Silver Cell Anode Filters Part 1 

I find his videos so interesting I want them longer!

He's killing me! I want to binge these vidoes!

I know I want everything at once, no part 1 or 2 😂😂

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@@sreetips thanks for your kindness. 3rd generation law enforcement. My sister is also. No better feeling Than helping those who need it.

Also my first thought. EDIT: And make it non-metallic to reduce the chance of contamination.

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My guess is 3-6g of Pd, according to amount od precipitate

It’s excruciating! But in the end it’ll be worth it - i hope.

@@sreetipswhich part is more excruciating? The Chemistry (I really enjoy), or setting up all of those shots. Your Timelapse’s are the best.

Working around the camera.

Nickel won’t cement on copper, so there’s probably not any nickel in there.

It’s not easy. I’m relying heavily on my experience to pull this off.

Yep! enjoyed it! curious what the yield will be. Haha and blobs of metal as bright as the sun. Will you also get them analyzed? I'm so curious how selective those percipitations are.

One intended for cannabis tricomb sifting would work extremely well for this application.

I noticed that myself. Not very satisfying if you can’t see what going on.

It took some time. But I think it will be beneficial in the end.

The DMG will pull most of the platinum and palladium. Then I’ll filter the precipitate out and cement what in the liquid on copper.

No, I didn’t test. I added some extra DMG and got no precipitate. But I added way too much to the two smaller beakers. I let them set over night and the DMG caused silver to come of solution. What a nightmare.

It’s less hassle just to buy it from the grocery store.

I added more than I thought I would need. In part two you’ll see that this was a big mistake. The DMG caused silver to come out of solution. Nightmare.

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@@sreetips That’s the volume you should treat with a small amount of DMG. Once you’ve filtered out the Pd complex, you could simple cement out the Ag and return it to the cement pile. By pouring it and any entrained Pd into the mystery mud bucket, your adding in Ag that you’re forced to deal with. That you need not have to. Processes like these are where volume control gets important. Liter volumes are simple enough and fit your workspace. 4 and 5 liter volumes can’t practically fit in your workspace and risk things like getting dropped. When you have a dark green solution, after you’ve filtered out all the solids, you might want to consider the addition of sodium borohydride. It’d reduce every metal in solution to the metal form. By doing that, you could do away with most of that liquid volume and be able to work up just the sludges, and not the large number of rinse volumes. That circles back to my point a couple videos ago on your waste Au refining. ‘Too many transfers.’ Efficiency saves you time, for sure, but it also puts a check on the growth of volume of liquids. I rather cringed when you said you were ‘making it up as you went.’ I know you have an idea where you want to go and how you want to get there, but whenever you get to the ‘making it up as you go’ STOP. Review your plan. You are ‘winging it’ with a lot of value. Nothing would make me happier than to see you with a big button of Pt and Pd. You’re just making it harder on yourself. Take a deep breath. Slow down. Take your time.

Those are Dacron filters. They hold up well even against hot nitric. The black slimes just dissolve away as the acid reacts with them. I agree, it reminded me of doing the laundry!

I’ll throw them in with my next paper filter burn and recover any traces during that process.

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We had those for our kids. Wife washed by hand then threw them in with the clothes. My uniforms used to smelled like baby formula.

@@sreetips 😂🤣 I was on the fantail while pulling out of Port Canaveral for several months at sea and a pelican absolutely wrecked my foul-weather jacket. We never sent our jackets to the ship's laundry because they would disappear. I wound up washing it by hand the best I could but I smelled like fish until we pulled into Puerto Rico a week or two later and I could wash it at a laundry mat. 😂

I use borosilicate glass and I’ve never had a problem. I use the same glassware for years. I’ve got a couple 4 liter beakers from 2010. Should have four of them but I dropped them in the sink and hit the granite and broke them. But never had one fail while in use.

I prefer using pure silver. It’s much easier to work with.

It tends to clump together.