@@elizabethphelps4392 You might be able to produce tiny globules along an edge which is indeed "melting" the gold, but a bigger chunk, no, and you wouldn't get any kind of good results pouring say an ounce into a mold. Even MAPP gas which burns 5300 F, much much hotter than propane or butane, is kind of a pain in the butt. You don't want to keep the torch on the work for 20+ minutes.
I never get tired of watching your videos you are such an inspiration . It seems like when I see period when you don't post I get concerned for your welfare ❤
@@sreetips, that is not believable, I am sure Mrs. Sreetips has a firm hand on the tiller. It is also that time of year to go to yard sales, for some reason I would bet she enjoys going to them... She is probably in her element at yard sales and estate sales!
That ingot was in the top 10 ingots I've watched you pour, super lovely! The nice surprise at the end with the unexpected extra gold made it all the more cooler! And the gold solution was beautiful to boot after two passes through the filter! I don't know if that would stay true if I worked as a refiner, but those videos showing a basic refining are a real treat, they genuinely put me in a good mood. Thank you, Kevin!
Excellent production! Your skill and knowledge on refining plus the editing is perfect. Takes a lot of time to produce that man. Thank you for another great learning experience.
wow... never ceases to surprise me that EVERY bar is never alike... looked at an earlier video of the ending to compare the bar pour rings, they never seem to appear in the same places, as if they've all got their own fingerprint of sorts, so unique. keep doing what you do sreetips, it has motivated me to start going around to any yard sales to gather up my own stash of gold scrap. heck I even wanna go panning for the gold.
Just a tip, I saw a video in which this guy poured the inquartated gold into a nugget instead of pouring it into the water to make small granules. He then flattened that nugget using those rollers which jewellers use. He flattened the nugget as thin as a paper and then cut that gold paper with scissors to give it nitric boil. He was done with the separation of pure gold in just one nitric boil because the gold was paper thin. You should also try it imo.
It is kinda hard to tell by the video , but it looks as if your flame has intermittent orange and yellow streaks . That would indicate your torch torch tip is dirty . If that is so , you may want to clean your tip or it possibly could put impurities in your gold . Love your videos .
This is fascinating! I caught one of your videos randomly and I'm hooked. Makes me want to get the equipment and learn how to do it myself! Thanks for sharing what you do.
Sweet looking gold bar Sreetips. I like the switch up on rising the filter in a separate flask. Nothing worse then flushing containments back into your double filtered solution. I hate when that happens.... Ugh !!!
Try pouring the inquarted gold/sterling from higher up. You’re so close to the water and it’s so shallow that it’s still molten when it hits the bottom of the pan. A higher pour will give the molten metal time to “come apart” from a stream to individual drops that should stay separate from each other by the time they hit the bottom of the pan.
Wow! I am totally impressed! I would love to get all my gold melted down into a bar like that. Hopefully my new gold mining hobby, will someday enable me to do just that. Also, you most definitely know what you are doing. I would surely knock something over and end up like the Hulk or something! Thanks for giving me something more to learn about!
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. Exelent clip as always. I on of the days i will melt a sterling bar whit lot of caracter. Have a nice easter. God bless you man🙏 Arne
The poured bars are looking much nicer since you began boiling the precipitated gold in HCl before rinsing it. About $5160 at today's spot price. That should be good for a mortgage payment or two.
Another great video, and I am always thinking that when you get junk in your filter papers, some of it might be the lead, that you're trying to precipitate out, with the Sulphuric acid.
No, a good April Fools joke would be if he labeled this as a e-waste recovery and refining and just smelted some bars... E-waste is my fave! But I don't think Sreetips cares for it too much.
Someday I really want to do some of this refining stuff on my own, but currently I don't have a place I can do it. I definitely plan on hitting up garage sales and stuff to find cheap karat gold if I can, that way I can prepare for the day when I refine it into pure!
You can hold the karat gold without refining it. It will track right on up with the price of gold. The only reason I do it is because it’s my hobby, I love it, I can’t not do it. Plus it helps my channel grow.
@@sreetips That’s one of the astounding things ABOUT your work: the volume of gold you deal in. I keep my eyes peeled for estate and yard sales, thrift shops etc and it’s unusual to find anything. Forget the workups. Sniffing out the volume you do is pretty amazing.
Hey Sreetips, love your videos. I was interested in what you said about holding silver because of its value against the $. I was wondering why you often sell the gold you refine? Is that to reinvest more into scrap? Is there a point you'll become content with the conversion of $ to metal assets? Thanks.
why aren't you using the waterboard you made ? I love watching your videos it feels like you finally are making the video you wanted to make all that time, I know the process by hearth at this point but every new video manages to bring more clarity to the whole process. Bravo Sreetips, much love to yall and have a great day !
Quick question -how many melts do you get from one cylinder of map gas? Im sure it depends on volume of a melt and different alloys as well. Just a ballpark answer would work . Love the videos , entertaining , informative and well made. Thank you and keep up the good work sir.
Great video as always. I have noticed from your earlier content that you spend much more time trying to rinse off chemicals like the sodium metabisulfate, and as a result you are not needing to triple refine gold to get the same result.
If the gold is going to be sold to an individual, I refine it twice - minimum. If it’s going to the big refiner I sell to then a single refine is sufficient.
Love watching your gold refining videos. I noticed you don’t use the map gas torch to pre-melt the pure gold anymore, you go straight to the oxy acetylene. Was the map gas causing the unexplained skin on your pure gold bars a few months back? Also noticed the skin on the re-melt of some pure silver bars too. It was baffling me because it was just a remelt, you didn’t introduce anything new to the silver before melting it.
Thinkin if you used a big cake pan full of water and ran a bead from one side to the other and stagger em you'd have a lot less clumping. If that makes any difference. Sweet pour.
@@sreetips, I just clicked on the bell and selected All from the list. That’s what I always do when I like a channel enough to subscribe to it. I don’t know how or why it was changed. I didn’t change it. But it wouldn’t surprise me if you got shadow banned for speaking the truth about precious metals vs fiat currency.
One more question, SORRY! GOLD. I have been collecting. I have acquired enough, I believe, to start my first refinement. Where I'm stumped is that several pieces, which definitely aren't pure, have no stamp to tell the karate. I bought a test kit, from Amazon, that clearly identifies gold; however, not the amount, or rather, what Karate. Do you have a "Go too" rule of thumb, as how much silver you enquart, when you aren't sure of the purity of the gold you're working with? My wife, Linda and I, are both fascinated with your production methods and how, "NOTHING", gets wasted. I learn more each time I rewatch your videos. I can't thank you enough for making the effort to produce them. Sincerely, Wade
Wade, until you get an eye for it, I’d invest in some test needles (needles tipped with known samples of karat gold) and use them to compare side-by-side when you add the test acid. Also, gold filled will test as karat gold, because it is a thick coating of karat gold over brass. To test that, file deep into the metal and add a little test acid directly on the file mark. If it’s solid karat gold then it won’t react at all. If it’s gold filled then it will start bubbling, turn green and stink to high heaven,
@@sreetips Brother, I truly appreciate your advice and the time you invest in, people like myself, who have a little bit of knowledge. Just enough to get myself into trouble! The gold fill, was actually over lead, I believe. I broke it in half and sure enough, lead in the center! It took me a little while to get all the exterior metal separated from the lead interior. I don't know if it was worth my time; but, "Nothing goes to waste". I haven't been this excited about anything for a LONG TIME! I love watching your videos. You are a rare individual, to share everything, to take the time explaining what you are doing and why. You have given me the tools to start doing something that I am already falling in love with! I'm in your debt! Thank you so very much! Wade
I know electronic scrap is popular. But it’s messy, the amount of waste is high. And the yields are low. And to get enough scrap to make it worth while is getting more difficult.
@@sreetips yes. But is yust a number Sir. You and your wife seems pretty good shape. But i now what you means. I am 55,and feel muth older. I have a surgery for 5 years ago, who lead to constent pain, but i try to think positive, and use my detector to find stuff. But whe have Jesus🙏. Thats give peace🌹
How do you know when one of the Nitric acid reactions has stopped? I thought it would be when the brown fumes stop forming, but sometimes, like in this video, there is still a thick brown cloud of fumes in the beaker when you say that the reaction has completed and it's time to pour it off.
I think he just knows from experience and how long it's been boiling in the acid for, I like to try this but I'm in Ireland and it's very difficult to get nitric acid and just as hard to get hcl.
@@sreetips Okay, thanks. So, it IS about the fumes, then? I understand needing to speed things along. Those processes take a lot of your time and you need to keep the ball rolling.
Very cool! How do you know when each nitric acid boil is complete? Looks like you still have nitric in solution when you pour off solution into silver jar.
I swear it never gets old watching you refine anything! 🎉
I'm the same Dawn lol, I love watching his vids.
never does, to be sure. i love seeing the finished bars.
can i melt 22 karat gold with a hand held butane torch
@@elizabethphelps4392 You might be able to produce tiny globules along an edge which is indeed "melting" the gold, but a bigger chunk, no, and you wouldn't get any kind of good results pouring say an ounce into a mold. Even MAPP gas which burns 5300 F, much much hotter than propane or butane, is kind of a pain in the butt. You don't want to keep the torch on the work for 20+ minutes.
I don’t think that it will get hot enough. MAP gas from the hardware store will (yellow tank).
I never get tired of watching your videos you are such an inspiration . It seems like when I see period when you don't post I get concerned for your welfare ❤
Entropy, is crawling all over me.
@@sreetips, that is not believable, I am sure Mrs. Sreetips has a firm hand on the tiller.
It is also that time of year to go to yard sales, for some reason I would bet she enjoys going to them... She is probably in her element at yard sales and estate sales!
She’s the best thing that ever happened to me.
That ingot was in the top 10 ingots I've watched you pour, super lovely! The nice surprise at the end with the unexpected extra gold made it all the more cooler! And the gold solution was beautiful to boot after two passes through the filter! I don't know if that would stay true if I worked as a refiner, but those videos showing a basic refining are a real treat, they genuinely put me in a good mood. Thank you, Kevin!
yeah, it was one of the best
The bigger bars are always the best looking..
And that one was probably one of the best yet that I’ve seen you do..
The best video my friend ,, Very inspiring. Goodluck,,Greetings from a traditional Indonesian gold miner 🇮🇩⛏️🌸💪👍👍
Excellent production! Your skill and knowledge on refining plus the editing is perfect. Takes a lot of time to produce that man. Thank you for another great learning experience.
Brother, these videos are fascinating. The skill and knowledge of this refining technique you ave definitely perfected. Great job.!
Thanks Boats!
These videos are like meditation to me now please keep them coming
When you started heating up that big mold I knew it was going to be a glorious slab. I was not disappointed. Awesome.
wow... never ceases to surprise me that EVERY bar is never alike... looked at an earlier video of the ending to compare the bar pour rings, they never seem to appear in the same places, as if they've all got their own fingerprint of sorts, so unique.
keep doing what you do sreetips, it has motivated me to start going around to any yard sales to gather up my own stash of gold scrap.
heck I even wanna go panning for the gold.
Each bar is like a finger print.
almost 10g more than expected! What a pleasant surprise. Great video as usual Mr. Sreetips.
We appreciate your videos my friend I have learned so much it's crazy I never thought I would be able to refine silver until your channel
What a stunning bar! Great video as always!
Just a tip, I saw a video in which this guy poured the inquartated gold into a nugget instead of pouring it into the water to make small granules. He then flattened that nugget using those rollers which jewellers use. He flattened the nugget as thin as a paper and then cut that gold paper with scissors to give it nitric boil. He was done with the separation of pure gold in just one nitric boil because the gold was paper thin. You should also try it imo.
Without the second nitric boil....Flying blind. #2 long Nitric boil doesn't have silver in solution ✅
Sounds interesting. But I’d rather let the chemicals do all that work.
Another gorgeous pour! You have steadily improved over the years on those pours - good job man!
One of my favorite parts is the dropping of ice into the gold solution. The sound is relaxing to me.
It is kinda hard to tell by the video , but it looks as if your flame has intermittent orange and yellow streaks . That would indicate your torch torch tip is dirty . If that is so , you may want to clean your tip or it possibly could put impurities in your gold . Love your videos .
The silence in the last segment was fitting! What a breathtaking high purity gold ingot.
One of my favorite channels. Thank you Sreetips
What a nice surprise at the end. 👍
School has gotten less busy and I have returned to watch your soothing videos.
Welcome back!
The gold is nice and the silver cell looks amazing.
Love the channel! You have a great voice for this! Very soothing audio tone 😁
Thanks for the enjoyment of watching your content 🙌🏻
1.25 playback speed for the win. Thanks for all the great content sreetips!
YOUR THE BEST SCREETIPS BY FAR
you're
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i love work, i can watch you do it all day.
I know absolutely nothing about this subject, but it’s so interesting I can’t stop watching!
That was such a great episode I shared it with my friends so they understand what I been talking about.... 😊😊😊
Wow. The crystal structure and pour lines are just perfection. What a beauty.
Man I love watching you refine the metal's I'm saving to refine my own from now on to me you are PROFESSOR SREETIPS GREAT CONTENT
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
Such a lovely bar. As always, a masterpiece.
This is fascinating! I caught one of your videos randomly and I'm hooked. Makes me want to get the equipment and learn how to do it myself! Thanks for sharing what you do.
Welcome! Caution, it can become habit forming.
Excellent sir as always six stars
That was an awesome video. Your silver harvest looks quite beautiful. I didn't know it looked like that. Thank you for passing on your experience!
The King of Inquartation. Thank you for another great show.
Excellent video thank you!!! Bonus grams my favorite part 🎉😊
BZ chief. Your videos never fail to educate and entertain.
Excellent April fool's episode!
Very interesting videos. Looking forward to the next video.
Happy easter from Norway😊
Sweet looking gold bar Sreetips. I like the switch up on rising the filter in a separate flask. Nothing worse then flushing containments back into your double filtered solution. I hate when that happens.... Ugh !!!
You know it!
Excellent production! I actually understand the whole process... You are a master, thank you so much.
cool how the color of the flame heating the mold changed color as you took the oxygen with the torch melting the gold.😊
Try pouring the inquarted gold/sterling from higher up. You’re so close to the water and it’s so shallow that it’s still molten when it hits the bottom of the pan. A higher pour will give the molten metal time to “come apart” from a stream to individual drops that should stay separate from each other by the time they hit the bottom of the pan.
That pour was beautiful!
I think that is the best I have seen from a single refining
A testament to how effective inquarting with silver then parting with nitric really is.
Wow! I am totally impressed! I would love to get all my gold melted down into a bar like that. Hopefully my new gold mining hobby, will someday enable me to do just that. Also, you most definitely know what you are doing. I would surely knock something over and end up like the Hulk or something! Thanks for giving me something more to learn about!
Love it keep sharing
Nice surprise... Your pouring technique is better and better as time goes...
Another beautiful bar nice work!!
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. Exelent clip as always. I on of the days i will melt a sterling bar whit lot of caracter. Have a nice easter. God bless you man🙏 Arne
Happy Easter
another great episode,thanks mr sreetips,rob
Senior chief, ❤love the video.
From your favorite Gunny
Thanks Gunny!
The poured bars are looking much nicer since you began boiling the precipitated gold in HCl before rinsing it. About $5160 at today's spot price. That should be good for a mortgage payment or two.
What a beautiful poured bar that is. Thank you for this video!
Another great video, and I am always thinking that when you get junk in your filter papers, some of it might be the lead, that you're trying to precipitate out, with the Sulphuric acid.
Yes, it could be.
What no April Fools Gold??? haha
No, a good April Fools joke would be if he labeled this as a e-waste recovery and refining and just smelted some bars... E-waste is my fave! But I don't think Sreetips cares for it too much.
Amazing, sucked me in. I couldn’t stop watching it was so fascinating!
you are absolutely the best at this.
cheers 🍻
these silver crystals are so beautiful
You pour some of the nicest bars I have ever seen. 9999 fine
Back to the basics, I love it✌️
When all else fails, a good old-fashioned gold refining works wonders to restore confidence.
Beautiful bar.
Someday I really want to do some of this refining stuff on my own, but currently I don't have a place I can do it. I definitely plan on hitting up garage sales and stuff to find cheap karat gold if I can, that way I can prepare for the day when I refine it into pure!
You can hold the karat gold without refining it. It will track right on up with the price of gold. The only reason I do it is because it’s my hobby, I love it, I can’t not do it. Plus it helps my channel grow.
@@sreetips That’s one of the astounding things ABOUT your work: the volume of gold you deal in. I keep my eyes peeled for estate and yard sales, thrift shops etc and it’s unusual to find anything.
Forget the workups. Sniffing out the volume you do is pretty amazing.
She found a nice batch on Friday. I’ve enough for another ounce of pure gold.
"Look at that beautiful, gold powder... I'm gonna melt you." hahhahaha awesome
Best looking bar EVER!!!!
Such a beautiful bar of gold and really nice to get so much extra gold over what expected. 👍
The gold bar at the end was sweet looking.
Man o’ man! I would love to see your stack. All those beautiful sreetips bars!
Hey Sreetips, love your videos. I was interested in what you said about holding silver because of its value against the $. I was wondering why you often sell the gold you refine? Is that to reinvest more into scrap? Is there a point you'll become content with the conversion of $ to metal assets? Thanks.
I only sell to pay my debts.
@@sreetipshow much do all those reagents cost you? You're never stingy with e.g.the HCl rinses even though that stuff ain't free
Less than a hundred bucks all in.
Excellent.
It's highly infomative & a nice video. Stay Blessed.
Awesome video sreetips! Can’t wait to get some of your silver cell crystals I just ordered!
This gold bar was amazing!
why aren't you using the waterboard you made ? I love watching your videos it feels like you finally are making the video you wanted to make all that time, I know the process by hearth at this point but every new video manages to bring more clarity to the whole process. Bravo Sreetips, much love to yall and have a great day !
It takes too much time to set up and tear down
GOLD ART IS WHAT THIS CHANNEL IS AND THATS NO APRIL FOOLS
Quick question -how many melts do you get from one cylinder of map gas? Im sure it depends on volume of a melt and different alloys as well. Just a ballpark answer would work .
Love the videos , entertaining , informative and well made. Thank you and keep up the good work sir.
Probably eight or ten, pure guess because I don’t really keep track.
Great video as always. I have noticed from your earlier content that you spend much more time trying to rinse off chemicals like the sodium metabisulfate, and as a result you are not needing to triple refine gold to get the same result.
If the gold is going to be sold to an individual, I refine it twice - minimum. If it’s going to the big refiner I sell to then a single refine is sufficient.
Love watching your gold refining videos. I noticed you don’t use the map gas torch to pre-melt the pure gold anymore, you go straight to the oxy acetylene. Was the map gas causing the unexplained skin on your pure gold bars a few months back? Also noticed the skin on the re-melt of some pure silver bars too. It was baffling me because it was just a remelt, you didn’t introduce anything new to the silver before melting it.
I’m constantly refining my refining and melting processes.
That was a nice little $600 surprise, not to be sniffed at 👍 congrats
Thinkin if you used a big cake pan full of water and ran a bead from one side to the other and stagger em you'd have a lot less clumping. If that makes any difference. Sweet pour.
That bar was impressive. No frosting or anything. I bet you got it 4 9s in the single refining!
It came looking exceptionally well
I got my notification this time. Excellent video, as always. 😊
Good, glad to hear it’s been resolved. What did you change to get the notification?
@@sreetips, I just clicked on the bell and selected All from the list. That’s what I always do when I like a channel enough to subscribe to it. I don’t know how or why it was changed. I didn’t change it. But it wouldn’t surprise me if you got shadow banned for speaking the truth about precious metals vs fiat currency.
One more question, SORRY! GOLD. I have been collecting. I have acquired enough, I believe, to start my first refinement. Where I'm stumped is that several pieces, which definitely aren't pure, have no stamp to tell the karate. I bought a test kit, from Amazon, that clearly identifies gold; however, not the amount, or rather, what Karate. Do you have a "Go too" rule of thumb, as how much silver you enquart, when you aren't sure of the purity of the gold you're working with?
My wife, Linda and I, are both fascinated with your production methods and how, "NOTHING", gets wasted. I learn more each time I rewatch your videos. I can't thank you enough for making the effort to produce them.
Sincerely,
Wade
Wade, until you get an eye for it, I’d invest in some test needles (needles tipped with known samples of karat gold) and use them to compare side-by-side when you add the test acid. Also, gold filled will test as karat gold, because it is a thick coating of karat gold over brass. To test that, file deep into the metal and add a little test acid directly on the file mark. If it’s solid karat gold then it won’t react at all. If it’s gold filled then it will start bubbling, turn green and stink to high heaven,
@@sreetips Brother, I truly appreciate your advice and the time you invest in, people like myself, who have a little bit of knowledge. Just enough to get myself into trouble! The gold fill, was actually over lead, I believe. I broke it in half and sure enough, lead in the center! It took me a little while to get all the exterior metal separated from the lead interior. I don't know if it was worth my time; but, "Nothing goes to waste".
I haven't been this excited about anything for a LONG TIME! I love watching your videos.
You are a rare individual, to share everything, to take the time explaining what you are doing and why. You have given me the tools to start doing something that I am already falling in love with! I'm in your debt! Thank you so very much!
Wade
81,5 grams! What a good surprise nice job
Nice. Would love to see another gold fingers /electronic components video again. Not see one of those in a few years
I know electronic scrap is popular. But it’s messy, the amount of waste is high. And the yields are low. And to get enough scrap to make it worth while is getting more difficult.
@@sreetips I can appreciate that. Thank you for the reply
I saw another person use your method to mix the gold and silver but they used a smaller container of waters full of ice
There are many ways to achieve the same result.
Everytime i see your vids i am thinking about buying al those stuff lol
By the way.... Lovley to hit that 205 k. Members. Congrat🎉Arne
Thanks Arne. Wonder if I’ll live long enough to see a million?!
Hihi. My dear friend. Good whe dont now, but to me you only is 48🙏😊
Don’t let my youthful appearance fool you, in four years I’ll be 70.
@@sreetips yes. But is yust a number Sir. You and your wife seems pretty good shape. But i now what you means. I am 55,and feel muth older. I have a surgery for 5 years ago, who lead to constent pain, but i try to think positive, and use my detector to find stuff. But whe have Jesus🙏. Thats give peace🌹
really pretty gold bar this time
youre getting better at producing smoother bars, not boogered up
Wow that was a perfect pour sir!!🎉
Always good when it weighs more
How do you know when one of the Nitric acid reactions has stopped? I thought it would be when the brown fumes stop forming, but sometimes, like in this video, there is still a thick brown cloud of fumes in the beaker when you say that the reaction has completed and it's time to pour it off.
I think he just knows from experience and how long it's been boiling in the acid for, I like to try this but I'm in Ireland and it's very difficult to get nitric acid and just as hard to get hcl.
On nitric boil number two and three there was still some fumes evolving. I could have let it go but decided to add fresh acid to speed things up.
@@sreetips Okay, thanks. So, it IS about the fumes, then? I understand needing to speed things along. Those processes take a lot of your time and you need to keep the ball rolling.
Thank you for your video.
Great pour. It’s beautiful!
11👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 😮
That a nice bar of gold
@@clarencetaylor1813 excellent bar 👍
Ah, Franklin Mint commemorative ingots for inquartation. The very best use for them!
Is that what that was. It was from a bank.
Nice 😮I enjoyed watching
I would say the third nitric boil should have continued a bit longer.
Very cool! How do you know when each nitric acid boil is complete? Looks like you still have nitric in solution when you pour off solution into silver jar.
There was, but it was weakened. Pouring it off and adding fresh acid speeds things up.