It might pay to pick out larger pieces of silver as the baskets are retired full of slimes. The pieces can just be fed forward back into the next filter basket. It could greatly reduce the amount of silver pieces to dissolve by the time you go to process a bunch of them.
I'm glad you are going to continue doing what you do! I was also glad to see you try something new. I'm not "trying" to contradict myself but it kinda seems I am! I guess what I'm trying to say is something my Dad said for many years and now I say it, "if it's not broken don't fix it"!!! Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!!
Good morning Streetips. I'm not sure if it's self explanatory, but could you possibly take a couple seconds to describe your various user names in your next video? Thank you for all of your quality and informative content!
Again a Great video! Thanks! Nice to see you van use the amount of nitric acid now without calculating the amount needed. 😄 Can you guess how much ml nitric can disolve mg of silver?
They can't be trusted after nitric treatments. Maybe they won't dissolve, but Sreetips can't afford any of them failing at some point during the process. My guess is they become brittle after a while.
Platinum Skies they are cut to fit the anode basket. It would be difficult to get it back in. I buy a new one for $7 at Ace Hardware for each batch of silver.
Hi Streetips. Seeing as you treated everthing with nitric would it have been easier to dump the nitric over the filters without any prep and the when the beaker is getting full let the nitric stops reacting pour the solution into another beaker with the copper then add another lot of nitric to original beaker and repeat until no reaction with nitric. My logic may be off here but I think it would be a simpler process..
I have no idea if this is possible, but could Sreetips get an old, used ultrasonic cleaner, fill it with distilled water, and use that to clean the silver shot he recovers from the filters? That way he wouldn't really have to work, he could just set it and forget it.
I would like to know how he disposes of the iron nitrate after all of the copper has been cemented out. The copper can just be removed from the liquid, rinsed, dried and then taken to a recycler or melted into strips to use again for silver.
Hey could you show us what it looks like if there is lead in your solution. You are always putting a few drops of sulfur acid in your gold solution to drop the lead but I have never seen anything drop out.
Brian, I'm very careful to ensure no lead gets into my batch. I always add the sulfuric as a prophylactic measure to prevent the the gold from becoming contaminated. Lead, even in trace amounts, ruins the ductility and malleability of gold. Cause it to crumble. Adding sulfuric removes 100% of the lead. I learned it from Harold_V on the gold refining forum. Adding sulfuric, "hurts nothing and provides a hughe benefit." I've never seen any either. Not even sure if I know what it looks like. I'll do a demonstration on it in one of my videos, for your benefit and mine!
With as much distilled water as you use, you should build a system that turns your tap water into distilled water. It wouldn't be that hard or very expensive to build.
Hello Sreetips, I regularly watch your videos and like the process part of it. Very informative. However as an Enigneer, I would like to give you few frank suggestions to make the videos a little more interesting. General suggestions : Your weighing scale from the past videos : Your scale is one digit. As you are weighing precious metals, I suggest you to use a scale with three digits. Performance of your process can be calculated more accurately. Your fume hood : I sincerely feel your fume hood is very congested. There is no argonomics while you are handling beakers. Either it has to be a little bit bigger or think of rearranging in the same space.When you are pouring liquids from one beaker to the other, I get scared that you may spill either on to your hands or your dress.
hello sreetips, i always neutralize the silver nitrate solution with urea before precipitating with copper, is there a problem with that and for the siver cell electrolyte can i also use urea to neutralize it?
that would be a waist of nitric. streetips uses just enough to break down the metals. any solution with free nitric is held for further recovery later. copper can use up small amounts of nitric.
Once the filter papers emptied out of the gray solid, why not incinerating them instead of using chemical to to recover the precious metal? Now more confused, washing them first, then incinerating? Why not directly incinerating them?
My guess is that incineration takes a lot of extra time and effort so instead of doing it everytime he processes filters, he can just recover 99% of the precious metals and just save the mostly clean filters until there's enough to make it worth the time/effort to incinerate.
sreetips Yes, i can see it it might be a little difficult to get the filters placed back in the little plastic container you use for a filter basket. Do to them being trimmed so closely to the lid. If you were to cut them off with a little extra material around the lid it wouldn’t be hard at all to stuff them back in and reuse them. At least that’s the way it seems to me. Just an idea that could save you a little on purchasing new filters and having to cut them in every time.
I don't understand why you're doing this at all. That material has already been through the refining process. You could have melted it into shot again, processed it through the cell, and ended up with a lot less material to melt in nitric to recover the paladium/platinum. It would have used a lot less nitric. I suppose we would have lost out though, as that wouldn't make a good video I guess.
Bigjobs69 the slimes in those filters will contain gold, platinum and palladium. In this series I am going to attempt to recover and refine all those metals
Hello Sreetips, Now coming to your current video, at 4.00 time, you are dealing with the beaker with blue liquid where silver has been dropping by taking in copper. You could have filtered what ever silver dropped nice and clean and could have added more the copper to drop what ever silver is there in the liquid. Cheap and best.
Yes, I used to do that. The cement silver was very clean almost three nines. But these days I just run everything through the silver cell. It’s the only way to be sure
It might pay to pick out larger pieces of silver as the baskets are retired full of slimes. The pieces can just be fed forward back into the next filter basket. It could greatly reduce the amount of silver pieces to dissolve by the time you go to process a bunch of them.
Bring on 3. I so love the part where the refining comes to an end and the torch coming into use. Thanks bud.
My favorite part as well
Hey, thanks for posting these multi-part series so quickly. It's great not having to wait forever for an update.
I'm glad you are going to continue doing what you do! I was also glad to see you try something new. I'm not "trying" to contradict myself but it kinda seems I am! I guess what I'm trying to say is something my Dad said for many years and now I say it, "if it's not broken don't fix it"!!!
Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!!
Man I love when Sreetips come up with a great series!!
One of my favorite youtube channels
Great way to wake up in the morning. Thanks sreetips!
Good morning Streetips. I'm not sure if it's self explanatory, but could you possibly take a couple seconds to describe your various user names in your next video? Thank you for all of your quality and informative content!
Still loving the videos, keep on keeping on 👍
Next video Sreetips installs new fumes hood. Thanks for the multi part videos.
Thanks Kevin, waiting for part 3!
Should publish about noon on Sun 12 Apr
Love the vidoes😃
Moving on up Salare Inc. hopefully you can get a larger fume hood. Maybe rent out a place like Nilered. I always look forward to your videos.
Haha.. made me laugh.. work!
Funny but bashing things with hammers I consider fun.. 😄
Love your vids Mr Tips
Good job 👍 sir
Great video !!
Next time you do a new refine could you keep track of your cost?
Again a Great video! Thanks! Nice to see you van use the amount of nitric acid now without calculating the amount needed. 😄 Can you guess how much ml nitric can disolve mg of silver?
Great Video !! DO you recover the Copper ?
Hey sreetips why don't you reuse the anode filters for further silver refining now that they are clean it will save you money
probably cause of traces of other metals, and the filters probably aren't that expensive
They can't be trusted after nitric treatments. Maybe they won't dissolve, but Sreetips can't afford any of them failing at some point during the process. My guess is they become brittle after a while.
Platinum Skies they are cut to fit the anode basket. It would be difficult to get it back in. I buy a new one for $7 at Ace Hardware for each batch of silver.
Hi Streetips. Seeing as you treated everthing with nitric would it have been easier to dump the nitric over the filters without any prep and the when the beaker is getting full let the nitric stops reacting pour the solution into another beaker with the copper then add another lot of nitric to original beaker and repeat until no reaction with nitric. My logic may be off here but I think it would be a simpler process..
I have no idea if this is possible, but could Sreetips get an old, used ultrasonic cleaner, fill it with distilled water, and use that to clean the silver shot he recovers from the filters? That way he wouldn't really have to work, he could just set it and forget it.
When you put the copper solution in the waste bucket and cement out the copper onto iron what happens with the copper?
Glen Boult he has an addition bucket with angle iron (steel) to cement out the copper, then he deals with the waste from that to dispose of.
@@OffGridOverLander yea I've seen the addition bucked and the cementing of the copper onto the iron but we never see what he does with the copper.
I am hoping Sreetips will put the copper up for sale on eBay
Glen Boult guess I misunderstood your question, but I have wondered the same thing myself
I would like to know how he disposes of the iron nitrate after all of the copper has been cemented out. The copper can just be removed from the liquid, rinsed, dried and then taken to a recycler or melted into strips to use again for silver.
Hey could you show us what it looks like if there is lead in your solution. You are always putting a few drops of sulfur acid in your gold solution to drop the lead but I have never seen anything drop out.
Brian, I'm very careful to ensure no lead gets into my batch. I always add the sulfuric as a prophylactic measure to prevent the the gold from becoming contaminated. Lead, even in trace amounts, ruins the ductility and malleability of gold. Cause it to crumble. Adding sulfuric removes 100% of the lead. I learned it from Harold_V on the gold refining forum. Adding sulfuric, "hurts nothing and provides a hughe benefit." I've never seen any either. Not even sure if I know what it looks like. I'll do a demonstration on it in one of my videos, for your benefit and mine!
With as much distilled water as you use, you should build a system that turns your tap water into distilled water. It wouldn't be that hard or very expensive to build.
I use about 20 gallons per month
Will those filters be highly flammable when dry now, as they have been nitrated?
@@robertjeffery5364 I agree. I don't know why he won't reuse them if they are fairly clean.
He said elsewhere he doesn't reuse them because he trims them down to fit the anode baskets/cups and it would be difficult to get them in right again.
Have you put any thought in to distilling you own water in stead of buying it?
Yes! I’m going to try recovering the condensate from a window AC unit to use in my refining processes. Watch for the video
you moved up my list of heroes...you're #7 you bumped Bear Grylls down to #8.
Hello Sreetips, I regularly watch your videos and like the process part of it. Very informative. However as an Enigneer, I would like to give you few frank suggestions to make the videos a little more interesting.
General suggestions :
Your weighing scale from the past videos : Your scale is one digit. As you are weighing precious metals, I suggest you to use a scale with three digits. Performance of your process can be calculated more accurately.
Your fume hood : I sincerely feel your fume hood is very congested. There is no argonomics while you are handling beakers. Either it has to be a little bit bigger or think of rearranging in the same space.When you are pouring liquids from one beaker to the other, I get scared that you may spill either on to your hands or your dress.
hello sreetips, i always neutralize the silver nitrate solution with urea before precipitating with copper, is there a problem with that and for the siver cell electrolyte can i also use urea to neutralize it?
that would be a waist of nitric. streetips uses just enough to break down the metals. any solution with free nitric is held for further recovery later. copper can use up small amounts of nitric.
have you ever had any issues with the fumes going thru your vacuum pump?
Every now and then I get a whiff from the vacuum
Where do you get your Nitric from?
Can you reuse the Filters ?
Once the filter papers emptied out of the gray solid, why not incinerating them instead of using chemical to to recover the precious metal? Now more confused, washing them first, then incinerating? Why not directly incinerating them?
My guess is that incineration takes a lot of extra time and effort so instead of doing it everytime he processes filters, he can just recover 99% of the precious metals and just save the mostly clean filters until there's enough to make it worth the time/effort to incinerate.
How much do you pay for your bottles of nitric acid? It cost me roughly $40 per liter of 68-70% nitric.
$300 for six 2.5 liter bottles
@@sreetips would you mind sharing you source where you purchase them for that? That is a great price!
GFS Chemicals
you just cleaned all of them filters why not reuse them for the silver cell rather than burn them
@J Fz But can't he always burn them? Why not reuse them and only burn them when they have become really worn out?
Can you reuse the Dacron filters
They are cut to fit. It would be difficult to reuse them.
Why "Sreetips" ?
Lastimosamente ay muchos video de estos pero no todos sabemos ingles... Que perdida
Tips!
You ever think of simply reusing the filters once they’re clean, rather than burning then and having to constantly replace them?
They are cut to fit
sreetips
Yes, i can see it it might be a little difficult to get the filters placed back in the little plastic container you use for a filter basket. Do to them being trimmed so closely to the lid. If you were to cut them off with a little extra material around the lid it wouldn’t be hard at all to stuff them back in and reuse them. At least that’s the way it seems to me.
Just an idea that could save you a little on purchasing new filters and having to cut them in every time.
I was like, he's being really reckless and moving to fast wtf acid, bro? Then I forgot I had it on 2X speed lololollol
Can't you reuse the filters?
No, they are custom fit into the anode basket. Getting them to fit back in would be impossible.
I don't understand why you're doing this at all. That material has already been through the refining process. You could have melted it into shot again, processed it through the cell, and ended up with a lot less material to melt in nitric to recover the paladium/platinum. It would have used a lot less nitric. I suppose we would have lost out though, as that wouldn't make a good video I guess.
It will make more sense toward the end of the series
@@sreetips I need to make the point that I'm not complaining, I just don't understand 😂
Bigjobs69 the slimes in those filters will contain gold, platinum and palladium. In this series I am going to attempt to recover and refine all those metals
Silver Refining Excellently Explained To Inquisitive PeopleS
involved work. LOL
Hello Sreetips, Now coming to your current video, at 4.00 time, you are dealing with the beaker with blue liquid where silver has been dropping by taking in copper. You could have filtered what ever silver dropped nice and clean and could have added more the copper to drop what ever silver is there in the liquid. Cheap and best.
Yes, I used to do that. The cement silver was very clean almost three nines. But these days I just run everything through the silver cell. It’s the only way to be sure
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