Yeah, that's a hazard I think all of us who are following as well as duplicating these activities run into. Cutting boards, Corningware, glass dishes.... It's much easier to ask for forgiveness, than for permission! All's forgiven, when you say, "Yeah. I took it. Here's 10 ounces,Troy of 99.9 Gold for your troubles"!
My daily routine now is "SREETIPS TUTORIALS"! I was never much for watching a "Series". SREETIPS; however, is an exception to this rule. I am addicted! Love everything he puts up! The Man is a True Saint! Wade
What I find truly exceptional, is that, I was never totally immersed in Chemistry, at University. Now, because of SREETIPS, Chemistry, or rather, Alchemy is on my mind 24/7. He literally, has changed my life. My wife, of 42 years, Linda, has joined me and is also having a BLAST! The "Hunt", for raw materials, at Estate Sales and the like, feels like finding buried treasures. The refining processes are a complete adventure! For once, in a very long time, I hate going to bed at night and wake up rearing to go! All because I stumbled across a SREETIPS video several months ago. I know that I sound completely hokey; but, it's true, I owe the man allot. To be enjoying myself now? That is the greatest treasure I've found! Wade
Finally! That was really needed for your current production, given the amount of impure silver you have in stock waiting to be processed, and I wouldn't be surprised if you find out you need more cells. Great content as always.
I was thinking of an auto-feed setup for your silver cell. You could find a copper pipe that fits into the filter basket. Then find a way to support it about 1/4"-1/2" above the top of the filter basket, so it doesn't come into contact with the electrolyte. The pipe would be filled with silver shot and it would serve as the positive connection, the current would travel down through the silver shot. As the silver dissolves, more of it would it slowly drop down from the pipe into the basket.
Step by step is good instruction for those who are interested. I reckon you're doing better job than some science/chemistry schoolteachers. Maybe have chemistry students watching
Red handled sheet metal shears are for turning right, green left and yellow handled for cutting straight. Didn't know if you knew that. Great video by the way.
A demonstration of elegance in simplicity. Anyone who hates on this can bugger off. You have once again proven you don't need to get some over priced fancy pants contrivance just to do one job. It's perfect. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.
I've done some experimental DIY in the past. Seeing how he does it, I bet Sreetips has been trough a lot of iteration, research and trial/error before finding his optimal solution. And he's giving it all up for us to use. Thanks for sharing :) Not everyone thinks about sharing their knowledge instead of keeping it for them and profiting from it. My only remark on this build is that you should consider using XHHW wire instead of solid copper. HXXW will have more flexibility while remaining quite rigid. Also AWG #10 is oversize for the 2.5A that goes through it. #14 will be plenty big enough (good for 15A), more common and less expensive. And no, the color doesn't matter :P
The 10 gauge copper wire cam from a yard sale. It was close to a full spool when I bought it for two bucks five years ago. It’s rigid. This rigidity help apply a down force on the anode bar and keeps the impure silver pushed down and in contact with the electrolyte. It’s the perfect wire (in my opinion, and experience) for my silver cell(s)
Always informative. I appreciate you sharing the knowledge. I've used some of these techniques to process my mining cons and dore' bars separating the silver from the gold and PGMs.
Hello Mrs and Mr screetips. Thank you for this great clip. It seems to me that many..many going to grow silver crystal. God bless you,and all my friends on this canal😊
A simpler way to find the center is to take the chord that you drew (the first line) and mark the center of that line, between the two points of intersection with the circle. Then use your square to draw the perpendicular line from that (flip the square and do it again just in case the square isn't perfectly square). The center of that perpendicular line is exactly the center of the circle. No need to eyeball it or guess.
You have the best explanation for this unique process. Love your videos. Science and chemistry is so cool. I’m glad your posting videos that inspire young children to focus on why they need to pay attention in school. Thank you Sreetips!
That is the most beautiful color I've ever seen in my life it's beautiful on its own but it's magnificent with the silver growth I wouldn't be surprised if it's over a million different shades of blue if one got technical
Sreetips actually did a video (or a series- I don't remember which) where he processed his used anode bags. Go to search and type "Sreetips anode". It should pop up.
Sree, I don’t often comment on videos but I gotta say that I’m probably your biggest fan. If my tv is powered on its playing your videos. I watch you so much that when I go to get myself a drink of water think “ I should be using distilled water because tap water contains chlorine and will precipitate silver chloride.” Also I’ve written SREETIPS in black permanent marker on pretty much everything I own 😂 like my guitar, laptop, dressers. My family thinks it’s weird that a lot of your videos I have memorized word for word. I’m honestly considering getting a tattoo of a gold ingot that reads SREETIPS on RUclips. And no I’m not a creep. Just a sreetips super fan that’s all 😅
Sreetips, I love watching your videos. I really like the chemical reactions and your detailed explanations. Lately there's been a lot of silver cell videos, which I like, but when will you be doing more Gold refining videos?
You can scribe/ score and then bend copper and it will break off after a few back and forth. Also, your jigsaw will cut copper. Third, Wiss makes a straight cutter that works better than the Wiss red handle you were using. Yes that one is for straight but it wanders. The one you really want cuts a channel. It’s great, especially on thicker sheets
Hey Mr Sreetips! You inspired me to build one of these for my very own, the only problem I seem to be coming across is finding a source for the impure silver granules to fill in the anode filter with, silver bullion and silver casting grain are the only options I could seem to find online that I could think would work but cost an arm and a leg for the amount required for a decent yield. Is there anything else I could possibly use? Love the videos and the information you constantly put out!
Great stuff Sreetips! A lot of your costs only partially consumed the amounts that you used (wire, copper sheet, etc.). On the other side, ~600g of silver is ~18 troy oz. ~ $450.00.
If you're cutting plastic with a circular saw, especially brittle plastic, and the cut looks rough you can try turning the saw blade around so the teeth are backwards. We use this trick in construction all the time. Don't forget to put the blade back in the proper orientation when done and remove the battery when changing a blade.
I want to talk about better ways of cutting through the cutting board. Irrelevant! You made an accurate enough hole! More entertaining than other silver cell videos due to the anode bar pour. This is an excellent how-to. I need to start storing some value.
Thanks for the video Sreetips, just in time for my first sizeable bottle of nitric! I made my anode out of lead...and it seems to be creating some problems, do you have any advice for cleaning up? I remember you saying something about sulfuric acid?
@@williamfoote2888 congratulations captain hindsight!! Didn't think about that one. Now how bout using that brain of yours and read the actual question. Asshat
Thank you for a very informative video. I have cemented out silver powder from silvernitrate by using a copper rod. Is i possible to use the powder direct in the basket without melting it to shots ?
Great Video, thank you. Could I use junk silver coins like mercury dimes, as well as junk silver plated jewelry in the anode basket (since I don't have your silver cement)?
Morning Gunny! Thought I'd share this with you. Seems to be noteworthy. Since I contaminated my Silver Cell with TIN, and, didn't have enough Silver shot to make it worthwhile to clean, right away, I started thinking, (usually dangerous). I salvaged some, heavy duty, Stainless Steel screen a while back. I've been "Bubbling" the Stock Pots, (fish tank pump as you suggested), and have gotten some plating on the Copper I placed in them. I saw that moving the Stock Pot solution with air, made a difference. I then was curious to see how moving electrons, through the solution, would affect the plating of precious metals. I used the Stainless Steel screen as a Cathode, cutting it to fit into the Stock Pot, fairly snug at the bottom of the bucket. I then used ¾ inch PVC, with holes drilled into it, to insert a 4 AWG, Copper wire into, as the Anode. I wired it in Parallel, to my DC Benchtop power converter. I pushed 13.5 volts with 4 amps of current. After a day, I was pleasantly surprised, by the plating of metals. Just thought I put it out there. It was an experiment. Thanks for all you do! Wade
Thanks for sharing! Going to be my next future project! Turning 925 scrap to pure silver! One question, I use silver solder in my work would that extra metal burn off in the acid?
Excellent video! Only thing I've ever really wondered about is using pure silver for your anode bar? Would it make a difference, other than the ease of working with it, if you used cement silver for the bar?
Good point. There’s an experiment. Use a cement Ag anode to process your cement Ag shot. It can’t perform any different than using pure Ag. Same thing goes for using cement Ag to make up the electrolyte. Every gram of won pure Ag gets added to the finished Ag stack.
@@williamfoote2888 that would pollute the ectrolyte from the start and throw off the volt/amps right out of the gate. 150 grams per litter of pure silver for the electrolyte I understand, pollution is why it has to be replaced. Running current through copper, then pure silver, to cement silver, to electrolyte is what is throwing me.
@@Sanzus2 No it wouldn't. The pure Ag anode, now, is directly connected to a Cu wire. As pure as the anode might be, if it dissolves over time, which that anode is designed to do, and its letting Cu into the electrolyte. It may or may not be purer than the shot cement Ag that he's pouring into the anode basket to be processed. It'll work the same way, with no difference. The electrolyte doesn't 'need' to be pure, as we see it turn blue and we know S uses the Cu contaminated electrolyte twice anyway. The electrolyte draws the amps and volts that the solution can bear. There is no 'optimal value' for either. With regard to the several metals being used for the connection, it doesn't matter. All are highly conductive. There is no point where the connection will get hot, or otherwise indicate resistance .
Love your channel and all the work you put into it , and thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, My question is can you run bigger size bowls? Also what is you increase your power setting higher then 3volts ? Will it still work or does it effect the silver purity ? Keep up the amazing stuff your doing and for sharing your knowledge Kind regards Sam
Have you tried placing a few pieces of already formed silver crystals into the silver cell when you start a fresh batch? This may form some larger larger crystals by giving the silver a nucleation point.
Hi sreetips. I love your videos. I have been thinking, would you like to write a book on gold and silver refining? Such as how to identify what scrap parts contain gold. What are the processes, and how to get the tools?
I usually get about 1.5 kilos every ten to fifteen days. I refine gold. I use sterling silver in the gold refining process. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Harvest, put it away, and forget about it.
A very informative and entertaining video sir! I have a question. Do you plug your DC power supply into a GFCI protected circuit? Since there is liquid and electricity in close proximity do you feel it is necessary?
And then Mrs. Sreetips comes in. "Have you seen my new cutting board?"
Nah she’s too busy finding scrap for Mr Sreetips to refine!
And Mr.Sreetips says “yes, they’re in that cabinet over there with your 1200 Pyrex dishes”
I would love to build one, but I don’t have a safe enough area in my Condo.
😂😂😂
Yeah, that's a hazard I think all of us who are following as well as duplicating these activities run into. Cutting boards, Corningware, glass dishes.... It's much easier to ask for forgiveness, than for permission! All's forgiven, when you say, "Yeah. I took it. Here's 10 ounces,Troy of 99.9 Gold for your troubles"!
Of all the chemistry you do, I think I love the silver cell more than anything.
The colour in the cell is just beautiful
Finally found a full video on how to build this thing 😍 after binge watching most of his videos!
This is what youtube is all about. I work in mineral processing and gold recovery - this was just fantastic! Great work!!!
I'm not sure why you showed up on my feed but that was fascinating, thank you. I'm about to binge watch some more of your videos.
Totally worth it. Have fun. I've learned a lot from Sreetips. Better than anything I ever learned in school.
They are so cool to watch. It's fascinating what can be done.
My daily routine now is "SREETIPS TUTORIALS"! I was never much for watching a "Series". SREETIPS; however, is an exception to this rule. I am addicted! Love everything he puts up! The Man is a True Saint!
Wade
@@wadebert4458 Yes I've had time to watch about 200 hours worth now. A true Gentleman and Scholar.
What I find truly exceptional, is that, I was never totally immersed in Chemistry, at University. Now, because of SREETIPS, Chemistry, or rather, Alchemy is on my mind 24/7. He literally, has changed my life. My wife, of 42 years, Linda, has joined me and is also having a BLAST!
The "Hunt", for raw materials, at Estate Sales and the like, feels like finding buried treasures. The refining processes are a complete adventure! For once, in a very long time, I hate going to bed at night and wake up rearing to go!
All because I stumbled across a SREETIPS video several months ago. I know that I sound completely hokey; but, it's true, I owe the man allot. To be enjoying myself now? That is the greatest treasure I've found!
Wade
Finally! That was really needed for your current production, given the amount of impure silver you have in stock waiting to be processed, and I wouldn't be surprised if you find out you need more cells. Great content as always.
Thank you for everything! I just finished putting my cell together and it is growing now! : )
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us! 👊😉
Awesome, thank you for sharing this with us ❤️
Holy smokes Sreetips!! What an informative video for us. Thank for very much for sharing this with us.
I was thinking of an auto-feed setup for your silver cell. You could find a copper pipe that fits into the filter basket. Then find a way to support it about 1/4"-1/2" above the top of the filter basket, so it doesn't come into contact with the electrolyte. The pipe would be filled with silver shot and it would serve as the positive connection, the current would travel down through the silver shot. As the silver dissolves, more of it would it slowly drop down from the pipe into the basket.
Step by step is good instruction for those who are interested. I reckon you're doing better job than some science/chemistry schoolteachers. Maybe have chemistry students watching
Love it can't wait to see a double silver harvest....
TIP: Drill two holes in opposite corners for the filter basket hole. The jig saw blade goes into those holes and you can cut the outline easier.
Brilliant to watch you building a new silver cell. It will be nice to have 2 of these running. 👍
Red handled sheet metal shears are for turning right, green left and yellow handled for cutting straight. Didn't know if you knew that. Great video by the way.
I use my reds for straight cuts lol. Plumber not a tin man thou!
@@monkeydrains8285 Not a tin man either, I learned that in 4-H when I was knee hi.
Interesting. Just opposite of navigation lights on a boat which are red for port or left and green for starboard being right.
@@mortonyakimadetectingthepa9015 Heck, I might be wrong then. I do know yellow is straight though.
Same for aircraft
You have made a very good decision to manage with all the impure silver you made from refining gold! Congrats!
This guy's priceless if you're serious about doing this and recovering PM
Been waiting for this since your short video about having all the components!
Nicely done Chief! Keep the videos coming!
This is some great educational work here my friend. I love what I am seeing and makes me want to make one myself.
This is the video I've been waiting for
Me too. I won't get into this knowing the dangers of the chemicals that he uses, but it sure is cool
thank you for your willingness to share your knowledge.
Very well demonstrated and explained, great video as always.
A demonstration of elegance in simplicity.
Anyone who hates on this can bugger off.
You have once again proven you don't need to get some over priced fancy pants contrivance just to do one job. It's perfect. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.
Absolutely love your work, you remind me of professor Julius Sumner Miller, who I used to love watching when I was a young fellow
I've done some experimental DIY in the past. Seeing how he does it, I bet Sreetips has been trough a lot of iteration, research and trial/error before finding his optimal solution. And he's giving it all up for us to use. Thanks for sharing :) Not everyone thinks about sharing their knowledge instead of keeping it for them and profiting from it.
My only remark on this build is that you should consider using XHHW wire instead of solid copper. HXXW will have more flexibility while remaining quite rigid. Also AWG #10 is oversize for the 2.5A that goes through it. #14 will be plenty big enough (good for 15A), more common and less expensive. And no, the color doesn't matter :P
The 10 gauge copper wire cam from a yard sale. It was close to a full spool when I bought it for two bucks five years ago. It’s rigid. This rigidity help apply a down force on the anode bar and keeps the impure silver pushed down and in contact with the electrolyte. It’s the perfect wire (in my opinion, and experience) for my silver cell(s)
@@sreetips Great explanation
one of your best videos to date!
Doing work right now myself too, working on my silver video for my other channel. Thanks for your work
You are the ONLY channel I would ever "JOIN".
Thank you!
Very cool,, those crystals are amazing
Twoo-hoo! Double it up! Very good info to share for those who are serious about the game. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟👍👍🤙
Awesome step by step video Sreetips.
Your videos are great!
Thank you for putting this video together .
Always informative. I appreciate you sharing the knowledge. I've used some of these techniques to process my mining cons and dore' bars separating the silver from the gold and PGMs.
Hello Mrs and Mr screetips.
Thank you for this great clip. It seems to me that many..many going to grow silver crystal. God bless you,and all my friends on this canal😊
Thanks Arne
You and your wife do the hard work.....your members enjoy this great canal Mr screetips 😊
On more thing sir.....A big thanks to both of you🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
A simpler way to find the center is to take the chord that you drew (the first line) and mark the center of that line, between the two points of intersection with the circle. Then use your square to draw the perpendicular line from that (flip the square and do it again just in case the square isn't perfectly square). The center of that perpendicular line is exactly the center of the circle. No need to eyeball it or guess.
Thank you sir now we have a great list so when we set one up for are selves this was a very informative video thank you for sharing this six stars
Hello all. Love this channel!
You have the best explanation for this unique process. Love your videos. Science and chemistry is so cool. I’m glad your posting videos that inspire young children to focus on why they need to pay attention in school. Thank you Sreetips!
That is the most beautiful color I've ever seen in my life it's beautiful on its own but it's magnificent with the silver growth I wouldn't be surprised if it's over a million different shades of blue if one got technical
Just sent a text
This is so cool 👏
Another great creation by sreetips 👍 kudos 👏
Thanks for explaining this setup in detail! Cutting the copper would be much easier using a coping saw with a metal blade!
Man! That clip board has some, Sirius lockjaw going on there, hummmm.. fine work, but you all ready know that.
My wife laughed and laughed at the clip board rust and the thrift store sticker on the cutting board.
Would love to see the slimes processed out of the old anode bags
Sreetips actually did a video (or a series- I don't remember which) where he processed his used anode bags. Go to search and type "Sreetips anode". It should pop up.
It’s coming soon
awesome info, thanks Sreetips!!
thank you for making this :)
Excellent video
Gooood morning from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great day!
Goooood morning!
Goooood morning David and Mr screetips 😊
Have a nice day both of you.
You could use the handle opening for the sight “window” also.
Sree, I don’t often comment on videos but I gotta say that I’m probably your biggest fan. If my tv is powered on its playing your videos. I watch you so much that when I go to get myself a drink of water think “ I should be using distilled water because tap water contains chlorine and will precipitate silver chloride.” Also I’ve written SREETIPS in black permanent marker on pretty much everything I own 😂 like my guitar, laptop, dressers. My family thinks it’s weird that a lot of your videos I have memorized word for word. I’m honestly considering getting a tattoo of a gold ingot that reads SREETIPS on RUclips. And no I’m not a creep. Just a sreetips super fan that’s all 😅
Cool Beans! What about adding a glass rod to your list?
Haha good catch!
Thank you sir!
Sreetips, I love watching your videos. I really like the chemical reactions and your detailed explanations. Lately there's been a lot of silver cell videos, which I like, but when will you be doing more Gold refining videos?
Soon!
@@sreetipssir have you tried to convert silver to gold?
@@user-ht9gt4rs3r no, I’ve never tried converting silver to gold. As far as I know, it can’t be done.
I see that steady hand that used to fill out shipboard logs. You cannot take the Navy out of the man...
You can scribe/ score and then bend copper and it will break off after a few back and forth. Also, your jigsaw will cut copper. Third, Wiss makes a straight cutter that works better than the Wiss red handle you were using. Yes that one is for straight but it wanders. The one you really want cuts a channel. It’s great, especially on thicker sheets
Like a nibbles. I need to get one.
Awsome man
Sreetips is helping me kick my “news” addiction.
thats exactly how I ended up here Maximus.. You got a 9 month drop on me you, did you give this a try?
@@davesmith9684 I’m playing the Eco-gold at the moment. I eventually would like to use ion exchange resins but I do want to build one of these cells
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Very, very Good. I enjoyed that. Thank you. ;^)
Superb as always! Are you planning on any shirts videos of the progress? Perhaps every few days?
Hey Mr Sreetips! You inspired me to build one of these for my very own, the only problem I seem to be coming across is finding a source for the impure silver granules to fill in the anode filter with, silver bullion and silver casting grain are the only options I could seem to find online that I could think would work but cost an arm and a leg for the amount required for a decent yield. Is there anything else I could possibly use? Love the videos and the information you constantly put out!
I buy sterling silver at estate sales. I use it to refine gold, then I recover it and run it through my silver cell.
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME
Hey Sreetips do you have to use a brass bolt/wingnut to connect the power to the bowl? Won't regular steel work?
Yes
First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing
Great stuff Sreetips! A lot of your costs only partially consumed the amounts that you used (wire, copper sheet, etc.). On the other side, ~600g of silver is ~18 troy oz. ~ $450.00.
But he already has it, so it's costing him nothing.
Great stuff as usual my friend.. How much cement silver is it going to take to feed both of them with snotlet's?
It should go through fairly quickly. I’ll have to melt some more shot very soon.
Very good video
238k members🎉Spread the good news.....😊
King of Cathodes.
If you're cutting plastic with a circular saw, especially brittle plastic, and the cut looks rough you can try turning the saw blade around so the teeth are backwards.
We use this trick in construction all the time. Don't forget to put the blade back in the proper orientation when done and remove the battery when changing a blade.
Thank you sir
I want to talk about better ways of cutting through the cutting board. Irrelevant! You made an accurate enough hole! More entertaining than other silver cell videos due to the anode bar pour. This is an excellent how-to. I need to start storing some value.
very good
Also idk if you already do, but you should sell some impure silver shot by weight as well.
Thanks for the video Sreetips, just in time for my first sizeable bottle of nitric!
I made my anode out of lead...and it seems to be creating some problems, do you have any advice for cleaning up?
I remember you saying something about sulfuric acid?
Advice? Don’t use lead.
Why would you use lead? Besides giving all kinds of problems, it is also toxic.
@@williamfoote2888 congratulations captain hindsight!! Didn't think about that one.
Now how bout using that brain of yours and read the actual question. Asshat
Thank you for a very informative video. I have cemented out silver powder from silvernitrate by using a copper rod. Is i possible to use the powder direct in the basket without melting it to shots ?
I tried once. The filter clogged and current flow dropped off rapidly.
@@sreetips Makes sense. The cemented silver is a partly very fine powder. Thank you for the reply.
I'm learning 😌
Great Video, thank you. Could I use junk silver coins like mercury dimes, as well as junk silver plated jewelry in the anode basket (since I don't have your silver cement)?
Interesting you say Mercury coins are junk. I suspect nobody is going to want to see those in the future.
No to both. The electrolyte would get contaminated very quickly.
@@sreetips Glad you answered that. I wondered if it could be done myself.
Morning Gunny!
Thought I'd share this with you. Seems to be noteworthy. Since I contaminated my Silver Cell with TIN, and, didn't have enough Silver shot to make it worthwhile to clean, right away, I started thinking, (usually dangerous).
I salvaged some, heavy duty, Stainless Steel screen a while back. I've been "Bubbling" the Stock Pots, (fish tank pump as you suggested), and have gotten some plating on the Copper I placed in them.
I saw that moving the Stock Pot solution with air, made a difference. I then was curious to see how moving electrons, through the solution, would affect the plating of precious metals.
I used the Stainless Steel screen as a Cathode, cutting it to fit into the Stock Pot, fairly snug at the bottom of the bucket. I then used ¾ inch PVC, with holes drilled into it, to insert a 4 AWG, Copper wire into, as the Anode.
I wired it in Parallel, to my DC Benchtop power converter. I pushed 13.5 volts with 4 amps of current. After a day, I was pleasantly surprised, by the plating of metals. Just thought I put it out there. It was an experiment.
Thanks for all you do!
Wade
Nice!
Thanks for sharing! Going to be my next future project! Turning 925 scrap to pure silver! One question, I use silver solder in my work would that extra metal burn off in the acid?
The acid won’t burn it off. The acid will dissolve the metals if they are soluble in nitric acid.
Excellent video! Only thing I've ever really wondered about is using pure silver for your anode bar? Would it make a difference, other than the ease of working with it, if you used cement silver for the bar?
Good point. There’s an experiment. Use a cement Ag anode to process your cement Ag shot.
It can’t perform any different than using pure Ag.
Same thing goes for using cement Ag to make up the electrolyte.
Every gram of won pure Ag gets added to the finished Ag stack.
@@williamfoote2888 that would pollute the ectrolyte from the start and throw off the volt/amps right out of the gate. 150 grams per litter of pure silver for the electrolyte I understand, pollution is why it has to be replaced. Running current through copper, then pure silver, to cement silver, to electrolyte is what is throwing me.
@@Sanzus2 No it wouldn't. The pure Ag anode, now, is directly connected to a Cu wire. As pure as the anode might be, if it dissolves over time, which that anode is designed to do, and its letting Cu into the electrolyte.
It may or may not be purer than the shot cement Ag that he's pouring into the anode basket to be processed. It'll work the same way, with no difference.
The electrolyte doesn't 'need' to be pure, as we see it turn blue and we know S uses the Cu contaminated electrolyte twice anyway.
The electrolyte draws the amps and volts that the solution can bear. There is no 'optimal value' for either.
With regard to the several metals being used for the connection, it doesn't matter. All are highly conductive. There is no point where the connection will get hot, or otherwise indicate resistance .
I use pure silver for the anode electrode bar because it’s so easy and clean to work with.
@@sreetips that was what you said in the video! :-)
Love your channel and all the work you put into it , and thank you for sharing your knowledge with us,
My question is can you run bigger size bowls? Also what is you increase your power setting higher then 3volts ? Will it still work or does it effect the silver purity ?
Keep up the amazing stuff your doing and for sharing your knowledge
Kind regards
Sam
Critical distance between anodexbasket and cathode 4 to 4.5 inches. I run the cell at 3.5 volts, higher or lower could cause contamination,
Thank you for answering my question , hoping to build my first silver cell this weekend
Take care
When running the silver cell for the ten days, how much silver do you go through refill the anode basket?
For every 100g of impure silver I feed in, I’ll get about 98g of pure silver.
Awesome tutorial my friend can sterling be used as the as anode?
No, the electrolyte would quickly become saturated with copper.
@@sreetips so I will need to chemically refine before making cheers brother lots of q & e today thank you
Wondering if the water temperature is relevant? Has it been tested?
Amazing work brother. Thank you.
Have you tried placing a few pieces of already formed silver crystals into the silver cell when you start a fresh batch?
This may form some larger larger crystals by giving the silver a nucleation point.
They are not true crystals. They are actually dendrites. But silver refiners call them crystals because they look like crystals.
How about a piece of acrylic so you can see thru into the cell?
You did a video on silver solder. Could you cut/ melt silver solder instead of a higher purity silver shot?
Probably not because the impure silver going in must be fairly high purity to begin with.
That's fascinating! Can you make gold cells in a similar fashion?
Yes
Could the hole be tapped so the bolt threads through the copper for an even tighter connection?
Not thick enough for that
Will the thicker copper effect the amount of current you can pass through the cell?
Not really, it is way oversized.
Copper is the standard for conductivity. It’s rated at 100. Gold is rated at 78 (I think). Silver is rated at 105.
Amazing video! Thank you! What's the ROI of the batch created in this video? How many ounces of silver does it make?
The ROI is in silver. I’m converting paper to silver. For every ten ounces impure silver I add, I get 9.8 ounces of pure silver out.
@@sreetips got it, makes perfect sense! thank you!
Hi sreetips. I love your videos. I have been thinking, would you like to write a book on gold and silver refining? Such as how to identify what scrap parts contain gold. What are the processes, and how to get the tools?
Yes
Question: Could I use this process with plated silver scrap in the anode filter?
No
Hey my dude, thanks for the chemistry lesson! I am wondering, what is your average yield. Also, what or who inspired you to do this? Thanks
I usually get about 1.5 kilos every ten to fifteen days. I refine gold. I use sterling silver in the gold refining process. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Harvest, put it away, and forget about it.
A very informative and entertaining video sir! I have a question. Do you plug your DC power supply into a GFCI protected circuit? Since there is liquid and electricity in close proximity do you feel it is necessary?
My big question is how to acquire the raw material? If you have videos about that, I’d love to see them.
We buy sterling silver at local estate sales.