how did i just watch 30 mins of silver electrolysis. i was actually super fascinated by the creation of the the silver electrolyte, its really smart using the pure silver you already collected to make it, sense you get about a 2:1 return ratio, not to mention you can use it for 2 sessions, meaning its closer to a 4:1 return. there's no waisted material and its a self contained system, i love how simple it all is in practice, even if the science can look daunting at first glance.
@AC haha no dude I'm a real guy, I just get excited by weird stuff is all, looking at the comment though it really does kind of like a bot, thanks for the laugh man
I'm really glad you are here sharing your knowledge with the world. I really wish there were more content creators like you out there. Please keep the videos coming!
I’m going out on a limb here; but I’d have to say that my videos of precious metals refining are the best, most comprehensive, and easiest to understand, on the entire internet.
Wow, more people should be saving all the precious metals that we throw out everyday. Such a waste, people like you can teach the rest of us how to preserve our precious resources, and stop wasting them. Thanks for sharing your really great work!
You should emphasise the idea that you run a few kilos of shot through a few hundred grams of electrolyte, it seems to be a really efficient system, great video as always.
That silver cell looks super cools regardless of its value. Take a high quality photo of the silver in the blue liquid; it would make an incredible desktop background❤
4:08 I would love to see the step’s involved in recovering those other metals that get left behind in the basket. I’m sure other people would love to see that process to
PGM refining are much more difficult chemistry than go;d and silver. I seem to remember Sreetips admitting it isn’t something he does often, so separating the PGMs is not a skill he has developed via repetition and incremental improvement.
Man, that is a lot of silver left in that used electrolyte. If our growing copper shortage manifests, it'll be interesting to see if copper becomes worth enough to start trying to recover
I dunno about this type of recovery but it's definitely worth gathering up to sell. I probably average 10k a year in scrap I gather up. Working in the trades helps but anyone can make a few grand a year with minimal effort.
@@ospjp4 Don't worry, most people are to lazy or think they're above pulling things out of the trash. I've tried to get many into scrapping and the number one excuse is they're to embarrassed to dig in trash.
That weight worked out to roughly 41.5 ounces which at today's value rounded off to $26 an ounce, that one run yielded about $1000. Very cool. Great video.
Not exactly. He used 650 grams of silver to "seed" his electrolyte. So his yield was actually only 529 grams. Price of silver is currently $0.75/gram = $396.75
I use the electrolyte twice. I reserve about 400g from each harvest to make electrolyte for future runs of the silver cell. I harvest average 1.5 kilos of per silver from each run. So two runs gives me 3 kilos of pure silver. I reserve 800g (400g from each run) to make new electrolyte. The net gain is 3 kilos minus 0.8 kilos (800g) equals 2.2 kilos. So that’s 2.2 kilos that get deposited into my savings. My savings are NOT in paper dollars. My savings is held in PURE SILVER.
In his other rooms he has gold, platinum and 4 Frankensteins growing 😂😂😂 great video, great transfer of usable information. Thank you for sharing and educating people. The world needs more of you in it.
Take an upper class college level chemistry class. Most chemistry major students chose chemistry because they like tangible outcomes (unlike physics which deals a lot in theory despite the niche of physics)-meaning they are wicked smart…and they are only the students. Masters, PHD candidates and professors are on par with this alchemist which is next level creative and mastery in ingenuity not just a solid understanding of bench chemistry
Absolutely beautiful.....still gets me each time!(been a subscriber for 7 years)I appreciate your time, effort, and dialog for each VIDEO. Keep them coming and your amazing work. 👏
I really like how you take your time and throughly explain every step in terms everyone can understand. Awesome video and thank you for sharing this with all of us!
I wonder if you changed the shape of the anode bar, whether you might get more current due to a higher amount of contact points. I'm thinking either a u-shape, or L-shape you could insert into the basket. Just a thought..
The anode bar should not come into contact with the solution, otherwise it will dissolve. The bar is just there to conduct electricity to the impure silver shot in the basket and it is the shot which is in contact with the solution to dissolve. As the conductivity of the shot is high enough, there is no use for more contact points.
I'm a HVAC technician, we use 15% silver brazing rods. Usually always have a ton of little left overs. Would be cool to see you take a bunch of those and extract the silver from them.
@@apveening how? Is it run through multiple times? Seemed like the spent shot removed from the cell was around 60% of the amount that went in. If 90+% of it is silver shouldn't it almost completely dissolve?
Hello friends. Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. The silver crysyal is hard to describe... Yust stunning. Thanks for sharing that whit us Sir. Whis everybody a nice day/evening/night/morning. God bless you. Arne
Hear me out: do the stoichometry for your reactions and measure out the chemicals like a cook doing prep before turning on the stove. My guesstimate is you'd need something around 550mL of 67% nitric acid to dissolve 653.8g of elemental silver. It's a very slight excess: you can use 3mL less to put the silver in excess. Hopefully, it saves you some time and money.
That’s really cool😎 I run my DI water through a Brita filter for polishing. I think it makes a difference. You can get nice water stills online for $70 these days.
The blue color is HNO2 which is a byproduct of dissolving metals in nitric acid as it forms when NO2 dissolves in water along with reforming nitric acid and giving off nitric oxide which is NO gas and that ideally reacts with more air forming NO2 again and so on but ofc it escapes along with NO2 at the top.
Many years ago I refined 50 lbs of sterling tableware. Used electrolysis method for the last part. I poured it into 5 oz bars. The purity was so high that all the bars crystallized on the surface. Was very pretty. I had a sample from each batch tested and they all showed 99.95+. The broker said his gun only went up to 99.95.
I’ve had mine analyses, comes back three nines via fire assay. I ran the crystal back through the cell one time. Had an ICP assay and that came back greater than five nines fine. That’s 99,999 parts per one hundred thousand pure silver.
I have learned so much from you! Every time I see a new video posted I just watch in awe and pure amazement. I'm going to start calling you professor sreetips! You inspire me to start my own silver cell if only to just use your teachings and follow your wisdom! I will be studying and taking notes professor! Also if you have any expert advice in starting a new cell from scratch I would love to hear your thoughts and advice! :)
I’ll be making a new video of constructing a second silver cell from scratch. Been planning it for years. Just haven’t found the time to make it happen. Watch for the video and thank you for the kind words!
@@sreetips - hello sir! Found your channel a month or so ago and it is just amazing to me. I want to tackle this as a hobby myself and am super interested. Where can an individual find the silver shot or feed stock? I do not currently have the resource from gold refining to melting cement silver to generate the impure silver as you apparently have. Any advice or resource for this part of your process? I firmly believe I can get the remaining steps accomplished. Looks like a great hobby and DIY project. Thanks for your time and appreciate all you share!
Why dont you make the anode basket larger? You can use more of the filter bag and put more into ur anode basket thus making the production less tedious with having to fill the anode basket as much? Just a thought...
i had amaon cart full of sweat shop merchandise to make the cell untill i realized i needed 100 dollars of scrap silver to turn into 100 dollar glob of silver
IN CANADA -- It cost $42.80 to buy an ounce of Physical Silver here in the Eastern Provinces.. You American have it Made when it comes to Buying Gold and Silver... OH,,, and Gold is $2869.00 Canadian for a Physical Ounce... April 25 2023
I've seen you dissolve also Silver shot when you proces the Anode slimes. I think washing the Anode bag Silver shot with distilled water and add it back to the Silver cell wouldn't influence quality of the produced Silver crystal, but I think it would save you a lot of work and Nitric acid. I think you can recover the slimes from the washwater by filtering.
I tried rinsing the silver in those filters but it didn’t work very well. I could soak the slimes then try to strain the silver shot out and run it through the cell.
Hey sreetips, great video! I always love your stuff. If I can make a suggestion - consider adding some audio compression (and then normalization) to reduce the difference in volume between your live and voice-over sections. Sometimes I have to turn the volume up to hear the live portions, but then a voice-over section will be very loud. Anyways, keep up the awesome work! :)
so, theoretically, you could take all the little sterling silver balls out of the bottoms of “antique” glass and put them into this, on average those balls are about a couple grams to an oz depending on the vase/piece.
have you ever experimented with different current strengths? maybe there is a voltage in which favors larger crystal formation? would be a could experiment.
As the whole bowl is the cathode, this won't work, the silver crystallizes where it's easiest and requires least current. If instead the cathode was some stainless piece of sheet metal or two near each other you could have a point. Will, if i get this right, increase electricity consumption and bills.
I was thinking of making some jewelry out of this but have no idea how... Maybe resin? I'd want it directly out of that container though, not after it is shipped haha.
I’m an instant fan! I want to do this! I want to know how to do this. And yes can’t make silver out of air… dammit all😝. Do ya have a tutorial on how to make this, what ya need to do it(chemicals/equipment)? I mean this is cool but so many questions. Do I just need to search or do ya have a video or series on it?
Rinsing through a filter (even something as simple as a coffee filter) will be more efficient and remove more impurities. You will find you'll use less water and achieve a higher purity. When filtering your silver nitrate solution, you should use filter paper in the funnel. Also, you should test the pH of the solution to determine if it still contains acid. (TIP: use a glass rod, dip it into the solution, then touch it to the pH paper. _DO NOT_ dip the pH paper into the solution.) You should log the weight of the "silver shot" in the cathode and the amount of silver used in the making of silver nitrate. Then, log the amount of silver recovered at the end of the process. This will allow you to determine the net gain or loss of silver and whether or not this procedure is cost-effective. If there is a net gain, what is the profit margin when taking into account the total cost of chemicals and supplies (including cost of electricity). If it is negligible, a different method should be used for purifying the silver. Example: if the total amount of silver recovered is valued at $100 (nominal) and the cost of chemicals/process is $120, you are operating at a loss. If the cost of the chemicals/process is $80, you are operating at a negligible net gain.
I use sterling to refine gold. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. I have much silver that I’ve recovered from this. So I melt it into granules and run it through my silver cell. Then I put it away and forget about it. Im not trying to “make a profit” by re-selling it for more paper. My profit is in the form of real money: silver. I measure my savings in silver, not paper. Hope this makes sense.
@@sreetips i mean that is great that you are holding on to your silver to measure your savings . just remember you can not buy food with silver you have to turn it into paper first.
Correct. If I need some paper to buy food or pay rent, then I sell a little metal. The rest, I get to keep. Silver is trending up. Paper is trending down. So it makes more sense to hold silver, rather than holding paper, that can be printed out of thin air.
Amazing what comes into the feed sometimes. Definetly intriguing. Is that Brown pot from a Visions cookware set? I know its an odd question. Havent seen a set in 20 years. Great Content on the video. I will definetly be watching more episodes.
This dude is the Bob Ross of metal refining, love his videos
Best description of this channel lmfao. I can watch this all day
Wonder what upfront and overhead costs are to produce this kind of yield
Happy little crystals.
I have been watching you channel for years and you have inspired me to make a gold and platinum plated chess set for my Dad
What a great gift. Kind of you sir🌹
Careful with the platinum. Platinosis is a terrible way to die.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 you can clear coat them with polyurethane to seal in chemicals and materials.
Is there a sreetips Platinum Plating video i missed ?
Please link me in.
Sounds interesting.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 why is it i cant find any information about platinosis
how did i just watch 30 mins of silver electrolysis. i was actually super fascinated by the creation of the the silver electrolyte, its really smart using the pure silver you already collected to make it, sense you get about a 2:1 return ratio, not to mention you can use it for 2 sessions, meaning its closer to a 4:1 return. there's no waisted material and its a self contained system, i love how simple it all is in practice, even if the science can look daunting at first glance.
@AC haha no dude I'm a real guy, I just get excited by weird stuff is all, looking at the comment though it really does kind of like a bot, thanks for the laugh man
I'm really glad you are here sharing your knowledge with the world. I really wish there were more content creators like you out there. Please keep the videos coming!
There are many more out there like him. Probably 50,000 creators...You just have to find them in the 51,000,000 channels.
I’m going out on a limb here; but I’d have to say that my videos of precious metals refining are the best, most comprehensive, and easiest to understand, on the entire internet.
Wow, more people should be saving all the precious metals that we throw out everyday. Such a waste, people like you can teach the rest of us how to preserve our precious resources, and stop wasting them. Thanks for sharing your really great work!
What are you talking about? What idiot throws away precious metals?
What do we throw away? How are we throwing precious metals away?
Love these silver cell videos, they never fail to fascinate me. Thanks for sharing your wonderful hobby with everyone.
Awesome video! I’m a silver bug and in the pipeline industry as a Cathodic Protection technician. This hits home for me, well done.
You should emphasise the idea that you run a few kilos of shot through a few hundred grams of electrolyte, it seems to be a really efficient system, great video as always.
That silver cell looks super cools regardless of its value. Take a high quality photo of the silver in the blue liquid; it would make an incredible desktop background❤
7:50 Awesome timelapse! 😍 It feels like coral reefs growing under the sea... or an undersea volcano, I love it. 🥰
Absolutely love watching your process. So consistent and detailed!
Love your content. You make electrochemistry understandable to everyone.
I can appriacate the sheer amount of work that goes into the process but you are a real life metalmagician, its facinating.
I love watching these videos. I wish I'd learned and continued this at school.
4:08 I would love to see the step’s involved in recovering those other metals that get left behind in the basket. I’m sure other people would love to see that process to
SREETIPS HAS ALREADY DONE VIDEOS ON THE SILVER SLIMES PRECIOUS METALS RECOVERY AND REFINING IN THE PLAYLIST VIDEOS ON HIS UA-cam CHANNEL
Have I already seen those videos? Yes! Will I watch new ones covering the subject yet again? Absolutely yes!
PGM refining are much more difficult chemistry than go;d and silver. I seem to remember Sreetips admitting it isn’t something he does often, so separating the PGMs is not a skill he has developed via repetition and incremental improvement.
@@MATTER767 WHY ARE YOU YELLING
Still fun to watch and I still enjoy the silver crystal I bought from you.
Man, that is a lot of silver left in that used electrolyte.
If our growing copper shortage manifests, it'll be interesting to see if copper becomes worth enough to start trying to recover
I dunno about this type of recovery but it's definitely worth gathering up to sell. I probably average 10k a year in scrap I gather up. Working in the trades helps but anyone can make a few grand a year with minimal effort.
@@okgroomer1966 dude shhhhh dont blow up the game
@@ospjp4 Don't worry, most people are to lazy or think they're above pulling things out of the trash. I've tried to get many into scrapping and the number one excuse is they're to embarrassed to dig in trash.
if the crystals were a little bit more solid, you could cast that bowl in epoxy and turn it. that would be soooo nice !
That's a sweet idea
I love that you use vintage Corningware and kitchen Pyrex products alongside your lab equipment
I’m really shocked they let you show us this. I want to try this but I feel like I’d screw it up. I’ve been taking notes. I watch all your videos btw
Make sure and do it in a fume hood.
That weight worked out to roughly 41.5 ounces which at today's value rounded off to $26 an ounce, that one run yielded about $1000. Very cool. Great video.
Not exactly. He used 650 grams of silver to "seed" his electrolyte. So his yield was actually only 529 grams. Price of silver is currently $0.75/gram = $396.75
I use the electrolyte twice. I reserve about 400g from each harvest to make electrolyte for future runs of the silver cell. I harvest average 1.5 kilos of per silver from each run. So two runs gives me 3 kilos of pure silver. I reserve 800g (400g from each run) to make new electrolyte. The net gain is 3 kilos minus 0.8 kilos (800g) equals 2.2 kilos. So that’s 2.2 kilos that get deposited into my savings. My savings are NOT in paper dollars. My savings is held in PURE SILVER.
@@sreetips As a silver bug ,I'm am completely jealous of you sir!
Isn't that one of the seven deadly sins?
@@sreetips yeah , but it was a joke 😁
In his other rooms he has gold, platinum and 4 Frankensteins growing 😂😂😂 great video, great transfer of usable information. Thank you for sharing and educating people. The world needs more of you in it.
You can’t tell me this guy isn’t a wizard. Never heard of crystallized silver. Sorcery 😂 Absolutely love this
Everything in the material realm is a crystal at some level.
@@bjpcorp "Material realm" Yeah this dude is a wizard too
Wizardy, chemistry... what's the difference?
@@EvolQ basically the same thing to me who hasn’t studied chem in years
Take an upper class college level chemistry class. Most chemistry major students chose chemistry because they like tangible outcomes (unlike physics which deals a lot in theory despite the niche of physics)-meaning they are wicked smart…and they are only the students. Masters, PHD candidates and professors are on par with this alchemist which is next level creative and mastery in ingenuity not just a solid understanding of bench chemistry
That copper pipe in the blue electrolyte was a neat trick, was amazed how quickly it was occurring.
Absolutely beautiful.....still gets me each time!(been a subscriber for 7 years)I appreciate your time, effort, and dialog for each VIDEO. Keep them coming and your amazing work. 👏
How much $$$ did you make?
Just too cool man.. alchemy is alive and well. Really interesting, inspiring and insightful! Thank you it was well done too!
Watching the crystals form and fall was a very satisfying asmr video I think u should a Timelapse no talking I would totally watch that!
I really like how you take your time and throughly explain every step in terms everyone can understand. Awesome video and thank you for sharing this with all of us!
This is fake you know that right?
As a silver investor I am inspired immensely with your work as you continue to produce a quality product..👍👍
@@coxy623 what are you saying?
@@coxy623 what's your problem?
@@coxy623 you got your name right coz your a DICK !!! 😂😂😂
@@coxy623 get a life... 😉
Excellent timing Sreetips! My day was sh!t now it has done a 180 and now it is great!
This is awesome, never heard of such a contraption
some of the silver crystals you have made over the years have been some of the most beautiful formations just like seeing bismuth crystals.
@@coxy623 I am not a bot I really do enjoy the sight of the crystal formations silver makes.
I wonder if you changed the shape of the anode bar, whether you might get more current due to a higher amount of contact points. I'm thinking either a u-shape, or L-shape you could insert into the basket. Just a thought..
The anode bar should not come into contact with the solution, otherwise it will dissolve. The bar is just there to conduct electricity to the impure silver shot in the basket and it is the shot which is in contact with the solution to dissolve. As the conductivity of the shot is high enough, there is no use for more contact points.
I'm a HVAC technician, we use 15% silver brazing rods. Usually always have a ton of little left overs. Would be cool to see you take a bunch of those and extract the silver from them.
I have a video. I bought Stay-silv 15 and refined the silver from them. It wasn’t easy. Video of it posted on my channel.
You should collect those left overs in a bucket and save them.
I am curious what the recovery rate is how many grams of shot equal how many grams of crystal?
Roughly 98 to 99 grams of crystal per 100 grams of shot (that shot is 98% to 99% pure silver).
@@apveening how? Is it run through multiple times? Seemed like the spent shot removed from the cell was around 60% of the amount that went in. If 90+% of it is silver shouldn't it almost completely dissolve?
@@KickRocksClowns You overlooked the refills.
@@apveening As in the spent shot is run again? Multiple times?
@@KickRocksClowns No, more shot is added to replace dissolved shot.
Watching that cementing process will never get old to me lol
Love the look of silver crystal!❤
I could sit and watch that silver cement out on the copper tube for hours at a time it's so satisfying I know I can't be the only person
I would love to see you melt silver into the biggest bar you ever made. Like a gigantic bar of silver.
That would be awesome. I don’t have the right equipment. I’m just a hobbyist.
Very interesting, thank you! Dacron is used to cover skeleton framed aircraft. You might find cheaper by the yard vs vacuum bags.
If it’s the same type material then yes that would be much less expensive.
I want to drink the forbidden Blue Gatorade so bad
Not recommended
Hahaha!
Hello friends. Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. The silver crysyal is hard to describe... Yust stunning. Thanks for sharing that whit us Sir.
Whis everybody a nice day/evening/night/morning. God bless you. Arne
Thanks Arne!
Some of those crystal shards look really cool
Hear me out: do the stoichometry for your reactions and measure out the chemicals like a cook doing prep before turning on the stove.
My guesstimate is you'd need something around 550mL of 67% nitric acid to dissolve 653.8g of elemental silver. It's a very slight excess: you can use 3mL less to put the silver in excess.
Hopefully, it saves you some time and money.
That’s really cool😎 I run my DI water through a Brita filter for polishing. I think it makes a difference. You can get nice water stills online for $70 these days.
These silver crystals are always stunning. 👍
look at that silver... so beautiful ❤️
I love how you went through it with no extra little things. Just going through the steps.
That silver cementing out was just absolutely delicious!
I love watching that happen.
650g of silver crystal in the electrolyte to make about ~2200g of silver crystal over two runs.
The blue color is HNO2 which is a byproduct of dissolving metals in nitric acid as it forms when NO2 dissolves in water along with reforming nitric acid and giving off nitric oxide which is NO gas and that ideally reacts with more air forming NO2 again and so on but ofc it escapes along with NO2 at the top.
Excellent description, thank you.
@@sreetips when I got a cold solution of sodium nitrite and added citric acid it resulted in the same kind of blue color.
The blue color is because this guy is the Heisenberg of silver.
@@Pteromandias now u can cook some blue meff!!
The most intrigued I’ve been watching a UA-cam video since like 2016 instant subscription
Welcome and thank you!
Another visually pleasing and mentally stimulating upload, Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
Fascinating to watch. Thank you.
this one is so clear i was dissapointed in my silver bullion purchases untill i watched this one
Many years ago I refined 50 lbs of sterling tableware. Used electrolysis method for the last part. I poured it into 5 oz bars. The purity was so high that all the bars crystallized on the surface. Was very pretty. I had a sample from each batch tested and they all showed 99.95+. The broker said his gun only went up to 99.95.
I’ve had mine analyses, comes back three nines via fire assay. I ran the crystal back through the cell one time. Had an ICP assay and that came back greater than five nines fine. That’s 99,999 parts per one hundred thousand pure silver.
Thanks for explaining in so much detail awesome vid
I have learned so much from you! Every time I see a new video posted I just watch in awe and pure amazement. I'm going to start calling you professor sreetips! You inspire me to start my own silver cell if only to just use your teachings and follow your wisdom! I will be studying and taking notes professor! Also if you have any expert advice in starting a new cell from scratch I would love to hear your thoughts and advice! :)
I’ll be making a new video of constructing a second silver cell from scratch. Been planning it for years. Just haven’t found the time to make it happen. Watch for the video and thank you for the kind words!
@@sreetips anytime and I'll be waiting professor!
@@sreetips - hello sir! Found your channel a month or so ago and it is just amazing to me. I want to tackle this as a hobby myself and am super interested.
Where can an individual find the silver shot or feed stock? I do not currently have the resource from gold refining to melting cement silver to generate the impure silver as you apparently have.
Any advice or resource for this part of your process? I firmly believe I can get the remaining steps accomplished. Looks like a great hobby and DIY project.
Thanks for your time and appreciate all you share!
what a fascinatiing process! Thanks for posting!
I absolutely love this channel.
So glad I subscribed to you. This is absolutely fascinating.
Thank you!
So beautiful !
I moved mic well away from my mouth. I couldn’t even watch some of those from the popping noises.
I'd love to see a quick shot of your glassware and chemical storage. I can imagine there's a ton of both!
Can never have too much glass
I bought all my glassware on eBay.
Do a time lapse of crystal formation!!
Why dont you make the anode basket larger? You can use more of the filter bag and put more into ur anode basket thus making the production less tedious with having to fill the anode basket as much? Just a thought...
I could do that. Thanks for the suggestion.
i had amaon cart full of sweat shop merchandise to make the cell untill i realized i needed 100 dollars of scrap silver to turn into 100 dollar glob of silver
IN CANADA -- It cost $42.80 to buy an ounce of Physical Silver here in the Eastern Provinces.. You American have it Made when it comes to Buying Gold and Silver... OH,,, and Gold is $2869.00 Canadian for a Physical Ounce... April 25 2023
I've seen you dissolve also Silver shot when you proces the Anode slimes. I think washing the Anode bag Silver shot with distilled water and add it back to the Silver cell wouldn't influence quality of the produced Silver crystal, but I think it would save you a lot of work and Nitric acid. I think you can recover the slimes from the washwater by filtering.
I tried rinsing the silver in those filters but it didn’t work very well. I could soak the slimes then try to strain the silver shot out and run it through the cell.
@@sreetips yeah sounds good. probably the slimes will also settle well in the washwater. Seems to me as a more efficient proces.
We got a silver chemist over here . Nice work my guy !
You and Lithic Metals are the best at this shit i swear you both have your own but similar knowledge. Dope content
Man I love watching the videos you make
Thank you sir for another awesome and informative video six stars
Hey sreetips, great video! I always love your stuff.
If I can make a suggestion - consider adding some audio compression (and then normalization) to reduce the difference in volume between your live and voice-over sections. Sometimes I have to turn the volume up to hear the live portions, but then a voice-over section will be very loud.
Anyways, keep up the awesome work! :)
I’ll adjust the voice over to get them better match.
Wonderful video, sreetips. You have the greatest hobby .persevering your wealth and having fun doing it
Agree whit you😊. Sreetips is the best. Have a nice day. Arne
Thanks for the content Sreetips.
so, theoretically, you could take all the little sterling silver balls out of the bottoms of “antique” glass and put them into this, on average those balls are about a couple grams to an oz depending on the vase/piece.
I prefer using sterling flatware. It’s solid 90% silver, fairly clean too.
@@sreetips interesting, that makes sense thanks mang
have you ever experimented with different current strengths? maybe there is a voltage in which favors larger crystal formation? would be a could experiment.
As the whole bowl is the cathode, this won't work, the silver crystallizes where it's easiest and requires least current. If instead the cathode was some stainless piece of sheet metal or two near each other you could have a point. Will, if i get this right, increase electricity consumption and bills.
3.3 to 3.8 volts DC is what I was taught by professional refiners on the goldrefiningforum.com
Magical to see those crystals form!
Did you really get 1100g of pure silver if you had to start with 700g of pure silver? Isn't 400g a far more accurate measurement?
Is this like nurdrage. Is that how you pronounce it? I remember that channel. That channel helped me make some crazy stuff back in the day
I think nurdrage was a chemist. I’m am not a chemist.
Come on now Daboo 7 , we know it's you. 😂😂😂
A lot of work. Fascinating to watch!
I was thinking of making some jewelry out of this but have no idea how... Maybe resin? I'd want it directly out of that container though, not after it is shipped haha.
The copper in the silver nitrate, sure is better than watching a Lava Lamp😂
EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL!!!
Is this of the same value as silver you would purchase at market? Doesn’t simply creating more drive the cost down due to an increased supply?
Every investment grade silver bar or coin on the planet began as pure silver crystal, just like you see here.
I understand.
Thank you for showing me how to get rich. Been following you awhile. You literally create money but it's legal and not counterfeit.
Excellent time lapse video
I’m an instant fan! I want to do this! I want to know how to do this. And yes can’t make silver out of air… dammit all😝. Do ya have a tutorial on how to make this, what ya need to do it(chemicals/equipment)? I mean this is cool but so many questions. Do I just need to search or do ya have a video or series on it?
Hold on! I’m not making silver out of thin air. I’m refining impure silver into high purity silver.
@@sreetips 🫣😳😝, Right🤣😂👏
I gotta say it’s a beautiful way to have your silver 😊
Why not use a larger plastic container for the silver shot? Seem to have excess filter bag that could fit a larger container
Critical distance between the anode and cathode
Pro tip, that bucket with the blue solution is great for cleaning combs.
Barber?
How many pounds of silver do you need to make a pound
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@@sreetips so it takes a pound to make a pound???
Rinsing through a filter (even something as simple as a coffee filter) will be more efficient and remove more impurities.
You will find you'll use less water and achieve a higher purity.
When filtering your silver nitrate solution, you should use filter paper in the funnel.
Also, you should test the pH of the solution to determine if it still contains acid.
(TIP: use a glass rod, dip it into the solution, then touch it to the pH paper. _DO NOT_ dip the pH paper into the solution.)
You should log the weight of the "silver shot" in the cathode and the amount of silver used in the making of silver nitrate.
Then, log the amount of silver recovered at the end of the process. This will allow you to determine the net gain or loss of
silver and whether or not this procedure is cost-effective. If there is a net gain, what is the profit margin when taking into
account the total cost of chemicals and supplies (including cost of electricity). If it is negligible, a different method should
be used for purifying the silver.
Example: if the total amount of silver recovered is valued at $100 (nominal) and the cost of chemicals/process is $120,
you are operating at a loss. If the cost of the chemicals/process is $80, you are operating at a negligible net gain.
I use sterling to refine gold. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. I have much silver that I’ve recovered from this. So I melt it into granules and run it through my silver cell. Then I put it away and forget about it. Im not trying to “make a profit” by re-selling it for more paper. My profit is in the form of real money: silver. I measure my savings in silver, not paper. Hope this makes sense.
@@sreetips i mean that is great that you are holding on to your silver to measure your savings . just remember you can not buy food with silver you have to turn it into paper first.
@@azuthal For now. With the way things are going that may not be true much longer.
Correct. If I need some paper to buy food or pay rent, then I sell a little metal. The rest, I get to keep. Silver is trending up. Paper is trending down. So it makes more sense to hold silver, rather than holding paper, that can be printed out of thin air.
37 ounces wow it's working Great
Always amazing!! Thank you for teaching us all!!!
Great presentation! Thanks for brimging us along.
How much do the materials for this setup cost?
Less than two hundred bucks
It looks like you should be able to get an additional use from those filter bags. Save a couple dollars
Amazing what comes into the feed sometimes. Definetly intriguing. Is that Brown pot from a Visions cookware set? I know its an odd question. Havent seen a set in 20 years. Great Content on the video. I will definetly be watching more episodes.
Yes, I bought that brown pot from the thrift store for five bucks ten years ago. I love it.
@@sreetips my wife and I received an entire set for a wedding gift back in 1993. The only thing left is a spoon. LOL.
Awesome job I really watching you work