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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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
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 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.
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 !
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
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. $$$
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
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!
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’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.
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, 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.
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 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.
Very amazing. And very well taught on what to do. I'm afraid myself that I will probably not ever try this because of chemicals involved, but none the least, you are awesome and you should have been buddies with Mr. Rogers. He would have loved you in his show. Kids would have come out the woodwork to watch creativity like this. Subbed for sure brother. And yes I'm a silver Stacker.
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.
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 🙏
@@sreetips my other account is subed for quite some time now. Been interested in smelting for longer, found u by trying to find basic charcoal forges. Always good content even the old vids.
I got a “D” in the only chemistry class I ever took in my whole life fifty years ago in high school. You don’t have to be a chemist to refine precious metals. But it sure doesn’t hurt.
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.
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.
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.
Will this refining work with 925, or 800 converted to silver shot, or is more refining required prior to pushing through the cell? PS, got hooked on another video of yours and it changed my life. Refining, hunting and stacking and a new perspective. Did a sulfuric boil to silver chloride, etc, turned out great. Appreciate you and the willingness to share this knowledge with the world. 🎉 also, you ever thought about affiliate marketing for some of your preferred gear? You deserve more than ad revenue for the service you provide and you’re well known in the precious metals community from what I can tell. Discounts for us, free gear & $ for you, win win 😊
The impure silver going in should be fairly high purity to begin with. Running 925 or 800 would quickly saturated the electrolyte with copper. High copper concentration in the electrolyte will interfere with silver ions traveling through the electrolyte and it could cause the copper to co-deposit with the pure silver and contaminate it.
As far as affiliate marketing, I get offers daily from advertisers. I know it would mean extra gain for me. But I like to keep it simple. Enjoy myself doing what I love to do. Getting others involved in my hobby complicates matters.
This is some amazing stuff man. Where do you buy your chemicals such as the nitric acid and HCL acid. And could a guy buy just enough of the impure silver granules and enough pure silver to make the first round of electrolyte. Another question is it possible to use a DC power supply or does it have to be AC. also I’d like to purchase a small silver bar for my cathode I don’t really want to melt down my silver coins. But after you get the first batch processed out your set if you set aside enough product to do each following round. I’m definitely going to attempt this.Within the next couple weeks. Super cool stuff man. Greatly appreciate you sharing your knowledge I’ll give the silver crystal a couple go arounds before I move up to the gold. Do you have a website where you sell some of this stuff such as silver bars and the scrap stuff you use in the cathode filter and basket. Looking forward to trying this.
I get HCl at Ace Hardware. Nitric at any chemical supply. I use a DC power supply for the silver cell. I don’t want to sell any of my silver bars, just a few ounces on my eBay site.
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.
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.
I’ve been waiting for a new video and It’s always a good day when sreetips posts a video! Still think you’re a severely underrated channel and should be at millions of subscribers and viewers but Ik you’ll hit it one day
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.
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.
❤ 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
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
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..
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
Great video sir....just wanted to know......for how many harvesting cycles can the electrolyte be churned???? I know that small amounts of topups are added during the harvesting process but once the crystals are extracted....then for how many cycles can that same electrolyte solution be reused????......
Awesome video Sreetips, we’ll explained. I think you started with a computer power supply, does the lack of voltage control make a big difference, I’m wanting to try but not at the level to invest in a DC power source. Thanks for sharing
I still can't figure out if Sreetips is a hobbyist or if he does this for a living.... But I definitely know I will use his videos someday to try this stuff myself! I just can't afford the setup right now lol
@@sreetips i saw another one of your videos that made 50 Troy ounces of pure silver in sbout 15 days. If I didn’t have the silver powder like you do to start the process,& is there any way to buy some and then use your process to create wealth? Or does it cost just as much for me to buy the raw materials as I would get bsck from selling the silver at the enf(
This is a very nice system for refining silver. I have a 30 amp power station similar to yours. I use my set up to make colloidal silver liquid. Do you have any tips on making high quality colloidal silver liquid. I usually don't use an electrolyte, so it takes a longer time for electrolysis
I usually come here for ASMR stuff and that's how I get to sleep most might. But now, here we are, thus fella wasn't happy getting us to sleep, He's done given us stuff to DREAM toward. How cool is that??
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.
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.
I am amazed.. I just stumbled onto this video... after all this do you melt down your silver into a cast and able to sell it? How do you test purity? Very cool stuff!
Welcome! I can melt it into pure silver bars. I used to do that with every bit of silver that I refined. But today it makes no sense to sell any silver, if you don’t have to, at these undervalued prices. I’m not selling any silver. I’m taking it out of circulation and holding my savings in: SILVER!
Unfortunately I don’t know the cost because I don’t keep track of it for each batch of silver that I refine. I recover the silver from my gold refining process and run it through the silver cell. My profit is in high purity silver rather than in paper dollars. I sell a few ounces of the silver crystal on my eBay site. But other than that, I keep the rest as my off-line savings account.
My 1st time seeing a video like this it's very neat. Am I to understand that you turned 800 grams of dirty silver Into2.2 kg of pure silver? Meaning The silver that was used in the filter process Basket Was multiplyed into2.2 kg of pure silver that you scraped out of 2 runs ? Resulting in 1.4Kg's of Extra silver that was not there before the process was started. Thank you for answering my dumb questions
Question is it equal exchange in that the weight of silver going in is the weight coming out? Or are you "Making" silver. Sorry if this question is dumb, I'm just trying to wrap my head around this.
I only get out what I’m putting in less impurities. It seems valid that wealth can be conjured into existence. Because that’s what central banks do. But we can’t conjure silver into existence out of thin air. And that’s why silver is rising in value, and paper dollars are declining in value.
@sreetips ok, I thought it was something akin to the way Gold can be "created" by using lead and particle accelerator. I thought maybe it was due to a reaction between copper, silver, and electricity. Still extremely interesting, and I'll probably be doing this one I move into my house on the 20th. Thanks for the response, and for the awesome videos!!
As far as I know, the only place where the temperatures and pressures are high enough to cause protons to fuse into new heavier elements is inside a collapsing super massive star - a super nova.
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?
Sreetips, thanks again for another great video. Question. You could, in theory, keep the cell running infinitely correct? As long as you're replenishing the electrolyte and harvesting the crystals appropriately. Am I wrong in this thinking?
The limiting factor is the electrolyte. I use it two times only. After that it becomes saturated with copper and must be replaced with fresh electrolyte. I get about 3 kilos for two runs, it costs me about 800g of silver for both runs. So I get about 2.2 kilos of pure silver from two runs.
@@sreetips when you say it costs you 800 grams of silver, do you mean that 800 grams remains suspended in solution and needs to be cemented out of the electrolyte?
@@benjaminlangford688 I went back through some of his previous videos and confirmed that the silver in the spent electrolyte is indeed recoverable. In this video, he adds HCL to convert to silver chloride and then uses the lye/Sugar method to cement. th-cam.com/video/iEt26tE6f2o/w-d-xo.html
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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@@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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A true modern day alchemist. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
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?
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
Fascinating to see you make the silver cell and these silver crystals are so pretty. 👍
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
Very generous and accurate explanations.
Thanks a lot to share your knowledges and experiences.
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.
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 !
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
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. $$$
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
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 😊
I think I've watched you make this at least twice before and it's interesting every time.
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.
APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND DEDICATION TO TEACH US ABOUT THIS ALCHEMY, VERY INTERESTING 😊 SHALOM FROM LAWRENCEBURG KENTUCKY
Hello Lawrence KY!
Excellent video. Very easy to understand and to practice.
Ahh the old saying stays true “it takes silver to make silver” 😂 this is awesome! Loving this series
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.
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.
Thank you Sreetips! Your videos are invaluable. Id love to be able to do the things you show on here.
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.
Excellent techniques: reminds me of my very first job as a trainee analytical chemist in 1966! Great video! Cheers from Down Under.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
I am learning so much from you, you’re a great teacher and I was hoping to learn the entire process!
Good ASMR video! Your voice is soothing and relaxing. Thanks for sharing.
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
This is something I will never do. But I will watch it and find it interesting. Thank you for sharing.
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.
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.
Another awesome video! You're an excellent instructor! Thank You. Jim in Phoenix
Thank you for sharing this method I really appreciate it an will use it myself
Thourly enjoyed this video. Great job describing the process, thanks. Peace. . .
Thanks for all of the knowledge that you are providing in your videos.
THANK YOU for sharing this amazing knowledge with us. I hope to learn more about this from you
Awsome, just awsome 😅😊 I was just commenting earlier out of concern because of the lack of Sreetips in our lives 😃
Very well done Sreetips! Fantastic tutorial! Thank you!
Very cool Sreetips , I was curious about what happened to you . I'm so glad everything is OK 👏👏
Very amazing. And very well taught on what to do. I'm afraid myself that I will probably not ever try this because of chemicals involved, but none the least, you are awesome and you should have been buddies with Mr. Rogers. He would have loved you in his show. Kids would have come out the woodwork to watch creativity like this.
Subbed for sure brother. And yes I'm a silver Stacker.
Welcome and thank you!
God bless you for sharing your knowledge, I bow to you. Stay safe
Goooood evening from central Florida! Have a great one!
Goooood evening!
Hello my friend. Have a nice day😊. Arne
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.
Thank you sir outstanding information excellent video six stars
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
I love the content and thank you so much for the education. Two big 👍👍as always.
Seen ur vids, just saw the vid and came over to simply LIKE it, and watch later
Welcome to my channel.
@@sreetips my other account is subed for quite some time now.
Been interested in smelting for longer, found u by trying to find basic charcoal forges.
Always good content even the old vids.
Refining is a darn good skill to have!
I didn't even take chemistry in school, and that was probably a huge mistake.
I got a “D” in the only chemistry class I ever took in my whole life fifty years ago in high school. You don’t have to be a chemist to refine precious metals. But it sure doesn’t hurt.
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 ❤️🔥
Could you use silver contacts from breakers and electronics
Yes, but not in the cell. Silver has to be fairly high purity.
Thank you so much for showing me how to do this. You are awesome buddy😊.
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.
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 👨🏻🔬🙋🏻♂️
Will this refining work with 925, or 800 converted to silver shot, or is more refining required prior to pushing through the cell?
PS, got hooked on another video of yours and it changed my life. Refining, hunting and stacking and a new perspective. Did a sulfuric boil to silver chloride, etc, turned out great. Appreciate you and the willingness to share this knowledge with the world. 🎉 also, you ever thought about affiliate marketing for some of your preferred gear? You deserve more than ad revenue for the service you provide and you’re well known in the precious metals community from what I can tell. Discounts for us, free gear & $ for you, win win 😊
The impure silver going in should be fairly high purity to begin with. Running 925 or 800 would quickly saturated the electrolyte with copper. High copper concentration in the electrolyte will interfere with silver ions traveling through the electrolyte and it could cause the copper to co-deposit with the pure silver and contaminate it.
As far as affiliate marketing, I get offers daily from advertisers. I know it would mean extra gain for me. But I like to keep it simple. Enjoy myself doing what I love to do. Getting others involved in my hobby complicates matters.
@@sreetips thank you for the detailed response and the candor in doing this for the love of it; just makes things that much better.
This is some amazing stuff man. Where do you buy your chemicals such as the nitric acid and HCL acid. And could a guy buy just enough of the impure silver granules and enough pure silver to make the first round of electrolyte. Another question is it possible to use a DC power supply or does it have to be AC. also I’d like to purchase a small silver bar for my cathode I don’t really want to melt down my silver coins. But after you get the first batch processed out your set if you set aside enough product to do each following round. I’m definitely going to attempt this.Within the next couple weeks. Super cool stuff man. Greatly appreciate you sharing your knowledge I’ll give the silver crystal a couple go arounds before I move up to the gold. Do you have a website where you sell some of this stuff such as silver bars and the scrap stuff you use in the cathode filter and basket. Looking forward to trying this.
I get HCl at Ace Hardware. Nitric at any chemical supply. I use a DC power supply for the silver cell. I don’t want to sell any of my silver bars, just a few ounces on my eBay site.
Such a fascinating process. Thanks for sharing!
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.
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.
I’ve been waiting for a new video and It’s always a good day when sreetips posts a video! Still think you’re a severely underrated channel and should be at millions of subscribers and viewers but Ik you’ll hit it one day
Refining Precious metals at home in your garage is a very narrow field. But I’m not complaining. I’m thankful for what has been granted to me.
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.
I see why other channels recommend you! Thank you
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
Glad to see your back!
I didnt see his back in the video
❤ 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.
My son and I been doing nickel plating but this is next. Thankyou for sharing
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.
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..
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 Sreetips. I'm always looking forward to the next video's.
Great video sir....just wanted to know......for how many harvesting cycles can the electrolyte be churned???? I know that small amounts of topups are added during the harvesting process but once the crystals are extracted....then for how many cycles can that same electrolyte solution be reused????......
I never use the same electrolyte more than twice
yea man thanks for sharing all that you do ...its absolutely amazing ..your frickin awesome man
Wow.. Great job master 👍👍🤲🤲❤️
Awesome video Sreetips, we’ll explained. I think you started with a computer power supply, does the lack of voltage control make a big difference, I’m wanting to try but not at the level to invest in a DC power source. Thanks for sharing
I’ve used a PC power supply with good results. But it seems a little slower. I used the 3.3 VDC rail of the PC power supply,
@@sreetips thanks , love the Chanel, appreciate the response.
It blows my mind this is even possible. This school system really failed me lol
I still can't figure out if Sreetips is a hobbyist or if he does this for a living.... But I definitely know I will use his videos someday to try this stuff myself! I just can't afford the setup right now lol
I’m not a professional refiner. I don’t refine other peoples metal, except maybe my friend the jeweler. This is our hobby.
@@sreetips i saw another one of your videos that made 50 Troy ounces of pure silver in sbout 15 days.
If I didn’t have the silver powder like you do to start the process,& is there any way to buy some and then use your process to create wealth?
Or does it cost just as much for me to buy the raw materials as I would get bsck from selling the silver at the enf(
I only get out what I put in, less impurities. The silver comes from local sales that we attend.
@@sreetips yeah i finished the videos and realized this is the case. Still a very cool process. Thanks for the info and for responding!
This is a very nice system for refining silver. I have a 30 amp power station similar to yours. I use my set up to make colloidal silver liquid. Do you have any tips on making high quality colloidal silver liquid. I usually don't use an electrolyte, so it takes a longer time for electrolysis
I’ve never made colloidal silver liquid on purpose.
I usually come here for ASMR stuff and that's how I get to sleep most might. But now, here we are, thus fella wasn't happy getting us to sleep, He's done given us stuff to DREAM toward. How cool is that??
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.
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.
I am amazed.. I just stumbled onto this video... after all this do you melt down your silver into a cast and able to sell it? How do you test purity? Very cool stuff!
Welcome! I can melt it into pure silver bars. I used to do that with every bit of silver that I refined. But today it makes no sense to sell any silver, if you don’t have to, at these undervalued prices. I’m not selling any silver. I’m taking it out of circulation and holding my savings in: SILVER!
@@sreetips But you made 1600g of silver if sell it it would be $1300 whats the cost and how long it takes to make that 1600g?
Unfortunately I don’t know the cost because I don’t keep track of it for each batch of silver that I refine. I recover the silver from my gold refining process and run it through the silver cell. My profit is in high purity silver rather than in paper dollars. I sell a few ounces of the silver crystal on my eBay site. But other than that, I keep the rest as my off-line savings account.
My 1st time seeing a video like this it's very neat. Am I to understand that you turned 800 grams of dirty silver Into2.2 kg of pure silver? Meaning The silver that was used in the filter process Basket Was multiplyed into2.2 kg of pure silver that you scraped out of 2 runs ? Resulting in 1.4Kg's of Extra silver that was not there before the process was started. Thank you for answering my dumb questions
No, I only get out what I put into the anode filter basket, less impurities.
Question is it equal exchange in that the weight of silver going in is the weight coming out? Or are you "Making" silver. Sorry if this question is dumb, I'm just trying to wrap my head around this.
I only get out what I’m putting in less impurities. It seems valid that wealth can be conjured into existence. Because that’s what central banks do. But we can’t conjure silver into existence out of thin air. And that’s why silver is rising in value, and paper dollars are declining in value.
@sreetips ok, I thought it was something akin to the way Gold can be "created" by using lead and particle accelerator. I thought maybe it was due to a reaction between copper, silver, and electricity. Still extremely interesting, and I'll probably be doing this one I move into my house on the 20th. Thanks for the response, and for the awesome videos!!
As far as I know, the only place where the temperatures and pressures are high enough to cause protons to fuse into new heavier elements is inside a collapsing super massive star - a super nova.
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
Sreetips, thanks again for another great video. Question. You could, in theory, keep the cell running infinitely correct? As long as you're replenishing the electrolyte and harvesting the crystals appropriately. Am I wrong in this thinking?
The limiting factor is the electrolyte. I use it two times only. After that it becomes saturated with copper and must be replaced with fresh electrolyte. I get about 3 kilos for two runs, it costs me about 800g of silver for both runs. So I get about 2.2 kilos of pure silver from two runs.
@@sreetips thank you!
@@sreetips when you say it costs you 800 grams of silver, do you mean that 800 grams remains suspended in solution and needs to be cemented out of the electrolyte?
@@BrassJunkie I was wondering the same thing.
@@benjaminlangford688 I went back through some of his previous videos and confirmed that the silver in the spent electrolyte is indeed recoverable. In this video, he adds HCL to convert to silver chloride and then uses the lye/Sugar method to cement. th-cam.com/video/iEt26tE6f2o/w-d-xo.html
I enjoy your vids. Can I use a bigger bowl? What happens if it's not non-magnetic?
Critical distance between the anode and cathode of about 4 inches. I’ve never tried non-magnetic.