Hey Sreetips, one thing I have learned from BigstackD's channel is that you should always put a piece of cardboard under your crucibal to prevent it from sticking to the fire brick. I noticed the sticking a couple of times. Thanks again for the always great videos!
I think I remember BigstackD saying he only uses it when melting copper though...not sure if 2K degrees matters or not as far as trying it with silver, what say you Sreetips?
@@guitargirlie88he always uses it. Why would it matter what metal you're melting? It so the crucible doesn't stick. Has nothing to do with the type of metal
@Shellsbells He puts cardboard under every crucible no matter what he melts. He actually references the cardboard in most videos too. Also, his furnace runs at roughly the same temp as Sreetips would run. Cardboard will burn up regardless, but it still provides an anti-stick barrier.
I think you would do well to add a welders leather apron to finish out the safety gear. Cotton is no match for molten metal. Keep the great videos coming!
@@hemidart7 I actually have worked in a foundry, and I have my own set up much like the one Sreetips has. I'm curious about your your first question where you ask if I'm "Mr safety". I'm assuming you're pretty clueless about safety. What made you decide to attack my pretty innocuous comment like that?
@@SMOBY44 No I am not clueless about safety I'm very strict about it working around tons upon tons of molten metal. Seems that on youtube every one needs to tell content creators about their lack of safety on a constant basis Streetips knows even tho he is wearing loafers and holly jeans thats his choice if he want to be dumb that his choice Do you go on asian channels and give them heck for sandals and no safety glasses WHO CARES KAREN!! these people know this they choose not too do the right thing so give it a rest
@@hemidart7 Have you ever thought that I have been following him for years and have back and forth comment from time to time? I began dialog with him several years ago about his military service and the common factor that we both served on the same class of Navy Destroyer, and both as Machinist Mates. I have offered my opinions to him and he has either taken them or set me straight on why it may not work. Why are you so worked up over this? Sreetips obviously isn't. Maybe you should use the scroll feature to just keep scrolling down the comment list. And what Asian channels am I supposed to be watching? Pretty sure you have never been around molten metal in your life, so there's that. Have yourself a good day ma'am.
@@SMOBY44 Well you can assume all you want still don't make it so! I don't care about your personal life, I'm not worked up, I just say it straight. I've been around molten metal since the early 2000s and my employer considers me a professional does that clear things up for ya sailor boy Remember this is a comment section and there is this thing called freedom of speech
You have a furnace too?!? You are a national treasure sir. I have learned so much from you just by watching. I’m a huge gold fan! I use gold leaf, and I think of many cultures before our time whom also used gold. Thank you for existing!!!
Love that sound of the silver shot clinking off each other! Thanks for showing this process - it has been interesting to see this process evolve over the years.
Mr. Sreetips, I'm super excited! I just got my paperback copy of C.M.Hoke's book! I wanted a hardback copy, but they are rare and expensive. But $27 is a small price to pay for such a wealth of knowledge and future fun! Thanks for the inspiration, my friend.
I look forward to all your videos. But wow 😮 that volume of silver has me green with envy! I appreciate you and all your insight/opinions. That is why you are my hero since 2015/2016.😊
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. I realy enjoy this clip sir. And a big thanks for sharing the protecting things that you use. And now you have "foods", to make the stunning crystals. "silver is gold"... I simply love silver. God bless both of you, and have a nice day🇺🇲 Arne 🇳🇴
So I watch another channel that just breaks down scrap metals like aluminum, copper and brass and melts them into bars and coins. This video reminded me of his with the tools used in an outdoor setting. Really good video to watch!
You can just use the torch to light the furnace. I usually have the torch lit as I approach the furnace in case the gas has escaped the furnace. After the first melt the furnace should be hot enough to self ignite. Your crucible still looks good. It's cracks on the outside you need to look for and the exterior will start flacking apart when it is time to replace it. I wouldn't trash that one just yet.
The downside to that is the flame front is so small on the torch very small surface area but with a lit piece of newspaper you've got a 10times more surface area of fire. The newspaper is also like a timed fuse . Light it drop it into the furnace and then turn on the gas. And you're out of there by the time it lights.
A good practice is to put cardboard in between the crucible and the firebrick. This will ensure the two do not fuse together during the melt. The ashes from the cardboard will act as a barrier. I like those tongs.
@@alexanderwoolley1623 yes, he got me into melting. BigStack, AdRock and Growing Stack are great channels for melting videos. Sreetips has just made me love it even more. The sight of molten Silver is maddening. It's a fever that can not be broken.
That will keep you going for a while. I've seen that strange slag before. It's part of the crucible reacting with the melt. It's not common and I suspect it is related to the manufacturing process of the company you bought it from. Glad to see you wearing proper PPE.
Sree-knox rollin in the cement! Watching silver cement off of copper is a favorite of mine! Curious though about the slag composition. 22lbs lots of future silver cell slimes :)
Hi sreetips - if you're a bit worried about lighting that furnace you made so well, try using a long, thin, wooden or bamboo splint. Light the end and you can reuse many times safely..
Over the last few years you've come a long way. Your videos do show an awesome evolutionary progress. Next thing is recovering nitric, but only when you're ready. You've got the fume hood. You got all what's required to do it. I think you just need some cheering on. You can do it!!!😂😂😂 I know, I know. Nitric recovery can be a daunting task, but I have the confidence in you! Remember all you need is distilled water, the tools, and a whole lot of courage. We believe in you! Other than that, you've managed to make this the absolute best hobby to watch online. Even without the nitric recovery, it's still the best hobby to watch!
Great video. Nice melting run. Hey Sreetips: How about making a video with all those wasted crucibles? I have some ideas you can document. First: you boil them in a 5% sulfuric acid solution to get rid of the flux. Then you use nitric acid to recover the silver and then aqua regia for recovering the gold and PGMs. That would be a different video with something new to learn from your experiments. Keep up with the great work!!!
Amazing video. Never gets old or boring. They used to call people like you a witch. If he floats he's a witch. What could possibly be wrong with that. Witches really had a bad deal.
Ahh Sreetips, what a beautiful day. Sun is shining, birds a chirping and pouring molten silver cement over a plank into a large bucket of water. Good times! 😄
Fyi, the orange hard hat and faceshield you have is for electricians not tree trimmers. They wear those when working on live high voltage, the white lettered sticker on the side of the green faceshield will say its arc flash rating in cals. It befitting you would wear it bc in an arc flash there could be molten metal flying at them. Great video, it was unexpected to see the insulating brick float when it fell in the water, thought it was a regular brick.
Great video! A thing that I always find fascinating is just how the bulk density of silver and silver/gold precipitate is only slightly heavier than water - 1200 grams per litre or thereabouts. The porosity is through the roof :)
I need to ask - do You remelt the cemented copper as well? To reuse it in the silver waste containers? Also, a piece of advice - try to get a farrier's apron to protect the legs. I noticed You moving around in a torn denim trousers and that is not good protection against any hot metal. Farrier's apron is good for both protection and mobility, as it's made out of thick leather and cut to cover both legs.
Farrier's Apron or a set of welder's leathers and jacket, plus high cuff leather gloves made for welders are the way to go when handling molten metals. It is a bit of expense, but keeping all fingers and toes and all parts between is priceless. If you are going to spend a few hours every so often to do these major melts, then the leathers would be worth it, just like your fume hood for the chemical side, the right garb for metalwork is really a must, you are above hobby level, or at least high end hobby level, so the safety equipment is not to be stinted on.
Just a suggestion get your self a gold pan strainer it fits on a 5 gal bucket perfectly then you can pour your shots in the strainer then the water and shots are separated I think it’s a lot better hope this helps. JD Thanks for the video oh they come in 6 different sizes I have all of them purchased on Amazon
@@CuttinEJ Silver oxide most definitely isn't a metal. It is a metal oxide, it isn't a metal as it doesn't have metallic properties. For one it won't conduct electricity like all metals do.
@@apveening, 2 atoms of silver and 1 atom of oxygen. I’m not a chemist. Maybe I should have said “metallic”. What I do know is that looked a lot like the glass slag from a smelt than an oxidized derivative of a precious metal.
You should move the crossboard closer to the ramp so the blobs roll down it instead of fall through most of the water column. This helps prevent it from popping, blobbing, and makes silver shot of high quality. I learned it from a RUclips channel named Street Tips, or something like that. You should check him out, though there's so many videos without any usable form of sorting or searchability, you may need a lot of luck to find anything on topic with a question you may have, but it's probably answered somewhere in there.
Commenting on @sreetips video giving advise to him that you learned watching a RUclipsr named @sreetips or something like that is either kind of funny, (if your trying to be ironic/funny), or kind of sad, (if your really that oblivious/stupid)! lol
I learned from this youtuber named Buck Stickchaser or something how to be a complete loser and live in your grandmas basement because your mom can't stand you. You should check him out.
A future video idea: if possible look at the different metals under a microscope. Gold powder and cement silver etc. I think that would be a cool video to watch
If you hear the end of your storing rod up before mixing and removing the slag it won’t stick to the end as bad. Great video as always love seeing the furnace in action!
I think it would help if you add more cement silver to the crucible once it's melted . It'll melt a lot faster because of the retained heat and you'll use a lot less gas.
This is how musket shot was made back in the day but they poured from a little bit higher helps keep the shot from clumping up and stay round and not M&M shaped
@@sreetips "a pain. But I love it." Are you telling us you are a masochist? . Oops, I forgot, you were a master chief, "Pain is just weakness leaving the body".
It’s only because I hate running that furnace. It’s a 2000 degree monster. After I set up my second silver cell, I’ll probably have to fire it up again because I’ve got two more buckets of cement silver to melt into shot.
I'm glad I looked into these older episodes. I really wanted to see how you were melting the shots up. Oh by the way I see you have some deck rot going on there. That needs to be addressed before someone gets hurt. Their are some people that will look for that just to hurt themselves for a lawsuit.
about the crucible. if you put more material into it as it melts, you will consume the crucible at a more even rate not just the bottom part, and also less handling of it while it's hot. it'll be heavier for each time, but you are a big guy , so should be fine😊
Adding cold metal to molten is dangerous as it sinks and may have trapped water which will cause molten metal ejection. I'm lucky to not have permanent scars from this.
You should Probably coat that ceramic insulation with high heat cement I heard it's bad for you to breathe in plus it will help it lasts a while longer
Hello sir, 10 kilos of silver... nice... I figured out, that buying second hand AgNO3 is also good way to get cheap pure silver, and elecrolyte is "for free". 100 g of AgNO3 p.a. has 63 g of very pure silver and costs me usually less than spot silver.
awesome , glad to see u again , been meaning to get up with u , i noticed nitric is at 175 a gal , maybe u know where i can get it cheaper , i am ready for the next faze , in the process
I think a simple thing you can make to help with the slag off the sir rod is a small piece of plate with a hole drilled to the size of the rod (at temp use if it expands) towards the edge and finish with cutting the hole open to a U shape. Should help make that part a bit less tedious. Might be able to attach it to the side of the furnace if not a simple stake in the ground. Not sure if you tried something like that before or if you don't mind letting it build up a bit and then clean it up later.
At first I didn’t know what it was or how to handle it. But after a while I realized that the junk floating on the metal adhered to the rod nicely and all I had to do was put the graphite rod in, the junk clung to the end of the rod, pull it out and set it down. Lack of experience turned into new knowledge.
Any copper in silver will instantly form an oxide on the surface at molten silver temperatures in order to get silvery looking silver your copper content must be under 0.5%. You can use sterling silver directly in a silver cell however small cells have their electrolyte depleted way to fast by the large amounts of copper because copper displaces 4x the amount of silver in solution (by weight) to make it practical. You would have to replace electrolyte very often and you get a larger amount of anode slimes that can clog smaller anode filter it is best to use sterling silver in cells that are 50L and greater in my option. Larger silver cells can operate with a input silver purity of down to 80%
Nice melting run! have you considered making other electrolytic cells? specifically for the recovery of gold, palladium, and even copper crystals from spent silver solutions?
@@sreetips Tube tilted towards a bucket, water goes in on the left side, hole in the middle to poor the metal in, water and shot leaves on the right side into a bucket.
The cement silver contains 1% to 2% copper. That’s why it appears brown instead of white. To get it to industry standard three nines fine it must be run through the silver cell. It’s the only way to be sure.
Sorry for the idiot question, but what was the “powder” you were scooping into the crucible. It wasn’t really cement was it? Just started binge watching your vids and now next to nothing about this process so please be kind people.
I saw a pour once where they had a matrix of holes in their crucible for pouring very fine shot. Perhaps you could drill some holes along the top edge.
@@sreetips You could use that old crucible in the video for testing, even use copper or something to try the pour just in case. That would be a video in itself. :D
to make getting the water out easier you should drill a a small hole in the bottom of that barrel and then tap that hole and put a bolt that you can easily remove to let the water drain out
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Hey Sreetips, one thing I have learned from BigstackD's channel is that you should always put a piece of cardboard under your crucibal to prevent it from sticking to the fire brick. I noticed the sticking a couple of times. Thanks again for the always great videos!
I think I remember BigstackD saying he only uses it when melting copper though...not sure if 2K degrees matters or not as far as trying it with silver, what say you Sreetips?
@@guitargirlie88he always uses it. Why would it matter what metal you're melting? It so the crucible doesn't stick. Has nothing to do with the type of metal
Also, always heat your stirring devices prior to using. It would be cool to see a customized Streetips branded furnace like BigStackd.
@Shellsbells He puts cardboard under every crucible no matter what he melts. He actually references the cardboard in most videos too. Also, his furnace runs at roughly the same temp as Sreetips would run. Cardboard will burn up regardless, but it still provides an anti-stick barrier.
@@awf118 Agreed
Was reading alot of comments and it seams like alot of people are not very observant . Thanks for the video.
Or want to educate on sh!t they don't know
That's outstanding amount that should feed the silver cell for a while thank you for sharing this six stars brother
I think you would do well to add a welders leather apron to finish out the safety gear. Cotton is no match for molten metal. Keep the great videos coming!
What are you Mr safety have you worked in a foundry do you realy know what you are talking about?
@@hemidart7 I actually have worked in a foundry, and I have my own set up much like the one Sreetips has. I'm curious about your your first question where you ask if I'm "Mr safety". I'm assuming you're pretty clueless about safety. What made you decide to attack my pretty innocuous comment like that?
@@SMOBY44 No I am not clueless about safety I'm very strict about it working around tons upon tons of molten metal.
Seems that on youtube every one needs to tell content creators about their lack of safety on a constant basis
Streetips knows even tho he is wearing loafers and holly jeans thats his choice if he want to be dumb that his choice
Do you go on asian channels and give them heck for sandals and no safety glasses
WHO CARES KAREN!! these people know this they choose not too do the right thing
so give it a rest
@@hemidart7 Have you ever thought that I have been following him for years and have back and forth comment from time to time? I began dialog with him several years ago about his military service and the common factor that we both served on the same class of Navy Destroyer, and both as Machinist Mates. I have offered my opinions to him and he has either taken them or set me straight on why it may not work. Why are you so worked up over this? Sreetips obviously isn't. Maybe you should use the scroll feature to just keep scrolling down the comment list. And what Asian channels am I supposed to be watching? Pretty sure you have never been around molten metal in your life, so there's that. Have yourself a good day ma'am.
@@SMOBY44 Well you can assume all you want still don't make it so!
I don't care about your personal life, I'm not worked up, I just say it straight.
I've been around molten metal since the early 2000s and my employer considers me a professional does that clear things up for ya sailor boy
Remember this is a comment section and there is this thing called freedom of speech
This silver shot pretty much guarantees no vampire attacks nearby.
You have a furnace too?!? You are a national treasure sir. I have learned so much from you just by watching. I’m a huge gold fan! I use gold leaf, and I think of many cultures before our time whom also used gold. Thank you for existing!!!
You can see how I built the furnace for cheap, links to the build are in the video description of this video.
Love that sound of the silver shot clinking off each other! Thanks for showing this process - it has been interesting to see this process evolve over the years.
Look at all that cement silver. That is so freakin awesome
Gooood morning from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great day!
Goooood morning!
Gooood morning my friend. Have a nice Easter. Arne 🇳🇴
@@arnedalbakk6315Thank you Arne! Have a wonderful and safe Easter!
Thank you David, 🎉
@@arnedalbakk6315 👊😎
Mr. Sreetips, I'm super excited! I just got my paperback copy of C.M.Hoke's book! I wanted a hardback copy, but they are rare and expensive. But $27 is a small price to pay for such a wealth of knowledge and future fun! Thanks for the inspiration, my friend.
Mental note: Hoke’s book, paper back, $27. Got it. That’s good to know, thank you.
I look forward to all your videos. But wow 😮 that volume of silver has me green with envy! I appreciate you and all your insight/opinions. That is why you are my hero since 2015/2016.😊
It is quite amazing to see the volume of silver you are processing!
Well done.
Really cool that he had a bucket full of cement silver! Looked awesome.
Dude, great video. Your kind are the real rock stars
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. I realy enjoy this clip sir. And a big thanks for sharing the protecting things that you use. And now you have "foods", to make the stunning crystals. "silver is gold"... I simply love silver.
God bless both of you, and have a nice day🇺🇲
Arne 🇳🇴
Thanks Arne
@@sreetips 🌹🌹
So I watch another channel that just breaks down scrap metals like aluminum, copper and brass and melts them into bars and coins. This video reminded me of his with the tools used in an outdoor setting. Really good video to watch!
Do you mean BigstackD?
@@mattgraham1983 you know it! Every Fri! Lol
@@matthewtracy8744 not long now and he'll hit the 1T goal...
Another Fantastic Video..I love them Every day is School day with you . Thanks again from your friend in 🇬🇧 ...Take care & keep the Videos coming
Hello Sreetips,
I always enjoy your videos, they're informative and fun, and I always walk away feeling like I learned something .
Thanks for sharing.
Man that's a lot of silver cell running for the future. Love it!
I love this:
Sreetips: I bought this pot at a yard sale for $2.00. As you can see, it's filled with $8000.00 worth of silver shot.
You can just use the torch to light the furnace. I usually have the torch lit as I approach the furnace in case the gas has escaped the furnace. After the first melt the furnace should be hot enough to self ignite.
Your crucible still looks good. It's cracks on the outside you need to look for and the exterior will start flacking apart when it is time to replace it. I wouldn't trash that one just yet.
You don't say Capitan....
You could just shut up and enjoy the video without trying to look smart by sayin' stupid sh*t
The downside to that is the flame front is so small on the torch very small surface area but with a lit piece of newspaper you've got a 10times more surface area of fire. The newspaper is also like a timed fuse . Light it drop it into the furnace and then turn on the gas. And you're out of there by the time it lights.
A good practice is to put cardboard in between the crucible and the firebrick. This will ensure the two do not fuse together during the melt. The ashes from the cardboard will act as a barrier.
I like those tongs.
Bigstackd enjoyer
@@alexanderwoolley1623 yes, he got me into melting. BigStack, AdRock and Growing Stack are great channels for melting videos. Sreetips has just made me love it even more. The sight of molten Silver is maddening. It's a fever that can not be broken.
That will keep you going for a while. I've seen that strange slag before. It's part of the crucible reacting with the melt. It's not common and I suspect it is related to the manufacturing process of the company you bought it from. Glad to see you wearing proper PPE.
The day has come, and you have a shitload of material to process. This is gonna be amazing you're truly doing gods work thanks sreetips !
agree!!
Eyeballing 10kg almost perfectly... Well done sir, well done!
Nice to see you outdoors!
Thanks again. I alwys enjoy your presentatins
Love that all containers, tools and even wood used as a defuser for the molten silver being poured into the bucket. SREETIPS FOR THE WIN!
BigstackD needs to get you in touch with Devil Forge!
Dunk that crucible in some nitric and reclaim all of the silver.
10 kg of silver that could have otherwise been lost forever. Very impressive.
Not sure why your videos are in my recommendations, but I'm glad they were. Very interesting content, sir
Thank you!
Looks like you could benefit from using a stainless collander, to separate the water from the silver at the end. Nice load. Thanks for sharing. Aloha
Sree-knox rollin in the cement! Watching silver cement off of copper is a favorite of mine! Curious though about the slag composition. 22lbs lots of future silver cell slimes :)
Slag was probably from the crucible.
So cool! That is so much silver!
Very relaxing video... there's always something satisfying watching metal melt... and more so since it's precious metal :) Nice job sir
Hi sreetips - if you're a bit worried about lighting that furnace you made so well, try using a long, thin, wooden or bamboo splint. Light the end and you can reuse many times safely..
Everything about that furnace scares me. Yet there’s something primal about melting metal - especially silver (and gold).
Over the last few years you've come a long way.
Your videos do show an awesome evolutionary progress.
Next thing is recovering nitric, but only when you're ready. You've got the fume hood. You got all what's required to do it. I think you just need some cheering on.
You can do it!!!😂😂😂
I know, I know. Nitric recovery can be a daunting task, but I have the confidence in you!
Remember all you need is distilled water, the tools, and a whole lot of courage. We believe in you!
Other than that, you've managed to make this the absolute best hobby to watch online. Even without the nitric recovery, it's still the best hobby to watch!
Great video. Nice melting run. Hey Sreetips: How about making a video with all those wasted crucibles? I have some ideas you can document. First: you boil them in a 5% sulfuric acid solution to get rid of the flux. Then you use nitric acid to recover the silver and then aqua regia for recovering the gold and PGMs. That would be a different video with something new to learn from your experiments. Keep up with the great work!!!
Are you realy trying to explain acid to Streetips
Very enjoyable and interesting viewing. Plenty of silver shot to feed your silver cell and produce lots of those amazing silver crystals. Nice. 👍
Amazing video. Never gets old or boring. They used to call people like you a witch. If he floats he's a witch. What could possibly be wrong with that. Witches really had a bad deal.
Ahh Sreetips, what a beautiful day. Sun is shining, birds a chirping and pouring molten silver cement over a plank into a large bucket of water. Good times! 😄
Montana too.
Fyi, the orange hard hat and faceshield you have is for electricians not tree trimmers. They wear those when working on live high voltage, the white lettered sticker on the side of the green faceshield will say its arc flash rating in cals. It befitting you would wear it bc in an arc flash there could be molten metal flying at them. Great video, it was unexpected to see the insulating brick float when it fell in the water, thought it was a regular brick.
The guy I bought it from used it to cut trees. He asked if I wanted the vest. Should have said yes but I declined.
Hi. SuperB. Thanks for work. Be Happy. With best wishes from Sevastopol/Crimea.
1:35 after a few yrs I feel like we're going to have a "recovering Silver from dirt" series xD
Great video! A thing that I always find fascinating is just how the bulk density of silver and silver/gold precipitate is only slightly heavier than water - 1200 grams per litre or thereabouts. The porosity is through the roof :)
I need to ask - do You remelt the cemented copper as well? To reuse it in the silver waste containers?
Also, a piece of advice - try to get a farrier's apron to protect the legs. I noticed You moving around in a torn denim trousers and that is not good protection against any hot metal. Farrier's apron is good for both protection and mobility, as it's made out of thick leather and cut to cover both legs.
No, clean copper for refining is cheap and plentiful. No need to waste time reusing the copper from the waste bucket. Thanks for the safety tip.
Farrier's Apron or a set of welder's leathers and jacket, plus high cuff leather gloves made for welders are the way to go when handling molten metals. It is a bit of expense, but keeping all fingers and toes and all parts between is priceless. If you are going to spend a few hours every so often to do these major melts, then the leathers would be worth it, just like your fume hood for the chemical side, the right garb for metalwork is really a must, you are above hobby level, or at least high end hobby level, so the safety equipment is not to be stinted on.
Another great video
A leather apron is a good piece of PPE if you're ever worried about molten metal splatter.
No way!... I don't thing ANYONE would've thought of that!! good that you came by to save the day
What about boot shields or face shield?
Its time to make a second silvercell sreetips. Keep up the good work
That’s the next step. I’ve got two more buckets full of cement silver that need to be melted.
Just a suggestion get your self a gold pan strainer it fits on a 5 gal bucket perfectly then you can pour your shots in the strainer then the water and shots are separated I think it’s a lot better hope this helps. JD
Thanks for the video oh they come in 6 different sizes I have all of them purchased on Amazon
Can you do a video where you crush up all your old and broken crucibles and recover the metal from them
As always, great job.
I was wondering what the source of the slag was. Was the crucible previously used for a smelt? Could the slag be leftover flux?
Silver oxide probably
@@alexanderwoolley1623, silver oxide is metal. This was definitely slag.
@@alexanderwoolley1623 More people talking about stuff they don't know sh!t about
@@CuttinEJ Silver oxide most definitely isn't a metal. It is a metal oxide, it isn't a metal as it doesn't have metallic properties. For one it won't conduct electricity like all metals do.
@@apveening, 2 atoms of silver and 1 atom of oxygen. I’m not a chemist. Maybe I should have said “metallic”. What I do know is that looked a lot like the glass slag from a smelt than an oxidized derivative of a precious metal.
You should move the crossboard closer to the ramp so the blobs roll down it instead of fall through most of the water column. This helps prevent it from popping, blobbing, and makes silver shot of high quality. I learned it from a RUclips channel named Street Tips, or something like that. You should check him out, though there's so many videos without any usable form of sorting or searchability, you may need a lot of luck to find anything on topic with a question you may have, but it's probably answered somewhere in there.
Commenting on @sreetips video giving advise to him that you learned watching a RUclipsr named @sreetips or something like that is either kind of funny, (if your trying to be ironic/funny), or kind of sad, (if your really that oblivious/stupid)! lol
I agree, I’ll use a longer board and get it closer next time I do this
I learned from this youtuber named Buck Stickchaser or something how to be a complete loser and live in your grandmas basement because your mom can't stand you. You should check him out.
For sure a job to do in the Spring.. this job must be one SOB to do in the summer with that respirator and safety equipment on.
And the air conditioner blowing cold air.
A future video idea: if possible look at the different metals under a microscope. Gold powder and cement silver etc. I think that would be a cool video to watch
I need to contact the state college. I think that they have an SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope)
@@sreetips That would put the icing on the cake, just a visual light microscope would already be very cool.
@@sreetips it would be amazing if they’d let you use it
If you hear the end of your storing rod up before mixing and removing the slag it won’t stick to the end as bad.
Great video as always love seeing the furnace in action!
I wasn’t sure, but after a while I realized that having that junk stick to the rod is what I wanted, so I could remove it from the silver.
I see your getting crafty and taking things to the outdoors. 😁👍
Same thing with your mum we got crafty last night when I took things to her bedroom
I think it would help if you add more cement silver to the crucible once it's melted . It'll melt a lot faster because of the retained heat and you'll use a lot less gas.
I left it less than half full on purpose - a crucible full of 2 pounds of 2000 degree molten metal scares the daylights out of me.
@@sreetips might pay to upgrade the jeans and collared dress shirt
Awesome video that is a lot of silver shot thanks for sharing sreetips
This is how musket shot was made back in the day but they poured from a little bit higher helps keep the shot from clumping up and stay round and not M&M shaped
Just love all you videos
Thank you!
Almost $8k worth of silver shot should keep the silver cell happy and running for the next few months huh! Looking good bud!!
I’ve got two more full buckets that I need to melt into shot. Silver is a pain. But I love it.
@@sreetips "a pain. But I love it." Are you telling us you are a masochist?
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Oops, I forgot, you were a master chief, "Pain is just weakness leaving the body".
@@sreetips That much silver would put me in a suspended state of yea ha for 2 weeks
Haha hearing the sound of the silver hit the water made me have to pee.😎
I'm amazed at how much cement silver you had sitting around.
It’s only because I hate running that furnace. It’s a 2000 degree monster. After I set up my second silver cell, I’ll probably have to fire it up again because I’ve got two more buckets of cement silver to melt into shot.
@@sreetips Haaaaaaa! Dang, not a bad problem to have in the end though.
Awesome video, thanks for sharing..
I'm glad I looked into these older episodes. I really wanted to see how you were melting the shots up. Oh by the way I see you have some deck rot going on there. That needs to be addressed before someone gets hurt. Their are some people that will look for that just to hurt themselves for a lawsuit.
looks nice and warm there it is still cold and snow here in northern michigan
I’d rather have cool nights sleep than humidity
about the crucible. if you put more material into it as it melts, you will consume the crucible at a more even rate not just the bottom part, and also less handling of it while it's hot. it'll be heavier for each time, but you are a big guy , so should be fine😊
A crucible full of molten metal scares me! I left it low on purpose.
Adding cold metal to molten is dangerous as it sinks and may have trapped water which will cause molten metal ejection.
I'm lucky to not have permanent scars from this.
@@keithjurena9319 ay, load with drizzle
Great way to solve storage problems, reduce the volume.
You should Probably coat that ceramic insulation with high heat cement I heard it's bad for you to breathe in plus it will help it lasts a while longer
Hello sir, 10 kilos of silver... nice... I figured out, that buying second hand AgNO3 is also good way to get cheap pure silver, and elecrolyte is "for free". 100 g of AgNO3 p.a. has 63 g of very pure silver and costs me usually less than spot silver.
That’s incredible. Pure silver nitrate is usually way more expensive than silver metal.
i like your furnace, really effective.
It was cheap and it gets the job done.
Now that's a bowl of corn flakes!! ❤
I would also suggets that you get a leather apron to protect your abdomen and upper legs down to your boots.
It will just bounce off it'll be fine saftey nazi
I wonder if borax would help in the process of melting. I love this video.
I remember that screw and so glad you removed it.
awesome , glad to see u again , been meaning to get up with u , i noticed nitric is at 175 a gal , maybe u know where i can get it cheaper , i am ready for the next faze , in the process
Check dudadiesel.com
It's time to make some crystals great video sreetips
I think a simple thing you can make to help with the slag off the sir rod is a small piece of plate with a hole drilled to the size of the rod (at temp use if it expands) towards the edge and finish with cutting the hole open to a U shape. Should help make that part a bit less tedious. Might be able to attach it to the side of the furnace if not a simple stake in the ground. Not sure if you tried something like that before or if you don't mind letting it build up a bit and then clean it up later.
At first I didn’t know what it was or how to handle it. But after a while I realized that the junk floating on the metal adhered to the rod nicely and all I had to do was put the graphite rod in, the junk clung to the end of the rod, pull it out and set it down. Lack of experience turned into new knowledge.
dumb question, is the cement conductive? could you skip the "shot" step and just run the cement through the cell? ps i dont refine i have no idea
He replied once stating that it clogged the filter causing other problems
It doesn’t work very well
I always wonder why your cement silver smelts look so coppery 😮 also I wonder if you could put Sterling silver straight into the silver cell?
Any copper in silver will instantly form an oxide on the surface at molten silver temperatures in order to get silvery looking silver your copper content must be under 0.5%. You can use sterling silver directly in a silver cell however small cells have their electrolyte depleted way to fast by the large amounts of copper because copper displaces 4x the amount of silver in solution (by weight) to make it practical. You would have to replace electrolyte very often and you get a larger amount of anode slimes that can clog smaller anode filter it is best to use sterling silver in cells that are 50L and greater in my option. Larger silver cells can operate with a input silver purity of down to 80%
how many melts do you get from a propane cylinder that size?
Just a tiny amount of copper makes it look very ugly. Sterling in the cell would quickly saturate the electrolyte with copper.
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I think it can run continuous for about ten hours, estimate.
Nice melting run! have you considered making other electrolytic cells? specifically for the recovery of gold, palladium, and even copper crystals from spent silver solutions?
He did a gold cell before. I think he didn't continue with it due to it not being as cost effective as refining.
I’ll probably make another silver so I’ll two.
You’re the man 👍
Why don't you put some of the wool over the crucible area so you could save gas and furnace would burn hotter? Thank you for sharing your knowledge!😊
It starts sputtering if I cover the hole over the crucible in the furnace.
Okay sir so what is in the dross? Did you think about hitting it with aqua regia just for fun?
It was crucible
One slight drop of moisture in that powder and you would have had the dreaded "silver shower". Frequently happens to those who cast bullets.
Yes very true you ever see what happens when a Zinc coated nail is thrown into molten (any) metal
Zinc boiling point is not much more than water
I recently saw a guy making shot pooring the molten metal in a tube with flowing water in it. Seemed to work very well
Interesting, thank you.
@@sreetips Tube tilted towards a bucket, water goes in on the left side, hole in the middle to poor the metal in, water and shot leaves on the right side into a bucket.
Nice, that should be enough to feed your silver cell for the next few months.
When the silver boils, does it evaporate?
Of course, silver evaporates easily
Due to the separation of silver atoms from the molten surface and the transition to the gaseous state
If it gets too hot, yes
Great info. I respect and share your views on money.
Always watching in awe. Love this channel. So how many pours does a crucible last?
I think was the second or third use.
Hi Mr. Sreetips, is the cement silver pure or does it require further refining? That’s a great kiln you have set up for your crucible!
The cement silver contains 1% to 2% copper. That’s why it appears brown instead of white. To get it to industry standard three nines fine it must be run through the silver cell. It’s the only way to be sure.
@@sreetips Thank you for the explanation.
Sorry for the idiot question, but what was the “powder” you were scooping into the crucible. It wasn’t really cement was it? Just started binge watching your vids and now next to nothing about this process so please be kind people.
The gray powder was silver powder. About 98% to 99% pure.
@@sreetips got to the next video in line and got my answer - boy I feel dumb for asking that. But I know now thank you.
Also let the crucial cool off in the forge oh great work
Hey sreetips you should pre heat your stir rod before putting it into the metal to avoid an explosion much love
I saw a pour once where they had a matrix of holes in their crucible for pouring very fine shot. Perhaps you could drill some holes along the top edge.
I though about that. May be worth looking into
@@sreetips You could use that old crucible in the video for testing, even use copper or something to try the pour just in case. That would be a video in itself. :D
You certainly went to an industrial scale. Time for a 2nd silver cell?
I was wondering if it was possible to put cement silver directly in the silver cell?
I tried it. It clogged the filter and current flow dropped off rapidly. It doesn’t work very well
to make getting the water out easier you should drill a a small hole in the bottom of that barrel and then tap that hole and put a bolt that you can easily remove to let the water drain out
Do you re-process the slag? Or is the juice not worth the squeeze?
Why not dump the whole crucible and run the slag through the cell too?
I try to keep it clean
@@sreetips i always comment during videos as things happen, and should probably wait until the end when everything is wrapped up, lol