Squirrels are cool dudes. Years ago we had a group that hung out in our yard for tidbits we would put out for them on the top of the wall on our back porch. Then the snow hit, the back porch was full of snow, 3 feet deep wall to wall, needless to say, there was no opening the storm door to put out goodies for the squirrels. Those little beggars were line up sitting on the wall eyeing up the back door. So .... we simply opened the kitchen window just high enough to put the goodies on the ledge and the squirrels came up one by one, took a piece (just one, no cramming their mouths), and moved on. Who knew we would be opening a winter outdoor cafeteria for the squirrels. They got a variety of shelled nuts, dried fruits, and peanut butter on crackers, bread ..... sometimes open face, sometimes closed sandwiches. And, they always ate the cracker and the bread before coming back for seconds. That was a fun winter.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

They are a joy

Your a very good man Sreetips

Heck yeah! Sreetips with another video!!!

Lol I just realized. You’re the Bob Ross of smelting.

I have over 200 jackdaws who visit me every morning for feeding. They love peanuts. When I first started feeding them 28 years ago only 12 came down. If fledglings get into trouble when they first leave the nest they come to fetch me to assist them by making a crow sound (Danger) at my window. Especially if a cat is on the prowl. If I chase the cat off, they assist me by swooping down above it.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome! I would love to do that.

As an animal caretaker I agree. They are very awesome and make for good friends. 😊

@anthonyrstrawbridge

Жыл бұрын

Here before the Rocky Mountains Range the eastern diminishes and the fox squirrel becomes prevalent then as altitude increases the jet black pine squirrel eye catching strikingly beautiful. Deeper into the wilderness the many rock and ground squirrels varieties do not see visitors as a threat and become hand tame. Approaching the western desert the variety of species becomes great. But I think it is the jet black foxy looking pine squirrel which draws most attentio.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

My daughter said the squirrels at the Grand Canyon are tame and drank water from her water bottle.

@michaelaldredge-greenwell1692

Жыл бұрын

Squirrels are so cute, sweet, beautiful, wonderful, charming, & so adorable🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️! I dearly love them. I’m an animal lover as well

@01gtbdaily30

Жыл бұрын

Meh , try getting a squirrel or any animal to help you move and see how good of a friend they are lol

@Kenlydford

Жыл бұрын

@@01gtbdaily30 🤣

One of your best pours ever with your signature style of the swirls in the bar.

Thank you! This is outstanding! Thank you for posting this valuable information! Thank you for taking the time and explaining the process slowly, and clearly. I appreciate your teaching style. Thank you, Nayuk

Barely cloudy from what I have seen of single refinements. Nice work!

@SaltyMeatHook

Жыл бұрын

Yes I skipped forward. I've seen the process a lot. hehe

I love watching how fast the sterling melts when adding it to the molten gold. With golds higher melting point, it looks almost instantaneous!

It's cool you caught that 'explosion' on camera. First time I got to see that and it's results.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

It’s a love/hate thing. I love it because it makes finely divided pieces that the nitric can penetrate easily. I hate it because it makes me jump, every time.

@JoshuaRosaaen

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips you mentioned a thing that created this finely divided state better...but you werent that sophisticated...can you share a video or link to what you were describing here please? I love all these amazing insights and knowledge you provide. Thank you.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I seen it on the goldrefiningforum.com but I can’t remember where.

@JoshuaRosaaen

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Thank you sir for this link.

Any time I hear inquarting, I just think of "thinning". Thinning the gold so the acids can penetrate. I've learned a lot from your channel. Never gets old.

@Heymrk

Жыл бұрын

Less "thinning" and more alloying.

Thanks for the excellent explination on the why and the percentage of inquiring gold.

Nice "Fat" bar! Looks great. Glad you talked with your mom! Always makes for a great day.

Love your videos and all the knowledge you have with refining gold and silver.

@mammadalt101191

Жыл бұрын

If only he would say things once, then let it be

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

You’re smart and get the first time. I repeat myself for the benefit of those who need repetition to learn.

@mammadalt101191

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips People who doesnt get it the first time shouldnt mess with chemicals used in refining.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Agree, some folks want to know what’s happening just for the knowledge. I do it for them.

Love to watch your videos and learn from your amazing Knowledge . It's so astonishing to see how you teach us in these videos so Awesome Streetips .👏👏

Those squirrels were so cute, it's another thing I miss since coming to my current location. These carat scrap refinings are always fascinating, a really pretty bar from only one refining. 👍

Back to the classics! A nice cosy Sunday night viewing. Good to see you like squirrels. I had a pet squirrel once.

You're such a sweetheart Sreetips,those squirrels are adorable!!!! 🤗🤗🤗

Textbook. Love to see your range, from really clean refining to the really difficult jobs.

Thanks for feeding the squirrels, a lot of people know me as Squirrel Bob because I spent many years rescuing squirrels here in the UK. I manly rescue rabbits these days due to a back injury that causes constant pain in my legs so it's not easy dealing with squirrels. I pass them on to a local rescue fiend and take care of rabbits because they are more manageable in my condition. If you look on my channel there are some rescued squirrel videos posted a few years ago.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I’ll check it out.

@squirrelmanbob

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips my videos are not edited or anything fancy I just take them on my phone and upload directly. they are mainly for friends to see I don't really want a big channel so I don't make any effort

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Carla the demanding squirrel - subscribed.

Thanks, this never gets old love the reactions. I have the same burner use it for plating that sucker is 20 yrs old and still going i think i would have to have a ceremony if it died on me🙂

Great video and watch!! Love the vintage Constellation. 👍🏻👍🏻

I’ll definitely will buy a complete course made by you about how to refine, set up a lab, where to buy the acids, etc, etc

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

There are people who do that sort of thing. You can find them on the goldrefiningforum.com

Loved the video and the squirrels are so cute

First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing

Like always, a fantastic video ! Thanks for it !

You sure are working hard, Sreetips. Good job.

hahahah! Pet squirrels rock. Just don't let them get near your copper or angle iron waste buckets! :)

Great video. Beautiful gold bar. Awesome job.

♥️👍👍👍 Twenty four karat au is fine. I remember holding great grandmas hand at church every Sunday taking note of her 24K wedding ring slowly eroding away. It would get paper thin - three times in just sixteen years. The jewelers would just add more.

I love watching the silver pieces disappear into the molten gold, it's always so oddly satisfying.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Agree, something primal about molten metal.

@micahrogers4928

Жыл бұрын

@sreetips I'm a retired plumber, and it always amazed me watching soldier and brazing rods melt and flow into a joint. I even melted copper and brass just to watch it flow.

it's very interesting,i had no idea until i started watching mr sreetips channel,thanks,Rob

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Welcome

I really enjoyed when the free nitric reacted with the silver scraps. Ask when you add nitric to the muriatic acid on the gold. It’s a very nice looking reaction. And of course my favorite reaction, the smb crashing the gold out of solution. This video was awesome

Hey sreetips these videos are super informative and watching the chemistry in action is thrilling! Thanks for posting this content.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Ian.

Thanks for sharing this with us 🙏

Sreetips and squirrels...are awesome.

This is my favourite KZread channel.

At the KOA in Missoula MT (few yrs back) the squirrels would come inside to be hand fed ... Hope UTube gave you a raise as they have double on the Adds

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I’m thankful for what has been granted to me.

that was awesome stuff thank you for sharing 😀

Two small remarks: You used to keep the last nitric of the nitric boils apart instead of putting it in your silver jar. As you are running behind on processing your silver cement, I suggest you start doing it again. I was very surprised you did only one refining, curious about the refiner's assay.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

It was a speed refine to demonstrate that the gold can be refined in just a few hours.

I hope you dont mind me asking questions about your process and such. When I have them. You are more thorough than my old chemistry teacher was . And I am a little more attentive than I once was

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Your questions are welcomed.

@danwyrick322

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips thank you

Oh my, that is beautiful.

That's a very nice chunk of gold and I'm sorry to hear that you're buyer backed out he probably didn't read the listing very well thank you for sharing your knowledge six stars my friend

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

It all ended well.

Wish I had a set up like that amazing 👏

Excellent video once again thank you 😊 !!! Maybe contracting eco goldx and getting them to sponsor your video for that materials!! Just thinking outside the box

Hey you remembered the stannous test this time! Proud of you bud 🤣

39:37 My favourite part! 🔥👈🤩👍✨

Beautiful squirrels. They love walnuts lol. They live over 16 years!

I love your videos and watch them often. You are doing a great job! I have learned a lot about refining gold and silver. I did the math on this video and at today’s spot of $1865.80 the value of the scrap was $3053.64 the value of the refined 24K was $3179.30 a profit of $126.66. A lot of effort for $125.00!

@SuperS780

Жыл бұрын

Are the prices you would get paid, for 10 and 14k the same as 24k though? Just curious if you did the math for the weight of his scrap as 24k?

@Metal_89

Жыл бұрын

​@@SuperS780 He's saying that the value of the scrap 10k and 14k totaled $3053.64 and the value of the refined 24k bar totaled $3179.30. So the amount gained from refining was $126.66.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

You don’t have to refine it. The karat gold can be held just like it is. It will track right on up with the bullion. But in my case, I can’t keep from doing it. God help me, I love it!

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Scott, sending in karat scrap to the big refiner gives them room to fudge on the pay out. Plus they don’t give credit for the silver and platinum group metals. By sending them high purity metal, I get to keep the silver and PGMs. Plus it lets them know that I know what I’m doing. And gives them no room to fudge. An old mentor of mine said, “sooner or later, the refiner almost always ends up cheating the customer.” I think he was right. And it’s also part of the reason I don’t refine other peoples material.

@PhoenixRising2040

Жыл бұрын

​@@sreetips I noticed on afew videos now that you had mentioned not refining other people metals, thank you for the context. You are a noble feller to understand the risk of temptation and to remove it from becoming a possibility. That said... the jewelers carpet videos were incredibly satisfying to watch 😊

That intro was nuts :D

Thank you sir

'animals are awesome!', couldnt have said it better Streetips.

I really liked how that ingot was bulging out the top of the bar mold you poured it into, kinda surprised the surface tension was enough to keep it together there.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

If you watch carefully, you’ll see that as I began the pour, about 75% of the molten gold came out of the melt dish into the mold. Then it stopped flowing (because of my poor pouring technique). I had to tilt the dish and get the rest of the gold to flow out of the dish. Fortunately, the gold already in the mold stayed molten just long enough for the rest of the charge to join it without forming a very ugly bar.

I just discovered your channel, can't wait to go back and view all of the previous posts. You may already have one, I've only skimmed the titles so far, but will you consider making a needed equipment and chemicals video for those of us thinking of taking this up?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Welcome. Everything you need is in the videos. I’ve left nothing out and added as much detail as possible. Please watch and take notes. Plus I try to view and answer all comments. Thank you!

@slimpickins09er87

Жыл бұрын

You can get the basic equipment needed for about $500. That does not include the acids, just the flasks, hot plate, vacuum system, and bubbling device for the stock pots.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

The first thing you MUST have is a fume hood to draw the fume away from you. No way to safely do these reactions without one.

I always enjoy watching your refining videos and have an experiment proposal for you: Foreword: Since a long time I noticed, that you are boiling AR at a quite high temperatur with the resulting vigurous boiling going on. I never do that, as I have noticed that I am loosing too much AU saturated AR with it. Maybe the quantity is not significant enough to be noticed by you? Experiment: Next time you dissolve a specific, weight and quantified amount of gold with AR with the vigurous boiling ongoing, catch all the vapour with a destillation apparatus. Check for AU presence and precipitate AU for weighing to quantify the lost gold. Same is valid if you are boiling down your AR solution to saturize it.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Ok, sounds like a good one for my next video. Thank you.

@thomasmueller8116

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips I thank you and am looking forward for it!

This is so entertaining to watch. I was thinking "Why couldn't I do the same?" cause I've got a chemistry professor in my family with access to materials and a lab. However, no matter how much I look - online auctions in my country end up going for more than the gold price. At least the solid 14K and ups. I find it hard to estimate how much gold there is in the plated/filled/vermeiled but my rough math suggest the yield to come at a loss. I guess you need to know where to look for the best finds, not just online auctions.

@spelguru

Жыл бұрын

Yeah people on sites tend to not sell at a loss for themselves. From what I recall, Sreetips wife frequents yard sales and similar where people sell old and unused jewelry and that tends to be cheaper. Also easier to haggle I would assume. There was a video some time ago where he mentioned buying a bunch of jewelry from a friend of the family, or maybe it was just a value consultation or something similar. I'd love to both own gold and to do something like these refinings. But checking ebay is like "Oh you want 1oz, or 1/2oz of gold? That's most of your savings for something shiny to look at." ... And then it doesn't seem like a good idea anymore. :(

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

People just don’t understand gold. It’s not an investment. It’s insurance against the paper money printers. Holding dollars is a bad idea because they are losing value (in terms of what they can buy) very fast. Holding your wealth in gold is a much better idea because it will retain purchasing power that the paper money loses. If you need paper to pay your bills, then sell a little metal. However, if you don’t have any savings to begin with, then it doesn’t matter. If you spend all your money as soon as you get it, then buying gold won’t work for you.

@squishyxout

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Very good point. I invest in gold and silver, mainly silver, because it's something I can reliably hold on to that will only increase in value (generally speaking). I also would like to inquire about purchasing a small sealed bottle of the aqua regia if that's at all viable. I'll use the proper channels to reach out in more detail.

I know times get hard and the platinum thing was frustrating. It sucks when buyers back out, too. Keep working slowly and carefully. Be safe, be meticulous. That is what makes you better than everyone else doing this on KZread. They are just copying your methods anyway. So many people love these videos, including people who have zero interest in chemistry or precious metals but just like watching someone work with preternatural patience and diligence.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the encouragement.

@PaulAllee

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips btw have you considered calcium hydroxide as a flocculent for the iridium in the pmg solution? Can sodium sulfate or bisulfate be used to precipitate gold instead of metabisulfite?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think the sulfate will work, but I know the sulfite will. I have some straight reagent grade sodium bisulfite. No “meta” in it. I’ll give it a try the next time I do a gold refine.

Nice job i love it

I just wondered if you had ever used ammonia boil in your process at the end when your cleaning the sponge. Love your vids sir you do stellar work 👌

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

No, the only time I use ammonia is to dissolve the ammonia-soluble brick-red palladium salt in my Pd refining process.

use a small screen that's in the top of the water and you will get small Grains of the alloy metal

Hello sir, just saying hello, sitting in a few hundreds years old house in the mountains, watching flames in the fireplace... one week school holidays here, so we are enjoying snow...

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome.

Excellent.

You're a video making madman!

Beautiful gold

Outstanding

Very good 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

Excellent 👌

Would love to see the assay sheet for this bar just to see what other precious metals still remain after a single refining

Damn u posted this 4 hours ago and it is already sold 😳 haha well great job haha 😄

To get finer shot size, would you be able to pour the good from the dish through some sort of colander/strainer to break the stream up before it hit the water? The high temp melting the strainer or the metal sticking too it may be the only problems but it’s a thought.

Emeğinize sağlık usta çok güzel olmuş 👍

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Senior, you once used a melt dish with a hole drilled into it to make smaller droplets of gold. That combined with some spinning water, stir bar? Could easily make a pile of gold bb’s I think. Have you tried it again?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

No, it would get clogged up.

Getting $3,200 dollars for a ten hour day at home is not bad.

That busted heating element is most likely easy to fix. Chances are it's just a loose connection. All you need is a heat stick, some tin and shrink tubing. Probably would take five minutes.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I’ll give it a look.

Odd reaction when you added the nitric for the aqua regea? Looked like it clouded up a little, looked odd to me at least! Great looking result in any case!

mr sreetips the bob ross of refining! even them little rascals(squirrels) join in!

Man I wish I could get into this

The King of Inquartation.

It may be the receptacle if both units are not putting out proper heat, or a voltage drop off somewhere in the circuit.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I think it’s the thermostatic controller, plus connects in constant contact with acid fumes while running.

If you want to reduce the chance of the molten alloy exploding as you add it to the water, make the water around 165F . That works on copper anyway.

@canonicaltom

Жыл бұрын

What if you wanted it to explode on purpose?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Get the gold real hot before pouring into the water. But it’s very frightening. Like a gun shot going off right next to you.

@canonicaltom

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Sounds like it wouldn't be a practical way to speed up the dissolution :D

@larryevans7669

Жыл бұрын

@@canonicaltom I believe making the water colder would increase the chance of explosions. Having 2000 deg molten metal flying around is really not very entertaining, and it kind of hurts when it lands on human flesh, oh, and it's hard to recover bitty pieces of flying debris.

@canonicaltom

Жыл бұрын

@@larryevans7669 Yeah, was wondering how practical it would be to make metal 'sand' this way but sounds like a bad idea.

Perhaps a cotton candy making type device could yield small gold pieces. I saw another channel use one to make fibers from molten rock

About $3200 at today's spot price. Not bad for a day's work. I suspect that it might be tempting to dip the gold-plated material in aqua regia long enough to dissolve the gold plating. The results would have to be refined to separate out the base metals that would also be dissolved, and once the material was treated this way it would be scrap brass at best. It's likely that the gold plating is worth less than the value of the junk jewelry.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Gold plated is best processed in a sulfuric acid stripping cell.

@disgruntledtoons

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips I remember that video. It looked like a lot more trouble than it's worth, given the amount of gold involved.

I love you Mr. and Mrs. Sreetips🙏❤ God Bless you for the education you share and for being animal lover.. I share both passions.. Warm greetings from Indonesia🇮🇩 by way of Sweden🇸🇪🙏

Very good

Wow nice bar

I have a bunch of squirrels in my garden, they are so entertaining to watch 🥹

that is one seasoned melt dish, rivals my pizza pan

That was a very long winded way to tell us you make 400 bucks an hour playing in the garage well done sir well done I too wish to be like you senior! Hooyaa!!

tkzz for shharing.,.,tipps.,.,peace

U keep ur pets in the trees I keep 200 spiders lol of different species from all over the world some new world tarantulas some old world tarantulas and even some endangered species with medically significant bites I never have liked normal pets have had pet raccoons and opossums snakes lizards and all types of crazy stuff and it's truly amazing to watch some these creatures

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I inherited a tarantula once. Big one. I would handle it. Felt like a mouse in my hand. But Mrs sreetips made me give it away.

@ericbeeman8717

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips do ya happen to know what species by chance and not alot people hold there ts it's basically personal preference if ya do or don't but they're very fascinating creatures for sure if ya ever happen to be in Indiana shoot me a msg I'll give ya a new pet tarantula and the Mrs to if she wants one have an aray of colors from purple to blue redblack green all sorta colors and sizes

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Not sure of the type. It’s big about the size of my hand.

@ericbeeman8717

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips there's many species that are big like that most new worlds from south America and around here get fairly lg bout that size or bigger but there's alot that get much bigger also lol like the Goliath Birdeater group Theraphosa.stirmi Theraphosa.blondi Theraphosa.apophysis then there's several others that are bout same size as those they get dinner plate size bout 12in diagonal leg span

@ericbeeman8717

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips idk if ya get on Instagram or not but most my spiders are on there I only have a few pics on my Facebook

Have you considered training them to exchange nuts for gold filled scrap?

Perhaps really cold water or really hot water will get you that reaction? Use the same nylon you cover the silver with for a cover of sorts?

RIP to your burner. He provided us with numerous hours of entertainment.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Nat, I may do surgery on it and see if I can find a problem to fix.

i guess it would be an extra thing to do but if you pour the 6% k load in to a jewlers bar and roll a thread of the gold silver mix shouldnt you be able to get a long tiny rope a alot of area with out jetbeams etc? guess you can twist it by takinig to ends in a drill to stretch untill it breaks

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

That’s sounds like lots of work. Rather let’s the chemicals do it for me.

Try granola bars on the squirrels.

Have you ever sent in an assay sample of the nitric acid boils (prior to aqua regia) to see how fine the results are? Same question for the cement silver product.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I’ve sent in melted gold after nitric boils, before refining with aqua regia. It was 992.

you are being quiet because the wife is asleep I bet :) Great video as always.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

You nailed it! I didn’t want to disturb her.

What if you poured the inquarted gold from a higher height? Kind of like they pour shot from a shot tower. Obviously you couldn’t build a shot tower that high inside buy would pouring from a couple feet high make smaller pieces or would it be a big safety issue doing so?

Do you make your ice cubes with distilles water? I learned about making clear ice and the bubbles in the ice are from impurities being concentrated in the center of the cube as it freezes, i wonder if it contributes to the cloudiness of the aqua regia

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I use distilled water. But tap water, contaminants measured in parts per million, is fine. 999 parts per thousand is industry standard for pure gold. Parts per million will not report in a precious metals assay.