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  • @terrorfr0nt
    @terrorfr0nt 3 года назад +1298

    This was a cool randomly recommended video

  • @ryanwilliams7270
    @ryanwilliams7270 3 года назад +646

    Incase you're wondering, 1552 grams of silver equates to approximately 50 ounces of silver which is currently worth $1350/USD.

    • @seriogamarkovas5407
      @seriogamarkovas5407 3 года назад +40

      A man of culture, I see.

    • @Waxxumus
      @Waxxumus 3 года назад +6

      Not for long.

    • @ptbot3294
      @ptbot3294 3 года назад +28

      Dollar per dollar? That sound worthless

    • @bigboyjr1274
      @bigboyjr1274 3 года назад +7

      Cool to see you used Troy ounces in your calculation

    • @marionnette6231
      @marionnette6231 3 года назад +2

      Tylor Buster uh... wrong idea bud our dollar is weaker lol so same buying power

  • @drexelvenero2604
    @drexelvenero2604 3 года назад +1674

    RUclips algorithm: here is a video of pure silver crystal trees being cleaned and harvested
    Me: why?
    RUclips algorithm: do you want to watch it?
    Me: a hundred percent

  • @jamesm1
    @jamesm1 3 года назад +536

    I bet medieval alchemists watching this would assume you had discovered transmutation lol.

    • @sharpe227
      @sharpe227 3 года назад +15

      or they are like Damn these guys having figured how to turn silver into gold yet.

    • @Aderon
      @Aderon 3 года назад +58

      Metal salt "transmutation" is well documented in history. It's where the idea of transmuting other metals into gold came from. The idea was that "oil of vitriol" that has the essence of a higher metal (in this case, silver) could wash out the impurities of a lower metal, leaving behind a greater quantity of higher metal.
      We now know that what's actually going on is that due to metals like Iron being more reactive than copper, the iron would displace the copper in copper sulfate, leaving a thin layer of copper on the surface of the iron, and converting an equivalent amount of copper sulfate to Iron sulfate. The novel part of the process used in this video compared to the well known sulfate process is that the electrical current serves to drive the reaction past the equilibrium point.
      In short, while alchemists would be amazed by his process, they would also have a pretty clear grasp on what processes are at play, and would be more surprised by the quantity of silver 'made' rather than the fact that he got silver at all.

    • @stumbling
      @stumbling 3 года назад +3

      HE'S TURNING COPPER INTO SILVER!!!!

    • @Trump-ld1qh
      @Trump-ld1qh 3 года назад +4

      @@stumbling I just poopy diaper

    • @macromicrodragon
      @macromicrodragon 3 года назад +3

      Rather, they would probably start making more bagdad batteries. electroplating isnt new.

  • @dougdennis3681
    @dougdennis3681 3 года назад +881

    I would love to have a few of the "trees" of the pure silver crystal suspended in some acrylic as a paperweight. That's absolutely GORGEOUS.

    • @pertinentparadigm1337
      @pertinentparadigm1337 3 года назад +35

      I second that comment

    • @TravisOG64
      @TravisOG64 3 года назад +28

      I third, what a great idea! Would be a great art/business project.

    • @laughterman805
      @laughterman805 3 года назад +19

      Betcha the silver cold hold up to being enrobed in glass

    • @laughterman805
      @laughterman805 3 года назад +3

      -classier

    • @jacoblaszakovits3035
      @jacoblaszakovits3035 3 года назад +18

      chase cahoon the problem with glass is is dense and hard so it would be hard to not damage the crystals and epoxy would work just as well

  • @Rustic-Minerals-Jewelry
    @Rustic-Minerals-Jewelry 3 года назад +188

    I just started my own silver cell without a fume hood but I am working outside with a fan going & away from public. It's only been an hour since I started & there's already crystals forming around the stainless steel pot! Thanks for all your informative videos @sreetips!!
    Wish I could post pictures on here...

  • @lindyashford7744
    @lindyashford7744 3 года назад +18

    So glad you showed us the silver crystals, a glimpse was not enough.

  • @2212db
    @2212db 3 года назад +37

    That has to be one of the most beautiful things I have seen. I love the colour of the electrolite and the shape of those crystals.

    • @CrossedCoder
      @CrossedCoder 3 года назад +1

      Electrolyte*

    • @2212db
      @2212db 3 года назад +1

      @@CrossedCoder thank you, sadly, I knew it's spelt that way.

  • @DW-zi6ht
    @DW-zi6ht 3 года назад +15

    Love the falling "blankets" of silver during the time lapse. Great video!

  • @jasonwright1687
    @jasonwright1687 3 года назад +22

    Thank you for the super slow, super close look at the crystals on bowl both in and out of solution. That was an amazing sight to behold. I can only imagine how epic is must be in person. You rock, Sreetips. 🤘❤🤘

    • @jackrichards1863
      @jackrichards1863 3 года назад

      Yea, I have to second that statement . Blue to silver/white was quite amazing in itself.

  • @yogidemis8513
    @yogidemis8513 3 года назад +17

    Stuff like this is the reason why I love chemistry. Amazing!

  • @KoWoTun
    @KoWoTun 3 года назад +20

    The great respect for: very effective + not over complexed method; good professional tools, but no excess furniture/etc; rock solid calmness along with kilograms of precious metal; totally outworked process; crazy beautiful pictures.. and branding anyway XD
    I really like these branded cardboard sheets ^__^
    Hello from Russia!!

    • @myst1c164
      @myst1c164 3 года назад

      You can never be too protected from people stealing your work

  • @Mr-Mojo92
    @Mr-Mojo92 3 года назад +27

    Wow it's so beautiful to see silver crystal in that form it's so pure and beautiful absolutely fantastic video awesome 😎✌️

  • @kx65andyx85rider
    @kx65andyx85rider 3 года назад +17

    12:50 “had to come take a look at this, get it on the video” absolutely love this man

  • @FullModernAlchemist
    @FullModernAlchemist 3 года назад +2

    I’m loving your videos. Incredibly helpful in my current pursuits. Thank you so much!

  • @bonebips
    @bonebips 3 года назад +7

    I usually don’t like videos on here, but this one is too cool not to. Chemistry is such an amazing form of science and art. Truly beautiful, man.

  • @trinsit
    @trinsit 3 года назад +5

    😲That looks gorgeous. I'd love to keep it in that crystal form as an art piece with the blue liquid frozen in time. The time lapse video on the copper is AWESOME!

  • @etshinn
    @etshinn 3 года назад +21

    Time lapse of the cement silver forming on the copper and falling to the bottom was really neat to see. I don't remember seeing that particular footage in earlier videos. Really gives you a good visual for the chemical reaction and how much silver is actually coming out of that small amount of electrolyte. Great content!

  • @kingl33725
    @kingl33725 3 года назад +1

    Man, that is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing this!

  • @rjbrown6942
    @rjbrown6942 2 года назад +1

    If seeing that pure silver crystal doesn't make you smile I don't know what would. Gorgeous!!

  • @yourdrummer2034
    @yourdrummer2034 3 года назад +7

    2:24 that looks incredible in so many ways!

  • @bfd1565
    @bfd1565 3 года назад +6

    I could watch your videos all day and night long. Neat stuff Sreetips...

  • @jonathanritter7364
    @jonathanritter7364 3 года назад +1

    This dude is so damn smart when it comes to chemistry

  • @bigtxbullion
    @bigtxbullion 3 года назад

    One of the best vids ive seen on the chemistry behind the pour. Unreal. Absolutely stunning images from the crystalline formation in the electrolyte solution to the timelapse Cu dissolving with Au. Unreal. Wow!

  • @jackrichards1863
    @jackrichards1863 3 года назад +4

    This is the type of chemistry that would have got my school science class flipping out over solutions, chrystals and reactions. Well I'm flipping out a bit about this lot right now. It's totally brilliant.

  • @McKryozen
    @McKryozen 3 года назад +86

    Plot twist: This is his daily routine of making Silver cereal, which is why he ends the video with a bowl of silver and a spoon.

    • @davemi00
      @davemi00 3 года назад +4

      Breakfast of Champions - Silver Flakes they’rrrrrrrre Grrrrrrrreat !! 🐯

  • @ProspectorTripp
    @ProspectorTripp 3 года назад +1

    Gorgeous crystal!
    Oh my.. the silver formations coming out of solution are spectacular!
    Wow Thanks
    ✌️PT

  • @richpederson6691
    @richpederson6691 3 года назад

    Another awesome video from a proven pioneer in the field. Always showing how it can be done if you put the work in.

  • @spartin86
    @spartin86 3 года назад +5

    Outstanding, Chief. 👌🏽

  • @RecBr0wn
    @RecBr0wn 3 года назад +14

    Amazing. It looks like a magical cave from out of a fantasy movies.

  • @OGmolton1
    @OGmolton1 3 года назад

    This was so much cooler than I thought it would be. Great video

  • @stevewoods8116
    @stevewoods8116 Год назад

    YOU ARE AN ARTIST!!!! Love watching (most) rarely comment.

  • @leesanders5398
    @leesanders5398 3 года назад +4

    These silver crystal vids are my favorite

  • @LastFractionZero
    @LastFractionZero 3 года назад +11

    On Aug 14th 2020 the value of that 1551 grams of silver was $1334.91 USD. I'd love to see a breakdown of the costs for impure materials, chemicals, electricity, the costs associated with casting it into bars, and the cost of safely disposing of waste.

    • @listennow5261
      @listennow5261 Год назад

      How many processes that are profitable to eliminate the waste. That would be one heck of a set up, put ALL the expense in a model and run it.

  • @mikehalvorsen4788
    @mikehalvorsen4788 10 месяцев назад

    Wow !!! Your videos are awesome. I love the fact that you never waste anything. That silver came out just beautiful. Thank you. 👍😎🇨🇦

  • @ianbegg9851
    @ianbegg9851 3 года назад

    Watching the time lapse of the Silver cementing out onto the copper was excellent - Thanks :-)

  • @toneloke7048
    @toneloke7048 3 года назад +80

    You should have some time lapse on the silver building up 🕵🏻

  • @SilverMac47
    @SilverMac47 3 года назад +5

    😳 those are absolutely beautiful. I’ve got 500ozt of sterling and sweeps to process. I started up two cells. Lol. You got some beauties my friend. You should pull out some of the bigger ones and keep them.

  • @mavos1211
    @mavos1211 3 года назад +2

    That silver cell is so beautiful!
    Can you imagine how amazing really close up photos would look and then blow them up to a large size..... incredible.

    • @lindyashford7744
      @lindyashford7744 3 года назад +1

      Yeah, my first thought was this needs some macro photography, I so wanted to see more of the detail. Especially when the crystals were still in solution, but also when they were washed. I also wanted to know how fragile they are. Are they durable enough for instance to be encased in a way that they will not discolour over time. I would rather own a silver crystal than a piece of jewellery tbh, far more beautiful.

    • @mavos1211
      @mavos1211 3 года назад

      @@lindyashford7744 I completely agree, completely unique and beautiful.

  • @rudigustin7279
    @rudigustin7279 3 года назад +1

    That was so incredible I watched it twice...lol... thank you... I've never seen anything like that before! You are ..The "Silver Chef"

  • @darthsilversith667
    @darthsilversith667 3 года назад +684

    That silver is clearly contaminated, better send it all to me for proper disposal 😂🤓😎

  • @RommieKamzols
    @RommieKamzols 3 года назад +6

    This was one of those rare times I stopped the video smiling and made sure I pressed the like button. Fantastic work, and very interesting

  • @bayougoldguy7337
    @bayougoldguy7337 2 года назад +1

    Love the crystallized silver. I add it to my gold paydirt bags, really makes em' pop. Great to see the process. Thanks for sharing 👍🐊

  • @scottharvey-davies1607
    @scottharvey-davies1607 3 года назад +2

    Love the chemistry and the video my friend !

  • @Charli30i
    @Charli30i 3 года назад +17

    Incase anyone was wondering, as of 5/1/2021, silver is selling at .84 per gram, therefore this batch has generated him $1302.84.
    Edit: this makes all the times my chemistry teacher said 'It pays to learn chemistry.' Hit home.

    • @jasoncaesar112
      @jasoncaesar112 3 года назад +1

      dunno what it cost him in terms of impure shot but im curious about his net profit

    • @SternLX
      @SternLX 3 года назад +1

      10 Days later and it's already $0.88 per gram. Silver just keeps trending up and up and up.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  3 года назад +5

      Jason, this is my hobby. I’ve got much silver to process. I just keep cranking out pure silver. I don’t sell it because the price is too low right now. Maybe when silver gets to $100. Even then, I’ll only sell it when I need paper to pay bills and buy food.

    • @sftwr314r8
      @sftwr314r8 3 года назад +3

      @@sreetips It is starting to look like that time may be soon.

    • @ItsOverFatKid
      @ItsOverFatKid 3 года назад +1

      @@sreetips how much money did it cost you to produce that batch? Not including your labor and equipment. Just the materials.

  • @Azradok
    @Azradok 3 года назад +15

    Noooo! Scraping off those beautiful crystals made my heart hurt a little.

  • @fairwitness7473
    @fairwitness7473 3 года назад

    That was far more cool than I thought it was going to be. Glad I watched it

  • @dmimz8593
    @dmimz8593 3 года назад +1

    That was so beautiful, I’ve never seen blue that color before.. unbelievable

  • @bandiras2
    @bandiras2 3 года назад +7

    Holly shit...
    In ancient Hungarian folk tales, in the fay land, dragons living in magical metal forests. Lead forest, silver forest, gold forest... And those forests usually round.
    You just made yourself a magic forest.

  • @t0x1cDr3am
    @t0x1cDr3am 3 года назад +8

    “Hydrochloric aaaacid” I never get tired of hearing it

  • @BLACK3737
    @BLACK3737 3 года назад

    Hard to believe how much can you learn just surfing YT. Thanks! Fascinating!

  • @JP-rx8dn
    @JP-rx8dn 3 года назад

    This is so damned cool. What an extraordinary and beautiful process.

  • @shaneyork300
    @shaneyork300 3 года назад +4

    It's always so incredible to see silver just grow! Grow in the crystals in the stainless steel bowl and this one was very interesting to see on the copper!! Don't see it like that to often!!
    Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!

    • @growmiezhomiez8760
      @growmiezhomiez8760 3 года назад

      Shane York didn’t know I could grow silver. What do u grow it out of? Like what are the ingredients to “grow” silver?

  • @edevil4347
    @edevil4347 3 года назад +13

    I’ll come sweep your shop anytime!

  • @Khodazmoon
    @Khodazmoon 3 года назад

    Beautiful Crystals and a clean work

  • @ariannasv22
    @ariannasv22 3 года назад

    Didn't know silver could crystallize. So beautiful and fascinating!

  • @999fine5
    @999fine5 3 года назад +12

    @12:52 anyone else have flashbacks to watching Bill Nye do a successful experiment on PBS while growing up? That sincere sound of wonder at the natural world and how it works 🙂

  • @James-bw4np
    @James-bw4np 3 года назад +4

    That was awesome to watch! And looking online at silver worth that 1551g = ~$1300.00 as of 4/23/21. Refinement process is amazing too!

    • @heliosgnosis2744
      @heliosgnosis2744 2 года назад +1

      and almost 1200.00 USD to the money a year from your comment here in far off 2022 good Sir.

    • @heliosgnosis2744
      @heliosgnosis2744 2 года назад +1

      lesson being, silver holds wealth pretty well, or at least well enough for a long haul hodl

  • @saeedTHEgreat
    @saeedTHEgreat Год назад

    I had no idea silver could have a crystal form. So beautiful. So precious :)

  • @mr.l6615
    @mr.l6615 3 года назад

    You are a chemist and a magician! Very cool video!

  • @isaacstlies4744
    @isaacstlies4744 3 года назад +4

    Sir, You have truly gained a mastery of Alchemy

  • @markanderson3740
    @markanderson3740 2 года назад +6

    have you ever considered taking some of the larger attractive crystals and immersing them in clear acrylic before they oxidize to create some curios..could it turn a tidy side project? i'd like to look at a perfect silver crystal under glass. gold forms crystals as well, perhaps with a gentler process than the stump remover. your process creates something rather rare in nature, as a side product. toward the end you showed very fine silver 'cementing' to the copper sheeting...those are fabulously fine detail. how hard would it be to use tweezers to remove it and slowly lower it into acrylic? also thinking polishing small magnifying dimples into the 'globe' would further attract the mesmerized mind. i'm a true fan of crystalline expressions, and you might have a fidget for us there in your stainless steel cauldron, that likely would generate better than by the kg bulk.

  • @RARDingo
    @RARDingo 3 года назад

    Most delightful random video in ages, Thanks, subbed & liked 👍

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  3 года назад

      Excellent, thank you

  • @andrews.
    @andrews. 3 года назад +2

    This is fascinating you RUclips for suggesting this. That blue was gorgeous.

  • @mark6302
    @mark6302 3 года назад +6

    I have no idea whats going on but it looks pretty damn sweet

  • @lightmagick
    @lightmagick 3 года назад +15

    Dropped a little bit at the very end there hope you picked that up. 😁

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  3 года назад +14

      I heard it hit the surface of the cardboard at the very end.

  • @loosefish9889
    @loosefish9889 3 года назад

    That forest of crystals were just beautiful, very nice

  • @Sanzus2
    @Sanzus2 3 года назад

    The comment you made about building a multi kilo furnace now makes complete sense!

  • @Llllillilililililillll
    @Llllillilililililillll 3 года назад +31

    Lemme drink that blue gatorade looking stuff it looks 🔥

    • @4thdimensiontravels855
      @4thdimensiontravels855 3 года назад +1

      It does look good huh. I love gatorade, koolaid, etc.

    • @mango2757
      @mango2757 3 года назад +4

      It is electrolyte so. It is a gatorade. But dangerous haha

    • @kevinscholer256
      @kevinscholer256 3 года назад +1

      Thinking same, said to myself idk what that is but it'll kill ya I know that

    • @pickychewycat1259
      @pickychewycat1259 3 года назад +13

      Forbidden Gatorade

    • @VitoDRF
      @VitoDRF 3 года назад

      If I understand how he set up the reaction, that’s copper nitrate solution. Very bad to drink!

  • @toyfreaks
    @toyfreaks 3 года назад +6

    Man! Looks like moonlight on frost covered Christmas trees.

    • @toyfreaks
      @toyfreaks 3 года назад

      @Steven Lengenfelder And then, in his recent video, there was an actual TREE growing! Fantastic!

  • @azxde9266
    @azxde9266 2 года назад +1

    Very pretty silver crystals!

  • @TwistedPixelGamer
    @TwistedPixelGamer 3 года назад

    I wish I was able to take a high res photo of that cell! that is phenomenal! with enough lighting you could take a very interesting overhead photo. Thanks for the video!

  • @PatrickMersinger
    @PatrickMersinger 3 года назад +4

    Great video, you make it look easy but it’s really “the long game” that counts.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  3 года назад +4

      My silver cell never sleeps

    • @PatrickMersinger
      @PatrickMersinger 3 года назад +1

      Is there a gold cell for purification? Or are the other ways you demonstrated the best?

    • @ronniewebb2979
      @ronniewebb2979 3 года назад

      Patrick... Sreetips has already made a video about a gold cell..

    • @markahearn7440
      @markahearn7440 2 года назад

      FANTASTIC. What would the situation be if you start the process with a .999 bar? Would would need to loose the entire bar in transmutation. Please forgive my ignorance. This was my introduction to this possibility
      THANK YOU MUCH for the share

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  2 года назад

      I have a video on the gold cell called the “Wohlwill Process”

  • @rallyrobb943
    @rallyrobb943 3 года назад +24

    In the words of Beakman's World, " Science Rules!!! "

    • @Tippet76
      @Tippet76 3 года назад

      Instantly had the guitar riff going through my head as soon as I read that.

    • @timrunion
      @timrunion 3 года назад

      Wait... wasn't that in the intro to Bill Nye The Science Guy?

  • @tylerm0089
    @tylerm0089 3 года назад +1

    fascinating stuff. its interesting how the crystals look almost identical in structure and shape to living, branching corals in the ocean/ aquarium.

  • @j_freeman3230
    @j_freeman3230 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for the time lapse of the silver cementing on the copper. I didnt expect it to be so fast, or for there to be s much.

  • @magneticman2003
    @magneticman2003 3 года назад +3

    Sir, you remind me of Professor Julius Sumner Miller the famous physics teacher;-))

  • @hudster80
    @hudster80 3 года назад +14

    That’s close to $1400 worth of silver right there!

  • @elizabethbrauer1118
    @elizabethbrauer1118 2 года назад

    I love gems, rocks, gold and silver, but your vid beats them all. Wonderful hobby. 👍

  • @justmythoughtsinthebush6431
    @justmythoughtsinthebush6431 3 года назад

    This just came up randomly for me awesome video thank you for sharing

  • @mindsofgreatness
    @mindsofgreatness 3 года назад +5

    What did you do today?
    Sreetips: Oh you know just grew some kilos of silver crystals

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  3 года назад +3

      I just harvested the silver yesterday. I need to melt some cement silver. Excited to try a larger propane melt furnace. Watch for the video

  • @Joe.Rogan.
    @Joe.Rogan. 3 года назад +6

    Do you ever pluck any of those gorgeous big crystals out from the bowl with tweezers or something before dumping the whole lot to preserve some nice specimens?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  3 года назад +5

      They are fragile and won’t stay together very well

    • @canonicaltom
      @canonicaltom 3 года назад +1

      I wonder if it's possible to cast one in resin

    • @Joe.Rogan.
      @Joe.Rogan. 3 года назад

      @@sreetips Bummer...

    • @paulleftwick7782
      @paulleftwick7782 3 года назад

      @@sreetips try heating super glue into a vapour it might harden up

  • @gildrop
    @gildrop 3 года назад

    Those crystals are beautiful!

  • @Marqan
    @Marqan 2 года назад

    So cool, thanks for showing!

  • @lordot8665
    @lordot8665 3 года назад +85

    Government is like :
    THATS ILLEGAL.

    • @woodworkingandepoxy643
      @woodworkingandepoxy643 3 года назад +9

      But its not lol

    • @CottageHound
      @CottageHound 3 года назад +8

      can i smoke it

    • @lordot8665
      @lordot8665 3 года назад +9

      @@CottageHound yes, yes you can but can i watch?

    • @codkid9185
      @codkid9185 3 года назад +4

      I feel like I just watched him make meth

    • @TheodoreBrosevelt
      @TheodoreBrosevelt 3 года назад +4

      @@CottageHound You can smoke anything just got to get it hot enough, you should record it for umm scientific purposes

  • @toneloke7048
    @toneloke7048 3 года назад +4

    I should’ve studied more in science 🤓 it’s so interesting and your pretty good at this next get going on that time machine

  • @mrdovie47
    @mrdovie47 Год назад

    I did silver chloride experiments in high school and the crystals of silver looked transparent like when you put the copper in your rinse solution. Beautiful.

  • @franksworld9922
    @franksworld9922 3 года назад

    Those crystals are very beautiful.

  • @ThePotFather
    @ThePotFather 3 года назад +10

    I'd love to see those crystals suspended in resin

    • @GiveThemHorns
      @GiveThemHorns 3 года назад +2

      I'd like to see a guitar body that was a suspension of silver crystals in epoxy with varying blue color to simulate the electrolyte in the cell

    • @daallen7636
      @daallen7636 3 года назад

      @@GiveThemHorns that would cost a shit ton and probably make noise in the pickup

    • @GiveThemHorns
      @GiveThemHorns 3 года назад

      @@daallen7636 Something easily fixed by instead using piezoelectric pickups if it were an issue. There would also be the added bonus of not needing to route the body and block some of the finish with magnetic pickups

  • @spocksvulcanbrain
    @spocksvulcanbrain 3 года назад +28

    Just where are you getting all that silver "shot" you're purifying?
    1550 gm/ 31 gm/troy oz x $26.50/oz = $1,325.00 as of 8/14/2020. Quite a haul.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  3 года назад +18

      My wife finds it at local sales

    • @chandlermorris712
      @chandlermorris712 3 года назад +6

      When you say she finds it, do you mean it's like silver dishes or jewelry that you then melt down and turn to shot in order to purify it?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  3 года назад +31

      Chandler Morris she finds silver jewelry, flatware, bowls and other sterling silver. I don’t “melt in down” but rather I dissolve it in nitric acid and separate the silver from the copper that’s alloyed with the silver. Then I precipitate the silver on copper metal, collect the resulting silver powder, and melt the 99% pure silver powder into shot that I use as feed stock for my electrolytic silver cell. In the cell all remaining impurities are remove by the cell and I end up with absolutely pure elemental silver metal. Close to five nines fine. That’s 99,999 parts per one hundred thousand

    • @uncleriktovan
      @uncleriktovan 3 года назад +4

      @@sreetips So as a person who frequents this side of RUclips I have to ask "What got you to the point of your metal working ability?" Where did you start in this line of business?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  3 года назад +67

      My wife sold scrap gold to a guy at the flea market. She bought it at yard sales. Made a nice profit until I discovered he was giving her $150 for $500 worth of metal. After that we began selling the scrap on eBay ourselves. Did well for several years. Then in 2010 I began to wonder what folks were doing with the scrap gold that I sold them. Started snooping around about learning to refine it myself. But there was nothing. No books, no magazines, no periodicals, no information at all. RUclips was new and there were videos with bits and pieces. But they left out critical details and directed you to a web site for a fee to get the rest. Then I stumbled onto the goldrefiningforum.com my user name there is kadriver. With the help of those guys i began to learn. A year later I posted my first refining video on RUclips. Then forgot about it. A year later while surfing the web I came across my video. To my astonishment it had 92k views and my channel had 1600 subscribers. I realized that I had struck digital gold. But that it would only pay off if I gave it all away. Most refiners would rather take their refining secrets to the grave. But I decided to make videos with as much detail as I could, remembering how difficult it was to learn and how nice it would have been to have videos, like mine, available to view back when I was learning. The rest is history. Documented for all to see, enjoy, and learn from, without anything left to the imagination. To borrow a quote from General George S Patton, “I have precisely the right instrument, at precisely the right moment in time at precisely the right place. An opportunity like this may not happen again for another thousand years!” What a ride. And that’s how I got started at all this.

  • @republish368
    @republish368 3 года назад +1

    Very beautiful white crystals.
    The silver cell is in fact a PLATING device :)
    Great video and thanks for showing and teaching ;)

  • @jj5484
    @jj5484 3 года назад

    That is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.

  • @Unloadonyou
    @Unloadonyou 3 года назад +7

    New drinking game. Take a shot every time he says "pure silver crystal"

    • @tyler238
      @tyler238 3 года назад +1

      I’m drunk af😂😂

    • @User-1543
      @User-1543 3 года назад

      i died

    • @ARM0RP0WER
      @ARM0RP0WER 3 года назад

      Nah a shot for the words silver. Crystal.and or pure when any of those are said then take a shot then bask in the glory of a few hundred kill streak

  • @heckinmemes6430
    @heckinmemes6430 3 года назад +7

    2:55 You ever just, take a little slurp just to see what it tastes like?

  • @Ziegen-Sauger
    @Ziegen-Sauger 3 года назад

    Beautiful, and the three main colors (blue, green and shiny silver) are mine blowing

  • @vinnythebird1611
    @vinnythebird1611 3 года назад

    My man is making that good crystal

  • @newendoria1232
    @newendoria1232 3 года назад +40

    Yep seems like he's making meth to me I'm gonna have to call him Walter now

    • @williamparker9506
      @williamparker9506 3 года назад +1

      First thing I thought of lol we are currently watching BB, on season 4 rn I know I'm late but better late than never I guess 🤔😅

    • @batlin
      @batlin 3 года назад +1

      @@williamparker9506 I'm still on season 2 :D

  • @SukottoSama
    @SukottoSama 3 года назад +8

    looks like healthy marijuana buds in early flowering.

  • @TANGYHATCHY
    @TANGYHATCHY 3 года назад +1

    This is so cool, and one of those things my generation just doesnt quite understand yet that you guys are good at!

  • @setforglobaldoom
    @setforglobaldoom 2 года назад

    I always love and enjoy when u do ur videos. And the process. It’s just an amazing journey to see what u achieve. It’s just eye candy for my eyes. Always. 👌 great video ✅