I've said it before, but it bears repeating. It's very generous of you to openly share your insights, methods, etc with us all. So many others seem to hold onto what they think is proprietary and their's alone, disregarding the education and passing along of knowledge. Along with your interesting and entertaining refining videos, they all make fir GREAT content. Keep it up and thank you. 👍

@JesusChrist_IsTruth-LoveForALL

Жыл бұрын

💪🙌👏

@meatynomnoms7113

Жыл бұрын

its information like this and people like this i feel is what youtube at its heart is. why i started watching youtube and why i still come here everyday. its the best library.

@pattyqubensis8222

Жыл бұрын

​@@meatynomnoms7113 Amen!

@dandahermitseals5582

Жыл бұрын

A man en. My sentiments exactly. Snd having a background of the areas of technology you are delving I can validate your intel. Thanks. Dandahermit.

@tumqwhat

Жыл бұрын

Well said 👏

I cannot thank you enough for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with us. After watching this 10 times I finally felt like I was ready to build my own. I’m an IT professional and work in film and television, not a chemist. You explain everything so clearly and explain the reasons behind your decisions. I’m happy to say my silver cell is up and running. I made a few modifications that may help with uniform crystal growth in the bowl to help others. Just use a copper strap around the entirety of the bowl. It’s not much more expensive. The silver crystal grows concentrically around the bowl at roughly the same rate. Keeps it off the center anode basket longer. Just wanted to share my findings as you do freely.

@sreetips

11 ай бұрын

Copper is second only to silver as the best conductor of electricity.

Welcome back my mentor, ive already built mine using your design and got 1.6 kilos of Silvet Crystal after 10 days, all thanks to what I have learned from you

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Excellent - congrats!

@JesusChrist_IsTruth-LoveForALL

Жыл бұрын

Wow! 😮

@dalspaugh748

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips if I’m just starting out what can I use as a non pure silver to make the electrolyte solution?

@cristenlahaie7753

Жыл бұрын

Does the silver cell generate more silver crystals than what is put into making it ? What is the ratio of silver used to what can be generated?

@JesusChrist_IsTruth-LoveForALL

Жыл бұрын

@@dalspaugh748 I believe you can use stuff like sterling silver, and other metal with amounts of silver in it. I'm learning to so if anyone knows better, correct me.

Holy smokes, thanks for letting us all know how to make such beautiful crystals like you do. Such a detailed vid you gave us all. Much appreciated man!

Fascinating to see you make the silver cell and these silver crystals are so pretty. 👍

I was just talking to my wife about doing this. Keep up the great content Senior Chief. And any 300 series stainless is non magnetic, but the 400 series is always magnetic.

@scotthultin7769

Жыл бұрын

304 stainless steel

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Good to know

Excellent techniques: reminds me of my very first job as a trainee analytical chemist in 1966! Great video! Cheers from Down Under.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and well done for answering the same questions over and over without freaking out! 👏🏻

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

A true modern day alchemist. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.

Good to see you. I gotta say I'd been hoping to see another one of your awesome videos soon. You didn't disappoint 🙌 Thank you 😊

Excellent update from the one you made a few years ago. Thanks and best wishes! 👍😎🇦🇺

Hi just want to say I ran across one of your videos yesterday and I'm seeing how to make the silver cell today on a separate video. I am so intrigued with this. I am definitely going to do this. I've never done nothing like this. Before but you make it look somewhat simple. Bless you for sharing this information with the world.

This refining process is extremely interesting. I recently discovered copper ore, with gold and silver being secondary metals and I have since been interested in how exactly metals are separated from ore. Very cool🤙

@alanbrittle1384

Жыл бұрын

It looks very easy

Very generous and accurate explanations. Thanks a lot to share your knowledges and experiences.

Thanks for all of the knowledge that you are providing in your videos.

Thanks for a well spoken and easy to understand and formative video.

Great video, I have built several cells according to your design, and purify copper. I get about 750g per week from each one. I use old computer power supplies, because I have many laying around. I refine copper and melt it for material to use to forge hand made items. Thanks for all the great sharing.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@awesometaiwan6514

Жыл бұрын

Question: can you turn silver cells into actual silver?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I add impure silver from my gold refining to the anode basket on top of the silver cell and pass current through it. The silver dissolves, pass thru the filter, and deposits on the inside of the stainless steel bowl (the cathode).

@ZL71

Жыл бұрын

What all do I need to gather to make silver

@jasonrice5295

Жыл бұрын

@Larry If I just read your comment correctly you use this "silver cell " to purify copper? If that is correct. Did you make any modifications to the design or is it exactly like his setup? If I misunderstood my apologies.

Excellent video. Very easy to understand and to practice.

Very well done Sreetips! Fantastic tutorial! Thank you!

Another awesome video! You're an excellent instructor! Thank You. Jim in Phoenix

Great video. I love learning about precious metal refining at home. I would love to see how you handle your waste and how you dispose of the end waste solutions in one video. Keep up the good work.❤

@quentincorbin9099

Жыл бұрын

Yes I also would love to see your process of reclaiming what is leftover in those solutions

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Waste treatment, videos are posted on my channel.

@PapaElegua

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips this is so cool! This was just recommended to me and for once KZread did well and I’m fascinated as I have a ton of old busted sterling jewelry I’ve been laughing around… My elderly mom has been pestering me about finding something to do with her 3 sets of sterling 12-setting flatware. Kind of thinking instead of taking a beating at a local metal place, maybe I should try melting and refining using your method…? As this is the first video of yours I’ve watched, I need to watch a few more but wow- thanks for sharing this!! (I need another hobby like a new hole in my head😂). Fascinating!!

@Chewy_GarageBandDad

Жыл бұрын

Answer: With aboslute perfection.

Thanks for making these videos. I've only scratched the surface of what you've uploaded, but you've clearly put a lot of work into these videos. 15 or 20 years ago, a resource like your video catalogue would seem unimaginable outside of a university classroom or an apprenticeship.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I only wish that videos like mine were available twelve years ago when I first started refining. There bits and pieces and critical details were left out. Then referred you to a web site for a fee to get the rest of the process.

@ericr154

3 ай бұрын

​@@sreetipsthis knowledge is a true blessing. I can't believe you share it without expecting anything in return. It's very inspiring.

Master, you opened my eyes of how much I waste just for the Gold process, You taught me within my gold feline, the silver waste, actually covers the shipping cost. You R so Awesome

Wow, I just ran across your channel and I am blown away at what it takes to "create" precious metals, thanks for sharing.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Welcome!

@shanghunter7697

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found his channel/knowledge. Been doing this since 91 and started growing diamonds a few yrs. ago.(excellent quality). Enjoy your new found hobby and best wishes

Hi, Most folks don't know there are 2 types of stainless steel. One like this and a magnetic type that really isn't stainless at all. They achieve stainless on the addition of nickel and or other white metals in the mix with high carbon steels. This is a great setup. Little time and resorses aside from the power supply to invest in. Ever since meeting you I have wanted to build one of these systems as I create a lot of super fine filings contaminated with a file treatment called "Burr Life" produced by Rio Grande down there in LA. I have accumulated a couple pounds of it over the 6 or 7 years I have been saving it. Not really enough to justify making a system like this but who knows, a possibility in the future eh. If I remember I can send it to you for refining for a cut of the procedes ? Thanks as always. Top notch work here this fine day old friend !

Hi MR sreetips thank you for the greatly detailed educational videos on recovery and refining metals it is a blessing to have this knowledge for personal use. Me personally I’m a new novice and was told in the past that this hobby wasn’t worth it. your videos helped tremendously to prove those acquisitions was wrong. Thank you for serving our country sreetips.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Such a fascinating process. Thanks for sharing!

I think I've watched you make this at least twice before and it's interesting every time.

The most relaxing videos, if you added ASMR to the title I am sure you would have way more subscribers which of course you do deserve at least 51 million

@sethshrader4109

Жыл бұрын

I agree 100!!!!

@GokouZWAR

Жыл бұрын

Meh he’d get all the weirdos… lol

@BoydBuildersInc

Жыл бұрын

@@GokouZWAR weirdos that watch videos. Sometimes they watch them over and over. Which is all KZreadrs really care about at the end of day. Number of views, number of minutes. Number of ads watched. $$$

Have you thought about why the silver crystalizes on the cathode? I just think its cool but my guess is that it due to the direction the electrons travel. Our convention is to think of current as flowing from positive to negative but electrons actually flow negative to positive. So, the electrons are entering the electrolyte from the surface of the cathode. The moment they enter the electrolyte, they meet a silver ion. The moment that silver ion accepts an electron, it falls out of solution and since all this is happening in proximity to the cathode surface, which includes the surface of the silver crystals that have already formed, that silver atom falls right into place within the lattice of a silver crystal! 🎉 If I misunderstand anything about this someone please correct me!

I love these videos. As a visual learner , thank you for taking the xtra time of producing this content. I restore vintage mechanical watches , cases, offer plating services, import gemstones and make my own jewelry thru lost wax casting. I own full casting, metalsmith, watchmaker studio. Self taught off of industry standards, principles and methods. Everything you show is a part of the trade I want to develop. I think the first process I want to start is making silver electrolyte. I have everything in here to make the silver cell. Nice constellation by the way. I specialize in vintage omega. I over haul , restore around 12-20 per year.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I’m the same way - all self-taught with with help from some professional refiners on the goldrefiningforum.com

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

What’s your company name?

Thank you , that was very informative, I will begin my own silver cell now

I'm honestly interested in the silver cement powder set up you made. Could you do a video going over that? Also thank you for the knowledge. What is pure silver good for exactly? Coins and value? I'm sure jewelery and tableware need to have other elements added to make it more stable or harder

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I use sterling silver to refine gold. Then I recover the silver, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell.

@TheXiate

Жыл бұрын

Crazy isn't it. He has like 60k worth of silver powder, as a byproduct. I love it.

Cristaline silver sold on the market increased 5000% in 2023, all seems to relate to sreetips teaching the masses how to electrolyse silver.

@minibikemadman

3 ай бұрын

I just need to find a good source for the sliver cement. I'd like to only sticking to refining sliver.

I am learning so much from you, you’re a great teacher and I was hoping to learn the entire process!

Thanks for the video Sreetips. Silver refining videos are my favorite for some reason more steps I guess is what I like about it. Thanks again sir.

Sreetips, I was driving to Walmart earlier today and was thinking... My 7y.o. son is home from school for spring break and would like to attempt to put metals in and out of solution. Do you have any videos you recommend in your catalog that I could do with my son? Ideally, if you had some YT shorts or any video(s), I could follow along, he could watch from afar, would be great! I have done enough experiments in college to keep him and I safe at a small scale I would work with. I have a few laptops laying around some silver dollars. Anything I could do would be great, my son would absolutely be interested in this. It can be anything as simple as putting a penny in some HCl in a mason jar and tossing some zinc in there to cement it out (I dont know if that would even work). Sorry if this doesnt make sense, half asleep and been meaning to ask you this.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I think that dissolving a 90% silver dime in a test tube with nitric, then adding a piece of copper wire and watching the silver cement out right before your eyes is an awesome reaction to see. It’s seeing that reaction that got me hooked on refining almost 13 years ago. Back then I was able to order a liter of 68% reagent grade nitric acid for a hundred bucks. Can’t imagine what it costs now. The fumes are very bad for human lungs. So the reaction must be done outdoors or in a fume hood. Nitric fumes will cause cramps in your muscles days or weeks after inhaling concentrated levels of those fumes. Nitric fumes also dissolve tooth enamel.

@busbey61

Жыл бұрын

​@@sreetips thank you!

I’ve been meaning to ask you, why not use the nearly pure powder silver instead of pure silver in the electrolyte to increase the usage of the impure silver in the system? You seem to have an abundance of that silver. Couldn’t you use nitric acid to dissolve the silver powder for the electrolyte instead of the pure silver Crystal you could be melting down and selling for high profit?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

First, I don’t want to sell any silver with the price so grossly and artificially under valued. I keep the silver that I refine. Put it away and forget about it. Silver is not an investment. It’s a store of value and will conserve and protect my purchasing power. Storing wealth in paper dollars is a bad idea. Because they can print dollars “without limit” but they can’t print more silver. As far as using cement silver for the electrolyte, it’s not recommended because it could introduce contamination into the silver cell. I think I used it once when I first got started. But after that I always use pure silver to make the electrolyte. It’s the way I learned it. I’m getting excellent results with this method.

@silverbanks1986

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips so are you saying you can make silver? I mean if I just had a little bit of silver I can make a bunch more silver out of it. And if that is the case wouldn't it drive the price down.

@8d4o0c4

Жыл бұрын

No, you cannot make more silver from a little silver. That is nonsensical. Silver is an element. However, you CAN purify silver to 999+ and make it investment grade, which is what our gracious host appears to be doing.

@silverbanks1986

Жыл бұрын

@@8d4o0c4 thank you I apologize for sounding ignorant I just do not know about that.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

No, I’m refining the impure silver.

Thourly enjoyed this video. Great job describing the process, thanks. Peace. . .

How do you make your electrolyte if you don't have pure silver crystals?

@JoelHirtle

Жыл бұрын

Start with pure silver mint coins or bars

@apveening

Жыл бұрын

@@JoelHirtle Or start with the silver cement, it is already 98% pure, will just take a bit longer to get it really pure.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Pure silver bars or coins can be used. Cement silver is not recommended. But I think I used it once to get started. Then save out some crystal from each batch for the next refining.

I love the content and thank you so much for the education. Two big 👍👍as always.

This is something I will never do. But I will watch it and find it interesting. Thank you for sharing.

THANK YOU for sharing this amazing knowledge with us. I hope to learn more about this from you

Thanks Sreetip . Great video with a great explanation of what your process is . God bless you and yours.

Thank you Sreetips! Your videos are invaluable. Id love to be able to do the things you show on here.

Ahh the old saying stays true “it takes silver to make silver” 😂 this is awesome! Loving this series

God bless you for sharing your knowledge, I bow to you. Stay safe

Thank you for sharing this method I really appreciate it an will use it myself

Thank you so much for showing me how to do this. You are awesome buddy😊.

Sree my friend you give me hope. I'm in a very bad situation in my life. But brother you have given me hope that I can do this and actually get by. Thank you for your lesson and thank you for educating me. You sir are a great man and I thank you for giving me hope

APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND DEDICATION TO TEACH US ABOUT THIS ALCHEMY, VERY INTERESTING 😊 SHALOM FROM LAWRENCEBURG KENTUCKY

@sreetips

12 күн бұрын

Hello Lawrence KY!

Thank you sir outstanding information excellent video six stars

Good ASMR video! Your voice is soothing and relaxing. Thanks for sharing.

Really great videos man. I had to watch a couple of your videos to understand that you’re recovering silver in a pure form from silver you previously held in an impure form. Many years ago when I was in college I worked in the darkroom in radiology at the local hospital. The solution we used to develop the films with was loaded with silver from the film. A company would come pick up our old solution every month to get rid of the “hazardous waste”. Even the silver from old films in the patients radiology records were recovered after being inactive for a time. I don’t think they X-rays use films that much anymore except for the portable X-rays and maybe dental X-rays.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I get my silver from local sales. When someone dies, the heirs want to immediately sell the sterling silver and get paid in paper dollars. They actually believe, incorrectly, that paper dollars are more valuable than the silver. And with silver price so grossly and artificially undervalued, we can buy real silver with fake paper dollars (fiat money that can be printed out of thin air). It’s a silver buyers paradise out there right now, for those who know when, where, and what to look for.

@Graeberwave

Жыл бұрын

Silver is just as thin air ish. Your mythology about money is clown shoes, you know that right?

Glad to see your back!

@PersecutedTruth

2 ай бұрын

I didnt see his back in the video

I see why other channels recommend you! Thank you

ive seen your channel before but never appreciated it. Just subbed because of your demeanor and willingness to share knowledge.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, welcome to my channel!

Very amazing. And very well taught on what to do. I'm afraid myself that I will probably not ever try this because of chemicals involved, but none the least, you are awesome and you should have been buddies with Mr. Rogers. He would have loved you in his show. Kids would have come out the woodwork to watch creativity like this. Subbed for sure brother. And yes I'm a silver Stacker.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Welcome and thank you!

Your awesome for sharing this

Goooood evening from central Florida! Have a great one!

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Goooood evening!

@arnedalbakk6315

Жыл бұрын

Hello my friend. Have a nice day😊. Arne

yea man thanks for sharing all that you do ...its absolutely amazing ..your frickin awesome man

Awesome video man truly awesome.

Who knew it was so easy....thanks man

Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. I enjoy this clip. Thank you. I whis you a great day, and god bless you. Thanks for the passion you share whit us. Arne

Great video! Thank you for the info

Very cool Sreetips , I was curious about what happened to you . I'm so glad everything is OK 👏👏

Outstanding Job Thank you

You Rock dude! Keep going!

Thank you Sreetips. I'm always looking forward to the next video's.

I love the way you explained things. Most people, when they dominate a topic they talk like every once knows what you're talking about. You explained slowly, real teaching skills. 🎉 Thanks 🙏

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

High purity silver crystal is beautiful.

Seen ur vids, just saw the vid and came over to simply LIKE it, and watch later

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to my channel.

@danielthompson3205

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips my other account is subed for quite some time now. Been interested in smelting for longer, found u by trying to find basic charcoal forges. Always good content even the old vids.

Thanks for the video!

My son and I been doing nickel plating but this is next. Thankyou for sharing

I think this is very important and interesting content... especially in the economy we are all in right now and I thank you for sharing your experience and procedures with us.. God bless you

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Most people are clueless about gold and silver. They (gold and silver) are real money. But Americans have been conditioned to believe that paper is more valuable. But I think a paradigm shift is coming. Once folks begin to realize that their hard-earned “money” is becoming worthless. And that all their valuations are based on a mountain of debt - they can never be repaid.

@tim4cn759

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips yup.. I have been trying to tell my friends and family that very same thing

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I’ve tried. Their minds are made up and they don’t want to be bothered by the truth.

10:20 The proper term for this is not filter, it’s diaphragm. This is because it’s not meant to preferentially stop passage of anything. All it does is slow down diffusion so that the solution around the anode can have a somewhat different composition than around the solution outside touching the cathode. This increases efficiency, because you want the cathode solution to be rich in silver ions and the anode area to be depleted in silver ions, and the conduction of the silver ions can be slow compared to their diffusion rate, which has a random direction, and you want to make the silver ions go from anode to cathode, not randomly. So the diaphragm limits diffusion and doesn’t slow down conduction much, and thus it selects for the conduction that you want.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Agree, plus it filters out the slimes from entering the cell and contaminating the pure silver.

Coolest video I've seen in 3 years

Awsome, just awsome 😅😊 I was just commenting earlier out of concern because of the lack of Sreetips in our lives 😃

Another good show, Sreetips.

Wow... this is awesome. Thank you for sharing. I only

@th8298

Жыл бұрын

I only wish I had a place to grow this

It blows my mind this is even possible. This school system really failed me lol

Very cool stuff 😮❤

Aaah there he is !❤

Fascinating ❤

great video!

Refining is a darn good skill to have! I didn't even take chemistry in school, and that was probably a huge mistake.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I got a “D” in the only chemistry class I ever took in my whole life fifty years ago in high school. You don’t have to be a chemist to refine precious metals. But it sure doesn’t hurt.

Thank you good sir!

Your the best teacher

Mate, this is awesome

Perfect timing 👍

That’s fascinating.

Impeccable operation

Very informative, thank you. You could be a teacher. But then you'd have to deal with annoying people.

What am I missing here? You started with silver, took some toxic chemicals added some electricity, and ended up with silver.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

This is called “silver refining”

Dude ur super cool! I wanna be like u lol. Teach me ur ways!!!

I usually come here for ASMR stuff and that's how I get to sleep most might. But now, here we are, thus fella wasn't happy getting us to sleep, He's done given us stuff to DREAM toward. How cool is that??

I’ve been waiting for a new video and It’s always a good day when sreetips posts a video! Still think you’re a severely underrated channel and should be at millions of subscribers and viewers but Ik you’ll hit it one day

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Refining Precious metals at home in your garage is a very narrow field. But I’m not complaining. I’m thankful for what has been granted to me.

Fascinating

Though when you do process the sterling into pure 999 silver, then poured into bars or coins and numbered. You can then get an Assay company to test, mark and supply paperwork to purity, though I would only do this for a very large quantity due to costs.

yay. you're back