Awesome video. Thank you for sharing your ideas with us. Looking forward to the follow up. Nice shop too btw...

@monadnockgems

6 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! Glad you liked it.

Make sure to post the follow up, it would be interesting to see how it works out. thank you

@monadnockgems

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching. Here is the link to part 2 kzread.info/dash/bejne/pIGE2q6yorKZXdo.html Hope you enjoy. I will have a few more videos coming up on this topic in the new year. God bless!

The lava slide is so cool

@monadnockgems

Ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm thinking of making a new stainless steel one in an upcoming video. It works great.

Brilliant. I guess this is part one? Looks like you will get between 2 and 3 ounces of silver out of 3000 grams of shot. Didn't realize that there were so many other elements in silver plated scrap besides, copper, nickel and silver.

@monadnockgems

6 ай бұрын

Thanks and yes! As soon as I get all the shot through the cell I'll definetly have another video showing the results. I'll be working on it this weekend. Thanks so much for watching!

@michaelgulotta5646

6 ай бұрын

I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and buy a furnace. I saw some vid's on making your own furnace. But I don't know if it's worth all the trouble. I have been doing the reverse electroplating with NaCl and it works well for me. But the furnace is an interesting method [making shot; that is] God bless you, brother. John 10:11 @@monadnockgems

The only part that makes me sad about this is that silverware in a home is so uncommon now-a-days. Whereas before, silverware and fine China plates were the pride of many humble, middle-class families. Only to be brought out for special occasions. All of this silverware in the video was most likely, at one point, some housewife's pride. I have a decorative, wooden case full of my grandmother's silverware. And believe me, she was not rich. But she loved bringing it out for Thanksgiving.

Where did you get the XRF machine and how do you like it?

Love the lava slide!

@monadnockgems

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! It really has worked great so far!

@Yodiyst

2 ай бұрын

Is water running through it? I thought it would stick to the steel

Did the zinc cause any problems like causing the copper to cement out or foul the solution ?

@monadnockgems

3 ай бұрын

No issue with zinc. I’m able to pull almost all zinc out with a conversion to a highly basic solution like NaOH. I have video coming up on this.

Ahh, Pac Man.

Question what kind of filter are you using? My coffee filters aren’t filtering that great.

@monadnockgems

22 сағат бұрын

#2 Whatman filter paper mostly. Sometimes #2 and coffee filter.

What is the voltage you run on the copper cell? 12V DC?

@monadnockgems

5 ай бұрын

12 Volt DC works. I am using 30 volts DC power supply to drive the reaction. I will explain the high voltage in upcoming video. Thanks for subscribing!

Question? After melting and pouring silver plated material to shot, couldn't you make a silver solution and grow silver crystals? Same process as this video but using silver nitrate solution?

@monadnockgems

6 ай бұрын

Yes you can, and I may do that if the silver content were higher. Then the cost of nitric is justified. It takes a lot of nitric acid to contend with kilos of copper. In this case as in many cases I'm trying to squeeze out as much metal as I can with the least amount of effort and expense. I'm figuring 5 lbs of copper and 3 oz of silver, and I'm keeping track of my expensens for the follow up video. Thanks for watching!

@dannysearcy3373

6 ай бұрын

@monadnockgems thank you, I've currently got a batch of silver crystals growing, which is all sterling. Do you have an email address? If you can't share that's fine. Your videos are really interesting, thank you, sir.

@monadnockgems

6 ай бұрын

Secure email is sales@anthonythomas.com@@dannysearcy3373 I would love to see pics of your cell.

Did you intentionally separate all the plated items, taking out those made of nickel and stainless steel?

@monadnockgems

3 ай бұрын

I threw in what I had on hand with little testing on purpose... and I'm working on the follow up video now, will be out a week or two. Thanks for watching! Stay tuned

It's all good if you got that kind of money to spend on that kind of equipment

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Did you recover you 90 gms silver?

@monadnockgems

6 ай бұрын

On going… should have results video out in 2 weeks. Thanks for watching.

It’s only 3% silver content? Wow… that’s really poor quality. What about using a copper rod in the solution to cement the silver first, then make a shot of that instead of the raw silver plated metal?

@user-hs2jk7tf8d

3 ай бұрын

As someone who just got some silver plated stuff how would one do that?

Your running “silver plated” not sterling silver in this silver cell??

@monadnockgems

6 ай бұрын

Running it through a copper cell. Copper will be removed and plated out on copper cathode. Silver will be left in anode basket for further refining.

@chrisberger9286

6 ай бұрын

​@@monadnockgemsvery intetesting. Never thought about using a copper cell for this. Thanks for the video!

I melted silver stuff, made an ingot bar out of it, I want to remelt it to remove impurities, guess what, the bar turns red but doesn't melt, not even soften. Why?

@monadnockgems

2 ай бұрын

Iron present would be my guess.

That s not finish.....

Sandwhich

Handling molten metal you NEED a leather apron and BOOTS that go all the way over ankles, no laces. Or, leather covers for your shoes. Apron should go almost to well below knees.