Indeed...learning is priceless, learning through experience even more so because we learn much more from mistakes, experimentation and the exhilaration of success. Whatever they say, you've taught me more than them!!! I'm a backyard experimenter, I dream of a set-up like yours.
@@ezekiel8630 don't worry I type screetips instead of sreetips all the time. No consonant before the r throws a lot of people off, we naturally want to add one. He knows who we're talking to and knows we like him enough to stick around and comment constructively.
I have commented before about how good of a view you give in your videos. It never dawned to me the danger you put yourself in just for us. I thank you very much
Love it, Keep'em coming ! Thanks for the PSA, pointing out the proper way of transferring materials from one vessel to another vs technique used for entertainment view. Your lesson are truly valued. Stay safe, you are an inspiration to so many.
I hope that the people that are commenting about the way you pour toward you, for us the viewers benefit are saying things like I hope you stay safe while you take those risk and not give you a hard time and try to make you feel bad or whatever for doing it!! Thanks for another GREAT VIDEO in this EPIC series!! Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
I have no education on how to do any of this and it's the coolest thing I have ever seen. You're like a modern day alchemist creating Gold, Silver and Platinum out of water it's crazy! (I realize it's not water but you get the idea lol) I am so glad I stumbled across your channel I love watching you work! Keep on doing it, I love learning the science behind it all :)
Hey Sreetips, it's your party so if the complainers don't like it then they can move on. I personally totally enjoy your videos. Your like a mad scientist and that is fine by me. Again I want to thank you👍👍👍
Have you thought of making an electrolytic cell for copper? Get the copper out of solution then refine the slimes? Saves a little acid, you could use the copper to cement sliver, you and us would learn something new and would make an interesting series of videos. just like this series!!!
I can only imagine how much work goes into making videos but would you consider doing more of the multi episode series again. I really like following along. Thanks for sharing sir.
As far as your personal safety is concerned, I think it is best to do what you are comfortable with as long as you are aware & alert to the potential hazards. In my experience, accidents are somewhat more likely to occur when people are forced to change their habit. That said, I would hate for you to become injured in any case -- you seem to be a good guy -- & these videos are quite fun to watch.
I've watched quite a few of your videos and I really wish I'd payed closer attention in chemistry class ! Also , it looks like you have a glassware collection that would make Heisenberg jealous .
Acid to water - good rule of thumb. After a decade I’ve learned which acids behave when you pour in water - hydrochloric, almost no reaction. Nitric, a little heat is generated. Sulfuric, is dangerous. I never pour towards myself unless I’m making a video. It’s for the viewing pleasure of you, the viewer.
Thank you Mr treetops for all these in-depth detail videos you are putting together for us. Really appreciated indeed. My H2SO4 Ag experiment was a total failure. On any tentative I could precipitate Silver Sulfate, either using salt or HCL. Anyways, I had all this waste solution. In stock pot bucks with Cu coils. Did not need much to drop Silver. I had the waste from the other two parallel experiments where I was extracting Ag foils from a few pounds I have, one using only HCL, and the other HCL ÷ H2O2. At least from the silver plated I am r recovering about 90% of the foil (visual approximation). One funny bit to close: from the H2SO4, I got 3 pure Silver beads, under 1 mm each 😀
@Power 2 Weight I was wondering - are you in a position to do the experiments to find out what makes those colours form ? If so, please do. I'd be really interested in the results. If not, i can do them and see if you were right all along.
@Power 2 Weight All you express are emotions. Zero information useful to others. Yes, i am a pedantic drunken asshole. The only useful takeaway from internet media is re-useable information, such as an answer to "what caused those colours with stannous chloride". How much you hate me and like to say 'fuck' for not agreeing with you is not useful.
@Power 2 Weight Ah well. Such is life. I'm an asshole and you're Awesome. If only i had known earlier i could have worshipped at your chapel and been less ass-holy.
hello sreetips. i am a big fan. love what you are doing and have been watching you do your thing and you are doing an awesome job. you are full of useful information and tackle jobs that most wont and you do it with out cutting corners. keep up the great work. i look forward to every video you put out there. by the way im not trying to be disrespectful in any way when i say this but i heard you use the term speeded up several times i believe the proper term is sped up.
Cody'sLab did a series about seven years about the reactions you get by adding acid to water VS water to acid. It seemed like the key to getting a reaction was super heating the acid over the boiling point of water. Water alone can't get above 100c so this limits the strength of the reaction (unless you are pouring in boiling acid). Like many an adage it seems like this leaves out the most important details! The important factor is the temperature of the liquids involved instead of the order of operations. Unrelated to the above, can you set up a Patreon account?
I'm already over exposed with accounts every where. I did add some sulfuric to a very little bit water one time and it reacted violently and spattered hot acid.
Your awesome sreetips, I'm learning so much from your videos. Please keep up the great work. Would love to see more gold recovery videos. Stay safe and rock on!! Ps I wish guys like you had so many more subscribers so you could invest more time and money Into your videos
Good choice to continue dissolving the last of the metal. I'm not convinced it's just left over silver shot. Seems to be very hard to dissolve in dilute hot nitric. My guess is that it's a silver alloy with some PGMs. And the black powder is likely some PGM oxides. You're going to run into some interesting chemistry trying to separate anything other than the Palladium. Speaking of which, how are you going to test the purity of the Palladium DMG? There's bound to be more than just Palladium in that precipitate.
Yeah that's a boat load of silver and I'm excited to how much palladium and silver come out of these; it looks like a good amount for you! Christmas is coming early to sreetips :) I was wondering I remember seeing you say that you had to use a horrible upload rate on cable, do you guys have internet available to you that like your daughters that uploads in like 35 minutes? I was curious if it was a funds issue, I'm thinking me and a few others would try to help you out in the next couple weeks to get you the better cable if it's available to you. I know I'd like to help but needing to wait till my payday deposit comes in. Love you and your content I think its just fabulous stuff. Also Sreetips don't let anyone get on your nerves about how you do things; if you done everything perfect they would still complain about it. I've been watching your videos a very long time now and your channel is growing by leaps and bounds; you totally deserve it for the massive amount of work you do to produce them and also just the cost of the chemicals and glassware is astounding all by themselves. So keep your chin up and ignore the guys/gals that woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Like you said you're doing this as a hobby; not as a professional. GOD Bless you and your family!
You have probably been asked this question a hundred times, but where do you get your acids from? Looking for the best possible price, and you have probably found it. Also, great job doing what you do! I watch your stuff all the time!
You talked briefly about all the criticism you get for some of your practices, but I really only have one. All those fumes are eventually gonna corrode the internals on that nice watch of yours lol
Great job Sreetips 👍 It looks like you're going to recover a significant amount of Pd. Can't wait to see how much... Do you know how much silver went through your anode filters?
I most likely am wrong but shouldn't you filter before going to bucket with the steel there looks like film of silver particulate floating on top so there might be some floating around the hole solution it might be a waste of time for a small amount love the vids thank you for making them
Sreetips... Immediately stop using iron to cement your copper from nitric salts and watch one of the newer videos from NurdRage. He shows how to reclaim the copper as pure metal, and the pure nitric that you started with. This uses sulfuric acid, which you can make from root killer, and you get pure sulfuric back in the end. This is an extremely efficient process loop, but you will need to get yourself a distillation kit, with a laboratory-type heat mantle, or built a Bunsen burner (you need to get sulfuric acid over 640F to distill it).
Buck, I’m so far behind on refining the precious metals that I have. I simply don’t have the time to devote to copper reclaiming. I can buy clean copper easily. It’s readily available and cheap. I’ve got two cases, six bottles each, of nitric acid. That should last me over a year. I can’t keep up with the gold and silver that my wife finds!
@@sreetips Well, holy crap! Perhaps you can do a video on how to get nitric for under $50/quart. Every time I see you add the stuff, I get heart palpitations.
Buck, I’ve never done it, but you can make nitric with over-the-counter chemicals. Check out “Philip Bender” on TH-cam. He has the best video that I’ve seen on how to make nitric acid - but it don’t look easy.
@@sreetips I'll check that out. Thanks for the [sree]tip! The chemical method I tried before didn't turn out well, and the "...out of thin air" method is slow. It's one of those things that you just kinda run all the time for a slow trickle of the stuff. It goes well with the sulfuric reclamation method I previously mentioned, since it's all pace-matched to the scale.
So, do you use any instruments to test your metals/solids/solutions (FT-IR, UV-vis, ICP, etc), or do you only do Stannous Chloride indicator type tests?
Hi Sreetips, I have a question. Being that you are working with the silver from the silver cell, how did gold & PGMs get in there, Do you have any videos on the channel explaining how this happens? Thanks.
The silver he refines is from various sources that is mostly 92.5 sterling so that being said you never know what other types of metal were in that stuff from the start these metals always carry over in some form or another that is the point of the silver cell this video series is from many rounds of processing baskets filters this is why the yield is high
Some semi noble PMGs will only dissolve in a chlorine solution. So they will follow the gold. They will no t dissolve in most acids. Edit not all PMGs will go into aqua regia .
A matter of convenience. I added powder the first time. But a spent some time off camera breaking the lumps apart. So for the second addition I boiled on hot water so I could break the chunks easier. DMG doesn’t dissolve very well in water
So why do you cement the silver onto the copper, and then the copper onto the iron? Can't you just cement the silver onto the iron and skip the copper step entirely?
Its about selectively cementing metals individually. If he were to skip the copper then everything would cement out together and he would have to start all over again .when he uses the iron it serves 2 purposes first It ce ments out any precious metals he may have missed for what ever reason and the second it makes his waste fluids safer copper is not good for the environment where as iron is so disposal is much easier and cheaper
Joshua Snyder thank you sir, I’ve had something that looked like Pyrex shatter to pieces on my when I used it on my hot plate. Was more than likely some off brand junk but I’ve never the less been weary ever since
@@b3atdown69 Yep. Just always make sure it is borosilicate glass. You don't have to spend a lot on it, but the cheaper, the more questionable it is, as to whether or not it is real. Used Pyrex, Corning or Anchor brand at thrift stores, or garage sales is great.
All I'd ask is you take some of them into consideration I wouldn't like to dip the arm pit of my shirt in platnum group salt's without knowing it ! And I don't think you would like it either .be careful as I have heard others say my friend .
Sreetips you are the gold standard of youtube refining vids
You're doing fine Streetips. Don't let the nit pickers get you down. Your content is genuinely enjoyable and relaxing. Keep your chin up!
*Sreetips* (sorry)
Indeed...learning is priceless, learning through experience even more so because we learn much more from mistakes, experimentation and the exhilaration of success. Whatever they say, you've taught me more than them!!! I'm a backyard experimenter, I dream of a set-up like yours.
@@ezekiel8630 don't worry I type screetips instead of sreetips all the time. No consonant before the r throws a lot of people off, we naturally want to add one. He knows who we're talking to and knows we like him enough to stick around and comment constructively.
I have commented before about how good of a view you give in your videos. It never dawned to me the danger you put yourself in just for us. I thank you very much
this is one of the handful of channels that is keeping me sane during lockdown.
Love it, Keep'em coming ! Thanks for the PSA, pointing out the proper way of transferring materials from one vessel to another vs technique used for entertainment view. Your lesson are truly valued. Stay safe, you are an inspiration to so many.
I hope that the people that are commenting about the way you pour toward you, for us the viewers benefit are saying things like I hope you stay safe while you take those risk and not give you a hard time and try to make you feel bad or whatever for doing it!!
Thanks for another GREAT VIDEO in this EPIC series!!
Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
Always enjoy your videos.
I have no education on how to do any of this and it's the coolest thing I have ever seen. You're like a modern day alchemist creating Gold, Silver and Platinum out of water it's crazy! (I realize it's not water but you get the idea lol) I am so glad I stumbled across your channel I love watching you work! Keep on doing it, I love learning the science behind it all :)
Glad you like. I’ll have some new videos out soon. Thank you
This is better than Netflix.
Hey Sreetips, it's your party so if the complainers don't like it then they can move on. I personally totally enjoy your videos. Your like a mad scientist and that is fine by me. Again I want to thank you👍👍👍
Great stuff it is getting more and more complicated I bet some times you struggle to keep track of ss many different processes great Vlog thanks
Science has always stumped me. I think you should have been a teacher for a small class💙 ive actually learned a bit from you!
Have you thought of making an electrolytic cell for copper? Get the copper out of solution then refine the slimes? Saves a little acid, you could use the copper to cement sliver, you and us would learn something new and would make an interesting series of videos. just like this series!!!
deffo better than making the same videos 6 times over
I can only imagine how much work goes into making videos but would you consider doing more of the multi episode series again. I really like following along. Thanks for sharing sir.
As far as your personal safety is concerned, I think it is best to do what you are comfortable with as long as you are aware & alert to the potential hazards. In my experience, accidents are somewhat more likely to occur when people are forced to change their habit. That said, I would hate for you to become injured in any case -- you seem to be a good guy -- & these videos are quite fun to watch.
Getting close can hardly wait to see how much silver you get : )
To heck with the silver. That's just leftovers. The money's in the Platinum & Palladium.
@@guygordon2780 true but I just love SILVER .
Thank you so much for the entertainment, Sreetips (a French fan)
Don’t let the trolls bother you. It’s just jealously. Keep up the great work. I always look forward to your videos
I've watched quite a few of your videos and I really wish I'd payed closer attention in chemistry class ! Also , it looks like you have a glassware collection that would make Heisenberg jealous .
learning lots from you....
"I pour water into acid. I pour acid towards myself."
You're a wild man!!!
Acid to water - good rule of thumb. After a decade I’ve learned which acids behave when you pour in water - hydrochloric, almost no reaction. Nitric, a little heat is generated. Sulfuric, is dangerous. I never pour towards myself unless I’m making a video. It’s for the viewing pleasure of you, the viewer.
Thank you Mr treetops for all these in-depth detail videos you are putting together for us. Really appreciated indeed. My H2SO4 Ag experiment was a total failure. On any tentative I could precipitate Silver Sulfate, either using salt or HCL. Anyways, I had all this waste solution. In stock pot bucks with Cu coils. Did not need much to drop Silver. I had the waste from the other two parallel experiments where I was extracting Ag foils from a few pounds I have, one using only HCL, and the other HCL ÷ H2O2. At least from the silver plated I am r recovering about 90% of the foil (visual approximation).
One funny bit to close: from the H2SO4, I got 3 pure Silver beads, under 1 mm each 😀
Great video - you just get better and better !
This series is really 'gripping'. The sense of enjoyment/excitement really comes over.
Lovin' it :)
@Power 2 Weight I was wondering - are you in a position to do the experiments to find out what makes those colours form ?
If so, please do. I'd be really interested in the results. If not, i can do them and see if you were right all along.
@Power 2 Weight Emotions do not matter at all. I will do the experiments and share the results with everyone, including you.
@Power 2 Weight All you express are emotions. Zero information useful to others. Yes, i am a pedantic drunken asshole. The only useful takeaway from internet media is re-useable information, such as an answer to "what caused those colours with stannous chloride".
How much you hate me and like to say 'fuck' for not agreeing with you is not useful.
@Power 2 Weight Ah well. Such is life.
I'm an asshole and you're Awesome.
If only i had known earlier i could have worshipped at your chapel and been less ass-holy.
I also would like to say; Well done, Sir.
very thorough and systematic with your testings
Looks like you're going to have a pretty good yield on that silver - very interested to see the final result.
hello sreetips. i am a big fan. love what you are doing and have been watching you do your thing and you are doing an awesome job. you are full of useful information and tackle jobs that most wont and you do it with out cutting corners. keep up the great work. i look forward to every video you put out there. by the way im not trying to be disrespectful in any way when i say this but i heard you use the term speeded up several times i believe the proper term is sped up.
Thank you, love you videos
Cody'sLab did a series about seven years about the reactions you get by adding acid to water VS water to acid. It seemed like the key to getting a reaction was super heating the acid over the boiling point of water. Water alone can't get above 100c so this limits the strength of the reaction (unless you are pouring in boiling acid). Like many an adage it seems like this leaves out the most important details! The important factor is the temperature of the liquids involved instead of the order of operations.
Unrelated to the above, can you set up a Patreon account?
I'm already over exposed with accounts every where. I did add some sulfuric to a very little bit water one time and it reacted violently and spattered hot acid.
The silver yield.......WOW!
Also, if you could a video on reverse electroplating that would be awesome!
Your awesome sreetips, I'm learning so much from your videos. Please keep up the great work. Would love to see more gold recovery videos. Stay safe and rock on!! Ps I wish guys like you had so many more subscribers so you could invest more time and money Into your videos
Thank you, editing part 6 right now. But with slow upload speed it won’t be posted until about 3am. Thank you for your kindness!
@@sreetips stay safe pal and thanks for the great hours or entertainment and learning
You're like the Walter White of gold
Good choice to continue dissolving the last of the metal. I'm not convinced it's just left over silver shot. Seems to be very hard to dissolve in dilute hot nitric. My guess is that it's a silver alloy with some PGMs. And the black powder is likely some PGM oxides. You're going to run into some interesting chemistry trying to separate anything other than the Palladium.
Speaking of which, how are you going to test the purity of the Palladium DMG? There's bound to be more than just Palladium in that precipitate.
DMG will drop platinum. And gold as well as palladium.
Yeah that's a boat load of silver and I'm excited to how much palladium and silver come out of these; it looks like a good amount for you! Christmas is coming early to sreetips :) I was wondering I remember seeing you say that you had to use a horrible upload rate on cable, do you guys have internet available to you that like your daughters that uploads in like 35 minutes? I was curious if it was a funds issue, I'm thinking me and a few others would try to help you out in the next couple weeks to get you the better cable if it's available to you. I know I'd like to help but needing to wait till my payday deposit comes in. Love you and your content I think its just fabulous stuff. Also Sreetips don't let anyone get on your nerves about how you do things; if you done everything perfect they would still complain about it. I've been watching your videos a very long time now and your channel is growing by leaps and bounds; you totally deserve it for the massive amount of work you do to produce them and also just the cost of the chemicals and glassware is astounding all by themselves. So keep your chin up and ignore the guys/gals that woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Like you said you're doing this as a hobby; not as a professional. GOD Bless you and your family!
Sreetips... 4 9's fine.
You have probably been asked this question a hundred times, but where do you get your acids from? Looking for the best possible price, and you have probably found it. Also, great job doing what you do! I watch your stuff all the time!
You talked briefly about all the criticism you get for some of your practices, but I really only have one. All those fumes are eventually gonna corrode the internals on that nice watch of yours lol
Great job Sreetips 👍 It looks like you're going to recover a significant amount of Pd. Can't wait to see how much... Do you know how much silver went through your anode filters?
I most likely am wrong but shouldn't you filter before going to bucket with the steel there looks like film of silver particulate floating on top so there might be some floating around the hole solution it might be a waste of time for a small amount love the vids thank you for making them
Sreetips... Immediately stop using iron to cement your copper from nitric salts and watch one of the newer videos from NurdRage. He shows how to reclaim the copper as pure metal, and the pure nitric that you started with. This uses sulfuric acid, which you can make from root killer, and you get pure sulfuric back in the end. This is an extremely efficient process loop, but you will need to get yourself a distillation kit, with a laboratory-type heat mantle, or built a Bunsen burner (you need to get sulfuric acid over 640F to distill it).
Buck, I’m so far behind on refining the precious metals that I have. I simply don’t have the time to devote to copper reclaiming. I can buy clean copper easily. It’s readily available and cheap. I’ve got two cases, six bottles each, of nitric acid. That should last me over a year. I can’t keep up with the gold and silver that my wife finds!
@@sreetips Well, holy crap! Perhaps you can do a video on how to get nitric for under $50/quart. Every time I see you add the stuff, I get heart palpitations.
Buck, I’ve never done it, but you can make nitric with over-the-counter chemicals. Check out “Philip Bender” on TH-cam. He has the best video that I’ve seen on how to make nitric acid - but it don’t look easy.
@@sreetips I'll check that out. Thanks for the [sree]tip! The chemical method I tried before didn't turn out well, and the "...out of thin air" method is slow. It's one of those things that you just kinda run all the time for a slow trickle of the stuff. It goes well with the sulfuric reclamation method I previously mentioned, since it's all pace-matched to the scale.
So, do you use any instruments to test your metals/solids/solutions (FT-IR, UV-vis, ICP, etc), or do you only do Stannous Chloride indicator type tests?
Just like we all have told our kids do as I say not as I do
Hi Sreetips, I have a question. Being that you are working with the silver from the silver cell, how did gold & PGMs get in there, Do you have any videos on the channel explaining how this happens? Thanks.
The silver he refines is from various sources that is mostly 92.5 sterling so that being said you never know what other types of metal were in that stuff from the start these metals always carry over in some form or another that is the point of the silver cell this video series is from many rounds of processing baskets filters this is why the yield is high
@@jasong8377 Thank you for the answer.
Sterling silver is a carrier of gold and platinum group metals. Especially older pieces.
Would vinegar do better for disolving the dmg and not influence the process? Just curious.
Some semi noble PMGs will only dissolve in a chlorine solution. So they will follow the gold. They will no t dissolve in most acids.
Edit not all PMGs will go into aqua regia .
Yaay first !🤪
7th? lol, love these vids.
Why do you sometimes make a DMG solution first, where other times you add the DMG powder directly?
A matter of convenience. I added powder the first time. But a spent some time off camera breaking the lumps apart. So for the second addition I boiled on hot water so I could break the chunks easier. DMG doesn’t dissolve very well in water
@@sreetips Yeah, it is a pain that way. Plus, the smell (which reminds me of ranch dressing powder) gives me a headache.
It does have a weird odor.
Sreetips,(kadiver) we want to see a big brick of gold you melt!
since u already have the paladium precipitated out , cant you just melt it now . why do you need to redisolve it in AR
My guess is because he love, love, LOVES to see that bright yellow precipitate come out when he drops the DMG in it. I do too!
There’s platinum in that yellow precipitate
So why do you cement the silver onto the copper, and then the copper onto the iron? Can't you just cement the silver onto the iron and skip the copper step entirely?
Its about selectively cementing metals individually. If he were to skip the copper then everything would cement out together and he would have to start all over again .when he uses the iron it serves 2 purposes first It ce ments out any precious metals he may have missed for what ever reason and the second it makes his waste fluids safer copper is not good for the environment where as iron is so disposal is much easier and cheaper
Iron will cement nickel, lead, tin. Copper won’t.
What are the pans you set the beakers in while they are on heat and where could I get some? Everything I use seems to hate heat lol
Corning ware that I bought at yard sales
Thank you sir, you think the ones on eBay would work too? I mean, they are the same I would assume.
@@b3atdown69 Corning wear or Pyrex from Walmart, Target, thrift stores, etc are all just fine.
Joshua Snyder thank you sir, I’ve had something that looked like Pyrex shatter to pieces on my when I used it on my hot plate. Was more than likely some off brand junk but I’ve never the less been weary ever since
@@b3atdown69 Yep. Just always make sure it is borosilicate glass. You don't have to spend a lot on it, but the cheaper, the more questionable it is, as to whether or not it is real. Used Pyrex, Corning or Anchor brand at thrift stores, or garage sales is great.
how mach silver do think you recover from everthing?
You'll see in part six my estimate.
All I'd ask is you take some of them into consideration I wouldn't like to dip the arm pit of my shirt in platnum group salt's without knowing it !
And I don't think you would like it either .be careful as I have heard others say my friend .
silver recovery from contacts please sir
vomit warning for those eating while watching
destructive ionization distillation for metals, you should get pure metals out of any material
Imagine not getting revenue from TH-cam and doing this...............
I’d still be doing it.