Would be cool to see a time lapse of the crystal growing
@danielparsons5519
3 жыл бұрын
I am so excited for you with your furnace. The amount of time you will save will generate so many possibilities and stacks! Your vastly underrated. Your wits and humor and step 1,2,3 nature is inspiring. Thank you for your time and attention to detail, love for the craft and human life.
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
Nice! Thank you
@isaacchurchill6102
3 жыл бұрын
I’m a simple man. When I see a new sreetips video I stop what I’m doing and click.
@geneburlette7307
3 жыл бұрын
Yep! Me too. I think its awesome to hear call-outs to sreetips on other channels
@1welshman
3 жыл бұрын
I am a antique dealer who occasionally removes or reattaches handles and would suggest using a hot air gun for the removal of the silver handled cutlery 🍴 it takes seconds it’s easier to control and less chance of cutting yourself. Love the channel keep up the good work as I love watching all your videos.
@bullionbandit3733
2 жыл бұрын
I would love some elaboration on this procedure if you don’t mind. Thanks!!
@1welshman
2 жыл бұрын
So simple to do with a hot air gun on a low heat setting the resin inside melts and will be easy to remove ( please use appropriate gloves as silver is very conductive so will be hot). Always heat the entire handle and if you are reattaching handles or closing gaps be gentle and as the handle begins to lift stop the heat and apply pressure to close the gap. Hope this helps and kind regards
@bullionbandit3733
2 жыл бұрын
@@1welshman I really appreciate your fast reply. I didn’t expect one at all on a comment from a year ago but Thank You for taking the time!! I will give it a shot, carefully, of course. Cheers
@1welshman
2 жыл бұрын
@@bullionbandit3733 you are very welcome. It’s no biggie I was on KZitem and was surprised to see a reply, figured you would see the quick reply and hope my advice helps. Things will happen quickly when hot enough and I’m sure you will have it down to a fine art within no time, make sure to align handles to sit correctly if resetting them to avoid reheating. If just removing them your all set pretty straight forward from here. Good luck buddy and kind regards
@Joe.Rogan.
3 жыл бұрын
I was taught to beat it with a mallet on an anvil and salvage it that way.. it's fast and efficient so that's how I've been doing it for 20 years. But there's always more than 1 way to skin a cat though.
@ManMountainMetals
3 жыл бұрын
dangit Joe, you stay away from my cats!
@bfd1565
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Sir for addressing the amount of sterling silver in handel pieces. Much appreciated.
@charleswise5570
3 жыл бұрын
I always learn something when I watch his videos! I've watched every video he's made! Thanks Sreetips!
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
Bravo!
@huseinabdul1
3 жыл бұрын
Great video sir. I wanted to add you suggested that I melt the silver that I got from a couple silver shakers, candle holders with flux as an alternative to the sonic cleaner. It worked pretty good. It had some dirty flux stuck on the silver but I just used your suggestion of 5 percent sulfuric acid in hot water and it cleaned right off. Thanks again for your assistance
@shaneyork300
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your knowledge of this silver content!! It'll help and probably safe alot of people including myself money! Have a Great Day My Friend!!!
@PoorMiners321
3 жыл бұрын
yes another great video, thank you for sharing, i am a loyal viewer to this men..God bls
@Khodazmoon
3 жыл бұрын
You are great Keep doing the job I learned a lot from you
@RectifiedMetals
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for the tip on assessing the value
@sebastianfernandez7973
3 жыл бұрын
You are the best! Hi from Argentina!
@UFObuilder
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for all your videos excellent
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent, thank you
@heylix2341
3 жыл бұрын
great video as always
@carlosgarcia3341
3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. Actually there are some old knives like that in my family. I'll go check them out.
@pamlemm903
3 жыл бұрын
Dude you are the best, thank you so much!!!
@mimas165
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the vid. Regarding the tongs for the crucible - you might consider an angle, maybe even 90 degs. The straight up, above the crucible grip might be difficult to a) hold (high temp) and b) operate/pour.
@CoinSilver800
3 жыл бұрын
The absolute best way I have run across taking these apart is by taking a heavy duty pair of tree limb cutters and then put the handle length wise up the blade with the very end of the handle into the joint. cutting up the length of the handle... sorry really hard to explain but so easy to show. so much easier than using a mallet or hammer or twisting with pliers. turns a maybe 3 minute job into a 30 second to 1 minute job.
@CoinSilver800
3 жыл бұрын
this method works with the tar, cement/ plaster, as well as resin handles. for the handles that are lead filled you're going to need to use a torch but make a hole in the back of the handle so they don't explode
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
I’ll give it a shot. I’ve got half of them done.
@Halloween111
3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if using a chisel to just split the silver on both sides then just popping them apart would work.
@bobfugazy4916
3 жыл бұрын
Very helpful, thank you.
@josephpecoul6532
3 жыл бұрын
Good information Sreetips thank you sir.
@JohnnySwedishScrapper
3 жыл бұрын
woow i did not know that whas gips/cement in that handels, but still great amout of silver in them, 20 grams for each handel ish great video
@speedonz
3 жыл бұрын
I have processed alot of this kind of cutlery. I would urge people not to buy assuming these figures are gospel. It's a fair indication but the yeild from these can very wildly. Some can be very thin, almost foil like so you will get burnt by assuming all will yeild ~20g of silver. Incidentally I incinerate them in a furnace. The resin that holds the handles in burns off and once cool you can just pull the blades out and empty out any solid filler. Only thing I would be careful of is them exploding. I've had a couple go bang!
@patmccrady6063
3 жыл бұрын
Keep in mind if you’re not refining yourselves, commercial metal refiners will generally pay 70-75% of sterling melt value.
@youbannedmealready5825
3 жыл бұрын
Some pay up to 90%.
@MiguelSierra
3 жыл бұрын
Excelente.
@DoomSlayer_
3 жыл бұрын
And here i thought that the silverware my grandma had, had solid sterling silver handles ._.
@SirenaSpades
Жыл бұрын
Wow. Who knew they filled those cheaper sterling/stainless silverware with cement. I wonder if they knew that back when they bought them.
@cooldaddyfunk
3 жыл бұрын
Would love to see a part two, or three or four, I just want to see you make kilo bars! 999 fine!
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
As soon as I get my furnace built
@scrappydoo7887
3 жыл бұрын
I didn't knew that those handles weren't solid but always was confused by how light they were....
@rudolfbenner4802
3 жыл бұрын
audio is great
@seymourpro6097
3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if the cutlery has more value as cutlery rather than scrapping for 10g of silver and dumping the rest. Even better if your searches enable you to collect whole sets of one pattern or just replacements for people who have a damaged item.
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
Added value.
@IMDunn-oy9cd
3 жыл бұрын
Thumbs-up for Sreetips.
@bluegrassdirtfishin5835
3 жыл бұрын
Do the stainless sterling handled utensils tend to be marked? I have found alot of utensils that look very similar but weren't marked other than saying stainless on blade. Keep up the great work
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, but you must search for it sometimes
@geneburlette7307
3 жыл бұрын
The other day I bought a bag of plated Rogers silverware to mess around with deplating via salt and current. The bag had two knives that had handles similar to the ones you showed in this video. I did "file test" a good way through and never found a base metal. I'm waiting for my testing solution to be delivered to know for sure if it is sterling all the way through. Also, the blades were magnetic but not the handles. Have you ever came across an instance where the handles were made out of non-magnetic metal that was something other than silver (such as aluminum)?
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
Check it with a magnifying glass. If it’s sterling it will probably be marked. Sometimes it’s very faint and hard to read. If they go to the trouble of making it out of real silver then they’ll usually mark it. Exception is very old pieces.
@youbannedmealready5825
3 жыл бұрын
You're doing it the hard way, big guy. Stick it on the floor, hold the blade, and give the joint a whack with a mini-sledge. Wiggle the stainless out, then hit the handle on the bottom one time, rotate it 90°, give it another tap tap, another 90°, and tap tap (careful not to collapse the top). Then just dump the sand/plaster out and voila. Takes 10 seconds. Edit: 6:20 okay, clearly you don't need my advice lol.
@huseinabdul1
3 жыл бұрын
Lol I was thinking the same until then!
@jamesrobinson8676
3 жыл бұрын
Can you put 925 silver into the silver sell
@youbannedmealready5825
3 жыл бұрын
@@jamesrobinson8676 What else would you put into it? The more base metals, the more depleted/saturated the electrolyte gets. Once you reach around 60g/L (according to Sreetips) of base metals they start plating out and will contaminate your silver. Just do your math and stay in the butter zone. Simple.
@huseinabdul1
3 жыл бұрын
@@jamesrobinson8676 I wouldn’t per streetips it would clog up the filter super fast. I believe if you first make it into silver cement that is like 99 percent silver. Sterling is 90 to 92.5 percent silver so you will go through it 10 times faster
@youbannedmealready5825
3 жыл бұрын
@@huseinabdul1 Sreetips uses 925 in his silver cell.
@RuneChaosMarine
3 жыл бұрын
Watch BigstackD? Perhaps you would enjoy investing in a DevilForge.
@solstar4778
3 жыл бұрын
What about the Aesthetics value !
@johannesdesloper8434
3 жыл бұрын
Price of copper seems to rize again since a while :)
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
Everything is going to rise.
@arramon777
3 жыл бұрын
ohh he got the old pot for his furnace. the monster is almost born. bigstackd gots some competition =b sreetips deals in 3 nines, sometimes 4 nines fine =)
@RuneChaosMarine
3 жыл бұрын
I also was thinking that perhaps sreetips. Perhaps should have invested in a devil forge. I am sure bigstackd will enjoy these upcoming melt videos.
@m4rkyboy
3 жыл бұрын
I have a piece of paper that says 'Silver' on it, is there a way to test the Silver content of paper Silver?
@johnh8615
3 жыл бұрын
Go to “mount baker mining and metals” and do his furnace design . That s/s pot will melt.
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
I’m looking forward to getting it fired up. I talked to the fabricator today and he said get the crucible to him.
@seannyc88
3 жыл бұрын
Quick question sir what can you substitute nitric acid for when refining only 10k to pure
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
Not sure, there’s no substitute for nitric acid, that I’ve ever used.
@Reasonist
3 жыл бұрын
Is it possible to make a palladium cell? So you could take those slimes and make a palladium shot to put through it?
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
I’ve never heard of that
@madduck692002
3 жыл бұрын
Sreetips? What's the full name of the book (Reactivity series of metals) and the author's name?
@sterlingideas7370
3 жыл бұрын
Does the color on the impure silver extend through the piece or is it a surface color?
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
Surface, only.
@d.pierce.6820
3 жыл бұрын
When you buy a whole Sterling set, you know the knife handles are also Sterling, but how about when you find singles? I've never seen a knife handle marked "Sterling"
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
If you look closely with a magnifier you’ll find the word “sterling” somewhere on the knife handle. Sometimes it will be written on the steel blade “STEEL BLADE STERLING HANDLE”
@lightmagick
3 жыл бұрын
At about 5:00 you finished peeling the silver off of that wide serving knife with the small handle but you didn't take the bit where it joins to the stainless blade. Was that part not silver?
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
If it’s silver then I got it. I was digging bits that fell in the trash can all afternoon.
@blacklabelonthebedrocks
3 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips Use a wide bowl as an intermediate bin and emty it after 2-3 pieces. So you don't have to dig in the larger bin.
@boblindstrom3479
3 жыл бұрын
Hammer on my anvil is my choice....been cut too many times using those nippers.
@richardwillard
3 жыл бұрын
I don't care what the vids about, sreetips makes a vid I watch it. Very interesting, could he get silver from the pacific ocean? probably, thank you Sreetips
@arramon777
3 жыл бұрын
lol with the amount of stuff mrs sreetips brought him he will be busy for life.
@richardwillard
3 жыл бұрын
@@arramon777 he is sporting a new power supply that he is just so proud of, so exciting watching him build his man cave laboratory, lol
@lclosson87
3 жыл бұрын
Any idea what contamination would cause my nitric acid to turn black?
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
I’ve seen pgm solutions turn black like ink
@cditzler6313
3 жыл бұрын
how much sterling can you run thru 1 filter until it clogs up
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
It depends on impurities in the stuff going in. If I put pure silver crystal back through the filter a second time the filter will last and last because no impurities to trap and clog it
@ifindmetal
3 жыл бұрын
Do ya have enough of those slime baskets to do a refine ?
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
Probably
@garymyers6638
2 жыл бұрын
do you salvage the non magnetic stainless?
@sreetips
2 жыл бұрын
No
@1959Berre
3 жыл бұрын
I know you probably do not have the complete set, though it hurts to see how these fine pieces of cutlery are destroyed.
@junit483
3 жыл бұрын
The easiest way I've found for the silver shell flatware has been to put it in the bench vise and break the plaster the pull the stainless out. Tap the remaining loose crumbs out and then melt. The plaster floats. Pick the big chunks out. Pour the silver into a bucket of water, making shot. Whatever remaining plaster there may be dissolves in the water.
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
I’ll be using it to inquart gold so I like to clean it up
@Hobypyrocom
3 жыл бұрын
if someone sends you 3d printed model, will you be able to cast it out of silver? ;)
@christopherholly1743
3 жыл бұрын
Richards &West could in Rochester NY
@Hobypyrocom
3 жыл бұрын
@@christopherholly1743 thanks :) i can cast bigger parts too since i have FDM and SLA 3d printers and finished building my forge, but i was just trying to implant ideas in sreetips mind for new type of content and way of making money ;)
@sreetips
3 жыл бұрын
I’ll be expanding into casting soon. But I have zero experience right now
@Hobypyrocom
3 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips thats great news. if you plan to cast jewelry, i suggest you to check the VOG channel, i learned allot from him... if you need anything 3d printed i can print it for you for free, but i dont know how much the shipping will cost and how much time it will take to reach you since i am from Macedonia :(
@donaldhoot7741
3 жыл бұрын
Smugglers handles full of "coke" lol
@Gainn
3 жыл бұрын
Melting down good quality sterling flatware is savagery. For the weight you get from a covered handle you're better off selling them as an item.
@davidscollectibles8397
3 жыл бұрын
Dremel is way faster.
@huseinabdul1
3 жыл бұрын
Won’t it cause loss due to the powder from Drexel?
@davidscollectibles8397
3 жыл бұрын
@@huseinabdul1 you’re talking fractions of a penny
@cydnicaldwell1337
3 жыл бұрын
Faster yes, but you lose silver in the grinding process; so his way or banging with a hammer is best.
@davidscollectibles8397
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe if you value your time as zero. You can knock out a handle in 30 seconds with a dremel. You lose more money in the cost of the dremel blade then you do silver.
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