I feel like every video you do is a training lesson and after watching your videos for the last year and half I think I could do some of these processes. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
This is why it blows my mind that people are hitting him up for instruction or mentorship. Just... watch the videos. He is basically already taking you there. He literally even links to the book he's working out of. We've even been so fortunate to see how these refinements can go sideways so that's plenty of tutorial right there. I relate deeply to "This is my hobby, not my job." and can appreciate the opening sentiment here.
Hello Sreetips If you had a clock in the back ground like you did years ago it would put things into perspective for us regarding the amount of time this all takes. I really love the videos you put out. Take care!
The noise from the old fume hood didn't really bother me, I was used to it, but the improvement to your production quality with the new, quieter motor, is really noticeable and appreciated! Great decision to switch brands!
There was a definite color difference between the first and second dissolutions of the gold in the aqua regia. Pure solutions always have a stunning color to them. At today's spot price, the ingot is just a hair under $1200. Your jeweler friend should be quite pleased.
I would try to drop the inquarted melted metal in a higher (cold) water collumn than the 6 inches of water you have in your pot. This would give you finer drippings that the acid could more quickly dissolve because of larger contact surface.
@@williamfoote2888 Sreetips used to do that. He even used to put ice in the water. I am guessing that he has noticed that all that work was not saying much time and much nitric acid.
If people need advice and training they should just watch your videos. I mean... There is simply no one on RU-vid who shares so much experience on PGM refining with such a level of proficiency. I often think of how *great* of a teacher you probably were to new recruits while you were in the Navy though I dont recall your specific position. Congratulations on the new fume hood ! Save your lungs and your ears ;)
Congrats on the new fume hood! Your audio has gotten a lot better with the new mic setup… but the hood will only make it better. Go sreetips! Wins all around.
The noise of your old fume hood used to put me to sleep, I loved that sound! Perhaps you could manually set the white balance, it seems to shift now and then. Love the content! ❤️
You are welcome! A wonderful refining and the tidbits of other aspects of your operation you graciously include. I look forward to the upcoming videos made with the new goldenly silent fume hood AND catching up on the previous videos I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing yet with the old fume hood(s)…because some noise is welcomed, especially when, as a viewer, I get to choose when I want to hear it. Thank you Sir! 👍👍🤟
Wow fancy new fume Hood great I had to build me one works pretty good After adding stuff out with gold settled out and I filter the solution so that I am not pouring off any gold rinse filter with hydrochloric then distilled water I do learn a lot from you appreciate your time thanks Mark
You should do a video where you refine all that copper down. I know you like the precious metals but copper has worth and it would be an interesting video to watch.
You may not offer tutoring but I have learned a lot from these videos. I would not want to deal with any of the acids you work with but at least I know enough to be dangerous if I did.
Thank you for sharing.. I would hate to be in your mind, all of the ongoing processes you have on a daily, has got to be mind blowing.. All the many waste solutions (Silver, Gold & Ect) Keeping & labeling what each one is and what order they are in processing.. Buying & testing gold and silver for future an ongoing refining, selling refined gold and other pure refined precious metals.. Keeping up with daily prices of them (+/- values).. It has to be a mad house behind the camera lenses.. I was a scrapper for many years and I always melted (copper, brass & aluminum) into ingots to get highest prices. Behind the work for me was choregraphed chaos, always in a process of cleaning and organizing. Then storing and selling when prices were high.. For just dealing with JUNK, I did quite well and made a very good living. It did consume 8 to 10 hours of my time every day. Still people who seen me work had to be confused cause of my methods.. I would bet the same for you.. If someone was allowed to follow and watch you for a few days, I would imagine they would be more confused by watching, without knowing the "Big Picture" you see in the bags, jars & containers of miscellaneous processes.. Sorry to babble on, I love watching and seeing a glimpse of your organized chaos, you call "all in a days work"
Love the quietness of the new hood. Feels darker when videoing inside of it. Might want to add some more battery op led lighting inside for when you're filming
Im pleased to see you now have a good fume hood, there is no way I would be doing some of the stuff you have in the past, hobby or not, without one. Great hobby but not near my workshop, OMG the chemical fumes and metal are just a big no.
Sreetips, owe you an apology for the dumb question if I would have watched the rest of the video first duh I would have had my answer I learned something new from you everyday thanks Mark
Congratulations on the new fume hood Mr Sreetips. Now the children can safely play in the traffic once more! You should let us name the fume hood. like "Ol Blowy" or "death breath".... i don't know... i better put down the bong...
Every time I watch one of your videos I learned something new sir as always a pleasure I was watching 1 where they boiled their inget and ammonia afterwards to clear off any flux or possible contaminations at the top and it made it super shiny have you ever tried that and what was your experience
No, if we get all the contamination out with the refining process then there’s no need to remove contamination with ammonia or any other reagent, because there won’t be any to remove.
@58:06 Your meticulous process of refining your jeweler friend's scrap gold indicates that over 3% of that scrap contains contaminate metals. The difference between the expected yield (22.4g) v the actual yield (21.7g) is 0.7g of other scrap material. I enjoyed experiencing the purifiction process as you thoroughly explained each step. The text overlays are very helpful as well. Thank you.
Streetips; I didnt see you do the Filtering in this one but I would figure that when using a Disk tip filter-pad placed in a funnel set on a Filtering-flask; I assume its possible that those types of filters can rise to float or liquid can bypass around the pads edges flowing underneath and into the Funnels spout. Unlike Bowl types of filters which prevent that possibility.
Id love the opprotunity to get a sample of your copper from your waste treatment bucket. I refine as a hobby and would appreciate the opprotunity to recover the copper via electrolisis. If i come across anything of precious metals your welcome to have back. I
I still think that you should run a contest to see if viewers can count the total number of times you say the word "here" in your last 10 videos (shorts not included) maybe offer a 1oz or 2oz stamped bar of your silver as a prize.............
Seems like keeping copperas prepared ahead of time as a regular thing would be a valuable tool in your toolbox. Especially when doing, say, a stock pot refining or anything else involving lots of mixed metals. True, it's a pain in the neck to prepare, but having something so selective in what it precipitates might be worth the time.
Great Video, very interesting the new process. BTW, can you let me know the Title of the Book & Author you're referencing in this video? Thank you Again.
hey couple of questions for you; 1. when you use tap water, have you filtered it or have had a test done to see if it included anything of consequence to upset the balance chemically? 2. what would happen if you remelted the inquarted gold after you've removed the silver from it?
Fantastic video Sreetips! Just a bit of peer scrutiny though; a liter is slightly more than a quart. You probably had it backwards in your head. I've made that mistake too. 1 quart is only about 950ml.
Thanks for another great video! the new fumehood is great! Do you find any difference in the shot size (total surface area) in the amount time it takes the nitric boils to remove the base metals? In watching your videos i've wondered a few times what would happen if instead of making shot, you made a bar of the inquarted metal, and then rolled it out into a thin sheet giving it a much more substantial surface area? I suspect the time and effort to roll it out would not be worth the trouble, but it still makes me wonder.
love the hood the other one I think was starting to send me subliminal messages haha maybe the contam came from the melt dish saw some speckles should buff out
I seen that too. So I expected surface contamination during the melt. Probably iron. I should have refined it a third time but the video was getting long, I had three days invested, and I was getting tired.
What was that "refining process" book you referenced? I would like to get a good hard copy to take with next season because I don't get internet in the mountains were my claims are in Idaho. ✌️😎
Refining Precious Metal Wastes by C.M. Hoke - gesswein.com used to sell hard bound copies for about $65 shipped. But sold out after I began recommending it on my channel. Or they could have just run out. Either way it’s no longer available there. It’s available on Amazon and eBay, but they want way too much ($500 in some cases). The book is out of print.
Mr Sreetips, I gotta say, everytime I watch your videos, I imagine the forerunners, the alchemists like Merlin, crafting their respective kings gold coins for them.😃, I know chemistry is more science than smoke and mirrors, but times have changed, although alchemy remains... In its new form atleast.
Ebay is very strict. Sreetips is just an object to them. I was an ebay seller for a few years. Very annoying company to deal with, buyers come before sellers, even though there are many crooked buyers. Shipping is also very annoying, especially with regards to the ebay/fedex relationship.
@@DiverCTH I've been out of that game for awhile. Basically I was a flipper selling everything you can imagine on ebay, including scrap gold. My two biggest annoyances were fedex bait and switch tactics enabled by ebay, and ebays no questions asked of buyers policies. Very easy to get scammed by buyers.
when you do the rinse to the gold waste container cant you use a lose teaholder like the one you can close and snip off one end or maybe some thing with an even finer metal mesh?
