you're the perfect person to watch when I have baking on the mind. look, baking is chemistry for hungry people, that's my only justification.
@Antonowskyfly
2 ай бұрын
You are welcome. Your new silver cell is a gold mine! Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
@AndyGraceMedia
2 ай бұрын
Spectacular is the word. Not surprising it's warm, it's dissipating over 20 Watts and the overcurrent protection is what you get when using a quality bench top power supply like the HP36XX series
@beauhodges7957
2 ай бұрын
Sreetips: I'm trying to get my hands on all the silver I can. Also Sreetips: I'm offering this silver for sale...
@sixfigureskibum
2 ай бұрын
Sometimes ypu can buy it so cheap selling it buys alot more cheap silver scrap than the initial expenditure.
@disgruntledtoons
2 ай бұрын
Apparently there is something Mrs. Sreetips wants to buy...
@robero11
2 ай бұрын
That Pie Pan Omega is a beautiful watch!
@ut000bs
2 ай бұрын
If I remember correctly, there is a story behind that watch. I believe Sreetips told it. I don't remember the story. Seems it was destined for the trash or to be refined.
@ArielleViking
2 ай бұрын
Stunning and spectacular. It’s great that the power supply has a safety override. Mrs Sreetips was correct in spotting a bargain at the estate sale. Nice update as always. 👍🏻
@ut000bs
2 ай бұрын
That was almost $1600 worth of sterling just for the scrap value.
@MrGrumpyToast
2 ай бұрын
You could use a similar basket with out holes in the bottom only the sides and that should help with the crystals touching the filter and shorting
@timsmith9645
2 ай бұрын
Awesome video nice Sterling silver jewelry and silver ware thanks for sharing sreetips
@Indebtwetrust535
2 ай бұрын
Years ago I did electro plating. You're taking me back to my younger days. I'm getting tempted again.Love your work sir.
@neiltaylor9222
2 ай бұрын
I also did plating and also learned the stripping process too. I can't get enough of these videos!!!
@Indebtwetrust535
2 ай бұрын
@@neiltaylor9222 The regulations would choke you today. I often wonder how any platers could survive in todays world.
@ut000bs
2 ай бұрын
@@Indebtwetrust535they keep adding "permits" which is just a different way of saying taxes yet we get no representation whatsoever.
@mcjdubpower
2 ай бұрын
Great vid as always 😊, happy Sunday Sreetips and Co.💯💥😃
@TheZombieSaints
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the update on "Big Bertha"! I'm no electrical engineer but if done some crystal growing but with copper, I would find that the lower the amps, the smaller the crystals would grow. Maybe just swap the power supplies around? 6amp on the 3.5l one and vise versa. Dunno, just an idea. Again thanks for the update, I was very curious to see how it went. Awesome stuff 👍
@wedgetailleather
2 ай бұрын
11:10 I would absolutely use those! Nice looking set, and have antibacterial properties… been trying to find a silver water jug for the fridge.
@williamthomas2278
2 ай бұрын
One part science, one part art add equal portions of skill and craft mix well and you get 100% magic! Thanks Streetips for such wonderful postings
@bunnyrabbit4972
2 ай бұрын
The power supply is not 'protecting' anything, it is changing from regulating in constant voltage or constant current mode depending on the maximum setting of the potentiometers on the front panel. This is a normal function of high-end laboratory power suppies.
@watchvideos9104
2 ай бұрын
Smart move on some of those pieces putting for sale very pretty ones the mrs didn’t let you melt 😅 thank you for you videos !
@ExtractingMetals
2 ай бұрын
Your videos keep me going during my buying phase in between refining batches.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Doesn’t matter. It was for the show.
@kevinpettinger6644
2 ай бұрын
Always a joy to watch. Mr. Sreetips, would a large perforated, non-conductive baffle (say a 6inch diameter pvc tube with holes drilled throughout it) that sat inside the SS bowl and isolated the anode basket from the cathode bowl prevent the buildup of Silver crystal from ever building up an causing a short? Might be worth a shot?
@vasin123123
2 ай бұрын
Hi Sreetips, i have a suggest that you can use a big ring of rubber to set the basket higher distance, would be much better to prevent short circuit
@haydnstevens3108
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for advice about the silverware
@alexanderwoolley1623
2 ай бұрын
I wonder what adding a stir bar to the bottom of the cell bowl will do for mixing the electrolyte and helping to keep the larger crystals off the bottom of the bowl, surely it would increase your amps?
@SpartanONegative
2 ай бұрын
Excellent Sreetips 🏴☠️🐉 I don't sell silver either, I buy it and hold onto it. Thank you for sharing this with us. God Bless 🙏
@josephcormier5974
2 ай бұрын
The new silver cell is going to be a great producer I wonder if you put a cutting board like on the little cell's if that would bring the basket up high anuff? Thank you for sharing this wonderful video with us six stars sir
@asdfgsfgj8220
2 ай бұрын
Awesome, great point on the ware!
@pauliewalnuts5241
2 ай бұрын
That gold Omega watch needs a video of it's own, such a nice piece
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Mrs sreetips bought that for me at an estate sale.
@Steelythestacker
15 күн бұрын
I'm sure the video doesn't do the crystals justice, and they look amazing in the video! If I'm able to pick up some cheap sterling and or some old worn constitutional currency in the next few weeks at a couple auctions and garage sales I plan on attending I hope to have a cell built and up and running by the end of June. Can't wait to make some of my own!!!
@jda1961
2 ай бұрын
glad to hear you are keeping the silver, india bought 70,000,000 ounces last month. hard to imagine that but bix wier says its true. that a tenth of the worlds production for a whole year.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I seen that. But just remember, nothing will change as long as they can still print money out of thin air. They can print TRILLIONS and use it to cover any shorts they have to keep the price of silver low. Why would they do that? To keep you in their dollars, that they can print out of thin air, and to discourage you from converting your savings into metals, that they can’t print. Seventy million next to a trillion is a drop in the bucket. Like spitting I the ocean. 70 million divided by a trillion is seven to the negative fifth power or 0.00007 - that how small 70 million really is.
@Seeing_Red
2 ай бұрын
Awesome, very impressive!
@scotthultin7769
2 ай бұрын
First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 🤗
@anthonyrstrawbridge
2 ай бұрын
Looking good! 👍🏼
@denaliprincess
2 ай бұрын
🤔An observation on the rise of temperature on the larger silver cell. I notice the smaller ones have ventilation, you cover the space with a paper towel. Maybe adding the same thing to the larger one will bring down the temperature of the solution?
@rixismetals
2 ай бұрын
Great video , I love silver 😁
@SteelerStacker33
2 ай бұрын
Great points for sure…. VERY COOL
@muthaflaco75
2 ай бұрын
Can't wait for you to pour these bars!
@jamesjoy8866
2 ай бұрын
Is an activated charcoal gas mask/respirator appropriate for added protection from nitric oxide while making silver cell electrolyte? Will a large canister of activated charcoal remediate the exhaust from the fume hood? Awesome series of videos about refining sterling silver.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I use a fume hood to draw the fumes away from my work area.
@TeamJB865
2 ай бұрын
Nice new silver cell, great job! Do you melt any of the silver crystal into silver bars or do you keep it in crystal form?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I’ve melted into bars,
@huckstirred7112
2 ай бұрын
I had a small thought . Would a pvc pipe with a cap on the end would hold the vacuum bag up right and hold more silver ? You could adjust the depth by putting a ring from a larger pipe . Do you think this would work ?I love the new silver cell . Looks professionally made .Excellent fabrication
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I modified the anode basket with an insert. Thanks for the compliment. It’s my “tuxedo” silver cell.
@huckstirred7112
2 ай бұрын
@@sreetips fabulous fab !
@delharkins8989
2 ай бұрын
If you want the frey of the edge of your material. Just wave a lighter past stand it should give you a better edge
@alanpecherer5705
2 ай бұрын
About 20 years ago, I began buying as much sterling as I could find on ebay. It was not easy to find goods priced below spot, and it became harder and harder to find 925 below spot as time went on. Still, I gathered up about 250 pounds of flatware and sold almost all of it off over the years. Nowadays I am not looking so hard, because I can never buy sterling under spot. You assign a 90%-of-spot to forks and spoons, I assign a value of 80%, since I do not refine but have to sell it to a refiner. Really, the only way to buy below spot is at garage sales, because the exposure on ebay lets far too many folks see the prices and calculate whatever they want to calculate. But I see plenty of auctions go off at a sterling = spot price plus there's incoming shipping. So it doesn't make sense.
@mrtank1967
2 ай бұрын
Thank you for the information and the education on silver. You are never in lack of information and knowledge thank you and the miss’s for kicking you in the butt to go buy. lol
@disgruntledtoons
2 ай бұрын
I was watching the weight-in to see when you passed the 1323 gram point, which is when your purchase became profitable. The weigh-in hit that mark at @9:03, before you had put all of the forks and spoons on the scale. A good day at the races.
@radekc5325
2 ай бұрын
Have you considered wrapping the exposed part of copper wire (next to the silver anode bar) with a heatshrink? Might slow down its corrosion.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Yes
@35THIRTYFIVE
2 ай бұрын
Would it be possible to set up a small GoPro camera underneath the lid, and make a time-lapse? I'm sure that would be a KZitem first!
@35THIRTYFIVE
2 ай бұрын
Or an easier way would be to cut two holes in the lid, one for a light and the other for a camera. It certainly would be a fascinating thing to see! As always great video.
@limeroundup
2 ай бұрын
Sir, you are by far one of the most inspiring and informative youtubers ever. A strong solid voice as a bonus… Thanks for uploading these videos! I really appreciate it
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@bustosricky
2 ай бұрын
Yes, ma'am.
@junit483
2 ай бұрын
Hey man, I'm not sure if it will work but in chemical crystallization the slower the crystallization the smaller the crystals. When you lower the temp you drastically slow the crystallization. Not sure if it would work with electro-crystallization, but it would be an interesting experiment. If it works it should result in higher purity.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
These are not true crystals, they are actually dendrites.
Sreetips, It's slightly over $1403 if you go straight to spot price per gram ( $0.81 ) assuming 90% silver comes out to be $1414.62. Fantastic deal!
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
They rely on the grossly undervalued spot price of silver to determine their ask price. It’s like finding real money laying the ground. I’m in exactly the same right business, at the exact right time in history, with the exact correct instrument (refining). An opportunity like this may not happen again for a thousand years. But people are beginning to get wise. These good deals are becoming harder to find as folks come to realize that cash is trash.
@ottolehikoinen6193
2 ай бұрын
Cleaning silverware is a chore many are not willing to do anymore. Specially the ornate handles gather grime that's not easily removed.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
An old toothbrush comes to mind.
@naughtiusmaximus830
2 ай бұрын
Sonicator works pretty well.
@cougarhunter33
2 ай бұрын
A thought: rather than re-jig your setup to accept a more shallow anode basket, could you maybe not put holes in the bottom of the basket and just along the sides? That way it limits the risk of crystal growth contact from the bottom, but the holes along the side should be adequate for electrolyte contact.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Yes
@whatthefunction9140
2 ай бұрын
Silver is priceless
@DragonBlazeDesigns
2 ай бұрын
I am not that smart about all this silver cell thing but am going to ask because the new bowl is has 6 litter and more silver to make will it help if the silver cell bar can be bigger too make it more efficient?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Possibly, but the small anode bar is working great.
@zero7329
2 ай бұрын
I would love to see him make a batch of rock candy as a prank😂😂😂😂
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I don’t know how
@shaneyork300
2 ай бұрын
This big silver cell is going to be interesting
@sixfigureskibum
2 ай бұрын
Where i live and operating solo i found it less cost to buy scrap sterling from the guys im in competition to find material at thrifts estate and garage sales. Going rate is about 75% of spot for flat and hollow and 70% on jewlery. I hate melting the nice art works! But also the guy i buy the most from whos been reselling everything more than 40 years says multi piece lot resale is about 1.5 spot and a kind older fellow gave me a quick education . He has multiple jewelry and watch repair degrees stated used jewlery individually should price at about 2x metal melt with consideration for the stone type and weights. Each one teach one.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Sounds like a great deal for the buy low, resell high crowd.
@lukebowers536
2 ай бұрын
That new silver cell with the HP power supply is awsome, i built one here in he UK, i too have a very nice power supply that came from a laboratory. but i am finding that i am totally unable to source cheap silver, every one is asking way-way over what its worth here wich is not only frustrating & somewhat greedy, in some cases ive seen scrap 60 to 70% over tyhe spot price here & nearly alweays a good 20+ % over spot even if its dirty damaged junk. it kind of make the whole refining operation pointless becuese ime finding ime having to run finished bars thru the cell to grow the crystals ime after for my project. Its very disheartenening after so much work & when ime only doing for a hobby never for profit.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
The reason you can’t buy cheap silver is because you’re trying your best to buy from sellers who already know the truth; that gold and silver are grossly and artificially undervalued. They are merely attempting to gain the future value of the metals because they understand that gold and silver are grossly undervalued. And time is on their side. Because gold and silver will only go up in price. NOT because they are more valuable or more scarce than they are right now. But simply because the currency will decline in value and purchasing power as they print more money to cover their shortages. You see, in America, Bernie Madoff is known as the operator of the biggest ponzi scam of all time. But the only difference between Bernie, and the money printers, is that Bernie didn’t have the ability to print money to cover his shortfall. Bernie is NOT the operator of the biggest scam, the money printers are pulling off TRILLIONS in the biggest rip off ever seen on the face of the earth. The only way to protect your savings from those who would plunder your wealth, is to hold your savings in gold and silver. Because they can’t print more gold and silver. But they can crush the price of the metals with printed paper dollars. They use inflation (money printing) to kill the inflation hedge (gold and silver). It’s brilliant!
@Mike-qn7xy
2 ай бұрын
Incredible sreetips could you go even bigger with a stainless steel 45 gallon drum ?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Critical distance of four inches between anode and cathode. In order to get any bigger I’d have switch to a different type of silver cell. Mine is a thumb cell with anode suspended over the cathode. I could switch to a moebius silver cell; alternating anode and cathode plates spaced 4 inches apart, both hung in a tank filled with gallons of silver nitrate electrolyte. But that would exceed the capacity of my small hobby operation.
@johnblair8146
2 ай бұрын
6:45 Happy Wife, Happy Life and you now have more silver!!!!!!!
@tcaldwe
2 ай бұрын
Can you add a spacer and bring the basket up an inch? Also OVP is Over Volt Protection
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Yes
@Fatazz
2 ай бұрын
With the larger basket would a larger anode, same thickness greater contact area, possibly reduce the heating issue? This is just kidding, but my inner Dr. Frankenstein just pictured a basket the size of a sandwich with a 3in by 3in anode bar having the current spread out over 9 leads.
@robertstrauss7156
2 ай бұрын
Can you scoop out some crystals as they form, while the cell is operating, instead of waiting for the cell to be full, risking s short circuit?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Possibly
@adzmc6681
2 ай бұрын
In your opinion how much silver would be enough for you hold? What is the perfect amount we all should hold do you reckon? My grandad has 250KG in pure bullion and got most of it just hustling and is about to get ready for his retirement. He was a bit like you which I respect you for.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
That’s like asking how much money should be held. I guess as much as you can. I’m shooting for 10k ounces of pure silver. I’ll probably never get to spend it. It will pass to my estate, heirs.
@adzmc6681
Ай бұрын
@@sreetips you have to treat yourself as well. you are doing all the work. Get yourself a nice car or something.
@dkbaker336
2 ай бұрын
Do you reprocess the consumed silver leftover material in the filter basket
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Yes.
@richardpittman5291
2 ай бұрын
Would an 8 or 9 liter bowl fix the issue with your bowl being too low?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Possibly
@SugarSandProspecting
2 ай бұрын
Silver stacker Sreetips! You'll be sitting pretty on the soon to be fiat failure! Kudos fone Sir.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I don’t think it will founder soon, but it will founder. I’m not stacking for a big bump in price, although that’s entirely more likely than not. I’m stacking metals to protect my savings from being plundered by the money printers. And I’m doing it now, while it’s out of favor, and people think dollars are more valuable than gold and silver. Before there’s a stampede.
@robwinter4173
2 ай бұрын
always a good watch is mr sreetips.....
@kiarawhalen1544
2 ай бұрын
I have been watching these few recent silver cell videos. You had an issue with crystals growing towards the anode too quick. Would a deeper pot be better? If you had a like 12 to 15 litre stainless soup/stock pot, same diameter but deeper, would you be able to just knock the crystals to the bottom and fill the vessel until such time it needs harvesting? The other thing is, at what point does the time vs maintenance/recovery justify doing what ever needs being doing ✅
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I’d like to install an external constant stir blade to continuously keep any crystals, that grow up from the bottom, knocked down.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Not sure what your second question is. At what point does it become economically non-viable, or non-profitable? If that’s your question then the answer is simple: never. I’m literally growing money (silver and gold are both real money - paper dollars are a money substitute). I have a lot of silver that I’ve recovered from my gold refining. Its value is questionable because its purity is unknown. So I run it through my silver cell to make high purity silver crystal that is easy to determine its value. Then I put it away, and forget about it.
@kiarawhalen1544
2 ай бұрын
@@sreetips yeah that's kind of what I meant, more along the lines of at what point does it become inefficient? Is there an optimal size/voltage to the system?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I’d say that if you’re interested in holding silver then just buy the sterling silverware sets and hold them as is. No need to refine it because it contains a known quantity of pure silver. Just don’t try to melt it and ruin the markings. Then it’s value, and price become questionable.
@slimpickins09er87
2 ай бұрын
You could replace the black lid with a 1/4 inch piece of plywood to raise the anode basket. It would be the same as the cutting board thickness used on the other silver cells. The man who said silver will not go up in his lifetime hasn't been paying attention. It has gone up $5 a ounce in the last year since the bank failures.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Correct. However, as long as they can print money out of thin air, and as long as people continue to believe it’s valuable then nothing will change. Gold and silver will remain grossly undervalued. But that’s a good thing. Because we can still buy and store our wealth in undervalued gold and silver. Rather than in paper dollars that are declining rapidly. Please search for, and read, president Jonson’s remark on the coinage act of 1965. In his remarks he says this, “If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to keep the price of silver in line with its value in our present silver coin. There will be no profit in holding them out of circulation for the value of their silver content." (End of Johnson quote.) Today they don't even need physical silver. They can just conjure millions of ounces in the form of futures contracts and sell as much "paper silver" as needed to artificially suppress the price of both gold and silver. So, anyone who thinks that governments can't or won't manipulate commodities markets are just fooling themselves. Our current president recently dumped oil from our nations strategic reserves to suppress the price of oil. Why? Because the price of gasoline is plastered on every street corner for all to see. This has a tremendous phycological effect on the population and goes a long way convincing the masses that all is well.
@slimpickins09er87
2 ай бұрын
@sreetips but when Johnson said that 60 years ago. We weren't $34 trillion in debt, and there were no BRICS nations. People are now equating the excessive printing of money to the inflation rate and when they realize those astronomical interest rates are tied to the national debt. Then we will be lucky to have hoarded all the silver that we could. I see a future where the paper dollar is gone and the digital dollar will be so restricted that most people will pay for items with gold and silver shot.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Johnsons remark are proof that governments can, and will, artificially suppress the price, and therefore the demand, for precious metals. It’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s fact. And that’s why gold and silver are so grossly undervalued. But again, this is a good thing. Because sellers use the grossly undervalued spot prices to set their ask price. It’s a precious metals, buyers paradise.
@TimoCat
2 ай бұрын
what is the electicity cost a day of the old and the bigger silver cell? if it generates that much heat it must be burning a lot. thanks
@TimoCat
2 ай бұрын
also can you not use (recycle) impure silver shot for refining/aloing? thanks
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
My electric bill last month (with two small cells running) was $115
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Not recommended. PGMs tend to follow the silver and build up in it. This could cause problems in the silver cell
@Halloween111
2 ай бұрын
I wonder if you modified your anode basket with a container that is wider but shallower. You would get roughly the same contact but less chance of a burnout. At least from the bottom. Just food for thought.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Good idea, I’m searching for a better shape.
@varno
2 ай бұрын
@@sreetips look at polycarbonate gastronorm containers from a catering supplier They also make stainless steel ones that might also be good as bowls.
@slimpickins09er87
2 ай бұрын
@sreetips just replace the black lid with a piece of 1/4 inch plywood. This will raise the anode basket and keep the anode baskets uniform between the two cells. Use the black lid as your cut template.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Good idea
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I’m thinking Tupperware.
@johannesdesloper8434
2 ай бұрын
If you dilute the electrolyte with distilled water resistance of the cell goes up, current goes down and then heat generation will go down.
@johannesdesloper8434
2 ай бұрын
Heat generated will be P = I² x R
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I could run it at 100g/liter silver concentration. But I don’t know how that will affect the cell. I’ve had excellent results at 150g/liter. The heat has gone down. So have the amps, just as I anticipated. I’m back up to 3.5 volts and the amps are 3.5 amps today. It’s only about 10 degrees above ambient now. The amps will continue to decline as the anode filter gets clogged up with slimes. I’m very pleased with the way it’s running for me.
@johannesdesloper8434
2 ай бұрын
What is probably the most important in this proces is the Amperage per Area like in your Gold cell AND the potential over the cell.
@richardpittman5291
2 ай бұрын
I can hear you very good with the camera mic.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the feedback
@nicholaswoodall9493
2 ай бұрын
What happens instead of impure silver used for the anoid you will use steel mixed with silver cement will it change the percentage of the pure silver?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I’ve never used steel in the anode basket, I don’t know what wiuld happen.
@nicholaswoodall9493
2 ай бұрын
@@sreetips just curious I don’t financially have enough to supply the anoid basket and was wondering due to I can get steel shaving from resurfacing rotors at work and steel is a conductor as impure silver; however the melting points are different so in theory I should be able to separate the metals from each other in the smelting process
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
No, metals alloy together when melted together. They don’t separate. I would add any steel to the silver.
@yvindpettersborg3999
2 ай бұрын
Can you melt 830 silver or 925 silver and put it in the silver cell ?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Yes, but the electrolyte would quickly become saturated with copper.
@AC-cg4be
2 ай бұрын
"Mrs. Sreetips has been on me to get this stuff moving." Claim you're just looking out for her future. "Honey, this is for our retirement, I swear!" Just don't let her see all the cement silver. lol
@CharlesStreicker
2 ай бұрын
Can I buy this setup somewhere? How do you get this all setup I am curious
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I bought everything locally
@wszechmocnieuzdolniony
2 ай бұрын
Witam witam i pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski 🇵🇱👍👍👍
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Hello!
@ZoonCrypticon
2 ай бұрын
@13:20 I wonder what kind of company that was, that would give out sterling silver bangles to the employees...
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I think it was a sales oriented business
@bodyheals
2 ай бұрын
Do you use solar power?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I used solar power to dry off the impure silver shot in the previous video.
@candui7278
2 ай бұрын
My mom has a backyard rental. A real estate professional rented the cottage. She said, " This place is a gold mine." I said, " Did you bring your shovel?" We were enemies forever after that.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Good one!
@hubrisnaut
2 ай бұрын
Has anyone determined how much silver is in "plated" stuff? Meaning, is it worth buying for the silver content? I don't do anything like this but I do find silver and silver plated things at second hand stores and yard sales sometimes. (I suppose most silver plate has a copper base, so I shouldn't pay more than the copper is worth.)
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I have never attempted to recover silver from silver plated material, except once, I did it for the show. Video posted.
@hubrisnaut
2 ай бұрын
I sometimes find silver plated stuff for almost nothing, I have no idea if it is worth bothering with@@sreetips
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
The amount of silver will be small. The amount of waste that must be treated, high.
@bascodelagamma
2 ай бұрын
👍👍
@quinnkelly9310
2 ай бұрын
Where can i buy under spot price?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I buy at yard sales and estate sales.
@obiwanbenobi4943
2 ай бұрын
Why didn't fuse blow? Ah, ok, no fuse any more...
@arthurgolddigger7336
2 ай бұрын
Where would I buy a power supply from?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I bought mine on eBay.
@arthurgolddigger7336
2 ай бұрын
@sreetips ok thank you. I'm going to start my own silver cell and it's because I've been watching you for quite some time. I also find lots of silver metal detecting so I have alot of sterling, 925 hoarded
@joearkle1327
2 ай бұрын
Can this be done with gold???
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Yes
@8rlx0
2 ай бұрын
Hmm, are you actually selling that jewellery because it's too much of a pain to get usable silver out of it? Would love to see how you would go about refining precious metal out of that. I'm guessing it would take hours to separate the stones and other junk from sterling silver parts?
@idkidk8278
2 ай бұрын
The jewelry is valuable..
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
It has a greater value, for now, left as is. But as time passes, it will just continue to go up in price. However, it’s not becoming more valuable, nor more scarce. The reason it will go up in price is because the currency (US dollars) are declining rapidly, due to money printing, so that it takes more dollars to buy the same amount of stuff. I remember one year recently (I think 2020) that they printed into existence, out of thin air, 4 out of every 10 US dollars in circulation. That’s 40% inflation rate. And it takes time, there’s a lag of several years, for that to show up as increases in the price of stuff. My anode filters were $7.99 then. But today they cost $14.99 - why? Because they increased in value? Or became more scarce? Not at all! It’s because the value of the currency lost that much purchasing power due to money being printed out of thin air. And that’s why the money printers hate gold and silver. Because they can’t print more gold and silver. The money in your bank account and in your pocket, will be worth much less at this time next year. The only way to protect your savings from being plundered by the money printers is to hold your savings in metals - GOLD and SILVER. If you need some paper to pay bills, then you can always sell a little of your metal. If you had the foresight to hold your savings in gold and silver.
@8rlx0
2 ай бұрын
@@sreetips Oh yeah, I'm very aware of inflation and money printing. I work with concrete and since 2020-2021-ish the prices of cement and aggregates (sand) have just about doubled.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Exactly, it takes twice as much currency to buy the same amount of stuff - because the money has lost half its value, in just a few years. People are clueless about this.
@idkidk8278
2 ай бұрын
If the jewelry doesn't sell add pictures of the makers marks a post again
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
If it don’t sell, then I get to keep it. It will only become more valuable as time passes.
@ArjayMartin
2 ай бұрын
how much money to convert it to bullion though, equipment, electricity, etc
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I don’t know, I’ve never taken the time to calculate it, because it doesn’t matter. I’m converting paper, that declining in value, into metals, that are rising in value.
@ArjayMartin
2 ай бұрын
It's still make for a cool video... you working it out.@@sreetips
@Me-into-We
2 ай бұрын
Dude, it's too bad they don't make aquariums made out of the bowl material. Just think how Awesome it would be to grow actual silver cycles!! I mean like a nice 6 to 8 inch piece. Like ice cycles off buildings and such during winter. I think that would be super cool. You could call them silver lighting bolts. Nobody else would have them. And everybody like me would want one. Each piece would be as unique as they come. Do you think they would even have the strength to grow like this? Or are they too brittle to ever reach such lengths? I think it's a cool idea anyways.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
There a critical distance of four inches between anode and cathode that must be maintained.
@Me-into-We
2 ай бұрын
@sreetips ohhhh. Well so much for that idea then.
@cadillac8597
2 ай бұрын
Any idea why silver is so flat? Stacking silver makes more sense than stacking bitcoin
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Please read President Johnson’s remarks about the coinage act of 1965. As long as they can print money “without limit” out of thin air, then the price of silver (and gold) will remain “flat”.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Long after bitcoin is gone and forgotten, silver will still be here. And it will still be valuable. History will back me on this. Silver and gold are mentioned over and over in the Bible. And they are not going away for any fiat form of money. Gold and silver are money.
@almadeckard8360
Ай бұрын
Get the shallow sandwich Rubbermaid dish.
@sreetips
Ай бұрын
Raising the basket solved the problem.
@joshuahopper3036
2 ай бұрын
This is the way sreetips.
@PetraKann
2 ай бұрын
What is the power rating of your power supply?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Front says 8 volts, 6 amps
@PetraKann
2 ай бұрын
@@sreetips 48 Watts. You can work out the power your electrolytic silver cell is drawing by multiplying the Voltage by the current shown on your power supply. My Lab DC Power supply is a variable 0-30V unit at 5 Amps. You can adjust both the current and the voltage. The maximum power is 150W. Normally I set it at 12V or 24V and the current drawn is determined by what it is connected to and limited to 150W (ie the resistance of the connected device determines the current drawn at a particular voltage). In you electrolytic cell, the resistance will change as the crystal grows in the stainless steel bowl and in your silver shot basket. I think of it as a light bulb. And when crystallisation occurs, the reaction is exothermic so heat is produced. Lots of chemistry and physical processes are going on in your cell but the main thing is the yield right? 😁
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
The yield varies. There are many factors that determine size shape and growth rate of the silver. Too many to try to duplicate and get the same result every time.
@markmelheim3154
2 ай бұрын
25 per OZ isn't melt price
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
No, that’s the grossly, and artificially, undervalued spot price.
@adws5696
2 ай бұрын
If the impure silver is 98% silver, why is it that color ?
@slimpickins09er87
2 ай бұрын
Because the impurities are on the outside layer of the shot. When he melts the cement, the different metal molecules separate. If he stirred the molten metal before casting the shot, then it would become an alloy and would be silver.
@adws5696
2 ай бұрын
@@slimpickins09er87 very interesting !! Makes perfect sense! Thank you!
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
It’s mostly due to 2% copper. Copper is a very dirty metal. It don’t take much to make the silver look real ugly. If I buffed a piece of the shot it would turn bright and shiny like silver should.
@eyeLikeCarrots
2 ай бұрын
Surley, eventually, you will have more than enough silver on hard for the gold refining/inquartation cycle to not nned to buy more silver cutlery?
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
I still need to convert my cash, that’s declining in value, into silver, that’s rising in value, whether I have gold to refine or not.
@StefanShorko
2 ай бұрын
I thought silver was 8 dollars per gram
@jamesjoy8866
2 ай бұрын
.80 USD per gram for pure silver, .72 USD per gram for recovered silver (90% recovery) from sterling silver. Today spot silver is $25 per Troy ounce. 31.1 grams per Troy ounce.
@StefanShorko
2 ай бұрын
@@jamesjoy8866 I see. I didn't know that. Silver was so much cheaper than I thought then.
@atlantaperimeter
2 ай бұрын
what kind of “witch doctory phd magic “ is going on here. sreetips for president 2024
@johannesdesloper8434
2 ай бұрын
It's not my thing , but is it wrong to aks the question:" Isn't Gold highly overrated? To me that's a more plausable explanation.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Before you can make that judgement you must understand what its function is. Gold is money. It is stable and hasn’t changed. In 1921 an ounce of gold was about $21. In 2024 it’s $2150 - that’s one hundred times more than it was back then. What does this mean? It means that the currency used to buy the gold (US dollar) has lost that much of its value and purchasing power. Gold is real money. Paper dollars (that can be printed “without limit” out of thin air) are a money substitute. It also means that it takes $2150 to buy the same amount of stuff that $21 did back then. And it’s all due to inflation (money printing). And there’s more decline in purchasing power to come. The inflation created over the last few years has yet to manifest itself as increasing prices. My anode filters cost $7.99 in 2020, today they cost $14.99 why? Have they become more valuable or more scarce? No, it’s due to inflation (printing money out of thin air). The seller has to charge more because the value of the money has declined and it’s takes more of it to cover his costs in order to be able to sell it to me. So the answer to your question, is gold overrated, the answer is absolutely not. Not if you want to protect and preserve your wealth and purchasing power of your hard earned pay.
@johannesdesloper8434
2 ай бұрын
@@sreetips I thought maybe Gold could "outrun"it's price when demand is high. Also heard there is 6 times more Gold on paper than in reality. As I said it's not my thing, but it's just where you lay your point of reference. The difference between Gold and Silver ratio is obvious. Thank you for taking the time to explain your vieuw.
@sreetips
2 ай бұрын
Gold is constant, not variable. It’s the one thing that stays the same for all time. The variable is the currency that gold is priced in.
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