When you've actually put the time into doing this process... you know the value of that necklace is not unfair. Lot of time, lot of patience, lot of near perfection demanded.
Mr n mrs sreetips we love you more than you could ever know... you're videos are medicine for the soul and remedies for our sleep. I look forward to every video you put out and I thank you for that ❤
Here we go again with the gold... 😁 Going down the Golden road that we know Like a chemist, I was born to refine more... Now I've made a refine, .999 percent always on my mind!...
I've heard you mention "freshly glazed" RE: Your melt-dishes multiple times - What are you using for the glaze? A 50-50 Boric acid-Borax mix,? Same, but with some ground glass thrown in? Something else? Re: Drilling the bar - Do yourself a favor and "peck-drill" it - press, back off, press, back off, lather, rinse, repeat - rather than steady pressure - This helps make for a nicer hole, and more important, it breaks the chip (which is usually AT LEAST razor/surgical sharp) into smaller pieces so it doesn't turn into what amounts to a weed-eater with a razor blade in place of the string.
Love the necklace, looks fantastic. I would say though that if you put your logo and other stamped info on the back of the bar instead of the front, it would save the look of those beautiful melt lines on the front of the bar. No big deal, just an aesthetic thing in my opinion. Great series.
@@sreetips Bummer, but ya im not surprised you tried that first. I guess i would have two suggestions.... 1: clamp the sides in the vice with wood, upside down but off the underside surface with like a sponge buffer, or 2: ) and this might be more of an investment than you want to make, (not sure how much it would be) but if you could get a set of molds made with the bar specs in the bottom of the mold as a reverse relief. Ive seen a couple other people have custom bar molds made with designs in the bottom, cant see why this would be any different. Food for thought
Drill press dude. They come small and relatively cheap these days, almost table-top. And you can set a stop for depth penetration, and have near perfect alignment every time. Damn fine work sir! SHINY!! And when it comes up and if not too large for my wallet, I would buy a 1/4-1/2 oz at SN# 0042 right now. That was the tail number I flew with my virtual flight squadrons for many years.
@@Barstool420 It's custom made by a famous person. Like it or not it adds value. If Mike Tyson made me a crayon drawing, I'd pay lots of money for it despite a crayon drawing being basically worthless.
This was a fun series of videos to watch. Seeing the process is really great and watching the gas precipitation of the gold out of solution was just amazing.
I love your content man and im rlly not into science and stuff , I just love how calm you are and how you explain everything clearly and take your time to show us the whole process. its almost therapeutical watching you go. love your content
sreetips, good explanation on the gas method, makes a lot of sense. less stuff to deal with, a gas is just a gas and that flashover when it hit critical saturation was really cool! nice chunk of jewelry there too!
So a bit of gold worth only about $1,500 you are selling for over double the value? I suppose there is one born every minute and that is enough to get one to buy it. Nearly a $2k loss. I know jewellers make double of what the gold is worth but that isn’t exactly an exquisite item that demands them sort of prices. There will be somebody who will buy it and good luck if you do get that sort of price for it.
Why drill into the bar after you have made it? All you need to do is put the ring(loop) from the necklace and put it in the liquid before the bar has had time to harden. Once it hardens there is no need to drill into it. Just put the chain through the loop. No need to go through all that unnecessary work and waste time. Just an idea!
I believe It’s not that simple. The ring’ll have a lower melting point and would probably be drawn into the bar…horrifically. Maybe if one were to use a platinum ring with a stem that has a bar end to anchor it in, but it’d probably be jiggly and, therefore, lame. In the end, attaching a loop by any method is going to add contaminants to what is a .ppppure bar. We’re not here to be Tiffany&Co., we’re here to kick their butts!
I hope you reweighed the bar after you drilled it out. Also, you should’ve clamped the drill thing down so that way it didn’t spin when you were drilling. Love you bro.
Hey! I had an idea for the silver cell; If you can find a threaded container for the anode basket, it would allow using a spring and a silver disk to apply more pressure to the shot, reducing resistance and requiring less adjustment.
Please never use latex gloves (or any thin walled gloves) to hold something you’re drilling. They’ll catch on the bit and pull your finger into the spinning bit. It happens too fast to react to.
Have you ever tried tapping on the side of the mold while the gold is still liquid? The guy from the channel "Lithic Metals" does this to get a beautiful ripple pattern.
Nice result. I've never worked gold before. I know that copper when worked (machined/drilled) gets really grabby. It'll pull the drill in and it'll get stuck.
Love the videos. Question. At around 3:27 when you're about to dry the gold, is that gold from solution heavy? Does it have mass = to what the gold bar will weigh? You make chemistry really cool. 👍
Was in ottawa and went for a tour of the canadian mint it was really cool i asked how there gold is when they get it they said raw and they refine it with a cell there silver comes in 70 pound blocks 50 to a pallot lol 😆 😀 great work sreetips love it ❤
Bummer to bad that bar couldnt of been an even 20g but once again beautiful bars def got that pour down also what the heck that steamer machine is crazy cool also what a cool idea to make necklace
pure gold like that doesn't wear very well over time due to being too soft but it sure looks nice. Weigh it before/after...curious how many grams lost from the hole.
Afternoon Gunny! Yup! I haven't gassed myself to death yet! Still in the game! I have a question, my friend. When I first started refining, I pulled a ROOKIE move, dumping all of my pour offs into one, and then two and three, stock pots. They weren't separated as to what metal I was working with. Now, I have 3, 5 gallon buckets, that have been bubbling with copper, for going on three years now. Needless to say, I have to process them; but, I don't know exactly what is in them? You once did a stock pot recovery video, where you put a flow chart on a white board. Is that still available for a devoted fan to revisit? I've been looking for it and can't seem to find it. You make all of this look so easy. You are a Master Alchemist, to be sure! Thank you, in advance! Wade
Oh good grief! There's gotta be at least one crybaby in every comment section complaining about your price! You worked on that piece for days. For all of those who don't think it's worth the price, don't buy it...but please spare us all the complaining...lol
Mr. Sreetips, i have a couple of questions, maybe you could answer or point me to a video i may not have seen yet. Maybe I should ask these on a different forum you could suggest. When stripping down GF watch bands, the outside bands are GF but can I assume the inside parts are just SS or steel? Sometimes the bands say GF and SS back. Second, what is your experience with GF jewelry that is magnetic? Can I assume the base metal is magnetic and treat the material the same for refining? Lastly, if I make a mistake stripping things down and add something to the refining mix, what would be bad bad things that I should absolutely avoid getting into the mix? Thank you in advance. I love your videos and the way you present the information so carefully and demonstrate the process.
@@sreetips thank you, i'm accumulating a good pile to attempt to refine. Got most of the equipment, just waiting on a few more items and setting up the workshop. I always enjoyed chemistry and excited to see how it turns out.
Don’t attempt to do this in your back yard without a fume hood. I ignored this warning and I now have reduced lung function and vision problems. No matter how careful you are, those nitric fumes will get you. In your hair, on your skin, in your eyes, clothing and in your lungs. Those fumes will even dissolve tooth enamel. Another sign is muscle cramps. I’m not kidding. There’s no way to safely do these reactions without a fume hood.
I sweep it up, put the sweeps in a container, then add the sweeps to the cement silver as I melt it. Any gold gets trapped in the anode filter of the silver cell. Then I’ll process the anode filters for the precious metals they contain.
Hi sreetips, amazing video. will the gold powder melt with a regular propane map gas torch or do we need an oxy-acetylene...or can we use 2 or 3 map gas/propane torches at the same time to increase the heat?
Hello Sreetips master. I follow his work from Hungary.. The gold precipitated with Mbt turned out to be a nice light brown for me as well.However, testing after smelting showed only 18 carats, how is this possible? Rs Mizar M24 karat tester.. Did I mess something up? or is the test solution of the tester machine too old? Thank you if you answer. I remain respectfully
I’ve used mizar tester and got similar results. I dont trust them. XRF is much more accurate. The big refiner that I sell to uses XRF to determine pay out - comes back three nines every time.
Sir, please help me to overcome this problem. I work on the noble metal, and when I clean it, it dissolves with water. Please solve this problem, knowing that I have recently entered this field.
I have a question. I was looking up some videos about Pandora's jewelry. One of the videos say that a bracelet they make with 97% of sliver an 8% copper. If melted down, how much is the sliver cost?some bracelets go up $95 to $150
There three prices for each piece of jewelry. For example, the “retail” price is $1000 bought from a jewelry store. The “resale” price for that item would be three to four hundred, if you willing to wait for the right buyer. The scrap price is about a hundred bucks. 100g bracelet 97% pure silver would yield (theoretically) about 97g of pure silver. Divided by 31.1g (Troy ounce) times spot equals the price
Hi. Question about your crucible setup for melting metals. Is there a particular reason you use open crucibles and gas instead of an electric one? (I think they are called induction crucibles) Electric ones hold more as well to my knowledge since i think I remember a video where you were limited by your crucible capacity.
Open and gas torch are quick and easy to use. I have a propane furnace (sounds like a jet engine in my back yard), I have an electric muffler furnace and a small electric melt furnace that uses graphite crumbles. But I prefer the fused silica melt dish and torch.
Hey sree! Hope you're doing well! So I was at the precipitation stage of your standard refining process, I go to add the SMB the solution and it turns purple! Precipitate looks alright, dark rusty brown. Any idea of what happened? And what should I do to make it drain safe?
I looked up what chemicals are purple and I don't think any of that is present...I could be wrong. Still very greatful for what you're doing here on TH-cam. Still waiting on some merch or at least some SreeTips stickers 😊
@@sreetips I think you may be right on that one! About an hour ago I filtered out the solids, and now the solution is light purple and there is precipitation. Which kinda makes sense, some of the really expensive glass I use in my artwork is made with gold and it's a purplish red
Hi Sreetips, another great vid, only watched part 2 last night and i wake to part 3 this morning. Can I ask you when you drop the sulphuric acid on the SMB it goes through another container before it enters the gold solution, whats in the second container, just confused why your putting sulphuric onto SMB for the gas to go through sulphuric acid again? . Thanks, P.S. keep up the great work you do, your and middle aged Irish guy thinking of my retirment. Live the Pyrex jug, reminds me of my mother, god bless her soul.
I'm still waiting on the video titled " Gold Recovery from sreetips Floor" instead of jewlers carpet.
YES!
do not forget recover from the thermal wool around the crucibles and the cinder blocks.
This is a must.
Pretty sure that one would be boring. He's a tad more meticulous than the average jeweller 🤣
@MrBenski81 sreetips is great, but no ones perfect.😉
When you've actually put the time into doing this process... you know the value of that necklace is not unfair. Lot of time, lot of patience, lot of near perfection demanded.
Mr n mrs sreetips we love you more than you could ever know... you're videos are medicine for the soul and remedies for our sleep. I look forward to every video you put out and I thank you for that ❤
Thank you!
Here we go again with the gold... 😁 Going down the Golden road that we know
Like a chemist, I was born to refine more...
Now I've made a refine, .999 percent always on my mind!...
Almost sounds like a white snake sound. Not sure though
I've heard you mention "freshly glazed" RE: Your melt-dishes multiple times - What are you using for the glaze? A 50-50 Boric acid-Borax mix,? Same, but with some ground glass thrown in? Something else? Re: Drilling the bar - Do yourself a favor and "peck-drill" it - press, back off, press, back off, lather, rinse, repeat - rather than steady pressure - This helps make for a nicer hole, and more important, it breaks the chip (which is usually AT LEAST razor/surgical sharp) into smaller pieces so it doesn't turn into what amounts to a weed-eater with a razor blade in place of the string.
Borax glaze
Love the necklace, looks fantastic. I would say though that if you put your logo and other stamped info on the back of the bar instead of the front, it would save the look of those beautiful melt lines on the front of the bar. No big deal, just an aesthetic thing in my opinion. Great series.
I agree!
I’ve tried that. The lines get damaged
@@sreetips Bummer, but ya im not surprised you tried that first. I guess i would have two suggestions.... 1: clamp the sides in the vice with wood, upside down but off the underside surface with like a sponge buffer, or 2: ) and this might be more of an investment than you want to make, (not sure how much it would be) but if you could get a set of molds made with the bar specs in the bottom of the mold as a reverse relief. Ive seen a couple other people have custom bar molds made with designs in the bottom, cant see why this would be any different. Food for thought
@sreetips you could try setting in in jewellers wax first.
@@sreetips That was exactly my expectation.
Thanks for that deadly fumes warning at the beginning. I turned off smell-o-vision on my computer just in time...
Drill press dude. They come small and relatively cheap these days, almost table-top. And you can set a stop for depth penetration, and have near perfect alignment every time.
Damn fine work sir! SHINY!! And when it comes up and if not too large for my wallet, I would buy a 1/4-1/2 oz at SN# 0042 right now. That was the tail number I flew with my virtual flight squadrons for many years.
Dunmore
Gooooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
You are welcome. What a production! That Tiffany girl ain’t got nuthin’ on this julieree. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
Gold is less than 1200 for 1/2 ozt. Extremely proud you are of yours. Good luck
Proud, more like trying to break one off in someone I'd say.
Add in labor, chemical prices, and video editing and you actually got a good deal at 3400
@@kyresearcher absolutely ludicrous
@eury459 so you buy a gold chain at Kay's that is 18k, for 600 bucks and that's fair? Less than a quarter gram at 600 bucks?
@@Barstool420 It's custom made by a famous person. Like it or not it adds value. If Mike Tyson made me a crayon drawing, I'd pay lots of money for it despite a crayon drawing being basically worthless.
That price tag! 😮😂
Way more than double the value of the gold but, no doubt, you'll probably sell it easily.
Nice voice relaxing and profesional. Therapy for gold jewelry lover. Now we know how it is made so complicated that y gold is very rare😊
This was a fun series of videos to watch. Seeing the process is really great and watching the gas precipitation of the gold out of solution was just amazing.
Nice I also had the pleasure of melting up some gold today I forgot to wear my shades and I got blinded by the light 😅
Thanks for being my sensei
Beautiful gold necklace uv made. Fantastic job 👏 👍 👌
You've*... Sorry 😉
I love your content man and im rlly not into science and stuff , I just love how calm you are and how you explain everything clearly and take your time to show us the whole process. its almost therapeutical watching you go.
love your content
Thank you
Privilege to watch the King of Inquartation.
A Dremel drill press could help when drilling the hole as the end. They're pretty cheap and versatile too
Love watching that dry-line spread through the powder as you heat it.
Precise equipment used at all times, marvelous work accomplished here.
Now that necklace is stunning. Another wonderful series. 👍🏻
You’re the only channel I’ll drop what I’m doing for to watch. Ty Chief 👍🤙❤️
That’s some Fine work there Sir. Absolutely brilliant.
Thank you
That is a pretty optimistic serial number format. I think that with one zero less the number seven would fetch a premium.
sreetips, good explanation on the gas method, makes a lot of sense. less stuff to deal with, a gas is just a gas and that flashover when it hit critical saturation was really cool! nice chunk of jewelry there too!
I like you have four decimal places in your serial number. Gives you a lot of room to grow.
3400 and 77 for shipping wow, good luck with that.
Thank you
When you started drilling the hole in the gold bar I thought it was going to be an electrode for a gold cell :D
So a bit of gold worth only about $1,500 you are selling for over double the value?
I suppose there is one born every minute and that is enough to get one to buy it.
Nearly a $2k loss. I know jewellers make double of what the gold is worth but that isn’t exactly an exquisite item that demands them sort of prices.
There will be somebody who will buy it and good luck if you do get that sort of price for it.
Thank you
@@sreetips You’re welcome.
Why drill into the bar after you have made it? All you need to do is put the ring(loop) from the necklace and put it in the liquid before the bar has had time to harden. Once it hardens there is no need to drill into it. Just put the chain through the loop. No need to go through all that unnecessary work and waste time. Just an idea!
Great idea!
I believe It’s not that simple. The ring’ll have a lower melting point and would probably be drawn into the bar…horrifically. Maybe if one were to use a platinum ring with a stem that has a bar end to anchor it in, but it’d probably be jiggly and, therefore, lame. In the end, attaching a loop by any method is going to add contaminants to what is a .ppppure bar. We’re not here to be Tiffany&Co., we’re here to kick their butts!
I'd like to suggest that you do your stamping on the sides rather than on the faces. That ripple pattern on the top face is nature's artistry.
I don't know about you, but stamping on the sides may be too difficult.
I hope you reweighed the bar after you drilled it out. Also, you should’ve clamped the drill thing down so that way it didn’t spin when you were drilling. Love you bro.
Hey! I had an idea for the silver cell; If you can find a threaded container for the anode basket, it would allow using a spring and a silver disk to apply more pressure to the shot, reducing resistance and requiring less adjustment.
Actually, instead of the filter media bags, HDPE garden netting would probably be more chemical resistant.
With the bigger anode basket, the weight of the silver pressing down is sufficient. The small cell needs more downward force to push the silver.
I’ve used Dacron material successfully for almost fourteen years.
Please never use latex gloves (or any thin walled gloves) to hold something you’re drilling. They’ll catch on the bit and pull your finger into the spinning bit. It happens too fast to react to.
That's a nice jeweler piece for making small things. Did you know that an ounce of gold can make a 35-mile thread for sewing 😮
I can hear it now. “I’ll give you a 1/4 mile of gold for that horse!”😂
I know a 3/4" diameter round,.0.545" thick, at 19.3 gm/cm³, is very close to ¼ ozt. Same size as the US penny.
Forbidden brown sugar
When he had 50 ounces dissolved in a litre of aqua regia my mind did cartwheels
Absolutely beautiful ...
I hope it sells quickly !!
❤I loved it, truly enjoyed watching, worthwhile experience, your work is incomparable.. I can’t wait for more spectacular videos
Have you ever tried tapping on the side of the mold while the gold is still liquid? The guy from the channel "Lithic Metals" does this to get a beautiful ripple pattern.
No, I’ve never tried that.
My favourite bit is when he does stuff with gold 🥇
Nice result. I've never worked gold before. I know that copper when worked (machined/drilled) gets really grabby. It'll pull the drill in and it'll get stuck.
I’m getting a drill press.
@@sreetips nice, that will help. I mean, you did well.
Love the videos. Question. At around 3:27 when you're about to dry the gold, is that gold from solution heavy? Does it have mass = to what the gold bar will weigh? You make chemistry really cool. 👍
It’s very heavy.
i swear sreetips has the whole corningware catalog in his lab, he's got cirningware dishes in sizes i've never seen before
5:23 My favourite part! ✨💛✨
My tax money is burning a hole in my pocket……
Was in ottawa and went for a tour of the canadian mint it was really cool i asked how there gold is when they get it they said raw and they refine it with a cell there silver comes in 70 pound blocks 50 to a pallot lol 😆 😀 great work sreetips love it ❤
I’d love to take a tour of that mint.
@@sreetips ya it's great place they have a 7 kilo gold coin on display they said it belonged to a rich investor lol 😆
Five nines fine,
@@sreetips yes five nines fines 🙂
Every video is an enjoyment that you make love the gold bars
Hate seeing that dust fall out
Bummer to bad that bar couldnt of been an even 20g but once again beautiful bars def got that pour down also what the heck that steamer machine is crazy cool also what a cool idea to make necklace
pure gold like that doesn't wear very well over time due to being too soft but it sure looks nice. Weigh it before/after...curious how many grams lost from the hole.
I think I weighed it after drilling the hole.
Afternoon Gunny! Yup! I haven't gassed myself to death yet! Still in the game!
I have a question, my friend. When I first started refining, I pulled a ROOKIE move, dumping all of my pour offs into one, and then two and three, stock pots. They weren't separated as to what metal I was working with.
Now, I have 3, 5 gallon buckets, that have been bubbling with copper, for going on three years now. Needless to say, I have to process them; but, I don't know exactly what is in them?
You once did a stock pot recovery video, where you put a flow chart on a white board. Is that still available for a devoted fan to revisit? I've been looking for it and can't seem to find it.
You make all of this look so easy. You are a Master Alchemist, to be sure! Thank you, in advance!
Wade
Search “WASTE TREATMENT” all caps on my channel.
@@sreetips Thanks! Found it! You are AWESOME 👌!
Oh good grief! There's gotta be at least one crybaby in every comment section complaining about your price! You worked on that piece for days. For all of those who don't think it's worth the price, don't buy it...but please spare us all the complaining...lol
Look how clean the melt dish is 😮😮😮
Awesome video beautiful gold bar necklace thanks for sharing sreetips
Wow wife is going to be mad when i try and explain why i need an ultra sonic cleaner and steamer. Geee thanks.
Tape the drill bit depth first next time👍
Does that work? Drilling pushes the tape up, I find
Use paint marker if that suits you better if you don't hit the mark helps keep it there
@@richardwarnock2789 You're right, it works if you have eyes on.
Mr. Sreetips, i have a couple of questions, maybe you could answer or point me to a video i may not have seen yet. Maybe I should ask these on a different forum you could suggest. When stripping down GF watch bands, the outside bands are GF but can I assume the inside parts are just SS or steel? Sometimes the bands say GF and SS back. Second, what is your experience with GF jewelry that is magnetic? Can I assume the base metal is magnetic and treat the material the same for refining? Lastly, if I make a mistake stripping things down and add something to the refining mix, what would be bad bad things that I should absolutely avoid getting into the mix? Thank you in advance. I love your videos and the way you present the information so carefully and demonstrate the process.
I peel the GF tops off and throw the stainless away. Magnetic should go fine. When in doubt, exclude it.
@@sreetips thank you, i'm accumulating a good pile to attempt to refine. Got most of the equipment, just waiting on a few more items and setting up the workshop. I always enjoyed chemistry and excited to see how it turns out.
Don’t attempt to do this in your back yard without a fume hood. I ignored this warning and I now have reduced lung function and vision problems. No matter how careful you are, those nitric fumes will get you. In your hair, on your skin, in your eyes, clothing and in your lungs. Those fumes will even dissolve tooth enamel. Another sign is muscle cramps. I’m not kidding. There’s no way to safely do these reactions without a fume hood.
@@sreetips yes sir, absolutely setting up and using all precautions to avoid injury. fume hood, and ppe, proper work space and separated location.
Love the price disclaimer at the end 😆
9:04 That has to be your prettiest gold bar yet!
I keep watching the reaction in video 2 that was the best reaction I’ve seen with gold ❤❤
Excellent!
Awesome video again Mr Sreetips, is it Gold precipitates in the bottom of your waste container? Thanks 👍🏻✌🏻🇨🇦
What are some of the best ways of finding scrap for reclaiming gold/silver?
We buy scrap gold at estate sales and yard sales.
Your wife is awesome🎉
Yes she is!
Do you have an ebook on gold refining for sale, although your videos are very educational.
No. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then video is worth a million,
I have been wondering if You have ever swept out your shop and refined the dust for pressious metals?
I sweep it up, put the sweeps in a container, then add the sweeps to the cement silver as I melt it. Any gold gets trapped in the anode filter of the silver cell. Then I’ll process the anode filters for the precious metals they contain.
Nice 👍 work ❤
Man if u ever want an apprentice count me in, I love the work you do great vids
The gold wasn't clamped in the vice tightly.
It moved around when you where drilling and bound up on the drill bit.
Have you done any casting?
Not yet
Hi sreetips, amazing video. will the gold powder melt with a regular propane map gas torch or do we need an oxy-acetylene...or can we use 2 or 3 map gas/propane torches at the same time to increase the heat?
Map gas will melt the gold.
I think you should make Mrs Sreetips a 3.5kg silver cell600000™️ silver pendant 😊
Kevin, is the new gold bar necklace suitable for a man to wear?
Thanks.
I don’t see why not. But 19.5 inch is small for a man.
5:10 - damn it looks like brown sugar!
Beautiful piece...
Hello Sreetips master. I follow his work from Hungary.. The gold precipitated with Mbt turned out to be a nice light brown for me as well.However, testing after smelting showed only 18 carats, how is this possible? Rs Mizar M24 karat tester.. Did I mess something up? or is the test solution of the tester machine too old? Thank you if you answer. I remain respectfully
I’ve used mizar tester and got similar results. I dont trust them. XRF is much more accurate. The big refiner that I sell to uses XRF to determine pay out - comes back three nines every time.
Thanks again for showing the method.
The bar looked great until you stamped it. Could have stamped it in the back...
Tried that, it ruins the front.
Another unique gold piece.
Question. Why wouldn't it be 4 9's fine since you used the gas?
Three nines is industry standard for pure gold.
Tungsten drill bits. They are stronger
Totally awesome bars again. Seems worse then lead to work on.
I have some gold from a mine I would be curious to see the purity. Do you offer assay services?
Unfortunately I don’t. This is my hobby and I not work on stuff that my wife and I find at local sales.
Can you do a video exclusively of drying gold and silver?
You'd be better off with a drill press so it's easier and less messy. However, great job overall!
Sir, please help me to overcome this problem. I work on the noble metal, and when I clean it, it dissolves with water. Please solve this problem, knowing that I have recently entered this field.
You clean noble metal with water and it dissolves. That’s baffling, I’ve never seen that before. I don’t know what to do about that.
Thank you for sharing this excellent video with us six stars sir
stamp a cross on it would be cool as well with Sree tips on the back as makers mark really cool love it thank you for doing this
Nobody needs a cross on anything
@@xredhead7135x wow didn't mean to touch a nerve with the cross my bad . i was just saying it would look cool with a really little one in the center
I have a question. I was looking up some videos about Pandora's jewelry. One of the videos say that a bracelet they make with 97% of sliver an 8% copper. If melted down, how much is the sliver cost?some bracelets go up $95 to $150
There three prices for each piece of jewelry. For example, the “retail” price is $1000 bought from a jewelry store. The “resale” price for that item would be three to four hundred, if you willing to wait for the right buyer. The scrap price is about a hundred bucks. 100g bracelet 97% pure silver would yield (theoretically) about 97g of pure silver. Divided by 31.1g (Troy ounce) times spot equals the price
Those numbers don't add up, 97% and 8% is over 100%.
Hi. Question about your crucible setup for melting metals.
Is there a particular reason you use open crucibles and gas instead of an electric one? (I think they are called induction crucibles)
Electric ones hold more as well to my knowledge since i think I remember a video where you were limited by your crucible capacity.
Open and gas torch are quick and easy to use. I have a propane furnace (sounds like a jet engine in my back yard), I have an electric muffler furnace and a small electric melt furnace that uses graphite crumbles. But I prefer the fused silica melt dish and torch.
Hey sree! Hope you're doing well!
So I was at the precipitation stage of your standard refining process, I go to add the SMB the solution and it turns purple!
Precipitate looks alright, dark rusty brown.
Any idea of what happened? And what should I do to make it drain safe?
I looked up what chemicals are purple and I don't think any of that is present...I could be wrong.
Still very greatful for what you're doing here on TH-cam. Still waiting on some merch or at least some SreeTips stickers 😊
Sounds like colloidal gold. I just add it to my temp waste container then recover later. For “drain safe” waste treatment.
@@sreetips I think you may be right on that one!
About an hour ago I filtered out the solids, and now the solution is light purple and there is precipitation.
Which kinda makes sense, some of the really expensive glass I use in my artwork is made with gold and it's a purplish red
Selling a gold bar for more than double spot price simply because you added a $200 chain….🤔
Because I believe that gold will be worth more in the near future. Selling gold at grossly undervalued spot wouldn’t be very smart.
dang,, you dropped a bunch of gold in between the crucible and the mold
melts like the best hash, before the flame even gets to it lol
Hi Sreetips, another great vid, only watched part 2 last night and i wake to part 3 this morning. Can I ask you when you drop the sulphuric acid on the SMB it goes through another container before it enters the gold solution, whats in the second container, just confused why your putting sulphuric onto SMB for the gas to go through sulphuric acid again? . Thanks, P.S. keep up the great work you do, your and middle aged Irish guy thinking of my retirment. Live the Pyrex jug, reminds me of my mother, god bless her soul.
*yours a middle aged
*Love the Pyrex jug
That’s the way I learned it. The bubbler lets me know I have positive gas flow. It also serves to clean and cool the gas, I think.
I was gonna say didn’t you say you had a jeweler friend 😂 might should let him handle this stuff, he let you handle refining. It turned out ok 👍
beautiful work
Hey Sreetips, just wondering if you've ever considered purchasing a Oxy-Hydrogen generator for your melt torch?
I’ve never considered it
First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 🤗
there's gold flyin all over the place
That’s a beautiful necklace
3400 🤣😂😭