It always amazes me when you melt the beautiful pure silver crystals and it changes form to its equally beautiful silver liquid form and then to its solid form which reflects the light like a mirror. Our natural elements on this planet are a real gift.
Some of our elements are stunningly beautiful, for sure. Then of course, there's the really dangerous ones, and the really ethereal ones. All are amazing in their own way, I think.
Planet? 😂 that's not even worth mentioning when looking at the universe. Not even grain of sand on the planet scale. But I do understand what you meant. An consideration that most ever metal is asteroid meteorite etc long after the outer mantle cooled. It's gifts from space❤
@@philindeblanc even then many don't exist naturally especially really heavy ones. Existing only for milliseconds before deterioration. Only knowing they Existing because the formula math requires it
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
Except your clickbait thumbnail says "why pay for silver when you can grow it" so I guess the estate sales just give you the silver when you buy the gold?
No, I buy the silver - pay them nearly full price. Because it doesn’t matter. Silver is so grossly undervalued, and I don’t have to worry about trying to resell it. I’m keeping all my silver.
This has to be one of the most satisfying channels on youtube, you waste nothing, everything is a closed loop. That is one big honking bar of silver, it's gorgeous!
If you pre heat your molds in an oven or on top of a furnace to about 300 deg. the sides of the bar will turn out much better and the cooling of the bar will go slower and the top will look better also. great video , love the new cell. Thanks
The cell is a monster! Been waiting on this video for a few days now. Spectacular result! The deposits at the bottom of the cell were thicker than anything I could have imagined! Great looking bar as well! Well done sir, very well done!
@@TheAzrai For me pouring was the unexpectedly difficult step in the process. Sreetips does it so matter of fact like, and makes it look effortless, but I assure you it is far from it. Once you do it a few times and know what to do it's not hard just detail oriented.
2 observations I have made watching sreetips videos: one, you never “waste” anything. Even though you might be justified in throwing some by-product out because of the small amount of recoverable metal, you don’t. Used filters come to mind. Two, you always slavishly follow protocols. For example, taking the silver bars out of the anode basket, you always use the forceps, instead of using your fingers. Good discipline!
I've been watching his videos for a long time, I have learned a lot, I think I'm almost ready to start a refinement of gold from jewelry, which will give the the opportunity to start a silver cell, getting nitric acid is a bit tough it seems, not many if any places cary it on hand
@@damiansullivan9728yes, this does seem to be an issue. i havent had much luck prepping myself. what I might have to do is make some via other means. i cant justify buying a couple gallons if i don't end up getting into the hobby.
I too have been bitten by the silver bug. I absolutely blame Sreetips and a couple other RUclipsrs. It's a good affliction to have though. I am starting small just experimenting for now and not trying to refine any huge quantities. I am dealing with only silver for now, I don't feel comfortable playing around with gold and possibly making a very expensive mistake. As far as nitric acid, I just started out by buying 10 one ounce bottles from Amazon. They also offer larger bottles at better prices. It's more expensive than quantity yes, but like I said, I'm starting small. You can also get quartz stir rods, beakers, ceramic wool, basically everything you need from there. I'm sure there are many other places as well. I hope to have a cell up and running by the end of June. Good luck to you if you have a go at it, and stay safe.
I just dissolve copper into a solution, dilute that, drop the copper using iron, decant and collect the powdery copper, then cement out my silver using the fine powdery copper. I estimate til I feel it’s close, then I put some of the copper into a filter and let it steep like a teabag so that last bit gets dropped without ending up with an excess of copper as a contaminant
It’s not pretty crystals though. However it IS silver and I have only one thing I use it for. . . And I won’t tell anyone because I am patenting the idea. It’s going to get make me Sreetips wealthy.
That was my take too. All that work to grow and process it. It must become a part of you at some point. I've done business with JMB for a few years now. 😇🤑🤣
First of all I'm glad you followed the idea to drain the cell with a tube instead of lifting the whole thing. Second, a small good quality plastic shovel (IE sand toys) could pick up most of the metal without the bowl being in the air. Also I'm sure we can find a better way to rinse the silver. I'm thinking to start by puting the silver in a fine mesh seive rincing with tap water, first then when it's somewhat clean, using distilled water like you usually do. A serious foundry setup would melt this amount of silver in less than 10 minutes. Could be great for impure silver shots as well. What a fantastic harvest that was. That melting silver looked incredible.
My friend, it seems to me it has become time to start thinking about some production streamlining. a collection, wash and and straining station would be relatively simple and would make your life easier along with decreasing waste. Also a smelting forge large enough that the crucible could hold 5 pounds of your elemental silver would make things so much more efficient. Cheers!
@@sreetips Such a cool process to watch. If you ever have the misfortune of having to deal with too much silver again (lol) you could put the pump hose into the receptical (sp) before you put the wet silver crystals in. Then you can just pump out the majority of the electrolyte without having to lift the whole thing like at 6:25.
Here’s what’s missing: I really didn’t want to sell it because I know when silver gets to a hundred bucks then that bar will be twice as valuable. So, if I do make a sale, then I’m not going to let it go for the grossly undervalued thirty bucks (with premium). If I can’t get fifty, I’ll just keep it. Time is on my side. Hope this helps.
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. The impure silver is added to the anode basket. The anode basket is suspended in the silver nitrate electrolyte. I pass an electric current through the impure silver. The silver dissolves, passes through the Dacron filter, travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte, and deposits on the stainless steel bowl (the cathode). The bowl is connected to the negative pole of the power supply. The process only deposits pure silver on the cathode. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
I watched a jeweler coat their silver and gold melt dish with liquid borax and build a glazed layer that hardens when dry. Do this to separate dishes. She also explained to let silver get watery looking like a mirror 🪞
I found a beautiful sterling spoon in my travels hunting for silver to refine. I use it to fill the vials and fill the anode basket, for smaller tasks. It's like a half sized spoon, about 12 grams, and a fairly basic design, but it's in amazing condition. I have grown rather fond of it, and I don't have the heart to send it to the nitric bath.
Tapping the Oxy/Acetylene head against the table usually clears that fouling , so you don’t have to stop while pouring Really nice bar . I’m moving up to 250g bars next . Always enjoy your channel
Seeing this reminds me of how Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, used to extract silver from photography solutions thrown out after developing the film. Got it free & made money off the silver.
Many overlook the true purpose of silver. It's safe around humans, it's natural antibacterial, it's the top dog of electric current conductivity. You have more than you realize sir.
If the torch flame is yellow/ orange.. youre carborizing too much you need to use more oxygen to tune the flame out to a more blue flame or just barely white flame. It takes time to get used to your torch setup and to really dial in the amounts of O2 to Acetylene But this new silver cell youve made is just brilliant !! As always I really enjoy watching your process
@@philindeblanc idk much about metallurgy but when im making ceramic pottery i use a outdoor western raku style kiln and use propane as my heat source. I just hook up a propane weed burner to a propane tank and blow that flame into my kiln and i got it up to 1700°F last time. Idk how much of that transfers into metallurgy though, i know the temperature required isnt as high.
Also if you watch any of his previous videos you can easily get the backstory of what his whole gig is. I've found it to be very informative & interesting
torching smaller amounts at a time would actually save you a lot of time and fuel. if you run the torch and just add a touch of silver at a time, itll melt within seconds and just sprinkle new on slowly while torching and youll hit a rate thats almost an instant melt
$3500 for $2000 worth of silver? I would just assume go buy 2 kilo bars from hero or monument, they have very low premiums on those size bars they also come with a serial number and a stamp from a reputable refinery so they are easy to resell. I'd be interested and I know you have a lot of time but $50 per oz is way to much, it could be a very long time before we ever see that money back, silver is finally just starting to come to life again after years and really it ain't much especially if you consider it's supposed to follow gold and gold is on fire.
Sreetips, have you ever considered using coin molds? Just the idea of buying some small wooden chest and adding some pirate décor and casting pure silver coins would be freaking awesome!
Electrolytic refinement of copper--which is done on an industrial scale--also produces anode sludge, but like you, they keep the sludge; it contains silver, gold, and platinum-group metals, as well as base metals (which at the scales involved are still worth extracting, if for no other reason than to keep them out of the waste stream). Anyway, $4200+ at today's spot price, not bad for a day's work.
Wow. To get those blue crystals in the face of the ingot, I bet that only has 30-40 ppm of impurities (99.997 - 99.996%). That's a credit to your precise technique and determination.
I have studied Sreetips videos watching hours upon hours and absorbing what he teaches. As a testament to his videos, my very first attempt building and running a silver cell was a resounding success. The dense silver crystals that came out of my cell look a lot like these just smaller and are a beautiful pure white. My hat's off to him.
I'd sure trade you my problem of not having enough silver for your problem of having too much silver 😂 Wonder if a guy could use a screened colander to strain off the excess electrolyte from your silver beaker. Love this step in the process. Thanks for sharing 👍
love your videos man, started my own silver and gold cells in the garage a couple weeks ago, so far i've measured the difference between the weight of the gold and silver and the solutions they're "growing" in and so far i have 10 lbs of silver and 7 lbs of gold growing. no i dont have a fume hood but i did utilize my welding extractor to great effect
@@icedragon1000 i got my impure gold and silver from old jewellery and computer hardware bought from pawn shops and junk stores, all together i have about $600 invested
@@JmmanuelKondo i didnt get all 7 lbs of it with the $600, i also was given a bunch of old computer parts by friends and family and was buying electronic pieces from scrapyards for rock bottom prices (about 50 cents a board)
That time lapse was near the end of the run with the filter clogged and current flow, and therefore silver consumption, was slow. I’ll do another from the very start with a clean filter and it should much faster and more dramatic.
I'd love a tiny bit of sreetips silver only because I need it super pure for art. Borosilicate glass flameworkers use it to fume a spectrum of colors onto glass.
You know, if you used a sifting bowl for your silver and a big enough catcher bowl you can make it much easier to rinse off the electrolyte Just be sure to use your industry coffee filters. What a beautiful harvest you have.
I was wondering if you used a fine mesh collender or sive to wash the electrolite off the silver. Kinda set it up over an empty beaker or pail and just rinse the liquid right through the mesh?? Maybe worth a shot anyway to make the cumbersome task of washing easier. Just a thought
I bet you could sell it in the crystal form, for more, just for how beautiful it looks. 😍 Also an electric foundry would be very helpful for your melts.
For Sreetips Try a pasta sauce ladel/scoop combined with the scraper to move silver across from the stainless steel bowl to beaker until it gets a little lighter. Don’t want to get sore wrists and or risk dropping kg of silver everywhere!
@@danger3_255 That's a great idea! Hey @sreetips ! Got any way to cast some high purity silver bullets? I bet they'd go over REALLY well at the eBay store
That would definitely make some unique jewellery! Epoxy would have hard time to get to all nooks and crannies of the crystal, but the bubbles left might produce some nice effects on them. Ultrasound might break up the finest branches, but not sure.
@@LexYeen It might break the crystal, though. Trial and error will tell us. At some point, someone's going to stop commenting on here and just get up and DO it. When they do, I hope they tell the rest of us how it went.
I would say the cracking is the temperature change making the crystals crack before they melt. 19:19. The pour. That is a thing of beauty that bar and it has sold already.
Silver hit US$48.70 per ounce, the highest silver price to date, towards the end of the 1970s. I understand that there are labor involved, but no one would even recoup their investment at US$50.00 per ounce.
@@hossericthere are people that spend thousands of dollars on bars that are "worth" a fraction of that based on the spot price. In circles, silver bars are quite literally considered a form of art. Like anything that is collectable, the less of something that is made, the higher the value is placed on it. There are a lot of people that have the money to spend and scramble to own a Sreetips bar of silver or gold. Lord knows if I had copies amounts of currency to spend on a whim, I would absolutely have a bar that Sreetips refined and cast.
I want to grow a gold deposit. Alchemy Metallurgy Tip: if you can make diamonds.or silver or other metals. You should be able to create gold or boost an amount if you can mix in more and have it crystalize together as it mixes!
Alchemy is real in a factual sense. Physicists have been able to turn lead into gold in a lab setting. As long as you have about $300,000 you can quite successfully turn a gram of lead into a gram of gold.
❤ I love watching this stuff, and when that silver went clear it makes me think of what my Bible says about us 😊 funny how we all watching you for different reasons Even looking at and knowing cinder blocks are processed differently gives me thought about how God works in me.
This is a process to purify silver to 99.9 percent purity and collect maybe other contaminant metals separately. Not to make silver. For those like me who never understood. Experts please clarify answer any questions. Thankyou 🙏
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
An interesting process. Thank you for the video. I used to do amateur silversmithing. Helped pay my way through college - and I still have a fondness for silver. I mainly worked with sterling silver but I used fine silver for a few things. It's too soft for most work though. And once I did a 10 pound fine silver casting for a friend. He had about a month's worth of work in making the wax model and something of that size pushed the equipment I had beyond what it was designed for. It all went well but I had nightmares of a blowout and 10 pounds of molten silver skittering and spattering everywhere. I've still got a few pounds of silver left from those days. Not sure where it is. Now that I'm retired I'm getting the workbench set up again so I'll find it.
I’ve done projects that exceed the limits of my small hobby operation. It can be very stressful instead of relaxing. But when it’s over, and it went well, then the sense of satisfaction makes it all worth while.
@@sreetips It does indeed. I'm a little wiser these days though. I'd still do it, but I'd spend more time preparing and testing that the equipment cold handle the strain.
This silver is from my gold refining. I don’t know the cost analysis. I just keep running the impure silver through my silver cell. Harvest the silver, put it away, and forget about it. Just about all of the pure silver that I produce goes directly into my savings account.
What I love about this video is just like what it says in the thumbnail, sreetips tells you how to get free silver. I've used the techniques in this video to make a billion tons of free silver and I'm now I'm very wealthy. Thanks, sreetips!
I think it's funny how you have sorted out the hard technical issue of purification but find the most difficult part to be the transfer process! I'll think about a good bulk procedure for silver handling post electrolysis
use a friggin paper or other filter to screen the electrolyte out lol. You work too hard after practicing phenomenal patience. Love what you teach us otherwise. The ceramic pots are definitely a consumer process on the cheap. Great technique on heating both the bar mold and continuing the ceramic heat while pouring. The results speak to the quality!!
It always amazes me when you melt the beautiful pure silver crystals and it changes form to its equally beautiful silver liquid form and then to its solid form which reflects the light like a mirror. Our natural elements on this planet are a real gift.
Some of our elements are stunningly beautiful, for sure. Then of course, there's the really dangerous ones, and the really ethereal ones. All are amazing in their own way, I think.
Many of our elements dont exist on their own. You have to process them.
Planet? 😂 that's not even worth mentioning when looking at the universe. Not even grain of sand on the planet scale. But I do understand what you meant. An consideration that most ever metal is asteroid meteorite etc long after the outer mantle cooled. It's gifts from space❤
@@fieryvale usually the pretty ones are the most dangerous.
@@philindeblanc even then many don't exist naturally especially really heavy ones. Existing only for milliseconds before deterioration. Only knowing they Existing because the formula math requires it
I love how this video acts like you don't need silver to start with. Like you just make the shit out of thin air
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
Except your clickbait thumbnail says "why pay for silver when you can grow it" so I guess the estate sales just give you the silver when you buy the gold?
No, I buy the silver - pay them nearly full price. Because it doesn’t matter. Silver is so grossly undervalued, and I don’t have to worry about trying to resell it. I’m keeping all my silver.
@@sreetipsthe thumbnail literally says why buy silver when you can grow it.
Exactly, I grow my own investment grade pure silver. Haven’t bought any in at least a decade.
This has to be one of the most satisfying channels on youtube, you waste nothing, everything is a closed loop. That is one big honking bar of silver, it's gorgeous!
If you pre heat your molds in an oven or on top of a furnace to about 300 deg. the sides of the bar will turn out much better and the cooling of the bar will go slower and the top will look better also. great video , love the new cell. Thanks
Senior Chief, that's amazing. If I had the money I would have already bought what you have and would never get rid of it. 👏 👏 👏
The cell is a monster! Been waiting on this video for a few days now. Spectacular result! The deposits at the bottom of the cell were thicker than anything I could have imagined! Great looking bar as well! Well done sir, very well done!
I think you went past the limit of what is doable in an easy way by one person. Nice work! Beautiful process here...
Yeah it looked a bit dangerous at the end there. Having another person on that last step (pouring) would be ideal.
@@TheAzrai For me pouring was the unexpectedly difficult step in the process. Sreetips does it so matter of fact like, and makes it look effortless, but I assure you it is far from it. Once you do it a few times and know what to do it's not hard just detail oriented.
There's something satisfying listening to the crunch of the silver when you scrape it out 😊
2 observations I have made watching sreetips videos: one, you never “waste” anything. Even though you might be justified in throwing some by-product out because of the small amount of recoverable metal, you don’t. Used filters come to mind. Two, you always slavishly follow protocols. For example, taking the silver bars out of the anode basket, you always use the forceps, instead of using your fingers. Good discipline!
I'm at the age where that tinkling electrolyte required a visit to the bathroom.
I've been watching his videos for a long time, I have learned a lot, I think I'm almost ready to start a refinement of gold from jewelry, which will give the the opportunity to start a silver cell, getting nitric acid is a bit tough it seems, not many if any places cary it on hand
@@damiansullivan9728yes, this does seem to be an issue. i havent had much luck prepping myself. what I might have to do is make some via other means. i cant justify buying a couple gallons if i don't end up getting into the hobby.
I too have been bitten by the silver bug. I absolutely blame Sreetips and a couple other RUclipsrs. It's a good affliction to have though. I am starting small just experimenting for now and not trying to refine any huge quantities. I am dealing with only silver for now, I don't feel comfortable playing around with gold and possibly making a very expensive mistake. As far as nitric acid, I just started out by buying 10 one ounce bottles from Amazon. They also offer larger bottles at better prices. It's more expensive than quantity yes, but like I said, I'm starting small. You can also get quartz stir rods, beakers, ceramic wool, basically everything you need from there. I'm sure there are many other places as well. I hope to have a cell up and running by the end of June. Good luck to you if you have a go at it, and stay safe.
I just dissolve copper into a solution, dilute that, drop the copper using iron, decant and collect the powdery copper, then cement out my silver using the fine powdery copper. I estimate til I feel it’s close, then I put some of the copper into a filter and let it steep like a teabag so that last bit gets dropped without ending up with an excess of copper as a contaminant
It’s not pretty crystals though. However it IS silver and I have only one thing I use it for. . . And I won’t tell anyone because I am patenting the idea. It’s going to get make me Sreetips wealthy.
Then I am going to see if Sreetips wants to be my supplier for silver.
Excellent job beautifully done true craftsmanship you are going to be a very rich man I just hope you don't get arrested by the government
Lost me. 😆 I’m no scientist
Just do this 4 times and it will turn to Gold
ok that timelapse is amazing, really shows how much the cell is eating through the silver
Thank you for showing the time lapse of your silver cell.
The way you said, "If it doesn't sell, i get to keep it," sounded like you really want to keep it 😂😂😂
I’m starting a stack of 2 kilo silver bars.
That was my take too. All that work to grow and process it. It must become a part of you at some point. I've done business with JMB for a few years now.
😇🤑🤣
That’s why they set the price at about double its true value.
Actually, the price is only about 1/4 of it’s true value.
@@sreetipsyeah I saw that you explained that in another comment. Good man I wouldn’t sell it at the current spot value either.
First of all I'm glad you followed the idea to drain the cell with a tube instead of lifting the whole thing. Second, a small good quality plastic shovel (IE sand toys) could pick up most of the metal without the bowl being in the air. Also I'm sure we can find a better way to rinse the silver. I'm thinking to start by puting the silver in a fine mesh seive rincing with tap water, first then when it's somewhat clean, using distilled water like you usually do. A serious foundry setup would melt this amount of silver in less than 10 minutes. Could be great for impure silver shots as well.
What a fantastic harvest that was. That melting silver looked incredible.
That blue color with all the crystalized silver in there is so damn cool. It looks like a tropical coral reef.
My friend, it seems to me it has become time to start thinking about some production streamlining. a collection, wash and and straining station would be relatively simple and would make your life easier along with decreasing waste. Also a smelting forge large enough that the crucible could hold 5 pounds of your elemental silver would make things so much more efficient. Cheers!
I dread rinsing the silver off
Wow!
What an amazing and beautiful harvest. Absolutely stunning 👍🏻👍🏻
Congratulations on a fine refine and pour. Looks like Sreetips is the proud father of a fine piece of bullion.
Watching you do these videos is like poetry in motion. Mesmerizing the process of refining.
Watching someone who takes real pride in a job well done is thrilling.
Thank you!
@@sreetips Such a cool process to watch. If you ever have the misfortune of having to deal with too much silver again (lol) you could put the pump hose into the receptical (sp) before you put the wet silver crystals in. Then you can just pump out the majority of the electrolyte without having to lift the whole thing like at 6:25.
Watching the blue electrolyte get siphoned out of the bowl to reveal the sparkling white silver crystal was magical!
Very cool visual effect. I agree.
Don't understand trying to sell at $50 a ounce when an ounce of silver plus buy premium today is around $30 a ounce. Am I missing something here?
Here’s what’s missing: I really didn’t want to sell it because I know when silver gets to a hundred bucks then that bar will be twice as valuable. So, if I do make a sale, then I’m not going to let it go for the grossly undervalued thirty bucks (with premium). If I can’t get fifty, I’ll just keep it. Time is on my side. Hope this helps.
@@sreetips I see that makes sense. Understood. What did you start out with in the silver cell to make the silver?
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. The impure silver is added to the anode basket. The anode basket is suspended in the silver nitrate electrolyte. I pass an electric current through the impure silver. The silver dissolves, passes through the Dacron filter, travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte, and deposits on the stainless steel bowl (the cathode). The bowl is connected to the negative pole of the power supply. The process only deposits pure silver on the cathode. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
Here is a tip. Leave a few crystals attached to the bowl it gives you a faster starting point for crystals to form. IT'S THE BED FOR THEM TO START ON
“Pure silver crystal” goosebumps every time.
I watched a jeweler coat their silver and gold melt dish with liquid borax and build a glazed layer that hardens when dry. Do this to separate dishes. She also explained to let silver get watery looking like a mirror 🪞
That’s exactly how I do it.
Siphoning off the electrolyte instead of trying to lift and pour is a seriously big-brain move!
5:18 like scraping ice off my windshield in the winter😂
Nice to see you working smart and not lifting that monster. The beast looks heavy when ready for harvest.
4.6kilos. Major haul, man. Wow!
Pretty awesome to see the impure silver get eaten in the cell. Love this time lapse. I don't remember ever seeing this before.
Also, I wonder if you couldn't scoop out that silver with a stainless spoon, once you've got it scraped down.
Probably could
I found a beautiful sterling spoon in my travels hunting for silver to refine. I use it to fill the vials and fill the anode basket, for smaller tasks. It's like a half sized spoon, about 12 grams, and a fairly basic design, but it's in amazing condition. I have grown rather fond of it, and I don't have the heart to send it to the nitric bath.
Tapping the Oxy/Acetylene head against the table usually clears that fouling , so you don’t have to stop while pouring
Really nice bar . I’m moving up to 250g bars next . Always enjoy your channel
Seeing this reminds me of how Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, used to extract silver from photography solutions thrown out after developing the film. Got it free & made money off the silver.
Nice
You are very good at pouring silver bars. And you make it look incredibly easy and it is not, at all
Many overlook the true purpose of silver. It's safe around humans, it's natural antibacterial, it's the top dog of electric current conductivity. You have more than you realize sir.
Naturally it's 99.9% with current of just .0 it's 100% anti bacterial. 🤔 And gold is worth more lol.
Silver is real money, just like gold.
@@sreetips agreed to that sir
There potential is grossly misunderstood.
Very nice work btw. Great things come to those who can wait for it.
Good stuff as always....Always amazes me how so much silver never looks like it is as much as it is.
Wow, that is an awesome result! Amazing to see the silver crystal in one single huge bar. The bar is another beaut! 👍👍
That silver looks amazing. You are really perfecting your craft! Great job and thanks for the awesome entertainment!
An ice scoop would be handy for transferring from the bowl to beaker. At least until the bowl is light enough to handle more easily.
I would recommend emptying the bowl in a fine strainer (over a large beaker).
Gooooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
@@sreetipsGuten Abend
Could you run the silver back through to refine it further?
@@johngalt2506 You could, but it is a waste of effort (it already is about five nines).
Helllllo you two 🌺🌺🔥
I wish I could spend a few months hanging out and learning from him.
If the torch flame is yellow/ orange.. youre carborizing too much you need to use more oxygen to tune the flame out to a more blue flame or just barely white flame.
It takes time to get used to your torch setup and to really dial in the amounts of O2 to Acetylene
But this new silver cell youve made is just brilliant !!
As always I really enjoy watching your process
why not mix O2 with propane for the blue flame?
Didn’t think but f it.
@@sreetips i think they are close, but it says Acetylene can pierce better, but LP has hotter "total heat combustion...maybe cheaper and better?
@@philindeblanc idk much about metallurgy but when im making ceramic pottery i use a outdoor western raku style kiln and use propane as my heat source. I just hook up a propane weed burner to a propane tank and blow that flame into my kiln and i got it up to 1700°F last time. Idk how much of that transfers into metallurgy though, i know the temperature required isnt as high.
Thank you for making this monster ultra fine silver bar!
I can’t think of a better way to use the silver crystal from your silver cell
Also if you watch any of his previous videos you can easily get the backstory of what his whole gig is. I've found it to be very informative & interesting
is it silver from other base metals or is it just purifying already unclean silver bars?
His whole "gig" appears to be mining clicks by the use of clickbait thumbnails.
Man, this has really got you disturbed. How can I relieve some of your suffering?
@@sreetips I'm just busting your (word here censored by YT). I actually like your channel. Cheers.
Ok, thanks. I feel a little better.
“What a problem to have” gets me hahah you are the man Sreetips
torching smaller amounts at a time would actually save you a lot of time and fuel. if you run the torch and just add a touch of silver at a time, itll melt within seconds and just sprinkle new on slowly while torching and youll hit a rate thats almost an instant melt
Full of it 😂
How fascinating watching this procedure.Thank you for the video.🤗🤗🥰💕💕
$1869 Bar of Silver...WE did great Chief!! 😂😅
At 65 Troy oz, and silver being $1,800+/- per Troy oz... It's more than that, right?
Superior knowledge of chemistry and metalurgy! One of the main cources to learn from!
Did I hear 50 dollars a Troy oz. Gees I hope not kind of double the going rate. Maybe I miss heard. Great set up and video !
$3500 for $2000 worth of silver? I would just assume go buy 2 kilo bars from hero or monument, they have very low premiums on those size bars they also come with a serial number and a stamp from a reputable refinery so they are easy to resell. I'd be interested and I know you have a lot of time but $50 per oz is way to much, it could be a very long time before we ever see that money back, silver is finally just starting to come to life again after years and really it ain't much especially if you consider it's supposed to follow gold and gold is on fire.
Sreetips, have you ever considered using coin molds? Just the idea of buying some small wooden chest and adding some pirate décor and casting pure silver coins would be freaking awesome!
Electrolytic refinement of copper--which is done on an industrial scale--also produces anode sludge, but like you, they keep the sludge; it contains silver, gold, and platinum-group metals, as well as base metals (which at the scales involved are still worth extracting, if for no other reason than to keep them out of the waste stream). Anyway, $4200+ at today's spot price, not bad for a day's work.
Wow. To get those blue crystals in the face of the ingot, I bet that only has 30-40 ppm of impurities (99.997 - 99.996%).
That's a credit to your precise technique and determination.
Close to five nines.
Heisenberg.
I have studied Sreetips videos watching hours upon hours and absorbing what he teaches. As a testament to his videos, my very first attempt building and running a silver cell was a resounding success. The dense silver crystals that came out of my cell look a lot like these just smaller and are a beautiful pure white. My hat's off to him.
@@Steelythestacker Congratulations
@@apveening thank you kindly.
I'd sure trade you my problem of not having enough silver for your problem of having too much silver 😂
Wonder if a guy could use a screened colander to strain off the excess electrolyte from your silver beaker.
Love this step in the process.
Thanks for sharing 👍
love your videos man, started my own silver and gold cells in the garage a couple weeks ago, so far i've measured the difference between the weight of the gold and silver and the solutions they're "growing" in and so far i have 10 lbs of silver and 7 lbs of gold growing.
no i dont have a fume hood but i did utilize my welding extractor to great effect
What does that cost to produce?
@@icedragon1000 i got my impure gold and silver from old jewellery and computer hardware bought from pawn shops and junk stores, all together i have about $600 invested
@@matthewallen9787lbs of gold with 600 dollars?
@@JmmanuelKondo i didnt get all 7 lbs of it with the $600, i also was given a bunch of old computer parts by friends and family and was buying electronic pieces from scrapyards for rock bottom prices (about 50 cents a board)
@@matthewallen978 That's insane
Thank you for the amazingly informative videos, but also thank you for your service!
Thank you!
Beautiful, precise work!
U know I love the way the blue electrolyte looks it's prdy neat color especially when the silver is growing in it looks awesome
Do you ever run out of clean forks, and then ponder how many forks you have melted...?
Not so far
Can't wait to see the slimes refining from all this silver you've been processing!
That was an awesome timelapse, thank you. Always look forward to your videos!!
Those large singular silver crystals are works of art! Please consider selling some of them!
This guy is playing with fire.
And there’s something primal about melting with fire. Especially when the metal is SILVER.
I think the thumb-nail paired with the warning at the start is low-key genius.
Now THAT's an ingot. Nice.
the time lapse at the beginning was so good!
That time lapse was near the end of the run with the filter clogged and current flow, and therefore silver consumption, was slow. I’ll do another from the very start with a clean filter and it should much faster and more dramatic.
I think people buy your silver cause you made it. Ever consider custom molds more personalized?
I just try to keep it simple
Great idea.
At least a special Sreetips makers mark.
this was why i bought my gram of gold sponge just to say that i have something from one of my favorite youtubers
I'd love a tiny bit of sreetips silver only because I need it super pure for art. Borosilicate glass flameworkers use it to fume a spectrum of colors onto glass.
I wonder if the cracking noise is the Crystals cracking apart under intense heat.
Sound right
You know, if you used a sifting bowl for your silver and a big enough catcher bowl you can make it much easier to rinse off the electrolyte
Just be sure to use your industry coffee filters.
What a beautiful harvest you have.
I was wondering if you used a fine mesh collender or sive to wash the electrolite off the silver. Kinda set it up over an empty beaker or pail and just rinse the liquid right through the mesh?? Maybe worth a shot anyway to make the cumbersome task of washing easier. Just a thought
I bet you could sell it in the crystal form, for more, just for how beautiful it looks. 😍
Also an electric foundry would be very helpful for your melts.
Thank you, I have an electric furnace. But it takes longer than the torch does.
I reslly appreciate the hard work that you do so that I can watch your hard work. Thank you! Silver cell refinement has been amazing to wtch.
Its absolutely beautiful. Love watching you work!
Well.. The one bonus of having too much silver is that you won’t have any issues with werewolves 🤷🏻♂️😂
I'd bet good money he has casted silver bullets.
Fun fact: The Sreetips family has been providing silver to the Helsing family for generations 😂
🤣🤣😂😂👍
For Sreetips
Try a pasta sauce ladel/scoop combined with the scraper to move silver across from the stainless steel bowl to beaker until it gets a little lighter.
Don’t want to get sore wrists and or risk dropping kg of silver everywhere!
@@danger3_255 That's a great idea! Hey @sreetips ! Got any way to cast some high purity silver bullets? I bet they'd go over REALLY well at the eBay store
A big thanks who learning us..if you have a passion for something...so go for it🔥🙂
You know what would be amazing? Pour epoxy over the top of those amazing silver crystals. Preserving them in a long structure.
TBH, they're probably too fragile.
That would definitely make some unique jewellery! Epoxy would have hard time to get to all nooks and crannies of the crystal, but the bubbles left might produce some nice effects on them. Ultrasound might break up the finest branches, but not sure.
@@ottolehikoinen6193vacuum cure the epoxy, that'll pull the air bubbles out right quick.
@@LexYeen It might break the crystal, though. Trial and error will tell us.
At some point, someone's going to stop commenting on here and just get up and DO it. When they do, I hope they tell the rest of us how it went.
I would say the cracking is the temperature change making the crystals crack before they melt. 19:19. The pour. That is a thing of beauty that bar and it has sold already.
Silver hit US$48.70 per ounce, the highest silver price to date, towards the end of the 1970s. I understand that there are labor involved, but no one would even recoup their investment at US$50.00 per ounce.
troy ounce same thing
@@hossericthere are people that spend thousands of dollars on bars that are "worth" a fraction of that based on the spot price. In circles, silver bars are quite literally considered a form of art. Like anything that is collectable, the less of something that is made, the higher the value is placed on it. There are a lot of people that have the money to spend and scramble to own a Sreetips bar of silver or gold. Lord knows if I had copies amounts of currency to spend on a whim, I would absolutely have a bar that Sreetips refined and cast.
Now Mrs. Sreetips is going to want all her baths heated, by the Mr. Sweetips dumping in the lightly cooled bullion bars.
I want to grow a gold deposit.
Alchemy
Metallurgy
Tip: if you can make diamonds.or silver or other metals.
You should be able to create gold or boost an amount if you can mix in more and have it crystalize together as it mixes!
Alchemy is real in a factual sense. Physicists have been able to turn lead into gold in a lab setting. As long as you have about $300,000 you can quite successfully turn a gram of lead into a gram of gold.
Wow ! Mr Sreetips congratulations with this ashtonishing great 999 pure silver bar....keep it UP...👍 greeat result man greet from the Netherlands 🎉
Ha Streetips is farming Silver. Awesome harvest. Would be extremely cool you minted your own coins.
Regardless of the outcome, the overall time and cost is worth it if it satisfies you. 🎉
Gooood lord look at all that silver the time lapse shows how fast it works man oh man that is sooo cool
Lol that's a massive bar of silver, wow that's fantastic job 👏👌👍👏 it's amazing to watch u pour that bar and it looks gorgeous .
❤ I love watching this stuff, and when that silver went clear it makes me think of what my Bible says about us 😊 funny how we all watching you for different reasons
Even looking at and knowing cinder blocks are processed differently gives me thought about how God works in me.
Those are good thoughts.
You say, " Too much Silver....". Can there ever actually be Too Much Silver?😂
Not in my book Wade. Silver is real money, just like gold. I’m trading paper for silver just as fast as I can.
That's a good bar of silver sir and not to bad a price thank you for sharing this six stars
The price is terribly high.
Sreetips wants to buy, not sell!
WOW look at those crystals. That is so cool.
The crackling noise is the sound of the silver crystal bonds breaking.
Sounds like my pooch scarfing down a bowl full.
There is just something about pure silver that looks clean, I think I will have to go buy some next month.
An amazing bar of silver.
If you made enough of those you could build a house of silver with bunch of Bricks like that!😊
This is a process to purify silver to 99.9 percent purity and collect maybe other contaminant metals separately. Not to make silver. For those like me who never understood. Experts please clarify answer any questions. Thankyou 🙏
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
I was waiting for this episode for 15 days to get released, and finally I can get some sleep😅
An interesting process. Thank you for the video. I used to do amateur silversmithing. Helped pay my way through college - and I still have a fondness for silver. I mainly worked with sterling silver but I used fine silver for a few things. It's too soft for most work though. And once I did a 10 pound fine silver casting for a friend. He had about a month's worth of work in making the wax model and something of that size pushed the equipment I had beyond what it was designed for. It all went well but I had nightmares of a blowout and 10 pounds of molten silver skittering and spattering everywhere. I've still got a few pounds of silver left from those days. Not sure where it is. Now that I'm retired I'm getting the workbench set up again so I'll find it.
I’ve done projects that exceed the limits of my small hobby operation. It can be very stressful instead of relaxing. But when it’s over, and it went well, then the sense of satisfaction makes it all worth while.
@@sreetips It does indeed. I'm a little wiser these days though. I'd still do it, but I'd spend more time preparing and testing that the equipment cold handle the strain.
Like they say: failing to plan is like planning to fail.
Congrats to the buyer of this a lovely bar make sure u keep a link to the video with your purchase
I always do
A hardcopy on microfilm would be even better! 😉
Granted not all hobbies are profitable, but i would love to see your cost analysis
This silver is from my gold refining. I don’t know the cost analysis. I just keep running the impure silver through my silver cell. Harvest the silver, put it away, and forget about it. Just about all of the pure silver that I produce goes directly into my savings account.
What I love about this video is just like what it says in the thumbnail, sreetips tells you how to get free silver. I've used the techniques in this video to make a billion tons of free silver and I'm now I'm very wealthy. Thanks, sreetips!
Wealthy: having way more than you’ll ever need
I think it's funny how you have sorted out the hard technical issue of purification but find the most difficult part to be the transfer process! I'll think about a good bulk procedure for silver handling post electrolysis
use a friggin paper or other filter to screen the electrolyte out lol. You work too hard after practicing phenomenal patience. Love what you teach us otherwise. The ceramic pots are definitely a consumer process on the cheap. Great technique on heating both the bar mold and continuing the ceramic heat while pouring. The results speak to the quality!!
Getting pure metal is never quick and easy.
Holy guacamole, that's a tasty bar of silver! Thank you
UK price today 22/04/24 is £1492.76p on that bar Mr sreetips good haul not only are you the gold master your now the silver slayer lol nice one dude .