"It's really goopy down there." For those of you wondering, I am a Chemist and I can assure you that "Goopy" is in fact the correct term for that material.🤣🤣🤣
@@jakeeasterwood3204 My favorite term, and it's the one that drives the engineers crazy is "squiggly." As in, "We can't accurately model this vein because it is too squiggly." The reality is that I have it modeled in 3d to a gnat's ass, but I just like to watch the engineers reactions.
Can you imagine this being your your middle school / high school chemistry classes. I always liked chemistry anyway but this would have taken it to a whole other level.
As a vet, I can say it's not about us it about those who paid to Ultimate price and didn't come home. Not trying to be that guy but we get veteran's day. The fallin get memorial day. But thank you for your service.
Truly amazing !! I'm learning a lot by watching every video that you have. One question I have. If I don't have in pure silver like you have. What can I use instead? I'm trying to build silver cell setup like you to pay for my son school. Please let me know. Thank you
I’ve used pure silver coins or bars to make the electrolyte. I by sterling silver at local sales. I use it to refine gold. Then I recover the silver from that and run it through my silver cell. Then I add it to my savings and forget about it.
The dual set up.. the numbers being inconsistent drives me crazy 😂 but I'm learning. I am truly grateful you are educating myself and so many others. Great science being shared.
Second question, when you are doing the refinings, what is your rough expense cost? (Gold and Silver). I am not trying to get into your personal finances just curious how much it costs.
@@ExtractingMetals is it as simple as weighing them and multiplying by 0.925? Just curious. Except I just thought of something - candlesticks are usually weighted so they won’t be solid sterling silver right? The “weighted” part is probably what material?
Roughly how much .999 do you figure it takes to make say 4 liters of electrolyte? For the initial run I am just going to just buy some .999 from my bullion dealer but at the current price + premium I don't want to over buy. After all, soon I will have plenty of my own .999(9) eh? LOL. Dach.
@@sreetips 600g for 4 liters? Eeek! Thats like 20 ozt. Hmm. This is looking like an expensive hobby, LOL. yes, I know the silver isn't lost, just "loaned". Its just the premiums that are lost. Hmm. I think I am going to have to make some from scratch...
possible suggestion: use multiple ‘levels’ of cementation buckets to recover silver (transferring solutions from one cementation bucket to the next until it reaches the waste disposal). This method minimizes silver loss, while not taking too much time and effort 🤔
Hey sreetips you should just melt all the anode basket filters up into one big bar and hit it with an xrf gun so we can see what ends up leftover then granulate it and process it. At least that way you won't have to fight with all that carbon from the filters all the way threw the refining process!
I can't wait to watch the recovery of the precious metals from your old filter baskets! That's going to be fascinating. I'm really curious to see how much gold you can actually find in them since so much impure silver goes through each filter.
@@gordonburns8731 His channel wouldn't be growing the way it is if all he posted was the same vanilla video (turning scrap jewelry into a .999 ingot) again and again. Unpredictable yields, challenges and new techniques make for truly interesting content. Sreetips and most of his longtime viewers are fully aware that this recovery won't even net him minimum wage, but we aren't here to watch someone make money, we're here watch cool chemistry and learn. He'll end up with a bead of gold, a bead platinum-group metals, a few ounces of silver, liters of waste and thousands of happy viewers. This time, the journey is more important than the destination.
the last time you did the filters, you had a hard time getting all the remaining silver bits to dissolve why not rinse out remaining gunk into a classifier to get the larger silver bits to just put back in impure bucket to be reloaded just a suggestion may be helpful
This makes me wonder about the natural formation of silver ore and electron flow within associated minerals and the natural telluric current of the earth.
Hey.. I guess if you can fish out or simply wash out the undissolved impure silver shots before nitric treatment.. You will save a lot on the nitric consumption while recovering gold and other pgm's from those anode baskets.. Lots of love❤ from India🇮🇳
Really enjoying all the silver stuff lately. Plus…anticipating a filter processing series! As always thanks for doing this stuff for everyone to enjoy. Endlessly fascinating and a lot of fun to watch. Enjoy your Memorial Day!
Sreetips, thanks for these awesome videos, I just stumbled upon your channel recently. My question is, where are you getting the material that has all this gold, platinum etc, and silver? My interest is in getting my hands on silver, but the other metals would be a nice perk. Thank you and enjoy your weekend!
I am having a heck of a time finding nitric acid and don't know what its really worth.. What do you think is a decent price for 67% Nitric (not including shipping)?? BTW have you arrived at a preferred ratio for the electrolyte for the silver cell since the early days? I am trying to make up a batch of electrolyte and kick off a silver cell of my own. Saw your original video back in the day and it really inspired me but have not had the time for a new hobby until recently (got old, LOL). Regards, Dach.
@@sreetips Thanks, just looked. Whew. Not cheap with the shipping but looks decent and definitely reliable quality. BTW, they have an affiliate program that looks real quick and easy to sign up for. Maybe you could generate a few extra biscuits to help with the overhead? Thanks Again, Dach.
Not to put a negative slant on what you do, but your title is a bit of a click bate. Your Mrs goes out with maybe $1000-$2000 and hits all the local flee markets and garage sales and intelligently buys silver items on the cheap (relatively). Then you have the knowledge to refine those items into pure silver. Hence your title. Most of us in foreign countries (or the USA) do not have that luxury or bankroll. How about a video on how to buy silver items cheaply and what to look out for? That would be very educational. You can call it "How to buy junk silver cheaply". But do keep up the good work. Your good at it.
BTW, thanks again for all the inspiring videos. I have really learned a lot! Spent 6 hrs last night watching the platinum series. Wow! I can't imagine the work these videos must entail.
I'm surprised you didn't get a complete 14 day run on that $10.00 anode basket. Looks like an extra hot distilled water boil wash or two should clean up that impure silver shot a little bit. Alleviating the filter slimes from occurring so fast. Fun stuff Sreetips...
@@williamfoote2888 If you paid attention to what Sreetips said. His impure silver shot is contaminated with mostly copper. At $10.00 a filter. You'll still get the precious metal without clogging the filter full of copper well before a simple 10 to 14 day run.
I know you don't recover the copper that is in solution, but, if someone wanted too, how would they do it.. That, I think would make a good video.. Thank you for sharing.. My wife & I love watching.. I have learned so much, from watching..
Unless you're running on solar, you should be able to automate the process while also expanding the surface area of the reaction (bigger bowl, bigger basket), and If you run the power supply at about 80% of it's maximum output (strict maximum at any point in the reaction) then automate the operation within off-peak hours of your electrical company, you would get maximum yield in the shortest and cheapest amount of time.
They are averaging less than 10 watts. At $0.17 a kwh these cost $14 a YEAR to run. The savings in electricity wouldn't be worth the loss in production speed. He's already made a second cell due to throughput limitations. It wouldn't be worth spending on a third power supply to keep production up just to save less than 5 dollars in electricity a year. You'd never recoup the costs of setting up a third cell. Not even close.
Hello Mr. Sreetips, thank you for another stupendous video, these are actually lectures to get anyone to build their skills. It is possible to optimize your anode, make it work somewhat fater, and even reduce loss: when replenishing the basked, you add one or two spoons of the shots, then add the silver bar, and then you add other 2 spoons of shots. Instead of ion flow (like an electric circuit) you would have an electromagnetic field and a large volume of ions flowing. You might need to shuffle the shots more often though. Don't remember the equation out the top of my head, if you want I can easily find your current circuitry with the one I am proposing. Just saying.
I wonder if you could puncture like a few more filter holes in the same container lid while giving enough space for Silver Crystal growth & cranking up the current by the amount of filters you've got and just feed those from the main cable. For low amperage you wouldn't need to replace the main cable but if you end up adding many filters I'd use a thicker main cable for safety measures in case it gets hot by the current. If this works then it could speed up the recovery process immensely. Also, I love your videos man, great work ! The way you explain everything always leaves me in awe.
I got a large glass lemonade pitcher, with glass stir stick from the thrift stores for 25% off $7. Planning to use it for refining my gold filled material...someday.
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Question ❓ do you pay taxes on your recovered silver? I cement Sterling silver and I thought I would refine some gold filled scrap to start my gold journey off to a good start . I want to thank you for teaching this to people I love to learn and be a DIY person so it will be another added skill ..
I'm addicted to learning and I ALWAYS learn many new pieces of knowledge from every single video you produce I just can't get enough you could refine pot ash and make it knowledgeable and entertaining thank you for the countless terabytes of top shelf knowledge for all to learn from ... I can only imagine all the amazing job offers you've had and currently get
You should have cell number one like it is, running the silver to get the pure silver, and THEN have cell number two running the crystals to purify the silver even more until the solution stays clear.
You’re welcome. I’d like to thank you for your clear concise instructional video library that covers all aspects of refining. It seems almost all of the questions you receive have been thoroughly covered in previous posts. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
What Sreetips uses here to kick the silver out of solution with copper is called the reactivity serie. PMGs (Platinum) is less reactive than gold which is less reactive than silver which is less reactive than copper. So in his silver cell, the gold and PMGs aren't "interested" to disolve because the silver in the silver nitrate is more stable in there. They stay in the basket. But the copper will disolve and kick what it can of the silver out of solution. Basicly he starts with pure silver nitrate that will allow silver ions to disolve and flow to the cathode and form cristals. The copper will remain in solution. If too much copper is present, then the flow of silver would slow down because it can't go less and less into solution anymore and reach the cathode since the copper is more stable in there. When the flow of silver ions becomes too poor, he changes the nitrate solution for a fresh one. When it happens, there's still plenty of silver in solution (but not enough for a good ion flow) and kicks it out with copper. He could the kick copper out with lead or nickel to recover it and make copper ingots, but that's another story (is copper more expensive than lead? yes. about 4 times)
So then would reversing the anode and cathode move the copper out of the solution and back up into the filter basket? ( Assume that the pure Silver Crystals are removed and a fresh filter with impure silver is installed)
Have you ever thought about adding a cupelling step in your process? Removing the copper first, saving on filters and fluid changes. A little more gas and some bags of Portland cement.
Her Streetips, been watching & lurking commenting some too. Wo dering how much $ the electric bill went up running a few amps thru the cells 24/7 from the powersupplies? I have a few lbs of old silicon fast acting high amp fuse clips/ends. Industrial electrician and saved them from hoppers over the years. New ones are plated copper but old ones appear solid silver (industrial grade) that i would like to try this out on. I also have some tear out Type R thermocouples (platinum & platinum/rhodium) would like to refine back to a small ingot/bead. Also have salvaged a bunch of old Electrical Contactor "buttons" that can be refined some way.?
I sincerely hope that you never come across sterling silver from the UK, hall marked in the name of the Bateman family... the objects are worth far more than pure silver metal. Historically, The Bateman family were superb silversmiths. I have several pieces, hall marked by daughter Hesta Bateman, Peter Bateman, John Bateman, and family. The Bateman family were Silversmiths to the Royal Family.
I'm not an engineer, nor a chemist, nor do I handle acids, nor do I recycle metals. So take a heap of salt with what comes next...because I've got an imagination. I'm imagining a different setup. Two vessels, not unlike what you have here - I imagine one could still be steel and the other plastic, but connected by a pipe. I guess if you can imagine a chicken stock pot and a home depot bucket with pvc connecting them in some way. Would the electrons flow properly to deposit the silver ions from the plastic to the steel? I can also imagine just using two steel pots connected by a pipe - but I don't know what happens when you make the anode contact steel. Anyway. Don't know if it's been done, don't know if it would work. That's what I was thinking about during your entire video - streamlining the process to get maximum yield...assuming my brain functions at the same level as reality.
Did you know, my dear sir, that you are a truly generous teacher who presents information in a simple way that enters any mind, regardless of its level? Did you know, my dear sir, that in my country, which is full of ignorance and opportunists, the same information you provide for free would cost me thousands of dollars? What if I told you that yesterday, as I was searching for a nickel-chromium plating formula for surfaces and metals, someone asked me for $1,000. to teach it to me? Therefore, All expressions of thanks, appreciation, and respect cannot match your level.
Two questions, but I will make each it's own comment. First, why do you use a spoon to fill the basket instead of just using your fingers (gloved or ungloved)?
Thank you so much for sharing your vast knowledge I have a question regarding the anode , How much silver shot do you use per run of a bowl till harvesting a bowl of grown silver Thanks in advance Kind regards Sam
@streetips im curious to know, how LONG did it take you to accumulate all that material in the shot bucket? And how LONG will it take to refine that whole bucket into pure silver?
I have no idea, I couldn’t put a number on it. I buy sterling at local sales. I use it to refine gold. Then I recover the silver and run it through the silver cell. I melted that “shot” about a month and 1/2 ago. There was 22 pounds. I’ve got about half through my silver cells. So in another month or so I’ll need to melt up some more cement silver to use a feed stock for my silver cells.
@@ethanwilson1001 They, theoretically, could be. However, the slimes are rich in platinum group metals, gold and more silver. Recovering them requires the Dacron to be ashed in a furnaces and the metals extracted from the ash. The metal value far exceeds the cost of the filters. The same principle is in play when he ashes all his filter paper that he creates when he filters his raw gold solutions before he gets to the SMB step. The residue on that paper is going to be rich in PGM and maybe some bits of leftover gold and silver. That media is valueless compared to winning more valuable metal product.
Lol dude why do you never-start from nothing and show step by step where you obtain your material and step by step the entire setup... Good grief waste of time man
My wife is the primary buyer. I’ve tried to get her to let me video how she does it (she is truly amazing) but she refuses. It’s very cut throat. If you found a pile of gold would you make a video on where you got it? I tried to convince her that our RUclips channel would skyrocket with that kind of content. But she’s very firm. And I must honor her wishes. Without her, I’d be punching a time clock at Home Depot tomorrow morning. For example, she made a deal yesterday; we bought every bit of karat gold from the seller. After the tally, Mrs sreetips asked if she could go any lower. In my mind I’m saying NO, this is a good deal! To my astonishment the seller discounted the gold from $1900 down to $1600. I was amazed. When we weighed it there was $2800 worth of gold. She made twelve hundred bucks in twenty minutes. Like I said - she is amazing!
Please forgive me as I'm not sure if someone has already asked this question. However I am wondering if it is possible to clean the filters by washing etc. then be able to reuse them?
Silver (and some white gold) are carriers of platinum group metals. But it’s usually trace amounts. They will tend to follow the silver. Ultimately they usually end up in my gold refining stock pot, or as “slimes” in my silver cell anode filters. Then I recover the platinum and palladium and refine them. Rhodium, iridium, ruthenium and Osmium are enigmas to me.
At the rate our copper mines are declining vs the massive increase in demand projected over the next decade, copper is going going to be worth recovering pretty soon.
I’m working with precious metals worth thousands per pound. Even if copper were ten bucks a pound, I could see wasting time with it. It’s a base metal.
Is it possible to recover the acid and re use it because in norway its har to get and if i can re use the nitric acid i hope you have or can make a video how to do this safe Safety is nr 1 priority 😊 Much love from norway
The acid can’t be reused once it’s been allowed to react. I suppose that there’s a way to recover acid, but it’s costly and inefficient. Be the same as trying to recover the copper. It costs more to recover the used copper than its worth.
Would it cause problems in production if one were to add some electrolyte solution directly into the filter basket to saturate the filter material and cover the shot in the bottom of the basket?
"It's really goopy down there." For those of you wondering, I am a Chemist and I can assure you that "Goopy" is in fact the correct term for that material.🤣🤣🤣
Do you use technical terms like “thingy” and “whachamacallit” too?
Yes
@@jakeeasterwood3204 My favorite term, and it's the one that drives the engineers crazy is "squiggly." As in, "We can't accurately model this vein because it is too squiggly."
The reality is that I have it modeled in 3d to a gnat's ass, but I just like to watch the engineers reactions.
@@rockbutcher I can imagine. “Just a smidge” could certainly make them break out in a cold sweat too.
Can't wait to see this goopy material on my screen
So excited, I love the silver cell anode recovery videos. Looks like it’s gonna be a good one this year. Hoo Rah senior chief.
Can you imagine this being your your middle school / high school chemistry classes. I always liked chemistry anyway but this would have taken it to a whole other level.
Your amazing man! From one vet to another happy memorial day
As a vet, I can say it's not about us it about those who paid to Ultimate price and didn't come home. Not trying to be that guy but we get veteran's day. The fallin get memorial day. But thank you for your service.
Enjoy the long weekend! -kamala harris
@@familyengineering5591 why do you feel the need to be that guy and bring politics into the mix? .!. -.- .!.
Because kamala harris hates our fallen vets and everyone needs to know that
@@uwillnevahno6837 its the only thing his type know how to do. All of his friends live on talk radio.
Truly amazing !! I'm learning a lot by watching every video that you have. One question I have. If I don't have in pure silver like you have. What can I use instead? I'm trying to build silver cell setup like you to pay for my son school. Please let me know. Thank you
I’ve used pure silver coins or bars to make the electrolyte. I by sterling silver at local sales. I use it to refine gold. Then I recover the silver from that and run it through my silver cell. Then I add it to my savings and forget about it.
Beautiful display and example.
Great silvercell update. Sure will be interesting to see you process those slimes in the filter papers. 👍
@Streetips looks like they're at it again 😭
The dual set up.. the numbers being inconsistent drives me crazy 😂 but I'm learning. I am truly grateful you are educating myself and so many others. Great science being shared.
There are many variables that determine the numbers.
Second question, when you are doing the refinings, what is your rough expense cost? (Gold and Silver). I am not trying to get into your personal finances just curious how much it costs.
I really don’t know. I use sterling silver to refine gold. Then I recover the silver, melt into granules, then run it through the silver cell.
What is the purpose of the glass rod left in the silver cell?
To stir the electrolyte
I'm wondering when you will do another silver cell filter bag refining
Very interesting......thnx!!
Just got two of those #958 candle stick holders at a thrift store for $15/each. How much silver do you think is in these weighted holders?
Make sure that they are sterling - will be marked if they are. If you can’t find “sterling” on it then chances are high that they are not silver.
@@sreetips yeah, they are marked stirling. How much silver do you think might be in them? The are the Gorham sterling candle holders number 948.
@@ExtractingMetals is it as simple as weighing them and multiplying by 0.925? Just curious. Except I just thought of something - candlesticks are usually weighted so they won’t be solid sterling silver right? The “weighted” part is probably what material?
Nice find. Those are hard to determine because they are full of plaster to weight them down. They have a thin coating of sterling silver.
Plaster or some other easily cast material.
Sreetips said "distilled water" 0 times in this video.
Roughly how much .999 do you figure it takes to make say 4 liters of electrolyte? For the initial run I am just going to just buy some .999 from my bullion dealer but at the current price + premium I don't want to over buy. After all, soon I will have plenty of my own .999(9) eh? LOL. Dach.
I use about 150g per liter.
@@sreetips 600g for 4 liters? Eeek! Thats like 20 ozt. Hmm. This is looking like an expensive hobby, LOL. yes, I know the silver isn't lost, just "loaned". Its just the premiums that are lost. Hmm. I think I am going to have to make some from scratch...
When are you going to refine the slimes?
Soon
You don’t have to pay for silver when you have an awesome wife that brings home silver all the time! Lucky man.
possible suggestion: use multiple ‘levels’ of cementation buckets to recover silver (transferring solutions from one cementation bucket to the next until it reaches the waste disposal). This method minimizes silver loss, while not taking too much time and effort 🤔
Hey sreetips you should just melt all the anode basket filters up into one big bar and hit it with an xrf gun so we can see what ends up leftover then granulate it and process it. At least that way you won't have to fight with all that carbon from the filters all the way threw the refining process!
I can't wait to watch the recovery of the precious metals from your old filter baskets! That's going to be fascinating. I'm really curious to see how much gold you can actually find in them since so much impure silver goes through each filter.
It'll be a case of spending many dollars on recovering just a few cent's worth milligrams of precious metals.
He is a fool!
The loudest one in the room is usually the fool.
@@gordonburns8731 His channel wouldn't be growing the way it is if all he posted was the same vanilla video (turning scrap jewelry into a .999 ingot) again and again. Unpredictable yields, challenges and new techniques make for truly interesting content. Sreetips and most of his longtime viewers are fully aware that this recovery won't even net him minimum wage, but we aren't here to watch someone make money, we're here watch cool chemistry and learn. He'll end up with a bead of gold, a bead platinum-group metals, a few ounces of silver, liters of waste and thousands of happy viewers. This time, the journey is more important than the destination.
@@gordonburns8731 Abraham Lincoln - Quote - Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt
@@gordonburns8731 why would you say something like that? are you jealous or just a keyboard moron?? both i suspect.
Love these videos - Thanks for making them!
How long does it take for a filter to become loaded with slimes?
About a week
the last time you did the filters, you had a hard time getting all the remaining silver bits to dissolve why not rinse out remaining gunk into a classifier to get the larger silver bits to just put back in impure bucket to be reloaded just a suggestion may be helpful
Good suggestion. Thank you.
This makes me wonder about the natural formation of silver ore and electron flow within associated minerals and the natural telluric current of the earth.
Slightly disapointed that this isn't a video where you reveal that you are actually a pirate
😂😂
Hey.. I guess if you can fish out or simply wash out the undissolved impure silver shots before nitric treatment.. You will save a lot on the nitric consumption while recovering gold and other pgm's from those anode baskets.. Lots of love❤ from India🇮🇳
I tried that the last time I processed the silver cell slimes. But it was a weak effort. Seems like a good idea but turns out to be lots of work.
Really enjoying all the silver stuff lately. Plus…anticipating a filter processing series! As always thanks for doing this stuff for everyone to enjoy. Endlessly fascinating and a lot of fun to watch. Enjoy your Memorial Day!
Sreetips, thanks for these awesome videos, I just stumbled upon your channel recently. My question is, where are you getting the material that has all this gold, platinum etc, and silver? My interest is in getting my hands on silver, but the other metals would be a nice perk. Thank you and enjoy your weekend!
We buy sterling silver at estate sales. Silver is a carrier of platinum group metals and gold.
Another great, educational video. Thanks for posting!
Happy memorial day sir! Thank u for ur service!!!
Thank you!
I am having a heck of a time finding nitric acid and don't know what its really worth.. What do you think is a decent price for 67% Nitric (not including shipping)?? BTW have you arrived at a preferred ratio for the electrolyte for the silver cell since the early days? I am trying to make up a batch of electrolyte and kick off a silver cell of my own. Saw your original video back in the day and it really inspired me but have not had the time for a new hobby until recently (got old, LOL). Regards, Dach.
Try dudadiesel.com for nitric.
@@sreetips Thanks, just looked. Whew. Not cheap with the shipping but looks decent and definitely reliable quality. BTW, they have an affiliate program that looks real quick and easy to sign up for. Maybe you could generate a few extra biscuits to help with the overhead? Thanks Again, Dach.
Maybe it would be better to place a dextron filter outside the the rubber basket and leave some room for the slimes.
First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing
Mr. Sreetips needs a soup ladle for that impure silver shot! 😂
One day I will own all the turquoise on this wretched planet.😊
Not to put a negative slant on what you do, but your title is a bit of a click bate. Your Mrs goes out with maybe $1000-$2000 and hits all the local flee markets and garage sales and intelligently buys silver items on the cheap (relatively). Then you have the knowledge to refine those items into pure silver. Hence your title. Most of us in foreign countries (or the USA) do not have that luxury or bankroll. How about a video on how to buy silver items cheaply and what to look out for? That would be very educational. You can call it "How to buy junk silver cheaply". But do keep up the good work. Your good at it.
Hi Kevin, can't call you. I'm in Australia and I don't have sms service.
Do you have to turn the cement silver into shot for this to work?
Yes
Thanks ¦-)
What a skill to have!! Great video Sreetips!
BTW, thanks again for all the inspiring videos. I have really learned a lot! Spent 6 hrs last night watching the platinum series. Wow! I can't imagine the work these videos must entail.
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Hello. I very agree whit you. Have a nice day. Arne 😊
I really enjoy watching your work... I only wish I had my own house instead of living in a apartment where I can undertake this venture.
I'm surprised you didn't get a complete 14 day run on that $10.00 anode basket. Looks like an extra hot distilled water boil wash or two should clean up that impure silver shot a little bit. Alleviating the filter slimes from occurring so fast. Fun stuff Sreetips...
He wants as much ‘slimes’ as he can generate. Things like Pd and Pt, plus some Au, are in those slimes and are worth 40x to 80x the value of Ag.
@@williamfoote2888
If you paid attention to what Sreetips said. His impure silver shot is contaminated with mostly copper. At $10.00 a filter. You'll still get the precious metal without clogging the filter full of copper well before a simple 10 to 14 day run.
I know you don't recover the copper that is in solution, but, if someone wanted too, how would they do it.. That, I think would make a good video..
Thank you for sharing.. My wife & I love watching.. I have learned so much, from watching..
I remove the copper by adding it to pieces of iron. The copper cements out and falls to the bottom of the bucket.
@@sreetips Thank you..
Hello Mrs and Mr screetips. Happy memorial day,to you and all my famely on the best canal🎉. Thanks for sharing sir. A good day to you😊 Arne
Same to you, thanks Arne.
You welcome Sir😊
Have a great day both of you
Unless you're running on solar, you should be able to automate the process while also expanding the surface area of the reaction (bigger bowl, bigger basket), and If you run the power supply at about 80% of it's maximum output (strict maximum at any point in the reaction) then automate the operation within off-peak hours of your electrical company, you would get maximum yield in the shortest and cheapest amount of time.
They are averaging less than 10 watts. At $0.17 a kwh these cost $14 a YEAR to run. The savings in electricity wouldn't be worth the loss in production speed. He's already made a second cell due to throughput limitations. It wouldn't be worth spending on a third power supply to keep production up just to save less than 5 dollars in electricity a year. You'd never recoup the costs of setting up a third cell. Not even close.
Idea for storage of bulk silver: Cast or forge it into furniture like end tables then oxidize so it just looks like old furniture. 🤔
Hello Mr. Sreetips, thank you for another stupendous video, these are actually lectures to get anyone to build their skills.
It is possible to optimize your anode, make it work somewhat fater, and even reduce loss: when replenishing the basked, you add one or two spoons of the shots, then add the silver bar, and then you add other 2 spoons of shots.
Instead of ion flow (like an electric circuit) you would have an electromagnetic field and a large volume of ions flowing.
You might need to shuffle the shots more often though.
Don't remember the equation out the top of my head, if you want I can easily find your current circuitry with the one I am proposing.
Just saying.
I don’t even know how this shit works…
He really needs to reveal himself wearing a wizards costume ;·)
the silver crystal sitting down in the blue liquid inside the cathode bowl reminds me of the inside of a geode for some reason.
I wonder if you could puncture like a few more filter holes in the same container lid while giving enough space for Silver Crystal growth & cranking up the current by the amount of filters you've got and just feed those from the main cable. For low amperage you wouldn't need to replace the main cable but if you end up adding many filters I'd use a thicker main cable for safety measures in case it gets hot by the current. If this works then it could speed up the recovery process immensely.
Also, I love your videos man, great work ! The way you explain everything always leaves me in awe.
Legend! Looks like it's "Slime Time" again soon. Awesome news for us - not so awesome for you :) hah
Thank you Mr Sreetips. How did you get that thick glass rod ?
Bought it on eBay
@@sreetips thank you sir, we love you!
Perhaps Sreettips could build some sort of NOx reclaiming system by sucking the brown gas through water and getting nitric acid back
I got a large glass lemonade pitcher, with glass stir stick from the thrift stores for 25% off $7. Planning to use it for refining my gold filled material...someday.
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Question ❓ do you pay taxes on your recovered silver? I cement Sterling silver and I thought I would refine some gold filled scrap to start my gold journey off to a good start . I want to thank you for teaching this to people I love to learn and be a DIY person so it will be another added skill ..
I pay all my taxes, without exception.
Hobbies are not taxed, just as hobbies are not a deductible expenses from your income.
If I sell the metal then it gets counted as income so I report every cent.
I am able to cement the silver but having issues with draining the solution to just down to the powder any advice?
@@sreetips Make sure you also report (claim) every cent you spend on it (and that includes electricity).
I'm addicted to learning and I ALWAYS learn many new pieces of knowledge from every single video you produce I just can't get enough you could refine pot ash and make it knowledgeable and entertaining thank you for the countless terabytes of top shelf knowledge for all to learn from ... I can only imagine all the amazing job offers you've had and currently get
You should have cell number one like it is, running the silver to get the pure silver, and THEN have cell number two running the crystals to purify the silver even more until the solution stays clear.
Excellent you are going to be really busy with the harvest thank you for sharing this six stars sir
You’re welcome. I’d like to thank you for your clear concise instructional video library that covers all aspects of refining. It seems almost all of the questions you receive have been thoroughly covered in previous posts. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
I've never paid for pure silver either! The stuff in my teeth was adulterated with mercury.
Not for free he spends a lot of money most of us dose not have to start a silver cell let alone buy all the impure silver like .925
What Sreetips uses here to kick the silver out of solution with copper is called the reactivity serie. PMGs (Platinum) is less reactive than gold which is less reactive than silver which is less reactive than copper. So in his silver cell, the gold and PMGs aren't "interested" to disolve because the silver in the silver nitrate is more stable in there. They stay in the basket. But the copper will disolve and kick what it can of the silver out of solution. Basicly he starts with pure silver nitrate that will allow silver ions to disolve and flow to the cathode and form cristals. The copper will remain in solution. If too much copper is present, then the flow of silver would slow down because it can't go less and less into solution anymore and reach the cathode since the copper is more stable in there. When the flow of silver ions becomes too poor, he changes the nitrate solution for a fresh one. When it happens, there's still plenty of silver in solution (but not enough for a good ion flow) and kicks it out with copper. He could the kick copper out with lead or nickel to recover it and make copper ingots, but that's another story (is copper more expensive than lead? yes. about 4 times)
So then would reversing the anode and cathode move the copper out of the solution and back up into the filter basket? ( Assume that the pure Silver Crystals are removed and a fresh filter with impure silver is installed)
I don’t think that would work.
@@sreetips I was just thinking out loud again. My only thought was, " Removing the copper accumulated". It wouldn't be significant anyway. My bad.
@@sreetips It would not indeed.
hey mr sreetips when you speak silver just appears you silver tounged mag daddy ?
Have you ever thought about adding a cupelling step in your process? Removing the copper first, saving on filters and fluid changes. A little more gas and some bags of Portland cement.
None of the professional refiners that I learned from used cupel.
@@sreetips I noticed that you said that you don't save the copper, so I figured why not remove it first. Less buckets lol.
copper is starting to get expensive... Maybe you should refine out that too?
I'll have to refine some placer gold and get my junk silver pile going too!
I like that highly scientific silver term "goupy."
Very informative and wonderfully presented for anyone who wants to learn. Thank you.
Looky at your subs!!
I believe I said "before 2024 or no later than January 2024" that you'd hit A QUARTER MILLION SUBS!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
You were right!
To bad you don't have a genuine shot Tower. Like for shotgun bee bee,s.
Her Streetips, been watching & lurking commenting some too. Wo dering how much $ the electric bill went up running a few amps thru the cells 24/7 from the powersupplies?
I have a few lbs of old silicon fast acting high amp fuse clips/ends. Industrial electrician and saved them from hoppers over the years. New ones are plated copper but old ones appear solid silver (industrial grade) that i would like to try this out on.
I also have some tear out Type R thermocouples (platinum & platinum/rhodium) would like to refine back to a small ingot/bead.
Also have salvaged a bunch of old Electrical Contactor "buttons" that can be refined some way.?
The feed stock going into the anode must be relatively high purity to begin with.
I sincerely hope that you never come across sterling silver from the UK, hall marked in the name of the Bateman family... the objects are worth far more than pure silver metal. Historically, The Bateman family were superb silversmiths. I have several pieces, hall marked by daughter Hesta Bateman, Peter Bateman, John Bateman, and family. The Bateman family were Silversmiths to the Royal Family.
I’ve never seen Bateman. But I’ll keep an eye out for it.
I'm not an engineer, nor a chemist, nor do I handle acids, nor do I recycle metals. So take a heap of salt with what comes next...because I've got an imagination.
I'm imagining a different setup. Two vessels, not unlike what you have here - I imagine one could still be steel and the other plastic, but connected by a pipe. I guess if you can imagine a chicken stock pot and a home depot bucket with pvc connecting them in some way.
Would the electrons flow properly to deposit the silver ions from the plastic to the steel? I can also imagine just using two steel pots connected by a pipe - but I don't know what happens when you make the anode contact steel. Anyway. Don't know if it's been done, don't know if it would work. That's what I was thinking about during your entire video - streamlining the process to get maximum yield...assuming my brain functions at the same level as reality.
I’d like to see a video of that configuration.
Did you know, my dear sir, that you are a truly generous teacher who presents information in a simple way that enters any mind, regardless of its level? Did you know, my dear sir, that in my country, which is full of ignorance and opportunists, the same information you provide for free would cost me thousands of dollars? What if I told you that yesterday, as I was searching for a nickel-chromium plating formula for surfaces and metals, someone asked me for $1,000. to teach it to me? Therefore, All expressions of thanks, appreciation, and respect cannot match your level.
That’s incredible.
Two questions, but I will make each it's own comment.
First, why do you use a spoon to fill the basket instead of just using your fingers (gloved or ungloved)?
The spoon is easier
Thank you so much for sharing your vast knowledge
I have a question regarding the anode ,
How much silver shot do you use per run of a bowl till harvesting a bowl of grown silver
Thanks in advance
Kind regards
Sam
For every 100g of impure silver I put in, I’ll get about 98g of high purity silver out, roughly.
@streetips im curious to know, how LONG did it take you to accumulate all that material in the shot bucket? And how LONG will it take to refine that whole bucket into pure silver?
I have no idea, I couldn’t put a number on it. I buy sterling at local sales. I use it to refine gold. Then I recover the silver and run it through the silver cell. I melted that “shot” about a month and 1/2 ago. There was 22 pounds. I’ve got about half through my silver cells. So in another month or so I’ll need to melt up some more cement silver to use a feed stock for my silver cells.
Very informative video! Is it feasible to clean or rinse out those dacron filter bags when they get filled with the slimes?
No, they’re custom fit.
The slimes are where the money is.
@@williamfoote2888 Are those dacron bags reusable?
@@ethanwilson1001 They, theoretically, could be. However, the slimes are rich in platinum group metals, gold and more silver.
Recovering them requires the Dacron to be ashed in a furnaces and the metals extracted from the ash.
The metal value far exceeds the cost of the filters.
The same principle is in play when he ashes all his filter paper that he creates when he filters his raw gold solutions before he gets to the SMB step.
The residue on that paper is going to be rich in PGM and maybe some bits of leftover gold and silver.
That media is valueless compared to winning more valuable metal product.
Lol dude why do you never-start from nothing and show step by step where you obtain your material and step by step the entire setup... Good grief waste of time man
My wife is the primary buyer. I’ve tried to get her to let me video how she does it (she is truly amazing) but she refuses. It’s very cut throat. If you found a pile of gold would you make a video on where you got it? I tried to convince her that our RUclips channel would skyrocket with that kind of content. But she’s very firm. And I must honor her wishes. Without her, I’d be punching a time clock at Home Depot tomorrow morning. For example, she made a deal yesterday; we bought every bit of karat gold from the seller. After the tally, Mrs sreetips asked if she could go any lower. In my mind I’m saying NO, this is a good deal! To my astonishment the seller discounted the gold from $1900 down to $1600. I was amazed. When we weighed it there was $2800 worth of gold. She made twelve hundred bucks in twenty minutes. Like I said - she is amazing!
Oh and great video sreetips!.
Jesus. Not only do you explain things incredibly slowly you also explain the same thing 3-5 times in a row.
You’re smart, you get it the first time. I repeat for the benefit of those who need to hear it several times.
I have one question, why did you not use a thick plexiglass lid ,so you could see what's happening in your cell without having to move lid?
It’s been tried. Condensation forms and obscures the view.
Please forgive me as I'm not sure if someone has already asked this question. However I am wondering if it is possible to clean the filters by washing etc. then be able to reuse them?
I can clean and rescue them but they are custom fit and it would be nearly impossible to re-fit them into the anode basket.
I notice a lot of blue liquid. I would think mostly copper. What would be used to cement that back out of solution?
I cement the copper on iron
Very Interesting. I havent looked through your videos yet but am interested in the detection and removal of platinum group metals
Silver (and some white gold) are carriers of platinum group metals. But it’s usually trace amounts. They will tend to follow the silver. Ultimately they usually end up in my gold refining stock pot, or as “slimes” in my silver cell anode filters. Then I recover the platinum and palladium and refine them. Rhodium, iridium, ruthenium and Osmium are enigmas to me.
Do you refine contact tip for other people I have around 17 pounds of I would like to have done.?
I only work on stuff that my wife and I find at local sales.
what is the metal bar on the electrode bar? it looks like pure silver. sorry I'm a social work major not a hard science major 😂
Yes, pure silver
I think the low current after the exchange of the filter is caused by thin oxide layers on the impure silver shot.
A clean new filter will cause the current flow to increase dramatically.
Can't wait to see the silver slimes video.
Could you reduce the copper content by using a copper electrolysis cell therefore prolonging the silver nitrate life span?
They have very similar characteristics and would be difficult to separate.
Surely, you recover most of your silver from Sterling Silver table ware that you process.
Yes, I buy sterling at local sales. I use it to refine gold. Then I recover the silver and run it through my silver cell(s).
You cannot create something from nothing. You are refining, not "gaining", and it isn't free really.
Correct
Have you had any luck washing out the dacron filters and reusing them?
No, they are custom fit in the anode basket.
At the rate our copper mines are declining vs the massive increase in demand projected over the next decade, copper is going going to be worth recovering pretty soon.
I’m working with precious metals worth thousands per pound. Even if copper were ten bucks a pound, I could see wasting time with it. It’s a base metal.
Is it possible to recover the acid and re use it because in norway its har to get and if i can re use the nitric acid i hope you have or can make a video how to do this safe
Safety is nr 1 priority 😊
Much love from norway
The acid can’t be reused once it’s been allowed to react. I suppose that there’s a way to recover acid, but it’s costly and inefficient. Be the same as trying to recover the copper. It costs more to recover the used copper than its worth.
Sir you are the real and non criminal Walter White.
Would it cause problems in production if one were to add some electrolyte solution directly into the filter basket to saturate the filter material and cover the shot in the bottom of the basket?
That will work
Goopy. New scientific term. It fits
do you recommend a manufacturer of anode filter basket ?? or is it a homemade ??
I bought those at the grocery store. I think they were GLAD
Not trying to share knowledge. Just showing off.
What is it you’d like to know?