@johnheckles8239 just did a rough estimate of 218 lbs for Mr Sreetips and a 4 inch x 4 inch cube would be how big the pour would be so if you multiply that by 3 you would get roughly 654.75 lbs per cubic foot
My weight (230 pounds, 104.3 kilos) would be about 104300 divided by 31.1 equals 3354 Troy ounces times spot silver ($30.50) equals $102278.78 in silver. But when silver gets up over a hundred bucks, I’ll be worth $335500 priced in silver. My goal is 5000 ounces of silver!
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Your Tekpower 154E power supply can stop shorts quickly without a fuse, but it's great to hear you're adding short circuit protection. Love these silver cells.
Wow Sreetips, my eagle eyes must have been taking a nap during the last few videos because I didn't even notice you have no inline fuses until you mentioned it near the end of the video 🤣. GREAT name for the big bowl Beast btw. I bet it feels a little less of a grueling chore with multiple silver cells working compared to the just one you used for years. You've went and created yourself a silver cell assembly line 😄
@@karlttkk4298 just make a single point cathode such as an insulated wire with just the end exposed and keep moving it further from the anode as the crystal grows, you could "prune" the branches to come up with some very interesting trees
Have you ever made a video on what it looks like when a crystal does touch the anode bag and burn through? Would be interesting to see a demonstration of that on a small scale (of course, just to show). Love your work.
You can try to install a swinging arm that you can acuate from the top of the silver cell to knock back any growing silver crystals. This can be put on a timer with an automatically swinging arm or can be done manually by twisting the arm with your fingers. Just drill a hole into the top of your silver cell next to the filters and install a plastic or glass rod with a plastic fork or knife attached to the end. when the time is right, just twist the rod to knock the crystals back.
I have been fascinated with the processes you go through to refine precious metals. I would really like to see you do a session on pewter and how it is made and refined.
I know you’ve said several times in the past you have no use for copper but I wish you’d use the copper nitrate left over from silver cementing and make a copper cell just to show the process. Good video as always though.
I dislike refining the silver because it’s messy and takes so long. But I love pure silver. Copper is probably nearly the same but it’s not valuable like gold and silver. It takes ten pounds of copper to equal one ounce of silver.
Always interesting to watch your stuff. Mind boggling the options you have for processing various materials. I'm considering attempting the ole agua regia routine on a pile of gold ore I have. Get down to a certain point, there are so many heavies it's a real pain to separate. Gold, silver, tellurides, and apparently a little platinum group stuff in it. If I can figure out a reasonable extraction method, it'd be worth packing a buttload of rocks home to process!
Gold, silver and PGMs are pretty easy to separate from each other, don't know about tellurides. EDIT: www.911metallurgist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Recovering-Gold-from-Telluride-Ore.pdf
Very cool looking growth streetips! So it seems by refining gold, you need to refine the silver you in-quart and all the platinum group metals that are left over to close the whole loop.
I am curious if you are almost always running silver cells and only occasionally make videos about it or if you only occasionally run the silver cells and make content about it when you do?
A little of both. Although recently I’ve slacked off on running my silver cells. Refining silver is messy, lots of waste that must be treated, and it takes lots of work and weeks to get the pure silver. By contrast, getting pure gold takes just one day! For these reasons I have a tendency to let the silver sit and build up on me. So now I’m backed up and need to get caught up. The nice thing is I should gain about one or two thousand ounces of pure silver if I can just stay focused on getting all my silver processed. It is a giant pain. I’ve come to dislike refining the silver (because of all the work involved) but I love holding the silver.
Long time follower here @sreetips and have watched every video you have ever put out. Keep up the great videos!!! However i think it would interesting to see how much weight those silver cells gain and they mature till you harvest them. Do they grow by a pound a day...2 pounds a day...just something that i think would be kind of interesting to see
The two small cells will each grow about 5 ounces per day each. The large cell about ten ounces per day. All three will put out about twenty Troy ounces per day.
I'm not sure where your located but would you consider having an apprentice or intern I just love the chemistry like this I grew up with my father being an electronics repair man he fixed C/B radios and along with many other things it really interests me
one thing i didn't see anyone comment on in the last one is that the anode bar for cell 2 looks quite tarnished, i have to wonder if cleaning up that bar a bit might help that cell chew through the impure shot at a better rate, aside from the cathode patina factor
I wonder if you could use a larger glass fish tank with a supersized filter basket i think at least a square Stainless steel pan or pot would allow more room on sides for growth with a supersized filter basket
Sterling silver can and should be held like it is. No need to refine it. It will track right on up with the bullion price as long as you don’t melt it and ruin the markings. The only reason I refine silver is because I use it to refine gold. However, in order to calculate a “profit” I’d have to sell the silver to realize a gain or loss. I’m not wanting to sell my silver. After refining, I put it away and forget about it. The silver will be used for my retirement.
Hey sreetips, love the videos. I'm thinking about trying to electrolytically purify tin, but can seem to find what solution is best to use. Some use stanous chloride or Sn2? Any suggestions?
Under the correct conditions (low concentration, voltage not too high), silver will push out any copper trying to plate out as copper is more reactive than silver, meaning that silver has a stronger tendency to plate out.
I’m just curious but it seems if the beast isn’t consuming the impure silver then it must be coming from the electrolyte… right? It always seems to me that using pure silver in the electrolyte just uses the electrolyte to create pure silver crystal. It just seems off that the impure silver is the only place you’re getting silver from… some must be coming from the electrolyte too. If you use impure silver for the electrolyte what happens then? Would it just become saturated with copper? Is there a way to take the copper out of solution leaving only the silver nitrate?
After you account for the silver put into the electrolyte and the anode, how much silver can you process from shot? I'm assuming this method wouldn't be used if it wasn't net positive.
The cells are slightly warm to the touch to room temperature ambient. Not a lot of heat. They warm up at first when current flow is high. Then cool down as current flow drops off.
By pouring silver nitrate solution in the silver cell, do you produce more silver crystal that way rather than if the electrolyte did not contain silver nitrate?
In short, yes kinda >it's one thing that's a result. The electrolytic cell starts out with a precise solution of silver nitrate. He uses his excess solution to add to the cell as it evaporates The silver nitrate solution acts as a medium for a reaction . There's a Threshold for the amount of copper that can be dissolved in the cell and still function properly.
Silver nitrate is a conductor. It completes the circuit for the electrical current to flow from the anode to the cathode. The current flow dissolves the impure silver in the anode basket. The dissolved silver travels through the Dacron filter, into the electrolyte, then travels to the cathode and plates out as high purity elemental silver. The cell wouldn’t operate without the silver nitrate electrolyte.
Sunday morning cartoons? No…..way! Is this a religious cartoon? I hope my churches out there don’t get angry but I’m watching this…!! Sreetips needs his own stadium and I bet he’d fill it up to the rim just like a runaway flask!!
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I’m waiting for the video title “SREETIPS POURS A SILVER BAR THAT WEIGHS MORE THAN HIMSELF” 😂
lmao
That'll be a big ass bar 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@johnheckles8239 just did a rough estimate of 218 lbs for Mr Sreetips and a 4 inch x 4 inch cube would be how big the pour would be so if you multiply that by 3 you would get roughly 654.75 lbs per cubic foot
My weight (230 pounds, 104.3 kilos) would be about 104300 divided by 31.1 equals 3354 Troy ounces times spot silver ($30.50) equals $102278.78 in silver. But when silver gets up over a hundred bucks, I’ll be worth $335500 priced in silver. My goal is 5000 ounces of silver!
Your Tekpower 154E power supply can stop shorts quickly without a fuse, but it's great to hear you're adding short circuit protection. Love these silver cells.
I didn’t know that.
Buy dc supply with short security in side system. Than you have no worries to have burn your basket. Nice to watch your videos thanks.
I love these silvercell videos. 👍🏻
Thank you Arielle
Gooooood afternoon from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great afternoon!
Goooood afternoon!
Wow Sreetips, my eagle eyes must have been taking a nap during the last few videos because I didn't even notice you have no inline fuses until you mentioned it near the end of the video 🤣. GREAT name for the big bowl Beast btw. I bet it feels a little less of a grueling chore with multiple silver cells working compared to the just one you used for years. You've went and created yourself a silver cell assembly line 😄
I still love seeing what you refer to as silver trees! Wish there was a way to grow about an 8 inch tree. How awesome would that be!?!?!
make a silver skeleton for the crystals to grow off of
@@karlttkk4298 just make a single point cathode such as an insulated wire with just the end exposed and keep moving it further from the anode as the crystal grows, you could "prune" the branches to come up with some very interesting trees
Have you ever made a video on what it looks like when a crystal does touch the anode bag and burn through? Would be interesting to see a demonstration of that on a small scale (of course, just to show). Love your work.
Hi Ya & best wishes. SuperB! Thanks for work. Be Happy. Sevastopol/Crimea!)
Same to you Crimea
Silver cells are so amazing to see!❤ Siver Cell Bathtub, 2025 😮
You can try to install a swinging arm that you can acuate from the top of the silver cell to knock back any growing silver crystals. This can be put on a timer with an automatically swinging arm or can be done manually by twisting the arm with your fingers. Just drill a hole into the top of your silver cell next to the filters and install a plastic or glass rod with a plastic fork or knife attached to the end. when the time is right, just twist the rod to knock the crystals back.
Always amazes me!
Thank you sir! Ower knowledge are growing with you and your harvest.
I have been fascinated with the processes you go through to refine precious metals. I would really like to see you do a session on pewter and how it is made and refined.
I know you’ve said several times in the past you have no use for copper but I wish you’d use the copper nitrate left over from silver cementing and make a copper cell just to show the process. Good video as always though.
I dislike refining the silver because it’s messy and takes so long. But I love pure silver. Copper is probably nearly the same but it’s not valuable like gold and silver. It takes ten pounds of copper to equal one ounce of silver.
Great way to harvest pure silver that's for sure.
Thank you for sharing this cool update with us six stars sir
Alll the precious metal dealers hate this one simple trick!
Great jumping Jehoshaphat!
Phenomenal!!! Wow!!! TY for sharing and God Bless!!!
Always interesting to watch your stuff. Mind boggling the options you have for processing various materials. I'm considering attempting the ole agua regia routine on a pile of gold ore I have. Get down to a certain point, there are so many heavies it's a real pain to separate. Gold, silver, tellurides, and apparently a little platinum group stuff in it. If I can figure out a reasonable extraction method, it'd be worth packing a buttload of rocks home to process!
Gold, silver and PGMs are pretty easy to separate from each other, don't know about tellurides.
EDIT: www.911metallurgist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Recovering-Gold-from-Telluride-Ore.pdf
I’d crush some up real fine and try a chlorine leach.
Very cool looking growth streetips! So it seems by refining gold, you need to refine the silver you in-quart and all the platinum group metals that are left over to close the whole loop.
Looking good! 👍👍🤟
I am curious if you are almost always running silver cells and only occasionally make videos about it or if you only occasionally run the silver cells and make content about it when you do?
A little of both. Although recently I’ve slacked off on running my silver cells. Refining silver is messy, lots of waste that must be treated, and it takes lots of work and weeks to get the pure silver. By contrast, getting pure gold takes just one day! For these reasons I have a tendency to let the silver sit and build up on me. So now I’m backed up and need to get caught up. The nice thing is I should gain about one or two thousand ounces of pure silver if I can just stay focused on getting all my silver processed. It is a giant pain. I’ve come to dislike refining the silver (because of all the work involved) but I love holding the silver.
Long time follower here @sreetips and have watched every video you have ever put out. Keep up the great videos!!! However i think it would interesting to see how much weight those silver cells gain and they mature till you harvest them. Do they grow by a pound a day...2 pounds a day...just something that i think would be kind of interesting to see
The two small cells will each grow about 5 ounces per day each. The large cell about ten ounces per day. All three will put out about twenty Troy ounces per day.
It's looking really good Sreetips🐉 Nice Work!
I know it has nothing to do with efficiency but was just curious what would happen if you placed a magnet on the outside of the bowl. Might be cool.
I'm not sure where your located but would you consider having an apprentice or intern I just love the chemistry like this I grew up with my father being an electronics repair man he fixed C/B radios and along with many other things it really interests me
Unfortunately I don’t offer that kind of service. This is my hobby.
Good evening, Mrs and Mr Sreetips from beautiful Dubai 🙏🌹
Good evening Dubai.
Love sree tips from India.❤
Thank you India
Hello friend from India 🙂
First 👍 's up sreetips thank you for sharing 🤗
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Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips.
They forming fantastic Sir🙂 Thank you for updating us. God bless you🙏
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You’re welcome Arne.
@sreetips Thank you my good friend 🙂
one thing i didn't see anyone comment on in the last one is that the anode bar for cell 2 looks quite tarnished, i have to wonder if cleaning up that bar a bit might help that cell chew through the impure shot at a better rate, aside from the cathode patina factor
I noticed that in the previous video..I'm.wondering did it get hot or just tarnished,,burnt metal is less conductive so could be causing problems
I wonder if you could use a larger glass fish tank with a supersized filter basket i think at least a square Stainless steel pan or pot would allow more room on sides for growth with a supersized filter basket
The distance between the anode and the cathode is critical 4 inches to 4.5 inches (10cm to 11.5cm) must be maintained
@@sreetips thanks good to know then a circular vessel is very efficient
I wonder if you could do a price breakdown? Is the profit margin way more on the pure silver crystals than the regular silver in solution?
Sterling silver can and should be held like it is. No need to refine it. It will track right on up with the bullion price as long as you don’t melt it and ruin the markings. The only reason I refine silver is because I use it to refine gold. However, in order to calculate a “profit” I’d have to sell the silver to realize a gain or loss. I’m not wanting to sell my silver. After refining, I put it away and forget about it. The silver will be used for my retirement.
@ cool. Thank you
Where do you go about getting your scraps? The chemistry and science behind this is so interesting to me. I wanna make my own silver bars
I buy sterling silver at local yard sales and estate sales.
And how about your nitric acid? It shouldn't be too expensive should it?
Nitric is available at any chemical supply.
Pastime I ordered six 2.5 liter bottles for $458 delivered.
Hey sreetips, love the videos. I'm thinking about trying to electrolytically purify tin, but can seem to find what solution is best to use. Some use stanous chloride or Sn2? Any suggestions?
Sorry, I don’t have any experience refining tin.
Wonder if the membrain in Water softener's would work better kind of Osmosis just wild though like sheep skin condoms maybe protection from slime
Tell me please, what gauge of wire do you use to connect the power supply to the anode/cathode?
Looks like # 10
Ten gauge solid strand copper wire
Why doesn't the copper plate out of the solution too?
It won’t if concentration is kept low and voltage kept at proper level.
Under the correct conditions (low concentration, voltage not too high), silver will push out any copper trying to plate out as copper is more reactive than silver, meaning that silver has a stronger tendency to plate out.
No reason, by the way, you could not throw 2 anode bars of the type/size you already make in the beast basket.
I’m just curious but it seems if the beast isn’t consuming the impure silver then it must be coming from the electrolyte… right? It always seems to me that using pure silver in the electrolyte just uses the electrolyte to create pure silver crystal. It just seems off that the impure silver is the only place you’re getting silver from… some must be coming from the electrolyte too. If you use impure silver for the electrolyte what happens then? Would it just become saturated with copper? Is there a way to take the copper out of solution leaving only the silver nitrate?
Not that I know of
A suas tigelas são de inox ou aço inox?
The bowl is stainless steel
Yep yup and ok then good stuff
After you account for the silver put into the electrolyte and the anode, how much silver can you process from shot? I'm assuming this method wouldn't be used if it wasn't net positive.
For every kilo of impure silver I add to the anode basket, I should harvest about 980 grams of pure silver from the cell.
@@sreetipsDet er imponerende buddy🙂
Does this process generate a lot of heat?
The cells are slightly warm to the touch to room temperature ambient. Not a lot of heat. They warm up at first when current flow is high. Then cool down as current flow drops off.
By pouring silver nitrate solution in the silver cell, do you produce more silver crystal that way rather than if the electrolyte did not contain silver nitrate?
In short, yes kinda >it's one thing that's a result.
The electrolytic cell starts out with a precise solution of silver nitrate. He uses his excess solution to add to the cell as it evaporates
The silver nitrate solution acts as a medium for a reaction .
There's a Threshold for the amount of copper that can be dissolved in the cell and still function properly.
@jimwednt1229 thanks, i understand now
Silver nitrate is a conductor. It completes the circuit for the electrical current to flow from the anode to the cathode. The current flow dissolves the impure silver in the anode basket. The dissolved silver travels through the Dacron filter, into the electrolyte, then travels to the cathode and plates out as high purity elemental silver. The cell wouldn’t operate without the silver nitrate electrolyte.
Is it possible to refine a 10 percent silver alloy this way?
No, the anode material must be fairly high purity to begin with in order for electro refining to be successful.
Can I ask why you don't just use the line with a fuse on it all the time?
Because I don’t have three of them
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Sunday morning cartoons? No…..way! Is this a religious cartoon? I hope my churches out there don’t get angry but I’m watching this…!! Sreetips needs his own stadium and I bet he’d fill it up to the rim just like a runaway flask!!
Could the silver cell function with inquarted gold?
No
Super cool 👍😎
Thanks eh
Do you want a pair of crucible tongs made for you if so give me size and ill make them all you have to pay for is the shipping.
That would be awesome. How can I contact you?
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