Sreetips: you want to Borax glaze season all your new crucibles and molds , this will seal them from the crude and scale. Also go to the gas grill store and get you a electric spark igniter and grill spark tips , you can then safely lite the furnace . You also need a horizontal pour crucible piliers , that way extract the crucible onto the fire brick pavers... cut off the furnace...then make your pour safely. Put a metal top on your furnace with a long handle attached so you can safely remove & replace it. Get yourself a 3ft. long / 2" i.d. stainless steel pipe and weld a funnel at top , that way you can add silver crystals into the crucible from the hole in top of furnace while it is in process.
Good ideas, the lid seemed to work okay but I agree with the glazing, that could help with the dirt from the crucible. I think he needed a big pair of channel locks to grab the mold to flip it in the water too, not using whatever it was they he had
Yeah it would be really nice to be able to add the silver without having to take the lid off. I felt like there would be a small chance of a steam explosion from adding the silver.
You cant just drop the crucible into the pot. The tongs are vertical so that he can gently place the crucible at the bottom of the pot. If you tried with horizontal tongs, the side of the pot would get in the way and you'd have to drop it in. Also, how would one go about getting the hot crucible out with horizontal tongs?
Now that you're a metal melting youtuber when's the collab with bigstackd! I'm kidding mostly, but if anyone could point you in the right direction for metal casting he could.
After the repour (Mrs sreetips ordered me) then I’ll probably never do this again. Did it to complete my home-made furnace build. Best to leave pouring big bars to big stack like everyone says.
Great video! Maybe pour a concrete pad somewhere away from the deck for future melts. A bad spill could burn your whole show down, and put some cardboard under the crucible so that it doesn’t stick. Looking forward to a 5 kg melt soon!
Wooooooooow! SPECTACULAR! So cool. Hope I can one day see your stack of silver bricks. I cant even dream what's your poured silver stack today, but surely with the bricks will be one of the wonders of the world. Also, you can use a hand drill with a brush to clean that bar. For reference I recommend Mr @bigstckd channel for expert level cleaning and polishment, but with one brush in the drill you can make it awesome. Beautiful bar.
@@timtom9450 He's far out man. I used his prescription to treat small bars Inpour. If it came out nice for me, imagine having one of his in yoir hands. Incredible.
Sharing your fails and your successes is why we love watching you! I've never refined metals and may never but I am so intrigued by the process and your videos! Don't be discouraged! Thank you for doing what you do!
Awesome man that's a gnarly bar. Haha my first melt last winter.. I dropped the bar after melting my glove, and lit the old wooden shop floor on fire. Was a good time haha. I'm stoked you always leave the mishaps in though so we can learn from them, thanks a ton for the knowledge and entertainment!! Killer bar stoked for future melts/refines, cheers man.
I was unlucky..my tlf went in the floor. My sweet wife have order a new on. Hope the phone come in a day, maybee two😊 God bless you both Mrs and Mr sreetips. The bar is stunning sir🎉 Arne
Good job brother! Practice makes perfect! Pouring tongs would help with pouring just pulling out of the furnace sit it in a brick and quickly swap tongs. Big channel locks will help lifting that hot mold as well just be careful. You got this brother! Keep up the awesome work!! 🤜🏻🤛🏻
I think that was an excellent first bar honestly! I love watching smelting videos (shout out to BigStackD and ArtByAdRock), so I guess I'm an expert at watching videos LOL! The tricks that might make sense include adding a bit of flux (borax) and skimming off slag before the pour. I don't think you should shy away from a little buffing and polishing when you're done (I know you don't want to lose precious metal). You might also want to work on a concrete surface rather than a wooden one and have an extra fire brick to move the molten silver containing crucible to before skimming and then switching to horizontal tongs. Also, definitely find a nice pair of tongs you can use to flip the hot bar out of the mold and into the cold water 😉
Very good first try. Also don't forget to level the mold, you probably noticed the little inclination resulting in the bar a little taller on one side.
I like to see that you actually take the advices given in teh comments seriously. Putting an angle to the inlet of the furnace so that you dont not fire at the crucible directly is the right thing to do.
i have watched your posts many times i am retired would you sell me a list of basic lab equipment 40 years ago i was pouring lead weights for divers please tell me how much it costs thank you much jim
Jim, I’ve included as much detail as possible in my videos. Please watch them and take notes. I try to answer all questions in the comments of each video.
Just a note: BigStackD has plenty of melt videos to give you a better idea on melting addind metal and extracting the metal from the mold before cooling. th-cam.com/users/bigstackDvideos
I harvested my silver cell this evening. I to had cauliflower like silver crystals. It's a brand new set up so I'm guessing my small copper clips are not allowing the set 3.5V to be achieved. Causing my resistance issues. Learning !!!
You did well for the first time. A good tip is to put a piece of cardboard at the bottom of the furnace and then put the crucible on top. It prevents the crucible from getting stuck and causing problems down the line. The carboard will char in the process and won't let the slaggy bits stick to the crucible anytime.
Awesome video as per usual! Ever thought of taking a wire wheel to the bar and maybe sanding and buffing down to a mirror finish. I would suggest doing it in an enclosed space as to gather up all the left over silver dust. I think that would make for a spectacular silver bar. Just a thought.
Don't put yourself down Mr. Sreetips, your doing a fine job with equipment you have 👍 But if you would like You can watch BigstackD casting, He tends just to do Scrap metals (Trash to Treasure) but he can give you an understanding of the pouring action and the crucible tongs. You don't have have to if you don't want to. Keep up the good work and I will see you in the next video ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I've never experienced the handling of molten metal, so I'm not pretending to be the expert here. But, I'd be a wee bit wary of pouring molten precious metals over a wooden deck. The fire from a spill accident would be bad enough. The precious metals running through the gaps in the deck would be enough to make a grown man cry.
Once my old crucible made a puncture in the bottom and spilled the molten silver in the floor ; but luckily the floor was covered with sand and only I had to wait as the silver cooled down => no loss
HEY KEVIN, THIS IS BARB, HOW ARE YOU DOING, GREAT I HOPE! I LOVEEE YOUR TH-cam CHANNEL! I AM HOOKED I CAN'T STOP BINGE WATCHING ALLLLL YOUR VIDEO'S! I CAN'T BELIEVE I'VE KNOWN AND BEEN AROUND YOU FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS BUT I HAD NOOO IDEA YOU DO THE WORK THAT YOU DO IN THESE VIDEO'S! YOU ARE MY NEW IDOL SERIOUSLY KEVIN! I WANT TO DO WHAT YOU DO NOW!
You know you’ve reached a new level when you pour a 2kg pure silver . Rookie mistakes , I have been there. What a beautiful sight. Not much like it in the world. Kudos man
You should be able to skim off that black stuff with a stainless spoon while its still molten in the crucible. Let the spoon heat up a bit first, it helps with it not sticking to it as much. At least it does for aluminum and copper. If i stick a cold spoon and try and skim the slag, I get a metal coated spoon, but if its hot, tap it on a hard surface and it comes off. You could then easily run it back thru your silver cell, or save it, and remelt all your slag, skim off the junk and have another nice bar. Most impurities and junk floats on molten metal, which makes it handy for skimming off the top.
The trick to not getting any of that crud on the top of the bar is to leave some silver in the crucible. The last of the melted silver is where the crud comes from. Also, use a level bar to level the mold. Heat the mold prior and during the pour.
Love the videos! That unsealed fibre blanket is dangerous, airborne fibres when running the furnace. It's best to seal the blanket with some ITC100, better yet, make a fire brick furnace and wrap it with the ceramic blanket.
What you need for easier and more safe metal melting is a Devil Forge. It is relatively cheap and very robust! It'll make your life a whole lot easier!
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This is one of my favorite episodes by far. I thought that cooling the ingot in ice would ruin the integrity of the metal. Looks like I’m up to do some research.
I have a suggestion. I've been a machinist most of my adult life. On these bars that you pour, I would intentionally pour them oversize. I would then machine all 6-sides square on a mill using a vacuum line near where the cutter is touching the material so that the chips can be recycled into the next bar. The bars will look beautiful when done. A CNC machine can also do some pretty bad-ass engraving of your name and maybe you can add a logo of whatever you want it to be. This logo could even be you in your lab coat. While we care mostly about weight and purity, people will certainly pay a premium for something worthy to set out in a display case. The limits will be your imagination. You could also completely 3D machine the entire top surface similar to these high relief coins out there. While I work for a medical device and implant company and we don't take jobs from average Joe's, I'm sure there is a machine shop 'job shop" in your area. I'll try to find a video or two for you to reference. Love your videos.
You're welcome. For no more than you do, you could start with something like this. www.ebay.com/itm/3-Cross-Slide-Vise-Drill-Press-Heavy-Duty-Metal-Milling-2-Way-X-Y-Clamp-Vice-/351719842586?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286 bolted to a drill press with an endmill in the drill chuck. A little primitive, but would get the job done for a few proto-types to learn how much oversize the pours need to be. You could also use a router table with a small flat bit (no more than 1/4"). You'll just have to make a new base plate with a through hole just big enough for the bit since you will be holding such little pieces that you don't want to go into the typical 1-3/4" holes that most router tables come with.
Or if you want to spend $175 and say a few swear words while you are putting it together and learning it. You have this option. www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Machine-Extension-Engraving-Machine%EF%BC%88240x180mm%EF%BC%89/dp/B084265V72/ref=sr_1_25?dchild=1&keywords=mini%2Brouter%2Btable&qid=1621643752&sr=8-25&th=1 Not sure how it would do manually. You'd have to make a straight edge fence for manual use. I'd probably just get a tiny vice to hold the material. Chip collection system is key. But if you got this all figured out, which I am sure you can, you can start creating some real work of arts.
And I am jumping way ahead here, but once machining is done, you can use diamond compound on a lapping block and your products will be mirror finish. This is the best video I can find at the moment. You certainly won't need a lapping block so large. th-cam.com/video/ATG_UYYfx7w/w-d-xo.html
Hello Mr sreetips. Man...that bar was simply stunnig great. 200tr.oz.? wov. Must be fun sir to make bar that heavy😊. I take it every time😂. God bless both of you, and have a nice weekend. Arne
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. Your silver bars is stunning😊 Nice,and fluffy. Your name ,and the sreetips is recommended offen on many canals 🎉 Have a nice day. Arne
You don't become an expert on your first try, I think you did alright pal and you still have a lovely big chunk of silver, polish it up and put it on a plinth, a reminder of your first attempt.👍🏴
It's still an Amazing bar even if you did drop it . I'm a #1 fan and I love All of your videos. I have went back and watched almost all of them . Amazing 👏👏👏
I watch Sreetips videos alone, when family is busy elsewhere, yes this is a bestial need, something more powerful than everything else...Yea, human was made to love gold AND silver! ^^
Why didn't you season your crucible with borax? Also, may I suggest getting your molds much hotter. It should help a lot with the smoothness of the sides that touch the mold. Edit- just saw the other comments and I'm late to the party lol. Great vids Streetips! I love watching them.
Excellent video but to achieve high quality smooth and polished bars to need to have better working condition like in doors. The mould you poor to need to be glowing red. That way the molten liquid does not cool when it makes contact with the mould. In fact if you can get the temperature of the mould higher than the temperature of the liquid then you will achieve a bar that resembles the quality of the mould.
You had to leave some of the metal in the crucible, I'm guessing because the angle was too awkward to get a full pour? A set of tongs with a different orientation will fix that problem, tho you'll need another firebrick to place the crucible onto while you swap.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha lucky u didn’t come out w a SILVER FOOT now you have to do the whole thing over again bc u got crap in it not polished enough thought it’d look better but nice job when it was in the blue bucket it looked amazing
Awesome wish I could do that I had to sell my 10 Oz bar to buy my grandkids a Christmas gifts it killed me to sell it cause I collecting to have something to leave to my grandkids when I die am disabled so it's hard for me to buy silver now but I went to Singapore I saw coins of gold and sliver of Spiderman and other superheros it was cool but way to much money and that's when sliver was only 14 dollars a ounce
Another tip from the UK, you need to line your furnace with a rigidiser, for two reasons, one, every time you blast it with your burner, small particles of ceramic blanket will be put in to the air, that is not nice to be breathing it in, even if you put on a respirator, others around you will be breathing it in, long term exposure will give you silicosis which is a killer as you know, the rigidiser will protect the blanket and also for a second reason, your ceramic blanket will last longer.
Also I have a whole box of kay wool just sitting in my closet if you ever need any I'd be more than happy to donate some of it to you I could probably stand to get rid of 10 ft but I got to keep some in reserve for my own smelter
Instead of pouring molten metal into the bar, why not get an oven or crucible that you can put the mould into? or get a bar mould that you can put into your current furnace. That way, you eliminate all those pour lines Look at 5:30 in this video th-cam.com/video/HG7LTSqhq3w/w-d-xo.html
i pour lead bullets ..If a bullet comes out frosty it was poured to hot .If it comes out with wrinkles it was poured to cold. Your furnace maybe a tad hot
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I feel like I just watched a collaboration between my two favorite content creators. Sreetips and BigstackD! That was a great video. Thank you for that. And I'm glad I missed it yesterday, this was the first video I saw on my birthday today!
Anyone else notice the porch just waiting for a little red hot silver boy to drop onto it. Any suggestions besides lining the working area better to prevent a house fire?
I hope you are wearing a mask when you did the melt because that kaowool releases tiny fibres that are like asbestos and can cause respiratory diseases. The safety advice is to coat it with a refractory cement or ceramic
Sreetips: you want to Borax glaze season all your new crucibles and molds , this will seal them from the crude and scale. Also go to the gas grill store and get you a electric spark igniter and grill spark tips , you can then safely lite the furnace . You also need a horizontal pour crucible piliers , that way extract the crucible onto the fire brick pavers... cut off the furnace...then make your pour safely. Put a metal top on your furnace with a long handle attached so you can safely remove & replace it.
Get yourself a 3ft. long / 2" i.d. stainless steel pipe and weld a funnel at top , that way you can add silver crystals into the crucible from the hole in top of furnace while it is in process.
Even Clay-graphite? Never heard or seen it done to them.
Good ideas, the lid seemed to work okay but I agree with the glazing, that could help with the dirt from the crucible. I think he needed a big pair of channel locks to grab the mold to flip it in the water too, not using whatever it was they he had
Stainless would be ideal, but unnecessary. Calm down, I don't think sreetips is about to weld stainless any time soon.
Brilliant and practical. Sounds like you have some experience with this
Yeah it would be really nice to be able to add the silver without having to take the lid off. I felt like there would be a small chance of a steam explosion from adding the silver.
All you need now is to call up the guy who made your giant crucible tongs to make you one for pouring. Then you're all set.
the mold needed to be hotter is all
The pour he has is fine. It's technic needs work. Practice
Hell I want to know who made the tongs. I need some of those.
You didn’t drop it on the ground, you just gave it some 1 of 1 character marks. You’re an artist streetips, we get it
You should get a horizontal pair of tongs. It would be a lot easier than using those vertical ones.
You cant just drop the crucible into the pot. The tongs are vertical so that he can gently place the crucible at the bottom of the pot. If you tried with horizontal tongs, the side of the pot would get in the way and you'd have to drop it in.
Also, how would one go about getting the hot crucible out with horizontal tongs?
@@ramoddjob You use the vertical tongs to lower it in and out. You use the horizontal tongs to pour.
I use vertices for both
@@Heymrk Oh
Bare hands the best way
Fantastic pour! I’m enjoying the way your work is progressing. Can’t get enough of seeing big silver bars!
Now that you're a metal melting youtuber when's the collab with bigstackd! I'm kidding mostly, but if anyone could point you in the right direction for metal casting he could.
After the repour (Mrs sreetips ordered me) then I’ll probably never do this again. Did it to complete my home-made furnace build. Best to leave pouring big bars to big stack like everyone says.
Great video! Maybe pour a concrete pad somewhere away from the deck for future melts. A bad spill could burn your whole show down, and put some cardboard under the crucible so that it doesn’t stick. Looking forward to a 5 kg melt soon!
Wooooooooow! SPECTACULAR! So cool. Hope I can one day see your stack of silver bricks. I cant even dream what's your poured silver stack today, but surely with the bricks will be one of the wonders of the world.
Also, you can use a hand drill with a brush to clean that bar. For reference I recommend Mr @bigstckd channel for expert level cleaning and polishment, but with one brush in the drill you can make it awesome. Beautiful bar.
Bigstckd does awesome melts and pours. I've followed him for awhile! 👍
@@timtom9450 He's far out man. I used his prescription to treat small bars Inpour. If it came out nice for me, imagine having one of his in yoir hands. Incredible.
BigstackD is a trash to treasure resource for hobby smelting.
Sharing your fails and your successes is why we love watching you! I've never refined metals and may never but I am so intrigued by the process and your videos! Don't be discouraged! Thank you for doing what you do!
My goal was to build my own furnace and pour a giant bar of high purity silver. Mission accomplished
@@sreetips you'll get better in time
@@sreetips I like these kind of videos
Please keep these kind of videos coming
Good job sreetips nice melt and pour 💯 I had a similar experience my first time 🤜🏼🤛🏼
Awesome man that's a gnarly bar. Haha my first melt last winter.. I dropped the bar after melting my glove, and lit the old wooden shop floor on fire. Was a good time haha. I'm stoked you always leave the mishaps in though so we can learn from them, thanks a ton for the knowledge and entertainment!! Killer bar stoked for future melts/refines, cheers man.
This is one of my favorite videos of yours, mainly because we see the end product of all those silver crystals. Love re-watching the process.
Luckily you didn't drop it on that deck that's a fire waiting just to ignite better off I'm putting it on concrete
That was awesome for a first time! Keep the videos coming!
Excellent. Glad I stayed up late!
I was unlucky..my tlf went in the floor. My sweet wife have order a new on. Hope the phone come in a day, maybee two😊
God bless you both Mrs and Mr sreetips. The bar is stunning sir🎉
Arne
Good job brother! Practice makes perfect! Pouring tongs would help with pouring just pulling out of the furnace sit it in a brick and quickly swap tongs. Big channel locks will help lifting that hot mold as well just be careful. You got this brother! Keep up the awesome work!! 🤜🏻🤛🏻
I think that was an excellent first bar honestly! I love watching smelting videos (shout out to BigStackD and ArtByAdRock), so I guess I'm an expert at watching videos LOL! The tricks that might make sense include adding a bit of flux (borax) and skimming off slag before the pour. I don't think you should shy away from a little buffing and polishing when you're done (I know you don't want to lose precious metal). You might also want to work on a concrete surface rather than a wooden one and have an extra fire brick to move the molten silver containing crucible to before skimming and then switching to horizontal tongs. Also, definitely find a nice pair of tongs you can use to flip the hot bar out of the mold and into the cold water 😉
All good points, thank you
AWESOME REFINERY SKILSS SIR!!!
@@sreetips I really enjoyed watching this a second time! Someone should buy you a Devil Forge! Or maybe they should sponsor you!
I already have a propane furnace that I made myself.
@@sreetips And that is impressive but honestly a little scary too. So far you've done pretty well keeping safe - please keep at it! 🙂
Very good first try. Also don't forget to level the mold, you probably noticed the little inclination resulting in the bar a little taller on one side.
Yes I did see that
@@sreetips I'd fill it with water beforehand, so to make sure it's leveled. You surely thought of that, but just in case you haven't!
I like to see that you actually take the advices given in teh comments seriously. Putting an angle to the inlet of the furnace so that you dont not fire at the crucible directly is the right thing to do.
Agree
Copper and Gold are such beautiful metals. But the simplicity of Silver, and extremely high reflectivity give it a beauty all its own 😍
TFW bigstackD could help you with the melt--but you've spent all your previous videos wasting the base metals he loves 😩
If I ever do this again I’ll be sure to check it out. Thank you
Why didn't you glaze the crucible?
As far as I know thats only done on melt dishes
The crucible should come with a glaze
ps you have done a great job thank you much jim
i have watched your posts many times i am retired would you sell me a list of basic lab equipment 40 years ago i was pouring lead weights for divers please tell me how much it costs thank you much jim
Jim, I’ve included as much detail as possible in my videos. Please watch them and take notes. I try to answer all questions in the comments of each video.
Just a note: BigStackD has plenty of melt videos to give you a better idea on melting addind metal and extracting the metal from the mold before cooling. th-cam.com/users/bigstackDvideos
Big stack is awesome!
I harvested my silver cell this evening. I to had cauliflower like silver crystals. It's a brand new set up so I'm guessing my small copper clips are not allowing the set 3.5V to be achieved. Causing my resistance issues. Learning !!!
You did well for the first time. A good tip is to put a piece of cardboard at the bottom of the furnace and then put the crucible on top. It prevents the crucible from getting stuck and causing problems down the line. The carboard will char in the process and won't let the slaggy bits stick to the crucible anytime.
Protect your self from inflation. Invest in physical silver. 🥈🦍💎✋🚀
Strongly agree!
I really like watching you doing this. The last time you did this was very cool to make more like this 😉
Awesome video as per usual! Ever thought of taking a wire wheel to the bar and maybe sanding and buffing down to a mirror finish. I would suggest doing it in an enclosed space as to gather up all the left over silver dust. I think that would make for a spectacular silver bar. Just a thought.
he could then just put the silver dust back into his silver cell
I feel you did a great job from purifying to making a bar. GREAT JOB.
Way cool! Love the use of everyday items that reduce equipment cost and showing the occasional failure is a great learning tool.
You are doing fine their is a learning curve and your right in it couple more times and you will be great thank you for another fine video two thumbs
Thank you
Pinch of borax just before pouring will solve the residue problem
awesome very impresive 👍😀👍
Don't put yourself down Mr. Sreetips, your doing a fine job with equipment you have 👍 But if you would like You can watch BigstackD casting, He tends just to do Scrap metals (Trash to Treasure) but he can give you an understanding of the pouring action and the crucible tongs. You don't have have to if you don't want to. Keep up the good work and I will see you in the next video ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Those tongs worked nicely
@@sreetips Oh they do a wonderful job.
I've never experienced the handling of molten metal, so I'm not pretending to be the expert here. But, I'd be a wee bit wary of pouring molten precious metals over a wooden deck. The fire from a spill accident would be bad enough. The precious metals running through the gaps in the deck would be enough to make a grown man cry.
Once my old crucible made a puncture in the bottom and spilled the molten silver in the floor ; but luckily the floor was covered with sand and only I had to wait as the silver cooled down => no loss
What kind of material was your crucible?
HEY KEVIN, THIS IS BARB, HOW ARE YOU DOING, GREAT I HOPE! I LOVEEE YOUR TH-cam CHANNEL! I AM HOOKED I CAN'T STOP BINGE WATCHING ALLLLL YOUR VIDEO'S! I CAN'T BELIEVE I'VE KNOWN AND BEEN AROUND YOU FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS BUT I HAD NOOO IDEA YOU DO THE WORK THAT YOU DO IN THESE VIDEO'S! YOU ARE MY NEW IDOL SERIOUSLY KEVIN! I WANT TO DO WHAT YOU DO NOW!
You know you’ve reached a new level when you pour a 2kg pure silver . Rookie mistakes , I have been there. What a beautiful sight. Not much like it in the world. Kudos man
This guy has really inspired me to get into chemistry the way I always wanted to. Thank you sir. You are an alchemist, there is no mistake.
You should be able to skim off that black stuff with a stainless spoon while its still molten in the crucible. Let the spoon heat up a bit first, it helps with it not sticking to it as much. At least it does for aluminum and copper. If i stick a cold spoon and try and skim the slag, I get a metal coated spoon, but if its hot, tap it on a hard surface and it comes off. You could then easily run it back thru your silver cell, or save it, and remelt all your slag, skim off the junk and have another nice bar. Most impurities and junk floats on molten metal, which makes it handy for skimming off the top.
KEVIN HOW MUCH WOULD THAT BAR COST IF SOMEONE WANTED TO BUY ONE?
65 ozt times spot silver is how it’s usually calculated
The trick to not getting any of that crud on the top of the bar is to leave some silver in the crucible. The last of the melted silver is where the crud comes from. Also, use a level bar to level the mold. Heat the mold prior and during the pour.
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That deck looks like a tinderbox. Just saying
I thought the same hahaha.
Nice camera angles!
What a chunk of silver!
Have a Great Day My Friend!!
It takes a steady hand and nerves of steel to pour that much glowing hot molten silver at once.
Love the videos!
That unsealed fibre blanket is dangerous, airborne fibres when running the furnace. It's best to seal the blanket with some ITC100, better yet, make a fire brick furnace and wrap it with the ceramic blanket.
Dremel can shine it up nice.
What you need for easier and more safe metal melting is a Devil Forge. It is relatively cheap and very robust! It'll make your life a whole lot easier!
I only use it twice a year. My home make furnace works just fine for my purposes.
Looks like your bowl lost 0.3g.
When you placed it back on the scale after dumping the silver it was that much lighter than the written number
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This is one of my favorite episodes by far.
I thought that cooling the ingot in ice would ruin the integrity of the metal. Looks like I’m up to do some research.
I have a suggestion. I've been a machinist most of my adult life. On these bars that you pour, I would intentionally pour them oversize. I would then machine all 6-sides square on a mill using a vacuum line near where the cutter is touching the material so that the chips can be recycled into the next bar. The bars will look beautiful when done. A CNC machine can also do some pretty bad-ass engraving of your name and maybe you can add a logo of whatever you want it to be. This logo could even be you in your lab coat. While we care mostly about weight and purity, people will certainly pay a premium for something worthy to set out in a display case. The limits will be your imagination. You could also completely 3D machine the entire top surface similar to these high relief coins out there. While I work for a medical device and implant company and we don't take jobs from average Joe's, I'm sure there is a machine shop 'job shop" in your area. I'll try to find a video or two for you to reference. Love your videos.
That’s a great idea, thank you
You're welcome. For no more than you do, you could start with something like this. www.ebay.com/itm/3-Cross-Slide-Vise-Drill-Press-Heavy-Duty-Metal-Milling-2-Way-X-Y-Clamp-Vice-/351719842586?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286 bolted to a drill press with an endmill in the drill chuck. A little primitive, but would get the job done for a few proto-types to learn how much oversize the pours need to be. You could also use a router table with a small flat bit (no more than 1/4"). You'll just have to make a new base plate with a through hole just big enough for the bit since you will be holding such little pieces that you don't want to go into the typical 1-3/4" holes that most router tables come with.
Here's is a cheap way to experiment. www.ebay.com/itm/294178998491?epid=1300005027&hash=item447e6f48db:g:zRUAAOSwjLdgoTVp
Or if you want to spend $175 and say a few swear words while you are putting it together and learning it. You have this option. www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Machine-Extension-Engraving-Machine%EF%BC%88240x180mm%EF%BC%89/dp/B084265V72/ref=sr_1_25?dchild=1&keywords=mini%2Brouter%2Btable&qid=1621643752&sr=8-25&th=1
Not sure how it would do manually. You'd have to make a straight edge fence for manual use. I'd probably just get a tiny vice to hold the material. Chip collection system is key. But if you got this all figured out, which I am sure you can, you can start creating some real work of arts.
And I am jumping way ahead here, but once machining is done, you can use diamond compound on a lapping block and your products will be mirror finish. This is the best video I can find at the moment. You certainly won't need a lapping block so large. th-cam.com/video/ATG_UYYfx7w/w-d-xo.html
Hello Mr sreetips. Man...that bar was simply stunnig great. 200tr.oz.? wov.
Must be fun sir to make bar that heavy😊. I take it every time😂. God bless both of you, and have a nice weekend. Arne
Fascinating!!
I love your videos!! Thanks for sharing.
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. Your silver bars is stunning😊
Nice,and fluffy. Your name ,and the sreetips is recommended offen on many canals 🎉
Have a nice day. Arne
You don't become an expert on your first try, I think you did alright pal and you still have a lovely big chunk of silver, polish it up and put it on a plinth, a reminder of your first attempt.👍🏴
Make sure the added charge is ABSOLUTELY dry, and free of moisture, or you’ll get a steam explosion re-charging mid melt 👍🏻🍻 nice work
It's still an Amazing bar even if you did drop it . I'm a #1 fan and I love All of your videos. I have went back and watched almost all of them . Amazing 👏👏👏
I watch Sreetips videos alone, when family is busy elsewhere, yes this is a bestial need, something more powerful than everything else...Yea, human was made to love gold AND silver! ^^
Why didn't you season your crucible with borax? Also, may I suggest getting your molds much hotter. It should help a lot with the smoothness of the sides that touch the mold. Edit- just saw the other comments and I'm late to the party lol. Great vids Streetips! I love watching them.
Om Ah Houm
What an adventure! Cheers! To many more grand adventures for all! Many more blessings and Blissful moments, yum!
Excellent video but to achieve high quality smooth and polished bars to need to have better working condition like in doors. The mould you poor to need to be glowing red. That way the molten liquid does not cool when it makes contact with the mould. In fact if you can get the temperature of the mould higher than the temperature of the liquid then you will achieve a bar that resembles the quality of the mould.
Just found out that right now gold is 100 times more valuable than silver.
So whatever that bar is worth. Multiply by 100
You had to leave some of the metal in the crucible, I'm guessing because the angle was too awkward to get a full pour? A set of tongs with a different orientation will fix that problem, tho you'll need another firebrick to place the crucible onto while you swap.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha lucky u didn’t come out w a SILVER FOOT now you have to do the whole thing over again bc u got crap in it not polished enough thought it’d look better but nice job when it was in the blue bucket it looked amazing
$1100 in silver using $5 in propane, as opposed to other channels where they use $12 of propane to melt $1.60 worth of brass.
Awesome wish I could do that I had to sell my 10 Oz bar to buy my grandkids a Christmas gifts it killed me to sell it cause I collecting to have something to leave to my grandkids when I die am disabled so it's hard for me to buy silver now but I went to Singapore I saw coins of gold and sliver of Spiderman and other superheros it was cool but way to much money and that's when sliver was only 14 dollars a ounce
Why not polish the bar and save the filings for future recovery. Also why not put the mold in another furnace. It should make a better looking bar.
2018 grams. Thats close to $2k usd +/- That's a really neat learning experience
Mr sreetips you should watch some of bigstackd videos. He's really good at melting and pouring.
Another tip from the UK, you need to line your furnace with a rigidiser, for two reasons, one, every time you blast it with your burner, small particles of ceramic blanket will be put in to the air, that is not nice to be breathing it in, even if you put on a respirator, others around you will be breathing it in, long term exposure will give you silicosis which is a killer as you know, the rigidiser will protect the blanket and also for a second reason, your ceramic blanket will last longer.
Also I have a whole box of kay wool just sitting in my closet if you ever need any I'd be more than happy to donate some of it to you I could probably stand to get rid of 10 ft but I got to keep some in reserve for my own smelter
Instead of pouring molten metal into the bar, why not get an oven or crucible that you can put the mould into?
or get a bar mould that you can put into your current furnace.
That way, you eliminate all those pour lines
Look at 5:30 in this video th-cam.com/video/HG7LTSqhq3w/w-d-xo.html
i pour lead bullets ..If a bullet comes out frosty it was poured to hot .If it comes out with wrinkles it was poured to cold. Your furnace maybe a tad hot
So i went to ARA Gold sreetips and met both those guys half to they are fantastic guys and gave me a fantastic deal i can vouch for these guys if you have anything u wanna sell ARA Gold is your go to
Can anyone tell me if a 2Ton Arbor Press will exert enough pressure to imprint into a .999 fine silver bar?
I feel like I just watched a collaboration between my two favorite content creators. Sreetips and BigstackD! That was a great video. Thank you for that. And I'm glad I missed it yesterday, this was the first video I saw on my birthday today!
Happy Birthday!
@@sreetips thank you so much!!
Sreetips you are the best
Have you tried wiping new graphite molds before the first melt? You can significantly reduce the scale, or eliminate it entirely this way.
You could use a mold that will hold 3110+ grams - that would give you a 100 Toz bar.
Anyone else notice the porch just waiting for a little red hot silver boy to drop onto it.
Any suggestions besides lining the working area better to prevent a house fire?
Why didn't you just buy a devil forge burner? I mean if you are gonna spend money. Why not get the best.
Stmreetips love your vids man bit i will say as a at home furnace runner you broke a huge safety rule never pour towards yourself
This was fun to watch! Lol I can't lie. No better teacher then a mistake and experience!
I was so nervous watching this. Better than reality TV and I learned something.
6:56 WRONG!!!!! That is NOT cool. That is freaking HOT!!!!!
I hope you are wearing a mask when you did the melt because that kaowool releases tiny fibres that are like asbestos and can cause respiratory diseases. The safety advice is to coat it with a refractory cement or ceramic
At least it was the yard and not the porch I was intensely watching. Big bar for a first attempt I like it.
LOL .Great adventure and thanks for sharing . I for one look forward to your next attempt and am also hoping for a bit better result .Cheers
My wife wants a repour. And she usually gets what she wants.
This video reminded me of the “bigstackD casting” channel.
Lumber is so expensive even sreetips can't afford to rebuild his deck😂
There is always a first time for everyone. Wise minds will learn much from Sreetips!
I would not remelt that bar for all the cows in Texas. It is "history that needs to be remembered."
Every good camper has dropped His hotdog in the dirt . I greatly appreciate the great videos.😁
Why are you Whispering through the whole video can't even hear it with the volume all the way up
Very impressive bar sir, Thank you for this interesting video.
that is en realy awsome filver bar ;) great job
great video
Hello Mr sreetips. You do it Just fine. Nice clip sir🌹
Arne 🇳🇴