You are the world's leading authority on small scale refining and your dedication to educating in that area is beyond measure. Your willingness to demonstrate processes like this and prove that they aren't worth the trouble has likely prevented untold numbers of less than well informed individuals from rushing into action and hurting themselves or others or the environment. You deserve an award, I think one of the George H W Bush "Thousand Points Of Light" would be fitting, I wonder if there's any of those left?
It sure helped me. All these guys making videos collecting tons of computer pins think they'll are striking it rich, when its really just costing them more money than its worth. I had about the same amount of bars this guy had and here I'm thinking i struck it huge. I watched this and my stomach dropped. I'm just going to give them away now.
I came to see a video because I was thinking of buying some bars and found your wonderfully clear video. I am so very glad! Thank you! You preform a great service! Thank you also to Chris who donated the bars!
I would imagine that if they are able to process all those computer metals, they’d be able to process all the gold out before they send you an ingot of a gold colored alloy.
Thank you both. These videos are worth more than the time it takes to watch them. So I watch some multiple times. You're the Micheal Jordan of RUclips garage-lab refinery. I could watch gold turn to powder all day, Alchemist.
Your results are exactly what I expected. I feel bad for the people that are stacking these up thinking that they are getting a good deal on recoverable Gold...Ebay scammers suck.
@@woonsockettruthseeker9009 That is not what is happening. What the venders are saying these are (which, at least in this case, is clearly not what is happening) is that this is bars made of melted gold foil pins from e-waste. The people stacking up these bars know that they aren't pure gold, they are thinking they are like 1% gold that they will have to put a lot of time into extracting, but if they can spend $35 on 300 grams of this and get even a gram of gold (currently $65 per gram) it would be worth it. Only the scammers are stright up lying about what the bars are made of.
As long as there are dumb people, there will be scammers preying on them. Everywhere! This is just one of the more obvious examples. Apple users are the same, but they are so naive still thinking they were the ones getting the better end of it. ;)
Thanks for this video brother. I almost bought some of these to test out my self. Sooooooo glad I didn’t. You are the man. 💪👍🏻keep up the great content, it’s very much appreciated
Dude! You are not just a metal refiner you are also a philanthropist! Because this information is that valuable. I really appreciate it! Thank you again.
You inspired me to start my own at-home, small scale refinery last winter. I spent hours and hours to get my first gram of gold from gold-filled jewelry, but then it got stuck in my melting dish due to an improper borax glazing or lack of heat. I'm excited to try again this winter and just wanted to say thank you for all your education videos. I've watched them for hours and hours to troubleshoot my process and learn what to do.
I think if you process them in a copper sulfate cell at 1-1.5 volts you will have a cheaper method of collecting the copper in those bars. Then the residue ( a bit of Cu, Zn, Ni, Fe, Pb) is easier to dissolve. You then can use H2SO4 or HCl to remove the remainder of the contaminates. Kind of electrowinning the pure copper that you can throw into your waste bucket. I have a Buck converter that takes 5 volts from my computer power supply and drops it to 1 volt. Works well. The big issue you had was brute forcing the dissolution of the major components with Nitric acid. Like you proved to us in the video where you added too much silver, the gold was very finely divided. Some may even passed through the filter paper. All in all an excellent demonstration. Thank you!
I got one, had it tested it came back "unknown, likely brass." I sent it back for a refund and reported my findings on the review. I lost $15, for potage and curiosity 8/.
I'm not supprised that something like ebay scrap gold has been melted with lower value metals or even have no gold in it. I guessed the expectation of very low gold amount the time he started dissolving it in nitric without adding no more metals in it.
Yep. Otherwise you might think they're scamming you. There has to be SOME gold in it. It reminds me of the buckets of dirt people are buying online with guaranteed gold in them. You're never going to get more than the amount of gold they put in it purposefully.
Unfortunately, these bars are still being sold on Ebay almost 5 years later. I seen some on Ebay and thought to myself that something about them didn't seem right. Mainly the price. Glad your video is still up.
Solid snake oil, gotta give it to them sellers they are making money of scrap recovery by processing the precious metals themselves and selling the dregs to others ingenious (ofc its disingenuous).
You'll notice they're almost exclusively from 1srael, the same people have multiple accounts with feedback under 1k, and they all have 100% positive feedback scores. Do they have 100% happy customers? Is this more likely some kind of money laundering operation?
This is the reason why i study metal refining and recovery. I usually doubt those gold looking for sale to be gold. I never bought any gold yet aside from our wedding rings. instead of buying i started doing small scale processing to get real gold. I am learning from your videos Sir. Thank you! as always stay safe! 😊
Really Precious Man ! ! ! Your teachings are priceless , your videos are superb , viewers are privileged with true knowledge. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I have to admit I was excited with your ebay purchase and then it was a lunchbox let down. I can't put a price on the knowledge I'm gaining from watching your videos. Thank you so much for all the education. I am nowhere near ready to start refining but I'm gaining the knowledge to start. My biggest concern is safety and then it's finding the scrap at the cheapest possible price so that my only expense will be the overhead and the acids. Nitric is so expensive (in the range of $100 PER LITER). I need to find a cheaper source for acids. Thank you for taking the time to shows us all.
Omg. Thank you so much for this video. It's so easy to get screwed over these days. Thank you sir. I appreciate all your time your out into that. Thank you for educating us.
@@sreetips I was already suspicious about the scrap gold, some ppl do sell high yield scrap gold 80 percent yield or more bt I know not common. Obviously the ones on Ebay deserve more scrutiny.
All I know is I'm very thankful for guys like you to look out for the rest of us that are learning and developing our skills can't believe the capacity of some people nowadays and what they try to get away with thank you for your research and good looking out brother
Hello Sreetips, very amusing clip, thanks for that.The best gold yield is from the ground,only elbow grease expended,and I am sure it's around 90% fine,regards George
Bummer, I thought there was going to be a lot more then that in those bars. I remember you showing these bars in a previous video and I was so anxious for you to make this video. Oh well... thank you for doing this experiment, at least now we all know what to expect if we decide to buy these bars.
I was just looking at these bars and contemplating buying a few then I decided to search for some videos on it. Saved me some money, frustration and chemicals. Thanks sreetips.
Great video. Your whole video collection is excellent. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise! I wish I had watched this video before buying 250g of that stuff. It just disappeared completely in nitric acid (lots of acid and many hours). Beautiful blue solution with some white residue (titanium?). Looking at the low price and their free shipping to New Zealand, I didn't expect much gold. But I did hope to get a gram or two. After all, they call it "scrap gold bar for gold recovery". There were a few milligrams of gold particles mixed with that white residue. Very difficult to filter. I ran a fraction of the filtrate through a 0.45 micron filter. I though perhaps the gold is suspended in very fine particles. The filter turned slightly yellow, but it can't have been more than a few micrograms. There wasn't any silver either. They do have a disclaimer "it is not solid gold". But it certainly isn't fit "for gold recovery" either. Isn't that a scam?? You can only use it to impress or fool your friends.
The white residue is likely tin. These bars are probably melted plumbing fittings, and the plumbing solder contains tin. Tin reacts with nitric acid to produce a white sediment that is insoluble in nitric, water, nor pretty much anything else. The yellow on your filter was likely traces of iron that were in the fittings or ingot mold.
Thanks for this video! I was looking at those same kind of bars last night on ebay do try this same thing. You saved me some money and time. Thank you sir!
I've been considering this for a while. So a quick search for videos brought me to yours. I figured there wasn't a LOT of gold in them, but I expected SOME. I'd be annoyed if I PAID for those bars, spent $20 on gas and $100 on Nitric Acid to melt a brass coated lump of iron. Thanks to you I'll steer clear of these! Cheers.
I was thinking the same thing. Wonder if he had already judged that it probably had very little silver in it and it wouldn't be worth it. But damn, what a waste of HNO3! It's getting costly to come by nitric acid these days.
I'm a beginner at buying gold and silver and I saw that on eBay and was curious and I'm glad I came across your video. Very informative very interesting it was great content.
Thanks for this video and thanks to the person who provided the material to attempt to refine. Too bad there isn't a way to warn potential scam victims. And eBay policy let's scammers do this BS. Thanks for the always accurate scientific method approach of all your refining. With your no nonsense just straight facts proven by experimentation process of showing others how to do this, I have gained much knowledge that I don't have to question further. It is very much appreciated. Thanks for your awesome videos.
you sir, are pretty much the goto channel when it comes to smallscale refining, i will be setting up a small ventilation cabinet soon and trying out your household chemical variant! thank you for the inspiration and also many thanks for debunking this ebay scam!
Given the very low (essentially nil) concentration of gold and the fact that it went to basicly a colloidial suspension due to the fineness of the particles, would it be beneficial to remelt and create new shot when say 20% of the original weight is remaining? then maybe again when down to 5%.?
Just an idea, but have you thought aboit doing the reactions with nitric acid in them in a flat bottom flask with a distillation setup on them to recapture and distill the reaction gasses and refill your nitric acid bottles?
Freaken love your videos. You are like the Walter White of gold refining. You would have to use about 5000ml of Nitric to remove the base metals from that garbage, I bet Nitric acid is not cheap.
Man I am finally glad I found this video in your inventory. This answers my question about the refining process that I ask you from the other video. Too bad I didn’t find your channel before I bought my stuff from eBay. I’m going to guess your findings will be very similar across-the-board. You areToo bad I didn’t find your channel before I bought my stuff from eBay. I’m going to guess you’re findings will be very similar across-the-board. You are very knowledgeable and put out excellent video. Keep up the good work.
Hmmm I wonder if it depends on what parts some of these bars on ebay claim to be melted down specifically from the pins which i have seen you successfully melt down before. Im curious did you melt all of those bars or just the small amount shown in the beginning
@sreetips Clearly. You've inspired me to do my first attempts with refining so I really appreciate your content especially on your cell videos. Watching them is gold all on its own.
I think he used about $20 worth of nitric to dissolve the bars plus a lot of time! I checked those eBay "melt drop" listings sometime ago and passed. I purchased some silver grain listed as, "Sterling Silver" casting grain 8 years ago from an eBay seller. I processed it and it was not %92.5 silver. It was %80 silver.
ALWAYS be careful, this is why I approve of hallmarking. Not a publicity statement, but all my silver and gold are hallmarked 999 by the Edinburgh assay office
The reaction tells me those bars are aluminum bronze made from refiner waste by cementing out copper from acid with aluminum and then smelting. The small amount you found was because the copper aluminum mess was thrown in The crucible wet. Good work love your videos
Thanks for sharing. You and your wife remind me of my Late Uncle Glen and Aunt Jill. I love the refinery concept it is amazing. I have all of the chemicals my self to refine gold. Nitric Acid was hard to come by over here and very expensive. 500 ml for almost $100.00 usd. I found an excellent person on eBay that sells gold bars and it is real gold. (If the CPU's are gold then the CPU gold bars made from them are gold too its that simple) But lets not forget All the Gold and Silver is mine saythe the Lord.
cool very decent info tho too bad 500ml of nitric get wasted tho we all learn somethings thanks for your time you put into making those vids sir and have a good one👍👍👍😀👍👍👍
Sir you have no idea how thanful i am you made this video. I have about the same amount of gold bars you did but i have no idea how to perform the whole refining process. Now I know not to even bother, ill just hand them out to the kids to play treasure hunt games or something. You saved me a whole mess of time. Here I thought I had something big but nope.😂😂
Judging by all the reactions and your findings you got a lot of Nordic Gold. 89% copper, 5% aluminium, 5% zinc, 1% tin. Has gold in the name as it was and still in use with Euro currency but is just a copper alloy mix that gives it the appearance of Gold
BigstackD has made a lot of Nordic Gold videos to where anyone can identify it. Plus, the way those bars rang out when clanked together said 'not gold'.
Thanks Sreetips for this video. Its Amazing what people do for some bucks. A true scrapper never buys drop melted metals, just because, some people take their chances to cheat others.
"What that tells me is...." ... I need to start selling gold recovered from computers... on ebay! There is a sucker born every minute! Glad you got that stuff for free!
@@sreetips Hmm. I just found this video in your past video playlists, the day AFTER I bought a $49 380gram bar from israel... Ah well, I'll be able to play around and have fun. What I REALLY started watching gold recovery for is crushed quartz hardrock and black sands pan concentrate chemical refining of gold. Theres gold in the streams around me, but not enough to pan well... I got distracted with all those pretty bars or carat scrap refinery and shiny beads of car cat platinum. Something to play with and practice on at least. I'll just have to dial it down from recovering a little gold to recovering copper :D
There was a tiny bit of gold that formed a light dusting on the bottom of the beaker the next morning - not enough to get a weight and calculate a yield though
@@sreetips well I had expected to get Maybe $5 from my investment of $50, it was the experience and experiment more than anything. I guess I just have to roll that back from $5 out of $50 to 5c out of $50. No counting chemical consumption.
Thank you for doing this yield...youve saved a lot of us frim getting ripped off trying to get the gold oit of those scrap metal bars...i figured it was too good to be true...
hello Sreetips, do these bars also depend on what type of computer pins and other mixed alloys are cast into bars? i bought 1959 g a few years back but never get the time to do it. i rather save my nitrite acid for the real nuggets. thanks for your time and insight. bob
I don't understand the processes, so it's very helpful when you do the voiceover explanations in your video. It's also appreciated that you speed up some of the processes in order to keep the videos at a manageable length. Thanks for the vids and I hope that you pass 70K subs soon.
good thing i watch this computer gold bars. i can concentrate on the other 10, 14, 18K items and the nuggets. by the way could you do a video on refining the nuggets that are encased in quartz n other materials? thanks, you have been a great inspirational in my need.
You are the world's leading authority on small scale refining and your dedication to educating in that area is beyond measure. Your willingness to demonstrate processes like this and prove that they aren't worth the trouble has likely prevented untold numbers of less than well informed individuals from rushing into action and hurting themselves or others or the environment. You deserve an award, I think one of the George H W Bush "Thousand Points Of Light" would be fitting, I wonder if there's any of those left?
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Good job with comment lol
It sure helped me. All these guys making videos collecting tons of computer pins think they'll are striking it rich, when its really just costing them more money than its worth. I had about the same amount of bars this guy had and here I'm thinking i struck it huge. I watched this and my stomach dropped. I'm just going to give them away now.
I came to see a video because I was thinking of buying some bars and found your wonderfully clear video. I am so very glad! Thank you! You preform a great service! Thank you also to Chris who donated the bars!
I would imagine that if they are able to process all those computer metals, they’d be able to process all the gold out before they send you an ingot of a gold colored alloy.
Thank you for doing this and making the video Kevin, great eye-opener! Chris in MA.
Thank you for putting up the metal so I could make the video.
Thank you both. These videos are worth more than the time it takes to watch them. So I watch some multiple times. You're the Micheal Jordan of RUclips garage-lab refinery. I could watch gold turn to powder all day, Alchemist.
Your results are exactly what I expected. I feel bad for the people that are stacking these up thinking that they are getting a good deal on recoverable Gold...Ebay scammers suck.
If Someone buys an ounce of 24k gold for $15 its obviously a scam and thier idiots for purchasing. ✌
@@woonsockettruthseeker9009 ur an idiot bc its not worth anything until its extracted.... L comment
@@woonsockettruthseeker9009 That is not what is happening. What the venders are saying these are (which, at least in this case, is clearly not what is happening) is that this is bars made of melted gold foil pins from e-waste. The people stacking up these bars know that they aren't pure gold, they are thinking they are like 1% gold that they will have to put a lot of time into extracting, but if they can spend $35 on 300 grams of this and get even a gram of gold (currently $65 per gram) it would be worth it. Only the scammers are stright up lying about what the bars are made of.
As long as there are dumb people, there will be scammers preying on them. Everywhere! This is just one of the more obvious examples. Apple users are the same, but they are so naive still thinking they were the ones getting the better end of it. ;)
@@woonsockettruthseeker9009that is not what is happening. Stop being a moron
Good job saved many people from buying fake gold bar great job sir
Unfortunately not everyone 🤦♂️ does it have any metal in it worth anything?
It had traces of gold, less than a tenth of a gram - they are a ripoff.
@@sreetips I could hear the dissapointment in your voice,early on, in the vid.You removed the smoke,+ so that we can see the mirrors.THANX.
@@sreetips was there any repercussions for the sell that scammed you?
I guess the people who donated them
Thanks for this video brother. I almost bought some of these to test out my self. Sooooooo glad I didn’t. You are the man. 💪👍🏻keep up the great content, it’s very much appreciated
Your videos are so prolific in teaching us about how to tread in the realm of dealing with gold and how to not get bamboozled. This was a great video.
Dude! You are not just a metal refiner you are also a philanthropist! Because this information is that valuable. I really appreciate it! Thank you again.
All the profits go over to Israel so with everything going on over there ATM there literally scamming just so they get the support it's a joke
Another very informative and precise video. I think the 2 "Unlikes" that are on the video are from the shysters trying to sell these melt bars...
You inspired me to start my own at-home, small scale refinery last winter. I spent hours and hours to get my first gram of gold from gold-filled jewelry, but then it got stuck in my melting dish due to an improper borax glazing or lack of heat. I'm excited to try again this winter and just wanted to say thank you for all your education videos. I've watched them for hours and hours to troubleshoot my process and learn what to do.
You spent hours and hours, to get like $60 in gold? Minus whatever material you used? Ouch.
WOW, really appreciate you doing this for all of us to learn and not get ripped off. Thank you!
I think if you process them in a copper sulfate cell at 1-1.5 volts you will have a cheaper method of collecting the copper in those bars. Then the residue ( a bit of Cu, Zn, Ni, Fe, Pb) is easier to dissolve. You then can use H2SO4 or HCl to remove the remainder of the contaminates. Kind of electrowinning the pure copper that you can throw into your waste bucket. I have a Buck converter that takes 5 volts from my computer power supply and drops it to 1 volt. Works well.
The big issue you had was brute forcing the dissolution of the major components with Nitric acid. Like you proved to us in the video where you added too much silver, the gold was very finely divided. Some may even passed through the filter paper.
All in all an excellent demonstration. Thank you!
I got one, had it tested it came back "unknown, likely brass."
I sent it back for a refund and reported my findings on the review.
I lost $15, for potage and curiosity 8/.
So, it's brass with a gold impurity.
Gotcha.
Thanx for the experiment Pete! :D
I'm not supprised that something like ebay scrap gold has been melted with lower value metals or even have no gold in it.
I guessed the expectation of very low gold amount the time he started dissolving it in nitric without adding no more metals in it.
Yep. Otherwise you might think they're scamming you. There has to be SOME gold in it. It reminds me of the buckets of dirt people are buying online with guaranteed gold in them. You're never going to get more than the amount of gold they put in it purposefully.
Technically, if it's mostly copper with tin in it, it's bronze.
Unfortunately, these bars are still being sold on Ebay almost 5 years later. I seen some on Ebay and thought to myself that something about them didn't seem right. Mainly the price. Glad your video is still up.
Solid snake oil, gotta give it to them sellers they are making money of scrap recovery by processing the precious metals themselves and selling the dregs to others ingenious (ofc its disingenuous).
You'll notice they're almost exclusively from 1srael, the same people have multiple accounts with feedback under 1k, and they all have 100% positive feedback scores. Do they have 100% happy customers? Is this more likely some kind of money laundering operation?
they do it with the cat converters
Thanks for doing this. I always had these recommended on eBay and I was wondering what they were really like.
You are awesome! Wow! Extremely professional and thorough.
This is the reason why i study metal refining and recovery. I usually doubt those gold looking for sale to be gold. I never bought any gold yet aside from our wedding rings. instead of buying i started doing small scale processing to get real gold. I am learning from your videos Sir. Thank you! as always stay safe! 😊
I've been watching you a long time and you are certainly knowledge and I like how you show the whole process in your video's with nothing hidden.
Really Precious Man ! ! ! Your teachings are priceless , your videos are superb , viewers are privileged with true knowledge. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I have to admit I was excited with your ebay purchase and then it was a lunchbox let down. I can't put a price on the knowledge I'm gaining from watching your videos. Thank you so much for all the education. I am nowhere near ready to start refining but I'm gaining the knowledge to start. My biggest concern is safety and then it's finding the scrap at the cheapest possible price so that my only expense will be the overhead and the acids. Nitric is so expensive (in the range of $100 PER LITER). I need to find a cheaper source for acids. Thank you for taking the time to shows us all.
I am really enjoying these videos. They are starting to become a highlight to my day whenever I get a notification.
Omg. Thank you so much for this video. It's so easy to get screwed over these days. Thank you sir. I appreciate all your time your out into that. Thank you for educating us.
This is so important for ppl to know and il be sharing this video all over the net 🤗
This guys are making a fortune off people’s misunderstanding.
@@sreetips I was already suspicious about the scrap gold, some ppl do sell high yield scrap gold 80 percent yield or more bt I know not common. Obviously the ones on Ebay deserve more scrutiny.
Great job Sreetips, thanks for all the great info.
All I know is I'm very thankful for guys like you to look out for the rest of us that are learning and developing our skills can't believe the capacity of some people nowadays and what they try to get away with thank you for your research and good looking out brother
Hello Sreetips, very amusing clip, thanks for that.The best gold yield is from the ground,only elbow grease expended,and I am sure it's around 90% fine,regards George
Thanks for your video, it changed my mind on purchasing any of it on EBay.
Bummer, I thought there was going to be a lot more then that in those bars. I remember you showing these bars in a previous video and I was so anxious for you to make this video. Oh well... thank you for doing this experiment, at least now we all know what to expect if we decide to buy these bars.
I was just looking at these bars and contemplating buying a few then I decided to search for some videos on it. Saved me some money, frustration and chemicals. Thanks sreetips.
Thank you, it's the reason I made the video.
This is EXACTLY why I love watching your videos. Not only did you save me$200.00 but you showed me what to expect. 🍻
For some reason, I kept seeing your comments dancing in my head while I was making this video!
sreetips that’s pretty cool. As a fan, I’m really flattered
I really like how you went all the way through the reactions.
Great video. Your whole video collection is excellent. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise!
I wish I had watched this video before buying 250g of that stuff. It just disappeared completely in nitric acid (lots of acid and many hours). Beautiful blue solution with some white residue (titanium?). Looking at the low price and their free shipping to New Zealand, I didn't expect much gold. But I did hope to get a gram or two. After all, they call it "scrap gold bar for gold recovery". There were a few milligrams of gold particles mixed with that white residue. Very difficult to filter. I ran a fraction of the filtrate through a 0.45 micron filter. I though perhaps the gold is suspended in very fine particles. The filter turned slightly yellow, but it can't have been more than a few micrograms. There wasn't any silver either.
They do have a disclaimer "it is not solid gold". But it certainly isn't fit "for gold recovery" either. Isn't that a scam?? You can only use it to impress or fool your friends.
The white residue is likely tin. These bars are probably melted plumbing fittings, and the plumbing solder contains tin. Tin reacts with nitric acid to produce a white sediment that is insoluble in nitric, water, nor pretty much anything else. The yellow on your filter was likely traces of iron that were in the fittings or ingot mold.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. You just saved me a bunch of money!
Thanks for a great video .... Saves us a lot of time .
15:23 gold bar 🤣 Good job man! 😁
Thank you for saving us beginners a whole lot of money and gold dreams
Wow awesome video, I was totally considering buying those bars.
WOW! Thanks I almost bought one of those!!
Thanks for this video! I was looking at those same kind of bars last night on ebay do try this same thing. You saved me some money and time. Thank you sir!
Excellent, they’re a ripoff.
You just save so many people so much money man you're like a hero.
thank you for being honest and preventing others from making a mistake
Id wondered about those also, thanks for clearing that up
Nice thorough testing. Subscribed.
I've been considering this for a while. So a quick search for videos brought me to yours.
I figured there wasn't a LOT of gold in them, but I expected SOME.
I'd be annoyed if I PAID for those bars, spent $20 on gas and $100 on Nitric Acid to melt a brass coated lump of iron.
Thanks to you I'll steer clear of these! Cheers.
Wise decision
@@sreetips Subbing too! Looks like a handy channel for me 😊
This was great I new these were a scam I feel bad for the guy that paid over a hundred in the ebay sold list
Brilliant video streetips. It would be good to chuck some copper in your waste ts see if you get any silver cementing out.
I was thinking the same thing. Wonder if he had already judged that it probably had very little silver in it and it wouldn't be worth it. But damn, what a waste of HNO3! It's getting costly to come by nitric acid these days.
Man, Thanks A Ton For this Video!! You just saved me alot of time, effort, and money!!
Sorry for your loss, but thanks for letting us know. :)
Hello sir,
Thank you for this great video. Before this video, many of us think that these pieces contain gold. Thanks again.
This was almost sad to watch. Oh well, good job!
Just think of the guy who paid $179 for 1700 grams of this junk.
I've been watching your videos for a while now and have not been disappointed yet
Thanks for sharing this very important work it's good to know what to look for
Great job you saved me a lot of time
Keep the good work up thumps up
I'm a beginner at buying gold and silver and I saw that on eBay and was curious and I'm glad I came across your video. Very informative very interesting it was great content.
Welcome!
I for days was contemplating on buy a few of them bars. Not now!!! Thank you for saving me money, time, and whole lot of aggravation.
I made this video specifically for people like you. The sellers of these bars are ripping people off.
Thanks for this video and thanks to the person who provided the material to attempt to refine. Too bad there isn't a way to warn potential scam victims. And eBay policy let's scammers do this BS.
Thanks for the always accurate scientific method approach of all your refining. With your no nonsense just straight facts proven by experimentation process of showing others how to do this, I have gained much knowledge that I don't have to question further. It is very much appreciated. Thanks for your awesome videos.
They already look like some cool gold bars as they are,never seen these before,very cool.
you sir, are pretty much the goto channel when it comes to smallscale refining, i will be setting up a small ventilation cabinet soon and trying out your household chemical variant! thank you for the inspiration and also many thanks for debunking this ebay scam!
I was looking at those on ebay too so thank you for the enlightenment
Rip off
Given the very low (essentially nil) concentration of gold and the fact that it went to basicly a colloidial suspension due to the fineness of the particles, would it be beneficial to remelt and create new shot when say 20% of the original weight is remaining? then maybe again when down to 5%.?
I always had a gut feeling those computer pin bars where junk. Haha glad to know !
Just an idea, but have you thought aboit doing the reactions with nitric acid in them in a flat bottom flask with a distillation setup on them to recapture and distill the reaction gasses and refill your nitric acid bottles?
Freaken love your videos. You are like the Walter White of gold refining. You would have to use about 5000ml of Nitric to remove the base metals from that garbage, I bet Nitric acid is not cheap.
Man I am finally glad I found this video in your inventory. This answers my question about the refining process that I ask you from the other video.
Too bad I didn’t find your channel before I bought my stuff from eBay.
I’m going to guess your findings will be very similar across-the-board.
You areToo bad I didn’t find your channel before I bought my stuff from eBay.
I’m going to guess you’re findings will be very similar across-the-board.
You are very knowledgeable and put out excellent video. Keep up the good work.
Hmmm I wonder if it depends on what parts some of these bars on ebay claim to be melted down specifically from the pins which i have seen you successfully melt down before. Im curious did you melt all of those bars or just the small amount shown in the beginning
Thank you so much for doing this video sir!!!
Thank you. I really appreciate this video. I was considering doing this until I stumbled upon this video. You are an amazing teacher. Thank you again.
They are a rip off
@sreetips Clearly. You've inspired me to do my first attempts with refining so I really appreciate your content especially on your cell videos. Watching them is gold all on its own.
I think he used about $20 worth of nitric to dissolve the bars plus a lot of time! I checked those eBay "melt drop" listings sometime ago and passed. I purchased some silver grain listed as, "Sterling Silver" casting grain 8 years ago from an eBay seller. I processed it and it was not %92.5 silver. It was %80 silver.
ALWAYS be careful, this is why I approve of hallmarking. Not a publicity statement, but all my silver and gold are hallmarked 999 by the Edinburgh assay office
You've saved me money! thank you.
Very interesting!
There must gold. It's yellow! LoL
This is criminally underviewed.
Love your work thanks
Thank you for posting this!! I was wondering how much gold those scrap bars on eBay had and I’m glad I didn’t purchase any.
Wise decision.
Thanks for making this
You are the gold search GOD, very well done.
The reaction tells me those bars are aluminum bronze made from refiner waste by cementing out copper from acid with aluminum and then smelting. The small amount you found was because the copper aluminum mess was thrown in The crucible wet. Good work love your videos
Would cupelling the gold remove a lot of base metals?
Thanks for sharing. You and your wife remind me of my Late Uncle Glen and Aunt Jill. I love the refinery concept it is amazing. I have all of the chemicals my self to refine gold. Nitric Acid was hard to come by over here and very expensive. 500 ml for almost $100.00 usd. I found an excellent person on eBay that sells gold bars and it is real gold. (If the CPU's are gold then the CPU gold bars made from them are gold too its that simple) But lets not forget All the Gold and Silver is mine saythe the Lord.
cool very decent info tho too bad 500ml of nitric get wasted tho we all learn somethings thanks for your time you put into making those vids sir and have a good one👍👍👍😀👍👍👍
Thank you man seriously
Sir you have no idea how thanful i am you made this video. I have about the same amount of gold bars you did but i have no idea how to perform the whole refining process. Now I know not to even bother, ill just hand them out to the kids to play treasure hunt games or something. You saved me a whole mess of time. Here I thought I had something big but nope.😂😂
Excellent, thank you
Wow you can really hear the difference in the sound of the metal clanking together versus something that contains gold or platinum
From what I was taught, gold in computer components is layered at an atomic level and only in certain parts at certain points.
Judging by all the reactions and your findings you got a lot of Nordic Gold. 89% copper, 5% aluminium, 5% zinc, 1% tin. Has gold in the name as it was and still in use with Euro currency but is just a copper alloy mix that gives it the appearance of Gold
This was my first thought. Either Nordic Gold or some aluminum/bronze alloy.
That's exactly what it is
That is exactly what I was thinking also.
BigstackD has made a lot of Nordic Gold videos to where anyone can identify it. Plus, the way those bars rang out when clanked together said 'not gold'.
Thanks Sreetips for this video. Its Amazing what people do for some bucks. A true scrapper never buys drop melted metals, just because, some people take their chances to cheat others.
"What that tells me is...." ... I need to start selling gold recovered from computers... on ebay!
There is a sucker born every minute! Glad you got that stuff for free!
At least folks have a place to look BEFORE going out and spending their hard-earned money on this worthless scrap.
@@sreetips Hmm. I just found this video in your past video playlists, the day AFTER I bought a $49 380gram bar from israel...
Ah well, I'll be able to play around and have fun. What I REALLY started watching gold recovery for is crushed quartz hardrock and black sands pan concentrate chemical refining of gold. Theres gold in the streams around me, but not enough to pan well... I got distracted with all those pretty bars or carat scrap refinery and shiny beads of car cat platinum.
Something to play with and practice on at least. I'll just have to dial it down from recovering a little gold to recovering copper :D
There was a tiny bit of gold that formed a light dusting on the bottom of the beaker the next morning - not enough to get a weight and calculate a yield though
@@sreetips well I had expected to get Maybe $5 from my investment of $50, it was the experience and experiment more than anything. I guess I just have to roll that back from $5 out of $50 to 5c out of $50. No counting chemical consumption.
Thank you just saved me some money there 🙏
Thank you for doing this yield...youve saved a lot of us frim getting ripped off trying to get the gold oit of those scrap metal bars...i figured it was too good to be true...
You’re welcome!
hello Sreetips, do these bars also depend on what type of computer pins and other mixed alloys are cast into bars? i bought 1959 g a few years back but never get the time to do it. i rather save my nitrite acid for the real nuggets. thanks for your time and insight. bob
Bob, they are a complete rip off. The amount of gold, if any, is minuscule.
You look like superman hahaa thankyou so much mate great work and demonstration wish you all the very best thankyou for your generosity and time
thank you for doing the video I was going to push they buy it now button till I thought I better have a look at gold recovering video and found yours
You are exactly why I made this video. So people don’t spent thirty bucks for $0.50 worth of metal. Bravo!
Well you just saved me some money thank you.
Great Vlog man I really hope many see this Vlog so they don't think there's cash to be made in them melt drop bars as there is NOT
I don't understand the processes, so it's very helpful when you do the voiceover explanations in your video. It's also appreciated that you speed up some of the processes in order to keep the videos at a manageable length. Thanks for the vids and I hope that you pass 70K subs soon.
Thank you for educating us...
good thing i watch this computer gold bars. i can concentrate on the other 10, 14, 18K items and the nuggets. by the way could you do a video on refining the nuggets that are encased in quartz n other materials? thanks, you have been a great inspirational in my need.
Thank you for saving my money !