Really looking forward to the silver cell build video. At my job i braze copper pipe all day with 15% silver brazing rods. Ive been saving all the waste for almost a year. Your videos inspired me to not just buy bullion but to refine my waste as well. I just dont have the space to build a workbench out yet but one day. Thanks for putting this knowledge out there. It brought a whole new appreciation for precious metals to me.
@Josh neibarger 🤣 while it's funny everybody knows I'm doing it. They think I'm weird but I only catch the waste before it hits the trash pile. They see me Frankenstein brazing rods together out of shit the other guys throw away. I don't rip off my employer.
@sreetips that's a great video. Everything I have saved up has already been melted. I'm curious to see if it still holds around 15% after it's been heated up to brazing temperatures. I'll throw the soft solder splashes in my bag too even though it's only 5% Hell, it's gunna get thrown away. It doesn't expire. I look like a crazy person but I don't really care. One man's trash.
I really do enjoy these videos. Always learning something new. I have been collecting sterling silver coins and bars for over 20 years. If I ever decide to melt it down I have these videos to remind me that I would mess this up and probably die in the process. Leaving this to the professionals!
THIS FOOL IS LUCKY TO STILL BE ALIVE CAUSE HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE IS DOING. HE SAYS IN THIS VIDEO HE MAKES IT UP AS HE GOES. THATS NOT INTELLIGENCE THATS STUPIDITY.
My favourite videos of yours are of the silver cell, they never fail to fascinate. Another great video and Thankyou for sharing your wonderful hobby with us.
Thank you for doing these videos. I have always found scientific research fascinating it was my favorite class in school with shop class being my next favorite. Both are extremely important and useful in everyday life.
Sreetips, you are an absolute wizard! I love your content. My 8 year old son and I love to watch your chemistry and refining videos. I bet your vault is absolutely loaded. Nice watch too. Please keep up the good work! Refining and video editing. You are the best!
The worst part of these videos is when they end. Sad i have to wait for the next! Good news is there is plenty on the books to go back to. Got a huge chuckle out of the rearranging protons comment. 😅😅 keep up the fantastic work good man. 🙏
Another beautiful video and how nice were some of those needles of silver in there. Watching silver grow is so much better than watching grass grow 😂😂😂. Weird how addictive these silver refine videos are. Thanks for sharing.
I've seen the time lapse on the gold drying but I pretty sure that this was the first for silver crystal. It was cool seeing the metallic looking slivers of silver shine!!
never gets old seeing that beautiful elemental silver, to think I was so happy finding 4 silver coins this week while metal detecting lol I can only imagine how happy you are about 58 troy ounces.
@@xindaxoxou7431 cost of 999 silver comes from its refinement process iirc. So the cost of the final product comes from labor, not just materials. I’m assuming they are getting all this silver solution as a byproduct of some other business like jewelers.
I just started stacking silver, it's really underrated as a metal, it's beautiful when really pure. Scottsdale mint has these 'galaxy bars' that your process reminds me of, a kind of iridescent blue.
Silver isn't underrated, it's all over RU-vid and all the preppers are talking about it.....If you truly want something that's underrated.....buy platinum....absolutely nobody is talking about it, and nobody has it...
Platinum is cool and all, and more power to you if you are acquiring it in pure form, but the refining process… The level of tedium, chemical transitions and steps are…. A bit much.
@@henryvanderbeek2973I guess it’s underrated to the average joe who only makes up around 1.5% of the silver market in buying terms. When the dollar starts to crash and other currencies follow, it will be a lot less underrated as billions of people flock to silver. They won’t be able to hide the scarcity of silver when global supplies get low.
I focus on the crystal as I pour, and use peripheral vision on the blue liquid. As soon as those crystals start to tumble I counter immediately. I’ve done it so many times that it’s become second nature.
Found your channel today. Kudos for showing these processes. It confirms that I have no desire to expose myself to these toxins! 😊 Thanks for the informative videos!
You had me there for a second. I thought you were literally growing silver. I was thinking to myself…. “Wow, we’ve been duped “. Then at the end you tell us it’s refined. Lol. This would have been a great April fools joke. Cheers!
I was thinking the same thing. Like what am I missing here. Have we been lied to or what. We can grow this shit? I want in. Lol. Then I found your comment. Haven't quite made it to the videos end yet.
He dos grow in oher videos. And so do some other channels. Goggle it. Here he is refining some he has already grown. But the formula is online. You can even mine silver and gold with plants. It's called phytomining.
Q&A: 1) What would happen if a gold-filled (the orange liquid before hitting it with stump-out) or a silver-filled solution was allowed to evaporate? 2) Is there any other way to refine silver to 3-9's fine without using a electrolytic cell? 3) Do you keep any of the bars (gold and/or silver) for yourself, just to have as a personal stack? Or do you just sell your stuff on eBay or to the jeweler? 4) Is everything you refine done on camera? Or do you refine stuff off camera? 5) What does the wife think of your work? I know she enjoys the hunt for scrap, but the refining process is dangerous.
1) it will form burnt orange colored chucks of solid chloroauric acid. 2) silver chloride conversion with lye and sugar will yield three nines silver. 3) I refine it, harvest the silver, put it away (because I don’t have to sell any) and forget about it. 4) since I’ve started shooting video, I can’t seem to resist producing a video. But I do refine off camera every now and then. It’s like taking a breath of fresh air when I don’t have that camera in my way. 5) she hates refining but love finding a good deal. I can’t stand going to sales (but I do sometimes with her) and I love refining with a passion. We are the perfect match, at the perfect moment in time, with the right instrument, in the exact right place. Circumstances like this may not happen again for another thousand years!
@@sreetips 😊 I love that you take time to answer questions. Not many RU-vidrs do anymore. And I love the way you look at life. Thanks for all your work in making videos. I love watching the processes be it gold silver or platinum metal. So interesting and it's something I can really focus on and it helps me deal with stress watching it
@@sreetipsMaybe you should lay low with the vids. This is my first time seeing this and I'm pretty amazed with how many subscribers you have. I was just saying you need a bigger operation, but, if a good portion of your subscribers started up their own cells, you are capable of bringing down the house of silver and driving holders nuts, with price fluctuation.
Hi Sreetips, just wanna say that I love your gold and silver refining setup! I was watching some of your older videos, and wondered - would it be a good idea to filter the solution from the cementation buckets to capture any particles that may be suspended in solution?
Awesome! I haven’t started my refining yet, I was thinking of trying to de plate some (a lot) lol, of plated silver. I should be able to run the solid finished product through a sieve cell like this for a final high grade product? TIA for all the awesome vids!
@@46kvolt You'll probably find the yield from plated items to be annoyingly small. Sreetips makes it look easy because he's done it so many times, but as a beginner, naturally you would expect to get less yield. Even so, silver plated stuff yields almost nothing, it certainly will not pay for your nitric.
I recently came across your videos and was immediately captured by them. I buy silver bars from time to time, but am very interested in learning the methods that you follow for refining. I too would like to do this as a hobby (I like to keep myself busy during downtime). I have watched a couple of your videos, including the one about building your own silver cell. The question that I have is, do you have a tutorial video (or a blog post) where you teach how the whole process works, including all the tools needed and steps to follow? I look forward to your response. Please keep sharing these videos, we very much appreciate them! And thanks in advance!
@@sreetips may I ask when you built your first cell how much elemental silver did you add to make your silver nitrate solution? Have you scaled up over time as I noticed in your video 2 weeks ago you started with 600g of elemental Ag, or about $300-$400 worth!
My first silver cell was a one liter beaker with a graphite cathode. It worked good but I always had problem with the silver crystal making contact with the anode filter basket. I used about 150 grams of silver for the electrolyte in the glass cell. Then I switched to the larger stainless steel cell. It’s 3.5 liters. I still use 150 grams of silver per liter in the bigger cell. So yes, I used about 600 grams of silver (reserved from a previous silver fell harvest) to make the electrolyte. I re-use the electrolyte for a second run. I add another 200 grams of silver to the second run because the silver gets depleted as the cell runs, some of it deposits on the cathode. I never use the electrolyte more than twice because copper builds up and turns it blue. I get about three kilos for both runs, I reserve 800g for the next two runs. My net yield is 2.2 kilos out the door,
If you believe there is 550'000 tons of silver in reserves you live in an illusion. Most of the silver mined is consumed. We have less investable silver than gold in the world, approx 6'000 tons
Another great video. Will you ever be doing the lead experiment by adding lead to a gold and silver alloy to see how efficient sulfuric acids is at removing/precipitating the lead from your gold refining process?
Why? He does a good job keepingPb and Sn out of his processing. Either only create problems. Pb,especially, will make his waste solids toxic, if they exceed a certain concentration. Right now he doesn’t face that problem. Pb is nobody’s friend.
Was thinking a bit, it might be so that if you decrease voltage a bit, increase nitrate concentration = decrease resistance of the cell so it wil increase current you can grow fatter crystals bit faster and a lilttle longer before restarting the cell. Looks to me that the crystals get more elongated shape at higher voltage.
No, I use the silver to refine gold. Then I recover the silver and run it through the silver cell. It would be difficult to put numbers on it. But you can be sure that I wouldn’t do it for very long if it was costing more than I get out.
Blue, pink, yellow, whatever man just bring me more of that. Can this guy cook or what? You’re alright sreetips. You’re alright man. We’re gonna make a lot of money together.
Creating Elemetal silver out of thin air will involve rearranging protons and neutrons which you do not have the ability to do..... Yet! excellent video as always Sreetips
This hobby is very addictive , i just bought a 12 x 20 walk in freezer with out the cooling unit , its all stainless steel out side and inside , ( food grade ) 100 bucks ,,,, going to make a SWEET lab , got a stainless steel sink and this sweet stainless hood and some corion tops , everything all together was less then 200 bucks ,
What do you do with the silver Crystal? do you melt it into bar? do you stock pile it up in crystal form, do you use it for other projects? do you sell it? im so intrigued, if you do stock pile it up id love to see a video of your whole silver crystal collect ot even better a video of your entire precious metal collection, that video would be awesome, great video much love from the UK keep up the good content
I used to pour bars and sell every bit of silver that I refined. But with silver so grossly and artificially undervalued it makes no sense to sell it right now.
999 Silver right now is 23$ per ounce. If you are able to grow more than 1000 grams with that silver cell you can sell it for around 800$, I think it’s not bad.
My man! Great stuff here....looks like the big guys have bought up a lot of shorts again, they WILL use it as ammo to knock down the silver price, I have seen it time and time again on the charts I study....the only 2 times silver was allowed to "level up" in the past 12 years was Covid and silver squeeze....every other time the price follows the shorts....
Will sreetips crash the price of silver? I doubt it. But . . . your videos are great and the work is amazing. Your diy approach to smelting and refining is amazing too. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent content as always Mr. Sreetips, many thanks for sharing! A quick question for you, is it possible to use .925/.800/.500 silver shot for the cell or not? All the best from the UK 🙂
@sreetips I have been collecting pc's from work (I.T. guy) and old circuit boards from eBay with the plan of extracting the gold from the traces and hard drives. I also collect copper and aluminum to make art and non-mission critical parts for my fixed-wing aircraft build post-ingot processing. I haven't found a source of scrap silver. I think I noticed a comment about jewelry from garage/estate sales? I'm in my 50s and my 8th-grade chemistry teacher got me hooked on this ever since. You remind me of him. R.I.P. Mr. Tidd.
Sreetips, love the videos. Do you ever considered doing all of your rinses and even drying for that matter, from within the stainless steel bowl? I saw another RU-vidr, Lithic Metals I believe, doing this and I tried it and it really is much easier. Just a thought. Only problem with this is if your bowl has plastic or rubber on the bottom.
As of writing this... Silver is trading @ £19 Oz. or $17 Oz. It's an amazing metal but worth very little and hardly worth your time I would imagine. The 58 Oz is worth about £1100. Take into account the...cost of the scrap silver, the time involved, chemicals and other consumables etc, you can't be left with much tbh
This is the exact point of view that enables people like me to buy lots of silver, for much less than it’s real value. Trading paper for metal is a good idea. Especially if the paper is declining, and the silver is rising - like it is now. Silver is money.
@@sreetips I don't know how it's on the rise to be honest. It's been steady between £15 to £19-20 Oz for 4 years now, it hit an all time high in 2011 of £29 Oz for like a week then dropped. I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do by any means! Like my farther always said "Land and prescious metal's is what you want to invest in! As they always go up in price over time I suppose. My point was, on such a small scale, with the expenditure and time involved it's hard to see a worth while profit on silver unless you have tons and tons of the stuff and wait for years and years for a market spike. It's not like gold, that steadily rises year after year without fail.
