Collin's Lab: Homebrew Piezo 

thank you for this

He could make it a lot better if he took what he had, selected a seed, and recrystallized around it in an insulated container. That will give him bigger, more perfect and more pure crystals to facet.

@@AtlasReburdened Also, crystallization seems to have happened too quickly. The liquid was too concentrated. Would be better to dilute it, dangle in a seed, and let it evaporate slowly over a few days. Also, use distilled water to minimize contamination. Metal salts in tap water will totally ruin the crystal structure.

@@rich1051414 Indeed, I suggested an insulated container to slow the process, but it would probably be easier to go your route and just start with a lower concentration. Also yes, distilled for sure. Personally, I would take water from a freshly serviced Glacier refill machine(because I've tested a few and when they're freshly serviced they put out 4PPM water) and run it through a clean, ungreased, glass distillation rig with a heated(but obviously not to boiling) receiving flask. That should give the purest water anyone can have access to outside of a lab that specializes in 0PPM, dielectric grade water. At that point, it would probably be wise to do the crystallization in a container that's capped with a fresh carbon filter to prevent airborne volitiles from absorbing into the water.

Thank you guys that helped me a lot. @Zeek is it possible to cut multiple Piezo Crystals out of a very big one?

How's that crystal you made 5 years ago working out?

@@Phelan666 Interested to know

My junkie antennae so excited to smoke this 💨

umer salim I was anticipating him doing that too.

Yes. That's the whole reason for watching; I want to homebrew a piezo pickup for a guitar with nylon strings. That big crystal seems a bit awkward for that purpose.

Then make it smolah

@@biggreentruck4907 you wouldn't need more than a strip of that. Generally piezos will go in the same slot as your bridge on a nylon. A little stick of it would work.

It should work but usually you might need an amplifier circuit depending on the amount of electricity generated

Beautiful crystals, I haven't messed with Rochelle salt since my main thing is growing large Monoammonium Phosphate crystal clusters. www.pinterest.com/bartlett1710/ I started around April of this year and my oldest crystal now weighs a lot and the individual crystals are an inch across. I just had to move it into a five gallon bucket because the side crystals had grown flat against the 2.5 gallon bucket. I have grown large batches of single Copper Sulfate crystals as well as large clusters that only look nice because I glued clusters together before letting them grow together. I am having a big problem with what I thought would be the most beautiful specimen: a sphere with crystals growing outwards. I believe the fluid dynamics of the way the crystals grow on the sphere is interfering with it's progress. I had used a matrix of compressed rock with a hole drilled through so it could be supported on a stand. I then made a device using a simple coat hanger that has the specimen rotated 90 degrees so it is horizontal and free turning so (in theory) as the crystal growth on top gets heavier it will turn allowing the rest of the crystal equal time on top. Your crystals are beautiful so you must be good at what you do. I am having a large problem getting my specimen to 1. grow equally 2. get any larger than 3-4 inches in diameter and need a little help.

Konichi Wawa My crystals are small, I have never grew any bigger than 5 cm. But, as far as I know, one of the methods for growing big crystals involves artificial circulation of the solution. There are different ways to do it: rotate the crystal, teether the growing tank etc. Here, they use rotation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l_USYub3djY.html

Dmitry Shintyakov how can I grow diamonds?

Toki Loki you can't unfortunately

Dmitry Shintyakov Any thoughts on growing crystals in a mold?

I don't like that music