If I could spend a day with any RUclipsr, it would come down to either working with Jimmy DiResta on a shop project or with Sreetips refining a batch of carat scrap. I think both of these guys produce interesting products - not any of the ego massaging, look-at-me nonsense that you find on too many other channels - instead, just meat and potatoes content. Good stuff.
Oh you must have missed out - I was lucky and for both chemistry and physics in high school had professor-types teaching the courses. Yeah it was the honors section but still we did _in class_ demonstrations of thermite, picric acid, nitrogen triiodide, and a whole bunch of other flammables/explosives not to mention the day we had a whole Dewar of liquid nitrogen we got to shove our arm in, freeze roses, hot dogs, etc. College prof wasn't nearly as engaging, but the lab was filled with especially nasty reagents for our course work - things you only use in a fume hood and even then you're super careful because they're strong carcinogens, etc. Sreetips is fun to watch, but those two were masters.
Fascinating, I've been waiting for this filter paper recovery and refining. I'm glad you finally got around to doing it, that's a lot of filter papers, and I can't wait to see what comes out of them. I'm off to watch PT 2, and see what happens!
I'm already having withdrawls for part two :(, Love your content, you make very interesting videos, who else would save filters for four years lol to make a video. I've saved all of my filters so I'm way excited to see the results you get off of yours :) Have a super day and TY for your videos, they help pass the time in this quarantine stuffs ;)
Thanks for the video and the tip to go over and watch what srsrocco had to tell us. I’ve been subscribed to his channel and he has all the charts and knowledge to show us what is happening in the markets. Have a good on Sreetips and stay blessed in these trying times, I really appreciate all you have done for our community and what you’ve taught me about refining precious metals.
I’m only 2 minutes in, barely past the video explanation and I have to say, I love your videos and I think this is cool as hell, lol. I need more content!
I'm probably in the minority when I say, I miss the long videos! I'm assuming that you're doing the shorter videos to make the majority happy! That's pretty cool that you have 10 years of gold filters in that 5 gallon bucket!! I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of this process through the up coming videos!! Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
Hey sreetips awesome video today!!!!!! Too bad though no guns today😂😂😂 thank you so much for mentioning steve st angelo at srsrocco report. Ive been following him for years he makes total sense. Pls my friend be careful in this time of uncertainty and god bless you and your wife. Cant wait for the next video. Have a great weekend
Watch next time as Sreetips scrapes the top 3 inches of his back yard around the burner to extract whatever precious metals were knocked loose while transferring to the burn barrel. :) I have seen a container in the custom jewelry shop that has similar materials from their polishing stations. That container also gets the sweepings from their workbenches too as there are a lot of fine grounds created in their work... I can't remember the level they usually went to, but I think it was 3 levels before they were spending more in labor and materials than what they got out... Is there a filter on your fume hood for the dust that you are creating?
Hello. I follow your channel since many years and i learned many tips because of you. Just one question: you use distilled water, do you buy in gallon or you make it your own with a distillator ( machine which take tape water and convert it to distilled). Very good channel, continue! you are " the yoda of refinning"
Would there be a way to separate the liquid from a larger amount silver chloride if we did just go straight to aqua regia? Would it just take a very long time of would the funnel 100% clog. Every refiner seperate to avoid, just wondering how catastrophic it is
If there’s lots of silver chloride then it’s best to let it settle completely, over night, then siphon off the clarified gold solution. But this takes time and requires patience. Something that novice refiners are usually a little short on.
Sreetips, just wondering where you buy your nitric. I usually make mine but need some before outdoor conditions will let me set up (I don't ave an indoor place to make it)
Wont you lose some gold in the burning process, we visited an australian gold smelting company, and they were telling us about half a kilo (or there abouts) of gold they reclaimed buy washing down the wall ceilings and flue from the smelting room.
Tim Hull over time it will build up. There are losses all along the way. Burning is the first step in the recovery process. Some will get lost but you’ll see in part 2 (uploading right now) that most of the gold gets recovered.
lol your neighbors smell some of your experiments and they prolly say what is he over there doing now! I ran my neighbor inside off her screened in back porch one day when I was dissolving copper and gold shot in nitric. The fumes are great for running g off mosquitos too!
Damn. No drinking for me today. I’ve made “Stock Pot” a drinking game. But he didn’t say it once in this vid. Guess I’ll pour my shot back in the bottle.
Humm, i have run filters a few times now and although a simple incineration like that works fine if you are just going after the gold and pgms i find the silver chloride is not recovered using this method. The silver remains in chloride form in the ashes and therefore is not dissolved in the nitric wash. Maybe you should keep the waste ash from your process and see if you can recover further silver from it from a more advanced method.
According to Harold_V on the goldrefiningforum.com silver chloride can be reduced to pure silver metal by melting with plenty of sodium carbonate flux. But I've never done it.
I bet that paper ash contains loads of PotassiumCarbonate. you could wash that out with water. It would probably save you some Nitric acid and cost you a filterpaper.
Thanks a bunch for the site on our Silver. I am still awaiting the post to you to be finished.He Lives in Southern Ontario and for ? reasons like travel bans etc he has not finished it. I had a few clips that needed to be redone as for whatever reason I really don't know why it happened. I am on HTML snail internet and it takes me almost an hour a minute to transfer files to him. Now that 2 week thing has shut down the shop where I do my pouring has closed for 2 weeks isn't helping getting this done and ready for you my friend.Please take care of you and yours.I do soooo much apologise for the holdups. By for now......Dean......
People are running on silver. I bought some on APMEX some months ago and you had your choice of silver. Just for giggles, I looked again a week ago, and just about all their silver was out of stock.
If you use the tare function on your scale you will not have the added step of dumping things out, weighing the container, and calculating the contents. You just weigh your containers and write the tare weight on them.
I am making a business prospectus for a small scale refining business. On average, for refining Ewaste, what is your cost for chemicals , filters, etc, to refine one ounce of Au , Ag, and PGMs? I have looked high and low for an average cost, but have found nothing. Looking at all those filters, I'd venture you have a rough idea.
I do this for fun. Its my hobby. I don't track expenses for each batch. Ewaste is very low yielding. Check the goldrefiningforum.com Some folks there who do this for a living. They may be able to help you.
Seems like it’s coming up quickly doesn’t it. First I’ll say a prayer of thankfulness. I’m in the perfect business at the perfect time with the right instrument. What a ride.
I notice by your shadow that you are not wearing breathing protection during the burn. I bought several ounces of silver and found it difficult to locate some that was not out of stock. I have a stockpile of circuit boards from twenty years of tech work that I have been saving for just this sort of current scenario.
Enjoyed watching you do this. Utilizing and recovering everything possible. Quick question, do you also save your test strips to burn with the filters?
Have you ever considered melting incinerated stuff with copper and flux to collect metal to refine and to get rid of troublesome nonmetalic stuff? Sieving and long filtration of cake are waste of time and acid...
Burns off junk that can interfere with the recovery. Harold_V, one of my early mentors, used to say, “the three most important things about precious metals recovery are: incineration, incineration, and incineration.” It will remove gunk like no other process can.
Just a thought. Cellulose (paper) reacted with nitric acid ....can produce nitro cellulose. This is an un desired side effect. And uses up some nitric ions thus acid. .easier / more economical to burn off first.
@@Alrik. Sreetips has explained many times, the refining and youtube part is just a hobby. There's no profit to be made due to the cost of materials and the time that goes in to the whole process. Watch his older video's.
@@benwinkel are you sure about that? He often talks about getting the items he refines for cheap at garage sales and such. Him refining it and keeping all the silver crystal seems like he does it with profit (now or in the future) as a goal.
@@Alrik. The silver crystal is a nice by product from his hobby. Currently it's not paying the bills which is why he's holding on to it. The price going up is (educated)speculation and no guarantee to say the least. His profit is in the buying cheap at garage sales and the like(this is where his beloved wife comes in with her natural talent to spot a bargain) and selling as is, which is i guess the majority of what they do.
Andrew, it's good for those who use gas in their car. But awful for those who are employed in that industry. Greatest depression just ahead. Life as we knew it is over. Worst economic collapse that America has ever seen. It's frightening.
Buck a gallon? The hell 'ya say? Dude might know the silver market but he don't know jack about the fuel market. It's currently $3.50/gal. here with only rises ahead.
He has an Ebay channel where he will occasionally put up a gold or silver bar that he has refined. In addition to that, he will also have gold or silver jewelry that is worth more as jewelry. His Ebay channel name is Sreetips and you can look at what he has available. (The bullion he sells will typically sell for over spot price, but he puts a lot of time and material into producing the product)
I am on good terms with all my neighbors. I trim there hedges, mow their lawns and try to be helpful. If your referring to the little bit of smoke from my one-time experiment, then I must point out that your car exhaust does much greater harm to the neighbors.
If I could spend a day with any RUclipsr, it would come down to either working with Jimmy DiResta on a shop project or with Sreetips refining a batch of carat scrap. I think both of these guys produce interesting products - not any of the ego massaging, look-at-me nonsense that you find on too many other channels - instead, just meat and potatoes content. Good stuff.
I’d choose Cody’s Lab, he seems like someone I’d learn from, then have a drink with
You need to make shirts that say
“I’m gonna add some distilled water”.
😂
You will need some hydrochloric or nitric acid shirts too...
I like it when he says “going in”. Distilled water going in!
I've been looking forward to a filter paper video for some time now. Thanks!
Thank you for keeping life normal and teaching us about refining. You are the science teacher we needed when we were growing up.
Oh you must have missed out - I was lucky and for both chemistry and physics in high school had professor-types teaching the courses. Yeah it was the honors section but still we did _in class_ demonstrations of thermite, picric acid, nitrogen triiodide, and a whole bunch of other flammables/explosives not to mention the day we had a whole Dewar of liquid nitrogen we got to shove our arm in, freeze roses, hot dogs, etc. College prof wasn't nearly as engaging, but the lab was filled with especially nasty reagents for our course work - things you only use in a fume hood and even then you're super careful because they're strong carcinogens, etc.
Sreetips is fun to watch, but those two were masters.
Fascinating, I've been waiting for this filter paper recovery and refining. I'm glad you finally got around to doing it, that's a lot of filter papers, and I can't wait to see what comes out of them. I'm off to watch PT 2, and see what happens!
Added my like to the video for the simple fact you had the fume hood materials on your shelf for four years. love that kind of self-discipline.
I’m very excited to see the results! Can’t wait for part 2.
Thanks for the upload during these troubled times, these vids help me relax 👍😃👊
Indeed. I'm on Day 12 of my family's self quarantine and I watched this video while eating my breakfast. Good stuff.
@@IMDunn-oy9cd i know, tough times , hope everyone is doing well, take care, wash your hands , etc. 👍
Ive been watching your videos for seems like years? Thank you for your knowledge. Sean
Man you are so cool. I wish I had interests like this when I was younger. Really enjoy the videos sir.
That pie-pan Connie on your wrist is beautiful.
paul ashman she got it for me at a local sale.
I'm already having withdrawls for part two :(, Love your content, you make very interesting videos, who else would save filters for four years lol to make a video. I've saved all of my filters so I'm way excited to see the results you get off of yours :) Have a super day and TY for your videos, they help pass the time in this quarantine stuffs ;)
I was in whitdrawl when i read the title: "part 1"
@@benwinkel Yeah, his videos relax me a ton, love watching a whole hour, this one was very short. :)
Thanks for the video and the tip to go over and watch what srsrocco had to tell us. I’ve been subscribed to his channel and he has all the charts and knowledge to show us what is happening in the markets. Have a good on Sreetips and stay blessed in these trying times, I really appreciate all you have done for our community and what you’ve taught me about refining precious metals.
I have been waiting for this video for a very long time. Cant wait for part 2 ..
i have no idea why im obsessed with thees video.
I’m only 2 minutes in, barely past the video explanation and I have to say, I love your videos and I think this is cool as hell, lol. I need more content!
I'm probably in the minority when I say, I miss the long videos!
I'm assuming that you're doing the shorter videos to make the majority happy!
That's pretty cool that you have 10 years of gold filters in that 5 gallon bucket!! I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of this process through the up coming videos!!
Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
The sad thing is, we have to wait 10 yrs for another one of these. ;)
Very interesting. Can't wait for the results.
Part 2 uploading, will post in less than an hour from now.
Hey sreetips awesome video today!!!!!! Too bad though no guns today😂😂😂 thank you so much for mentioning steve st angelo at srsrocco report. Ive been following him for years he makes total sense. Pls my friend be careful in this time of uncertainty and god bless you and your wife. Cant wait for the next video. Have a great weekend
I dont have no gold or want gold yet, here I am watching chem reaction, fascinated
Watch next time as Sreetips scrapes the top 3 inches of his back yard around the burner to extract whatever precious metals were knocked loose while transferring to the burn barrel. :) I have seen a container in the custom jewelry shop that has similar materials from their polishing stations. That container also gets the sweepings from their workbenches too as there are a lot of fine grounds created in their work... I can't remember the level they usually went to, but I think it was 3 levels before they were spending more in labor and materials than what they got out...
Is there a filter on your fume hood for the dust that you are creating?
Great video again.
Hello. I follow your channel since many years and i learned many tips because of you. Just one question: you use distilled water, do you buy in gallon or you make it your own with a distillator ( machine which take tape water and convert it to distilled).
Very good channel, continue! you are " the yoda of refinning"
I buy distilled water from the grocery store.
Kinda off the subject but I noticed your cap was from the USS Semmes DDG 18. Did you serve on the Semmes?
yes
Would there be a way to separate the liquid from a larger amount silver chloride if we did just go straight to aqua regia? Would it just take a very long time of would the funnel 100% clog. Every refiner seperate to avoid, just wondering how catastrophic it is
If there’s lots of silver chloride then it’s best to let it settle completely, over night, then siphon off the clarified gold solution. But this takes time and requires patience. Something that novice refiners are usually a little short on.
Really excellent
18:08 watching this 2 years later and laughing my ass off at gas prices below $1USD/gal
Wouldn't the combustion of the cellulose in the filters result in a lot of lye that would neutralize a good share of the Nitric acid?
Sreetips, just wondering where you buy your nitric. I usually make mine but need some before outdoor conditions will let me set up (I don't ave an indoor place to make it)
GFS Chemicals
@@sreetips Thanks. I'll check them out.
Wont you lose some gold in the burning process, we visited an australian gold smelting company, and they were telling us about half a kilo (or there abouts) of gold they reclaimed buy washing down the wall ceilings and flue from the smelting room.
Tim Hull over time it will build up. There are losses all along the way. Burning is the first step in the recovery process. Some will get lost but you’ll see in part 2 (uploading right now) that most of the gold gets recovered.
I love these type of videos. You did one before if I remember correctly.
lol your neighbors smell some of your experiments and they prolly say what is he over there doing now! I ran my neighbor inside off her screened in back porch one day when I was dissolving copper and gold shot in nitric. The fumes are great for running g off mosquitos too!
Damn. No drinking for me today. I’ve made “Stock Pot” a drinking game. But he didn’t say it once in this vid. Guess I’ll pour my shot back in the bottle.
But he did actually use a stainless steel stock pot... Does that count?
Another good one!
Humm, i have run filters a few times now and although a simple incineration like that works fine if you are just going after the gold and pgms i find the silver chloride is not recovered using this method. The silver remains in chloride form in the ashes and therefore is not dissolved in the nitric wash. Maybe you should keep the waste ash from your process and see if you can recover further silver from it from a more advanced method.
According to Harold_V on the goldrefiningforum.com silver chloride can be reduced to pure silver metal by melting with plenty of sodium carbonate flux. But I've never done it.
nice video ;) cant wait wait ti next part ;) and see how much you get ;)
Thanks for the video.
I bet that paper ash contains loads of PotassiumCarbonate. you could wash that out with water. It would probably save you some Nitric acid and cost you a filterpaper.
Interessant!
Thanks a bunch for the site on our Silver. I am still awaiting the post to you to be finished.He Lives in Southern Ontario and for ? reasons like travel bans etc he has not finished it. I had a few clips that needed to be redone as for whatever reason I really don't know why it happened. I am on HTML snail internet and it takes me almost an hour a minute to transfer files to him. Now that 2 week thing has shut down the shop where I do my pouring has closed for 2 weeks isn't helping getting this done and ready for you my friend.Please take care of you and yours.I do soooo much apologise for the holdups. By for now......Dean......
Thanks for the update
You are genius sir
Nice old watch.. Omega Constellation PiePan Dial?
Thats it. Wife got it for me at a sale.
People are running on silver. I bought some on APMEX some months ago and you had your choice of silver. Just for giggles, I looked again a week ago, and just about all their silver was out of stock.
When big money moves in you won’t be able to find it anywhere. Maybe it already had.
Sreetips, no other home refiners come close to the quality of your video's. Can't wait for your next adventure. PS How will you fry your Turkey's now.
In peanut oil
@@sreetips Lol, nice answer.
If you use the tare function on your scale you will not have the added step of dumping things out, weighing the container, and calculating the contents. You just weigh your containers and write the tare weight on them.
I keep forgetting to do it.
Can't wait to see part 2
I am making a business prospectus for a small scale refining business. On average, for refining Ewaste, what is your cost for chemicals , filters, etc, to refine one ounce of Au , Ag, and PGMs? I have looked high and low for an average cost, but have found nothing. Looking at all those filters, I'd venture you have a rough idea.
I do this for fun. Its my hobby. I don't track expenses for each batch. Ewaste is very low yielding. Check the goldrefiningforum.com Some folks there who do this for a living. They may be able to help you.
@@sreetips thank you. Will do.
Cant wait for part 2
“These filter papers are covered in precious metals!”
*proceeds to spill them all over the ground*
I save all my filter papers
Hey @sreetips, are you going to do anything for 100k subs?
Seems like it’s coming up quickly doesn’t it. First I’ll say a prayer of thankfulness. I’m in the perfect business at the perfect time with the right instrument. What a ride.
@@sreetips amen, always good to give thanks to him, and forgiveness to us from him
I notice by your shadow that you are not wearing breathing protection during the burn. I bought several ounces of silver and found it difficult to locate some that was not out of stock. I have a stockpile of circuit boards from twenty years of tech work that I have been saving for just this sort of current scenario.
Save it because silver will be much higher
@@sreetips I have been saving it for twelve years now. I already have a stockpile of silver, I was just getting more.
When we look back we'll wish that we would have bought more.
Nice video sir...
Your bucket has a sticker from a PCS move!
I never noticed
Enjoyed watching you do this. Utilizing and recovering everything possible. Quick question, do you also save your test strips to burn with the filters?
No
Have you ever considered melting incinerated stuff with copper and flux to collect metal to refine and to get rid of troublesome nonmetalic stuff? Sieving and long filtration of cake are waste of time and acid...
Sterling silver instead of copper would combine two refining processes
You should try that and let us know how it works.
I found the video. Now I remember. 😂
Neighbors must be ecstatic about the chemical smell
Nice
Where do you get you nitric acid?
GFS chemicals
good video
Part 2 must be interessting too! The Dollar and Euro are not stable but backed by trilions. Inflation is on its way.
It’s a shame. We used to have the best of everything in the whole world.
What is the advantage of incinerating the filters ?
Burns off junk that can interfere with the recovery. Harold_V, one of my early mentors, used to say, “the three most important things about precious metals recovery are: incineration, incineration, and incineration.” It will remove gunk like no other process can.
Just a thought. Cellulose (paper) reacted with nitric acid ....can produce nitro cellulose. This is an un desired side effect. And uses up some nitric ions thus acid. .easier / more economical to burn off first.
Is it possible to over hydrate a solution?
All things are possible my friend, all you gotta do is try...
❤❤❤❤❤
Who was the person who got the silver bar for giving you the equation to dissolve silver with little to no nitric acid left over
Martin Fernandez in the UK
Spring cleaning SREETIPS style.
Wish I could send you all my bags of scrap gold pins chips ect and see what you could do
Refining air... Hehe
Very interested to see how much your yield will be!! :D
Are you sure? I mean, what if the result is disappointing? ;)
@@benwinkel then he knows it might not be worth keeping all those items around :P
@@Alrik. Sreetips has explained many times, the refining and youtube part is just a hobby. There's no profit to be made due to the cost of materials and the time that goes in to the whole process. Watch his older video's.
@@benwinkel are you sure about that? He often talks about getting the items he refines for cheap at garage sales and such. Him refining it and keeping all the silver crystal seems like he does it with profit (now or in the future) as a goal.
@@Alrik. The silver crystal is a nice by product from his hobby. Currently it's not paying the bills which is why he's holding on to it. The price going up is (educated)speculation and no guarantee to say the least. His profit is in the buying cheap at garage sales and the like(this is where his beloved wife comes in with her natural talent to spot a bargain) and selling as is, which is i guess the majority of what they do.
Stay tuned! Sreetips is keepin us in 'suspension'!
LOL ISeeWhatYouDidThere
@@stewskinner5717 😃
Lot of smoke. Hihi
Below $1 a gallon is great unless you're a guy like me who got laid off from a job thats usually hiring everyone they can find with certifications.
Andrew, it's good for those who use gas in their car. But awful for those who are employed in that industry. Greatest depression just ahead. Life as we knew it is over. Worst economic collapse that America has ever seen. It's frightening.
24 minutes of ads on an 18 minute video. Not bad huh? You're welcome!!
Is it that bad? I try to keep the ads to a minimum. It’s the only way I have to be compensated.
Buck a gallon? The hell 'ya say? Dude might know the silver market but he don't know jack about the fuel market. It's currently $3.50/gal. here with only rises ahead.
Tin can sailor?
Obviously sreetips is an online trader?
Am I right????
He has an Ebay channel where he will occasionally put up a gold or silver bar that he has refined. In addition to that, he will also have gold or silver jewelry that is worth more as jewelry. His Ebay channel name is Sreetips and you can look at what he has available. (The bullion he sells will typically sell for over spot price, but he puts a lot of time and material into producing the product)
I.M. Dunn I meant a trader as in stocks.. etf futures.. etc
@@wreckless_-jl6uu nope
Do your neighbors love you?
Haha I was thinking the same thing.
I am on good terms with all my neighbors. I trim there hedges, mow their lawns and try to be helpful. If your referring to the little bit of smoke from my one-time experiment, then I must point out that your car exhaust does much greater harm to the neighbors.
وو انت عبقاري
Any guesses as to what comes out?
5g of gold, 10g of silver
Booo. Not really just wanted watch more.
You making a lot of smoke there.
If you put a gas torch flame to the top of the filters you get an after burner effect
You get a lot less smoke.