I love seeing thoughtful gifts like this. Paul really lifted the spirits of not only street tips and the channel. It lifts our spirits as the viewers of the content. It's generosity like this seen here that makes me think there is hope for the world.
That's not too bad of a yield for just refining some filter papers, considering you're also going to get silver and PGMs as well. Who am I kidding, that's a damn good yield for this type of refining. Nice job!
Very nice device Mr Steetips. Wow, what a fantastic contribution from Paul. So many years I follow you, you always mentioned the GRForum and several senior guys there like Butcher. In my case, I mention you as my grand master. After time watching plus 2 years I started with the hobby, more or less 1 year studying and some prentice level practice, and now one more year of hands on, I consider myself relatively successful. With Silver I am about to graduate, have got myself a nice 4 Oz collection (unfortunately I dont know where to find silver anymore, the plated I user to get a lot got price out of control). What I am most proud of is to have mastered a handful of different processes for gold for different scenarios. I learned to estimate, sort, process, recover and refine. My measure of success is that huge amount of ewaste that actually yields a couple of grams, and I am doing that. Sensation like no other: you have that considerable volume of junk, you understand you have like 2-3 grams of gold there, and successfully drop 3 grams at the end. I am about to melt my beads together to make my very own bar. Thank you for all learning opportunity you provided!
Thanks Paul. I love watching the filter refining videos. So interesting to work your way through the elements to retrieve them. You didn't want to do the Oxalic Acid Solution treatment for the 2nd drop? I don't blame you... Fun stuff
I think this may be your best overall video just showing how much you have to decide on the fly as you discover bit by bit what all metals you've got in concentration. It's a great demonstration of the knowledge and effort it takes to refine precious metals as well as just how much you can lose to filters in all your other refining projects. I wonder how many people would've just thrown those filters away and lost multiple grams of gold.
I seen a dead palmetto bug dissolve completely in piranha solution. No traces left of the bug - solution stayed clear and colorless. Made a believer out of me.
I'm just watching this a year later and chuckling about you burning the plastic bags. I have friends that completely spaz out whenever they see me burn plastic. Too Funny.
I have been waiting to see you refine your filters and here I sit on this beautiful Saturday afternoon on the beautiful st, johns river with my best friend Lugnut {my dog} chillaxing and watching this much anticipated video
No need to give instructions watch enough videos and you start to understand how this works and also the dangers along with it, no way this is for some one who need instructions how to do this it is way to dangerous!!! Respect to this man who is making the videos for us to watch
Holy makeral, this man is burning plasic bags on a fire, someone call greta! This is fantastic wake and bake watching with my morning coffee, regards from Wales UK ♥
He only refines the metal to liberate the beaker. Hilarious. Truly "pound smart and penny foolish". He doesn't waste anything, his wife finds all the good deals and he is a truly knowledgeable chemist. It would break my heart if the beaker burst on the high heat after three years of inactivity.
Good one, it’s nice to see things not go 100% to plan and how to work around them. Amazing result for filers, I would have like to see how much Silver you recovered. Thanks for sharing
Watching you pipette the water out before you tried to melt was soothing for my anxiety lol I was like please get some of that excess water out first so it don’t splatter ha ha
Wow when I saw the footage of you incinerating all the filters together I knew it would be a interesting one. I keep each type of process filter separate from each other, makes it easier to recover the metals
@@sreetips I work with "Ewaste" and gold plated mostly, so there are a heck of a lot of filters from the various processes for each type of parts I run.
chatGPT told me that you should do selective for platinum first by using Ammonium chloride then filtering it for platinum afterthat you will go after Palladium by using dimethylglyoxime and then fillter out any solid in the solution. (you should get palladium dimethylglyoxime) lastly you should filter it for gold by using sodium metabisulfite the reason is sodium metabisulfite is not very good at selective precipitation, therefore we must reduce other first
Paul Ashman... You rock! 🤘💥🤘 Sreetips... I think you may have 1/4 - 1/2 troy ounce of powdered gold precipitate in that big flask. It has contamination now, though, but could provide some more content when you get to it. I love the long video. Luckily, I already had snacks and drinks on hand. 😁
Paul Ashman - you made sreetips happy, but you made us all happy because he deserves some quality lab gear for his excellent content.. That's a very nice addition!
I'm wondering if a Dutch oven with a lid might reduce the possibility of metal dust carried away in the expanding combustion gasses. The method I have in mind is similar to making charcoal.
Hello sreetips 👋 love your videos When incinerating for example IC-chips, it’s important to burn all the carbon out of the material. Basically burning it until it’s white. Otherwise the (black) carbon will trap some of the gold in the recovery state. I wonder if it’s the same with the filter papers? 🤔
You should send Paul a small bar of silver from your silver refinery to say thanks for the hot plate/stirring plate. 💙 your videos there very interesting and I learn alot from your vids, keep thm coming and ill keep watching thm 👌👍💯🔥
There will be losses. Losses occur all along the way. Drops splashing out, vapors going up the stack, particles sticking to filters, and on and on. With a hobby set up like mine these types of losses are going to happen. Minimizing them will depend on my technique and skill as a refiner.
Tin will cement palladium and use copper to silver next easier way less filter paper and time but everyone does it different I guess and if you need heat use sulfuric and hydrochloric don't need not hot plates but every one does it diffrent
Remove each metal in solution one at a time. First silver make silver chloride filter the solution off then add smb to solution drop the gold.. filter it off then add whatever chemicals you put in to drop platinum and palladium.
Hi from Australia 👋, question, When refining silver plate, how do you know when solution is saturated with metals? ie- knowing when to add more water ? Thanks 👍 ps- I’ve learned so much from your vid’s 🙏
Yeah bring gold down first then filter then amonium for platium palladium with sodium hydroxide mix with smb get the platinum metals out and get distilled water and wash gold not hydrochloric cause it's laced with nitro it go back to solution you will be redoing redoing over and over same hope I helped you out 🤜🤛
@@sreetips But will it vaporise at that temperature? From an open fire? I get it with the oxyacetylene torch, that you can book away most precious metals (not sure about osmium), but from a wood-fired "natural" incineration you should, at most, just burn off any combustible material, right?
Agree, but I had to get that one off my shelf. Every time I looked at it a felt a knot in my stomach. You’ll see my picture under the word “procrastination” in the dictionary.
I am just curious , when I cast bullets out of lead , if i get the lead to hot it will get frosty as I call it .Will gold get frosty if you pour it to hot like lead will
That is one of the most unique buttons I have ever seen! If there something up with the lighting or does it look strangley glossy on the top in contrast to sides and bottom?
I noticed that. It’s not borax. Looks very unusual. I could probably get it to mirror by inquarting, parting with nitric then double refine using different precipitants. But the video was already approaching an hour in length.
@@sreetips I'm glad you didn't. I had to get to bed. Lol. I checked it out on ebay but it exceded my budget however, I did pick up on some silver crystal instead.