Excellent! Even looked yummy! I'm retired from most of this now, but i still like to watch. Actually did some like that and my boss took it to be tested, 3 labs in the Bay area tested it at 9 , 9's. When he asked about the purity they all said there is no machine that can test 1000%. Great patience there , don't believe that i could do the job AND film. If there was a 2 thumbs up on this,i'd smashed it. Thanks for the memories.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I love it. But I must confess that having to work around the camera is starting to test my patience.
@johannesthe5th154
2 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips have you considered using a chest mount for the camera?
@catch22frubert
2 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips Yes, this is the way. Just get a chest strap and a head strap for the newest go pros, get 2 of them and use those 2 cameras to get most of your footage. You don't need to weave your way around 3 different camera setups while working to get good shots. Just use a couple go pros and maybe just the 1 on a tripod to get the time lapse shots.
@albertoleecarranza9477
2 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips Do you think monatomic gold can be made in a microwave oven? How would you vaporize pure gold for consumption. Please make a video on how to make monatomic gold.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I don’t know how.
@dominicdelprincipe2583
2 жыл бұрын
In a different time, you would have been a mysterious alchemist. Kudos man
@p.bateman5941
2 жыл бұрын
Very true
@deadlikedisco4726
2 жыл бұрын
That aqua regia after the addition of HCl was such a beautiful red. I absolutely love the colors that dissolving gold can produce. I've also noticed that when adding water to dissolved gold, the solution can get cloudy. Adding HCl to it seems to clear it up right away, every time. Great video!
@dhshammer
2 жыл бұрын
My new favorite phrase, “hot boiling nitric acid”.
@westpointfever905
2 жыл бұрын
That's my new band name 🤘
@TheMindsEye9.25
2 жыл бұрын
Love these gold and silver refining video's. I like purifying gold but never have really messed with silver.
@trt4life605
2 жыл бұрын
Sreetips, Thanks so much for the shout out! Don't forget to encapsulate the bare copper wire or it will corrode, you can use 5 min epoxy or the silicon RTV. On the bowl, I recommend silver soldering the wires with an acid based flux, tin each side first then join, the key in corrosive environments is intermetallic bonding instead of mechanical connections, that should get your voltage drop down to a bare minimum, thanks so much for teaching us these processes, I am ready to begin my own refining and will be using your videos as a reference.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
The copper wire actually began to melt as I poured the silver in the mold. I was disappointed when I realized that the camera was off. But the bond was tight even were the two metals meet. Now that I know it works I’ll tweak it for the best configuration.
@markpashia7067
2 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips I would try to "sandwich pour" the anode. Pour some of the silver and after a second or two sink the copper into it before it sets, then pour the rest of the silver on top to get your weight. Even if you got some melt and blending of the copper it would be in the middle of the block that way. Also that torch straight on the pour might not be needed for this type of pour. Extra heat on the copper. Sure makes pretty bars for sale, but the anode does not need pretty. Copper has higher melt temp than silver if memory serves so this should be done without melting the copper.
@dennisflemming826
2 жыл бұрын
Wow great show! Thanks, mixing up the methods gives a better understanding of the proses . Please keep up the great work
@shaneyork300
2 жыл бұрын
Wow! That has got to be the prettiest gold powder I've ever seen!! Have a Great Day My Friend!
@DeWin157
2 жыл бұрын
Your refining videos are the best ones.
@timothydean
2 жыл бұрын
This is amazing . I learn so much from this guy
@UFObuilder
2 жыл бұрын
It's always fun to watch chemistry excellent work
@AndyGraceMedia
2 жыл бұрын
Gotta love instant clouds of nitrogen dioxide AKA brown death! Not sure my neighbors would be into it however! :). I guess it could be collected in apparatus and then bubbled through water to recycle as dilute nitric acid.
@AshleyReneeKuntz
2 жыл бұрын
That's what I did but it degrades my tubing super fast so I just use a big fan and process it all in my drive way lol
@kyzercube
2 жыл бұрын
When I saw the gold after the 2nd refinement I knew something went wrong. Iron galore, but at least you knew it was only gold and iron so you could be confident a Na2S2O5 would yield only gold on the 3rd try. Great job on that rebound Sreetips!
@JacobE-23
2 жыл бұрын
Glad I got a chance to pick up some more gold. Thanks Kevin! Pleasure doing business.
@kriskemp4952
7 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing. These are terrific videos.
@torchandhammer
2 жыл бұрын
This is really making me rethink the connections in my copper plating tank. I know I've got the same problems, using alligator clips
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I’ll replace the other cables as well
@markpashia7067
2 жыл бұрын
Put that powder in a spice bottle in a kitchen and no thief would look at it twice. Nice security feature. Torch and a melt dish would convert at any time you needed the gold. So cool.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent suggestion
@p.bateman5941
2 жыл бұрын
This is always 💯👌🔥❤good times and very interesting to Learn. Could never do it myself but awesome
@markpashia7067
2 жыл бұрын
At 19:54 it looks like those clips to the bowl are aluminum. If that is so then a little of the grease made for aluminum wire connections would help that clip conduct to the bowl with less resistance. You can get a small tube at most hardware stores. We wired a lot of houses with aluminum wiring before we knew the fire hazard and so the fix is special switches and plugs combined with that grease for the wiring to take out the resistance that caused the heat and fire hazard. Kind of like the old Brylcream commercials -"A little dab will do ya." Worth a try as a cheap fix.
@Ziegen-Sauger
2 жыл бұрын
REALLY good idea!!!! Kudos do Daryl !!!!!! That is the experimental observation of the resistance theory I summarized before. Just imagine how much loss you had on that frankenstein cable you had
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I’ll replace the other cable also
@catch22frubert
2 жыл бұрын
For the negative connection on your silver cell, just take some 12 gage copper ground wire long enough to go all the way around the bowl, and up directly to the power supply, and twist it tight around the bowl with a pair of linesman pliers. Using a single thick strand of copper around the entire rim of the bowl and up to the power supply will eliminate all those bad clip connections. I wish I could just do it for you or draw a picture, but there's only one way to use a single strand of wire around the rim of the bowl and directly up to the power supply. Just cross it over itself at the rim of the bowl and twist it tight there. Run the rest of the wire directly to the power supply. I have no doubt you can figure it out. Its the easiest and most effective way to get rid of those clips permanently. When you need to empty the bowl, just take the negative end off the power supply. Keeping the wire wrapped tight to the bowl and disconnect the power supply side and you will only ever have to do it once.
@excitedbox5705
2 жыл бұрын
the reason the voltage is lower on the bowl is because the electrons take the path of least resistance. That means they will go straight through the bowl towards the anode. If you want more even spread you need more connections to the bowl. You could also take a soldering iron and solder a bunch of bolts to the outside of the bowl. Then you can connect wires directly to them using terminals.
@SomervilleBob
2 жыл бұрын
At the jewelry shop I worked in, we had a trap on the sink. Guys would wash their hands, precious metal powder would drop into the trap. I worked there 4 years and during that time, I never saw the trap emptied. Must have accumulated a lot.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I’d like to get a piece of his carpet from underneath his work bench.
@robertrichards9275
2 жыл бұрын
LOL good job on the silver cell I believe I suggest pouring one of them Anno blocks of silver with a copper wire just hook up to your power supply, now for a different suggestion, solder a connection to the Bowl to try and get the best contact possible and make it so you can disconnect that wire that you don't have a little alligator clip on when you need to do something with the bowl
@denislamadeleine1181
2 жыл бұрын
Another great video, thanks!
@johnbox5013
2 жыл бұрын
Those wire clamps from circuit breakers welded onto the bowl or clamped on. Its got a set screw for attaching wires. Don't bust up a circuit breaker but those type of connectors that clamp the wire in will give a solid connection.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I was thinking copper (or silver) wing nuts - no tools needed
@workkevinw
2 жыл бұрын
It may be beneficial to your viewers to explain the difference between hcl acid and sulfuric acid soo they do not make the mistake of mixing up nitro instead of aqua regia. Lots of folks figure hcl is any drain cleaner type acid of which you can find on the same shelf in the hardware store. A safety video may be a real plus for the novice. Love your videos by the way. They are honest.
@xenaguy01
2 жыл бұрын
-1:05-- Not meaning to be super critical, but your -_-"immediate reaction"-_- was from pouring the hot nitric acid onto the filter paper, not from the Sterling pieces.- 3:15 My mistake. I thought that silver dish sticking up out of the liquid was filter paper.
@dominicdelprincipe2583
2 жыл бұрын
Hey Sreetips, a little off topic but, did you ever sell that bangin' muscle car?? That thing was awesome. Love your stuff. EDIT: Also, great idea from the warrant officer! Go Navy, indeed! I saw a layer of solids just under the surface before you poured off the waste from the dark-brown gold... what could that be?
@aaroncummings970
2 жыл бұрын
So grateful for your knowledge! Thank you for helping to make it easier to learn!
@jonpierce8342
2 жыл бұрын
I love it when something makes a noticeable improvement like that! Well done!!! Can you solder your second lead directly to the bowl?
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Solder won’t stick to stainless
@josephcormier5974
2 жыл бұрын
Nicely done two thumbs
@Boatswain1985
2 жыл бұрын
It can't go into "solution" without solution.. great video,,
@frogjunk
2 жыл бұрын
The wire cast into the anode is a great idea but to keep the copper out of the solution I’d try casting the wire into a narrow bar and silver solder the bar to the silver anode bar.
@670TXxGregorysxXT670
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video
@chuckcrunch1
2 жыл бұрын
the stainless-steel bole has a slightly higher resistance than the silver or copper . maybe more contact points could reduce the amount of stainless the current needs to pass thru before doing any work at any one particular point of the bole . maybe a connection for the bottom of the bole as well, maybe a copper or silver plate for the bole to sit on
@luckymetalsrefining8201
2 жыл бұрын
Great videos
@hateonskillz318
2 жыл бұрын
Watching your most recent video and sweet the thumbnail of your 47,000 gold bar refining and see the inquarted gold and I've been using cuppels to refine some of my 14k gold and if you know cuppels they do collect base metals but if there are silver mixed the gold it collects as well. Sucks when you have gold and silver but probably won't go that extra step and learn or set up something like this with all these chemicals reactions not to say there's anything wrong I just don't want to do that at my house i know myself and would just dump and contaminate my soil and surroundings for little old me. One day I'm just going to keep saving what I have and one day hope I can get a refining done by this man. I've bought his fine gold powder dust and is the real deal when put in fire there is no oxidation from the heat it just stay that yellow gold color nothing else when your burning pure gold metal such a sight to see then you work with any k gold and see the oxidation when put in heat or flame
@matthewf1979
2 жыл бұрын
Drill a hole the size of the wire on the rim of the bowl. Then make a mechanical connection with the bowl and wire by running the wire through the hole and crimp the copper tightly together. After thats done, a bit of electrical grade solder should be used on the copper only to ensure the connection won’t come off. Soldering copper to stainless is possible, but the fluxes required are horrible for electrical purposes.
@thamikemannote
2 жыл бұрын
i think in this environment you will alwas have oxide layers on the clamp connectors! maybe there is a place where you can solder or bolt a wire directly to the bowl. tipp: you can measure the voltage drop across connections directly with the multimeter! this way you can exaclty localize bad connections! thanks for the content!!! :)
@bdiddy460
2 жыл бұрын
You should try and wrap the cathode side of your silver cell with one long pice of copper wire instead of using two conection points this way you only have one connection on the anode and one on the cathode and voltage and amperage will be the same all around
@93matarl
2 жыл бұрын
on the silver sell on the bowl you can use a screw clamp or a stainless steel bolt that is drilled in the top of the bowl to improve connection (you will need to make some holes but as long as they are over the fill line it should be fine)
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Agree, thank you
@shannonlbaker
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video !!!!
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Shannon! Stay in the cool today. Jo told me.
@KD0CAC
2 жыл бұрын
I was in the Army ;) Suggested replacing cable way back in the beginning of this issue ;) Solder the other clamp - after silver plating it . Thanks again
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Yup, I remember. We’ve all done it. Hear the correct solution, but our minds tell us, “naw, that can’t be it.” It’s a human condition that I suffer from. Probably won’t be the last time.
@KD0CAC
2 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips I tell ya - those Navy guys ;)
@scrapman502
2 жыл бұрын
You can drill some holes in the top of your bowl and attach some stainless steel screws and nuts. You then can attach some spade lugs to the ends of your wires (make sure you solder the wires to the lugs) and then connect the wires to the bowl. That will eliminate the clip leads.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Wing nuts
@johnwells1724
2 жыл бұрын
I believe that if you silver solder your connection to the stainless steel that you would have a 0 loss between the contact point and the Stainless steel bowl. You would need to rough up the surface on the stainless steel bowl before bonding the contact point to the stainless steel bowl with solder
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I don’t think solder would stick to stainless
@fal7068
2 жыл бұрын
Question about the silver cell cover. Is the reaction light sensitive? I was thinking that if you utilized a clear plastic as your cover then you could shoot timelapse videos of the silver crystals growing and it would also be a lot less trouble when checking on your progress of crystal growth.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
The underside of the cover gets covered with condensation and becomes obfuscated so that would work. You’d still have to lift it up to see inside
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
What would be cool is a glass lens held below the surface of the electrolyte (like a glass-bottom boat) to shoot a nice time lapse.
@margaritarocha5976
2 жыл бұрын
Me encanta ese color
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Si nosotros tambien
@5roundsrapid263
2 жыл бұрын
¡El color de naranja, pero realmente oro puro!
@HavocStylesJoe
2 жыл бұрын
Way better than ESPN.... YT will now ban this.
@jasong8377
2 жыл бұрын
To in prove the connection at the bowl try using tamya switch lubricant or a conducive gell I think that would make a big difference or drill a hole put a copper bolt with a set nut and a second wingnut you can make a hard connection with
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I like wing nuts
@5roundsrapid263
2 жыл бұрын
13:45 Can I have that glass of orange soda? 😆
@jellymatebasia8396
2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic.
@fixaweek7014
2 жыл бұрын
Mr. Sreetips, Where do you source your nitric acid? I cant seem to find the stuff you seem to be using. Id really appreciate the help. Keep it golden.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Gfs chemicals
@goranaxelsson1409
2 жыл бұрын
You should paint the top of the silver anode. Silver nitrate will find it's way up to the copper wire and when that happens it will start corrode quite fast.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I may go up on the copper wire thickness. Wish I could find 8 gauge pure silver wire. Preserving it with some sort of coating like epoxy.
@excitedbox5705
2 жыл бұрын
If you can get the purity high enough you can get a premium for your silver and gold selling to home scientists who need it for vapor deposition. We need extremely high purity (5N-9N) but only very small quantities, so commercial dealers don't want to deal with us.
@mikeshaw201118
2 жыл бұрын
Dumb question for you Mr. Sreetips but does adding an excess of HCL impact the reaction in any way ? Other than financially. I understand the HNO3 problem leading to difficulties later down the line with de-noxing but am I correct in assuming that HCL is just the solute ?
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Excess HCl is not a problem. But too little of it and the reaction will stall
@ronjlwhite8058
Жыл бұрын
I said yummy as you said delicious LOL...awesomeness!!!
@moonboogien8908
2 жыл бұрын
You know your a pimp chemist when even your stir bar is gold plated.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
There was probably two grams of gold adhered to the stir bar
@joshredding9588
2 жыл бұрын
Hey SREETIPS...i believe if you take some of the completely dried out gold dust from this experiment and place it on an anvil and hit it with a hammer it will form a beautiful gold button! give it a try on camera!
@ANCIENTASTRONAUT411
2 жыл бұрын
Duh screetips you have to add around 3 to 1 hahaha good job screetips your awesome all-around
@dphil2703
2 жыл бұрын
Silver solder the cathode wire to the bowl, should work just fine
@MrMackievelli
2 жыл бұрын
The yellow hcl rinse(during the first refining) wasnt likely to be redissolved gold, more likely to be iron or even possibly palladium.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I should have tested it with stannous
@ivsongold322
2 жыл бұрын
Nice 👌
@fenrisulfur666
2 жыл бұрын
Just solder the copper cathode to the bowl, if you need to be extra fancy you could probably solder a bonafide screwed electrical connection, you can use some of that HCl or H2SO4 of your as a flux.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Stainless won’t solder well
@fenrisulfur666
2 жыл бұрын
Oh yes of course, it's stainless sorry. What about silver solder, that should be possible.
@josephpecoul6532
2 жыл бұрын
I see a potential problem will The Handlebar follow the silver Crystal as it gets dissolved in the Endo basket or will it hang up at the top you need to modify that wire somehow where there's no restriction and it can fall down as the crystal gets used by the electrolyte. Curious Observer.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I bent the wire so that it places a slight downward force on the bar
@johnheinze5503
2 жыл бұрын
Solder a wire to the bowl and use a wire nut to join it to the lead.
@anthonywaite
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe soldier the negative wire right to the bowl idk if that would work but worth a shot
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I don’t think the solder would stick
@jasong8377
2 жыл бұрын
Question about the silver cell basket you always replace the fabric I seem to remember you stated in a long past video why you replace it instead of simply washing it out but I don't remember could it be and cleaned? Also do you only sell on ebay I buy directly from paydirt sellers through PayPal and the sellers avoid the eBay fees is this something you would do you could receive the same money and pass the eBay fee as a savings to buyers
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
The filters are custom fit each time. They would not fit for a second use. I have sold directly to buyers in the U.S.
@troyderoinjr6926
2 жыл бұрын
How about soldering the ground wires directly to the bowl and eliminate the clips all together and run them to the fuse then the supply direct connections threw and threw I would make sure that the fuse end is removable for cleaning the cell
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I solved it
@imish4897
2 жыл бұрын
Best notification i had 😍😍
@InvokerGray
2 жыл бұрын
Will the sold wire put less downward force on the basket? over time / when the silver is low in the basket.
@parkerbot
2 жыл бұрын
Also gotta be careful that the anode doesn't get dissolved down to the copper wire and contaminate the electrolyte.
@torchandhammer
2 жыл бұрын
With the solid wire, you can actually give it a little spring tension pushing downward.
@buckwildebeest398
2 жыл бұрын
Gold is my most favoritest. Then crystal silver.
@deepovertone
2 жыл бұрын
Hey sreetips, How about setting the bowl on a copper plate thats very well connected to the power supply. Since the connection will be much further away from the edge of the bowl(and therefore the fumes) it shouldn't corrode nearly as fast. Plus, you'll get a larger contact area with the bottom of the bowl touching the copper plate vs those two small clips on the edge of the bowl.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
That’s an idea. Thank you
@jakeivy7208
2 жыл бұрын
That is a great idea and a film of dielectric grease between the bowl and copper plate would make a uniform electrical contact, thanks for sharing your idea !!
@krakhedd
2 жыл бұрын
Obviously it worked out - but that little bit of melt on the copper, from casting it inside the silver anode? The remaining copper looks like it's still at least 16 gauge of solid core metal. It should be good for probably 50 amps in the length and for the function you have, and probably 1000 watts safely
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Agree. That was a prototype. I’ll experiment some more until I find the perfect configuration. I can’t understand how I got away with these connections for all these years. It all finally piled up and quit working. Amazing
@Joe.Rogan.
2 жыл бұрын
Now I can't wait to see the jewelers ultrasonic cleaner residue video... love finding gold in strange places.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Who knows what lurks in those slimy wastes - GOLD!
@littlezgz
2 жыл бұрын
You could sodder copper wire to the stainless steel bowl
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I don’t think that solder would stick to the stainless.
@RuneChaosMarine
2 жыл бұрын
I recently have seen a much larger stainless salad bowl. Could you create a larger silver cell useing one of these and a larger basket?
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Probably, as long as the 4 inch to 4.5 inch critical distance is maintained between the anode basket and the cathode stainless bowl.
@TheWolfster001
2 жыл бұрын
Couldn't you weld some threaded posts onto the bowl then take the wire making a loop and screw it down on the bowl?? other then just soldering the wire directly to the bowl, that would be a much better of a connection, also the heavier gauge of wire you use will result in less power loss.. Just a suggestion..
@goldenrod8861
2 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised you didn't use the bubbling gas method for precipitation. Sorry, I don't remember the name of the gas, I think you used SMB in a capped beaker with some sort of acid.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
That was sulfuric dripped on SMB slurry in a gas generator. I was going to do it but it was late and the liquid SMB method saved time. But when I do this again I’ll probably make the time for the SO2 gas generator.
@xtreamdiazvlog9507
2 жыл бұрын
Nice
@DeWin157
2 жыл бұрын
I wish I had the money to buy the entire 58 grams, hopefully someday.
@ericfermin8347
2 жыл бұрын
So why the percipitation order of SMB, copperas, dissolved and filtered SMB? Was that a purposeful order of percipitation or just a random order?
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I planned SO2 gas for number three. But it was late and the filtered SMB was much faster.
@NetworkGeek280
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe sit the bowl on a mild steel plate. Solder the wire to the plate.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Good idea. But I think that the mild steel would corrode quickly.
@sillybears4673
2 жыл бұрын
Can any of the corrosive fumes damage your gold watch?
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe, but so far so good.
@robschmitt8
2 жыл бұрын
At 3:25 of video, you have multiple crimps in the leads. Doesn't that increase resistance?
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@Trashbd
2 жыл бұрын
Now if you solder the wire to the bowl instead of using a clip it will work even better...
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Solder don’t stick well to stainless
@MyScreenNameIsTroubledOne
Жыл бұрын
So, forgive me here but I am brand new to all this stuff, but the silver cell bucket thingy…. Does the silver liquify because of the current running through it and drip through a filter into the bowl? And that’s how you refine pure silver? Am I understanding this correctly?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Partly. The electric current flow dissolves the silver shot in the anode basket. The silver ions pass through the Dacron filter, into the silver nitrate electrolyte and plate out as high purity elemental silver metal on the inside of the stainless steel bowl. The stainless bowl is the cathode.
@MyScreenNameIsTroubledOne
Жыл бұрын
@@sreetips oh I see. Thanks for clarifying. 👍
@slimpickins09er87
2 жыл бұрын
Sreetips, great video as always and like always it leaves me with questions. 1) have you thought about a body cam to do away with the tripod camera? 2) can you use the copperous to precipitate out the gold in the gold waste jar? 3) with the wire casted in the anode bar, do you stand a greater chance of the power supply getting burnt out if the anode gets in the electrolyte? 4) If the silver cement is no purer than 92.5 would it not be cheaper and faster just to melt your Sterling and make shot out of it. Instead of using nitric to cement it out? 5) Why is it everytime I watch your videos. I have the urge to buy Sterling Silver are you putting subliminal messages in your videos? Just kidding about the subliminal messages.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
1. I’ve used headband cam. 2. Copperas will drop gold from the waste jar. 3. If silver hits anode then it could ruin power supply. 4. Cement silver is 98% to 99% as 925 is too much copper. 5. No subliminal in my videos. Precious metals are fascinating without them
@slimpickins09er87
2 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips thanks Sreetips, precious metals are fascinating but so is the refining process. This should be day 1 in every chemistry class. Really looking forward to a crucible melt video, the way precious metals shine when molten hot.
@macoppy6571
2 жыл бұрын
No molten pour?!? First, the foible with the anode bar, then stopped short of melting a gold bar! Please sreetips, give us a molten pour in the next upload 🙏
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Oh, alright…
@ANCIENTASTRONAUT411
2 жыл бұрын
Its not easy the pour sometimes they have to do 3 or 4 times remelt to get it perfect lol haha right but theres editing you can edit the pour so you can do it 20 times till perfect hahahaha
@Mr007troy
2 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips I want to see a 10 oz bar! Ohhhhhh yaaaaaa.....
@szaboaz
2 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to melt the gold into some kind of figurines. Like little star shapes, or animal shapes. Those would be items to keep for ever. A golden chess set is out of the question, I bet... actually instead of messing with the molds, those could be forged easier from a solid cylinder on a lathe...
@HavocStylesJoe
2 жыл бұрын
37:04 it's OK, I don't miss the ventilation hood fan noise.
@johannesdesloper8434
2 жыл бұрын
Hahahahaha.. burned a hole through the plate. Intriguing smoke!
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve got more silver. My wife keeps bringing it to me. If spent every day just processing my silver it would take a long time to get caught up. However, when I make these videos, everything gets put on hold, and I devote 110% to video production. While everything else just sits. I may have to put the camera away for a while and get caught up.
@johannesdesloper8434
2 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips I almost wish I had a wife like that! I love your video's. Last year I made a vid myself on peening my skythe and it's kinda taking of now in my terms and especially noticed how much work it is to make a bit of a decent vid. I won't blame ya to do some less content on your channel because I also know what a pain it is to have heaps of work laying around. The huuge bucket of cement said enough. Great idea btw to poor in the wiring into the Anode bar. To make a simular solution for stainless steel is extremely hard. As long as you can maintain the recomended voltage between kathode bowl and anode basket I do not see that much trouble. You would only be generating some more heat than nesecary by the following formula: Amperage squared multiplied by the Resistance of the connection. I think it would be in the order of 5 Watts/hour max. while total power consumed by the electrolytic proces is about 5 Watt's. you can see there how important it is to have low resistance connections in low voltage systems to keep a good eficiency.
@5roundsrapid263
2 жыл бұрын
I wish I had sterling silver to just melt down. The best I can afford is pewter.
@alphaphichufafionse3005
2 жыл бұрын
How come I got a black powder after nitric? Love you video I learn a lot
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
Too much silver, junk metal in the scrap. I’m guessing. Piece of GF in there. The list goes on and on.
@alphaphichufafionse3005
2 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips whats GF? I infuse it with copper but I get a very fine black metal powder after the nitric
@antonysmith694
2 жыл бұрын
a few mistakes this time sreetips....was that gold dirty to start with? the color seemed wrong.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
It was dirty with something. But the final product is magnificent.
@antonysmith694
2 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips yes looked great at the end. good job ;)
@disgruntledtoons
2 жыл бұрын
So the CWO was useful after all.
@rickydona919
2 жыл бұрын
I can never get the fact that Food Lion is still in business after what they did
@JacobE-23
2 жыл бұрын
What'd they do?
@rickydona919
2 жыл бұрын
@@JacobE-23 some unethical practices which lead to preferential treatment and better paying positions for employees who were lucky enough to be related to full timers, there's a couple of other things but in the end, the State of Florida found out and made the franchise leave but not without a cash settlement to a lot of us who were affected
@demps6919
2 жыл бұрын
I love alchemy.
@josephwang3837
2 жыл бұрын
how you can be sure it's gonna be 999 or 9999 without verifying it with equipment such as XRF?
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
The big refiner where I sell my gold. They shoot it with XRF. Comes back three nines fine - every time.
@johnsumner2987
2 жыл бұрын
Would you ever sell your cement silver on ebay?
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve never sold cement silver. If I did then I’d probably do a silver chloride conversion to get three nines cement silver.
@mabeycm
2 жыл бұрын
I would think a little solder should make those clips better connected. OS2 suggestion here but what do OS's know.
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
I’m thinking of some sort of copper or silver implement with wing nut connections made of copper (or silver)
@mabeycm
2 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips Good idea, if your sticking with the wing nut design maybe use a little conductive lubricant on the threads or conductive loctite every time maintenance is done. Eagerly watching for your future content shipmate!
@davidranew9776
2 жыл бұрын
Hey tape the wires on the stainless steel blow using aluminum tape, not duck tape.
@Mr007troy
2 жыл бұрын
@43:38 "It just looks delicious"-sreetips You got that right, I like to also say "That is sexy"
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