Store your wealth in metals that are increasing in value rather than in paper that is decreasing in value. If you need some paper to buy food or pay rent then sell some of your metal.
Hes said it in the past that he dont do it for profit he does it for the education and yes he does make some money when his wify gos to yard sales and scores an 18k ring for less then scrap value
I thought all the small scraps just get melted all together then tested for carat then refined... I did not realize how meticulous the process was... thanks for another informative video... "
streetips = "I hate* computer scrap" then buys more computer scrap :-D the real gold comes from TH-cam doesn't it?? Very helpful video. I just got my testing solutions in today!
Yes indeed. Computer scrap is very popular due to the undying myth. But I would like to give it one last try with a new and improved method. Amazing what a couple years experience can do for your confidence.
Why would it be bad to melt it all down together? Im mean not to deplate it but if it were solid gold could you just smelt them all together, flux it and get pure gold?
I will ask the following question. Obviously, this is pretty tedious. But before you began classifying these little scraps, I assume you weighed them, all of them together. And let's say you had 25 grams all told, before classifying. Since there will undoubtedly be a karat gold refining in your future where you will have a good weight of karat scrap, would it be that big a deal to just assume that ALL those snippets are 12-13K and dump all of them into your batch of karat scrap (that you do the acid test on) at LEAST 250 grams (10 times as much) and proceed with inquarting normally?
Never if there's no Maker's Mark. In order to be in line with the precious metals act the karat and a trademarked Maker's Mark must both be struck in the same fashion on the metal.
Helpful video. I had been testing some scrap stuff and came across some of the issues that you covered here in this video. It would have been helpful then, but makes for a good reference now. Question - let's say one of those small steel springs slipped through and made it into the refining process. Would the nitric dissolve it or would it have to get filtered out of the batch?
That’s happened. The steel spring has such a high melting point that it usually floats to the top of the molten inquarted gold and stays in the melt dish as the inquarted gold is poured off. If it gets in the nitric boils it usually survives. I’ve seen them get filtered out after dissolving the gold in aqua regia.
I know this is older video but i have to try, what if my test samples acid doesn't instantly disolve sample, but leave ~50% of the mark and suspends the rest of the gold in solution? It will instantly dissolve the samples with higher K acid test solution
Sounds like gold filled. Dip the piece tested, directly into the acid, at the exact place on the piece where you scratched it on the stone. If it bubbles, turns green or any other color, and stinks to high heaven, then you’ll know it’s not solid karat gold.
Thank you for taking the time to respond!!! Your videos are brain food for me! I was operating on the idea that I would damage my items, except if it's fake, who cares if it's damaged. It's eventually all going in the dip anyway to get refined. Thanks again, sir!
You would end up using more reagents and spend more time separating all of the other base metals from the gold, silver & Pt metals. Also it may be difficult to call your final pour 999 Au. It can be observed that streetips uses precise calculations for gold, copper or silver inquartation to minimize the time and effort of separation.
Bridge Rectifier thank you sir. I enjoy the exact quality work he does. I have only used AR to refine computer chips back in the 90s and enjoyed the process. I’ve recently become enamored with Mount Baker Mining Metals here on you tube. They use furnaces and different flux recipes to accomplish the same things. If interested check them out. Thanks for the reply.
About 5% of 925 is not silver at all. Karat scrap is much less, maybe 1% after looking at thousands of pieces I can pretty much spot gold plated stuff with just a glance. But it’s best to test just to make sure
I going to have to write this stuff down. I keep watching videos but it just wont stick in the head. I want to refine my circuit boards eventually. Thanks for sharing
where's part 4 of reverse electroplating, I've been checking regularly thinking I've missed the video, you're going to get an impressive yield from the 3 bins with the process, you can buy battery acid from the auto parts store
@@sreetips thx for the info, recently I bought the battery acid to refill almost dried out batteries if there completely dry they don't come back to life, some say refilling with the acid doesn't work, why is it sold at the auto parts if it doesn't work? maybe it would take a certain percentage ( like reverse electroplating) to hold a better charge after almost drying up. The pcb boards I depopulated I left all the pins on and scraped everything else clean with the intention to dip the entire board to reverse electroplate or dip in bleach and hcl how do you think that would work?
Why pay full spot price for jewely scrap gold? You are taking all your chemistry ,sorting and refining labor for free? Those cash for gold places routinely take retail customers to the cleaners for 10 and 14k material, ie they get robbed. Just curious regarding your viewpoint there. That said I Really do enjoy your work!
I'm surprised you pay spot after taking all that time to type-cast all of it. When you process it, do you charge spot, or do you charge a premium? I am really enjoying these videos! Thank you!
@@sreetips I've only been watching for about a month now, so I was curious as to how or if this hobby pays for itself. I certainly didn't mean to imply you might be doing something wrong. Thanks!
I was thinking he must be a very trusting jeweller to let you take the scrap away and do the type casting yourself, but that explains it. Also I don't know what spot price is, I presume it means market value, if so nobody sells pure gold at market value, there's always a mark up. Market value is probably met at the elite level, when dealing in multiple kilo's I'd imagine.
over 2 grams? I think I found the highest yield processor. have only 1 and it's not a pentium pro. I even have all kinds of gold plated scrap an processors from several PC's If you want to you could refine it but you should have to pay for shipment from Europe and I would still want to have my gold :D. Serious offer. If you want to I can send you a picture from the scrap. I can only estimate that it are about 10 to 15 PC's. Ow and memory not included.
Having watched one other video, I learned that he uses the specific weights of the differing types to determine how much silver to add to the mixture in order to process all of the gold. He uses different formulas for each karat level of gold. This stuff is really cool. I didn't pay attention in chemistry, or I'd be rich right now.
You really shouldn't be paying spot prices for gold scrap. Keep in mind all the time and chemicals you have to use to refine it to 24K. From what I've read most pawn shops only pay up to about 70% spot for carat jewelry. I know they have to make a profit, and i'm sure it changes hands many times before it gets to the refiners. I'm sure you'll get a nice gold refining video out of it though.
Mr Sreetips thank you for the way your video was formated and edited I know its been over a year since video was posted, however; do you have any content that shows how and you purchase the materials you refine or processing? Precious metals, silver, chemicals to refine ect. We are out here learning by your lead. the value of the dollar has plunged and prices of metals is rising.We seek the knowledge you provide . Your skills and opinions are greatly needed
We buy from yard sales, consignment shops, thrift stores, estate sales. Just find out when the sale starts. Get there two hours early to be first in line (or else all the gold gets snapped up ahead of you) learn to spot fake stuff and exclude it. Experience is vital. There’s no substitute for experience. I bought $5k worth of gold today for 80% so I made a thousand bucks. And the sellers were thanking me profusely! People are clueless about gold. They think that paper dollars are more valuable than gold. They’ll sell you their gold for a discount.
I love this type of content for some reason. I could watch him work with scrap jewelry all day and learn something at the same time.
Thats because hes learning as we learn from him
"i just traded fake paper money for real metal" best line ever.
And then he trades .999 fine gold for fake paper money on Ebay. Then the cycle starts all over again.
You all heard it! It's Fake! Counterfeit! No jury would fail to convict! LOL
Store your wealth in metals that are increasing in value rather than in paper that is decreasing in value. If you need some paper to buy food or pay rent then sell some of your metal.
@@cumminonhertits3889 your name doesnt help the fact your already cell-less in the brain
Hes said it in the past that he dont do it for profit he does it for the education and yes he does make some money when his wify gos to yard sales and scores an 18k ring for less then scrap value
Right about that. "Fake paper money for real metal"
Thank you once again a very learning experience watching your videos
Acid testing kit perfect thanks for sharing much appreciated.
This was informative and useful information. Thank you kindly sir!
I thought all the small scraps just get melted all together then tested for carat then refined... I did not realize how meticulous the process was... thanks for another informative video... "
This means a new karat gold refining vid is in the midst :)
Coming soon
Keep them coming brother i still wish you could refine some stuff for me
Give a man a fish, feeds him For a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life.
@@sreetips excited to see the CPU process/yeild
Thanks for this acid test demonstration : )
PENTIUM PROS!! That's a Sweet Teaser!!
Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
More and more useful videos! Unstoppable is master sreetips 👍
This never popped up in my notifications so strange well I got to watch which is the main thing.
click the "bell icon" and make sure "all" is selected
@@themyceliumnetwork i have TH-cam algorithm I think.
great vid... I think it could even be better if you use a stand for close-ups. You know the soddering stands with 2 clips and a magnifying glass?
Ow hi sreetips..you havent heard me a lot but I've been following your work :D
Okay Chief, another lesson learned. 👍👍👍
streetips = "I hate* computer scrap" then buys more computer scrap :-D the real gold comes from TH-cam doesn't it?? Very helpful video. I just got my testing solutions in today!
Yes indeed. Computer scrap is very popular due to the undying myth. But I would like to give it one last try with a new and improved method. Amazing what a couple years experience can do for your confidence.
What does it mean if theres little gold flakes in the nitric acid scratch test???
Why would it be bad to melt it all down together? Im mean not to deplate it but if it were solid gold could you just smelt them all together, flux it and get pure gold?
You could. But refining is all about classification and concentration of values
I will ask the following question. Obviously, this is pretty tedious. But before you began classifying these little scraps, I assume you weighed them, all of them together. And let's say you had 25 grams all told, before classifying. Since there will undoubtedly be a karat gold refining in your future where you will have a good weight of karat scrap, would it be that big a deal to just assume that ALL those snippets are 12-13K and dump all of them into your batch of karat scrap (that you do the acid test on) at LEAST 250 grams (10 times as much) and proceed with inquarting normally?
Yes, that is an option. But I’d rather be precise. It’s the perfectionist in me. It satisfies my ocd and it appeals to my meticulous nature.
Would it be possible to melt it all together then test the content of the combined gold?
How often can u trust the markings on jewelry
Never if there's no Maker's Mark. In order to be in line with the precious metals act the karat and a trademarked Maker's Mark must both be struck in the same fashion on the metal.
Helpful video. I had been testing some scrap stuff and came across some of the issues that you covered here in this video. It would have been helpful then, but makes for a good reference now. Question - let's say one of those small steel springs slipped through and made it into the refining process. Would the nitric dissolve it or would it have to get filtered out of the batch?
That’s happened. The steel spring has such a high melting point that it usually floats to the top of the molten inquarted gold and stays in the melt dish as the inquarted gold is poured off. If it gets in the nitric boils it usually survives. I’ve seen them get filtered out after dissolving the gold in aqua regia.
@@sreetips Thanks. I don't know why, but that's a question that I've been thinking about for a long time.
will you put the rest of the jewellery in the appropriate boxes after you find the K value of those pieces you are testing?
I got it bagged up and ready to refine
I know this is older video but i have to try, what if my test samples acid doesn't instantly disolve sample, but leave ~50% of the mark and suspends the rest of the gold in solution? It will instantly dissolve the samples with higher K acid test solution
Sounds like gold filled. Dip the piece tested, directly into the acid, at the exact place on the piece where you scratched it on the stone. If it bubbles, turns green or any other color, and stinks to high heaven, then you’ll know it’s not solid karat gold.
Thank you for taking the time to respond!!! Your videos are brain food for me! I was operating on the idea that I would damage my items, except if it's fake, who cares if it's damaged. It's eventually all going in the dip anyway to get refined. Thanks again, sir!
melt into a button then test the button?
Do u bring this stuff with you when u go to yard sales
So the 14K acid doesn't disolve 10K gold? It only turns it brown? Also, do you ever use the 10K acid?
Correct
Looks very tedious, but interesting
Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just process it all at the same time. Or melt all fines into a lump and acid test.
You would end up using more reagents and spend more time separating all of the other base metals from the gold, silver & Pt metals. Also it may be difficult to call your final pour 999 Au.
It can be observed that streetips uses precise calculations for gold, copper or silver inquartation to minimize the time and effort of separation.
Bridge Rectifier thank you sir. I enjoy the exact quality work he does. I have only used AR to refine computer chips back in the 90s and enjoyed the process.
I’ve recently become enamored with Mount Baker Mining Metals here on you tube. They use furnaces and different flux recipes to accomplish the same things. If interested check them out. Thanks for the reply.
Two uploads in one day 😍
Working on a third right now
I know, these things take the wind out of my sails for a few days afterward
Where can I buy solid karat gold scrap or damage
شكرا لك ...تحية.......................................................................Thank you Greetings ..........in Arabic
Greetings!
Have you ever tried using the Auracle AGT3? Do you think it's worth the cost?
I’ve never even heard of it.
What is name black stone mr. Sreetips
It came with the gold testing kit.
That's lots of works
That was interesting watching the deal go down. 18:09
how often do you find things marked, 10k or 14k or .925 that isn't?
About 5% of 925 is not silver at all. Karat scrap is much less, maybe 1% after looking at thousands of pieces I can pretty much spot gold plated stuff with just a glance. But it’s best to test just to make sure
Fake money for real metal i like it
An hey man..If you have some extra cash can you build a larger workarea in the fumehood? or place an identical next to it an make a door between? :)
Haha and loved the nitrous injection vehicle :)
I’d love to get a bigger fume hood. It would be like taking a breath of fresh air.
@@sreetips And I think it woudl really make your hobby safer.
I once bought a sapphire ring that was marked 18k. It was actually 10k. Beware buying jewelry in Asia.
I remember having a 14k ring. It got lost to time. ._.
I going to have to write this stuff down. I keep watching videos but it just wont stick in the head. I want to refine my circuit boards eventually. Thanks for sharing
Circuit boards have very little gold, almost nothing
@@sreetips I noticed in part 5 you said they needed to be able to touch the basket. Great series.
Just watched silver crystals now this fascinating stuff I assume this is a hobby or does this sustain you financially?
This is my hobby. But it does produce income
where's part 4 of reverse electroplating, I've been checking regularly thinking I've missed the video, you're going to get an impressive yield from the 3 bins with the process, you can buy battery acid from the auto parts store
Editing part 4 right now
Battery acid is only about 35%. The acid must be up over 90% for it to work. 35% sulfuric would immediately attack and dissolve the copper basket
@@sreetips thx for the info, recently I bought the battery acid to refill almost dried out batteries if there completely dry they don't come back to life, some say refilling with the acid doesn't work, why is it sold at the auto parts if it doesn't work? maybe it would take a certain percentage ( like reverse electroplating) to hold a better charge after almost drying up. The pcb boards I depopulated I left all the pins on and scraped everything else clean with the intention to dip the entire board to reverse electroplate or dip in bleach and hcl how do you think that would work?
Vincent Telfer the acid for the stripping cell is 93% battery acid is only about 35%
@@cumminonhertits3889 what are you trying to say?
What if you came across an 18k piece?
I’d probably just throw it in with the 14k pile
@@sreetips Then, after you differentiate between 14k, 10k, GF, and plated, do you test the 14k for the presence of 18k?
Why pay full spot price for jewely scrap gold? You are taking all your chemistry ,sorting and refining labor for free? Those cash for gold places routinely take retail customers to the cleaners for 10 and 14k material, ie they get robbed. Just curious regarding your viewpoint there. That said I Really do enjoy your work!
I actually paid my friend the jeweler over spot. He is in need. I can afford to do this because my wife buy scrap gold for pennies on the dollar.
What if it’s 18k or 24k?
It gets counted as 14k. Very little 18k and zero 24k. I gave him 100% of spot +
What if it's 18k ?
Some 18k might slip in there, platinum too but very little if any.
It would be much quicker to melt down all pieces into one button and then check carats..
Maybe, but where’s the fun it that!?
I was doing the same thing right now !!
Mister stipeer ciao come capire se oro la striscia con acido deve sparire ho deve rimanere se sparisce e oro si ho no con acido
I'm surprised you pay spot after taking all that time to type-cast all of it. When you process it, do you charge spot, or do you charge a premium? I am really enjoying these videos! Thank you!
The jeweler is my friend and part-time boss/mentor. I paid him 100% of spot because he has helped me many times
@@sreetips I've only been watching for about a month now, so I was curious as to how or if this hobby pays for itself. I certainly didn't mean to imply you might be doing something wrong. Thanks!
I was thinking he must be a very trusting jeweller to let you take the scrap away and do the type casting yourself, but that explains it. Also I don't know what spot price is, I presume it means market value, if so nobody sells pure gold at market value, there's always a mark up. Market value is probably met at the elite level, when dealing in multiple kilo's I'd imagine.
1.2g from the PP ceramic cpu's
That’s what I’m expecting. About 0.3g per cpu
@@sreetips 0.33
over 2 grams? I think I found the highest yield processor. have only 1 and it's not a pentium pro. I even have all kinds of gold plated scrap an processors from several PC's If you want to you could refine it but you should have to pay for shipment from Europe and I would still want to have my gold :D. Serious offer. If you want to I can send you a picture from the scrap. I can only estimate that it are about 10 to 15 PC's. Ow and memory not included.
Sorry, I only refine stuff that my wife and I find locally.
melt all together,then test
Having watched one other video, I learned that he uses the specific weights of the differing types to determine how much silver to add to the mixture in order to process all of the gold. He uses different formulas for each karat level of gold. This stuff is really cool. I didn't pay attention in chemistry, or I'd be rich right now.
@Mike Bourret how do you determine the karat value of the melt?
That’s an option, but I prefer to be precise, it appeals to my meticulous nature
4 pentium pros should produce 2g of gold
You really shouldn't be paying spot prices for gold scrap. Keep in mind all the time and chemicals you have to use to refine it to 24K. From what I've read most pawn shops only pay up to about 70% spot for carat jewelry. I know they have to make a profit, and i'm sure it changes hands many times before it gets to the refiners. I'm sure you'll get a nice gold refining video out of it though.
Well, he’s a friend. And that gold will most likely be worth more than I paid for it when I get around to refining it.
I'll be honest. This is about as boring as it gets. Love your content but this could be condensed into another video...
Mr Sreetips thank you for the way your video was formated and edited I know its been over a year since video was posted, however; do you have any content that shows how and you purchase the materials you refine or processing? Precious metals, silver, chemicals to refine ect. We are out here learning by your lead. the value of the dollar has plunged and prices of metals is rising.We seek the knowledge you provide . Your skills and opinions are greatly needed
We buy from yard sales, consignment shops, thrift stores, estate sales. Just find out when the sale starts. Get there two hours early to be first in line (or else all the gold gets snapped up ahead of you) learn to spot fake stuff and exclude it. Experience is vital. There’s no substitute for experience. I bought $5k worth of gold today for 80% so I made a thousand bucks. And the sellers were thanking me profusely! People are clueless about gold. They think that paper dollars are more valuable than gold. They’ll sell you their gold for a discount.