Do you have a Sigma or other testing device? The crystals are absolutely beautiful and undoubtedly pure. And I know you sell them for a premium and get some of your cost back. But I'm curious what the purity is before the silver cell. I've seen a couple of videos on RUclips where bars passed .999 fine on a sigma after just nitric, cementing on copper, and melting.
@@cwtrain it is but he is still learning and regardless of his gain being a bit to high and ur volume in ur headphones being up to loud probably; it is a huge step in the right direction he figured out mono input vs stereo so it comes thru to both ears and the poping is from it being clipped on a headset mic that is directly infront of his mouth if u watched the whole video there is a clip showing that
I work at a electrical switch gear rebuilding shop.. I cut up 1/8 thick sheets of coin silver all the time. It's so common, they just sweep up the shavings and toss them.. (unless I get to it first..) lol
@@sreetips I would be amazed if it ever hits that. About the only way that's gonna happen, is if there is a full scale hot civil war in America.. And if that happens, I doubt they will even be open for business anyway. I didn't even mention the pounds of silver tungsten chips we toss every day..lol I don't mess with that stuff since it's only 30-38% silver by weight, and takes a bunch more effort to process out.
Awesome Explanations there Sreetips, I never get tired of watching your videos, and I appreciate the time you put into making them for us :-) Have a great day mate!
@@RedRedux can't beat that! If your getting anything above 95% then that's the way to go. Large refiners operate on a small percentage (1-2 %) because chemicals are cheaper and plus.... They get to keep any other metals for free. Nitric right now is 45 cents a lb for 69% nitric. A gallon is about 11 lbs so about $5 a gallon (commercial pricing)
@Power 2 Weight Actually a professional lab is not much different. The fundamentals are the same. You don't need a million dollars to do this and that's what he is teaching.
Have you thought about doing another eBay crystal sale? Your crystals are so beautiful. And the process just adds on to it, it looks simply magical with the crystals sitting in the electrolite solution.
I have watched all you videos at least once so I knew everything in the video already, but it's always fun to see more of!! Would melting in the furnace maybe go quicker if you left a little bit of molten metal in it before filling it with the next charge of cement silver?
telling ya man, making nitric is super easy, and brings the cost down to about $20.00 per quart.. Just have to do a recrystallization of the ammonium/potassium nitrate because the anti cake powder and other impurities will make it foam if you don't. $100.00 worth of glassware, and you will be good to go.
I make my own nitric using sodium nitrate and sulphuric in stoichiometric amounts. I add water to the reactions vessels (I run 2 3L flasks at into a claisen adapter which connects to a 2L collection flask). I end up with about 1800ml of 68% nitric in about 2hrs and the cost is about $25 in chemicals. The thing is to source your nitrate so you are using a pure product as one has stated if there is anti caking agents in the nitrate it will foam up and cause you problems.
@@aa1.5 Where are you getting sodium nitrate at a decent price? I usually order a 50lb bag of potassium nitrate off amazon, or other places around the net for around $80.00 delivered.
It's funny that you just posted this. I had 4 people message me today on Twitter congratulating me for winning that 5oz bar you gave away on Twitter. 🤔 Not sure what is going on with that. 🤣
Look into devil forge and look into their furnaces. Big stack, Adam rock and Melt and cast from UK all use them I think it would be beneficial instead of making one.
Hi i was thinking about buying a gold bar that is 1020 g that is from melted gold pins from computers and was wondering how much gold I could expect to refine down and get out of it
Hi Sreetips. Great video!!! So many useful information. I have an idea: you could make a video using electrolysis to get 100% pure silver, similar to your Electrolytic Gold Refining Cell video. You already have pure silver for the anode and you simply melt the cement silver for the cathod. What would be the electrolyte? Silver nitrate solution? That would be interesting to see and compare with the gold process. What voltage to use? Amps? How many time would it take to process 1 troy ounce? What shapes the pure silver would make on the anode side?
NO! The silver will compact and restrict the flow of solution. This will lead to a BIG rise in voltage which is not got for several reasons. Don't reinvent the wheel, just roll with it. Lol
I do enjoy your videos. Is there a reason you use two layers of the dacron bag for the anode basket? Knowing things can run expensive with the refining process, could you use one layer for the basket and stretch the use of filter bags? They might be cheap, but it would cut down on the expenditure regardless of those being fairly cheap to buy.
Smelting, extracting metal from ore, is something I’ve never done before. I bought all the melting equipment at welding supply. Electric melting furnace on eBay. This is my hobby so I don’t calculate costs for each batch. Everything is done in a never ending stream and it’s all tied together.
Hey @sreetips Big fan. I got a question. hopefully you can help. I refined some scrap silver in nitric. after filtering there was a substantial amount of yellow like slime/powder at the bottom. do you know what it might be?
@@sreetips I got the repour done today and video'd. Now on to the saw ,files, sanding and polish. I will do bits and pieces of that as well. Have a great weekend my friend.
What do you fill the stainless bowl with. I noticed you said earlier in this video you added distill water to prevent the silvee from vaporizing. So the electrolyte solution is made up of distill water and sodium or table salt to make the electric current or just plain water?
Sreetips, can I ask, what got you into refining? What was it that captured your imagination? I’d love to have a crack at it but don’t have the circumstances right now. Best wishes.
@@TheMeditron According to the size of cell, current density, and 10 other things. I have has some in larger cells grow to 6 inches plus. Those are worth good money!
Sreetips , where can I get a replacement coil for a very old Kerr electromelt? The connections at the ends of my coil wires corroded and I just need to order new insulation and coil and all. Where do I go?
Are there any drawbacks to using a lower voltage and amperage to grow larger silver crystals? I know it will take longer. Also once the silver is precipitated out of the silver nitrate solution you can also use that same solution with two copper bars to make and grow pure copper crystals via electrolysis
3.3 to 3.7 volts DC are the parameters that I leaned from the pros on the goldrefiningforum.com anything else runs the risk of other metals plating out with the silver and contaminating the beautiful pure silver crystals. Palladium is the main concern. It’s solubility in nitric makes it a candidate for cross contamination in the silver cell. A little Pd in the electrolyte won’t hurt silver purity. But if it builds up then it can start to plate out with the silver. Green electrolyte, instead of blue, is a tip off of palladium contamination of the electrolyte. I’ve been told that the silver can have as much as ten percent palladium in it before you’d notice any difference in your silver. While it’s bad for your silver purity, the real problem is this; palladium is one hundred times more valuable than silver!
sreetips thanks for the advice... if the electrolyte is green wouldn’t that mean that the Palladium is not being precipitated out into the Silver crystals? (because it’s in the solution?) just like blue would mean that’s copper being refined out of the anode basket... ?
They make computer controlled electric kilns for knife making. They are small and can go up to a temperature that you want and hold there. Also there is no air movement in these kilns to blow the powder around.
Just a question for you. If you were just interested in refining silver alone. Could you melt down the 90/10 silver directly into shot & put it into the silver cell for refining ?
If you do that; the copper (from your sterling flatware) will consume the nitric acid in the cell over 3x as fast as does silver. So your nitric acid costs would rise dramatically, you would have to change out and tend to the cell a lot more often, and you would reach that point where copper would plate out faster. Should that happen, your charge of silver would become polluted and you'd have to start over with the melting and shotting. Since the cell takes maybe 10 days to run its course, if you start plating out copper overnight on day 3 or 4, you come in the next day and your silver is polluted. So it's just not the way to go.
@Power 2 Weight You can watch this for a more technical explanation, I don't think he explains all that well, but he DOES show the impact of excess copper in the electrolyte....and it sucks, it crushes how much silver you can process before bad stuff happens. ruclips.net/video/CC9LO5WnuvU/видео.html The simpler way to understand it is: Cu is a +2 ion, silver is a +1 ion. Copper nitrate is Cu(NO3)*2. Silver nitrate is AgNO3. So, a copper ion eats double the nitrate ions that silver does AND is more reactive than silver. So Cu just kills your nitric.
I'm wondering if you'd like to put together a small group of refiners buying chems in bulk. I have a friend in Chungdu, China who runs a shipping company and I found a source for cheap chemicals. Nitric 68% a $300 a metric ton. 1 ton minimum. Any interest?
@@sreetips that's too expensive for me. If a metric ton is $300 and shipping is $200 a metric ton, a gallon from China would be $2.65, bought in bulk (68% nitric is 11.7 lbs). If muh maff Id correct...
I'd say "toxic" is a gross overstatement here... Sure, "enviromentally unfriendly" - at least at this concentrationand acidity, but far from "toxic". Case in point: copper sulfate (in aqueous solution) is used as anti-fungal agent in grapeyards.
I really like watching your videos @sreetips I have a few questions however. Excuse me if you already mentioned that in some other video. 1. What do you do with the remnant of the dissolved shot in the anode baskets? I presume it's mostly copper/copper rich silver. 2. Why do some of the silver shot pieces when they come out of the water look so yellow? It could not possibly be because of the copper, as there should be quite little in it, certainly less than in the sterling silver you start out with. 3. I remember in some other video you said that you can typically reuse the electrolyte of the silver cell one more time. Couldn't you just knock down the already formed crystals in the cell to be able to run it a lot longer before dissasembling and maybe use up the electrolyte in one (larger) batch? 4. Why do you run the cell at that low of a current? The surface area of the bowl should 0,1 m² at least, so the current density would only be 14 A/m². Some quick search tells me you can go up to ~300 A/m² without running into to much problems with copper contamination at the cathode. That would let you produce ~20 times the amount of silver in the same time. Even if you wouldn't increase it by that much, what's the reasoning for the low current? The Power Supply should be able to put out a lot more than the 5 W it does now.
I'm still a bit confused. What happens to the copper in the Silvershot after the Electricity is passed through it? does it just stay in the basket and only the Silver goes into the Electrolyte and deposits on the side of the bowl?
Silly question, since nitrates are great fertilizers, is there a way to turn some of the "cleaned" refining liquid waste into a fertilizer for home gardens?? 😬😬
Hi, i wanna ask you somthing,. I denoxx with urea but the gold not drop anymore after denoxing, filteting, smb. It is ok this Urea to contain 46%nitrate? Or shold not contain any nitrate like i think? Because i think instead denoxing i got even more nitric in soluțion ang gold will not drop no matter how much smb i will add? Help please, what to do?
@@sreetips Thank for answer. I just read the forums, it sems the orange brown color is platinium at stanous test. Gold was inded somhow in filters. After remaking Ar, drop with smb again, an fine briwn dust settled. When i boiled in Hcl, instead of washing, i have Ar again, good cause i tested when i see the yellow green collor, i see same bits of salt in soluțion,. I have used poor man ar, soo somhow the salts have passing till the end, or is the Smb salts in excess who is redisolving gold?
Sreetips are you working on something new? One thing I noticed about JUUL vaping devices is they appear to have gold fittings in the oil chamber and contact points for recharging and people tend to toss them when the devices run out of power or stop working for other reasons. In your opinion would they have much scrap value if one had enough of them? So far I've picked up 2 of them of which I retained one and a gold plated hoop that hangs from an ear. If you have a sharp eye you will literally find gold on the streets and sidewalks every now and then.
Love the videos. Why do you only melt a small amount of silver cement at a time? Wouldnt it be more efficient to melt all of your stock at once and just knock it out? Also, where do you get your nitric? Been trying to source.
I love wakin' up to another Sreetips video. I have a question. When I go to mow the yard I will often put your videos on autoplay. They play the entire time that I am out working. Does this added number of views help you like I think it does?
For one thing I can say I never get tired watching your videos it's amazing phenomenal excellent craftsmanship
And his methods improve over time, and that's also entertaining to see.
Do you have a Sigma or other testing device? The crystals are absolutely beautiful and undoubtedly pure. And I know you sell them for a premium and get some of your cost back. But I'm curious what the purity is before the silver cell. I've seen a couple of videos on RUclips where bars passed .999 fine on a sigma after just nitric, cementing on copper, and melting.
that audio is amazing great upgrades and editing
I hear pops, hisses, and every exhale. Quality has gone up but it still sounds too hot- like a lapel mic being worn too close to the mouth.
@@cwtrain it is but he is still learning and regardless of his gain being a bit to high and ur volume in ur headphones being up to loud probably; it is a huge step in the right direction he figured out mono input vs stereo so it comes thru to both ears and the poping is from it being clipped on a headset mic that is directly infront of his mouth if u watched the whole video there is a clip showing that
Absolutely incredible process. Thank you for your attention to detail! Greatly appreciated.
Absolutely fantastic way of summarizing the silver purification process. Thanks!
Great run through of your process. That is some pretty silver when you get done with it. Thanks for making this.
Really cool video! Love seeing stuff like this on YT! Keep up the good work!
Great recap!! Thanks Streetips!
This channel is the bomb!
All free.... all the time!
I work at a electrical switch gear rebuilding shop.. I cut up 1/8 thick sheets of coin silver all the time. It's so common, they just sweep up the shavings and toss them.. (unless I get to it first..) lol
I’ll bet they will stop doing that when silver hits $100
@@sreetips I would be amazed if it ever hits that. About the only way that's gonna happen, is if there is a full scale hot civil war in America..
And if that happens, I doubt they will even be open for business anyway.
I didn't even mention the pounds of silver tungsten chips we toss every day..lol
I don't mess with that stuff since it's only 30-38% silver by weight, and takes a bunch more effort to process out.
Your stupid dude!!
@@chrisstebbins2203 Shouldn't talk like that. It shows your ignorance.
great episode! thank you
Awesome Explanations there Sreetips, I never get tired of watching your videos, and I appreciate the time you put into making them for us :-) Have a great day mate!
ALWAYS LOVE YOUR CONTENT!!!
Thank you. Great job.
Another good silver cell video!!
Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
I love that your growing your own money literally lol fantastic!
wow great job fam. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!
Appreciate the video!
Brilliant!
Your videos are 9999 fine gold,
thank you very much
I LOVE ALL YOUR UPLOADS!!!
SO U KNOW I WATCH ALL YOUR UPLOADS UR THE BEST MAY HAVE MADE A FEW PEOPLE MAD BUT ONLY IF THEY DESERVED IT
Amazing work and thank you for sharing.
Audio is amazing!!
Love the handgun at 16:25...guess it's needed with that much silver and gold around?
Great things I'm all about it .your the man
Great information
Usually send my scrap silver back to my supplier for credit but this looks like way more fun. 🤣
What do they credit you sir as a percentage of spot?
@@goldrefining it's usually just under market price to account for the refining cost I use rio grande jewelery supply
@@RedRedux can't beat that! If your getting anything above 95% then that's the way to go. Large refiners operate on a small percentage (1-2 %) because chemicals are cheaper and plus.... They get to keep any other metals for free. Nitric right now is 45 cents a lb for 69% nitric. A gallon is about 11 lbs so about $5 a gallon (commercial pricing)
Wow I have nothing that's your idea of fun
@@chrisstebbins2203 my life is pretty pathetic don't hate
Thanks i really enjoyed your channel so interesting clever men 🙂
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you sreetips another fantastic video 👌
the silver cell is truly beautiful to look at.
Your a master.
@Power 2 Weight Actually a professional lab is not much different. The fundamentals are the same. You don't need a million dollars to do this and that's what he is teaching.
Awesome
Just started mine two days ago
Here’s what it looks like after increasing the voltage to 3.3v twitter.com/overclockthis/status/1304124830703325187?s=21
Can you use a battery tender in place of the power supply that you use?
Have you thought about doing another eBay crystal sale? Your crystals are so beautiful. And the process just adds on to it, it looks simply magical with the crystals sitting in the electrolite solution.
Hope all is well. Sure do miss your videos.
I have watched all you videos at least once so I knew everything in the video already, but it's always fun to see more of!!
Would melting in the furnace maybe go quicker if you left a little bit of molten metal in it before filling it with the next charge of cement silver?
Hi @Sreetips, just a quick question, why don't you use the electric kiln more often for melting and casting your PMs'. thanks Sreetips.
telling ya man, making nitric is super easy, and brings the cost down to about $20.00 per quart..
Just have to do a recrystallization of the ammonium/potassium nitrate because the anti cake powder and other impurities will make it foam if you don't.
$100.00 worth of glassware, and you will be good to go.
I get my 68% for $21 a liter including shipping. Time is worth something.
Hes right u should get a distillation rig so u can collect the fumes
@@SMOBY44 where
I make my own nitric using sodium nitrate and sulphuric in stoichiometric amounts. I add water to the reactions vessels (I run 2 3L flasks at into a claisen adapter which connects to a 2L collection flask). I end up with about 1800ml of 68% nitric in about 2hrs and the cost is about $25 in chemicals. The thing is to source your nitrate so you are using a pure product as one has stated if there is anti caking agents in the nitrate it will foam up and cause you problems.
@@aa1.5 Where are you getting sodium nitrate at a decent price?
I usually order a 50lb bag of potassium nitrate off amazon, or other places around the net for around $80.00 delivered.
Awesome! What a difference between before and after Love it. Not related can I use Sodium bisulfite in substitute for Sodium metabisulfite
No you can not. Sodium metabisulfite is Na2S2O5. Sodium bisulfite is NaHSO3 a totally different compound and will not reduce gold chloride
@@aa1.5 Thanks Mr. A G
Do u like to keep silver and gold as cement or bars? And why
I prefer silver crystal and gold shot. Easier to measure out a specific amount
Nice 👌
It's funny that you just posted this. I had 4 people message me today on Twitter congratulating me for winning that 5oz bar you gave away on Twitter. 🤔 Not sure what is going on with that. 🤣
Working with volumes like this that propane furnace is sure the way to go.
Look into devil forge and look into their furnaces. Big stack, Adam rock and Melt and cast from UK all use them I think it would be beneficial instead of making one.
Hi i was thinking about buying a gold bar that is 1020 g that is from melted gold pins from computers and was wondering how much gold I could expect to refine down and get out of it
Hi Sreetips. Great video!!! So many useful information. I have an idea: you could make a video using electrolysis to get 100% pure silver, similar to your Electrolytic Gold Refining Cell video. You already have pure silver for the anode and you simply melt the cement silver for the cathod. What would be the electrolyte? Silver nitrate solution? That would be interesting to see and compare with the gold process. What voltage to use? Amps? How many time would it take to process 1 troy ounce? What shapes the pure silver would make on the anode side?
Love your vids, Sreetips. Thank you.
Out of interest, how many grams does your silver cell generate in a given period?
If I recall correctly, his last silver clean-out was 1.8 kg.
Any where from 1.2 to 1.8 kilos every ten days. I get two or three of those per month.
How many ounces of impure shot to get one ounce of pure silver?
Is it possible to add the cement silver to the silver cell anode basket directly without melting it first?
NO! The silver will compact and restrict the flow of solution. This will lead to a BIG rise in voltage which is not got for several reasons. Don't reinvent the wheel, just roll with it. Lol
I do enjoy your videos. Is there a reason you use two layers of the dacron bag for the anode basket? Knowing things can run expensive with the refining process, could you use one layer for the basket and stretch the use of filter bags? They might be cheap, but it would cut down on the expenditure regardless of those being fairly cheap to buy.
Where do you get all the stuff for smelting and extraction and how much does a one time run of the process typically cost
Smelting, extracting metal from ore, is something I’ve never done before. I bought all the melting equipment at welding supply. Electric melting furnace on eBay. This is my hobby so I don’t calculate costs for each batch. Everything is done in a never ending stream and it’s all tied together.
Hey @sreetips Big fan. I got a question. hopefully you can help. I refined some scrap silver in nitric. after filtering there was a substantial amount of yellow like slime/powder at the bottom. do you know what it might be?
No clue, sorry
Always iking the posts my friend. Your king is going to be shown soon. Fees sooooo good to be back pouring again.
Good to hear it Dean. Hang in there man!
@@sreetips I got the repour done today and video'd. Now on to the saw ,files, sanding and polish. I will do bits and pieces of that as well. Have a great weekend my friend.
Thanks Dean I’m looking forward to seeing it.
If you use sufferic acid to refine the silver can you mix the pour offs with nitric and then add the copper to cement out
I’ve never tried that. I don’t know.
Checking on you brother. Yall doing ok?
Can you use the cement silver in the anode basket instead of making it into shot firsy
Adding silver powder to the anode filter clogged it up and current flow dropped off rapidly.
Do you also recover the copper to reuse for sementing the silver?
No, I can buy clean copper cheap
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What do you fill the stainless bowl with. I noticed you said earlier in this video you added distill water to prevent the silvee from vaporizing. So the electrolyte solution is made up of distill water and sodium or table salt to make the electric current or just plain water?
Silver nitrate - 600 grams of pure silver dissolved in 3.5 liters of liquid
Do you have a video of how to setup a silver cell or how to get going with it?
He does. Look back through his video's using the search function on his home page and you should find it. Look a couple years back in the results.
Do you watch his video at all or is this the first time for you I know it's scary the first time
Sreetips, can I ask, what got you into refining? What was it that captured your imagination? I’d love to have a crack at it but don’t have the circumstances right now. Best wishes.
Could you put the cement silver in the silver cell basket and skip the melting and making shot?
I tried it and it didn’t work very well. The filter clogged up and the current dropped off rapidly.
What does the crystal silver feel like? Is it sharp and would poke you if you squeeze it? Or is it brittle and falls apart?
It's brittle like glass, the small pieces, but will also poke the shit out of you too. The larger crystals are more malleable and not as bad.
@@goldrefining Very interesting, thanks for the reply. How large can the crystals get under optimal conditions?
@@TheMeditron According to the size of cell, current density, and 10 other things. I have has some in larger cells grow to 6 inches plus. Those are worth good money!
How stupid really come on really!!
@@chrisstebbins2203 ???
Has molding metal ever blew back on your face or landing on skin?
Yes!
Would you consider selling some silver crystals? I would like to by a couple of troy ounces and add it to my silver stack.
Click on “about” on my channel for my email
Sreetips , where can I get a replacement coil for a very old Kerr electromelt? The connections at the ends of my coil wires corroded and I just need to order new insulation and coil and all. Where do I go?
I need on too. Let me know if you find one
Do you not have any real problems with any slag (from the copper or dust) in your furnace or when you torch melt?
Not that I’ve noticed
Are there any drawbacks to using a lower voltage and amperage to grow larger silver crystals? I know it will take longer. Also once the silver is precipitated out of the silver nitrate solution you can also use that same solution with two copper bars to make and grow pure copper crystals via electrolysis
3.3 to 3.7 volts DC are the parameters that I leaned from the pros on the goldrefiningforum.com anything else runs the risk of other metals plating out with the silver and contaminating the beautiful pure silver crystals. Palladium is the main concern. It’s solubility in nitric makes it a candidate for cross contamination in the silver cell. A little Pd in the electrolyte won’t hurt silver purity. But if it builds up then it can start to plate out with the silver. Green electrolyte, instead of blue, is a tip off of palladium contamination of the electrolyte. I’ve been told that the silver can have as much as ten percent palladium in it before you’d notice any difference in your silver. While it’s bad for your silver purity, the real problem is this; palladium is one hundred times more valuable than silver!
sreetips thanks for the advice... if the electrolyte is green wouldn’t that mean that the Palladium is not being precipitated out into the Silver crystals? (because it’s in the solution?) just like blue would mean that’s copper being refined out of the anode basket... ?
I am just curious. Have you looked into a Devil Forge for melting massive amounts of silver?
I’ve checked but it was flimsy looking. One guy got it real hit trying to melt iron and it warped the furnace.
REALLY!!! Are you stupid 😘😂
Why do you need to form the silver shot for the cell? Is there a problem with the dust?
Adding silver powder to the anode filter clogged it up and current flow dropped off rapidly.
Your impure silver shot always reminds me of cornflakes. lol
Can you explain why making silver shot is necessary for the silver cell? Why can’t the silver powder go straight to the silver cell?
It clogs up the filter
They make computer controlled electric kilns for knife making. They are small and can go up to a temperature that you want and hold there. Also there is no air movement in these kilns to blow the powder around.
Just a question for you. If you were just interested in refining silver alone. Could you melt down the 90/10 silver directly into shot & put it into the silver cell for refining ?
If you do that; the copper (from your sterling flatware) will consume the nitric acid in the cell over 3x as fast as does silver. So your nitric acid costs would rise dramatically, you would have to change out and tend to the cell a lot more often, and you would reach that point where copper would plate out faster. Should that happen, your charge of silver would become polluted and you'd have to start over with the melting and shotting. Since the cell takes maybe 10 days to run its course, if you start plating out copper overnight on day 3 or 4, you come in the next day and your silver is polluted. So it's just not the way to go.
@Power 2 Weight You can watch this for a more technical explanation, I don't think he explains all that well, but he DOES show the impact of excess copper in the electrolyte....and it sucks, it crushes how much silver you can process before bad stuff happens. ruclips.net/video/CC9LO5WnuvU/видео.html
The simpler way to understand it is: Cu is a +2 ion, silver is a +1 ion. Copper nitrate is Cu(NO3)*2. Silver nitrate is AgNO3. So, a copper ion eats double the nitrate ions that silver does AND is more reactive than silver. So Cu just kills your nitric.
@@pneumatic00 You are a wise man sir and have done your research.
Eu sou do Brasil, gostei muito do vídeo. Como posso enviar as minhas dúvidas.?
Thanks for this video. Question: what's the best source for nitric acid and what's your preferred concentration? 67%?
I'm wondering if you'd like to put together a small group of refiners buying chems in bulk. I have a friend in Chungdu, China who runs a shipping company and I found a source for cheap chemicals. Nitric 68% a $300 a metric ton. 1 ton minimum. Any interest?
There’s is a company in Alabama that sells carboy nitric 14 gallons for less than $500
@@sreetips that's too expensive for me. If a metric ton is $300 and shipping is $200 a metric ton, a gallon from China would be $2.65, bought in bulk (68% nitric is 11.7 lbs). If muh maff Id correct...
do you have a video on how to do the silver chloride process with lye and sugar ? please point me to the right video… thank you
Yes, it’s posted on my channel
Im a hobby silversmith. I have silver dust and fillings and sweeps. should I refine it myself? or sub it out? to you lol.
Can you still not find a more direct source of the Dacron for your filters? Sucks to have to buy those bags with so much waste.
The bag cost about $10 and I can run down to the hardware store and buy them. But finding a source to buy in bulk would be beneficial.
I wonder if it’s possible to do a similar procedure for gold
Yes, I posted a gold cell video about a year ago
@@sreetips ok I'll have to try to find it btw I love the videos and would love to pick your brain sometime
...kinda want to see a 'garage floor sweepings' refining series :)
No doubt, probably pretty good sweeps!
REALLY sloppy dude😆😆😆
Hey Mr. Streetips, nice video. I was curious how do You process that toxic copper liquid waste?
In my waste treatment bucket
He drinks it stupid 😆😆😆
@@chrisstebbins2203 Yummy Acidious Copper! :D
@@sreetips it is obvious, that it for some time rest in waste bucket, but do you get a copper bar out of it?
I'd say "toxic" is a gross overstatement here... Sure, "enviromentally unfriendly" - at least at this concentrationand acidity, but far from "toxic". Case in point: copper sulfate (in aqueous solution) is used as anti-fungal agent in grapeyards.
I really like watching your videos @sreetips
I have a few questions however. Excuse me if you already mentioned that in some other video.
1. What do you do with the remnant of the dissolved shot in the anode baskets? I presume it's mostly copper/copper rich silver.
2. Why do some of the silver shot pieces when they come out of the water look so yellow? It could not possibly be because of the copper, as there should be quite little in it, certainly less than in the sterling silver you start out with.
3. I remember in some other video you said that you can typically reuse the electrolyte of the silver cell one more time. Couldn't you just knock down the already formed crystals in the cell to be able to run it a lot longer before dissasembling and maybe use up the electrolyte in one (larger) batch?
4. Why do you run the cell at that low of a current? The surface area of the bowl should 0,1 m² at least, so the current density would only be 14 A/m². Some quick search tells me you can go up to ~300 A/m² without running into to much problems with copper contamination at the cathode. That would let you produce ~20 times the amount of silver in the same time. Even if you wouldn't increase it by that much, what's the reasoning for the low current? The Power Supply should be able to put out a lot more than the 5 W it does now.
I'm still a bit confused. What happens to the copper in the Silvershot after the Electricity is passed through it? does it just stay in the basket and only the Silver goes into the Electrolyte and deposits on the side of the bowl?
No, the copper dissolves with the silver and stays in solution and does not plate out with the silver until it reaches about 60 grams per liter.
@@sreetips So how are you keeping it below the 60g threshold? Is there a way to test for that?
Oh yeah, I was wondering how you get the copper out of the nitric, add sodium hydroxide? Base metals have to be purified too.
Cement the copper on iron
Have you ever tried the cement silver as-is in your cell? Melting it into cornflakes just seems like an extra step.
Adding silver powder to the anode filter clogged it up and current flow dropped off rapidly.
Silly question, since nitrates are great fertilizers, is there a way to turn some of the "cleaned" refining liquid waste into a fertilizer for home gardens?? 😬😬
I don’t know. Never experimented with that
That looks dangerous sir
Love your screen name!
Hello
Have you ever recycled ceramic capacitors?
If you have made such a video, please help and leave a link in the comment
I have not
Introducing Jay Stacking!!! Love sreetips. First video coming today. My clay molds and some if my stack.
Hi, i wanna ask you somthing,. I denoxx with urea but the gold not drop anymore after denoxing, filteting, smb. It is ok this Urea to contain 46%nitrate? Or shold not contain any nitrate like i think? Because i think instead denoxing i got even more nitric in soluțion ang gold will not drop no matter how much smb i will add? Help please, what to do?
I don’t have experience with urea. My guess is that you probably had no gold in solution to begin with.
@@sreetips Thank for answer. I just read the forums, it sems the orange brown color is platinium at stanous test. Gold was inded somhow in filters. After remaking Ar, drop with smb again, an fine briwn dust settled. When i boiled in Hcl, instead of washing, i have Ar again, good cause i tested when i see the yellow green collor, i see same bits of salt in soluțion,. I have used poor man ar, soo somhow the salts have passing till the end, or is the Smb salts in excess who is redisolving gold?
Sreetips are you working on something new? One thing I noticed about JUUL vaping devices is they appear to have gold fittings in the oil chamber and contact points for recharging and people tend to toss them when the devices run out of power or stop working for other reasons. In your opinion would they have much scrap value if one had enough of them? So far I've picked up 2 of them of which I retained one and a gold plated hoop that hangs from an ear. If you have a sharp eye you will literally find gold on the streets and sidewalks every now and then.
Agree, I’ve found many pieces in the grocery store parking lot.
Love the videos. Why do you only melt a small amount of silver cement at a time? Wouldnt it be more efficient to melt all of your stock at once and just knock it out? Also, where do you get your nitric? Been trying to source.
When I run out of ice I quit.
@sreetips makes sense. Also, do you have a link to where you get your nitric?
Gfs chemicals
@@sreetips thank you!!
I love wakin' up to another Sreetips video. I have a question. When I go to mow the yard I will often put your videos on autoplay. They play the entire time that I am out working. Does this added number of views help you like I think it does?
Absolutely, thank you!
I hope more content is on the way, i can't take it much longer!
Working on one right now. Should post later today
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You should put one of your Signature used shot boards up on eBay and see how much it goes for 🤟🏼🧐😆✌🏼
Yep
mbmmllc has an interesting design for a forge but it does look a little bit dangerous but you could maybe improve the safety of it for your use.