I wonder how perfect the bar would be if you used an induction heater. You would lose the rings but the surfaces might be perfect on all sides.
Or just putting the graphite in your electric furnace and adding Ag little by little till you have a measured weight if the interest is "mirror perfection".
Aesthetically, the concave concentric ellipsoids are flattering in their own way.
"Topography!" -- George Carlin
It’s the reducing flame that causes those rings. How melted doesn’t matter.
Getting that graphite mold hot enough to melt the metal in it would quickly destroy the graphite mold.
@@sreetips Gotcha 🙂👍
The fruits of your labors and boy are they beautiful you're getting amazing with bigger pours hope you still choose to offer your pure silver crystal or gold sponge from time to time on your eBay store at least hope to have some material you refined one day soon
Its wonderful to see the fruits of all your work .
Very nice. It's nerve racking pouring large bars. I hate it. It's like you have to have a pep talk with yourself. Ok, we have to do this now. Steady... Oh My. I wish you could fill up a mold, cap it and slide in some kinda furnace for a set it and forget it. Set the heat and timer and come back a couple hours later. I use and electric furnace. I try and keep all my methods simple and as straightforward as possible. No wammies. It's a pleasure watching you Sreetips. Fun stuff...
Id like to buy the disk to inquart with my gold specimen. His silver looks ultra pure.
@sreetips this puck is incredible!!! No regrets on the purchase!
Nice work, Mr Sreetips! Thanks for sharing!
Have you thought about putting a silver bar into your silver crystalizing bowl ? Would be interesting to see, if crystals would grow on it and how it would look like afterwards.
ok, I saw the video. Okay, I got done watching the video. I click the link again. lol sold. Wow, do you want me do the time stamp of how fast that was? hahah yes
I guess you were right it was too cheap. I feel you i would keep your gold and silver in your Pirates treasure chest
also i look at the big bar i seen other poat from other you can see it if you want butis title of item
1985 RARE Homestake Mining Company Co 100.28 Troy oz 999+ Silver 100 Mintage! is at $2,805.00
11 bids Ends in 6d 18h
I want to watch it and let you know how much it selĺ For it, it would be a good way to see how much the value is at, but if only sells at 3k lol your fans are the buyers your bars at whatever prices so much love lol
Ok I did it again video was post 21hours ago on January 13, 2024, 5:26 PM the eBay item was sold on Sat, Jan 13 at 5:32 PM. making it 6minutes sold I feel I was wrong on the time if you can see how I get it wrong let me know lol
YOU are the man, another perfect show, be humble to the humble.
beautiful silver bar
that pouring molting metals is a fun art to learn
Very beautiful bar
I was hoping you would took care of that flux schmutz! Nice job!
Brother, i usually don't read the comments, but i did. You walked away with $95.00 profit compared to what I get silver at. Absolutely i will pay $10 over per oz for the manufacturer stamp. Nice Work and Sale Sreetips 🤠
You need a furnace to melt in. Torch melting is inconsistent in high volume.
Thank you for doing some great work .
It might sound weird but if you do anything like this again try starting with a much smaller amount of silver/gold and getting it fully molten before you start charging it with more. Also because you're only heating it from the top it might make sense to get the crucible itself good and hot before charging it from the get go but I'm not an expert in smelting.
Good advice
Two silver bars in a row that is outstanding sir six stars
Almost perfect after your second try..pretty freaking good.
Tkzz for sharing,.,,.peace
I know others have said this already, but the sold price of that large bar is ridiculous. At a price of 2300 for 63oz that comes out to be 36.00 an oz. Perhaps in 5 to 10 years you can get your money back. For an extra 250.00 you could have purchased a 100oz bar. Some people are just a little slow in the head. Beautiful pour by the way always enjoy the content.
It sold almost as soon as I posted it. Means the ask price was too low. But I’m not selling any more silver, if I don’t have to.
Interesting technique... great result!
My hobby is silver stacking. I would sure love to make this the base foundation of all my ownings! It's beautiful 😍
Second only to your gold bar. Fantastic job, sir. I compete with a buddy at work when it comes to how much silver we can accumulate in a given period. This bar would certainly make me top dog for sure😆. I took a cruz over to your ebay to plot how I can get my hands on this bar. SOLD?! 😭 I will bid on the leftover disc from this majestic pour.
It sold ten minutes after I posted the video. It means that I had it priced too low.
@@sreetips Anyone who has bought it knows that it is quality refined silver. I think that such a buyer does not only look at the price. Otherwise, the current price of silver on the stock exchange is relatively low.
The current spot price of silver, as with all the other numbers we’re getting, are bogus. Silver and gold are both grossly undervalued. But silver is far worse than gold.
@@sreetipsGold to Silver ratio has been manipulated for decades!! Ever since Nixon took the US off the Gold Standard. Huge mistake!!
I ignore all the talking heads. I’m all in on gold and silver. Not for a “big bump” in price. But simply to protect the value of my savings from being plundered by the money printers.
Time to buy tools for bigger pours and a kiln like big stacks or Mount baker mining better safe than sorry and that was a beautiful bar once again awesome
Those guys are pros. I’m just a hobbyist, an advanced beginner.
Great Video Sreetips. Always an amazing education experience.
Sreetips, I've been watching your channel for QUITE a long time
Your premium is keeping me from buying a sweet amount of your silver crystals.
Sry, I don't mean to be rude
He don't care if you don't buy it. Someone who sees the value as supporting the educational entertainment will donate the difference out of love. He'd rather keep all the silver in the world and never sell any but it is a chance for us the fans to support the work.
No problem. I’m not into selling my silver. I want to keep it. Having a high price is doing its job for me.
After you pour the bar initially put it in your electric furnace still in the graphite mold remelt it then you'll have a perfect bar no rings no blemishes
That is not a good idea. The graphite mold will oxidize and get destroyed. Then, you will have a layer of graphite oxide on top of the bar.
Amazing work and love that bar
That bar is awesome, great work sreetips 👍
Dear SREETIPS you may try to dissolve the flux in some boiling con. citric acid dissolved in distilled water in a beaker like the jewelers do that! That is just borax leftover, right?🤔
Correct
It is much cheaper (reuseable), less dangerous and will not etch the silver. You will need one tall beaker with only 1Litre with this acid anywhere in your Lab. ready to use anytime. We are not allowed to handle with H2SO4 or HNO3 nothing in Germany! Only because of some bad guy i think...
They punish the masses for the deeds of a few.
Ja right, however you have much more liberty in your country what I like so much you know. God bless. @@sreetips
Amazing brother. You take your virginity to a whole nother level. Respect.
Hey big guy BEAUTIFUL job!!!
Just had a question. The prettiest bars from companies I've seen, life Geiger, put the silver in the mold and then melt it down in an oven to make the mirror loaf top.
Just wondering if that's something you've considered or might show us.
Yeah but how are you gonna put in those pretty concentric wave patterns in the surface if it's in an easy bake oven .
You know what I want now, an apple pie ! 🥺 I have to wait until the stores open now.
Getting a graphite mold hot enough to melt the metal will quickly destroy the graphite mold.
@@sreetips Thank you Maestro. I really enjoy learning from you and watching you work your alchemy.
Understand it's necessary to keep
You should’ve added at least double if not triple the amount of sulfuric to be at 10% to clean the bar effectively
When some silver sticks on the bottom, does that mean that the crucible wasn’t hot enough on the bottom ? Could it be that the amount of heat on the top was greater than the bottom? So the crucible surface on the bottom of the crucible heat needed to be the same as the top surface ?
I think it was due to my inexperience and the crude setup that I was using. I just failed to get it all out of the crucible and into the graphite mold.
If you ever wanted to hit a specific weight very accurately, undershoot by a few grams and then melt a tiny portion of the metal onto the 'ugly' side of the bar with a torch afterwards. With the silver, this is easy-peasy since you have plenty of it in crystal form already. But gold would be trickier, since the powder would blow all over the place. Maybe make a tiny bar, and then flatten it out, and cut tiny strips out of it.
this is how those shops sell perfect 1 ounce gold bars by the truckload. after they stamp them all they go through weight certification and the rejects that are under get layers of gold foil melted on the back side, almost like it is braised on. The rejects with too much weight typically get re-melted because the chance of messing up the bar to reduce weight is just not worth the man hours.
I can get it close with just a touch over, if I wanted to get a specific weight.
My question is couldn’t the silver be melted directly in the graphite mold? Perhaps slowly adding small amounts directly into the mold with it preheated on the ceramic wool? I’m guessing there must be a reason perhaps the graphite can’t handle the same heat for the same amount of time as the crucible?
Correct. That much heat would destroy the graphite mold.
@@sreetips beautiful pour and silver bar by the way. Also have you ever tried or do you know if cast iron or steel moulds would work? @bigstackD does not usually pour precious metals but he uses them as well as graphite for copper and bronze and many other metals. I guess I’m trying to learn how the mold material itself affects the pour. Thanks love your content.
I only have experience with graphite molds. I’ve never used cast iron. No experience with base metals. Only precious metals cast into bars.
Lovely job!
great bar very nice work
wow!! congrats on your harvest and success in casting! what a beautiful bar! 🤍
Good job pozdrowionka serdecznie z Polski 🇵🇱👍👍👍
Greetings!
WoW! ...holy smokes awesome Silvetbar man super dupe awesome shine man and wow again ....silver mskes happy !😂🎉👍💥🎇
You ever gets to buy it is very lucky!!
That pure silver crystal is absolutley beautiful looking stuff... That bar is even more beautiful shines like a mirror
Those rings are magical, be careful w/these monsters! Making me nervous Good God!!
Me too!
Pay no attention to my ELIXIR OF GOLD. What a baller.
Nice Sir.
Great looking bar. I'm more a gold guy as silver value is a lot more volatile.
Yeah but silver is more versatile😮 If you're ever forced to use silver, like when our dollar crashes.
For the everyday person you want to have more silver on hand than gold because most of your purchases will be made with silver unless you're buying a house or a car or something Of high value. Or if you just want to consolidate your assets into a smaller package , go with gold.
And just so you know the gold price fluctuates the same as silver does is it still on a different Part of The scale so you don't notice it as much unless you're looking past the $.000012 mark
Good man Kev do as the boss says
That looks like very expensive snow, and not the narcotic type.
Totally unrelated but want your awnser. When dissolving the silver/gold or just gold, what effect does chlorinated water have when added to dilute?
When working with silver in solution I avoid using chlorinated water. Gold in solution, being a chloride, no problem with using chlorinated water.
Hefty hefty big ass bar
I have a foundry that I do my melting - How do you set up a bowl like that ? Please tell me in steps on how to get it done thanks in advance Sreetips
I wrapped the crucible with ceramic wool and secured it with steel wire. Worked great.
Sreetips, friendly question, roughly how much do you go through in glassware in a year? I'm assuming you get most of it 2nd hand. But I would interested to know how many beakers flasks and glass rods wind up as causalities of heat breakage and wear and tear. As always please do not share anything proprietary or security compromising in chat. as always thanks for the terrific video.
Good corning chemistry/lab glass should last a long time with what he is doing. Rarely is he using chemicals or materials that can damage the surface of the glass, even after constant repeated activity.
You can even burn the inside of corning glass and it will wipe clean. I burnt some organic compounds on the bottom of one of my larger graduated cylinders and a quick boil in HCL and H2O2 and the bottom looked clean.
I don’t break many pieces. I’ve had most of it for my entire refining career, almost 14 years. If some breaks it usually do to my carelessness. I haven’t had anything break while in service.
Except one beaker that wasn’t Pyrex, tried to dry some powder and it broke.
Good to know. I was worried that constant heating and cooling would take a toll even on Pyrex overtime.
Pro tip, the really good Pyrex has its logo in all lower case, and the crap from china is all caps
Have you ever ran your clean and dry silver crystal back through your cell? Or though about embedding a seed crystal to your graphite plate? Big fan of your precise laboratory practices, but you need to build a bigger fume hood 😂
Yes, I can’t remember the title of the video. I sent a sample off for ICP analysis and it came back greater than five nines.
AHEM.
A TRUE AMERICAN.
A GUNS AND GRITS MAN...
WOULDN'T BUY GOLD.
HE'D GO GET HIS OWN.
THAT'S THE WAY.
A question, couldn´t you melt the silver directly inside the graphite crucible ? Or would the crucible produce to much carbon dioxide and create bubbles ?
No, the heat would ruin the graphite mold.
Found my new favorite RUclips channel.
Welcome!
too bad silver seems harder to pull than gold, if im. not mistaken, comgratz for your great work
Awesome can’t wait to watch
I know you are a careful person, but I was concerned that there could be moisture in the cold crucible. When you pre-heat the mold, you are drying it before pouring the melt. I'd hate to see a water vapor explosion or splatter in your crucible. Keep up the great work!
On my mind the whole time.
Ever consider using a buffing wheel?
Precious metals don’t need buffing, in fact should not be buffed. They look amazing right out of the mold. Base metals REQIRE buffing, then start to oxidize almost immediately. That’s one of the unique properties of gold and silver.
That crucible setup looked liked it worked well.I tap the mold with my pliers to get tighter ripples. Is that crucible bowl shaped ,if so was rockwool rolled under it ?
Ceramic wool, standard shape (not dish)
What is your professional background? I think this is a neat hobby and would find it enjoyable myself.
I’m retired
😮 Mrs Sreetips! Cheeky!! 😂😂
Cheeky: impudent or irreverent, typically in an endearing or amusing way. I had to look it up.
@@sreetips definitely endearing - ot was in response to your quip about Mrs Sreetips threatening to spank you. We Brits consider that very cheeky in a loving kind of way
I like it.
39 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 😅
Ill give you a dollar!!!😂
For your melt table, why don’t you just have a small furnace like other channels for these big pours? They’re like 200 bucks. That would pay for itself in MAPP gas.
I’m just a hobbyist. I normally don’t make big bars very often. So I don’t need a big furnace. But I’ve shown that i don’t really need one. I have an electric furnace. But the torch is easy, cheap, and faster.
Premium on crystal silver is high. Poured bar… lowest premium there is unless its vintage. Huge bummer to see it melt.
😮beautiful pieces!
Hey, my book by cm hoke came. soon I'll be able to do me some pours
Isn't there a download able PDF?
@bradcraig5111 not that I know of sir, I searched ebay
@@richardbaham6813 OK. Heard there was. Proves ya can't believe everything you hear.
Yes, free PDF all over the internet. I use the printed pdf at the shop. Keep my hardcover on my nightstand.
Sreetips, you put a decent amout of time and effort into the bars etc that you make. I'm sure any price you (or Mrs Sreetips) set is fair. Also, the price of Silver seems a bit low to me atm. Not that I have any idea what it has been historically.
I believe historically it's around 1/20th of gold, but at the moment it's around 1/100th
Silver (and gold) are both grossly undervalued. And that’s why selling these metals is a bad idea.
Twenty to one, since biblical times. Puts silver at a hundred bucks, based on the current bid for pure gold (which is also way off).