Always fun to watch silver being poured. Good rule of thumb since gold is around twice the atomic weight of silver you can typically make twice as heavy of a bar with the same size mold. Inversely if you have a mold that you know you can make a 10oz gold bar in, then you should probably be able to make a 5oz silver bar in the same mold.
Great video Kev. Gold coming out of solution is amazing - but nothing beats the beauty of those pure Silver crystals. If we don't hear from you beforehand - appreciate all of your great content from 2022 and wish you and Mrs sreetips an enjoyable festive season and a wonderful (and productive) 2023. 👍👍
Thanks for another great video! I know this is an older video, but you might consider a rosebud torch head for your melting. That is what we used in class. I have a bachelors degree in advanced metalsmithing from SIU.
I can see all of the work that you put into pouring these bars, it makes sense about the price. It's nice to see someone that has the smarts to tell the reality about silver. It's obvious that you have put in a lot of work, which shows the under value of silver right now, like you said. Beautiful silver bars👍
I have been in love with silver since childhood. It is very beautiful and affordable. I only have one gold piece. Wish I could afford to stack the yellow stuff!!!
Its makes no sense that silver is so dirt cheap i.e mining and production cost is barely less than the spot price.. They are using energy to subsidies the price suppression of silver. On the COMEX and LBMA.
I always allow a 1% "loss" from crystal going to a bar. I think this could be the sulphide boiling off or perhaps there is moisture trapped within the crystal structure... Also small bars is the way as you only ever get a percentage of the perfect with no outgassing.
Silver isn't really undervalued, you just showed we can just make more of it. Not an easy process, but its doable and profitable. Unlike with other precious metals. Still amazing to see the entire process of it all, you did an amazing job. They turned out great.
This guy had the best eye & hand control to stamp it perfectly. Extremely hard to do this. Often wondered if you loose at least 1 or 2% of silver or gold when melted then poured. Great vidio.
Hello Mr sreetips. Thank you for showing have to prepare, and the melting process. Man... Hove exelent your silver bars are sir. Thank you, and god bless you. Arne
Of course it is yet another vid show casing awesome skills. I'v always had a soft spot for poured bars and 5oz especially has a great feel in the hand.
Hi Mister Sreetips, All what you perform was, long time ago, called Alchemy. Thanks a lot for your precious and clear explanations. Best Regards, Sylvain
Awesome pours there Sir Sreetips! I love pouring bars! So glad to see you using the brazing tip. As a welder of many many years, I like seeing the right equipment being used the way it is intended. Cutting torch is used for cutting. In which case it uses more gas and oxygen. The brazing tip is used to melt material, using less gas and oxygen. Hence, more cost effective. Did you like the performance of the brazing tip as opposed to the cutting tip? Also, I have found that instead of having the mapp heating directly above the cavity and the pour, I adjust the tip to where it is heating just the graphite mold. I don't get the hazing on the bar from the mapp hitting it directly. Bars turned out beautiful. Your stamping is impeccable! Thank you for all you do!
So bad ass you can grow silver in a silver cell. Love your channel Sreetips. I can watch you refine and pour gold and silver all day. Well I kinda do already.
Hadn't really thought about it before, but I guess that's true. The silver bars in the biggest mold will be half the weight of the gold. I suppose you could get bigger molds.
That was Bergj awesome to watch the first stamping part was a bit painful to watch but then I realised its all a part of the process and I remember in metalwork how unforgiving this'd sstampscan be if you want a straight love be you need to take the time very nice work .
You could do with a die like you have for sreettips thats a die set holder that you make up the biggest portion of the info like you stamp that would speed up the part for the stamping of the bulk and you then add in the weight 999 Fine troy oz. so all you need to add a stamp for Gold and Silver.
I was about to post the same thing. "999 Fine" could be one die, just like the metal type. Date will be tricky as they have a tendency to change every day.
@@sreetips Did you just put a brazing tip on your cutting torch handle or did you also use a brazing handle? A brazing/welding tip and handle are much lighter and easier to manipulate than a cutting setup.
Fantastic Video! Sir. Thank you for showing us. The only thing else I would've wanted to see is, well you know that piece of equipment that you put to the bar and it tells you what kinds & how much of every metals found in the bar. 😁.......GOD BLESS
I’ll hand it to ya buddy. You got ppl willing to pay 4 times spot on precious metals. Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it. I won’t be one of them, as much as I’d like to own one of your bars.
@zackzimmer7167 it's not always about the investment in the metals. People are investing in sreetips. These purchases help produce his videos. I completely agree, for an investment this is an absolute no. However, some people have been watching Sreetips for years and see it the same was as a souvenir or donation to the page. I personally bought 1oz of the crystal just to add to my collection and say I have something from a Sreetips video just because I've been a fan for years.
Perfect timing for me! It’s time for chow with a side of awesome entertainment…or should I say vice versa (bachelor chow is on the menu tonight, not the pulpo). Thank you Sir!!!👍👍🤟
Awesome to see you again Sreetips. It has been far too long since I last paid you a visit. I sincerely have missed you old friend. I really enjoyed working with your 9999 crystals. I see we use the same borax and it is great to see someone other than me pouring bars old school. Torch and cup is sooooo much more enjoyable than plugging in an electric furnace eh. And a whole lot cheaper as well. I am still pouring and using a Mapp alternative called GCX. It is no longer available so once I get the last of this 100 lb bottle emptied I am going to introduce oxy/propane to my pouring bench. It is much hotter than the Mapp. I sure have enjoyed this visit with you old friend. I will try and make it far less time before finding you again my old friend.
@@sreetips Most comercial tracers etc for steel use P/OX for plate steel (the good stuff) up to and including 6 inch thick T1 plate. It is marginally colder than Acc. And a tenth of the cost and no demerge monthly bottle rental charges and O2 is cheap enough on its own. Have a great last of 22 and ONWARD into 23 my FRIEND. Take care eh. We must do a silver trade one day as I have nothing from you and the other way around.
@@sreetips both are beautiful. I can understand people who prefer silver over gold, though. The silver crystals you harvest from the silver cell are stunning.
Yes, separate melt dish for each metal. The graphite mold deteriorates after many uses. I’d say a couple hundred pours before it starts to get bad enough that it affects the shape of the bar.
I say my collection but I just recently started buying just about three months or so in now but there's so much out there on the internet it's really difficult to know who and what to trust.
You must have done a lot of Gold ore to get that much silver, or Galena ore. Fantastic. Nice process. Liquid silver, looks like mercury. Silver is not poisonous as mercury is. You are sure a patient man to be doing this as a side job.
Great video. How do you know your poured silver bars are 999 fine? Is it just a presumption based on the chemistry that yields the silver crystals, or do you perform an assay?
No presumption. I’ve sent sample to a lab in the UK to have it analyzed. Guardian Labs. It come back three nines every time. In one case, I double refined it, ran the silver crystal back through the cell a second time, and it came back greater than five nines. That 99,999 parts per 100,000 pure silver.
That silver cell process is truly fascinating
The Silver crystals by themselves before the melt are so beautiful. The silver pools in molten form are so pretty too.
Always fun to watch silver being poured. Good rule of thumb since gold is around twice the atomic weight of silver you can typically make twice as heavy of a bar with the same size mold. Inversely if you have a mold that you know you can make a 10oz gold bar in, then you should probably be able to make a 5oz silver bar in the same mold.
Very good tip on pre-treating a brand new melt dish. Well done, sir.
A new melt dish-what a treat. A joy to see!
Thanks for your satisfying and zen silver melt.
Sreetips for the win.
Such beautiful silver bars. They're really lovely and the melt was fascinating. 👍
I love when someone narrates. I learn far more than just silence.
Man, what a cool melt video! It's always amazing watching those silver crystals instantly start turning into liquid.
As many times as ive seen your videos, you'd think id know what youre doing by now.. but as far as i can tell, its magic!
Great video Kev. Gold coming out of solution is amazing - but nothing beats the beauty of those pure Silver crystals. If we don't hear from you beforehand - appreciate all of your great content from 2022 and wish you and Mrs sreetips an enjoyable festive season and a wonderful (and productive) 2023. 👍👍
Same to you, thank you
@@sreetips do you refine silver and gold off of computer boards ?
Beautiful silver bars. Awesome job and awesome video.
Thanks for another great video! I know this is an older video, but you might consider a rosebud torch head for your melting. That is what we used in class. I have a bachelors degree in advanced metalsmithing from SIU.
I love watching u work on gold and silver stuff fantastic job
Thank you for these videos i made my first silver crucible ball today and your video coached me all the way through it keep bringing these jewels
This is the very best silver video I’ve seen so far. Thank you for the great work. Cheers, CJ
It sure is a joy to watch and learn. Thank you for the wonderful video.
I can see all of the work that you put into pouring these bars, it makes sense about the price. It's nice to see someone that has the smarts to tell the reality about silver. It's obvious that you have put in a lot of work, which shows the under value of silver right now, like you said.
Beautiful silver bars👍
It will never make 4x spot worth of sense
Time is your most valuable asset. Take $25 down to tombstone Arizona and see how much silver you find. You will find your tombstone first.
I have been in love with silver since childhood. It is very beautiful and affordable. I only have one gold piece. Wish I could afford to stack the yellow stuff!!!
Its makes no sense that silver is so dirt cheap i.e mining and production cost is barely less than the spot price.. They are using energy to subsidies the price suppression of silver. On the COMEX and LBMA.
Very useful info, I’m watching it ten times already, I can’t wait to see next notification .. thank you
I was so fascinated just watching the whole process, thank you.
I always allow a 1% "loss" from crystal going to a bar. I think this could be the sulphide boiling off or perhaps there is moisture trapped within the crystal structure... Also small bars is the way as you only ever get a percentage of the perfect with no outgassing.
You have a very organized system.
Silver is awesome! Thanks!
Silver isn't really undervalued, you just showed we can just make more of it. Not an easy process, but its doable and profitable. Unlike with other precious metals. Still amazing to see the entire process of it all, you did an amazing job. They turned out great.
I disagree. Silver is grossly undervalued.
@5:05 I love how you teach people how to season the melt dish with Borax, easy does it, keep the temp high, love the new torch tip!
This guy had the best eye & hand control to stamp it perfectly. Extremely hard to do this. Often wondered if you loose at least 1 or 2% of silver or gold when melted then poured. Great vidio.
Wasn't expecting to see you until after the holidays. Thanks for the video. I jones for your videos, Senior Chief!!!
You have the most relaxing videos on you tube.
Best educational videos. Best ASMR for when I get drowsy. Thank you, Sreetips.
Thank you for explaining the reducing flame. I scratched my head many times about that
Great job on that melt and the stamping spot on
Always a pleasure watching you work sir!!!👍👍👍
Thank you for this very detailed look into converting old silver to new! 👍🏼
Beautiful, I would love one or two in my collection, but USA/Uk so I will just admire them from across the water, great work as usual Sreetips 👌
Hello Mr sreetips. Thank you for showing have to prepare, and the melting process.
Man... Hove exelent your silver bars are sir. Thank you, and god bless you. Arne
wow this is neat! Great document of the end to end process!
Of course it is yet another vid show casing awesome skills.
I'v always had a soft spot for poured bars and 5oz especially has a great feel in the hand.
I’m always amazed at seeing molten precious metals!
It is mesmerizing!
I just love the look of silver. I like it even more than gold!
I like the flame from the new brazing head.
Cheers and happy holidays! 👍😎🎄🇦🇺
So fascinating! i can watch these all day thanks.
Great, a silver melting video! Thank you!
Really interesting,definently get that mad scientist buzz going on. Great work 🙂👍🙏💥
Glad to see you are still around! Happy Holidays!
Same to you Dawn, thank you.
Hi Mister Sreetips,
All what you perform was, long time ago, called Alchemy.
Thanks a lot for your precious and clear explanations.
Best Regards,
Sylvain
thanks for sharing and Happy Holidays to you and your family : )
Awesome pours there Sir Sreetips! I love pouring bars! So glad to see you using the brazing tip. As a welder of many many years, I like seeing the right equipment being used the way it is intended. Cutting torch is used for cutting. In which case it uses more gas and oxygen. The brazing tip is used to melt material, using less gas and oxygen. Hence, more cost effective. Did you like the performance of the brazing tip as opposed to the cutting tip? Also, I have found that instead of having the mapp heating directly above the cavity and the pour, I adjust the tip to where it is heating just the graphite mold. I don't get the hazing on the bar from the mapp hitting it directly. Bars turned out beautiful. Your stamping is impeccable! Thank you for all you do!
I’ll never use a cutting head to melt the pure metal again. I’ll use the cutting head to do inquartation because it dirties the tip real bad.
@@sreetips Awesome! Good to hear my friend. I thought a long time ago, you would prefer the brazing tip.
Awesome silver 5 Troy Oz of bar and awesome 10 Oz bar's thanks for sharing sreetips
nice melting ;)
good looking bars ;)
I've been wondering what is the small bar that you put in the silver shot ?
So bad ass you can grow silver in a silver cell. Love your channel Sreetips. I can watch you refine and pour gold and silver all day. Well I kinda do already.
They look good. Nice work
Great video, they turned nice after a bath.
Hadn't really thought about it before, but I guess that's true. The silver bars in the biggest mold will be half the weight of the gold. I suppose you could get bigger molds.
Amazing vid... I wish you lived next door to me so I could work with you and learn. It's hard to find videos like this that show the process.
That was Bergj awesome to watch the first stamping part was a bit painful to watch but then I realised its all a part of the process and I remember in metalwork how unforgiving this'd sstampscan be if you want a straight love be you need to take the time very nice work .
@7:10 Man, seeing those impure shot kernels reminds me of kettle corn! You’re making me hungry, sreetips!! 😅😅
Cheers and happy holidays!
🖖😎👍
Amazing so cool I have done home plating with Nickle and Zink but this is way beyond that.
You could do with a die like you have for sreettips thats a die set holder that you make up the biggest portion of the info like you stamp that would speed up the part for the stamping of the bulk and you then add in the weight
999 Fine
troy oz.
so all you need to add a stamp for Gold and Silver.
I was about to post the same thing. "999 Fine" could be one die, just like the metal type. Date will be tricky as they have a tendency to change every day.
I have to say the brasing tip makes it easier to see the molten silver I like it
I like it too
@@sreetips Did you just put a brazing tip on your cutting torch handle or did you also use a brazing handle? A brazing/welding tip and handle are much lighter and easier to manipulate than a cutting setup.
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
Fantastic Video! Sir. Thank you for showing us. The only thing else I would've wanted to see is, well you know that piece of equipment that you put to the bar and it tells you what kinds & how much of every metals found in the bar. 😁.......GOD BLESS
XRF, cost as much as a car. Too rich for me. I’ve sent samples off to have them analyzed - cones three nines every time.
Very nice looking bars be safe everyone 🇺🇸👍
I can't stop watching, keep up the good work kind sir.
I’ll hand it to ya buddy. You got ppl willing to pay 4 times spot on precious metals. Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it. I won’t be one of them, as much as I’d like to own one of your bars.
@@maddoxinc1642 crazy thing is mfers buying them for that price
@@nitr0junki3 Inexperienced buyers, they’ll learn. After people take advantage a few times.
@zackzimmer7167 it's not always about the investment in the metals. People are investing in sreetips. These purchases help produce his videos.
I completely agree, for an investment this is an absolute no.
However, some people have been watching Sreetips for years and see it the same was as a souvenir or donation to the page.
I personally bought 1oz of the crystal just to add to my collection and say I have something from a Sreetips video just because I've been a fan for years.
Well said, thank you.
It will look cheap one day.
Perfect timing for me! It’s time for chow with a side of awesome entertainment…or should I say vice versa (bachelor chow is on the menu tonight, not the pulpo). Thank you Sir!!!👍👍🤟
Awesome to see you again Sreetips. It has been far too long since I last paid you a visit. I sincerely have missed you old friend. I really enjoyed working with your 9999 crystals. I see we use the same borax and it is great to see someone other than me pouring bars old school. Torch and cup is sooooo much more enjoyable than plugging in an electric furnace eh. And a whole lot cheaper as well. I am still pouring and using a Mapp alternative called GCX. It is no longer available so once I get the last of this 100 lb bottle emptied I am going to introduce oxy/propane to my pouring bench. It is much hotter than the Mapp. I sure have enjoyed this visit with you old friend. I will try and make it far less time before finding you again my old friend.
Excellent, thanks Dean. I’d like to try oxy/propane myself
@@sreetips Most comercial tracers etc for steel use P/OX for plate steel (the good stuff) up to and including 6 inch thick T1 plate. It is marginally colder than Acc. And a tenth of the cost and no demerge monthly bottle rental charges and O2 is cheap enough on its own. Have a great last of 22 and ONWARD into 23 my FRIEND. Take care eh. We must do a silver trade one day as I have nothing from you and the other way around.
there's not enough silver and copper melts in my subscriber feed, thank you so much Sreetips :)
very cool. thanks for demonstration.
Very nice bars !
I could stare into that silver cell forever!
Excellent video. Thank you
Cute little bars.
Very impressive !! THX for the video .
This was the Science teacher I needed back in school.
Beautiful bars as always, steetips. Love all your vids! Let me know if you ever start shipping to Canada. Would love to buy one of your bars.
I love seeing the silver getting processed in mass, thank you!
En massé, bro
Maybe he's catholic?
I enjoy watching your channel, you always have great videos.
Thank you!
Very Satisfying, I would love to smelt and stamp my own bar.
You mean melt, not smelt. Smelt is a term used to describe rendering metals from ore.
I love silver. I think it's so beautiful.
You’d be surprised at how many folks say that to me. They like the silver better than the gold.
@@sreetips both are beautiful. I can understand people who prefer silver over gold, though. The silver crystals you harvest from the silver cell are stunning.
Excellent video, also I was wondering if you ever thought of induction heating for your melt and mold heating.
I havent
Love your channel I don't miss an episode how about doing a 1 kg silver bar for a Christmas special 😀
Your neighbourhood must have really clean drains.
Waste treatment.
So entertaining on many levels 🙏
A popsicle stick attached with rubber cement makes that lettering quicker.
Do you use a separate melt dish for gold and silver? And how many pours do you get out of a single mold?
Yes, separate melt dish for each metal. The graphite mold deteriorates after many uses. I’d say a couple hundred pours before it starts to get bad enough that it affects the shape of the bar.
Very cool informative video, thank you sir
Really awesome I would love to have a couple in my collection as well.
I say my collection but I just recently started buying just about three months or so in now but there's so much out there on the internet it's really difficult to know who and what to trust.
You must have done a lot of Gold ore to get that much silver, or Galena ore. Fantastic. Nice process. Liquid silver, looks like mercury. Silver is not poisonous as mercury is. You are sure a patient man to be doing this as a side job.
Mrs. Sreetips is a shrewd businesswoman!
I’m terrible at business. I tend to pay too much, and charge too little. She saves me.
I might have to get into silver pours myself. Keep up the good content!
Nice work sree, I wonder if you would sell some, nice and clean pieces.
Beautiful bars
Another good video sir, happy yuletide to you and your misses.
I enjoy your skills sir!
How's it going today Mr. hope all is well can't wait to check out the video.
Merry Christmas to you and Mrs sreetips
Merry Christmas to you and yours
Hi again Sreetips. For the anode bar in the silver cell: Could you use a copper bar rather than silver? Would that cause catalytic rusting?
I suppose copper is ok. But I use silver because it gets partially dissolved as the cell operates.
Great video. How do you know your poured silver bars are 999 fine? Is it just a presumption based on the chemistry that yields the silver crystals, or do you perform an assay?
No presumption. I’ve sent sample to a lab in the UK to have it analyzed. Guardian Labs. It come back three nines every time. In one case, I double refined it, ran the silver crystal back through the cell a second time, and it came back greater than five nines. That 99,999 parts per 100,000 pure silver.
@@sreetips That's amazing. Especially the part about double refining and pushing the limits of purity.
Neat stuff. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Did you add a pinch of borax to each pour or did the bars get the residual flux on top from the crucible ?
From the crucible