Melting 22lbs Cement Silver To Feed The Silver Cell
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- In this video I’m melting silver powder recovered from my gold refining operations, pouring the molten metal into water to form silver granules that I can feed into my electrolytic silver cell and refine it to high purity investment grade elemental silver.
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Was reading alot of comments and it seams like alot of people are not very observant . Thanks for the video.
Or want to educate on sh!t they don't know
Hey Sreetips, one thing I have learned from BigstackD's channel is that you should always put a piece of cardboard under your crucibal to prevent it from sticking to the fire brick. I noticed the sticking a couple of times. Thanks again for the always great videos!
I think I remember BigstackD saying he only uses it when melting copper though...not sure if 2K degrees matters or not as far as trying it with silver, what say you Sreetips?
@@guitargirlie88he always uses it. Why would it matter what metal you're melting? It so the crucible doesn't stick. Has nothing to do with the type of metal
Also, always heat your stirring devices prior to using. It would be cool to see a customized Streetips branded furnace like BigStackd.
@Shellsbells He puts cardboard under every crucible no matter what he melts. He actually references the cardboard in most videos too. Also, his furnace runs at roughly the same temp as Sreetips would run. Cardboard will burn up regardless, but it still provides an anti-stick barrier.
@@awf118 Agreed
That's outstanding amount that should feed the silver cell for a while thank you for sharing this six stars brother
You have a furnace too?!? You are a national treasure sir. I have learned so much from you just by watching. I’m a huge gold fan! I use gold leaf, and I think of many cultures before our time whom also used gold. Thank you for existing!!!
You can see how I built the furnace for cheap, links to the build are in the video description of this video.
This silver shot pretty much guarantees no vampire attacks nearby.
Love that sound of the silver shot clinking off each other! Thanks for showing this process - it has been interesting to see this process evolve over the years.
Really cool that he had a bucket full of cement silver! Looked awesome.
I look forward to all your videos. But wow 😮 that volume of silver has me green with envy! I appreciate you and all your insight/opinions. That is why you are my hero since 2015/2016.😊
Mr. Sreetips, I'm super excited! I just got my paperback copy of C.M.Hoke's book! I wanted a hardback copy, but they are rare and expensive. But $27 is a small price to pay for such a wealth of knowledge and future fun! Thanks for the inspiration, my friend.
Mental note: Hoke’s book, paper back, $27. Got it. That’s good to know, thank you.
It is quite amazing to see the volume of silver you are processing!
Well done.
Dude, great video. Your kind are the real rock stars
Look at all that cement silver. That is so freakin awesome
Gooood morning from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great day!
Goooood morning!
Gooood morning my friend. Have a nice Easter. Arne 🇳🇴
@@arnedalbakk6315Thank you Arne! Have a wonderful and safe Easter!
Thank you David, 🎉
@@arnedalbakk6315 👊😎
Another Fantastic Video..I love them Every day is School day with you . Thanks again from your friend in 🇬🇧 ...Take care & keep the Videos coming
Hello Sreetips,
I always enjoy your videos, they're informative and fun, and I always walk away feeling like I learned something .
Thanks for sharing.
Man that's a lot of silver cell running for the future. Love it!
So I watch another channel that just breaks down scrap metals like aluminum, copper and brass and melts them into bars and coins. This video reminded me of his with the tools used in an outdoor setting. Really good video to watch!
Do you mean BigstackD?
@@mattgraham1983 you know it! Every Fri! Lol
@@matthewtracy8744 not long now and he'll hit the 1T goal...
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. I realy enjoy this clip sir. And a big thanks for sharing the protecting things that you use. And now you have "foods", to make the stunning crystals. "silver is gold"... I simply love silver.
God bless both of you, and have a nice day🇺🇲
Arne 🇳🇴
Thanks Arne
@@sreetips 🌹🌹
I think you would do well to add a welders leather apron to finish out the safety gear. Cotton is no match for molten metal. Keep the great videos coming!
What are you Mr safety have you worked in a foundry do you realy know what you are talking about?
@@hemidart7 I actually have worked in a foundry, and I have my own set up much like the one Sreetips has. I'm curious about your your first question where you ask if I'm "Mr safety". I'm assuming you're pretty clueless about safety. What made you decide to attack my pretty innocuous comment like that?
@@SMOBY44 No I am not clueless about safety I'm very strict about it working around tons upon tons of molten metal.
Seems that on youtube every one needs to tell content creators about their lack of safety on a constant basis
Streetips knows even tho he is wearing loafers and holly jeans thats his choice if he want to be dumb that his choice
Do you go on asian channels and give them heck for sandals and no safety glasses
WHO CARES KAREN!! these people know this they choose not too do the right thing
so give it a rest
@@hemidart7 Have you ever thought that I have been following him for years and have back and forth comment from time to time? I began dialog with him several years ago about his military service and the common factor that we both served on the same class of Navy Destroyer, and both as Machinist Mates. I have offered my opinions to him and he has either taken them or set me straight on why it may not work. Why are you so worked up over this? Sreetips obviously isn't. Maybe you should use the scroll feature to just keep scrolling down the comment list. And what Asian channels am I supposed to be watching? Pretty sure you have never been around molten metal in your life, so there's that. Have yourself a good day ma'am.
@@SMOBY44 Well you can assume all you want still don't make it so!
I don't care about your personal life, I'm not worked up, I just say it straight.
I've been around molten metal since the early 2000s and my employer considers me a professional does that clear things up for ya sailor boy
Remember this is a comment section and there is this thing called freedom of speech
Not sure why your videos are in my recommendations, but I'm glad they were. Very interesting content, sir
Thank you!
The day has come, and you have a shitload of material to process. This is gonna be amazing you're truly doing gods work thanks sreetips !
agree!!
Love that all containers, tools and even wood used as a defuser for the molten silver being poured into the bucket. SREETIPS FOR THE WIN!
That will keep you going for a while. I've seen that strange slag before. It's part of the crucible reacting with the melt. It's not common and I suspect it is related to the manufacturing process of the company you bought it from. Glad to see you wearing proper PPE.
Nice to see you outdoors!
Very enjoyable and interesting viewing. Plenty of silver shot to feed your silver cell and produce lots of those amazing silver crystals. Nice. 👍
I love this:
Sreetips: I bought this pot at a yard sale for $2.00. As you can see, it's filled with $8000.00 worth of silver shot.
Very relaxing video... there's always something satisfying watching metal melt... and more so since it's precious metal :) Nice job sir
Eyeballing 10kg almost perfectly... Well done sir, well done!
Over the last few years you've come a long way.
Your videos do show an awesome evolutionary progress.
Next thing is recovering nitric, but only when you're ready. You've got the fume hood. You got all what's required to do it. I think you just need some cheering on.
You can do it!!!😂😂😂
I know, I know. Nitric recovery can be a daunting task, but I have the confidence in you!
Remember all you need is distilled water, the tools, and a whole lot of courage. We believe in you!
Other than that, you've managed to make this the absolute best hobby to watch online. Even without the nitric recovery, it's still the best hobby to watch!
You can just use the torch to light the furnace. I usually have the torch lit as I approach the furnace in case the gas has escaped the furnace. After the first melt the furnace should be hot enough to self ignite.
Your crucible still looks good. It's cracks on the outside you need to look for and the exterior will start flacking apart when it is time to replace it. I wouldn't trash that one just yet.
You don't say Capitan....
You could just shut up and enjoy the video without trying to look smart by sayin' stupid sh*t
The downside to that is the flame front is so small on the torch very small surface area but with a lit piece of newspaper you've got a 10times more surface area of fire. The newspaper is also like a timed fuse . Light it drop it into the furnace and then turn on the gas. And you're out of there by the time it lights.
BigstackD needs to get you in touch with Devil Forge!
Great video! A thing that I always find fascinating is just how the bulk density of silver and silver/gold precipitate is only slightly heavier than water - 1200 grams per litre or thereabouts. The porosity is through the roof :)
Dunk that crucible in some nitric and reclaim all of the silver.
10 kg of silver that could have otherwise been lost forever. Very impressive.
Thanks again. I alwys enjoy your presentatins
Ahh Sreetips, what a beautiful day. Sun is shining, birds a chirping and pouring molten silver cement over a plank into a large bucket of water. Good times! 😄
Montana too.
I see your getting crafty and taking things to the outdoors. 😁👍
Same thing with your mum we got crafty last night when I took things to her bedroom
Looks like you could benefit from using a stainless collander, to separate the water from the silver at the end. Nice load. Thanks for sharing. Aloha
Just a suggestion get your self a gold pan strainer it fits on a 5 gal bucket perfectly then you can pour your shots in the strainer then the water and shots are separated I think it’s a lot better hope this helps. JD
Thanks for the video oh they come in 6 different sizes I have all of them purchased on Amazon
A good practice is to put cardboard in between the crucible and the firebrick. This will ensure the two do not fuse together during the melt. The ashes from the cardboard will act as a barrier.
I like those tongs.
Bigstackd enjoyer
@@alexanderwoolley1623 yes, he got me into melting. BigStack, AdRock and Growing Stack are great channels for melting videos. Sreetips has just made me love it even more. The sight of molten Silver is maddening. It's a fever that can not be broken.
So cool! That is so much silver!
Amazing video. Never gets old or boring. They used to call people like you a witch. If he floats he's a witch. What could possibly be wrong with that. Witches really had a bad deal.
Hi sreetips - if you're a bit worried about lighting that furnace you made so well, try using a long, thin, wooden or bamboo splint. Light the end and you can reuse many times safely..
Everything about that furnace scares me. Yet there’s something primal about melting metal - especially silver (and gold).
Sree-knox rollin in the cement! Watching silver cement off of copper is a favorite of mine! Curious though about the slag composition. 22lbs lots of future silver cell slimes :)
Slag was probably from the crucible.
Great video. Nice melting run. Hey Sreetips: How about making a video with all those wasted crucibles? I have some ideas you can document. First: you boil them in a 5% sulfuric acid solution to get rid of the flux. Then you use nitric acid to recover the silver and then aqua regia for recovering the gold and PGMs. That would be a different video with something new to learn from your experiments. Keep up with the great work!!!
Are you realy trying to explain acid to Streetips
If you hear the end of your storing rod up before mixing and removing the slag it won’t stick to the end as bad.
Great video as always love seeing the furnace in action!
I wasn’t sure, but after a while I realized that having that junk stick to the rod is what I wanted, so I could remove it from the silver.
As always, great job.
Hi. SuperB. Thanks for work. Be Happy. With best wishes from Sevastopol/Crimea.
I'm glad I looked into these older episodes. I really wanted to see how you were melting the shots up. Oh by the way I see you have some deck rot going on there. That needs to be addressed before someone gets hurt. Their are some people that will look for that just to hurt themselves for a lawsuit.
Its time to make a second silvercell sreetips. Keep up the good work
That’s the next step. I’ve got two more buckets full of cement silver that need to be melted.
Fyi, the orange hard hat and faceshield you have is for electricians not tree trimmers. They wear those when working on live high voltage, the white lettered sticker on the side of the green faceshield will say its arc flash rating in cals. It befitting you would wear it bc in an arc flash there could be molten metal flying at them. Great video, it was unexpected to see the insulating brick float when it fell in the water, thought it was a regular brick.
The guy I bought it from used it to cut trees. He asked if I wanted the vest. Should have said yes but I declined.
Can you do a video where you crush up all your old and broken crucibles and recover the metal from them
A leather apron is a good piece of PPE if you're ever worried about molten metal splatter.
No way!... I don't thing ANYONE would've thought of that!! good that you came by to save the day
What about boot shields or face shield?
I'm amazed at how much cement silver you had sitting around.
It’s only because I hate running that furnace. It’s a 2000 degree monster. After I set up my second silver cell, I’ll probably have to fire it up again because I’ve got two more buckets of cement silver to melt into shot.
@@sreetips Haaaaaaa! Dang, not a bad problem to have in the end though.
For sure a job to do in the Spring.. this job must be one SOB to do in the summer with that respirator and safety equipment on.
And the air conditioner blowing cold air.
Another great video
i like your furnace, really effective.
It was cheap and it gets the job done.
This is how musket shot was made back in the day but they poured from a little bit higher helps keep the shot from clumping up and stay round and not M&M shaped
Almost $8k worth of silver shot should keep the silver cell happy and running for the next few months huh! Looking good bud!!
I’ve got two more full buckets that I need to melt into shot. Silver is a pain. But I love it.
@@sreetips "a pain. But I love it." Are you telling us you are a masochist?
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Oops, I forgot, you were a master chief, "Pain is just weakness leaving the body".
@@sreetips That much silver would put me in a suspended state of yea ha for 2 weeks
Hello sir, 10 kilos of silver... nice... I figured out, that buying second hand AgNO3 is also good way to get cheap pure silver, and elecrolyte is "for free". 100 g of AgNO3 p.a. has 63 g of very pure silver and costs me usually less than spot silver.
That’s incredible. Pure silver nitrate is usually way more expensive than silver metal.
A future video idea: if possible look at the different metals under a microscope. Gold powder and cement silver etc. I think that would be a cool video to watch
I need to contact the state college. I think that they have an SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope)
@@sreetips That would put the icing on the cake, just a visual light microscope would already be very cool.
@@sreetips it would be amazing if they’d let you use it
I need to ask - do You remelt the cemented copper as well? To reuse it in the silver waste containers?
Also, a piece of advice - try to get a farrier's apron to protect the legs. I noticed You moving around in a torn denim trousers and that is not good protection against any hot metal. Farrier's apron is good for both protection and mobility, as it's made out of thick leather and cut to cover both legs.
No, clean copper for refining is cheap and plentiful. No need to waste time reusing the copper from the waste bucket. Thanks for the safety tip.
Farrier's Apron or a set of welder's leathers and jacket, plus high cuff leather gloves made for welders are the way to go when handling molten metals. It is a bit of expense, but keeping all fingers and toes and all parts between is priceless. If you are going to spend a few hours every so often to do these major melts, then the leathers would be worth it, just like your fume hood for the chemical side, the right garb for metalwork is really a must, you are above hobby level, or at least high end hobby level, so the safety equipment is not to be stinted on.
1:35 after a few yrs I feel like we're going to have a "recovering Silver from dirt" series xD
I think it would help if you add more cement silver to the crucible once it's melted . It'll melt a lot faster because of the retained heat and you'll use a lot less gas.
I left it less than half full on purpose - a crucible full of 2 pounds of 2000 degree molten metal scares the daylights out of me.
@@sreetips might pay to upgrade the jeans and collared dress shirt
looks nice and warm there it is still cold and snow here in northern michigan
I’d rather have cool nights sleep than humidity
Just love all you videos
Thank you!
about the crucible. if you put more material into it as it melts, you will consume the crucible at a more even rate not just the bottom part, and also less handling of it while it's hot. it'll be heavier for each time, but you are a big guy , so should be fine😊
A crucible full of molten metal scares me! I left it low on purpose.
Adding cold metal to molten is dangerous as it sinks and may have trapped water which will cause molten metal ejection.
I'm lucky to not have permanent scars from this.
@@keithjurena9319 ay, load with drizzle
Awesome video that is a lot of silver shot thanks for sharing sreetips
I remember that screw and so glad you removed it.
Haha hearing the sound of the silver hit the water made me have to pee.😎
You should Probably coat that ceramic insulation with high heat cement I heard it's bad for you to breathe in plus it will help it lasts a while longer
I recently saw a guy making shot pooring the molten metal in a tube with flowing water in it. Seemed to work very well
Interesting, thank you.
@@sreetips Tube tilted towards a bucket, water goes in on the left side, hole in the middle to poor the metal in, water and shot leaves on the right side into a bucket.
It's time to make some crystals great video sreetips
Great way to solve storage problems, reduce the volume.
You’re the man 👍
Nice video. I have a suggestion for you. The next time you do this kinda video again. I think it would be nice if you had an underwater go pro recording the silver beads hitting the board. I think everyone would enjoy that. Anyways, just a suggestion. Take care.
Good suggestion, thank you
Now that's a bowl of corn flakes!! ❤
I was wondering what the source of the slag was. Was the crucible previously used for a smelt? Could the slag be leftover flux?
Silver oxide probably
@@alexanderwoolley1623, silver oxide is metal. This was definitely slag.
@@alexanderwoolley1623 More people talking about stuff they don't know sh!t about
@@CuttinEJ Silver oxide most definitely isn't a metal. It is a metal oxide, it isn't a metal as it doesn't have metallic properties. For one it won't conduct electricity like all metals do.
@@apveening, 2 atoms of silver and 1 atom of oxygen. I’m not a chemist. Maybe I should have said “metallic”. What I do know is that looked a lot like the glass slag from a smelt than an oxidized derivative of a precious metal.
I wonder if borax would help in the process of melting. I love this video.
Great info. I respect and share your views on money.
I think a simple thing you can make to help with the slag off the sir rod is a small piece of plate with a hole drilled to the size of the rod (at temp use if it expands) towards the edge and finish with cutting the hole open to a U shape. Should help make that part a bit less tedious. Might be able to attach it to the side of the furnace if not a simple stake in the ground. Not sure if you tried something like that before or if you don't mind letting it build up a bit and then clean it up later.
At first I didn’t know what it was or how to handle it. But after a while I realized that the junk floating on the metal adhered to the rod nicely and all I had to do was put the graphite rod in, the junk clung to the end of the rod, pull it out and set it down. Lack of experience turned into new knowledge.
Also let the crucial cool off in the forge oh great work
You should move the crossboard closer to the ramp so the blobs roll down it instead of fall through most of the water column. This helps prevent it from popping, blobbing, and makes silver shot of high quality. I learned it from a UA-cam channel named Street Tips, or something like that. You should check him out, though there's so many videos without any usable form of sorting or searchability, you may need a lot of luck to find anything on topic with a question you may have, but it's probably answered somewhere in there.
Commenting on @sreetips video giving advise to him that you learned watching a UA-camr named @sreetips or something like that is either kind of funny, (if your trying to be ironic/funny), or kind of sad, (if your really that oblivious/stupid)! lol
I agree, I’ll use a longer board and get it closer next time I do this
I learned from this youtuber named Buck Stickchaser or something how to be a complete loser and live in your grandmas basement because your mom can't stand you. You should check him out.
to make getting the water out easier you should drill a a small hole in the bottom of that barrel and then tap that hole and put a bolt that you can easily remove to let the water drain out
I use the same size bottle for my forge put it in water or shake it time to time the amount of volume that leaves will cause the bottle to freeze up and limit the flow of gasses
Nice, that should be enough to feed your silver cell for the next few months.
awesome , glad to see u again , been meaning to get up with u , i noticed nitric is at 175 a gal , maybe u know where i can get it cheaper , i am ready for the next faze , in the process
Check dudadiesel.com
I thought those protective boots were loafers or dress shoes at first. Classy safety foot wear.
Always watching in awe. Love this channel. So how many pours does a crucible last?
I think was the second or third use.
One slight drop of moisture in that powder and you would have had the dreaded "silver shower". Frequently happens to those who cast bullets.
Yes very true you ever see what happens when a Zinc coated nail is thrown into molten (any) metal
Zinc boiling point is not much more than water
Hey sreetips you should pre heat your stir rod before putting it into the metal to avoid an explosion much love
I would also suggets that you get a leather apron to protect your abdomen and upper legs down to your boots.
It will just bounce off it'll be fine saftey nazi
Nice melting run! have you considered making other electrolytic cells? specifically for the recovery of gold, palladium, and even copper crystals from spent silver solutions?
He did a gold cell before. I think he didn't continue with it due to it not being as cost effective as refining.
I’ll probably make another silver so I’ll two.
You certainly went to an industrial scale. Time for a 2nd silver cell?
Why don't you put some of the wool over the crucible area so you could save gas and furnace would burn hotter? Thank you for sharing your knowledge!😊
It starts sputtering if I cover the hole over the crucible in the furnace.
I always wonder why your cement silver smelts look so coppery 😮 also I wonder if you could put Sterling silver straight into the silver cell?
Any copper in silver will instantly form an oxide on the surface at molten silver temperatures in order to get silvery looking silver your copper content must be under 0.5%. You can use sterling silver directly in a silver cell however small cells have their electrolyte depleted way to fast by the large amounts of copper because copper displaces 4x the amount of silver in solution (by weight) to make it practical. You would have to replace electrolyte very often and you get a larger amount of anode slimes that can clog smaller anode filter it is best to use sterling silver in cells that are 50L and greater in my option. Larger silver cells can operate with a input silver purity of down to 80%
how many melts do you get from a propane cylinder that size?
Just a tiny amount of copper makes it look very ugly. Sterling in the cell would quickly saturate the electrolyte with copper.
@@davyguy87 m
I think it can run continuous for about ten hours, estimate.
Thanks for advice
What I would like to see is a crucible with small holes drilled in the bottom, heated along with regular crucible with molten silver. Place the holy crucible over the barrel of water and pour the molten silver into the holy, hot crucible while small dribbles are casted into the water below.
I've got an old burn hole in the side of my leg from a red hot "cherry" about the diameter of a dime coming off of my cutting torch. It landed on top of my slip on boot, burned through my pants and slipped all the way down inside my boot, to just above my ankle. I asked the doctor why it didn't hurt and he told me it was because it burned so deeply that it took out the nerves in that area. Be super careful of those open top boots.
Can't wait to see the slimes recovery from all this
Awesome video, thanks for sharing..