I was at the thrift store the other day and saw some of those white dishes but they didn't quite look right then i realized why. They didnt have sreetips written all over them 😂
@davidrush4908
Ай бұрын
The ones I've seen say Corning. .....
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Writing my name on those is a giant pain. Wish I didn’t have to take the time to do it.
@paulslund1
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips Could you get labels printed so you can just stick then onto your stuff instead? Black lettering on a clear labels? I guess you'd need to find heat resistant ones, now that I think of it..
@ExtractingMetals
Ай бұрын
Flip them over. If they say Corning they will work well.
@ExtractingMetals
Ай бұрын
@@sreetipsI forgot what you had to start writing your name on them…. Wasn’t it an issue with people using clips from your video on their stuff?
@ba8ygir1
Ай бұрын
I recently moved into an apartment so I am no longer able to refine the way I used to, but thankfully, I can live vicariously through your videos 🥂😄
@MarcoGarcia-bl7ww
Ай бұрын
Me too.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Been a while, welcome back!
@dn2817
Ай бұрын
Yeah same here. Into a condo. I do some silver smithing in my kitchen but decided doing sterling melts in a condo is unsafe. I only do lapidary and silver soldering
@mairondil
Ай бұрын
I do.
@ExtractingMetals
Ай бұрын
I’m working on building a new refining shed that’s climate controlled. Tired of trying to do it in my garage!
@Sanzus2
Ай бұрын
Pretty decent recovery from a filter and some stubborn gold stains! Excellent follow-up, and it shows your commitment to getting it right even if it takes more than one try!
@kyzercube
Ай бұрын
Ever since I saw that filter paper on your last video I had a gut feeling that's where the vast majority of the missing 3oz was. I honestly wasn't expecting a recovery video from it so fast. GJ Sreetips! 👍
@Antonowskyfly
Ай бұрын
You are welcome. The depression caused by the contraction of material as it becomes solid is much more visually appealing when it occurs on the topside rather than being “duped” and seeing the hollow on the bottom side. Great to see that messy filter sorted out. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I’ve had two of those on a row. Both buttons look exceptional.
@Antonowskyfly
Ай бұрын
I wonder if it has to with adding a sprinkle of borax. Of course the dish is already glazed but adding more would see it migrate under the button to alter the effect during the solidifying.hope this makes sense, in a bit of a rush to get fishing, looking to get a lake sturgeon today, maybe a bit of sample panning too! Cheers!👍👍🤟
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
That dimple is referred to as a “pipe.” They only happen when the gold is high purity.
@Antonowskyfly
Ай бұрын
That makes sense and gets one thinking about the origin of the term. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
@andrewh3141
Ай бұрын
Glad you recovered it! If I had to guess, I’d say it cemented out on remaining copper in the fingers after AR. Thanks for sharing!
@sirlancer23
Ай бұрын
Oh good I'm glad you were able to find it!
@BattleChemist
Ай бұрын
Excellent recovery, Sr. Chief! It's crazy how "clean" the HCl rinse of the powdered gold turns the dingy gold into a stunning brick-red-amber color and helps it settle faster.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Those HCl boils always seem to help.
@bfd1565
Ай бұрын
Always a pleasure watching you Sreetips processing gold and silver.
@rickjohnson6559
Ай бұрын
In making distilled spirits we loose alot to evaporation, Leaks ,sometimes it just happens. That's were the term "SPIRITS" comes from. But that button. That was alot. Well done pardner.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Dr Carl Jung wrote, “You see, “alcohol” in Latin is spiritus, and you use the same word for the highest religious experience as well as for the most depraving poison. The helpful formula therefore is: spiritus contra spiritum.”
@jmsparger4339
Ай бұрын
I was hollering at you on the TV about that gold in the filter but I guess you couldn't hear me. 😁
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I heardgee
@Alondro77
Ай бұрын
Perhaps that little bit of gold that refuses to dissolve is.... THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE!!! :O
@kevinackley7064
Ай бұрын
Wow, it's always good to see your videos and to find out that gold stays in small parts in many different places and be able to recover it is always good to see. Love your work
@Ferd414
Ай бұрын
Looked like a lot of copper in the filter paper. Not *REALLY* surprising, but more than I would have guessed. Good catch, going back for the gold.
@bellowsforge9726
Ай бұрын
Tips from Mr Sreetips… Tip #1: Always refine and recover your waste containers & filters. It’s amazing how much you can find that get held up in this step!
@SMOBY44
Ай бұрын
I have been following your channel since the beginning (the silent movie days) and you worked very small batches. While I love watching the big recovery videos, I will never be at that level. I don't refine jewelry or sterling scrap. Every piece of stock I recover and refine is from computer scrap. I imagine most of your viewers are in the same boat I am. Most of my gold harvests range from 1 to 3 grams, and lately it seems like you consider these small yields to be not worth going after. I'm glad you went after this tiny amount of gold so we can see what it takes and what is there. I hope you can return to your roots and help us small refiners. In 10 years I have recovered 1.5 ounces as a hobby, 1 to 3 grams at a time. Love your content, but the multi-ounce pours are just fantasy to me. I love the small stuff more. Semper Fortis! And I hope you use the dilute nitric method for the rest.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Thanks for that point of view.
@melissaslate1621
Ай бұрын
Nice recovery! I’m learning so much from you thank you for sharing this amazing process❤❤ sending my regards to Mrs. Sreetips😊
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
She’s the reason I get to do this and I don’t have to go punch a time clock at Home Depot.
@josephcormier5974
Ай бұрын
Outstanding recovery you new that it was somewhere and you just found it thank you for sharing this with us six stars sir
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I was pleasantly surprised when I got a nice dark stannous test.
@fredrichardson9761
Ай бұрын
Great video series - the recovery from electronic parts is really pretty cool. I'm guessing most of the gold came from the filter? That is a head scratcher why it didn't go into solution the first time. Great that you recovered it either way! 👍
@timotheegoulet1511
Ай бұрын
Thanks for another video Mr Sreetips.
@aa1.5
Ай бұрын
Hey kevin you definetly should seperate the foils from the boards. It makes things easier to deal in the last stages of recovery. To make that a simple process get a large spagetti strainer. The foils will go through the slots but the boards will mostly stay behind. The strainer should fit down inside the bucket so you can twist the strainer in your rinse solution, that will break up loose foils that are still stuck to the boards. Good luck
@zorzyk6790
Ай бұрын
Mr. Sreetips. I have an idea of how you can speed up the process of removing unnecessary metals in the first phase of refining. I understand that the smaller the pieces of alloy, the faster the penetration of the acid, which removes what is unnecessary into the solution that is formed during this process. A wide tub of cold water plus an angled paint gun that blows the melt all over the tub. It takes trying, but I think it makes sense.
@allentruitt8632
Ай бұрын
Good job. Hindsight pays off.
@mattlevesque5927
Ай бұрын
Thank you for all you do for the community sir
@looweeg4229
Ай бұрын
Crazy how it adds up. Wonder if the next technique will be to shred the strips into finer pieces so they take less space therefore less chemicals to process. Nice recovery there!
@fieldie
Ай бұрын
Niiiceeee ❤ great job there Kevin! I just wish there was a way that when you rinced off the gold powder that you could keep all the gold suspended in the rince water, I bet if you managed to save every bit of it, I bet that would have made up that 0.4 of a gram and got you to exactly that 3 grams!? Maybe? Still though, great job!
@MarcoGarcia-bl7ww
Ай бұрын
Glad you reacquired your gold.
@richardwarnock2789
Ай бұрын
Another fine button 😊👍
@mijour
Ай бұрын
Cant wait till you get your KZitem silver and gold button that you process to see how much precious metal is in them
@ricois3
Ай бұрын
There's no precious metals anymore in playbuttons, unfortunately. And the first one that did, were only gold plated, so really trace amounts.
@mijour
Ай бұрын
@@ricois3 @sreetips could make his own button then or it least plate them in sliver and gold
@andrewrossi7164
Ай бұрын
Awesome stuff sreetips 👍
@Thingsthatgopew22
Ай бұрын
You might need to get yourself some sulfite test strips and test your filter papers. Soak a couple of them in destilled water for a couple of days. If test comes out positive, change brand of filters. Or else you will cement out some of your gold into the filters, every time you use them. The sulfite comes from the proccess of making paper.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I’ve never seen that much gold in a filter paper. I remember seeing sparkling crystals in the evaporated solution prior to filtering. But I was in such a hurry to complete the video that I didn’t investigate it further. I get like that sometimes.
@SlinkyD
Ай бұрын
Them trash metals got the Aqua Regia saturated so you gotta add more to get gold to go into solution. I think the old scientist were too lazy/busy to find out what % of trash metals will make it hard to dissolve gold. The ratios alone make it a crazy hard task. I think if you find out what trash metals are left from your run, you could permutate +5% of each until you get a nice database of numbers. After that, its a few math equations & you got a formula that most never new was possible. Love the vids. After a few years of watching, I know what to do. I really wanna send you my stash of x386-x686 CPUs & RAM sticks to see what really can be done with 'em. May God gift you with all the good things he had in mind for us. A destitute person can become rich from the knowledge you share. I'm just a nguya so take it how ya take it.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
In my next video with these fingers, I plan to completely separate the gold foils from the fiber board before adding Aqua Regia. It’s going to be long arduous task, but only the gold foils will be contacting AR - hopefully.
@ArielleViking
Ай бұрын
A beautiful button, that messy filter sure was interesting 👍🏻
@asjamuir5534
Ай бұрын
Maybe the becker has a inside scratch that the gold is holding in on since it looked to be in the same spot on the same becker
@cuejens
Ай бұрын
I've been enjoying this series on fingerboard trimmings, and the various methods you've showcased throughout. Looking forward to learning the final total weight pulled out of the whole batch. Is the temporary gold refining flask only from this run? I have a good feeling you'll get a fair amount out of there when its all said and done. Thanks for taking us along on the journey, Sir.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
That temp waste flask receives all my gold refining waste solution. Any suspended gold will settle out in there. Then I decant the waste solution to my stock pot and let the settled gold accumulate in that temp flask until i have enough to recover and refine it. Like an off-line savings account.
@ricardonunes4807
Ай бұрын
Thank you, regards from Portugal
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Hello Portugal
@paulknight1879
Ай бұрын
Love your channel it's amazing.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Thank you!
@timsmith9645
Ай бұрын
Nice gold button thanks for sharing sreetips
@adws5696
Ай бұрын
Crazy recovery !!
@davidschlievert9863
Ай бұрын
Nice save!
@DavidDavis-fishing
Ай бұрын
Gooooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Goooood evening!
@samcross1833
Ай бұрын
Greetings! I have come to really enjoy your videos!, I have been looking through them, the one thing I have not found is information on your vacuum system. Could you please explain or even better do a short video on the pump you use and how much vacuum you use and the control regulator. Thanks again and keep up the GREAT work!
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Please see my video “how to build a reliable vacuum system”
@frantiseklaluch6605
Ай бұрын
Hello sir, nice detective work... Had to be somewhere... may be was kicked out of solution by some base metal residues... I was cupeling some goldfoils and I was about a gram behind expected result. I was thinking where it could be lost... Cant just disappeare... I smashed the cupel and find gold inside. Leaked through some tiny crack into cupel and formed something like foil. Hard to get it out, but gold cant just be lost.
@petterandersson7429
Ай бұрын
I'd like to see you use a hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid method to loosen the foils.❤❤❤
@barthanes1
Ай бұрын
I wonder if you could arrange them side by side on a backer and run them through the planer. Just take a few tenths off of both sides, and then process the dust. I bet you wouldn't need such a big beaker or as much acid, but the yield would suffer.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
There are thousands of pieces. I’d rather let the chemicals do all that work.
@68Eric86
Ай бұрын
You should keep moving the Melt dish, and try to get the bead to harden into a ball. Just a thought.
@زايدالدويري
Ай бұрын
Yesss is a skilled fisherman😂
@lylestavast7652
Ай бұрын
nice recovery. I await your next fingers extraction with bated breath !
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
It’s going to be a long and tedious process to get the base metals and the fiber board separated from the gold foils. That’s my goal in my next experiment with these fingers.
@rockosgaminglogic
Ай бұрын
The rest of the PCB board that was cut away is also ENIG and has the same gold coating, why are these discarded? The solder mask can be removed with solvent or fire.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
You should make a video and show me how to do that.
@rockosgaminglogic
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips a lot of your card edges have green on them. That is the mask. If what you're doing works to get under that bit, then for the rest of the pcb (not just the card edges) maybe it just needs a few deep scratches or gouges for the acid to get under it all. I have a pile of my own circuit boards that needed re-engineering, burning them will be such a mess but the reduction to carbon for water separation from the metals would be the easiest. Probably get complaints from the neighbors. So no I won't be making a video. Maybe a "charcoal can" method will work.
@MADDLADO1
Ай бұрын
Very cool !! 😎
@tr4pwolf326
Ай бұрын
Hey streetips love the videos what's your eBay
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
eBay user name is: sreetips
@MarcoGarcia-bl7ww
Ай бұрын
There is a PTOE chart in one oz. silver available at Money Metal Ex...
@StefanShorko
Ай бұрын
Good work team
@raytruesdell7873
Ай бұрын
Nice button 👍🇺🇸
@FiveStringCommando
Ай бұрын
Nice work!
@anthonyrstrawbridge
Ай бұрын
❤. MBMMLLC would probably take the heap of spent boards and run a fire assay. I'm not sure but I think the poor mans method to cupel the heap is 1/2 heap arm and hammer with 1/4 heap fifty mile team laundry soap crucible melt pour into v bottom steel. 😊 Or..... something like that.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
None of the refiners that I learned from used cupel. It’s more of an assay technique rather than a refining technique.
@anthonyrstrawbridge
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips It has been good 😊.
@empirefinds
Ай бұрын
Brother something has been bothering me since you said it a few weeks ago. The copper waste bucket if you dry it out and melt. any iron will float as slag any other impurities will turn to a gas because of coppers hi melt temperatures as long as no stirring is involved. Let me know what you think brother or maybe an episode kind regards from England brother
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
You’re probably right.
@behindthescenes3394
Ай бұрын
i am getting ready to pack up shop and scoot over to craig, AK
@evebrassard3105
Ай бұрын
I'll take a guess as to where the metallic gold found in the filter came from. The solution that you filtered from the treatment of the fingers was saturated and couldn't hold al the gold in suspension. Once the limit of matewrial that could be dissolved in the solution was reached (since you still had enough excess Nitric in there all the flakes from the fingers did disolve because they are so thin and have a lot of surface area) the exess gold in the solution recristallized and fell to the bottom of the beaker and got mixed in with the trash. Exact same experience that I did on chemistry 101 with salt and water. It is the same process (but backwards) what happens when you are precipiting gold with exess nitric and the gold goes back in solution. The fix for the next ime would be to have a larger volume of solution to hold more disolved gold. Cheers
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Disagree. I’ve seen gold come out of solution due to saturated solution, but I had fifty Troy ounces in just a liter of solution. This was ten grams in a liter. Not enough to cause it to crystallize out. There was some other variable to account for it. But over saturation wasn’t the cause.
@evebrassard3105
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips Like I said Kevin I took a guess. Keep on going, I like the show, it makes one think
@horuscurcino
Ай бұрын
About the dissolving problem. Maybe it is time to check how trustworthy are the purity labels of your chemicals
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
That happens from time to time. I don’t know what causes it.
@m3Tesla
Ай бұрын
Doing the dishes and getting gold for it! 😊
@debcamp2359
Ай бұрын
I ❤ these scrap computer refines. Are computer scrap the most accessable?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
No, I prefer karat scrap gold jewelry. Yields up over 50%
@PrometheusZandski
Ай бұрын
Always nice to find lost gold. This is your second button now that had a divot in the top due to flux. Is there something different that is going on? I don't remember previous buttons looking like that.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
That’s called a “pipe” in the refining community. It only happens when the gold is high purity.
@TheLug_
Ай бұрын
Long time subscriber… Might be a dumb question but I don’t remember in any of your previous videos you having issues with the gold dissolving. This seems to be a new trend. Could you have a bad batch of one of your chemicals? Maybe it’s not as pure as it’s supposed to be?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I’ve seen it before. I’m not sure what causes it.
@dynorat12
Ай бұрын
nice button
@87bwadman
Ай бұрын
Watched a lot of videos, never seen you have trouble dissolving gold. So can only guess it was something weird in the fingers. Could traces of arsenic, antimony, or gallium or another element used to dope circuit boards bind up the gold? Or maybe some synthetic polymer from the resin?
@87bwadman
Ай бұрын
Good on you for finding that missing gold. 🫡
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
No clue. I don’t have lots of experience with this kind of scrap. I normally don’t bother with escrap because the yields are so low. But it’s very popular. And you don’t find large batches of fingers like that any more. So I jumped. Glad I did. It’s change up for my video content. I should get back ten times what I paid for the scrap. Get to have a little fun doing it.
@davidwhiteley7189
Ай бұрын
the gold is crashing out of the saturated solution with the temperature drop when you use ice to rapidly cool it
@gertlungmaskin1210
Ай бұрын
Could it be laquer on the circuit board that inhibits the aqua regia from dissolving the gold?
@cesmith777
Ай бұрын
curious what you do with your waste chemicals - do you send them off/delicver them to waste tratement or do you have a way to refine/precipitate the chemicals back to a product that can be reused?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Waste treatment.
@ExtractingMetals
Ай бұрын
I am eager to see the other recovery method your planning on using. I know of two others, gold leaching & Acid Peroxide. Will it be one of those?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
No, I’m still using nitric acid to loosen the foils. But using experience from the three previous attempts to try a different process
@ExtractingMetals
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips I look forward to watching it.
@ayhamhafez285
Ай бұрын
Another nice video, sorry if I missed something,but where exactly was the missing gold of the trimmed gold plated fingers?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Some how, I don’t know how, the gold came out of solution as fine grains of tiny metallic gold crystals. This happened after evaporating the solution to reduce the amount of liquid, and before filtering. So about 2.5 grams of pure gold ended up in the filter with the rest of the trash. How did that happen? I have no clue.
@ayhamhafez285
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips this is because of copper and nickel chloride contaminations with gold, hope you make a test with same material using direct aqua regia method but precipitate using ferrous sulfate not SMB, I use this method for years and got the highest yield rate, stripping gold fingers using nitric took long time and effort.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Agree. Getting pure gold from scrap is never quick and easy.
@jefflawson9714
Ай бұрын
Hello, I love seeing how you do this. Where are you located? I have some family gold/silver I would like refined down but not for the cash. To have like small family bars for the sentimental purpose. Any idea how I could get that done?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Unfortunately I do not.
@bill3428
Ай бұрын
Interested to see how you would recover gold from gold plated PCBs. They usually have components, but both sides are plated with gold. Some are 70% or more of the surface area. Would you have a look at this?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I don’t know what a PCB is.
@bill3428
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips PCB = Printed Circuit Board. I have seen PCBs them on eBay. Bigger than the PCB fingers you buy.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I don’t process much escrap because the yields are too low. I bought these fingers to process because it’s getting more difficult to find big bundles of clean scrap. These fingers were very clean and trimmed close. And because computer scrap is popular, and these fingers are some of the richest of all computer scrap, I didn’t hesitate to buy it. Computer scrap is very popular. I should get back ten times what I paid.
@bleedfreedom6528
Ай бұрын
Have you ever made your own acids? I would love to see a few videos of making hydrologic, nitric, sulfuric acids. I found a few videos on it but I bet you could do better.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Hydrochloric and sulfuric are inexpensive and plentiful at the hardware store. In my opinion, Philip Bender (his KZitem channel name) has the best videos on how to make nitric acid.
@russellstyles5381
Ай бұрын
If there's nothing in the liquid, why keep it? To save the acid?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I’m not keeping it. I’ll probably add it to my stock pot to recover and slightly traces of precious metals that may remain in the liquid. Rinse the fiber board and toss it.
@DonnyHooterHoot
Ай бұрын
Great video! I wondered if this method of getting gold is profitable? Would it still be profitable without Ebay, E.G. if you had to sell it for spot price. Thx and more gold and silver!
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
You make your profit when you buy.
@quinton3997
Ай бұрын
I did some gold filled recovery the other day and come to find out after I was done one woman watch was white gold and it wasn't gold filled was solid got about 4.5 grams of gold from it
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I’ve had similar experience. Sometimes gold filled items will have karat gold embellishments.
@AshChildOfGod
Ай бұрын
Mr. Sretips would you ever make a video refining gold from cellphone chips?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
If I had some cell phone chips I would make a video about it.
@ISupportTheCurr3ntThing
Ай бұрын
Nice
@TrumpedUp888
Ай бұрын
Waste not, want not. 👍
@QuivaRPG
Ай бұрын
Sometimes when we see your gloves they have some brown staining on them. Is that anything specific, like a one of the chemicals you use reacting with the gloves, or is it something else? I know this is a stupid question but I've been wondering for a while now.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Not a dumb question. It looks like gold. But those gloves will turn that color from my sweat. Most likely HCl or other chemicals.
@QuivaRPG
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips Thank you! You reminded me that a co-worker of mine had something similar happen when he wore nitrile gloves. HIs sweat caused the gloves to change color.
@whatsupbra43
Ай бұрын
Question are you using just regular borax from the store or is it some kind of special borax?when I’m melting silver my borax gets black and thick and it’s hard to get the silver nugget out without hard glass black borax on it.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
That’s Twenty Mule Team Borax from the grocery store. The black is probably from impurities. I get borax off my silver bars by heating in a bath of 100ml distilled water with 5ml concentrated sulfuric acid. Low heat for a few minutes until little bubbles start to form on the silver. Don’t add any more than 5ml sulfuric acid. Higher concentrations will etch the surface of the silver. Silver is soluble in hot sulfuric acid
@clintongriffin2077
Ай бұрын
Nice video
@michaelgriffith104
Ай бұрын
Have you tried setting a time lapse on the rinsed beaker to see how the residual gold appears?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
No
@scotthultin7769
Ай бұрын
133 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 🤗
@dn2817
Ай бұрын
Why does that last bit of gold not go into solution ? Do you need to add more distilled water?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I have no idea.
@exiledreptile1
Ай бұрын
Just wanted to ask why not use a mechanical separation like a ball mill. Then treat with aqua regia?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I don’t have one.
@exiledreptile1
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips they aren't cheap. I understand.
@SenorTucano
Ай бұрын
I’m wondering if the resistant gold at the bottom of the beaker that refuses to dissolve is actually an alloy of gold and PGE’s?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I’ve often thought the same thing. But it did dissolve with strong cold Aqua Regia. Platinum won’t do that.
@SenorTucano
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips now I have to know… what dissolves platinum?
@tazanteflight8670
Ай бұрын
Was buying computer scrap, and chemicals worth it?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Absolutely. I should get back ten times what I paid. However, you make your profit when you buy.
@kimberlynolz5725
Ай бұрын
Any tips on how to melt silver with an oxy acetylene torch?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I use an oxy/acetylene torch turned down low. Once the silver is molten, I grab a MAP gas torch that’s in hot standby, and use the map gas to keep the molten silver hot as I do the pour. I have videos of this technique posted. The molten silver absorbs gas then spits it out as it hardens. This is more likely when using oxy/acetylene. But switching to maple gas for the pour greatly reduces the chance of out gassing.
@mairondil
Ай бұрын
Is it weird that I shout STANNIS TEST whenever it's mentioned in these videos. I think it's the whiskey talking.
@EricBynog-zd4rd
Ай бұрын
Is this left over from the 2500 dollar computer pieces maybe one day sit and figure time plus materials to try come up with cost vs recovery
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
You make your profit when you buy
@EricBynog-zd4rd
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips as with most was just wondering the logistics of a person pulling gold off parts cost vs profit if it’s even worth the effort from a business view but I bet that depends on what you pay for scrap
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Correct. I’m not in this as a business, even though it does produce income from the videos. I’m doing it mostly for fun. And to create some new content for my KZitem channel. Computer scrap is very popular.
@goldsilverjunkie
Ай бұрын
Hey SREE I’m buying a portable oxy acetylene rig off of eBay/Amazon brand new. Question is when I go and fill up my tanks will the company where I’m going to fill them up at will they take my brand new tanks and give me their crappy ones or will they just fill them up for me, what’s your experience?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
The company I use swaps the empty ones for full ones. They don’t fill them on site.
@goldsilverjunkie
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips thanx
@ClassicallyNamed
Ай бұрын
Finally
@quinton3997
Ай бұрын
I lost a little bit 20th of a gram. I knew it was there by accidently dumping into wrong funnel
@gnomespace
Ай бұрын
Kind of ott-topic, but do the acid fumes attack the glass or crystal of your watch face?
@nunyabisnass1141
Ай бұрын
Those acids won't attack glass. HF (hydrofluoric acid) will, and so will very basic solutions like concentrated hydroxides.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
No
@cougarhunter33
Ай бұрын
Watch crystals are typically acrylic.
@ICU2B4UDO
Ай бұрын
2.6 gram 24K gold button...Real Price, about $237.00 ...The wifes price is $10,000.00 U.S. ...Lol 😅😂
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I could remove it and make it priceless.
@ICU2B4UDO
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips ...That would be better Chief!!
@behindthescenes3394
Ай бұрын
Hey Kevin. I ordered a ceramic funnel that came in the mail yesterday. They sent me a 300ML, Its like a giant lamp. Do you want it? I dont know what to do with it
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
I probably wouldn’t have any use for it. But I appreciate the offer. Thank you.
@MedievalFolkDance
Ай бұрын
I have a question. Well, technically a couple. Have you ever had a mishap, like an accidental droppage or spillage you couldn't manage? If so, how costly was it & how did you go about recovering what you could?
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Yes, please see stock number one, video number eight. I bumped the beaker while adjusting the camera, knocked it on the floor and spilled precious metals all over the place.
@MedievalFolkDance
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips Thanks! Will check it out
@jdp03201984
Ай бұрын
Are you using old chems or maybe new chems from a different company?
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