I really enjoy these types of series where you have to recover the gold from something strange before you can refine it! It’s almost like watching a suspense thriller!
I agree I know you don't like doing jewelers carpet lol 😆 can't blame you but I waited for each new episode like he said like a suspence movie! Maybe you can think of something new but thank 😊 for another great video 📹 😀 👍
Yeah I remember the thrilling moment when he process those little piece of gold that had 2 or 3 precious stone on it. I could see that blue sapphire being consume away by the acid, it even survive incineration!
I just watched a man for two weeks pull pure gold and other Precious metals from old carpet. I have no regrets and no excuses for not doing my best in life with what I’m given.
The jeweler said he expected more than 10k in gold so 5+ troy ounces, he got two. I can understand why you should never refine scrap for someone else, they all have unrealistic expectations.
I think the jeweler was way over the top expecting $10,000 for the yield. Nice gold bar though from the trash. Great series- I'm hooked. Looking forward to the next. Many thanks for your hard work and great content.
That's a nice chunk of gold. All that mud that followed the gold throughout the process really kept me guessing at what the yield would be. Usually you can tell pretty early on how much gold to expect but this time it was a surprise all the wau up to the melt.
Yet another amazing series thanks Sreetips. I really appreciate the way you explain exactly what you are doing and what you are using and what it does or should do. 👍
Another outstanding series. And a gorgeous gold bar!!!Like many others on here, I really appreciate the time and effort that you put into this. Thank you so much!
Hands down a true free education programme I watch lots of episodes apart from forgetting your mic switch you have hit the ball out of the park totally enjoyable education a real investment
If you ever end up refining material like this again, I think you'd find it a lot easier to take the ash from the first incineration and smelt it in a furnace with soda ash, silica, and borax, then pour it into a cone mold and chip out the metal cone to refine. You wouldn't even need a collector metal with this amount of gold and silver already present. This would take care of all the carbon gunk you had to treat with piranha solution and filter. Jason at mbmmllc does a really good job of showing that process - it's pretty straightforward and I've been able to do it on a small scale.
After you initially incinerate the material you got from the jeweler, would it be effective to just treat that ash the same way you would gold ore? Like - put it in a crucible with soda ash, silica and borax, add some collector metal (maybe lead or copper), put it in a furnace at 2000F , pour into a cone mold, and bust the metal tip off the cone once it cools...? Might be a way to not have to fiddle with such a volume of crap in your beakers, running through your filters etc. etc.
I loved the carpet segment I know it kicked your butt all the dirt messing with it but I appreciated your effort to see it through and get the results thank you
When I started this channel, I surmised that viewership would be limited because refining gold is such a narrow field. But I’m finding that even though people are not interested in doing it themselves, they love watching someone else do it. And I’m very thankful for that - Thank You!
As of today, 7.12.22, open market value of that bar is $3,498.77 ($56.07/g) US Nice recovery, sir! It was awesome and hilarious to think that the jeweler was basically tromping around on $3,500. One day I'm going to laugh because I hear of a jeweler being robbed and find out that they stole all the carpet from the back room!!!! LOL!
No discussion about it, I want another jeweler's carpet refining video :) Just goes to show you we often have unsuspected riches right underneath the soles of our feet. Enjoyed your series on this refinement tremendously
That was quite a process. I wonder what the cost was for the materials to complete the process? Your time is valuable too. Thanks again and keep the videos coming!
@@sreetips not bad. I've spent quite a bit on prospecting equipment and gasoline to find an average of 1/10th gram of gold per day of digging. I do it because I enjoy it, certainly not because it's profitable.
@@sreetips but for you is also the value of content creation . If the final product covers the cost of materials used I think making your content for zero money is a profit. Btw nice and interesting videos
The last Jewelers carpet I refined, we ended up taking the main walkways and under their desks and workbench. Netted $70k after after processing fees. I stopped doing only directly under the bench. We would process everything from buff wheels, filters, wipes, shoe laces, literally everything had value.
Congratulations on a fantastic series Sreetips. The way you zoom in- and out and show all details in your process is excellent! mesmerizing and educational!
This is a great series to watch, thank you for sharing the entire sequence as it was very interesting, the outcome was well worth the time. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida 🌞
I’m excited for your cemented silver. It would be cool to see how big of a silver bar you could get and have it polished. Call it an official Sreetips bar of silver.
You just got $3,500 worth of gold out of a chunk of carpet. Now I understand why people spend all day panning for gold in streams. I never really thought about the value of gold dust before. Amazing job!
Brilliant series for a nice bar of gold. Props to the a/v department for sourcing the nifty lens kit! Nice to hear you touch on the sulphuric acid addition topic raised in the comments. To think how many jewellers there are around the world literally shedding precious metals as they leave the shop…thousands of pounds. Thank you Sir!
I have never owned any precious metals other than what might be used in what ever electronics I have. I had little interest in chemistry while in school, but I find your videos so interesting. I watch everyone and just wanted to say thankyou for the interesting content. I do love these jewelers carpet videos and your stock pot vids!
For the mess on the floor it gos to show that when it counts the jeweler work pretty cleanly. It looked like there would be more than that after all years of working in one spot. Thanks for sharing 👍
Seems like a lot of work.. I’m sure it is a lot of work.. But damn is it interesting to watch.. If that was what could be done in a high school chemistry class I may have paid more attention back then.. Keep doing what you do!
The VND filter is a great addition to your filming kit, but I believe that your iPhone is compensating when you adjust the light. When you decreased the amount of light coming through there were noticeable artifacts and sound/fuzz in your video. It would work best if you were using an app where you can lock the frame rate to let’s say 1/60th of a second. And you can adjust or decrease the light that way. Now I might be wrong, this might be what you’re already doing! But it appears that the iPhones built in camera software is turning up the gain/ISO to compensate for the reduction in light and it’s not necessarily giving the intended effect. You might need an app where you can film in full manual mode where you can set the ISO and shutter speed.
I came to write the same thing, variable nd filters are really only used for really sunny conditions, think of it like sunglasses for your camera. Ideally you need more light for you videos as I’ve noticed earlier on the frame rate seemed pretty slow which I think may have also been the camera trying to compensate for the low light too. Great series though, didn’t have a clue about what you were doing but came away very informed!
Wow!! That bar look like it could've come straight out of Marcellus Wallace's briefcase. 🤩🤩 I'm so glad the gods of the algorithms sent me to this channel. It is amazing to see you work. Many thanks for sharing this with us. 👊😃
You could do with a large volume centrifuge. In the lab I work in, if I have solids that block a filter I will centrifuge it first. This radically pushes down the solid into a compact piece. I don't work with such volumes though. I've seen large volume centrifuges and they're big scary things. If something goes wrong in a centrifuge though you know about it.
I did it for him for free so that I could make the videos of actual jewelers scrap. He wasn’t happy about the amount that I was able to recover - no customer ever is. And that’s why I refuse to work on other peoples material. Expectations are resentments waiting to happen. But he was happy that I did it for him and he thanked me.
I can't believe I watched the whole series. It was like watching a suspense movie. I was glued to my screen. Amazing work as always. Thanks for sharing your content and hobby with us.
Your process is very energetic. I make aqua regia first, let it cool then strip gold. I usually use about 2 gallons per ounce recovered with about a 4 hour soak time with flow but no heat. I didn’t do the recovery from solution, I was just cleaning gold and crap covered stuff. The solution got sold and I would get a check for the gold minus refining costs.
I'm sorry that this wasn't what you were hoping for Sreetips . That's a lot of work to come up short of your estimated amount of gold . Love the processing , and the quality of your products Sreetips . See you soon my friend . Cheers
*thunderstorm... knew it. He's a magician! Mr Sreetips, i take on a lot of hobbies, inspired through what i see on TH-cam Good thing i don't have any gold encrusted carpet!. You make it look easy. Have you shown us your set up, safety procedures PPE and disposal of waste? (i know you keep and grow all kinds of weird concoctions, see my 1st statement)
As always, i love your videos and you do a great job explaining every step! Ive use your videos as tutorials quite a few times doing my own refining! Would it be possible to see your vacuum pump and set up? How do you filter fumes to keep them from the pump itself, if you do at all!
Thank you for the show! I know I will never do all this, but it is fascinating to watch. Very interesting. Thank you for making the videos. I watched all 4
that's still just over 2 ounces so you were to far off in you guesstimate. the carpet was fun for us to watch but I'm sure it was a huge pain to do, thank you for for doing it and sharing it with us.
I watched every video of this series and I must say that I was not disappointed. I'm not sure I would go through that much work for that yield, but great work nonetheless.
Hello Mr sreetips. Nice to be back on the best Canal on TH-cam. I have cronic pain in my body, so somtime i muth check things out. Hope it going well whit you and your wife. Take care, and god bless you Sir😊
i know im behind... i commented on the little blue gem. im pretty sure i saw it in the first melt. it didnt/couldnt survive that heat. great vid. im moving backwards. i saw the recovery buckets first.
Fantastic 4 parter but I bet the jeweller wasn't happy with half the payout he was expecting. I can see where you are coming from when you said you'd rather recover for yourself. I can see how people would be thinking you had them over. But C'mon 5k from a square yard of carpet brilliant work.👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻
I really enjoy these types of series where you have to recover the gold from something strange before you can refine it! It’s almost like watching a suspense thriller!
I agree I know you don't like doing jewelers carpet lol 😆 can't blame you but I waited for each new episode like he said like a suspence movie! Maybe you can think of something new but thank 😊 for another great video 📹 😀 👍
Yeah I remember the thrilling moment when he process those little piece of gold that had 2 or 3 precious stone on it. I could see that blue sapphire being consume away by the acid, it even survive incineration!
Yeah, that would be cool. Also, raw ore.
I hope he replace the carpet !
I just watched a man for two weeks pull pure gold and other Precious metals from old carpet. I have no regrets and no excuses for not doing my best in life with what I’m given.
Here here!
Will be able to use that polarised lens to tell diamonds from zircon
That jeweler is getting back somewhere close to 4K...He better be freakin' Ecstatic...You busted your toochus on this series...Well done!
You got a lot more out of that than I thought you would. I was expecting a button, not a bar. Very cool.
Hallelujah
3 videos i watched! now your comment is at the top of the fourth!!! ;-)
I also thought that there would be half a gram maximum a gram 🙂
The jeweler said he expected more than 10k in gold so 5+ troy ounces, he got two. I can understand why you should never refine scrap for someone else, they all have unrealistic expectations.
@@Seven_Leaf yeah me too. If I did this I wouldn't even want to hear what they expect from it 😂
There isn't another set of content on TH-cam that can make me watch for 50 minutes or more, just brilliant.
You didn't watch the other 3 parts before this part 4?
50 min TIMES 4 my dude - it was a 4 parter!!! I watched them on 2x tho.
I think I speak for more than myself when I say that I can't wait to see the stock pot series!! I'm really curious about the PGM buckets.
How about that 5 gal of cemented silver he has.🥰🤓
This whole series was awesome. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I think the jeweler was way over the top expecting $10,000 for the yield. Nice gold bar though from the trash. Great series- I'm hooked. Looking forward to the next. Many thanks for your hard work and great content.
Thanks Chris, welcome to my channel!
17:36 “Refiners On The Storm” Really awesome series!
That was an epic clap of thunder! And Sreetips didnt miss a beat.
That's a nice chunk of gold. All that mud that followed the gold throughout the process really kept me guessing at what the yield would be. Usually you can tell pretty early on how much gold to expect but this time it was a surprise all the wau up to the melt.
It’s impossible to tell until it’s extracted and refined.
Yet another amazing series thanks Sreetips. I really appreciate the way you explain exactly what you are doing and what you are using and what it does or should do. 👍
Another outstanding series. And a gorgeous gold bar!!!Like many others on here, I really appreciate the time and effort that you put into this. Thank you so much!
Hands down a true free education programme I watch lots of episodes apart from forgetting your mic switch you have hit the ball out of the park totally enjoyable education a real investment
If you ever end up refining material like this again, I think you'd find it a lot easier to take the ash from the first incineration and smelt it in a furnace with soda ash, silica, and borax, then pour it into a cone mold and chip out the metal cone to refine. You wouldn't even need a collector metal with this amount of gold and silver already present. This would take care of all the carbon gunk you had to treat with piranha solution and filter. Jason at mbmmllc does a really good job of showing that process - it's pretty straightforward and I've been able to do it on a small scale.
plus he could have just used a gold pan then used borax on the little bit of material
Thank you so much for these video's, I really enjoy watching them and over the years I believe I have learned plenty from you.
Huge project with a sweet bar of gold in the end. 👍
Beautiful, thank you for the hours of enjoyment.
After you initially incinerate the material you got from the jeweler, would it be effective to just treat that ash the same way you would gold ore? Like - put it in a crucible with soda ash, silica and borax, add some collector metal (maybe lead or copper), put it in a furnace at 2000F , pour into a cone mold, and bust the metal tip off the cone once it cools...? Might be a way to not have to fiddle with such a volume of crap in your beakers, running through your filters etc. etc.
I thought the same. Maybe even some saltpetre
That's called fire assaying I think. Not the same.
I don’t know. What seems like and easier softer way could turn into a nightmare.
I loved the carpet segment I know it kicked your butt all the dirt messing with it but I appreciated your effort to see it through and get the results thank you
I didn't realize I enjoyed watching recovery and refining but I guess I do. Great series!
When I started this channel, I surmised that viewership would be limited because refining gold is such a narrow field. But I’m finding that even though people are not interested in doing it themselves, they love watching someone else do it. And I’m very thankful for that - Thank You!
As of today, 7.12.22, open market value of that bar is $3,498.77 ($56.07/g) US
Nice recovery, sir! It was awesome and hilarious to think that the jeweler was basically tromping around on $3,500. One day I'm going to laugh because I hear of a jeweler being robbed and find out that they stole all the carpet from the back room!!!! LOL!
No discussion about it, I want another jeweler's carpet refining video :) Just goes to show you we often have unsuspected riches right underneath the soles of our feet. Enjoyed your series on this refinement tremendously
Did you get the tracking number?
Hello, yes I got it. Sent you a reply. Thanks
Calling all jewelers...Reach out to SREETIPS and get your carpet refined!
You're right. People will do gold refining from the sidewalk dust they gather from outside busy jewelry shops in places like Manhattan.
Thank you Sreetips. Enjoyed the series. Anxious for the upcoming stock pot series. 👏
That was quite a process. I wonder what the cost was for the materials to complete the process? Your time is valuable too. Thanks again and keep the videos coming!
It almost certainly cost him a pretty penny in time and materials but he does it for our viewing enjoyment too which is awesome.
I’d estimate less than a hundred bucks
@@sreetips not bad. I've spent quite a bit on prospecting equipment and gasoline to find an average of 1/10th gram of gold per day of digging. I do it because I enjoy it, certainly not because it's profitable.
Same here
@@sreetips but for you is also the value of content creation . If the final product covers the cost of materials used I think making your content for zero money is a profit. Btw nice and interesting videos
The last Jewelers carpet I refined, we ended up taking the main walkways and under their desks and workbench. Netted $70k after after processing fees. I stopped doing only directly under the bench. We would process everything from buff wheels, filters, wipes, shoe laces, literally everything had value.
Damn that's so cool
How long did the whole process take?
I enjoyed doing it for my friend the jeweler and for new content for my channel. But it was too much material for my small hobby operation.
@@pakistaniraveasylum1396 2 weeks, we are a commercial operation.
@@sreetips I completely understand. You do amazing work and I absolutely love watching your channel!
Nice, what a beautiful looking gold bar from a scraggy old bit of carpet. Cheers streetips
The saga ends with a little beauty right there, in your hands. 👏👏 Awesome!!
I just luv watching you change scrap stuff to pure gold thanks 😊 🙏
Congratulations on a fantastic series Sreetips. The way you zoom in- and out and show all details in your process is excellent! mesmerizing and educational!
You’ve learned a lot since this video! I kept saying “no! Slow down! Do it again and wait for it to settle!”
This is a great series to watch, thank you for sharing the entire sequence as it was very interesting, the outcome was well worth the time. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida 🌞
I’m excited for your cemented silver. It would be cool to see how big of a silver bar you could get and have it polished. Call it an official Sreetips bar of silver.
Thank & Respect from across the pond 🙏
This series has been amazing. Really love to see different processes to refine precious metals.
Congratulations Streetips, on a difficult extraction professionally done. You've really hit your stride on this.
You just got $3,500 worth of gold out of a chunk of carpet. Now I understand why people spend all day panning for gold in streams. I never really thought about the value of gold dust before. Amazing job!
Brilliant series for a nice bar of gold. Props to the a/v department for sourcing the nifty lens kit! Nice to hear you touch on the sulphuric acid addition topic raised in the comments.
To think how many jewellers there are around the world literally shedding precious metals as they leave the shop…thousands of pounds.
Thank you Sir!
Wow that was significantly more than I was expecting and you were right, that IS a pristine bar. Your work is always top notch.
Congratulations on your successful completion of your project. Thank you for bringing us along for the ride. Cant wait for the next experiment!
I have never owned any precious metals other than what might be used in what ever electronics I have. I had little interest in chemistry while in school, but I find your videos so interesting. I watch everyone and just wanted to say thankyou for the interesting content. I do love these jewelers carpet videos and your stock pot vids!
Excellent, thank you
Someone is gonna come in and see me watching you refine gold and wonder why I'm watching a channel about making sweet tea.
Your videos are extremely calming for me. I watch them with a coffee in the morning.
Well done! Impressive filming with everything else going on !
After watching I'm sure you could have panned off most of the ash before refining in episode 1. Love the videos.
Awesome videos and nice gold bar and button thanks for sharing seertips
I enjoyed the heck out of this rollercoaster ride. Thanks for doing these videos.
For the mess on the floor it gos to show that when it counts the jeweler work pretty cleanly. It looked like there would be more than that after all years of working in one spot. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you for this trash to treasure gem of a video series. Love learning stuff, even though I'll never do it, knowing how too is good enough for me.
Seems like a lot of work.. I’m sure it is a lot of work..
But damn is it interesting to watch..
If that was what could be done in a high school chemistry class I may have paid more attention back then..
Keep doing what you do!
The VND filter is a great addition to your filming kit, but I believe that your iPhone is compensating when you adjust the light. When you decreased the amount of light coming through there were noticeable artifacts and sound/fuzz in your video. It would work best if you were using an app where you can lock the frame rate to let’s say 1/60th of a second. And you can adjust or decrease the light that way. Now I might be wrong, this might be what you’re already doing! But it appears that the iPhones built in camera software is turning up the gain/ISO to compensate for the reduction in light and it’s not necessarily giving the intended effect. You might need an app where you can film in full manual mode where you can set the ISO and shutter speed.
I didn’t know such an app existed. Thanks for the feed back
I came to write the same thing, variable nd filters are really only used for really sunny conditions, think of it like sunglasses for your camera. Ideally you need more light for you videos as I’ve noticed earlier on the frame rate seemed pretty slow which I think may have also been the camera trying to compensate for the low light too. Great series though, didn’t have a clue about what you were doing but came away very informed!
Wow!! That bar look like it could've come straight out of Marcellus Wallace's briefcase. 🤩🤩
I'm so glad the gods of the algorithms sent me to this channel. It is amazing to see you work.
Many thanks for sharing this with us. 👊😃
You could do with a large volume centrifuge. In the lab I work in, if I have solids that block a filter I will centrifuge it first. This radically pushes down the solid into a compact piece. I don't work with such volumes though. I've seen large volume centrifuges and they're big scary things. If something goes wrong in a centrifuge though you know about it.
Loved the thunderstorm part of the video, the sound of the rain and thunder was very relaxing hahaha.
Your uploads are always an enjoyable watch.
Absolutely awesome work.
17:35 really threw me for a loop, thinking I had heard it outside (on a nice, sunny morning)
LOL
I woke up this morning and thought to myself how did he fold those filters.
Now I know...thanks!
Congratulations buddy
Great series - hope the yield and the gems met the jewellers expectations 👍
I did it for him for free so that I could make the videos of actual jewelers scrap. He wasn’t happy about the amount that I was able to recover - no customer ever is. And that’s why I refuse to work on other peoples material. Expectations are resentments waiting to happen. But he was happy that I did it for him and he thanked me.
@@sreetips
Well at least you have it all recorded on video. Hard to be resentful when he can observe the whole process.
Great job Sreetips 👏
The bar looks super clean.
Another great series, thanks for sharing.
Wow, what a process. Thanks for taking us through the process. Blessings
I’ve devoted more time to this series than to my own professional development over the last 4 years
Wow, what a Journey, thanks for the 4 video series about that carpet. Really enjoyed it.
Excellent recovery outstanding video five stars my friend
This was so darn interesting. Can you refine the rest of his building?
That Gold bar at the end was Amazing Looking! Great video :)
I can't believe I watched the whole series. It was like watching a suspense movie. I was glued to my screen. Amazing work as always. Thanks for sharing your content and hobby with us.
Your process is very energetic. I make aqua regia first, let it cool then strip gold. I usually use about 2 gallons per ounce recovered with about a 4 hour soak time with flow but no heat.
I didn’t do the recovery from solution, I was just cleaning gold and crap covered stuff. The solution got sold and I would get a check for the gold minus refining costs.
I'm sorry that this wasn't what you were hoping for Sreetips . That's a lot of work to come up short of your estimated amount of gold . Love the processing , and the quality of your products Sreetips . See you soon my friend . Cheers
Mine was just a guestimate - it’s value is nearly impossible to determine until it’s been processed.
You should use a camera app that gives you manual modes. By default, the camera just decreases the shutter speed to compensate.
All your video have been entertaining and relaxing to watch. This one was a lot of work and dirty. I was not expecting much from the carpet
*thunderstorm... knew it. He's a magician! Mr Sreetips, i take on a lot of hobbies, inspired through what i see on TH-cam Good thing i don't have any gold encrusted carpet!. You make it look easy. Have you shown us your set up, safety procedures PPE and disposal of waste? (i know you keep and grow all kinds of weird concoctions, see my 1st statement)
Good bot of kit, that adjustable polarizing filter!!
Gooood afternoon from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great day! Great video Kevin!
Gooood afternoon!
As always, i love your videos and you do a great job explaining every step! Ive use your videos as tutorials quite a few times doing my own refining! Would it be possible to see your vacuum pump and set up? How do you filter fumes to keep them from the pump itself, if you do at all!
I’ve got a video on my vacuum system posted on my channel
Amazing, dirty old carpet to precious metals. Loved it 👍
Hope you got a backup power source for that vent station during those thunderstorms ? Really enjoying these jewelers carpet videos, safe travels. 🙏
The Thunder hit gave me 'mad scientist' vibes for a second xD
Thunderstorm, chemicals, glassware....MAD SCIENTIST! LOL!
I highly enjoy your serieses dont think thats a word but whos counting actually got a lol from your last input
wow - love your videos - feel my brain expand while watching them. suddenly I have the urge to solicit jewelry stores with carpet removal services.
Enjoyed the series, thank you for sharing!
I would have never expected something so beautiful to come out of something so disgusting. Well done.
It's cool to see you thermo/chemically reduce 4 filters full of solids down to just one.
Thank you for the show! I know I will never do all this, but it is fascinating to watch. Very interesting. Thank you for making the videos. I watched all 4
Welcome and thank you!
And... on to the platinum series :D thanks Sreetips, this has been fascinating
Lots and lots of work!have to say,you melt some stunning bars!they are absolutely beautiful!
watching on Labor Day 2023... very interesting series :)
Out of all the mad scientists I follow on TH-cam, you are my favourite 💗
Thank you!
that's still just over 2 ounces so you were to far off in you guesstimate. the carpet was fun for us to watch but I'm sure it was a huge pain to do, thank you for for doing it and sharing it with us.
I watched every video of this series and I must say that I was not disappointed. I'm not sure I would go through that much work for that yield, but great work nonetheless.
That's has to be the nicest pour I've seen you do.
Hello Mr sreetips.
Nice to be back on the best Canal on TH-cam. I have cronic pain in my body, so somtime i muth check things out. Hope it going well whit you and your wife. Take care, and god bless you Sir😊
Great series. Well done and thank you.
These are my favorites next to the stock pot videos. It’s a true treasure hunt. I watch every video
Nice, been waiting for this one.
Great camera setup and awesome commentary
Saw the propellers floating in the batch at the beginning! At least it looked like it pooled up instead of distributing...
Wow that process took so long to finish. I wouldn’t want to do that again either lol. Great job Sreetips!!
i know im behind... i commented on the little blue gem. im pretty sure i saw it in the first melt. it didnt/couldnt survive that heat. great vid. im moving backwards. i saw the recovery buckets first.
Man that one was a lot of work. When I saw you taking the carpet out, I could only thing that this is going to take some elbow grease.
Fantastic 4 parter but I bet the jeweller wasn't happy with half the payout he was expecting. I can see where you are coming from when you said you'd rather recover for yourself. I can see how people would be thinking you had them over. But C'mon 5k from a square yard of carpet brilliant work.👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻