I loved the disclaimer on pulling the filter with gloves. "Look. I know that you know that I know better, and I'm sorry. But I'm just not finding a tool right now while I'm holding this."
Hey sreetips question i have a solution of silver nitrate and copper in solution and its only about 100 mils. However i was heating it up with a small butane flame and put the flame directly on the top of the solution and a shiny silver sheen started to form on the top any idea whats going on there and have you ever had this happen before after a tiny bit of nitric it went back its solution
I think the first and last are my favorites! The last because I just love to see the mud and watch you melt the mud into pure gold!! Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
I really enjoy sretips' old-school style, especially in times like these, where independent creators are pushed more and more out the site and whoever is left too often relies on shiny animations and "quirky" mid-sentence edits, instead of actual interesting content and personality. Tnx man!
I love the sound of the fume hood great white noise to sleep to. I laughed when you turned off the incinerator the "DING" told me it was done and it was.
Something to keep in mind when you get a new fume hood: If at all possible, try to keep the old one and place it somewhere else where the noise is less likely to intrude on the video. Although I don't mind the sound of the fume hood. This way you can have a secondary fume hood in operation as a place to store all your silver reactions. If you are doing as much silver cell production as I think you are, then you will welcome a dedicated fume hood for your pure silver production processes. Thanks for the great videos! You keep making them and I'll keep watching them lol.
This is a great suggestion that I hadn’t thought of. I was planning to make a video of me pushing it off the truck into the dump after the support I received from the manufacturer.
With 100K viewers you can get a fume hood company to sponsor you. You almost nominated yourself for a Darwin award there dude when you were moving that table with a hot oven on it. I felt it tilting. Thanks for the great videos.
I like your burnout oven! Toaster ovens are amazing. I've been a glassblower for years, lots of tinkering with ovens. A while back I got a day job in the signage industry and have been doing extra credit transforming the company's waste management- started by saving copper wire scraps (almost 500 lbs a year!) and now we have built a toaster oven with the bottom cut out, and screwed down to a barrel lid. Extra fiber insulation just because we had it, totally unnecessary as we're only cooking at 250 to melt the tar potting compound out of commercial signage neon and fluorescent ballasts. It's a mess but after a bit of sawzall or grinder, picked apart it's about 40% copper. There's a whole trailer full of ballasts 20 lbs and greater to convert- for those we're going to have to build a bigger oven.
ONE THING IF ANYTHING, WE'VE GOT TO HAND IT TO YOU, YOU ARE VERY SMART! WHAT WITH ALL OF YOUR MONEY SAVING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX THINKING! MORE POWER TO YOU SREETIPPER!
You and that Frankentoaster .. lol Its roughly the most dangerous thing ive seen you play with in these videos. Cant thank you enough for all the insight youve givin us with these lessons on refining. WW1WGA
Doing gold and sliver at the same time under the hood? Haven’t you said that’s a bad idea? Cross contamination or something?? I love these multiple part videos by the way. I’m binging as much as possible tonight and tomorrow since I’m off work. 💪👍👍
BTW, I'm thinking that the local school district might want to have you come in and demo some of your work, or even have a student work with you for class credit.
Nice series Sreetips!!!! anyone else notice the face in that beaker at around 12:52 ? and yes I know there's a name for that pattern recognition and forming of those patterns into something we can see. Name escapes me at the moment. Earlier it looks as if someone in a tux is standing there in the beaker on the left of the screen. With all that glass around reflecting everywhere in many of the videos I wonder why I've never noticed it before.
By putting the (hopefully soon arriving) silver award button in solution will most likely get you an record amount of views. "Dissolving the RUclips Silver Button". 1M+ views easy.
Not sure if your know of " Successful Engineer " channel , he did recently a video on solving filter clogging , what he does in put some wetted paper towels through a blender and then put an even layer on top of the filter - this allows for lots of sludge in liquid to pass through .
Wow, another amazing refining video! I hope you don't mind that I like to watch sreetips refining videos at 2x speed - you carefully explain every step so clearly that it actually works very well! Love seeing the foils there at the end - and your $5 incinerating oven is pretty awesome - I was thinking one of the RUclips restoration channel guys could make you a really sweet chassis for that! =) You think you'll ever get yourself a forge or is that too much cost and hassle for what you want to do?
I watch it at 1x speed. Many people tried to do what Sreetips does and it appeared not as easy as it seems. By speeding the video up you could miss a lot of important details.
@@bormisha absolutely, if I was going to do any of this myself I would watch at 1x and I'm sure I miss important details - but sreetips is exceedingly clear and thorough in his process which I really do like.
Congratulations on your 100,000 subs. Rather than using nitric acid to take the inside out of the gold filled material. Would it be faster to alloy all the material together, pour shot, and process it like any other inquartation?
I’ve never tried that. This is the way I learned it. The amount of gold is only 2% to 4% with GF. If we tried melting then parting with nitric it could work. But then the gold would become a fine black powder that’s hard to work with. I think this route is the easier softer way.
@@sreetips gotcha, too finely divided at that point, better to keep them as a thin flat foil. You're the man. Thanks for the entertaining videos, love this stuff.
I saw a very interesting thing that successfulengineer did in a video where he filtered gold foils out, he wetted and ground up about 2-3 filters and put them on top of the filter paper spread out, and it helped quite a lot with solutions with fine particulates. Might help when you have those really fine sediments?
Some awkward suspensions filter well through a deep filter made by finely chopping filter paper in a soup with water (in a blender?) and suctioned down over a paper in a buchner funnel til it's about half an inch thick.
Have you considered adding cuppelation to your refining technique? It's got a decent track record to separate impurities to at least get you to a point to only refine higher grade metals. Might save on your acid bill.
I’m not very good at asking for stuff like that. I feel cheesy enough soliciting for donation to my paypal. I’m thinking that if I just keep making good videos that those kinds of things will happen for me all by themselves.
If you didn't have any sterling ready to be dissolved in the excess nitric acid, is the solution stable enough that you could keep it around for the next batch of gold-filled jewelry or sterling to be refined?
Once you start storing impure solutions of semi-unknown content in your lab, it would quickly get filled up and there will be no more space for performing the actual reactions!
Hi Mr sreetips! I have just got into refining and bought 90 grams of necklaces. I inquarted the gold with silver and put it in the nitric acid. After the reaction stopped I poured out the liquid and there was nothing left in the beaker! So my question is the necklaces tested 14k gold and when I cut them open I could not see where there was any change of color indicating it was plated. Any idea what mite have happened to the gold or of there was even any to start with? Help help would be much appreciated thanks for reading!
I was watching an episode of Cody's lab and he had precious metals in solution but he noticed that there were some particulates floating around but it was taking forever for them to settle he mixed some sort of clay in the solution it pulled all the particulates to the bottom really quickly and he was able to siphon It Off I don't know what he did with the clay I'll have to go back and watch . Makes since?
Is there a reason that you couldn't have simply transferred the silver cement to the container with the excessive nitric acid to be re-dissolved? Just not enough of it or would it not work / be to volatile?
Yes, but then we’d be going backwards. I’d have to use more copper to get it back to the state that’s it’s already in. It’s much more efficient to use the 90% sterling silver because it must be dissolved anyway.
@@sreetips Gotcha. Guess it depends on what level of accuracy you want at the end of the experiment. If the goal was to see exclusively what came out of the scrap, then simply reusing the already cemented silver or burning off excess copper is the route to go, but if simply refining the metals is the end goal then using fresh unrefined silver is.
Streetips Would you help us to understand where the Words and phrases(that you use in refining) come from and the meaning of them and their importance in relationships with refining?
When you post the final video of the gold filled series, put a link to your "go fund me" account in the video description. If everyone that is a subscriber donates just 1 dollar, you can have several fume hoods.
There always has to be some mal-content in every group. Why give it a thumbs down when you can just not watch it and go on about the miserable life that makes you dislike things. Those people are just scum.
@@capt.stubby245 you gotta look at it for what it is. If they routinely get to new videos to do that, it is a priority in their life. They are jealous of the success he is having. Look at it as a compliment: If Sreetips was a nobody, no one would take the time to do that.
Simple compared to what, alchemy? You could bypass the 'incinerator oven' with a pro, or map-pro torch, it'd take about 10 or 15 seconds, What TF are you doing with your thermo-guage in a toaster over bro. Keep it real.
You mean cash in some of my savings and use that to buy a fume hood? Why would I do that if I can get others to buy it for me? Folks think that I’m wealthy but in reality I’m flat broke and deeply in debt like the rest of America.
Well I was about to the mow the yard, but woah, hold everything. Sreetips uploaded part 3. The yard can wait.
I loved the disclaimer on pulling the filter with gloves.
"Look. I know that you know that I know better, and I'm sorry. But I'm just not finding a tool right now while I'm holding this."
Not going to lie.. the fume hood hum has become a comforting noise over the years. It doesn't bother me at all.
Joe "consent & not bothered" Rogan
Joe "it's entirely possible" Rogan
Agreed! In fact it's become the signature 'theme song' for this channel. One expects to hear it when you start the video.
Joe “like a hot sauna” rogan
Hey sreetips question i have a solution of silver nitrate and copper in solution and its only about 100 mils. However i was heating it up with a small butane flame and put the flame directly on the top of the solution and a shiny silver sheen started to form on the top any idea whats going on there and have you ever had this happen before after a tiny bit of nitric it went back its solution
I think the first and last are my favorites! The last because I just love to see the mud and watch you melt the mud into pure gold!!
Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
I really enjoy sretips' old-school style, especially in times like these, where independent creators are pushed more and more out the site and whoever is left too often relies on shiny animations and "quirky" mid-sentence edits, instead of actual interesting content and personality. Tnx man!
I noticed you hit 100,000 subscribers!!!!!! Whoooooo! Congratulations. You earned every one of them with your very cool content.
I love the sound of the fume hood great white noise to sleep to. I laughed when you turned off the incinerator the "DING" told me it was done and it was.
I used a similar oven for reflow soldering of PCBs. Was also amused by that 'ding'.
You are writing the gold refining Bible!
Something to keep in mind when you get a new fume hood: If at all possible, try to keep the old one and place it somewhere else where the noise is less likely to intrude on the video. Although I don't mind the sound of the fume hood. This way you can have a secondary fume hood in operation as a place to store all your silver reactions. If you are doing as much silver cell production as I think you are, then you will welcome a dedicated fume hood for your pure silver production processes. Thanks for the great videos! You keep making them and I'll keep watching them lol.
This is a great suggestion that I hadn’t thought of. I was planning to make a video of me pushing it off the truck into the dump after the support I received from the manufacturer.
@@sreetips if you do decide to get rid of it I would gladly come to you to pick it up.
Congratulation for the 100 k subscribes sreetips!!! Keep going for the million!!!
Thanks as always for the great video, sreetips. Progress is coming along very nicely! Congrats on 100K!!
Its so fulfilling to find a master who is willing to show over-the-shoulder good practice. Sreetips is a good brand.
Congratulations on 100k, Sr. I mention your channel here and there and it would be my honor to have gotten you a couple of those.
congrats on 100k Sreetips. Welcome to the club. great video series
With 100K viewers you can get a fume hood company to sponsor you. You almost nominated yourself for a Darwin award there dude when you were moving that table with a hot oven on it. I felt it tilting. Thanks for the great videos.
Can't wait to watch pt. 4. Good work!
Im wondering abt the stockpot too
I like your burnout oven! Toaster ovens are amazing. I've been a glassblower for years, lots of tinkering with ovens. A while back I got a day job in the signage industry and have been doing extra credit transforming the company's waste management- started by saving copper wire scraps (almost 500 lbs a year!) and now we have built a toaster oven with the bottom cut out, and screwed down to a barrel lid. Extra fiber insulation just because we had it, totally unnecessary as we're only cooking at 250 to melt the tar potting compound out of commercial signage neon and fluorescent ballasts. It's a mess but after a bit of sawzall or grinder, picked apart it's about 40% copper. There's a whole trailer full of ballasts 20 lbs and greater to convert- for those we're going to have to build a bigger oven.
Congrats on 100k!! Keep it up sreetips!!
Congrats on 100k Sreetips!!!!!!!
6-12-2020!
congrats on the 100k followers!
Appreciate the effort mate, as always. Thanks
Those gold foils look extra crispy :].
ONE THING IF ANYTHING, WE'VE GOT TO HAND IT TO YOU, YOU ARE VERY SMART! WHAT WITH ALL OF YOUR MONEY SAVING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX THINKING! MORE POWER TO YOU SREETIPPER!
@ Sreetips congratulations on 100,000 subscribers! Just saw on Saturday 6/13/2020 that you made it to 100k!!!
Amazing video like always!
You and that Frankentoaster .. lol
Its roughly the most dangerous thing ive seen you play with in these videos.
Cant thank you enough for all the insight youve givin us with these lessons on refining.
WW1WGA
Congratulations sir for 100000 subscribers..
waiting for part 4 of gold filled refining .
Working on it right now, just precipitated the second refining. The gold looks amazing.
congrats on 100k!
Love your videos
Congratulations on reaching 100k subscribers 👍
congrats on 100k
Maybe Mrs. Sreetips would want to give a little guidance on what to look for in buying scrap etc... That would be fun!
I’d love to but she’s very secretive about her buying experiences.
100k subs! Good job brother
Doing gold and sliver at the same time under the hood? Haven’t you said that’s a bad idea? Cross contamination or something?? I love these multiple part videos by the way. I’m binging as much as possible tonight and tomorrow since I’m off work. 💪👍👍
BTW, I'm thinking that the local school district might want to have you come in and demo some of your work, or even have a student work with you for class credit.
Hot damn, summer in the city😈😈
Nice series Sreetips!!!! anyone else notice the face in that beaker at around 12:52 ? and yes I know there's a name for that pattern recognition and forming of those patterns into something
we can see. Name escapes me at the moment. Earlier it looks as if someone in a tux is standing there in the beaker on the left of the screen. With all that glass around reflecting everywhere in many of the videos I wonder why I've never noticed it before.
By putting the (hopefully soon arriving) silver award button in solution will most likely get you an record amount of views.
"Dissolving the RUclips Silver Button". 1M+ views easy.
Hopefully no comments get deleted so the viewers don’t hate the utube algorithms preventing them from participating
Congrats on 100K...
Congrats on hundred K
congrats for your 100k subs!
Not sure if your know of " Successful Engineer " channel , he did recently a video on solving filter clogging ,
what he does in put some wetted paper towels through a blender and then put an even layer on top of the filter - this allows for lots of sludge in liquid to pass through .
I’ll give this a try in a future video. Thank you
Wow, another amazing refining video! I hope you don't mind that I like to watch sreetips refining videos at 2x speed - you carefully explain every step so clearly that it actually works very well! Love seeing the foils there at the end - and your $5 incinerating oven is pretty awesome - I was thinking one of the RUclips restoration channel guys could make you a really sweet chassis for that! =)
You think you'll ever get yourself a forge or is that too much cost and hassle for what you want to do?
I watch it at 1x speed. Many people tried to do what Sreetips does and it appeared not as easy as it seems. By speeding the video up you could miss a lot of important details.
@@bormisha absolutely, if I was going to do any of this myself I would watch at 1x and I'm sure I miss important details - but sreetips is exceedingly clear and thorough in his process which I really do like.
Congratulations on your 100,000 subs. Rather than using nitric acid to take the inside out of the gold filled material. Would it be faster to alloy all the material together, pour shot, and process it like any other inquartation?
I’ve never tried that. This is the way I learned it. The amount of gold is only 2% to 4% with GF. If we tried melting then parting with nitric it could work. But then the gold would become a fine black powder that’s hard to work with. I think this route is the easier softer way.
@@sreetips gotcha, too finely divided at that point, better to keep them as a thin flat foil. You're the man. Thanks for the entertaining videos, love this stuff.
What you can do is put cotton balls on top of the filter paper that will help keep it from getting clogged.
I’ll have to give that a try
I saw a very interesting thing that successfulengineer did in a video where he filtered gold foils out, he wetted and ground up about 2-3 filters and put them on top of the filter paper spread out, and it helped quite a lot with solutions with fine particulates. Might help when you have those really fine sediments?
I’ve used that method
Some awkward suspensions filter well through a deep filter made by finely chopping filter paper in a soup with water (in a blender?) and suctioned down over a paper in a buchner funnel til it's about half an inch thick.
I’ll have to give that a try, thank you
You forgot to add sulfuric acid and congrats on 100k sreetips
Need a wider fume good so you can have multiple things going on at the same time
Yeah, here we go finally lol!!
Have you considered adding cuppelation to your refining technique? It's got a decent track record to separate impurities to at least get you to a point to only refine higher grade metals. Might save on your acid bill.
I’ve never tried it
Mbmmllc does it often here on the RUclips’s. Requires a furnace/small smelter
I like to put my gold vermeil in my sterling scrap batches, I can recover the few foils when I recover precious metals from my filter papers
I usually use it for inquarting karat gold
In addition to the metastatic acid, silver nitrate decomposes at 824 F.
You should consider contacting fume hood makers and see if they will sponsor you with a new hood.
I’m not very good at asking for stuff like that. I feel cheesy enough soliciting for donation to my paypal. I’m thinking that if I just keep making good videos that those kinds of things will happen for me all by themselves.
If you didn't have any sterling ready to be dissolved in the excess nitric acid, is the solution stable enough that you could keep it around for the next batch of gold-filled jewelry or sterling to be refined?
Once you start storing impure solutions of semi-unknown content in your lab, it would quickly get filled up and there will be no more space for performing the actual reactions!
Nice Omega pie pan watch
I love it - autowind
This is epic
That's seems like a good way to process pins from ewatse.
Gold plated use a sulfuric acid stripping cell
Have you tried glass fibre filter paper? I get much fewer problems with clogging.
I have not
Hi Mr sreetips! I have just got into refining and bought 90 grams of necklaces. I inquarted the gold with silver and put it in the nitric acid. After the reaction stopped I poured out the liquid and there was nothing left in the beaker! So my question is the necklaces tested 14k gold and when I cut them open I could not see where there was any change of color indicating it was plated. Any idea what mite have happened to the gold or of there was even any to start with? Help help would be much appreciated thanks for reading!
I’m just as baffled as you. If I had to guess I’d say that there was no gold to begin with. A common beginner mistake
Fume hood dont bother me, i know your safe when i can hear it, scares me when i cant
Yeah, it's like flying a plane and hearing the hum of its motor.
time to learn...
I wonder if sreetips saves the testing paper with gold solutions on it
I was watching an episode of Cody's lab and he had precious metals in solution but he noticed that there were some particulates floating around but it was taking forever for them to settle he mixed some sort of clay in the solution it pulled all the particulates to the bottom really quickly and he was able to siphon It Off I don't know what he did with the clay I'll have to go back and watch . Makes since?
Magnafloc
always wondered how blue gatorade was made
Is there a reason that you couldn't have simply transferred the silver cement to the container with the excessive nitric acid to be re-dissolved? Just not enough of it or would it not work / be to volatile?
Yes, but then we’d be going backwards. I’d have to use more copper to get it back to the state that’s it’s already in. It’s much more efficient to use the 90% sterling silver because it must be dissolved anyway.
@@sreetips Gotcha. Guess it depends on what level of accuracy you want at the end of the experiment. If the goal was to see exclusively what came out of the scrap, then simply reusing the already cemented silver or burning off excess copper is the route to go, but if simply refining the metals is the end goal then using fresh unrefined silver is.
Any chance you can do a video on doing the gold filled watch bands? The ones that are stainless with gold filled caps??
Sure, once a get enough to do a batch. At least 100 grams or so
@@sreetips 100 grams of removed ones? or watchbands?
Removed
Where did you get those nice porcelain buchner funnels from?
eBay.
25:10. They kind of have that classic Diablo shape that they talk about in . Taofledermaus video's
Sreetips as always great content. I'm looking to start a project and i'd like any insight to a reputable Nitric acid provider if any is available. THx
Google is your friend in this case. Perhaps search "nitric acid dealer." Try walmart.com.
Sometimes we must look outside our own backyards to realize how big the world is and how blessed we are.
So if my foils are floating that means it's less gold than what you had in yours correct?
The foils will float due to gas forming as the base metals dissolve. The gas bubbles adhere to the foil and cause it to float - I think.
Streetips Would you help us to understand where the Words and phrases(that you use in refining) come from and the meaning of them and their importance in relationships with refining?
25:35 his buddy pushed him under
Do a cheap “Robert Murray smith” kiln to do all your work. Then you can do repairs for years and have lots of gold.
Hello, where can I get a squirt bottle like yours? Is there a specific name for this type? Thank you
I bought those at Grainger called “wash bottle 16oz lab ware”
Where do you get your scrap from? Do you just pick it up from a scrapyard or buy it?
My wife gets most of the stuff that I get to refine
@@sreetips does she pick it up from strangers? Because ive seen many on ebay giving e scrap away for free
The familiar hum of the fume hood, gives your videos a certain 'atmosphere'. It's background presence is barely noticeable, until you turn it off.
Why a new fume hood when you can mount an external blower on the exhaust?
Bigger - more room. It’s time to upgrade
When you post the final video of the gold filled series, put a link to your "go fund me" account in the video description. If everyone that is a subscriber donates just 1 dollar, you can have several fume hoods.
Considering how many reactions he can have going at once, he doesn't just need a new fume hood to reduce noise. He needs a wider hood as well.
10 squirts of concentrated nitric acid ah ah ah
When You Tubes send you the 100K Sub plaque,, it needs to go Into Solution,,, lmao..
23:00 don't you mean The foils look ready for incineration ?
Trying to figure out who the person that disliked this in the first was 🤣
will rayder who was no 2? HAte these guys
There always has to be some mal-content in every group. Why give it a thumbs down when you can just not watch it and go on about the miserable life that makes you dislike things. Those people are just scum.
@@capt.stubby245 you gotta look at it for what it is. If they routinely get to new videos to do that, it is a priority in their life. They are jealous of the success he is having. Look at it as a compliment: If Sreetips was a nobody, no one would take the time to do that.
100K!!!
14:14 Switch out the tips here. The sreetips.
Lol. "Time and gravity are your friends." I see what you mean, but a lot of women will disagree with you on that one.
Btw, a centrifuge could be a better friend.
I’ve got one. I never use it
Simple compared to what, alchemy? You could bypass the 'incinerator oven' with a pro, or map-pro torch, it'd take about 10 or 15 seconds, What TF are you doing with your thermo-guage in a toaster over bro. Keep it real.
this is like watching Gone With The Wind. Little editing might be nice. Just saying.
Good vid... But you don't need a Go Fund Me... Sell some of the Gold and Silver you have..
How you gonna ask for money on a hood fan when you’re make thousands on gold. High CFM DC quite motor fan is only 200 bucks.
He is not able to sell his gold, he explained it in a previous video
I’m broke and deeply in debt, like the rest of America.
Go fund me???? How about you sell the gold and buy one????
You mean cash in some of my savings and use that to buy a fume hood? Why would I do that if I can get others to buy it for me? Folks think that I’m wealthy but in reality I’m flat broke and deeply in debt like the rest of America.
@@sreetips don't worry about that comment, you do a great job, roll on part 4
congrats on 100k