I love watching your videos. I dont plan on doing what you do at all but i enjoy learning and you do a great job teaching. I like to watch your videos when im putting my one year old to sleep for the night. After a half hour he is hout and i get to watch your videos in relative peace. thank you sir for the content i truly enjoy it. Keep up the good work
Seriously great video. It always shocks me to see how much you get outta your melts. You said that you got about 1/3 of that melted and that ends up to be somewhere around 5pounds of silver 😱 whoa! It is always mind blowing and at the same time super satisfying to watch, I hope you keep on keeping on and you continue to share your work with us. I absolute love it 😀 😍
Yesterday I checked to see if you posted any videos lately. I'm looking forward in watching you process the anode baskets. I agree it's nerve racking when melting silver. Especially when adding the dry to what's already molten. I'm always waiting for some kind of puff.
That furnace is great in so many ways! One of the best is probably that it affords you more time to work with the gold refining. Have a Great Day My Friend!
I’ve used the same bowls for many years. I added some cement silver powder to the anode basket and it went south from there. Clogged the filter and amps dropped off, slow crystal growth
So silver cement looks like dry concrete powder minus the gravel, and dry gold powder looks like high clay content dirt. Does customs enforcement know about this?
heya steetips! you need to put something on your kao wool lining in your melter/smelter to keep fibers from becoming airborne. you need to put a hardener on it!
First that is a foundry not a furnace a furnace is for smelting and a foundry is for melting second you may want to position your nozzle further back so its not sitting in the foundry so much and maybe pack some more wool around it so there is not a gap because it may help with the nozzle overheating third getting a metal plate and attaching the wool lid to will help with putting it on or even just some metal rods so it does not misalign or get your hands too close to the heat.
Great video Senior Chief. Those lifting tongs are awesome, but you might want to get your fabricator to make a pouring holder to go with it. Will make pouring much easier and more comfortable as well. Keep the videos coming!
@@sreetips If you watch the channel mbmmllc (Mt Baker mining and metals, here in Wash state) he does a lot with small crucibles and has some really cool tongs and handles. The "smelting silver ore & refining" video from 25 July has some good shots of what he uses.
Another video from my favorite channel! Only thing I would have done differently with that furnace is enhance the efficiency. I would use a good boiler refractory cement or rigidizer on the insulation. This would provide better efficiency and safety(air born fibers). A hinged lid wouldn't be bad either but it seems to be melting just fine the way it is. Thanks for another good video!
I have found that you truly don’t know what “hot” is until you stand over a furnace running full blast and see a material that is normally solid turn to liquid. When I run mine, I joke that I am making a puddle.
Small amounts - no problem. But I melted over 10 pounds of metal in just three charges. That much molten metal scares me - but it’s a healthy fear to have.
Have you considered adding a funnel feeder to the furnace? By suspending a steel pipe over the crucible with a flared top you could quickly feed material through the hole in the lid. With the right stand you could quickly move the feeder into place and dump a few scoops in the top and then remove the feeder again.
Great melt! I also like how clean you want your metal. Gotta upgrade your cell now that you upgraded HOW you melt your cement to shot. Gotta be a larger scale Cell that could be created to handle atleast 2xs your current production. Great Video.
Great video once again. I had an observation and it got me thinking. You can see the slag on top of the molten silver. I'm curious if that was impurities or pgms that were half melted. It makes you think if those were pgms on the surface, you could skim those off of there to process separately and your silver shot would be that much purer before it goes into the silver cell. Either way, looking forward to another video.
This is a great video man keep doing stuff like this it’s really interesting and cool to see the whole process and I appreciate Are you taking the time to show the rest of us how that stuff works. Great videos, keep it up
@@sreetips Awesoem!! Thank you 👍🏼 Major fan FYI. I’ve purified now 15oz of pure silver from scrap just from watching your videos. Keep up the great work.
@sreetips I would love to buy an Ounce or 2 of your Larger Chunk Silver Shot you just poured there / Especially the ones with the Gold Toning / Very Cool / Any chance you might put Some up on Ebay ?
Did you washed all your silver shots with distilled water in extenso? If not, theres your silver cristal discolouration... silver chloride. If washed with aqua dest extensively, then I have no idea, but still suspect AgCl. HCl vapours reaching the cell or so...
Just a suggestion. You might want to purchase one of the Devil Forge Furnaces, I think your melt times would be faster, and... safer than the converted stock-pot furnace you currently have. The Devil Force Furnaces I think would be worth your time for the silver melts. Not so sure about the gold, as you seem not to be processing large amounts of gold. Just a thought...
Great to see you back! Now you need to get yourself a cupellation furnace for those rare times you get solids or oxides of base metals with PMs bound up in them. Bone ash cupels have been found in the tombs of Egyptian Pharos. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
@@sreetips It's simply another method. You get a PM bead faster but then have to chemically strip each PM from the flattened bead. Thank you for another fascinating video!
You can get some big steeping bags like they use for beer making and run all that silver at once in a 5 gallon silver cell. Aquariums make a good container due to the wide shape as well. You can use one side for dissolving and the other for plating. This way, any sludge that does make it through will settle out below the dissolving electrode and not mix with the product.
long-time viewer. love the videos. have you thought about making a video of trying to refine/retrieving/reusing your nitric acid in your silver refining process?
Suggestion... before starting the melt, weigh out 1 lb batches of the silver powder into bags (maybe ziplock type) then just drop the bags into the crucible bag and all. No scooping powder outside and spilling into the furnace and your hand won't get so cooked.
Wow, your silver process has gotten bigger. The next video will be Sreetips in a crane holding a large industrial bucket pouring the silver in a large pool of water.
Hey bud.. will cooling the silver melt in chlorinated water create chlorine gasses? I am sure it would be very low levels. Also... could the process be the "mystery" contamination in your silver cell?
@@sreetips yes please, pretty sure your power supply will handle two cellls and it will help you get through that mountain on silver shot and bigger mountain on cement silver!! :)
Question for you regarding cementing out the cement silver - If I understand the process correctly, the copper is trading places with the silver as it comes out of solution and forms the cement silver. Any impurities on the copper would "fall" into the cement silver and then become one further impurity to filter out during the silver cell process - showing up in the slimes. Do you think it would be worth your time to attempt to clean the copper before the cementing process to remove as much of the impurities as you can? Perhaps a chemical cleaning or even just heating it to redness before use? I'm thinking that it may reduce the amount of contamination in your slimes and extend the life of your filters.
Does refining the silver crystal back through the silver cell go faster the second time around? Or does that exchange occur at a "steady" pace regardless of the purity? Thank you for sharing all this. freaking science, man...exciting stuff!
Very nice process, it seems fun to do too! Do you think you'll need more or a bigger silver cell, or will you just continue with your current one slow and steady?
A video from sreetips explaining just that! He's the best. lol ua-cam.com/video/IX4dv7zplaw/v-deo.html Edit: it is used in his silver cell which is here: ua-cam.com/video/IS4XbTbm_Bo/v-deo.html and here: ua-cam.com/video/1mDz5k-WhPg/v-deo.html
That cement silver shot creation process you use definitely requires extreme care given the dire consequences of a mistake. It's good that your a bit concerned about it - you want to be at the top of your game doing that.
Hey bud have you tried any of the paste glazes for your melting pots to be able make a shot pouring pot , by drilling a few 1/8in. Holes in the side of you melt pot for dripping vents
Yeah you need to get together with a black smith to make a bottom and top ring and Handel's for the crucible so you can have more control on the poorest maybe make a permanent smelt would be awesome. Great content they should be teaching this in schools it is great knowledge
Curious what the outcome would be if your were to use a press to compact your cement silver before charging the crucible? Would work for the crystal as well.
Screetips you really need a better setup for transfering the silver powder into the crucible. Something like a big metal funnel. Everytime you spill something my heart bleeds.
@@sreetips *Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but folks with $30,000 hotrods and 5 gallon buckets filled with precious metals aren't 'flat broke'.*
Could one process sterling silver shot through their silver cell, or is 92.5% not pure enough? I googled this question, but couldn’t find a definitive answer. I expect this might use up electrolyte at an increased rate, but I feel like I could do this? Was hoping you would weigh in on this? Love the channel, thanks for all the great videos!
925 will go but the electrolyte would quickly become saturated with copper. The silver going into the anode basket should be up around 98% to 99% for best results. This is true for most electrolytic refining.
Nice one buddy, after melting metals myself and through watching other people like bigstackd and ArtByAdrock if you leave some melted metal in the bottom of the crucible it helps with melting the next load of metal even quicker than starting again with an empty crucible thus also saving on gas as well as time, give it a try on your next melt buddy and see how you get on
Yea, there are a few ways he can optimize his operation further. Cupola style furnaces are even better because you can continuously feed material and drain the melt more safely. You basically make a trough on a hinge with a spout and the burner blowing through the top. Since there is no need to open it, or lift any hot melt by hand, it is faster and safer. The spout can pour directly into the water bucket.
@@excitedbox5705 never heard of this one cheers for the info buddy I was just going by his current set up as it's practically the same as what I've got
@@sotkshadow8306 cupolas are usually used for refining ore. Furnaces are used for smelting, such as what he is doing. I have always liked the cupola design though because it allows for safer draining but they used to not make sense at small scale because of their size. Other people use induction furnaces with a spout. You get a box and fill it with refractory and a copper pipe coil and set a crucible with a pour spout in it. Once it hardens you add a stand with a hinge and power (sine wave at high frequency). You run water through the pipe to keep it cool. It works like an induction cooker so it is really really efficient. You can melt a whole crucible full in 30 seconds.
I wonder if a "silver on tap" mechanism could be implemented, for fun, or maybe for profit. For continuous melting, the bottom of the melting pot could have a tap which could be opened to let the molten silver out right into the water barrel without the need to stop the heat. I'm not sure, if such a tap exists or what material could it be to withstand the melting temperature, and not get stuck. The advantage would be increased productivity and energy efficiency. The disadvantage is the added complexity and possible disaster if the apparatus goes wrong.
There are two types: moebius and thumb. I can’t remember which, but one suspends the anode basket (like mine) the other hangs anode bars between cathode plates. The one with plates hanging can be as large as the size of the tank permits. The small cell (like mine) is limited by a critical distance between the bottom of the anode filter and the bottom of the stainless bowl: 4 inch to 4.5 inches.
Interesting that the color of the silver shot is almost like the inquarted gold shot in other videos. Any ideas why the silver looks that way? Base metals, or other elements?
guy with a cloud, were you talking about the lil Abner cartoons, the guy in the straw hat that walked with his head down. I think his name was Joe Bifstik
awsome to see another upload but please be careful about your back get a second pair of tools of the pour so you can get good grip and a nice stand when doing your pours. sorry english isnt my native launge but the "grips" / "tongs" you use is perfekt for the transport out and around with the crucibal. but forced to have max load at the end + pour the hot metal against you is not a good idea . thats why you want one so you can pour from the side (ergonomic we are not getting younger ;) ) safer. Sorry for the wall of text
It's funny you mention that cartoon about the guy with the rain cloud followin' him. I think it was Ziggy, but I may be wrong. I have some construction I'm doin' at my house as time allows. I had some time and material the other day, so I break out the tools and get all set up. And it starts to rain. Hard. Like, thunderstorm hard. _BUT ONLY AT MY HOUSE._ I shit you not it wasn't raining just next door. The neighbor's driveway was dry and I have photos to prove it. I've never seen anything like it in my life.
You're not a player until you got a five gallon bucket of cement silver.
Right!?! That was my thought as well lol
Humblest biggest flex I've seen.
And How!
After a 14 hour day stacking lumber and concrete at Home Depot, nothing is as relaxing as a Sreetips video I haven’t seen yet. 💪🥳
It's been the first time I saw your face. After all this time it is nice to put a face into this distinctive voice. Great content as always.
I can never get enough of how awesome the pure silver crystal looks 😍 its gorgeous!!!
Find his ebay store! Maybe there still are some!
Beautiful isn't it 👍
You’re undoubtedly got the best setup and tools for chemical refining and small scale smelting! 🙌🏻
Devil Forge really needs to sponsor you, man. Their cost of one furnace will sell 100 of them.
I love watching your videos. I dont plan on doing what you do at all but i enjoy learning and you do a great job teaching. I like to watch your videos when im putting my one year old to sleep for the night. After a half hour he is hout and i get to watch your videos in relative peace. thank you sir for the content i truly enjoy it. Keep up the good work
Seriously great video. It always shocks me to see how much you get outta your melts. You said that you got about 1/3 of that melted and that ends up to be somewhere around 5pounds of silver 😱 whoa! It is always mind blowing and at the same time super satisfying to watch, I hope you keep on keeping on and you continue to share your work with us. I absolute love it 😀 😍
The great thing about the propaine furnice is the large amounts you can melt at a time. Nice job Shipmate
Well that's what I have been waiting for a 2nd round of Silver melts with the new setup thanks Sreetips very cool.
Yesterday I checked to see if you posted any videos lately. I'm looking forward in watching you process the anode baskets. I agree it's nerve racking when melting silver. Especially when adding the dry to what's already molten. I'm always waiting for some kind of puff.
Me too, if you notice I added a very small portion to the first melt because I didn’t know what to expect.
That furnace is great in so many ways!
One of the best is probably that it affords you more time to work with the gold refining.
Have a Great Day My Friend!
Holy hell that is one epic bucket. 🍻 😎👌🏼👌🏼
I thought so too. I wonder and really want to know how much it weighs.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Very impressive.
I just really want to see all that cement melted and the bar it would produce come to completion. Wow! That would be a beauty.
So interesting how the little copper impurities end up dominating the color when it's cooled in the bucket!
Agree
Nice job! please continue putting learning videos on your channel. Really good stuff!
I use your videos to fall asleep to. They are calming and interesting and magic!
Excellent! Thank you
@@sreetips You are very welcome, Sir!
Could the cell be pulling chrome or another additive out of the stainless steel bowl and that's why you're getting the discoloration?
I’ve used the same bowls for many years. I added some cement silver powder to the anode basket and it went south from there. Clogged the filter and amps dropped off, slow crystal growth
May I ask, how long did it take you to fill that bucket with all that cement silver?
It’s been building for a year or so
So silver cement looks like dry concrete powder minus the gravel, and dry gold powder looks like high clay content dirt. Does customs enforcement know about this?
Gold looks like spice, cumin, cinnamon.
@@sreetips Cool the camera does not do it justice. Keep up the good work.
heya steetips! you need to put something on your kao wool lining in your melter/smelter to keep fibers from becoming airborne. you need to put a hardener on it!
Roger that
First that is a foundry not a furnace a furnace is for smelting and a foundry is for melting second you may want to position your nozzle further back so its not sitting in the foundry so much and maybe pack some more wool around it so there is not a gap because it may help with the nozzle overheating third getting a metal plate and attaching the wool lid to will help with putting it on or even just some metal rods so it does not misalign or get your hands too close to the heat.
Excellent suggestions and correction of terms. Thank you
Well Sreetips there are worse things in life than straining to pick up a 5 gallon bucket of cement silver! :) Great and informative as always sir!
👍 For wearing a respirator around the raw ceramic wool.
Great video Senior Chief. Those lifting tongs are awesome, but you might want to get your fabricator to make a pouring holder to go with it. Will make pouring much easier and more comfortable as well. Keep the videos coming!
Others have said the same.
@@sreetips If you watch the channel mbmmllc (Mt Baker mining and metals, here in Wash state) he does a lot with small crucibles and has some really cool tongs and handles. The "smelting silver ore & refining" video from 25 July has some good shots of what he uses.
All your videos are super interesting and have a very ASMR feeling to them. Love it
Another video from my favorite channel!
Only thing I would have done differently with that furnace is enhance the efficiency. I would use a good boiler refractory cement or rigidizer on the insulation. This would provide better efficiency and safety(air born fibers). A hinged lid wouldn't be bad either but it seems to be melting just fine the way it is.
Thanks for another good video!
Always enjoy watching the videos!
I have found that you truly don’t know what “hot” is until you stand over a furnace running full blast and see a material that is normally solid turn to liquid. When I run mine, I joke that I am making a puddle.
Small amounts - no problem. But I melted over 10 pounds of metal in just three charges. That much molten metal scares me - but it’s a healthy fear to have.
Have you considered adding a funnel feeder to the furnace? By suspending a steel pipe over the crucible with a flared top you could quickly feed material through the hole in the lid. With the right stand you could quickly move the feeder into place and dump a few scoops in the top and then remove the feeder again.
MIght aswell get a furnace where the metal falls into the bucket directly while melting down.
Neat innovation, but the scoop works well
happen to have found this in the while ua-cam.com/video/pEzZ2Bp-qHo/v-deo.html
The timelapse of the handle melting off of your bucket was pretty cool.
Aluminum rivets - that was expected long ago
Great melt! I also like how clean you want your metal. Gotta upgrade your cell now that you upgraded HOW you melt your cement to shot. Gotta be a larger scale Cell that could be created to handle atleast 2xs your current production. Great Video.
It looks like caramel popcorn being poured into a bucket but it sounds more like coins being poured into a bucket.
Great video once again. I had an observation and it got me thinking. You can see the slag on top of the molten silver. I'm curious if that was impurities or pgms that were half melted.
It makes you think if those were pgms on the surface, you could skim those off of there to process separately and your silver shot would be that much purer before it goes into the silver cell.
Either way, looking forward to another video.
This is a great video man keep doing stuff like this it’s really interesting and cool to see the whole process and I appreciate Are you taking the time to show the rest of us how that stuff works. Great videos, keep it up
Is that enough volume of cement silver to get a good deal from a refiner to clear your backlog?
I’m saving all my silver for retirement - it’s the precious metals retirement plan
The refiner would only pay 80% of spot for the silver -
Awesome video as always!
I am so glad you made the furnace instead of using those little crucibles. Both are hot and dangerous, and the furnace is a lot faster,
Melting that amount of silver would have taken days
Sreetips how much silver crystal do you have in that bucket!? 🤩
We weighed is and it was about 32 pounds
@@sreetips you can't see me but trust me when I say that I am green with envy lol
Very cool. Very good to see you being so safe
another awesome video and man does that silver crystal look beautiful.....
Love that furnace!😃
You should make a video of how you made that home made furnace!! That thing is awesome.
Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/3VdZNzAig8U/v-deo.html
@@sreetips Awesoem!! Thank you 👍🏼 Major fan FYI. I’ve purified now 15oz of pure silver from scrap just from watching your videos. Keep up the great work.
Are you on automatic delivery for Nitric ???
No
@sreetips I would love to buy an Ounce or 2 of your Larger Chunk Silver Shot you just poured there / Especially the ones with the Gold Toning / Very Cool / Any chance you might put Some up on Ebay ?
Did you washed all your silver shots with distilled water in extenso? If not, theres your silver cristal discolouration... silver chloride. If washed with aqua dest extensively, then I have no idea, but still suspect AgCl. HCl vapours reaching the cell or so...
Your cement silver had a good range of colours. Very nice to watch.
Sir that is a lot of silver cements !! Thank you two thumbs
18:52 delicious home made cornflakes :D
Could you please up the volume on these.
Sorry, I was in the yard and was trying to keep it down low.
I don’t even need to watch it first thing I do is hit like ,love all your videos !!
Woah now that’s a mask!! Great video as always!!
Someone needs to get BigStackD to make a bigger furnace for buckets that big!
BigStackD comes up in every youtube video where someone melts & casts metal 😄
Just a suggestion. You might want to purchase one of the Devil Forge Furnaces, I think your melt times would be faster, and... safer than the converted stock-pot furnace you currently have. The Devil Force Furnaces I think would be worth your time for the silver melts. Not so sure about the gold, as you seem not to be processing large amounts of gold. Just a thought...
I’d never use it
Oh, he's gonna melt a crucible of silver powder, this should be be nice. Silver's up so that should be worth a bit.
**5 GALLON BUCKET**
The lack of slag indicates your silver is pretty pure from the get go!
It’s about 98% to 99% pure. It must be or else the electrolyte in the silver cell would quickly become saturated with copper.
Great to see you back! Now you need to get yourself a cupellation furnace for those rare times you get solids or oxides of base metals with PMs bound up in them. Bone ash cupels have been found in the tombs of Egyptian Pharos. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
None of the profession refiners that I learned from used cupel - not one. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. I just don’t have any experience.
...And placing wet material in your crucible is a good way to blow it up.
@@sreetips It's simply another method. You get a PM bead faster but then have to chemically strip each PM from the flattened bead. Thank you for another fascinating video!
Not sure if others have said anything. But you should coat the fibers in refractory cement for Heath reasons. Interesting to watch but
Heres a handy tip; If you haven't done so already, put some paper underneath the crucible,so that it doesnt stick to the furnace. :D
Thank you
You can get some big steeping bags like they use for beer making and run all that silver at once in a 5 gallon silver cell. Aquariums make a good container due to the wide shape as well. You can use one side for dissolving and the other for plating. This way, any sludge that does make it through will settle out below the dissolving electrode and not mix with the product.
There is a critical distance between the anode and the cathode
@@sreetips critical distance or amperage/voltage :D
Both are critical
long-time viewer. love the videos. have you thought about making a video of trying to refine/retrieving/reusing your nitric acid in your silver refining process?
Yes, but I rejected the idea.
Almost time for a tilt furnace. That's a lot of silver.
If I’d just get off my lazy behind and do the work it wouldn’t back up on me like that
outstanding video. amazing amount of preparation, in building custom tools. appreciate the videos and attention to detail.
Suggestion... before starting the melt, weigh out 1 lb batches of the silver powder into bags (maybe ziplock type) then just drop the bags into the crucible bag and all. No scooping powder outside and spilling into the furnace and your hand won't get so cooked.
Interesting
Wow, your silver process has gotten bigger. The next video will be Sreetips in a crane holding a large industrial bucket pouring the silver in a large pool of water.
Sir, "you're gonna need a bigger silver cell". I mean, to process all that cement silver.
Agree
Or at least a second silver cell
@@blake571 make it 5
Hey bud.. will cooling the silver melt in chlorinated water create chlorine gasses? I am sure it would be very low levels. Also... could the process be the "mystery" contamination in your silver cell?
Is there anything you can add to the silver crystals to strengthen them? Would make for some really neat jewelry.
Not sure about that
@@sreetips Or... if you can carefully remove the liquid and replace with a clear resin, you could then turn it into a super sweet bowling ball.
Awesome video again! Would you please be able to get a second silver cell going??
Probably make a good video - construct a second cell from scratch.
@@sreetips I agree. I would learn from that.
@@sreetips yes please, pretty sure your power supply will handle two cellls and it will help you get through that mountain on silver shot and bigger mountain on cement silver!! :)
Question for you regarding cementing out the cement silver - If I understand the process correctly, the copper is trading places with the silver as it comes out of solution and forms the cement silver. Any impurities on the copper would "fall" into the cement silver and then become one further impurity to filter out during the silver cell process - showing up in the slimes. Do you think it would be worth your time to attempt to clean the copper before the cementing process to remove as much of the impurities as you can? Perhaps a chemical cleaning or even just heating it to redness before use? I'm thinking that it may reduce the amount of contamination in your slimes and extend the life of your filters.
Copper wire and tubing are best because they must be high purity copper for extruding or drawing
Does refining the silver crystal back through the silver cell go faster the second time around? Or does that exchange occur at a "steady" pace regardless of the purity? Thank you for sharing all this. freaking science, man...exciting stuff!
It’s the same pace
@@sreetips Thank you.
@sreetips How would you personally go about separating the copper from the silver in Sheffield silver plate?
I don’t know, I’ve not tried deplating silver yet. But I’ll figure it out.
Very nice process, it seems fun to do too! Do you think you'll need more or a bigger silver cell, or will you just continue with your current one slow and steady?
I could build another cell from scratch and run two silver cells. That would make a nice video.
Great video. Why couldnt you dump the melted silver through a suspended screen over the water . To make finer shot ?
I would think the molten silver would immediately clog the screen
I need a wet board to pour the silver on and cause it to spatter out in smaller pieces instead of pouring a steady stream into the water.
I've never heard of silver cement before. What is it and what is it used for?
A video from sreetips explaining just that! He's the best. lol ua-cam.com/video/IX4dv7zplaw/v-deo.html
Edit: it is used in his silver cell which is here: ua-cam.com/video/IS4XbTbm_Bo/v-deo.html and here: ua-cam.com/video/1mDz5k-WhPg/v-deo.html
@@ut000bs Thank you!
That cement silver shot creation process you use definitely requires extreme care given the dire consequences of a mistake. It's good that your a bit concerned about it - you want to be at the top of your game doing that.
You play with silver like it worse nothing.
I wish I could have that much silver 😊😊😊
It’s worth more than the price listed by the system - way more.
@@sreetips yes, I agree with you. Silver worse nothing nowadays
Hey bud have you tried any of the paste glazes for your melting pots to be able make a shot pouring pot , by drilling a few 1/8in. Holes in the side of you melt pot for dripping vents
Yes, they clog up very quickly
Yeah you need to get together with a black smith to make a bottom and top ring and Handel's for the crucible so you can have more control on the poorest maybe make a permanent smelt would be awesome. Great content they should be teaching this in schools it is great knowledge
Have you looked into electric units for melting metals? I hear some of the induction units are amazing.
I have an electric furnace
Yay a new video!!!!
Curious what the outcome would be if your were to use a press to compact your cement silver before charging the crucible? Would work for the crystal as well.
Screetips you really need a better setup for transfering the silver powder into the crucible. Something like a big metal funnel. Everytime you spill something my heart bleeds.
@@reverendtfg6802
That's not how people get, _or stay,_ rich. Rich people care about every cent.
Rich: having more than you need. By that definition I’m rich. But doesn’t change the fact that I’m nearly flat broke and deeply in debt.
@@sreetips *Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but folks with $30,000 hotrods and 5 gallon buckets filled with precious metals aren't 'flat broke'.*
I can’t get $20k for the hot rod. And it’s a 2 gallon not five.
Semantics: of or relating to meaning in language. Had to look it up.
Could one process sterling silver shot through their silver cell, or is 92.5% not pure enough? I googled this question, but couldn’t find a definitive answer. I expect this might use up electrolyte at an increased rate, but I feel like I could do this? Was hoping you would weigh in on this? Love the channel, thanks for all the great videos!
925 will go but the electrolyte would quickly become saturated with copper. The silver going into the anode basket should be up around 98% to 99% for best results. This is true for most electrolytic refining.
@@sreetips Thanks for taking the time to answer my question!
I have about 50 lbs of silver contacts from industrial equipment. I lke your furnace, do you have a link / links for the supplies?
I got the burner on eBay. The ceramic wool at Grainger.
Dang that handle fell right off
Aluminum rivets - I expected those to fall off long ago.
Nice one buddy, after melting metals myself and through watching other people like bigstackd and ArtByAdrock if you leave some melted metal in the bottom of the crucible it helps with melting the next load of metal even quicker than starting again with an empty crucible thus also saving on gas as well as time, give it a try on your next melt buddy and see how you get on
Yea, there are a few ways he can optimize his operation further. Cupola style furnaces are even better because you can continuously feed material and drain the melt more safely. You basically make a trough on a hinge with a spout and the burner blowing through the top. Since there is no need to open it, or lift any hot melt by hand, it is faster and safer. The spout can pour directly into the water bucket.
@@excitedbox5705 never heard of this one cheers for the info buddy I was just going by his current set up as it's practically the same as what I've got
@@sotkshadow8306 cupolas are usually used for refining ore. Furnaces are used for smelting, such as what he is doing. I have always liked the cupola design though because it allows for safer draining but they used to not make sense at small scale because of their size. Other people use induction furnaces with a spout. You get a box and fill it with refractory and a copper pipe coil and set a crucible with a pour spout in it. Once it hardens you add a stand with a hinge and power (sine wave at high frequency). You run water through the pipe to keep it cool. It works like an induction cooker so it is really really efficient. You can melt a whole crucible full in 30 seconds.
I wonder if a "silver on tap" mechanism could be implemented, for fun, or maybe for profit. For continuous melting, the bottom of the melting pot could have a tap which could be opened to let the molten silver out right into the water barrel without the need to stop the heat. I'm not sure, if such a tap exists or what material could it be to withstand the melting temperature, and not get stuck.
The advantage would be increased productivity and energy efficiency. The disadvantage is the added complexity and possible disaster if the apparatus goes wrong.
I have a question not sure if it's been answered yet but how big can you go with the silver cell?
There are two types: moebius and thumb. I can’t remember which, but one suspends the anode basket (like mine) the other hangs anode bars between cathode plates. The one with plates hanging can be as large as the size of the tank permits. The small cell (like mine) is limited by a critical distance between the bottom of the anode filter and the bottom of the stainless bowl: 4 inch to 4.5 inches.
@@sreetips that is awesome thank you for the information and I enjoy watching your videos I don't fully know why but they are calming to me
what's with the sound volume?
I was in my backyard and was trying to keep the noise level down - sorry.
Very nice video! Excelent work!
Just wondered, What's the weight of a 5 gallon bucket of cement silver?
Got to over a hundred pounds
Can you build a second electrolytic silver cell apparatus?
Get silver twice faster. ..
Yes, watch for the video
Interesting that the color of the silver shot is almost like the inquarted gold shot in other videos. Any ideas why the silver looks that way? Base metals, or other elements?
Copper
@@sreetips Of course. Cemented silver on copper.
The cement silver is about 98% to 99% pure silver. The rest is copper. It don’t take much to turn the silver ugly-looking due to oxidation.
in one of your video, you use graphite as cathode. is there another cathode that can be use?thnx
I’ve used stainless steel and graphite. That’s my only experience.
Love your vids Sreetips, Your kinda a dork but your really cool. Keep it up, look forward to all your vids.
Thank you!
guy with a cloud, were you talking about the lil Abner cartoons, the guy in the straw hat that walked with his head down. I think his name was Joe Bifstik
Great video!
awsome to see another upload but please be careful about your back get a second pair of tools of the pour so you can get good grip and a nice stand when doing your pours. sorry english isnt my native launge but the "grips" / "tongs" you use is perfekt for the transport out and around with the crucibal. but forced to have max load at the end + pour the hot metal against you is not a good idea . thats why you want one so you can pour from the side (ergonomic we are not getting younger ;) ) safer.
Sorry for the wall of text
The tongs work well for lifting and pouring. I only use it very infrequently.
It's funny you mention that cartoon about the guy with the rain cloud followin' him. I think it was Ziggy, but I may be wrong. I have some construction I'm doin' at my house as time allows. I had some time and material the other day, so I break out the tools and get all set up. And it starts to rain. Hard. Like, thunderstorm hard. _BUT ONLY AT MY HOUSE._ I shit you not it wasn't raining just next door. The neighbor's driveway was dry and I have photos to prove it. I've never seen anything like it in my life.
I’ve seen that happen
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Lol. I thought about that comic to myself when it happened.