I feel like every video you do is a training lesson and after watching your videos for the last year and half I think I could do some of these processes. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
This is why it blows my mind that people are hitting him up for instruction or mentorship. Just... watch the videos. He is basically already taking you there. He literally even links to the book he's working out of. We've even been so fortunate to see how these refinements can go sideways so that's plenty of tutorial right there. I relate deeply to "This is my hobby, not my job." and can appreciate the opening sentiment here.
Hello Sreetips If you had a clock in the back ground like you did years ago it would put things into perspective for us regarding the amount of time this all takes. I really love the videos you put out. Take care!
The noise from the old fume hood didn't really bother me, I was used to it, but the improvement to your production quality with the new, quieter motor, is really noticeable and appreciated! Great decision to switch brands!
There was a definite color difference between the first and second dissolutions of the gold in the aqua regia. Pure solutions always have a stunning color to them. At today's spot price, the ingot is just a hair under $1200. Your jeweler friend should be quite pleased.
You should do a video where you refine all that copper down. I know you like the precious metals but copper has worth and it would be an interesting video to watch.
I would try to drop the inquarted melted metal in a higher (cold) water collumn than the 6 inches of water you have in your pot. This would give you finer drippings that the acid could more quickly dissolve because of larger contact surface.
@@williamfoote2888 Sreetips used to do that. He even used to put ice in the water. I am guessing that he has noticed that all that work was not saying much time and much nitric acid.
If people need advice and training they should just watch your videos. I mean... There is simply no one on UA-cam who shares so much experience on PGM refining with such a level of proficiency. I often think of how *great* of a teacher you probably were to new recruits while you were in the Navy though I dont recall your specific position. Congratulations on the new fume hood ! Save your lungs and your ears ;)
Congrats on the new fume hood! Your audio has gotten a lot better with the new mic setup… but the hood will only make it better. Go sreetips! Wins all around.
@58:06 Your meticulous process of refining your jeweler friend's scrap gold indicates that over 3% of that scrap contains contaminate metals. The difference between the expected yield (22.4g) v the actual yield (21.7g) is 0.7g of other scrap material. I enjoyed experiencing the purifiction process as you thoroughly explained each step. The text overlays are very helpful as well. Thank you.
You are welcome! A wonderful refining and the tidbits of other aspects of your operation you graciously include. I look forward to the upcoming videos made with the new goldenly silent fume hood AND catching up on the previous videos I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing yet with the old fume hood(s)…because some noise is welcomed, especially when, as a viewer, I get to choose when I want to hear it. Thank you Sir! 👍👍🤟
Thank you for sharing.. I would hate to be in your mind, all of the ongoing processes you have on a daily, has got to be mind blowing.. All the many waste solutions (Silver, Gold & Ect) Keeping & labeling what each one is and what order they are in processing.. Buying & testing gold and silver for future an ongoing refining, selling refined gold and other pure refined precious metals.. Keeping up with daily prices of them (+/- values).. It has to be a mad house behind the camera lenses.. I was a scrapper for many years and I always melted (copper, brass & aluminum) into ingots to get highest prices. Behind the work for me was choregraphed chaos, always in a process of cleaning and organizing. Then storing and selling when prices were high.. For just dealing with JUNK, I did quite well and made a very good living. It did consume 8 to 10 hours of my time every day. Still people who seen me work had to be confused cause of my methods.. I would bet the same for you.. If someone was allowed to follow and watch you for a few days, I would imagine they would be more confused by watching, without knowing the "Big Picture" you see in the bags, jars & containers of miscellaneous processes.. Sorry to babble on, I love watching and seeing a glimpse of your organized chaos, you call "all in a days work"
The noise of your old fume hood used to put me to sleep, I loved that sound! Perhaps you could manually set the white balance, it seems to shift now and then. Love the content! ❤️
Congratulations on the new fume hood Mr Sreetips. Now the children can safely play in the traffic once more! You should let us name the fume hood. like "Ol Blowy" or "death breath".... i don't know... i better put down the bong...
Wow fancy new fume Hood great I had to build me one works pretty good After adding stuff out with gold settled out and I filter the solution so that I am not pouring off any gold rinse filter with hydrochloric then distilled water I do learn a lot from you appreciate your time thanks Mark
You may not offer tutoring but I have learned a lot from these videos. I would not want to deal with any of the acids you work with but at least I know enough to be dangerous if I did.
I still think that you should run a contest to see if viewers can count the total number of times you say the word "here" in your last 10 videos (shorts not included) maybe offer a 1oz or 2oz stamped bar of your silver as a prize.............
Sreetips, owe you an apology for the dumb question if I would have watched the rest of the video first duh I would have had my answer I learned something new from you everyday thanks Mark
Id love the opprotunity to get a sample of your copper from your waste treatment bucket. I refine as a hobby and would appreciate the opprotunity to recover the copper via electrolisis. If i come across anything of precious metals your welcome to have back. I
Im pleased to see you now have a good fume hood, there is no way I would be doing some of the stuff you have in the past, hobby or not, without one. Great hobby but not near my workshop, OMG the chemical fumes and metal are just a big no.
Ebay is very strict. Sreetips is just an object to them. I was an ebay seller for a few years. Very annoying company to deal with, buyers come before sellers, even though there are many crooked buyers. Shipping is also very annoying, especially with regards to the ebay/fedex relationship.
@@DiverCTH I've been out of that game for awhile. Basically I was a flipper selling everything you can imagine on ebay, including scrap gold. My two biggest annoyances were fedex bait and switch tactics enabled by ebay, and ebays no questions asked of buyers policies. Very easy to get scammed by buyers.
Streetips; I didnt see you do the Filtering in this one but I would figure that when using a Disk tip filter-pad placed in a funnel set on a Filtering-flask; I assume its possible that those types of filters can rise to float or liquid can bypass around the pads edges flowing underneath and into the Funnels spout. Unlike Bowl types of filters which prevent that possibility.
Love the quietness of the new hood. Feels darker when videoing inside of it. Might want to add some more battery op led lighting inside for when you're filming
Great Video, very interesting the new process. BTW, can you let me know the Title of the Book & Author you're referencing in this video? Thank you Again.
@@sreetips Very simple: Try, 100ml H2SO4 300ml H2O 100gm iron nails (not coated) Add liquids to nails and leave for 2-3 hours. Filter solution. Allow to settle. Ferrous sulphate forms on the bottom. pour off liquid. USE. You van re-use. the liquid on more nails
Seems like keeping copperas prepared ahead of time as a regular thing would be a valuable tool in your toolbox. Especially when doing, say, a stock pot refining or anything else involving lots of mixed metals. True, it's a pain in the neck to prepare, but having something so selective in what it precipitates might be worth the time.
Mr Sreetips, I gotta say, everytime I watch your videos, I imagine the forerunners, the alchemists like Merlin, crafting their respective kings gold coins for them.😃, I know chemistry is more science than smoke and mirrors, but times have changed, although alchemy remains... In its new form atleast.
Fantastic video Sreetips! Just a bit of peer scrutiny though; a liter is slightly more than a quart. You probably had it backwards in your head. I've made that mistake too. 1 quart is only about 950ml.
Every time I watch one of your videos I learned something new sir as always a pleasure I was watching 1 where they boiled their inget and ammonia afterwards to clear off any flux or possible contaminations at the top and it made it super shiny have you ever tried that and what was your experience
No, if we get all the contamination out with the refining process then there’s no need to remove contamination with ammonia or any other reagent, because there won’t be any to remove.
love the hood the other one I think was starting to send me subliminal messages haha maybe the contam came from the melt dish saw some speckles should buff out
I seen that too. So I expected surface contamination during the melt. Probably iron. I should have refined it a third time but the video was getting long, I had three days invested, and I was getting tired.
@@sreetips i nowe what you mean my friend, but you and your wife coming to handel it. I am shoure sir. Both of you are so fine and gentel people, so not think about it Mr sreetips 🙏🌹🙏. Arne
I feel like every video you do is a training lesson and after watching your videos for the last year and half I think I could do some of these processes. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I feel the same
So True, Steetips ROCK's!
Im very interested in how sreetrips researched and purchased his new exhaust fan!
This is why it blows my mind that people are hitting him up for instruction or mentorship. Just... watch the videos. He is basically already taking you there. He literally even links to the book he's working out of. We've even been so fortunate to see how these refinements can go sideways so that's plenty of tutorial right there.
I relate deeply to "This is my hobby, not my job." and can appreciate the opening sentiment here.
Yes, we all feel that way. Someone called it the Bob Ross effect!
I “hobby” vicariously through your videos. 👍
That’s a darn good way to put how I feel about the channel. Haha
Hello Sreetips
If you had a clock in the back ground like you did years ago it would put things into perspective for us regarding the amount of time this all takes. I really love the videos you put out. Take care!
The noise from the old fume hood didn't really bother me, I was used to it, but the improvement to your production quality with the new, quieter motor, is really noticeable and appreciated! Great decision to switch brands!
That was what I wanted to say! 😆
Have been taking all notes and watching all ore, no-pun intended; to start. Thank you SREETIPS, AS ALWAYS!!!
There was a definite color difference between the first and second dissolutions of the gold in the aqua regia. Pure solutions always have a stunning color to them. At today's spot price, the ingot is just a hair under $1200. Your jeweler friend should be quite pleased.
You should do a video where you refine all that copper down. I know you like the precious metals but copper has worth and it would be an interesting video to watch.
New fume hood is great. Aaah, the tranquillity! 623Hz and 740Hz gone forever 😀 G'day from down under, hope you're well
That gold powder kind of has the look of Illinois beach sand so cool .👌
Hello Mr sreetips. I simply love this refinings clip. Kind of you to help this friend.
Have a nice day, and god bless you, and the famely 😊. Arne
Amazing sound difference. I can hear you so much better. Good choice.
I would try to drop the inquarted melted metal in a higher (cold) water collumn than the 6 inches of water you have in your pot. This would give you finer drippings that the acid could more quickly dissolve because of larger contact surface.
His HNO3 boils have no problem getting at the base metals.
@@williamfoote2888 Sreetips used to do that. He even used to put ice in the water. I am guessing that he has noticed that all that work was not saying much time and much nitric acid.
If people need advice and training they should just watch your videos. I mean... There is simply no one on UA-cam who shares so much experience on PGM refining with such a level of proficiency.
I often think of how *great* of a teacher you probably were to new recruits while you were in the Navy though I dont recall your specific position.
Congratulations on the new fume hood ! Save your lungs and your ears ;)
Much quieter hood...so glad to watch your videos again. Thank you so much
Congrats on the new fume hood!
Your audio has gotten a lot better with the new mic setup… but the hood will only make it better.
Go sreetips! Wins all around.
My ears thank you for the new setup. What I can no longer hear makes your channel so much the better.
Thanks for the feedback
You sir are not a bore. I wish I had a place I could start refining gold because of you
It was time. Your old hood looked crusty & musty. So much quieter & cleaner. I appreciate you taking us along
That old fume hood dying on you was quiet the blessing in disguise. New fume hood audio is so much better.
@58:06 Your meticulous process of refining your jeweler friend's scrap gold indicates that over 3% of that scrap contains contaminate metals.
The difference between the expected yield (22.4g) v the actual yield (21.7g) is 0.7g of other scrap material.
I enjoyed experiencing the purifiction process as you thoroughly explained each step. The text overlays are very helpful as well. Thank you.
Back in business baby!
congrats on the new fume hood! new equipment is a good feeling. a safe workshop even better. :)
Absonaturalutey!
😂
I genuinely enjoyed this video Mr Sreetips! I really liked to see 2 different precipitation methods.
Also loving the new fume hood ❤️😊
The new fume hood is soooo much better! So quiet and clean. I'm sure your happy new toys are always fun lol.
It’s like getting a breath of fresh air
You are welcome! A wonderful refining and the tidbits of other aspects of your operation you graciously include. I look forward to the upcoming videos made with the new goldenly silent fume hood AND catching up on the previous videos I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing yet with the old fume hood(s)…because some noise is welcomed, especially when, as a viewer, I get to choose when I want to hear it. Thank you Sir! 👍👍🤟
This new fume hood is so quiet that you can hear the vacuum pump running as always an excellent video great content thank you for sharing six Stars
the new fume hood replacement is 10x better for the ears, i like how much better the sound is now.
Perfect. I enjoy each and every one of your videos.
Chemistry class would have been a lot more fun and interesting if I had watched your videos in high school.
Thank you for sharing.. I would hate to be in your mind, all of the ongoing processes you have on a daily, has got to be mind blowing.. All the many waste solutions (Silver, Gold & Ect) Keeping & labeling what each one is and what order they are in processing.. Buying & testing gold and silver for future an ongoing refining, selling refined gold and other pure refined precious metals.. Keeping up with daily prices of them (+/- values).. It has to be a mad house behind the camera lenses.. I was a scrapper for many years and I always melted (copper, brass & aluminum) into ingots to get highest prices. Behind the work for me was choregraphed chaos, always in a process of cleaning and organizing. Then storing and selling when prices were high.. For just dealing with JUNK, I did quite well and made a very good living. It did consume 8 to 10 hours of my time every day. Still people who seen me work had to be confused cause of my methods.. I would bet the same for you.. If someone was allowed to follow and watch you for a few days, I would imagine they would be more confused by watching, without knowing the "Big Picture" you see in the bags, jars & containers of miscellaneous processes.. Sorry to babble on, I love watching and seeing a glimpse of your organized chaos, you call "all in a days work"
Thank you for the video! I'm glad you get your fume hood back! As a former chemist I could understood your distress.
I remember you changing the fume hood motor a couple of months ago. Great video.
Congratz with your new fumehood. We will gonna miss the old hum 😆
I'm happy for you, your new fume hood is satisfactory. And i'm glad to hear about many new refining video's to come.
The noise of your old fume hood used to put me to sleep, I loved that sound!
Perhaps you could manually set the white balance, it seems to shift now and then. Love the content! ❤️
Not seeing Sreetips graffiti on the 3 walls of your new fume hood is making my O.C.D. crazy. 🤣
Congratulations on the new fume hood Mr Sreetips. Now the children can safely play in the traffic once more! You should let us name the fume hood. like "Ol Blowy" or "death breath".... i don't know... i better put down the bong...
chocolate milk added to fanta orange drink creates gold. got it.
Wow fancy new fume Hood great
I had to build me one works pretty good
After adding stuff out with gold settled out and I filter the solution so that I am not pouring off any gold rinse filter with hydrochloric then distilled water
I do learn a lot from you appreciate your time thanks Mark
I like the shape of the bar, it's unique!
That's a nice fume hood.
Congratulations, man !
And it gives you content for us to enjoy your method of refining gold. Thanks man.
You may not offer tutoring but I have learned a lot from these videos. I would not want to deal with any of the acids you work with but at least I know enough to be dangerous if I did.
Thats what friends do.
Beautiful results and fascinating to watch. Great that the new fume hood is quiet. 👍
Alright, was looking for a video to watch before bed and this came just in the nic of time! Thanks Sreetips, love the videos!
Another great 👍 video SREETIPS
VERY informative nothing like seeing gold drop out of solution.
Oh this Fume Hood is SOO much quieter, Much better for Audio! Was concerned with that last Fan you put it actually made it louder.
Just love watching you how you make a solid to a liquid and back to a solid .👍
It sounds good Sreetips and thank you for the break from the elections.
Great sir fume hood is very silent with no disturbing sound what so ever thanks for sharing
Nice upgrade on the sound quality with the new hood! Thanks for the break from election results, it was much needed!
I still think that you should run a contest to see if viewers can count the total number of times you say the word "here" in your last 10 videos (shorts not included)
maybe offer a 1oz or 2oz stamped bar of your silver as a prize.............
Here, here!
Sreetips, owe you an apology for the dumb question if I would have watched the rest of the video first duh I would have had my answer I learned something new from you everyday thanks Mark
Id love the opprotunity to get a sample of your copper from your waste treatment bucket. I refine as a hobby and would appreciate the opprotunity to recover the copper via electrolisis. If i come across anything of precious metals your welcome to have back.
I
i miss the clock in the back to see the time passing by during the processes
Sreetips is back!!!
WOW HUGE DIFFERENCE! Im using a hearing aid and it is so soft!
Fuming marvelous!
Excellent video. Love the new fume hood.
The lighting is great too.
After viewing hundreds of your videos I feel as though you taught me a great deal. I think I could jump in there and refine gold through aqua regia.
Finally, a gold fix. Missed ya! Grats on the new hood
It always surprises me how quickly the gold cools and is able to be touched when tipped into the water
Love the process. Another great video and the new motor is very quiet.
Im pleased to see you now have a good fume hood, there is no way I would be doing some of the stuff you have in the past, hobby or not, without one. Great hobby but not near my workshop, OMG the chemical fumes and metal are just a big no.
Ebay is very strict. Sreetips is just an object to them. I was an ebay seller for a few years. Very annoying company to deal with, buyers come before sellers, even though there are many crooked buyers. Shipping is also very annoying, especially with regards to the ebay/fedex relationship.
How are Bonanza's policies?
@@DiverCTH I've been out of that game for awhile.
Basically I was a flipper selling everything you can imagine on ebay, including scrap gold.
My two biggest annoyances were fedex bait and switch tactics enabled by ebay, and ebays no questions asked of buyers policies. Very easy to get scammed by buyers.
Streetips;
I didnt see you do the Filtering in this one but I would figure that when using a Disk tip filter-pad placed in a funnel set on a Filtering-flask; I assume its possible that those types of filters can rise to float or liquid can bypass around the pads edges flowing underneath and into the Funnels spout. Unlike Bowl types of filters which prevent that possibility.
Professional 👍🏾💖
boy you dropped that crucible so fast I thought you burned yourself, drop it like its hot! lol
Love the quietness of the new hood. Feels darker when videoing inside of it. Might want to add some more battery op led lighting inside for when you're filming
The old one had an LED strip. I saved it and I will install in the new hood.
@@sreetips The old hood sounded like a coffee grinder compared to the new one too. 😆
Great Video, very interesting the new process. BTW, can you let me know the Title of the Book & Author you're referencing in this video? Thank you Again.
New fume-hood sounds great
Ahh they burned Ron at the end. lmao 🤣
Nice hood, bud. Thanks for sharing...
I finally broke down and cleaned the fume hood before starting this experiment.
Making your own ferrous sulphate is quick and easy and cost-effective. Just some clean iron nails + H2SO4
I’ve heard you can do this, but I never have.
@@sreetips Very simple: Try, 100ml H2SO4 300ml H2O 100gm iron nails (not coated) Add liquids to nails and leave for 2-3 hours. Filter solution. Allow to settle. Ferrous sulphate forms on the bottom. pour off liquid. USE. You van re-use. the liquid on more nails
By the way.. The new fume hood is exelent.
Excellent.
Seems like keeping copperas prepared ahead of time as a regular thing would be a valuable tool in your toolbox. Especially when doing, say, a stock pot refining or anything else involving lots of mixed metals. True, it's a pain in the neck to prepare, but having something so selective in what it precipitates might be worth the time.
Yes!!! First comment!!! Loving the videos!
Congratulations on your new fume hood.
Sooooo much quieter. Wow. You don't seem to have to holler so much to be heard 😃. I bet quite the upgrade for you and better parts too
Like taking a breath of fresh air
Excellent video sir
Mr Sreetips, I gotta say, everytime I watch your videos, I imagine the forerunners, the alchemists like Merlin, crafting their respective kings gold coins for them.😃, I know chemistry is more science than smoke and mirrors, but times have changed, although alchemy remains... In its new form atleast.
I definitely hear the difference
The new fume hood is going to take some getting used to. The old ones loud hum had become your trademark sound!
Fantastic video Sreetips! Just a bit of peer scrutiny though; a liter is slightly more than a quart. You probably had it backwards in your head. I've made that mistake too. 1 quart is only about 950ml.
I should have looked it up
A US quart is less, but an imperial quart is more. This is why it's easier to just stick to metric
Very nice job. 👌
i like this video
Interesting colordifference between your waste gold and your high purity gold.
Every time I watch one of your videos I learned something new sir as always a pleasure I was watching 1 where they boiled their inget and ammonia afterwards to clear off any flux or possible contaminations at the top and it made it super shiny have you ever tried that and what was your experience
No, if we get all the contamination out with the refining process then there’s no need to remove contamination with ammonia or any other reagent, because there won’t be any to remove.
love the hood the other one I think was starting to send me subliminal messages haha maybe the contam came from the melt dish saw some speckles should buff out
I seen that too. So I expected surface contamination during the melt. Probably iron. I should have refined it a third time but the video was getting long, I had three days invested, and I was getting tired.
The gold was anyway exelent Mr sreetips 😊
Excelente.
I never comment.
I do watch repeatedly
I’m glad that you do. Thanks.
Yeah, the new fume hood is awesome.
Wow, Love the new look hood!
Awesome.
Mr sreetips. 350k members before this year is over.... Amen. Arne 🎉
Arne, that would be truly awesome. But for some reason, success scares me!
@@sreetips i nowe what you mean my friend, but you and your wife coming to handel it. I am shoure sir. Both of you are so fine and gentel people, so not think about it Mr sreetips 🙏🌹🙏. Arne
@@sreetips I must see and heare it again, because i have no sound when i so the clip. But a new fume hood is great. Thank you for the tips sir😊 Arne
I like the reduced noise of your upgraded hood. Is the extractor of a design where the fumes do not go through the air blower?
The fume are in contact with the phenolic fan blades.
The Jeweler sounds like a character you get quests from in Elder Scrolls
He’s my friend and I owe him. He’s done much for me.
🙏