Ohhh my silver bucket is too heavy! The horrors! Lol. Its beautiful by the way, learning so much from this channel, pretty soon im going to try and get started on this, ive been saving scrap for a while, contacts, non US junk silver coins, sterling ect. Can't wait for my first run.
Thanks for making these videos. What you do is fascinating. As much fun as it would be to make my own silver cell, I don't have the need for one, plus I get to live the experience through your videos. Thanks for all you do. You deserve all the success in the world.
Fantastic harvest, I was looking forward to this! Well done sreetips. Hope we get treated to a nice bar melt! You've really opened my eyes in many respects, thank you for sharing your knowledge and advice over time.
i remember back when i first started watching you with the 1 silver cell and thinking when you were cleaning up "Man that's a lot of silver!"....now seeing your setup today with 2 cells plus the beast....holy cow....Kilos and Kilos!
Another excellent episode, so interesting to watch this process with you. It really shows the amount of work you're putting in, it's definitely more involved than one might assume at a glance. Great work, it's coming along beautifully. I hope you and the missus had a wonderful evening full of laughter.
I just want to say, while I am extremely impressed with that yield, I am a little more impressed how well you've placed your Sreetips logo in so many spots. It's in every shot 😂 Nobody steals your content!
Actually, they still do, but it shows where it came from this way. Should Kevin wish to take action it will be easier this way. Alas, mostly done in mainland China so no recourse.
@CothranMike ironically, that makes me happy. It means that most likely, Sreetips is part of the rebellion. It's stolen, it's probably illegal content material, and he's educating people about fake currency... May Sreetips help bring Communism down!
If you make a big hole in the button of the steel bowle and put it on a bucket. Then you can harvest the cristals by pushing them into the hole in the button. Or you put a sheet of steel around in the bucket and a basket full of silver shots in the middle. May be the harvest process could be easier. Just an idea.
Thank you for all the work over the years that you've done for the hobby precious metal refining community. I am unsure if I'll make a silver cell, but I appreciate your dedication!
Nice watch, I like the subtle flex lol. Been seeing your vids in my recommendations for a few months now, this is the first time I actually watched one. I have no clue what exactly is taking place, but it’s definitely interesting and i respect the effort and care that you obviously put into it. Best of luck brobro
God I've loved following you since 2018/19 somewhere around there. I'm 40 years old. I hope to try this one day all thanks to you. Not for fit but more like a bucket list science project. Thank you 😊👍🍀😎
Well it doesnt have to make contact, just come close enough to make the current exceed the current rating of the fuse. Beautiful crystals! Thanks for sharing!
Gooooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night! That is a respectable amount of silver. You should cast a crown for Queen Teresa.
@earlywormgetsthebird Howdy early worm 👋 I always enjoy Sreetips videos. There is just something about him, his delivery and subject matter that keeps me coming back for more. Hope your staying warm and doing well up there in beautiful Montreal. Have a great one friend!
Hei kjære venner. Så fine ord David 🙂 Håper du har det godt på alle måter. Denne kanalen betyr så mye. Dette handler om Gull/sølv raffinering... Men du verden så mange gode ord og venner som bryr seg. Gud velsigne dere rikelig❤️
12:45 have a tube going to the bottom before you put your silver in, then pump it out. Makes rinsing so much faster. Use a fish-tank bottom-filter type attachment to the tube. Also you should be spraying the water in, not pouring.
Wow, that’s an awful lot of silver! Congratulations on a job well done and thank you for sharing it all with us. Have a great time on your date with Mrs Sreetips.
Here's kind of a silly question. on an estimation, how many ounces of pure ethereal silver have you made in your silver cells since you first started doing your silver cell, I remember you doing that long time ago. Just curious because now it seems like it's progressively getting better and better and a lot cleaner, more angelic. It's just so beautiful and amazing science. Thank you, sir.
On the beast, it may not have actually come in contact with the basket, just close enough to jack that current up past 3 amps. But you know your gear. It probably just touched and that was enough to short the fuse. Either way the safety system did its job. Great work sir 👏👏👏👍👍
Have you considered using 5 gallon paint strainers during your rinse process? Even if you had to double up the strainers it might make this process a lot easier.. just a thought
Ive been watching you for quite a while (years probably) and i have to say thank you for making these videos, its interesting watching you do the chemistry and i sincerely hope that you make it big one day.
Possibly. Two things to consider: 1) silver and gold are not going up. It’s the currency declining in value (due to currency printing out of thin air), relative to the metals, that makes them appear to be “skyrocketing” when in fact, they are not changing. Those monetary metals stay the same. They are stable, and don’t change. And that’s why our friends in high places hate silver and gold. 2) as long as they can continue to produce fiat currency “without limit” out of thin air, then silver and gold will remain grossly undervalued. Why? Because they can sell hundreds of thousands of paper gold and paper silver short to crush the price of those metals. But what if they get squeezed? No worries, they can cover the shorts with more printed money. They use inflation (currency printing) to crush the price of the inflation hedges. It’s brilliant, and because of people’s ignorance, it works. Sorry for the long-winded response. But you can see why this scam works by how many words it took me to convey the concepts of the deception. Most folks won’t take the time to study and comprehend it. And that’s what enables them to pull it off.
Good evening! I've been looking through your videos to see if I can find one where you extract the nickel from nickel-coated brass shell casings but no luck. Have you done a video like that?
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips. Finely...So relaxing to enjoy this harvesting. Nobody do this better than you Sreetips🔥Fantastic🔥Thank you for the clip Sir🙂What a smart way to save and forget.🎸 God bless you🙏
Would love to see you melt some silver bars or one big bar. I know big bars aren’t practical but it’s so much fun to watch. Anyway, I really enjoyed this series.
If you used a double bucket system with small holes in the bottom of the buckets and a filter in between you can rinse the silver with continuous flow of water...
Perhaps adding your/a drain tube to the bucket prior to adding the new silver crystals would facilitate rinsing without having to lift and dump so much?
it occurs to me that maybe you should look into a 3D printer. Doing some custom fabrication of pieces like maybe a frame to hold a large filter across the top of your 5 gallon bucket so you don't have to worry about all the silver tumbling out. Etc etc. Just an idea.
Awesome this production line. btw did you notice when the heating element turned on when you where drying the silver crystal the dish moved? I'm always looking for explanations for phenomenae like that. there could be something wrong.
Yes, the heating element is temperature regulated automatically turning on and off to achieve a certain temperature point based on the setting input by the knob in front of the unit. As it heat it expands. As it cools it contracts. And this heating and cooling is what causes the dish on top to oscillate.
I wonder if you could pour it on, like a heavy-duty window screen over a bucket or something, and then rinse it so it's suspended, and everything just rinses through. and then transfer it from the screen to a cleaner container. I don't know. It just seems like a lot of work for you. I understand we should find a way to simplify it.
Or you could take a 5 gallon bucket, stick a drain in the bottom of it with some JB weld or bonding agent, but on the inside have a fine mesh screen so that. when you put your silver in it to do your rinsing. you have the valve shot in the bottom of the bucket. Pour your hot rinse water in there. Swish it around. and then open the valve dump. that into another container. to close the valve. Rinse and repeat and then Bob's your uncle.
Ooowwaaahh, a HOT DATE with mrs. @streetips 😍 😂😂. Inplace of the Fuse look for a resetable (automatic or manual) small CB. They come with ones with LEDs that light up too. Lites when tripped, just reset after correcting the fault/silver height.😊
Sree, thank you for your videos it allowed me to refine 47kilos of sterling silver I had, I learned a lot along the way with different sized silver cells, Voltage, concentration and silver cell solution temperature etc I would like to share with you. I used my electrolyte continuously producing .9999 silver until it started plating copper then I stop and cement the remaining solution and started over with fresh electrolyte dramatically increasing the electrolyte usage Also after having assay the average silver came out to 100% +\- .0001 meaning your silver is at least 4 nines fine! Hope to send you an email soon with more results and findings
I was looking at how you were trying to rinse off the electrolyte in the bucket alone and I think I might have a possible option. There is large 5 gallon cat litter buckets from the Tidy Cat brand, they are rectangle but the notable thing is they have a unique lid that opens up instead of coming off fully Like 1/4 to 1/3 of the lid stays locked on like any other 5gal bucket lid but the top part opens up. If you could get one of those buckets then if placing a filter mesh in the mounted part then you could easily pour water in, slush it around and strain it out without much fuss. Atleast for something this large in amount. The sealing lid that opens does have a nice enough seal so water should not slush out. Might make things a bit less messy to deal with.
I am guessing that a very small percentage of your precious metals ends up in the waste. Does refining the byproducts for that percentage yield anything of value to you? I am amazed at how much product you extract out of the filters. Is it possible to show the chemical equations that you use. Physics, chemistry and math are my groove! Frank
You can check a fuse using your cellphone. If you touch one of the contacts to the phone screen and touch the other with your finger, your screen responding means the fuse is good.
Frank, just like in the kitchen, cleaning it as you go so it doesn’t build into a mountain, is the best way to treat the waste. Out of every ten hours I devote to refining the metals, at least 1.5 hours of that will be spent on waste treatment. The biggest generator of waste, by far, is silver refining.
@@sreetips I am guessing that a very small percentage of your precious metals ends up in some of the waste. Does refining the byproducts for that percentage yield anything of value to you? I am amazed at how much product you extract out of the filters. Is it possible to show the chemical equations that you use. Physics, chemistry and math are my groove!
You could drill some holes in the bottom of that silver bucket and put a metal screen on the bottom. Then you should be able use it like a colander to wash your electrolyte off the silver.
Have you tried leaving some "seed" crystals stuck to the sides and bottom of the bowl when starting a new batch? I wonder if it would affect the process and outcome.
Hello sreetips, have you tried to put the silver crystals in a large bag made of the same material as the filters and thus wash the silver more easily.
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
There are flea markets all over the southeast. But like everything else, they’ve gone to pot. We used to find silver and gold from regular folks who came to the flea market to sell unused, unwanted stuff out of their garage and home, including broken gold and silver jewelry. But these days, it’s become more commercialized, prepackaged. The flea market in my area is getting ready to be shut down. The owner died, and his heirs are chopping at the bit to cash it in and retire wealthy.
Nice harvest...I wonder how many bushels of silver you collected :) Wouldn't it be less expensive to rinse each beaker with the distilled water of the previous beaker, mr Sreetips?
I wonder if it would be easier to wrinse the copper nitrate off of the refined silver by putting it in a giant bowl sifter or strainer, put it over a bucket, then poor distilled water through it into the catch bucket.
wohohooow, check out hose bowl FULL of silver, another great harvest looks like :) on an unrelated note, i've been dying trying to figure out what the 'SREE' in sreetips stands for... "special refining entertainment & education" is my best guess. did i get at least a little close, or do i have it completely wrong? ^^
I started doing this with deionizdd water + silver nitrate crystall. And, silver slices from bar + silver saw dust and little silver cement in anode basket. Problem is after 3-4 days, the cell turned grey then dark grey. I experimented with lower voltage + taking negative wire off of the stainless cell. Would you say the cell is ruined, or can this problem be fixed? The cell was also close to base floor heater which makes me wounder about evaporation issues.
I used to melt and pour bars then sell them with every bit of the silver that I produced. Made a good income doing it. But with silver so grossly undervalued I’ve decided to just hold on to all my silver. In fact, I’m buying more.. maybe when silver gets up over a hundred bucks I’ll start making and selling pure silver bars again.
Ohhh my silver bucket is too heavy! The horrors! Lol. Its beautiful by the way, learning so much from this channel, pretty soon im going to try and get started on this, ive been saving scrap for a while, contacts, non US junk silver coins, sterling ect. Can't wait for my first run.
Don't melt down the coins man!!! You might throw away some collector's or even historical value there!!! Be mindful of what you process!
Waiting two weeks for the money shot was totally worth it. The silver crystals never fail to impress. Great work Sir.
Seen this process many times but never gets boring, nice haul 👍
Thanks for making these videos. What you do is fascinating. As much fun as it would be to make my own silver cell, I don't have the need for one, plus I get to live the experience through your videos. Thanks for all you do. You deserve all the success in the world.
That’s awesome, thank you!
Fantastic harvest, I was looking forward to this! Well done sreetips. Hope we get treated to a nice bar melt! You've really opened my eyes in many respects, thank you for sharing your knowledge and advice over time.
Every time I watch you harvest a new batch of silver crystals I feel like a kid on Christmas morning!
Absolutely fantastic 👏 brilliant harvest I really do love these silver cells fantastic work 👍👏😀x
I don’t know how many times I have watched your videos. For me Kevin’s work never gets old! Thank you so much for sharing your videos.
Wow. Absolutely beautiful. What a pile of silver. You grew more in those cells in a couple weeks than I own total.
i remember back when i first started watching you with the 1 silver cell and thinking when you were cleaning up "Man that's a lot of silver!"....now seeing your setup today with 2 cells plus the beast....holy cow....Kilos and Kilos!
Another excellent episode, so interesting to watch this process with you. It really shows the amount of work you're putting in, it's definitely more involved than one might assume at a glance. Great work, it's coming along beautifully. I hope you and the missus had a wonderful evening full of laughter.
Totally amazing watching you grow and harvest silver. Congratulations!
I just want to say, while I am extremely impressed with that yield, I am a little more impressed how well you've placed your Sreetips logo in so many spots. It's in every shot 😂
Nobody steals your content!
Actually, they still do, but it shows where it came from this way. Should Kevin wish to take action it will be easier this way. Alas, mostly done in mainland China so no recourse.
That too is a giant pain. Wish I didn’t have to do it.
@CothranMike ironically, that makes me happy. It means that most likely, Sreetips is part of the rebellion. It's stolen, it's probably illegal content material, and he's educating people about fake currency...
May Sreetips help bring Communism down!
If you make a big hole in the button of the steel bowle and put it on a bucket. Then you can harvest the cristals by pushing them into the hole in the button.
Or you put a sheet of steel around in the bucket and a basket full of silver shots in the middle. May be the harvest process could be easier. Just an idea.
Thank you for all the work over the years that you've done for the hobby precious metal refining community. I am unsure if I'll make a silver cell, but I appreciate your dedication!
That was stunning, I don't know how you contained your excitement! I hope Mrs. Sreetips and you had a fantastic time; thanks again.
I spend most of my time trying to make he laugh. It’s so precious even just a giggle.
@@sreetips I see You have Your priorities straightened up very nicely, Sir!
Nice watch, I like the subtle flex lol. Been seeing your vids in my recommendations for a few months now, this is the first time I actually watched one. I have no clue what exactly is taking place, but it’s definitely interesting and i respect the effort and care that you obviously put into it. Best of luck brobro
I've never seen anyone describe a large quantity of silver as an inconvenience before. Great work.
I love silver, but I dislike processing it. It’s bulky and d messy. But after it’s done, I love it.
The weight of silver being an inconvenience is one of many lame excuses to not use it as money which it is.
Strongly agree
It looks so awesome and amazing 👏 fantastic job on all the silver trees. 😀
Outstanding recovery sir well done thank you for sharing this with us six stars
With bigger batches come,... right! bigger (handling) problems. This is an excellent series again!
God I've loved following you since 2018/19 somewhere around there. I'm 40 years old. I hope to try this one day all thanks to you. Not for fit but more like a bucket list science project. Thank you 😊👍🍀😎
Heyy, the fuse worked as intended! Great harvest!
Hope you and Mrs. Sreetips had a lovely time. Hopefully a leisure occasion. Cheers!
Well it doesnt have to make contact, just come close enough to make the current exceed the current rating of the fuse. Beautiful crystals! Thanks for sharing!
These videos are so cool. I wish I had the space to try this. It looks like one of the most relaxing hobbies I have ever seen.
Cool series. Nice harvest👍 Excellent money shot💵 Thanks for posting
Gooooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night! That is a respectable amount of silver. You should cast a crown for Queen Teresa.
I'm always looking for your "good evening " posts now! Hope you are well in gorgeous Florida. Take care, from Montreal.
@earlywormgetsthebird Howdy early worm 👋 I always enjoy Sreetips videos. There is just something about him, his delivery and subject matter that keeps me coming back for more. Hope your staying warm and doing well up there in beautiful Montreal. Have a great one friend!
Goooood evening!
Hei kjære venner. Så fine ord David 🙂
Håper du har det godt på alle måter. Denne kanalen betyr så mye. Dette handler om Gull/sølv raffinering... Men du verden så mange gode ord og venner som bryr seg.
Gud velsigne dere rikelig❤️
@Arne-ns2mwHello Arne! Appreciate your kind words my friend! Have a wonderful day!
12:45 have a tube going to the bottom before you put your silver in, then pump it out. Makes rinsing so much faster. Use a fish-tank bottom-filter type attachment to the tube. Also you should be spraying the water in, not pouring.
Hi Ya & best wishes. SuperB! Thanks for work. Be Happy. Sevastopol/Crimea!!!
Such an amazing harvest 👍🏻
Wow, that’s an awful lot of silver! Congratulations on a job well done and thank you for sharing it all with us.
Have a great time on your date with Mrs Sreetips.
Here's kind of a silly question. on an estimation, how many ounces of pure ethereal silver have you made in your silver cells since you first started doing your silver cell, I remember you doing that long time ago. Just curious because now it seems like it's progressively getting better and better and a lot cleaner, more angelic. It's just so beautiful and amazing science. Thank you, sir.
I don’t know exactly. I’m saving it for my retirement.
On the beast, it may not have actually come in contact with the basket, just close enough to jack that current up past 3 amps. But you know your gear. It probably just touched and that was enough to short the fuse. Either way the safety system did its job. Great work sir 👏👏👏👍👍
Have you considered using 5 gallon paint strainers during your rinse process? Even if you had to double up the strainers it might make this process a lot easier.. just a thought
Thanx for showing the fuse and the contact points where the short occurred. Was very curious about it.
You're going to need a helper. Lol 😆 Thanks, Sreetips, for the video. Enjoy your date!
Thanks for the series, was fascinating to watch. I need a silver cell now!
I was so captivated by your activity that I tilted the phone every time you rinsed the crystals. ;)
You are welcome. Nice product! No advertising necessary. Thank you Sir. 👍👍🤟
Ive been watching you for quite a while (years probably) and i have to say thank you for making these videos, its interesting watching you do the chemistry and i sincerely hope that you make it big one day.
I think I’ve already made it as big as it’s going to get. And for that I’m thankful.
@sreetips you never know. Gold and silver are sky rocketing right now! Success is just over the horizon!
Possibly. Two things to consider: 1) silver and gold are not going up. It’s the currency declining in value (due to currency printing out of thin air), relative to the metals, that makes them appear to be “skyrocketing” when in fact, they are not changing. Those monetary metals stay the same. They are stable, and don’t change. And that’s why our friends in high places hate silver and gold. 2) as long as they can continue to produce fiat currency “without limit” out of thin air, then silver and gold will remain grossly undervalued. Why? Because they can sell hundreds of thousands of paper gold and paper silver short to crush the price of those metals. But what if they get squeezed? No worries, they can cover the shorts with more printed money. They use inflation (currency printing) to crush the price of the inflation hedges. It’s brilliant, and because of people’s ignorance, it works. Sorry for the long-winded response. But you can see why this scam works by how many words it took me to convey the concepts of the deception. Most folks won’t take the time to study and comprehend it. And that’s what enables them to pull it off.
I kinda wonder, if using a stainless steel strainer with small diameter of the mesh wouldn't be better to use as a precaution during the decantation.
Good evening! I've been looking through your videos to see if I can find one where you extract the nickel from nickel-coated brass shell casings but no luck. Have you done a video like that?
No, I’ve never worked with that kind of material.
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips.
Finely...So relaxing to enjoy this harvesting. Nobody do this better than you Sreetips🔥Fantastic🔥Thank you for the clip Sir🙂What a smart way to save and forget.🎸
God bless you🙏
Arne, I read your comment to Mrs sreetips. It had a very positive effect on her. And on me. Thank you for your kind words.
@sreetips Thank you Mr Sreetips. And you always have so many kinds words to all of subscribers in the Sreetips Army 😀🔥😀
@sr❤eetips
Im verry happy to see the set up's,i have seen you have an electric ioed on your ebay site,i like the set up is brilliant and verry impressive
Thanks You
Great video absolutely beautiful silver crystals 7.8 kilos of silver that's alot thanks for sharing sreetips
You should dump the silver into a fine mesh strainer so youre not dealing with as much electrolyte. You could even do some rinses in the strainer.
@sreetips another amazing video and thank you for sharing and taking the time to do the videos. Have a wonderful Holiday!
Thank you, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Would love to see you melt some silver bars or one big bar. I know big bars aren’t practical but it’s so much fun to watch. Anyway, I really enjoyed this series.
I’ll eventually melt into 5 ounces bars and sell them.
Good morning, Mrs and Mr Sreetips from beautiful Dubai 🙏🌹
The silver crystal in the cells, before you scrape it, jeez that's beautiful structure.
If you used a double bucket system with small holes in the bottom of the buckets and a filter in between you can rinse the silver with continuous flow of water...
Perhaps adding your/a drain tube to the bucket prior to adding the new silver crystals would facilitate rinsing without having to lift and dump so much?
Good suggestion. I’ve done it this way for years. It’s inconvenient but effective.
it occurs to me that maybe you should look into a 3D printer. Doing some custom fabrication of pieces like maybe a frame to hold a large filter across the top of your 5 gallon bucket so you don't have to worry about all the silver tumbling out. Etc etc. Just an idea.
Good suggestion, thank you.
Reminds me of the Blue hole Springs!!!
i like how you have the habit of ALWAYS covering any openings above the cells with towels so nothing falls in accidentally.
Awesome this production line. btw did you notice when the heating element turned on when you where drying the silver crystal the dish moved? I'm always looking for explanations for phenomenae like that. there could be something wrong.
Yes, the heating element is temperature regulated automatically turning on and off to achieve a certain temperature point based on the setting input by the knob in front of the unit. As it heat it expands. As it cools it contracts. And this heating and cooling is what causes the dish on top to oscillate.
Thanks again mate have a nice time with mrs streetips😊
I asked for this timelapse. Thank you!!!
I wonder if you could pour it on, like a heavy-duty window screen over a bucket or something, and then rinse it so it's suspended, and everything just rinses through. and then transfer it from the screen to a cleaner container. I don't know. It just seems like a lot of work for you. I understand we should find a way to simplify it.
My rinsing process is a little messy. But it didn’t take that long. And it works well.
Or you could take a 5 gallon bucket, stick a drain in the bottom of it with some JB weld or bonding agent, but on the inside have a fine mesh screen so that. when you put your silver in it to do your rinsing. you have the valve shot in the bottom of the bucket. Pour your hot rinse water in there. Swish it around. and then open the valve dump. that into another container. to close the valve. Rinse and repeat and then Bob's your uncle.
Excellent suggestion. Thank you.
U deserve more than just 311k subscribers for the knowledge u put out here
Thank you
Ooowwaaahh, a HOT DATE with mrs. @streetips 😍 😂😂.
Inplace of the Fuse look for a resetable (automatic or manual) small CB. They come with ones with LEDs that light up too. Lites when tripped, just reset after correcting the fault/silver height.😊
They arrived last Friday. I’ll use them in my next run.
This was a great series to watch!
"Silver is a giant pain" --said while casually sifting a few thousand dollars worth of silver from a Menard's bucket into a beaker
Love it :)
Menards= Midwest. They have one in my hometown.
i'm glad you're sticking to siphoning instead of trying to lift those bowls full of heavy silver and electrolyte to drain them
Sree, thank you for your videos it allowed me to refine 47kilos of sterling silver I had, I learned a lot along the way with different sized silver cells, Voltage, concentration and silver cell solution temperature etc
I would like to share with you.
I used my electrolyte continuously producing .9999 silver until it started plating copper then I stop and cement the remaining solution and started over with fresh electrolyte dramatically increasing the electrolyte usage
Also after having assay the average silver came out to 100% +\- .0001 meaning your silver is at least 4 nines fine! Hope to send you an email soon with more results and findings
Nice job! Thank you
I was looking at how you were trying to rinse off the electrolyte in the bucket alone and I think I might have a possible option. There is large 5 gallon cat litter buckets from the Tidy Cat brand, they are rectangle but the notable thing is they have a unique lid that opens up instead of coming off fully Like 1/4 to 1/3 of the lid stays locked on like any other 5gal bucket lid but the top part opens up. If you could get one of those buckets then if placing a filter mesh in the mounted part then you could easily pour water in, slush it around and strain it out without much fuss. Atleast for something this large in amount. The sealing lid that opens does have a nice enough seal so water should not slush out. Might make things a bit less messy to deal with.
8000 dollars in silver. Good haul!
Great video , I got power regulator for Christmas off my wife , I will be trying set up a copper cell and a silver cell soon 😁👍
I am guessing that a very small percentage of your precious metals ends up in the waste. Does refining the byproducts for that percentage yield anything of value to you? I am amazed at how much product you extract out of the filters. Is it possible to show the chemical equations that you use. Physics, chemistry and math are my groove! Frank
Frank, I can do basic chemical equations, but I’m not a trained chemist.
So satisfying! Thank you @Sreetips!
You can check a fuse using your cellphone. If you touch one of the contacts to the phone screen and touch the other with your finger, your screen responding means the fuse is good.
I’ll give it a try
Surely using a tight sieve would be quicker washing the silver. Like rinsing the starch of rice
Would you be able to use a fine mesh stainless steel strainer to rinse the silver with?
I was going to ask this as well
Possibly
How many refinings do you subject the waste to before throwing it away?! The accumulation must be vast after awhile. Frank
Frank, just like in the kitchen, cleaning it as you go so it doesn’t build into a mountain, is the best way to treat the waste. Out of every ten hours I devote to refining the metals, at least 1.5 hours of that will be spent on waste treatment. The biggest generator of waste, by far, is silver refining.
@@sreetips I am guessing that a very small percentage of your precious metals ends up in some of the waste. Does refining the byproducts for that percentage yield anything of value to you? I am amazed at how much product you extract out of the filters. Is it possible to show the chemical equations that you use. Physics, chemistry and math are my groove!
Might think about a steel mesh screen to do your rinsing on
That was an amazing amount. Wow. Nice job
Next time how about an overhead shot of the big blue silver bowls. Would make a great background image
That would look awesome.
you could cut a part of the lid and place a filter between the lid and bucket to help separate each. Like haft moon shape or couple little holes.
You could drill some holes in the bottom of that silver bucket and put a metal screen on the bottom. Then you should be able use it like a colander to wash your electrolyte off the silver.
Have you tried leaving some "seed" crystals stuck to the sides and bottom of the bowl when starting a new batch? I wonder if it would affect the process and outcome.
No, I’ve never tried that. I always clean the cathode bowl thoroughly before beginning a new run of the silver cell.
The casserole dishes remind me of my mom's kitchen.
Hello sreetips, have you tried to put the silver crystals in a large bag made of the same material as the filters and thus wash the silver more easily.
No
That's a beautiful batch!
Good time for a cleanout, how about a half steel bowl in a glass bowl so we can see the sides and underneath
How does this work do you actually grow silver or are you only getting what you put in but in a more pure form? Love to see all those silver crystals
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
Thanks it’s very interesting I assumed you were growing it in some magical way, thanks for the information Ag and Au rule 👌
Where do you go to all the flea markets where you find this stuff like what city
There are flea markets all over the southeast. But like everything else, they’ve gone to pot. We used to find silver and gold from regular folks who came to the flea market to sell unused, unwanted stuff out of their garage and home, including broken gold and silver jewelry. But these days, it’s become more commercialized, prepackaged. The flea market in my area is getting ready to be shut down. The owner died, and his heirs are chopping at the bit to cash it in and retire wealthy.
Nice harvest...I wonder how many bushels of silver you collected :) Wouldn't it be less expensive to rinse each beaker with the distilled water of the previous beaker, mr Sreetips?
Yes
I wonder if it would be easier to wrinse the copper nitrate off of the refined silver by putting it in a giant bowl sifter or strainer, put it over a bucket, then poor distilled water through it into the catch bucket.
Yes, it could work.
Finally, this movie has been completed with a happy ending, it took a lot of effort.❤❤❤
Ok I was not expecting how rapidly the silver pieces decomposed.
This sounds like something I'd like to just try for fun
wohohooow, check out hose bowl FULL of silver, another great harvest looks like :) on an unrelated note, i've been dying trying to figure out what the 'SREE' in sreetips stands for... "special refining entertainment & education" is my best guess. did i get at least a little close, or do i have it completely wrong? ^^
That’s a good one!
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I started doing this with deionizdd water + silver nitrate crystall. And, silver slices from bar + silver saw dust and little silver cement in anode basket. Problem is after 3-4 days, the cell turned grey then dark grey. I experimented with lower voltage + taking negative wire off of the stainless cell. Would you say the cell is ruined, or can this problem be fixed? The cell was also close to base floor heater which makes me wounder about evaporation issues.
That’s baffling, I’ve never seen that before.
So, when will you melt them down to make a silver bar?
I used to melt and pour bars then sell them with every bit of the silver that I produced. Made a good income doing it. But with silver so grossly undervalued I’ve decided to just hold on to all my silver. In fact, I’m buying more.. maybe when silver gets up over a hundred bucks I’ll start making and selling pure silver bars again.
Those fuses contain silver also (small amount)
I have a question, I have about 50+ Silver contacts from Contactors and breakers.
Is this the process I need to use to refine it?
No, electrolytic refining works best with silver that’s already fairly high purity.
Beautiful
Nice job! Can the wash water be evaporated, to make a concentrated electro light?
No, I’ll see it to dilute silver nitrate solutions before adding copper to cement the silver out of it.
You need to use a micron filter to clean the silver off while keeping in a bucket