I've said it before, but it bears repeating. It's very generous of you to openly share your insights, methods, etc with us all. So many others seem to hold onto what they think is proprietary and their's alone, disregarding the education and passing along of knowledge. Along with your interesting and entertaining refining videos, they all make fir GREAT content. Keep it up and thank you. 👍
its information like this and people like this i feel is what youtube at its heart is. why i started watching youtube and why i still come here everyday. its the best library.
I cannot thank you enough for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with us. After watching this 10 times I finally felt like I was ready to build my own. I’m an IT professional and work in film and television, not a chemist. You explain everything so clearly and explain the reasons behind your decisions. I’m happy to say my silver cell is up and running. I made a few modifications that may help with uniform crystal growth in the bowl to help others. Just use a copper strap around the entirety of the bowl. It’s not much more expensive. The silver crystal grows concentrically around the bowl at roughly the same rate. Keeps it off the center anode basket longer. Just wanted to share my findings as you do freely.
You could, but I don’t think it would make a big difference. Copper is 100 on the conductivity rating scale. Silver is 105 (the highest of all metals). Gold is down around 70.
Great video, I have built several cells according to your design, and purify copper. I get about 750g per week from each one. I use old computer power supplies, because I have many laying around. I refine copper and melt it for material to use to forge hand made items. Thanks for all the great sharing.
I add impure silver from my gold refining to the anode basket on top of the silver cell and pass current through it. The silver dissolves, pass thru the filter, and deposits on the inside of the stainless steel bowl (the cathode).
@Larry If I just read your comment correctly you use this "silver cell " to purify copper? If that is correct. Did you make any modifications to the design or is it exactly like his setup? If I misunderstood my apologies.
Welcome back my mentor, ive already built mine using your design and got 1.6 kilos of Silvet Crystal after 10 days, all thanks to what I have learned from you
@@dalspaugh748 I believe you can use stuff like sterling silver, and other metal with amounts of silver in it. I'm learning to so if anyone knows better, correct me.
Holy smokes, thanks for letting us all know how to make such beautiful crystals like you do. Such a detailed vid you gave us all. Much appreciated man!
This refining process is extremely interesting. I recently discovered copper ore, with gold and silver being secondary metals and I have since been interested in how exactly metals are separated from ore. Very cool🤙
Thanks for making these videos. I've only scratched the surface of what you've uploaded, but you've clearly put a lot of work into these videos. 15 or 20 years ago, a resource like your video catalogue would seem unimaginable outside of a university classroom or an apprenticeship.
I only wish that videos like mine were available twelve years ago when I first started refining. There bits and pieces and critical details were left out. Then referred you to a web site for a fee to get the rest of the process.
I love these videos. As a visual learner , thank you for taking the xtra time of producing this content. I restore vintage mechanical watches , cases, offer plating services, import gemstones and make my own jewelry thru lost wax casting. I own full casting, metalsmith, watchmaker studio. Self taught off of industry standards, principles and methods. Everything you show is a part of the trade I want to develop. I think the first process I want to start is making silver electrolyte. I have everything in here to make the silver cell. Nice constellation by the way. I specialize in vintage omega. I over haul , restore around 12-20 per year.
Master, you opened my eyes of how much I waste just for the Gold process, You taught me within my gold feline, the silver waste, actually covers the shipping cost. You R so Awesome
Great video. I love learning about precious metal refining at home. I would love to see how you handle your waste and how you dispose of the end waste solutions in one video. Keep up the good work.❤
@@sreetips this is so cool! This was just recommended to me and for once TH-cam did well and I’m fascinated as I have a ton of old busted sterling jewelry I’ve been laughing around… My elderly mom has been pestering me about finding something to do with her 3 sets of sterling 12-setting flatware. Kind of thinking instead of taking a beating at a local metal place, maybe I should try melting and refining using your method…? As this is the first video of yours I’ve watched, I need to watch a few more but wow- thanks for sharing this!! (I need another hobby like a new hole in my head😂). Fascinating!!
Hi just want to say I ran across one of your videos yesterday and I'm seeing how to make the silver cell today on a separate video. I am so intrigued with this. I am definitely going to do this. I've never done nothing like this. Before but you make it look somewhat simple. Bless you for sharing this information with the world.
I was just talking to my wife about doing this. Keep up the great content Senior Chief. And any 300 series stainless is non magnetic, but the 400 series is always magnetic.
Hi, Most folks don't know there are 2 types of stainless steel. One like this and a magnetic type that really isn't stainless at all. They achieve stainless on the addition of nickel and or other white metals in the mix with high carbon steels. This is a great setup. Little time and resorses aside from the power supply to invest in. Ever since meeting you I have wanted to build one of these systems as I create a lot of super fine filings contaminated with a file treatment called "Burr Life" produced by Rio Grande down there in LA. I have accumulated a couple pounds of it over the 6 or 7 years I have been saving it. Not really enough to justify making a system like this but who knows, a possibility in the future eh. If I remember I can send it to you for refining for a cut of the procedes ? Thanks as always. Top notch work here this fine day old friend !
Sree my friend you give me hope. I'm in a very bad situation in my life. But brother you have given me hope that I can do this and actually get by. Thank you for your lesson and thank you for educating me. You sir are a great man and I thank you for giving me hope
Hi MR sreetips thank you for the greatly detailed educational videos on recovery and refining metals it is a blessing to have this knowledge for personal use. Me personally I’m a new novice and was told in the past that this hobby wasn’t worth it. your videos helped tremendously to prove those acquisitions was wrong. Thank you for serving our country sreetips.
I'm honestly interested in the silver cement powder set up you made. Could you do a video going over that? Also thank you for the knowledge. What is pure silver good for exactly? Coins and value? I'm sure jewelery and tableware need to have other elements added to make it more stable or harder
I think this is very important and interesting content... especially in the economy we are all in right now and I thank you for sharing your experience and procedures with us.. God bless you
Most people are clueless about gold and silver. They (gold and silver) are real money. But Americans have been conditioned to believe that paper is more valuable. But I think a paradigm shift is coming. Once folks begin to realize that their hard-earned “money” is becoming worthless. And that all their valuations are based on a mountain of debt - they can never be repaid.
The most relaxing videos, if you added ASMR to the title I am sure you would have way more subscribers which of course you do deserve at least 51 million
@@GokouZWAR weirdos that watch videos. Sometimes they watch them over and over. Which is all TH-camrs really care about at the end of day. Number of views, number of minutes. Number of ads watched. $$$
Have you thought about why the silver crystalizes on the cathode? I just think its cool but my guess is that it due to the direction the electrons travel. Our convention is to think of current as flowing from positive to negative but electrons actually flow negative to positive. So, the electrons are entering the electrolyte from the surface of the cathode. The moment they enter the electrolyte, they meet a silver ion. The moment that silver ion accepts an electron, it falls out of solution and since all this is happening in proximity to the cathode surface, which includes the surface of the silver crystals that have already formed, that silver atom falls right into place within the lattice of a silver crystal! 🎉 If I misunderstand anything about this someone please correct me!
I’ve been meaning to ask you, why not use the nearly pure powder silver instead of pure silver in the electrolyte to increase the usage of the impure silver in the system? You seem to have an abundance of that silver. Couldn’t you use nitric acid to dissolve the silver powder for the electrolyte instead of the pure silver Crystal you could be melting down and selling for high profit?
First, I don’t want to sell any silver with the price so grossly and artificially under valued. I keep the silver that I refine. Put it away and forget about it. Silver is not an investment. It’s a store of value and will conserve and protect my purchasing power. Storing wealth in paper dollars is a bad idea. Because they can print dollars “without limit” but they can’t print more silver. As far as using cement silver for the electrolyte, it’s not recommended because it could introduce contamination into the silver cell. I think I used it once when I first got started. But after that I always use pure silver to make the electrolyte. It’s the way I learned it. I’m getting excellent results with this method.
@@sreetips so are you saying you can make silver? I mean if I just had a little bit of silver I can make a bunch more silver out of it. And if that is the case wouldn't it drive the price down.
No, you cannot make more silver from a little silver. That is nonsensical. Silver is an element. However, you CAN purify silver to 999+ and make it investment grade, which is what our gracious host appears to be doing.
Pure silver bars or coins can be used. Cement silver is not recommended. But I think I used it once to get started. Then save out some crystal from each batch for the next refining.
I remember my old high school chemistry teacher, Mr Thomas and all these type of experiments. Then going to metals shop to work the small foundry and pour aluminum. Our little town that I grew up in was near Waterloo, IA and with a large John Deere factory there, it was a good starting point in my education. Thanks for bringing it full cycle!!!
@@sreetips My wife and I have raised our three boys here in Cedar Rapids. Thank you again, as your sharing of these processes will allow us to come out of truly difficult times.
@@sreetips I graduated from Jesup, east of Waterloo. The boys all from Marion HS. The youngest with a 4.25 GPA will graduate from CO School of Mines next December with two bachelors and a minor in public affairs. Cedar Rapids was the “big city” to me as a kid. I’m back in IA, having lived in So Cal and brought my CA wife kicking and screaming here. She loves it here and doesn’t miss CA for anything.
Sreetips, I was driving to Walmart earlier today and was thinking... My 7y.o. son is home from school for spring break and would like to attempt to put metals in and out of solution. Do you have any videos you recommend in your catalog that I could do with my son? Ideally, if you had some YT shorts or any video(s), I could follow along, he could watch from afar, would be great! I have done enough experiments in college to keep him and I safe at a small scale I would work with. I have a few laptops laying around some silver dollars. Anything I could do would be great, my son would absolutely be interested in this. It can be anything as simple as putting a penny in some HCl in a mason jar and tossing some zinc in there to cement it out (I dont know if that would even work). Sorry if this doesnt make sense, half asleep and been meaning to ask you this.
I think that dissolving a 90% silver dime in a test tube with nitric, then adding a piece of copper wire and watching the silver cement out right before your eyes is an awesome reaction to see. It’s seeing that reaction that got me hooked on refining almost 13 years ago. Back then I was able to order a liter of 68% reagent grade nitric acid for a hundred bucks. Can’t imagine what it costs now. The fumes are very bad for human lungs. So the reaction must be done outdoors or in a fume hood. Nitric fumes will cause cramps in your muscles days or weeks after inhaling concentrated levels of those fumes. Nitric fumes also dissolve tooth enamel.
Glad you found his channel/knowledge. Been doing this since 91 and started growing diamonds a few yrs. ago.(excellent quality). Enjoy your new found hobby and best wishes
I love the way you explained things. Most people, when they dominate a topic they talk like every once knows what you're talking about. You explained slowly, real teaching skills. 🎉 Thanks 🙏
10:20 The proper term for this is not filter, it’s diaphragm. This is because it’s not meant to preferentially stop passage of anything. All it does is slow down diffusion so that the solution around the anode can have a somewhat different composition than around the solution outside touching the cathode. This increases efficiency, because you want the cathode solution to be rich in silver ions and the anode area to be depleted in silver ions, and the conduction of the silver ions can be slow compared to their diffusion rate, which has a random direction, and you want to make the silver ions go from anode to cathode, not randomly. So the diaphragm limits diffusion and doesn’t slow down conduction much, and thus it selects for the conduction that you want.
Really great videos man. I had to watch a couple of your videos to understand that you’re recovering silver in a pure form from silver you previously held in an impure form. Many years ago when I was in college I worked in the darkroom in radiology at the local hospital. The solution we used to develop the films with was loaded with silver from the film. A company would come pick up our old solution every month to get rid of the “hazardous waste”. Even the silver from old films in the patients radiology records were recovered after being inactive for a time. I don’t think they X-rays use films that much anymore except for the portable X-rays and maybe dental X-rays.
I get my silver from local sales. When someone dies, the heirs want to immediately sell the sterling silver and get paid in paper dollars. They actually believe, incorrectly, that paper dollars are more valuable than the silver. And with silver price so grossly and artificially undervalued, we can buy real silver with fake paper dollars (fiat money that can be printed out of thin air). It’s a silver buyers paradise out there right now, for those who know when, where, and what to look for.
I watched this video back-to-back but still cannot figure out how to make the solutions how you make it I don't want to do it wrong and waist money (the cement silver solution stuff) and how do you get the pure silver bar connected to the 10-gauge wire? thank you.
Very.. very.. interesting, informational and worthwhile.. and more. But what I personally would like to know is: what is the economic turnaround of this "scheme"? You already have impure silver; what is its worth? You use acids and electricity for 10 days, what are their costs? In short: what is the net gain of this process? Its a very blunt question considering your freely sharing this information, so please excuse me for that in advance. Should I be buying up old silver and purify it like this? I'm just very curious, and perhaps greedy =) Thank you for your troubles.
Here’s the “scheme.” I’m converting failing paper dollars into high purity silver. My electric bill was $109 last month. Nitric is by far the most expensive at $50 per 2.5 liter bottle. The impure silver has value that’s indeterminable, because it’s impure pure. How impure is it? I can’t put a number on it. So to make it’s value easy to calculate, I run it through the silver cell. The net gain is; I have pure silver that’s increasing in value, instead of paper dollars that are declining in value (due to inflation). If I need some paper to pay bills or buy food, then I sell a little of the metal. Holding paper, in my opinion, is a bad idea. Holding metal is a no-brainer. The sterling silver can be held just like it is. No need to refine it. The only reason I do it is because I use sterling silver to refine gold. I recover the sterling from that, melt into granules, and run it through my silver cell, for reasons already stated. Hope this helps.
So let me get this straight at 12:30 you described inquarted gold. Which is like an alloy of gold and silver. You take this alloy and dissolve it in nitric acid to produce the silver solution? I’d like to see that part
Thanks for the awesome videos! If I wanted to start doing this how would I get my Cement silver or do you just use pure silver the first couple times? Until you get enough waste to start making your own
So i venture to ask if one were to start this process, after a cycle of growth could you not use the crystalline silver in the anode basket to do a repeat of the cycle? this is new to me and i find if fascinating!
Yes, and I did that once. The ICP assay came back greater than five nines fine. That’s 99,999 parts per one hundred thousand pure silver. For every one hundred thousand atoms, only one wasn’t silver.
Thank you for your remote mentorship. I've gone through Hokes literature as you recommended. Definitely the Old Testament on Precious metal refining. One question in dealing with waste stream. After transferring out from my Iron tank, I correct the pH to 7-9 to precipitate all the metals. The sludge just sits in my jumbo urn filters draining very little fluid. Can I drop the pH to 6.5-7.2 after precipitation before filtering to ease the process without causing the precipitate to impregnate the solution? If not, what do you do? I'm uncomfortable disposing of the gelatinous filtrate in my solid waste stream. Should I just wait it out to completely desiccate it or am I just being overly cautious?
I add pH decreaser to pH 7, filter out any solids, then add to the waste drain. For the iron hydroxide solids, I like to wait until they are a moist cake before disposal. The dryer the better.
Thanks sreetips your videos are very helpful and educational! Quick question. Can you use copper to bring back the used silver nitrate electrolytes? I seen a video of yours we’re you used muriatic acid to bring back the silver. Also my first silver cell I did I used 998-999 silver for my silver nitrate and my crystal silver once melted had a low percentage like .996-.998. Does silver nitrate need to be made out of 99.99% silver to achieve 99.9%? Thanks again for your hard work making videos
I know you want the electrolyte and the distilled water to be well stirred. Have you ever considered adding one of your airlines into the silver cell and bubble away stirring the solution?
Really appreciate this video..i know how much effort and time goes into production hence why i have days of content and very little edited into videos. I have a question if you have a minute, assuming you have no pure to dissolve for the electrolite, would you say just waiting the extra time for the initial run to suspend silver particles or using some re-disolved fine material as electrolite is better? I'm assuming although a small amount,the impurities in the solution of disolved fine would contaminate the crystals,correct? Vs suspending the undisolved fine behind the vac filter which would hold the disolved impurities?
@@sreetips the electrolyte works on suspended silver particles making the electrical connection between poles. When you use distilled water only as an electrolyte it takes a lot longer to get it producing but obviously using a solution that has particles already will get things rolling immediately. You used dissolved pure. I haven't made any pure yet. Do you think using 20 or 50ppm fine as an electrolyte will cause a big enough contamination to make starting dry worth it? I'm assuming your vac filter isn't catching all the contaminants in the fine you're using as the anode..
Hi mate How much silver cement powder would I need for a jar your size and what other ingredient goes in there. Also could I use a 12 volt battery or charger or even a 12 volt battery for the current. I've used a battery and charger to clean up my silver coins before, although you have to keep your eyes on them. Thanks mate.
3.5 volts is critical. 12 volts would cause the silver to grow very rapidly forming long needle-like crystals that would contact the anode filter and short it out.
Good day, I wonder is it possible to go to a local garage market buy like 500g silver spoons, then structure all whats needed to grow sil er and make Moore silver and sell it when it is a big brick? 😅
I buy sterling at local sales. I refine gold. I use sterling silver to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. The impure silver is added to the anode basket. The anode basket is suspended in the silver nitrate electrolyte. I pass an electric current through the impure silver. The silver dissolves, passes through the Dacron filter, travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte, and deposits on the stainless steel bowl (the cathode). The bowl is connected to the negative pole of the power supply. The process only deposits pure silver on the cathode. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
Thank you Sreetips. I always learn something from your videos. Question though, I read below that you are stacking silver because it is undervalued. I agree. Why not keep it as sterling then? How would you value your silver crystal if it does not have a stamp on it? I am stacking silver and want to create a silver cell mainly out of curiosity and interest. I am holding onto silver mainly for wealth generation e.g. passing it down to future generations.....Would I be able to sell the silver crystal on after completion of this project?
Because I love refining silver (it’s beautiful). And I’m using it to make videos for my channel. Other than that, there’s no reason to refine your silver. It will track right on up. Your heirs will be glad you did that rather than passing on a pile of worthless paper money.
Your bootstrapping is OFF THE HOOK! I've just watched several of your videos and I'm jumping on the train! Are you using any kind of a hood to suck up the fumes? MUCHISSIMAS GRACIAS!!!! If you would like any help develping a PDF or a website for this, let me know - I'd be very happy to help.
Does it have to be smelted before the electrolysis refinement? You couldn't just load the filter basket with silver powder? thank you for the video, love to watch the process.
Sorry, didn’t intend to offend. Smelt is a pet peeve of mine. I tried silver powder once and it didn’t work well. It clogged up the filter and current flow dropped off rapidly. Plus it was messy. Silver shot is the way to go.
Can you do the same method with silver scrap from jewelry? i mean , put in to the basket pieces of old jewelry that doesnt come from another refination, for example a silver ring ?
Yes but it’s not recommended because palladium will build up if the same silver is used over and over to inquart the gold. Palladium is soluble in nitric acid and it will follow the silver. High concentrations of palladium can cause problems in the silver cell. The least of which is contaminated silver; palladium is worth about 80 times more than silver.
Ok, you've motivated me to start doing this for myself and start stockpiling precious metals. When I'm ready to proceed, I'd love to talk with you for a little while and be sure I'm on the right track.
You can hold the karat gold just like it is. No need to refine. It will track right on up with the bullion. So long as you don’t try to melt it and ruin the markings.
Is it worth buying silver crystals to make the electrolyte then to dissolve the copper in that and use the cell? does it produce more silver overall the end? Im looking into making a cell but if it doesnt produce more than what you put in then it isnt worth it for someone who doesnt have that copper/silver shot laying around- Thanks Lachy
@@sreetips ah okay thank you. Is it possible to use silver nitrate powder to produce the silver nitrate solution as it’s much cheaper. Say mix it with nitric acid?
Hey, thank you very much. I dont know if this question has been answered. If your stainless steel mixing bowl is barely magnetic what will happen? Is it fine? The pull from a fridge magnet is so little, compared to other pots that it holds much better. Please help, thank you.
❤ thank you for your lesson.....very useful information But I have one question ,Is it workable to separate any type of metal or it just for purifying Again Can you advise me Thank you a lot for all your vedieos ot for all your vedieo
Hey Sreetips I've been digging your silver cell videos, but have a few questions. If I wanted to buld my own cell and had to start at zero, no silver nitrate, cement to make shot or basically anything.....I understand I'm gonna have to use bars of silver to make my own silver nitrate, but sense I'm starting zero do I need to make my silver shot out of bars all by themselves or could I use a small amount of copper mixed in with the melted pure silver bars to make the shot or am I just stuck with using entire bars to make the shot. Would it be best to minimize my total cash a little to just start with the smaller cell like u made in the beaker rather than goin full out and building one in a silver bowl?
I use cement silver, from my gold refining. Its purity, and therefore value, are questionable. If you already have pure silver then there’s no need to run it through the cell.
So help me understand, are you yielding more silver than you use, or simply turning existing amount of silver into same amount of higher quality silver, or losing some silver as the cost of refining?
@streetips i just found ur page and doin a little back binging and found this and i was wondering if i make my own silver cell do i have to use a refined silver bar for the anode or can i use a copper bar for the positive connections??
I have a blob bar of mostly 925 silver but it sems that some of the material I added was plated I am now trying to figure out what is the best way to try again. I have a Tabletop furnace with a 120oz crucible.
There’s something primal about molten metal. Can’t resist the urge to “melt it down.” The only problem is that melting ruins the markings. Without the markings the purity, and therefore the value, becomes questionable. If it were mine I’d dissolve in hot dilute nitric, filter out any solids (could be a problem depending on if there’s any tin in there) then cement out the silver on copper. That’s what I’d do if it were mine.
Good Day Sreetips - A Question if I may. When you create your electrolyte does the silver saturation of the electrolyte directly effect the amps which is drawn from anode to cathode. I say this as my amps reading is in the 4.5 amp range at 3.5v. Does this mean I need more silver in my electrolyte? How does my amps being so high effect silver crystal creation and its clusters. With my thanks
Silver concentration in the electrolyte increases amps. The higher the amps, the faster the cell produces pure silver at the cathode. The highest I’ve seen my amps go at 3.5 VDC was up to 3.5 amps.
Okay so this is the most interesting thing i may have ever seen. Im automatically sold and on board. Ive got everything besides the chemicals and then im going to give it a try. Ive watched this video and the one with results too many times then i would like to admit. You are excellent when it comes to instruction and details. I am just curious as to how profitable is this and do people buy just the silver crystals, or do you melt them into bullions? Im willing to compensate you for a little bit more information on the business end of this, if you have time. Much appreciated
I sell a few ounces of crystal on my eBay site. But I’m really not wanting to sell any silver right now. And thankfully I don’t have to sell any. The silver is high purity investment grade pure silver and it can be melted into bars. I used to do that with every bit of pure silver that I produced. But today I don’t have to, so I’m just keeping it. My saving are in silver, that is rising. Not on paper that is declining in value and purchasing power. I don’t refine the silver as you might think. The reason I refine it is because I use the sterling silver to refine gold. Silver is a by product of my gold refining. So I just recover the silver from that, run it through my silver cell, then harvest the silver, put it away and forget about it.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating. It's very generous of you to openly share your insights, methods, etc with us all. So many others seem to hold onto what they think is proprietary and their's alone, disregarding the education and passing along of knowledge. Along with your interesting and entertaining refining videos, they all make fir GREAT content. Keep it up and thank you. 👍
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its information like this and people like this i feel is what youtube at its heart is. why i started watching youtube and why i still come here everyday. its the best library.
@@meatynomnoms Amen!
A man en. My sentiments exactly. Snd having a background of the areas of technology you are delving I can validate your intel. Thanks. Dandahermit.
Well said 👏
I cannot thank you enough for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with us. After watching this 10 times I finally felt like I was ready to build my own. I’m an IT professional and work in film and television, not a chemist. You explain everything so clearly and explain the reasons behind your decisions. I’m happy to say my silver cell is up and running. I made a few modifications that may help with uniform crystal growth in the bowl to help others. Just use a copper strap around the entirety of the bowl. It’s not much more expensive. The silver crystal grows concentrically around the bowl at roughly the same rate. Keeps it off the center anode basket longer. Just wanted to share my findings as you do freely.
Copper is second only to silver as the best conductor of electricity.
@@sreetipshence, instead of building the strap with copper, use silver?
You could, but I don’t think it would make a big difference. Copper is 100 on the conductivity rating scale. Silver is 105 (the highest of all metals). Gold is down around 70.
Great video, I have built several cells according to your design, and purify copper. I get about 750g per week from each one. I use old computer power supplies, because I have many laying around. I refine copper and melt it for material to use to forge hand made items. Thanks for all the great sharing.
Excellent!
Question: can you turn silver cells into actual silver?
I add impure silver from my gold refining to the anode basket on top of the silver cell and pass current through it. The silver dissolves, pass thru the filter, and deposits on the inside of the stainless steel bowl (the cathode).
What all do I need to gather to make silver
@Larry If I just read your comment correctly you use this "silver cell " to purify copper? If that is correct. Did you make any modifications to the design or is it exactly like his setup? If I misunderstood my apologies.
Welcome back my mentor, ive already built mine using your design and got 1.6 kilos of Silvet Crystal after 10 days, all thanks to what I have learned from you
Excellent - congrats!
Wow! 😮
@@sreetips if I’m just starting out what can I use as a non pure silver to make the electrolyte solution?
Does the silver cell generate more silver crystals than what is put into making it ? What is the ratio of silver used to what can be generated?
@@dalspaugh748 I believe you can use stuff like sterling silver, and other metal with amounts of silver in it. I'm learning to so if anyone knows better, correct me.
Holy smokes, thanks for letting us all know how to make such beautiful crystals like you do. Such a detailed vid you gave us all. Much appreciated man!
This refining process is extremely interesting. I recently discovered copper ore, with gold and silver being secondary metals and I have since been interested in how exactly metals are separated from ore. Very cool🤙
It looks very easy
Thanks for making these videos. I've only scratched the surface of what you've uploaded, but you've clearly put a lot of work into these videos. 15 or 20 years ago, a resource like your video catalogue would seem unimaginable outside of a university classroom or an apprenticeship.
I only wish that videos like mine were available twelve years ago when I first started refining. There bits and pieces and critical details were left out. Then referred you to a web site for a fee to get the rest of the process.
@@sreetipsthis knowledge is a true blessing. I can't believe you share it without expecting anything in return. It's very inspiring.
I love these videos. As a visual learner , thank you for taking the xtra time of producing this content. I restore vintage mechanical watches , cases, offer plating services, import gemstones and make my own jewelry thru lost wax casting. I own full casting, metalsmith, watchmaker studio. Self taught off of industry standards, principles and methods. Everything you show is a part of the trade I want to develop. I think the first process I want to start is making silver electrolyte. I have everything in here to make the silver cell.
Nice constellation by the way. I specialize in vintage omega. I over haul , restore around 12-20 per year.
I’m the same way - all self-taught with with help from some professional refiners on the goldrefiningforum.com
What’s your company name?
A true modern day alchemist. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
Master, you opened my eyes of how much I waste just for the Gold process, You taught me within my gold feline, the silver waste, actually covers the shipping cost. You R so Awesome
Great video. I love learning about precious metal refining at home. I would love to see how you handle your waste and how you dispose of the end waste solutions in one video. Keep up the good work.❤
Yes I also would love to see your process of reclaiming what is leftover in those solutions
Waste treatment, videos are posted on my channel.
@@sreetips this is so cool!
This was just recommended to me and for once TH-cam did well and I’m fascinated as I have a ton of old busted sterling jewelry I’ve been laughing around…
My elderly mom has been pestering me about finding something to do with her 3 sets of sterling 12-setting flatware.
Kind of thinking instead of taking a beating at a local metal place, maybe I should try melting and refining using your method…?
As this is the first video of yours I’ve watched, I need to watch a few more but wow- thanks for sharing this!! (I need another hobby like a new hole in my head😂).
Fascinating!!
Answer: With aboslute perfection.
Very generous and accurate explanations.
Thanks a lot to share your knowledges and experiences.
Fascinating to see you make the silver cell and these silver crystals are so pretty. 👍
Hi just want to say I ran across one of your videos yesterday and I'm seeing how to make the silver cell today on a separate video. I am so intrigued with this. I am definitely going to do this. I've never done nothing like this. Before but you make it look somewhat simple. Bless you for sharing this information with the world.
I was just talking to my wife about doing this. Keep up the great content Senior Chief. And any 300 series stainless is non magnetic, but the 400 series is always magnetic.
304 stainless steel
Good to know
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and well done for answering the same questions over and over without freaking out! 👏🏻
Thank you
Hi, Most folks don't know there are 2 types of stainless steel. One like this and a magnetic type that really isn't stainless at all. They achieve stainless on the addition of nickel and or other white metals in the mix with high carbon steels. This is a great setup. Little time and resorses aside from the power supply to invest in. Ever since meeting you I have wanted to build one of these systems as I create a lot of super fine filings contaminated with a file treatment called "Burr Life" produced by Rio Grande down there in LA. I have accumulated a couple pounds of it over the 6 or 7 years I have been saving it. Not really enough to justify making a system like this but who knows, a possibility in the future eh. If I remember I can send it to you for refining for a cut of the procedes ? Thanks as always. Top notch work here this fine day old friend !
Sree my friend you give me hope. I'm in a very bad situation in my life. But brother you have given me hope that I can do this and actually get by. Thank you for your lesson and thank you for educating me. You sir are a great man and I thank you for giving me hope
Hi MR sreetips thank you for the greatly detailed educational videos on recovery and refining metals it is a blessing to have this knowledge for personal use. Me personally I’m a new novice and was told in the past that this hobby wasn’t worth it. your videos helped tremendously to prove those acquisitions was wrong. Thank you for serving our country sreetips.
Thank you!
ive seen your channel before but never appreciated it. Just subbed because of your demeanor and willingness to share knowledge.
Thank you, welcome to my channel!
I'm honestly interested in the silver cement powder set up you made. Could you do a video going over that? Also thank you for the knowledge. What is pure silver good for exactly? Coins and value? I'm sure jewelery and tableware need to have other elements added to make it more stable or harder
I use sterling silver to refine gold. Then I recover the silver, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell.
Crazy isn't it. He has like 60k worth of silver powder, as a byproduct. I love it.
I think this is very important and interesting content... especially in the economy we are all in right now and I thank you for sharing your experience and procedures with us.. God bless you
Most people are clueless about gold and silver. They (gold and silver) are real money. But Americans have been conditioned to believe that paper is more valuable. But I think a paradigm shift is coming. Once folks begin to realize that their hard-earned “money” is becoming worthless. And that all their valuations are based on a mountain of debt - they can never be repaid.
@@sreetips yup.. I have been trying to tell my friends and family that very same thing
I’ve tried. Their minds are made up and they don’t want to be bothered by the truth.
Good to see you. I gotta say I'd been hoping to see another one of your awesome videos soon.
You didn't disappoint 🙌
Thank you 😊
Ahh the old saying stays true “it takes silver to make silver” 😂 this is awesome! Loving this series
Excellent video. Very easy to understand and to practice.
Thanks for the video Sreetips. Silver refining videos are my favorite for some reason more steps I guess is what I like about it. Thanks again sir.
The most relaxing videos, if you added ASMR to the title I am sure you would have way more subscribers which of course you do deserve at least 51 million
I agree 100!!!!
Meh he’d get all the weirdos… lol
@@GokouZWAR weirdos that watch videos. Sometimes they watch them over and over. Which is all TH-camrs really care about at the end of day. Number of views, number of minutes. Number of ads watched. $$$
APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND DEDICATION TO TEACH US ABOUT THIS ALCHEMY, VERY INTERESTING 😊 SHALOM FROM LAWRENCEBURG KENTUCKY
Hello Lawrence KY!
Have you thought about why the silver crystalizes on the cathode?
I just think its cool but my guess is that it due to the direction the electrons travel. Our convention is to think of current as flowing from positive to negative but electrons actually flow negative to positive. So, the electrons are entering the electrolyte from the surface of the cathode. The moment they enter the electrolyte, they meet a silver ion. The moment that silver ion accepts an electron, it falls out of solution and since all this is happening in proximity to the cathode surface, which includes the surface of the silver crystals that have already formed, that silver atom falls right into place within the lattice of a silver crystal! 🎉
If I misunderstand anything about this someone please correct me!
Thanks for a well spoken and easy to understand and formative video.
I’ve been meaning to ask you, why not use the nearly pure powder silver instead of pure silver in the electrolyte to increase the usage of the impure silver in the system? You seem to have an abundance of that silver. Couldn’t you use nitric acid to dissolve the silver powder for the electrolyte instead of the pure silver Crystal you could be melting down and selling for high profit?
First, I don’t want to sell any silver with the price so grossly and artificially under valued. I keep the silver that I refine. Put it away and forget about it. Silver is not an investment. It’s a store of value and will conserve and protect my purchasing power. Storing wealth in paper dollars is a bad idea. Because they can print dollars “without limit” but they can’t print more silver. As far as using cement silver for the electrolyte, it’s not recommended because it could introduce contamination into the silver cell. I think I used it once when I first got started. But after that I always use pure silver to make the electrolyte. It’s the way I learned it. I’m getting excellent results with this method.
@@sreetips so are you saying you can make silver?
I mean if I just had a little bit of silver I can make a bunch more silver out of it.
And if that is the case wouldn't it drive the price down.
No, you cannot make more silver from a little silver. That is nonsensical. Silver is an element. However, you CAN purify silver to 999+ and make it investment grade, which is what our gracious host appears to be doing.
@@8d4o0c4 thank you I apologize for sounding ignorant I just do not know about that.
No, I’m refining the impure silver.
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. I enjoy this clip. Thank you.
I whis you a great day, and god bless you. Thanks for the passion you share whit us. Arne
How do you make your electrolyte if you don't have pure silver crystals?
Start with pure silver mint coins or bars
@@JoelHirtle Or start with the silver cement, it is already 98% pure, will just take a bit longer to get it really pure.
Pure silver bars or coins can be used. Cement silver is not recommended. But I think I used it once to get started. Then save out some crystal from each batch for the next refining.
I remember my old high school chemistry teacher, Mr Thomas and all these type of experiments. Then going to metals shop to work the small foundry and pour aluminum. Our little town that I grew up in was near Waterloo, IA and with a large John Deere factory there, it was a good starting point in my education. Thanks for bringing it full cycle!!!
I grew up in Cedar Rapids.
@@sreetips Didn’t know that, I’m honored 🙏
@@sreetips My wife and I have raised our three boys here in Cedar Rapids. Thank you again, as your sharing of these processes will allow us to come out of truly difficult times.
I graduated from Jefferson.
@@sreetips I graduated from Jesup, east of Waterloo. The boys all from Marion HS. The youngest with a 4.25 GPA will graduate from CO School of Mines next December with two bachelors and a minor in public affairs.
Cedar Rapids was the “big city” to me as a kid. I’m back in IA, having lived in So Cal and brought my CA wife kicking and screaming here. She loves it here and doesn’t miss CA for anything.
Sreetips, I was driving to Walmart earlier today and was thinking... My 7y.o. son is home from school for spring break and would like to attempt to put metals in and out of solution. Do you have any videos you recommend in your catalog that I could do with my son?
Ideally, if you had some YT shorts or any video(s), I could follow along, he could watch from afar, would be great!
I have done enough experiments in college to keep him and I safe at a small scale I would work with.
I have a few laptops laying around some silver dollars. Anything I could do would be great, my son would absolutely be interested in this.
It can be anything as simple as putting a penny in some HCl in a mason jar and tossing some zinc in there to cement it out (I dont know if that would even work).
Sorry if this doesnt make sense, half asleep and been meaning to ask you this.
I think that dissolving a 90% silver dime in a test tube with nitric, then adding a piece of copper wire and watching the silver cement out right before your eyes is an awesome reaction to see. It’s seeing that reaction that got me hooked on refining almost 13 years ago. Back then I was able to order a liter of 68% reagent grade nitric acid for a hundred bucks. Can’t imagine what it costs now. The fumes are very bad for human lungs. So the reaction must be done outdoors or in a fume hood. Nitric fumes will cause cramps in your muscles days or weeks after inhaling concentrated levels of those fumes. Nitric fumes also dissolve tooth enamel.
@@sreetips thank you!
Wow, I just ran across your channel and I am blown away at what it takes to "create" precious metals, thanks for sharing.
Welcome!
Glad you found his channel/knowledge. Been doing this since 91 and started growing diamonds a few yrs. ago.(excellent quality). Enjoy your new found hobby and best wishes
Cristaline silver sold on the market increased 5000% in 2023, all seems to relate to sreetips teaching the masses how to electrolyse silver.
I just need to find a good source for the sliver cement. I'd like to only sticking to refining sliver.
Excellent techniques: reminds me of my very first job as a trainee analytical chemist in 1966! Great video! Cheers from Down Under.
I think I've watched you make this at least twice before and it's interesting every time.
I love the way you explained things. Most people, when they dominate a topic they talk like every once knows what you're talking about.
You explained slowly, real teaching skills. 🎉 Thanks 🙏
Thank you
10:20 The proper term for this is not filter, it’s diaphragm. This is because it’s not meant to preferentially stop passage of anything. All it does is slow down diffusion so that the solution around the anode can have a somewhat different composition than around the solution outside touching the cathode. This increases efficiency, because you want the cathode solution to be rich in silver ions and the anode area to be depleted in silver ions, and the conduction of the silver ions can be slow compared to their diffusion rate, which has a random direction, and you want to make the silver ions go from anode to cathode, not randomly. So the diaphragm limits diffusion and doesn’t slow down conduction much, and thus it selects for the conduction that you want.
Agree, plus it filters out the slimes from entering the cell and contaminating the pure silver.
This is something I will never do. But I will watch it and find it interesting. Thank you for sharing.
I am learning so much from you, you’re a great teacher and I was hoping to learn the entire process!
Thank you , that was very informative, I will begin my own silver cell now
Thanks Sreetip . Great video with a great explanation of what your process is .
God bless you and yours.
Really great videos man. I had to watch a couple of your videos to understand that you’re recovering silver in a pure form from silver you previously held in an impure form. Many years ago when I was in college I worked in the darkroom in radiology at the local hospital. The solution we used to develop the films with was loaded with silver from the film. A company would come pick up our old solution every month to get rid of the “hazardous waste”. Even the silver from old films in the patients radiology records were recovered after being inactive for a time. I don’t think they X-rays use films that much anymore except for the portable X-rays and maybe dental X-rays.
I get my silver from local sales. When someone dies, the heirs want to immediately sell the sterling silver and get paid in paper dollars. They actually believe, incorrectly, that paper dollars are more valuable than the silver. And with silver price so grossly and artificially undervalued, we can buy real silver with fake paper dollars (fiat money that can be printed out of thin air). It’s a silver buyers paradise out there right now, for those who know when, where, and what to look for.
Silver is just as thin air ish. Your mythology about money is clown shoes, you know that right?
Thanks for all of the knowledge that you are providing in your videos.
Thank you Sreetips! Your videos are invaluable. Id love to be able to do the things you show on here.
Thourly enjoyed this video. Great job describing the process, thanks. Peace. . .
Thank you for sharing this method I really appreciate it an will use it myself
Another awesome video! You're an excellent instructor! Thank You. Jim in Phoenix
Very cool Sreetips , I was curious about what happened to you . I'm so glad everything is OK 👏👏
I watched this video back-to-back but still cannot figure out how to make the solutions how you make it I don't want to do it wrong and waist money (the cement silver solution stuff) and how do you get the pure silver bar connected to the 10-gauge wire? thank you.
I have a video on how I make the anode electrode bars. I use pure silver crystal dissolve in hot dilute nitric to make the electrolyte.
@sreetips thank you very much! I knew you would reply fast ❤️🔥
God bless you for sharing your knowledge, I bow to you. Stay safe
Good ASMR video! Your voice is soothing and relaxing. Thanks for sharing.
Very.. very.. interesting, informational and worthwhile.. and more.
But what I personally would like to know is: what is the economic turnaround of this "scheme"?
You already have impure silver; what is its worth? You use acids and electricity for 10 days, what are their costs?
In short: what is the net gain of this process?
Its a very blunt question considering your freely sharing this information, so please excuse me for that in advance.
Should I be buying up old silver and purify it like this? I'm just very curious, and perhaps greedy =)
Thank you for your troubles.
Here’s the “scheme.” I’m converting failing paper dollars into high purity silver. My electric bill was $109 last month. Nitric is by far the most expensive at $50 per 2.5 liter bottle. The impure silver has value that’s indeterminable, because it’s impure pure. How impure is it? I can’t put a number on it. So to make it’s value easy to calculate, I run it through the silver cell. The net gain is; I have pure silver that’s increasing in value, instead of paper dollars that are declining in value (due to inflation). If I need some paper to pay bills or buy food, then I sell a little of the metal. Holding paper, in my opinion, is a bad idea. Holding metal is a no-brainer. The sterling silver can be held just like it is. No need to refine it. The only reason I do it is because I use sterling silver to refine gold. I recover the sterling from that, melt into granules, and run it through my silver cell, for reasons already stated. Hope this helps.
@@sreetips 🤔genius 👨🏻🔬🙋🏻♂️
THANK YOU for sharing this amazing knowledge with us. I hope to learn more about this from you
So let me get this straight at 12:30 you described inquarted gold. Which is like an alloy of gold and silver. You take this alloy and dissolve it in nitric acid to produce the silver solution? I’d like to see that part
I have videos posted on my channel.
@@sreetips I see thanks!
I see why other channels recommend you! Thank you
Thanks for the awesome videos! If I wanted to start doing this how would I get my Cement silver or do you just use pure silver the first couple times? Until you get enough waste to start making your own
We buy sterling silver at estate sales.
Would you sell some silver cement! enough to do 3 batches
Unfortunately I don’t have any cement silver for sale.
Thank you sir outstanding information excellent video six stars
Very well done Sreetips! Fantastic tutorial! Thank you!
So i venture to ask if one were to start this process, after a cycle of growth could you not use the crystalline silver in the anode basket to do a repeat of the cycle? this is new to me and i find if fascinating!
Yes, and I did that once. The ICP assay came back greater than five nines fine. That’s 99,999 parts per one hundred thousand pure silver. For every one hundred thousand atoms, only one wasn’t silver.
Thank you for your remote mentorship. I've gone through Hokes literature as you recommended. Definitely the Old Testament on Precious metal refining. One question in dealing with waste stream. After transferring out from my Iron tank, I correct the pH to 7-9 to precipitate all the metals. The sludge just sits in my jumbo urn filters draining very little fluid. Can I drop the pH to 6.5-7.2 after precipitation before filtering to ease the process without causing the precipitate to impregnate the solution? If not, what do you do? I'm uncomfortable disposing of the gelatinous filtrate in my solid waste stream. Should I just wait it out to completely desiccate it or am I just being overly cautious?
I add pH decreaser to pH 7, filter out any solids, then add to the waste drain. For the iron hydroxide solids, I like to wait until they are a moist cake before disposal. The dryer the better.
Would this work with heavy silver plated brass parts from high voltage contacts
Goooood evening from central Florida! Have a great one!
Goooood evening!
Hello my friend. Have a nice day😊. Arne
Thank you so much for showing me how to do this. You are awesome buddy😊.
If i boil my water will it remove the concerning chlorine? I also have bottled water but it says minerals added for taste.
I’ve never tried that. I don’t know if it will work
Could you use silver contacts from breakers and electronics
Yes, but not in the cell. Silver has to be fairly high purity.
Thanks sreetips your videos are very helpful and educational! Quick question. Can you use copper to bring back the used silver nitrate electrolytes? I seen a video of yours we’re you used muriatic acid to bring back the silver. Also my first silver cell I did I used 998-999 silver for my silver nitrate and my crystal silver once melted had a low percentage like .996-.998. Does silver nitrate need to be made out of 99.99% silver to achieve 99.9%? Thanks again for your hard work making videos
Silver nitrate will drop silver when copper is added.
I know you want the electrolyte and the distilled water to be well stirred. Have you ever considered adding one of your airlines into the silver cell and bubble away stirring the solution?
that sounds messy
@@arch1107 Not with a regulator.
I slow stir would be better. I just haven’t taken the time to design a stir mechanism that can be used as the cell operates.
@@sreetips Gotcha
Really appreciate this video..i know how much effort and time goes into production hence why i have days of content and very little edited into videos.
I have a question if you have a minute, assuming you have no pure to dissolve for the electrolite, would you say just waiting the extra time for the initial run to suspend silver particles or using some re-disolved fine material as electrolite is better? I'm assuming although a small amount,the impurities in the solution of disolved fine would contaminate the crystals,correct? Vs suspending the undisolved fine behind the vac filter which would hold the disolved impurities?
Sorry, your question makes no sense to me.
@@sreetips the electrolyte works on suspended silver particles making the electrical connection between poles. When you use distilled water only as an electrolyte it takes a lot longer to get it producing but obviously using a solution that has particles already will get things rolling immediately. You used dissolved pure. I haven't made any pure yet. Do you think using 20 or 50ppm fine as an electrolyte will cause a big enough contamination to make starting dry worth it? I'm assuming your vac filter isn't catching all the contaminants in the fine you're using as the anode..
Awsome, just awsome 😅😊 I was just commenting earlier out of concern because of the lack of Sreetips in our lives 😃
Hi mate How much silver cement powder would I need for a jar your size and what other ingredient goes in there. Also could I use a 12 volt battery or charger or even a 12 volt battery for the current. I've used a battery and charger to clean up my silver coins before, although you have to keep your eyes on them. Thanks mate.
3.5 volts is critical. 12 volts would cause the silver to grow very rapidly forming long needle-like crystals that would contact the anode filter and short it out.
Good day, I wonder is it possible to go to a local garage market buy like 500g silver spoons, then structure all whats needed to grow sil er and make Moore silver and sell it when it is a big brick? 😅
I buy sterling at local sales. I refine gold. I use sterling silver to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. The impure silver is added to the anode basket. The anode basket is suspended in the silver nitrate electrolyte. I pass an electric current through the impure silver. The silver dissolves, passes through the Dacron filter, travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte, and deposits on the stainless steel bowl (the cathode). The bowl is connected to the negative pole of the power supply. The process only deposits pure silver on the cathode. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
Thank you Sreetips. I always learn something from your videos. Question though, I read below that you are stacking silver because it is undervalued. I agree. Why not keep it as sterling then? How would you value your silver crystal if it does not have a stamp on it? I am stacking silver and want to create a silver cell mainly out of curiosity and interest. I am holding onto silver mainly for wealth generation e.g. passing it down to future generations.....Would I be able to sell the silver crystal on after completion of this project?
Because I love refining silver (it’s beautiful). And I’m using it to make videos for my channel. Other than that, there’s no reason to refine your silver. It will track right on up. Your heirs will be glad you did that rather than passing on a pile of worthless paper money.
Wow.. Great job master 👍👍🤲🤲❤️
Your bootstrapping is OFF THE HOOK! I've just watched several of your videos and I'm jumping on the train! Are you using any kind of a hood to suck up the fumes? MUCHISSIMAS GRACIAS!!!! If you would like any help develping a PDF or a website for this, let me know - I'd be very happy to help.
Yes, I do all my reactions in a fume hood. No way to safely do them without one.
Does it have to be smelted before the electrolysis refinement? You couldn't just load the filter basket with silver powder? thank you for the video, love to watch the process.
Smelt is a term used to describe rendering metals from ore. No experience with smelting.
@@sreetips in my question please replace Smelted with the word Melted. thank you
Sorry, didn’t intend to offend. Smelt is a pet peeve of mine. I tried silver powder once and it didn’t work well. It clogged up the filter and current flow dropped off rapidly. Plus it was messy. Silver shot is the way to go.
@@sreetips no offence taken, my bad using the wrong term. you are a good teacher. thanks
1. Is there a way to make a gold cell?
2. Can I put sterling/925 shot into the anode basket? Or does it need to be refined to 98/99% first?
1) yes. 2) adding 925 directly would cause the electrolyte to quickly become saturated with copper
Can you do the same method with silver scrap from jewelry? i mean , put in to the basket pieces of old jewelry that doesnt come from another refination, for example a silver ring ?
Yes but it’s not recommended. Adding sterling/925 directly into the anode basket will cause the electrolyte to quickly become saturated with copper.
I love the content and thank you so much for the education. Two big 👍👍as always.
Thanks for your great videos sreetips. Question: can the cement silver be used for inquartation instead of sterling?
Yes but it’s not recommended because palladium will build up if the same silver is used over and over to inquart the gold. Palladium is soluble in nitric acid and it will follow the silver. High concentrations of palladium can cause problems in the silver cell. The least of which is contaminated silver; palladium is worth about 80 times more than silver.
@@sreetips thank you very much for your answer. Guess you just need more cells to process all that cement Ag.
Does this process produce more silver than what you started with or does it just purify what you put in?
Disregard this question, i found my answer further down. Cheers mate.
Can you refine gold with this process or is it just easier to do it the way you normally do by cementing it out of the gold solution with bonide?
It’s easy both ways.
Ok, you've motivated me to start doing this for myself and start stockpiling precious metals. When I'm ready to proceed, I'd love to talk with you for a little while and be sure I'm on the right track.
You can hold the karat gold just like it is. No need to refine. It will track right on up with the bullion. So long as you don’t try to melt it and ruin the markings.
Is it worth buying silver crystals to make the electrolyte then to dissolve the copper in that and use the cell? does it produce more silver overall the end? Im looking into making a cell but if it doesnt produce more than what you put in then it isnt worth it for someone who doesnt have that copper/silver shot laying around- Thanks Lachy
It’s one for one, no silver is created.
@@sreetips ah okay thank you. Is it possible to use silver nitrate powder to produce the silver nitrate solution as it’s much cheaper. Say mix it with nitric acid?
Silver nitrate dissolved in distilled water.
Hey, thank you very much. I dont know if this question has been answered. If your stainless steel mixing bowl is barely magnetic what will happen? Is it fine? The pull from a fridge magnet is so little, compared to other pots that it holds much better. Please help, thank you.
Mine is totally non-magnetic. I don’t know if a magnetic bowl will work.
As well i have one more question; if i start with a 999 silver, will there be an increase present? Thank you again
@@sreetipsdid you ever happen to increase your ammount, or is this just a refining process?
No new silver is being created here.
This is electrolytic refining. For every hundred grams of 98% impure silver I add in to the anode basket, I’ll harvest 98g of high purity silver.
❤ thank you for your lesson.....very useful information
But I have one question ,Is it workable to separate any type of metal or it just for purifying Again
Can you advise me
Thank you a lot for all your vedieos
ot for all your vedieo
The cell purifies silver only.
Hey Sreetips I've been digging your silver cell videos, but have a few questions. If I wanted to buld my own cell and had to start at zero, no silver nitrate, cement to make shot or basically anything.....I understand I'm gonna have to use bars of silver to make my own silver nitrate, but sense I'm starting zero do I need to make my silver shot out of bars all by themselves or could I use a small amount of copper mixed in with the melted pure silver bars to make the shot or am I just stuck with using entire bars to make the shot. Would it be best to minimize my total cash a little to just start with the smaller cell like u made in the beaker rather than goin full out and building one in a silver bowl?
I use cement silver, from my gold refining. Its purity, and therefore value, are questionable. If you already have pure silver then there’s no need to run it through the cell.
So help me understand, are you yielding more silver than you use, or simply turning existing amount of silver into same amount of higher quality silver, or losing some silver as the cost of refining?
It’s a straight ahead trade. I put impure silver in, and get out high purity silver, less impurities.
@streetips i just found ur page and doin a little back binging and found this and i was wondering if i make my own silver cell do i have to use a refined silver bar for the anode or can i use a copper bar for the positive connections??
I’ve never used a copper bar for the anode. I don’t know how that will work.
Does the silver shot need to be refined or can melted sterling poured to shot be used?
Not recommended, the high copper content in sterling silver would quickly foul the electrolyte.
@@sreetips thank you. Am a fan of yours. Just thinking about getting into refining my auction gold jewelry. Thank you for great videos
I have a blob bar of mostly 925 silver but it sems that some of the material I added was plated I am now trying to figure out what is the best way to try again. I have a Tabletop furnace with a 120oz crucible.
There’s something primal about molten metal. Can’t resist the urge to “melt it down.” The only problem is that melting ruins the markings. Without the markings the purity, and therefore the value, becomes questionable. If it were mine I’d dissolve in hot dilute nitric, filter out any solids (could be a problem depending on if there’s any tin in there) then cement out the silver on copper. That’s what I’d do if it were mine.
Good Day Sreetips - A Question if I may. When you create your electrolyte does the silver saturation of the electrolyte directly effect the amps which is drawn from anode to cathode. I say this as my amps reading is in the 4.5 amp range at 3.5v. Does this mean I need more silver in my electrolyte? How does my amps being so high effect silver crystal creation and its clusters. With my thanks
Silver concentration in the electrolyte increases amps. The higher the amps, the faster the cell produces pure silver at the cathode. The highest I’ve seen my amps go at 3.5 VDC was up to 3.5 amps.
Should my stock pot 5 gallon buckets be of a specific plastic type? to resist acid types?
HDPE (High Density Polyethylene)
Okay so this is the most interesting thing i may have ever seen. Im automatically sold and on board. Ive got everything besides the chemicals and then im going to give it a try. Ive watched this video and the one with results too many times then i would like to admit. You are excellent when it comes to instruction and details. I am just curious as to how profitable is this and do people buy just the silver crystals, or do you melt them into bullions? Im willing to compensate you for a little bit more information on the business end of this, if you have time. Much appreciated
I sell a few ounces of crystal on my eBay site. But I’m really not wanting to sell any silver right now. And thankfully I don’t have to sell any. The silver is high purity investment grade pure silver and it can be melted into bars. I used to do that with every bit of pure silver that I produced. But today I don’t have to, so I’m just keeping it. My saving are in silver, that is rising. Not on paper that is declining in value and purchasing power. I don’t refine the silver as you might think. The reason I refine it is because I use the sterling silver to refine gold. Silver is a by product of my gold refining. So I just recover the silver from that, run it through my silver cell, then harvest the silver, put it away and forget about it.
What’s the input costs for the operation such as the silver cement, silver nitrate, electrolyte etc? Thanks.
I really don’t know. I’ve never taken the time to calculate it. This is my hobby.
So I'm wondering if I can use silver plated copper to make my corn flakes of impure silver instead of going through that whole process?
No, the electrolyte would saturate with copper.
Is the hose clamp stainless too?
Yes
if I was using silver bullion how many grams would I have to turn into shot for the anode basket? I am doing the same 3 1/2 liter .
I usually end up feeding about 1.5 to 2 kilos of impure silver shot into the anode basket during a single run of the silver cell.
Great information! Do you offer a class to learn complete process?
This is my hobby. I don’t offer any training or tutoring.