I really love how he puts his name everywhere, so those thieves on facebook can't re-upload his videos.

@christopher88719

3 жыл бұрын

It is so Mrs.Sreetips won't steal his Corningware. lol

I'm a nonprofessional chemistry and geology enthusiast, and I love your videos.

"I'll be done in about a week." Hours later: "Here's the rig!" Awesome LOL I'm looking forward to seeing this thing in action.

One of the most effective ways to strip gold plating! Great job 👍

@buggsy5

3 жыл бұрын

If you can get all the gold plated stuff for free, or almost free, it might actually produce a small profit.

I love your videos! The longer, the better!

Hello Professor, Thank you so much for the video. This is advanced professionalism. That's great. I'm not going to miss the rest of the video. Thank you.

Good to be back after a hacking my friend ! Great to see you once again.

The professor is giving us the REAL gold, information. I pray we all live long enough to stack gold like Sreetips.

All questions answered, thanks! Can't wait to see this work.

wow, you have an epic job on your hands there Streetips, i look forward to seeing you do it all, i bet you find a few nice surprises in that lot.

Glad to see your ideas on this process, great videos, many thanks.

At last I was waiting for this video 😅 thank you as u r ready for action 🤠. thanks

Okay Chief your going big time now. Looking forward to this.

Awesome! I can't wait to watch the process.

Looking foward to watching this series of videos. 👍

Excellent setup!

Well that looks just as interesting as the silver cell. Can't wait to see the results.

Hi Sreetips, can we use Stainless Steel instead of Lead for the reverse electroplating

Love the new method! Great equipment upgrades! :D

@TomokosEnterprize

3 жыл бұрын

Good to see an old friend again after a serious hacking repair.

You should insulate the copper wire touching the plate on your lab jack.

@MrVbrabble

3 жыл бұрын

I was about to ask the same thing. Will the lab jack short or ground it out? Maybe rubber tubing covering the portions on the jack.

@realityregulators498

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure this is just a general idea to what he's currently bringing to the table guys. Touch up's of common sense always follows with a mind of brilliance. Thank the man I say for such enthusiasm and consistency when dedicating his time to teach us unfortunate viewers. Lol, all aside yeah it definitely needs to be grounded.

@MrVbrabble

3 жыл бұрын

@@realityregulators498 Definitely grateful for Sreetips! He is more than generous with his time and knowledge!

@buggsy5

3 жыл бұрын

I think his fume hood tabletop is non-conductive. If so, the jack cannot short anything.

@proslice56

3 жыл бұрын

@@buggsy5 It's not about shorting anything. It is about the flow of neg to pos. The metal in the jack will interfere with the current.

That's the most jewelry I've ever seen you refine. Can't wait to see the yield you get out of all of it. Are you leaving the stones and metal springs in the clasps on as you run the cell? If not that looks like a lot of prep time.

Have you considered using glycine to dissolve your gold?

Love the ingenuity!

Looks good, a bin under the Pyrex might help you could cool it by putting it on ice and makes a good catch trey

These videos of how to are excellent. But if you don't know what you doing folks don't do it. Thanks Sreetips!!!

I feel like if my chemistry teachers in school were like this guy here, i would have enjoyed chemistry a lot more.

This is fascinating! I would love to see you as a guest on the Monday night live stream Scrapping Irish does. I'm sure many other would too. Great work. Take care, Poo

@Man-in-da-shed

3 жыл бұрын

What a good idea . It would be awesome to see him there Poosmate

Looks like a pirate treasure! :-)

Why don’t other metals, copper, brass, iron etc. Have electrons that migrate with the current ???

To save the hand cranking on the lift, would a drill lower and raise it?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

I though about motorizing the crank but I’ll be letting it down into the electrolyte very slowly so we don’t draw too much from the battery charger

Pretty in the tutorial, the cast cathode is 100% lead? Or other metals? What percentage is it? Thanks for the tutorial.

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

100% lead

looks great sreetips looking forward to seeing it working

Would it work to do this with goldplated stuff like cpu pins and ram fingers? have been saving some ever since i watched one of ur much older gold recovery vids and this seem to fit me since i dont need a whole lab

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Gold plated material with a metal substrate can and should be processed thru a sulfuric acid stripping cell

@KwinKwin

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips thanks for the input and fast response :)

I trust screetips on my life with his science. ;-) Gotta love the man for showing that enthusiasm.

Is the copper and lead unaffected by the acid you'll be using? Also, I gather the goal is to get the gold into solution for further refinement?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Concentrated acid won’t harm either of the metals. The gold will come off as a black powder that will settle to the bottom. Then we’ll gather it up and refine it with bleach, hydrochloric acid and stump out - NO NITRIC ACID

What is the reason of NOT dissolving the copper mesh basket and dissolve the jewellery inside the basket?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Because concentrated sulfuric will not dissolve the copper and base metals. Dilute it and it will. Or heat the concentrated acid and it will

now wait, are you sure you are going to lower that with a lab jack and not an overhead pulley system?

You can tell he really loves doing this stuff

Cool idea. Are the springs in the clips copper too, or do you just plan to keep those out of solution?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Steel springs. Shouldn’t be a problem

So the main issue is the solution heating up and not being effective. How about a different rig that could be placed into a water jacket arrangement (sealed water jacket of course, no one wants water to come in contact with sulfuric acid!), then have a small submersible pump to circulate the water thru the jacket? I was thinking controlling the temp of the acid would allow you to run longer and do RGP and Gold filled, which would be much more efficient than an AP solution. What do you think?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a good idea.

Can't wait to see it in action brotha

If I only have 18k test solution and I drop it on silver and watch it, what color should I see?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Milky silver chloride

Lead sure is easy to work with !

Please let me know where you get jewelry to extract the gold from it

@karenowens8287

3 жыл бұрын

You can buy lots online

You should be a spokesman for Ace Hardware with all the products that you use from them. Maybe you could be like a life size cardboard cutout in your lab coat holding some acid with a big smile with one of those bubbles with the words Sreetips says Ace is the place with the helpful hardware man! They used to have that jingle all over tv back in the day.

Does it matter what the base metal is? Silver,brass,nickel, and so on?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Not really

#Sreetips must it be a strong electrolyte.or could it be deluded? Say using ph down for a pool 10%ish sulfuric acid

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

It needs to be concentrated.

Would this set up work on silver plated items? Silverware?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t think so

Deep fried gold

@TomokosEnterprize

3 жыл бұрын

Hey old friend. Long time no see.

Please tell us where you get this stuff from? Do you purchase it from ebay or another source? Even some of the pure gold jewelry that you show. It almost looks like found stuff.

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

My wife buys it at local sales. If not for her I’d be doing something much different. She’s the reason I get to do this

@edmclaughlin4923

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips You have a great family! Thank you for doing these videos. Very interesting.

clean and organized

Helow!i just got a few aluminiun gold plated high grade but dont know if i could be done the same way ?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Any gold plated material with a metal substrate can and should be run through a sulfuric acid stripping cell

@recicladoradelsurpinto562

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips well, thank you so much keep up the work it realy does help a lot off people on gold process

Just asking: Is that jack made out of metal? Make sure to isolate it not to get electrocuted.

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

I’ll put wood on top

@cristianrfs

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips It would be a good idea to put rubber below it, too. Otherwise it could get grounded if moved, and you might get a short circuit, then sparks or worse. Please, be extra careful with that large circuit layout you are assembling. Hope to see it working soon. Congrats on your videos.

Can stainless steel be used instead of lead? I have tones of SS

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know - never tried it

Hey Sreetips, first I just want to say thank you for everything you do. You are an inspiration and an amazing teacher. My first question to you is, could the gold on gold filled jewelry and rolled gold plate jewelry be removed with this same process of reverse plating? My second question is more of a request for a video demonstration of my 1st question in the name of science and learning. Again thank you for everything you do. Keep up the amazing work and I look forward to your response as well as a possible video in the future.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

1) it may work but I’ve never tried it. The main problem would be heat. Stripping the micro-thin layer of gold plating off of gold plated material causes the cell to heat up. Once it starts to heat up it doesn’t work very well and has to be turned off and allowed to cool before continuing. The cell would probably heat up much quicker while trying to strip off the thick coating of gold on gold filled material. But that’s just my opinion because I’ve never tried it.

@stephanomixer5281

2 жыл бұрын

I just bought a small lot of 6 gf and RG watches for $20. I will give this a try with the watches and hope for the best. I will post my results when I complete the experiment though. Who knows if it works really well maybe you could do a video on it.

@fieryvale

4 ай бұрын

@@stephanomixer5281 Did you ever strip those watches?

Will you have to insulate the 4 gauge wire that's touching the metal jack? I was thinking the power source that connected to the copper would be a problem if it's touching the steel jack?? Look forward to seeing this procedure!! Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

I’ll put some plywood down

@shaneyork300

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips I figured you'd do something like that!! Good luck and hope it goes well for you!!

Can’t wait for it

Can't wait to see the gold stripping off of the junk metal.

Are you going to do a total gold weight from all the three boxes of gold plated stuff you just showed as that would be really interesting to see what you get from all that lot buddy

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

I’m going to clean it by removing all non gold plated stuff such as stones and such. Then weigh it so we can get a total yield.

Those lead ingots look very familiar, I sold a whole truckload of them to a guy in Minnesota a few years ago; looks like they may have made their way to eBay

Is their any method you do. That you are in the positive. NOT in the negative for producing gold...money wise

Wouldn't a basket made in that shape make a Faraday cage and slow / block the current from getting to the plated items ?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Probably

@buggsy5

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Heh! Heh!

Would this work for sullins 62 pin gold connecters? I have about 600 of them. I'd send them to you if you make a video of it

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry Josh, I only work on my own material. Thank you

@joshuamcguire6771

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips thank you, I like your videos. I purchased everything to make the cell just nervous to start. Extraction in the cell seems simple enough but unclear on getting it out of the sulphuric acid. Is nitric acid the only thing I need

wont the steel springs from the clamps mess the thing?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

I’ll try to keep those out of the electrolyte.

Well that was snappy.

Will this idea work for sliver plated items too?

@buggsy5

3 жыл бұрын

It should, but I doubt if it would be profitable.

is that stuff better than h2so4

A few things to look forward to: 1 The acid will get very hot, almost too hot if you run it too long. Take breaks after about an hour run. 2. There will be a yellowish brown foam that will float on top of the acid after a while. You might want to skim it off and save it. it will clog up your basket if not taken care off occasionally. 3. The Lead bar will turn black / goldish brown and slimy. You might want to wash it in water and dry it off every 2-3 sessions. I think the black might be oxidized lead, but could be gold plating on the lead. The acid will get VERY dark after a few runs, so it's hard to tell really what's going on under the surface.

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

The scum is dirt. I plan to clean the scrap in ultrasonic and steam. This should make deplating much cleaner. Ive got a nice lid to cover it and put it away when it gets hot. After it cools and the black powder settles (takes days sometimes) then the cell can be restarted for more deplating. This will take a long time to do all of this scrap. For folks looking for a quick and easy way to get pure gold: buy a bowling ball!

@scrapman502

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips A bowling ball? This raises many questions in my head. My mother bowled for many years and collected many trophys in her time, I don't remember any of them being made of gold!

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Scrapman50 I am implying that impatient people should think twice about trying to refine precious metals. Refining metals at home is NOT for everyone.

@scrapman502

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips I've never heard that reference before. Glad you cleared that up. lol. For a moment, I thought there was gold inside bowling balls!. There could be, some people put crazy stuff inside bowling balls to make them blingy! including skulls of their lost family members!

Why do you have two videos in my recommended? One says 34 mins ago, the other says 33 mins ago.

Dear sreetips I would like to know if I can send in some scrap gold bars to you to be purified so I can sell them

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, this is my hobby. I only refine material that my wife and I find

woow awsome ;) great video ;)

Ok, so I need to order copper mesh. And lead. I have about 3 pounds of gold plate pins from cell phone's and

hi dear professor is this method can be used in gold ore? thanks alot

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

No

@smartmoney9932

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips thank you very much professor.

cant wait to see this

Does the gold go into solution, or plate out on the lead?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

The lead acts as a cathode to pull the gold plating off the jewelry in the basket. It will come off as a black powder that settles to the bottom of the cell

@johnaldridge6770

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips cool thx sreetips

Did you know you could use this method to refine CARAT SCRAP GOLD? The higher the carat the better. The process will remove the gold and turn it into gold powder. when the silver is encountered, it will simply fall to the bottom of the container. Then you simply dilute the ACID and extract the solids from the acid. The rest you should know. Nitric acid to dissolve the silver and Aqua Regia to dissolve the gold. I ran this experiment 4 years ago on a 14K gold ring using the exact same process you are using in this video. It took a couple of hours to reduce the ring to nothing, but it worked. When the bit of ring was too small for the clip to hold onto, i put it into a copper basket and finished it off. Try it on a small piece of carat scrap and let me know what you think. The time it takes to process the material is a bit longer, but it is an alternative to using so much Nitric acid. BTW, I had to stop my experiment half way through because the sulfuric acid got too hot for my liking. I did not have a re-circulating water pump to keep the glass from heating up.

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Good to know. Thank you.

@jaycharter4345

2 жыл бұрын

But I thought you moved it to Copper basket after it got two small which one is it?

Won't that dissolve the copper also? Shouldn't you use stainless?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

The concentrated acid wont attack the copper. Some of it will go. But copper in with the black gold powder is very easy to remove

@jaycharter4345

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips What other material can you use?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Stainless might work but I’ve never tried it

sure you wont end up with copper plated lead ?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Quite

Looks fantastic streetips, only part for the course when it comes to really ANYTHING & EVERYTHING that you're involved in and/or doing yourself good sir !!!! 😊 My gawd you've sure got a massive amount of gold scraps to process my friend !! Best of Luck, cannot wait to see your results *QUESTION:* why not use a gold anode/cathode? Why will Lead work for this?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t know the answer. But a gold bar the size of my lead cathode would probably weigh in at 20 Troy ounces. That’s an expensive cathode.

@robertjeffery3237

3 жыл бұрын

Neither the lead (Pb) not the Copper (Cu) will be attacked by the sulphuric acid (H2SO4) at the concentration of the pure drain cleaner as long as @Sreetips doesn’t rinse them with water. Dilute H2SO4 will dissolve both easily!

@ninjabothandyman6063

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips I understand that the gold cathode wouldn't be the exact same identical size as your lead cathode... I thought that using a super thin strip of gold for the negative cathode (to increase the available surface area) is how a sulfuric acid reverse electrolysis refining cell was supposed to be set up, also using a 98% sulfuric acid as the electrolyte.

@ninjabothandyman6063

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertjeffery3237 I really appreciate your input thank you kind sir

@markpashia7067

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertjeffery3237 That sounds like an easy way to get the lead out when he is done, leaving a hollow gold tube the shape of the lead conductor. Lead is pretty cheap for this purpose.

Is the lab stand going to be insulated from the copper wire? When it comes to electricity safety comes first!

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

I’ll add a piece of plywood to make sure that it is

Impressive looking

Probably the best way to do large amounts of gold pins off ewaste if you had it all for super cheap or free

I ❤ this process 👍👍👍

What in the world is gold plating cell? And what is it used for?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a de-plating cell. I pass electric current through the junk jewelry as it sits submerged in the electrolyte. The current flows through the jewelry, into the electrolyte and to the lead cathode. The gold plating will release from the jewelry as a black powder and settle to the bottom of the cell. Then we siphon off the electrolyte and harvest and refine the recovered black gold powder. I’ll end up with bright shiny 24k pure gold.

@robert_290

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips nice!

Sir, If I want to recover gold from aqua regia, The gold is in aqua regia dessolving or present gold in pure aqua regia, Please reply, Thanks,

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

To recover gold from aqua regia solution, I add SMB (sodium metabisulfite)

@MohsinAli-kj1ux

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Sir, Thanks for reply, If we do not dissolve the gold in aqua regia, This aqua regia recover gold with smb using, I mean the gold is present in aqua regia if we do not dissolve the gold, I mean the aqua regia like as chloueric acid, Please reply, Thanks,

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Gold will dissolve in chlorine gas to form chloroauric acid. Gold will also dissolve in aqua regia to form chloroauric acid. Both can be precipitated with SMB.

@MohsinAli-kj1ux

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Thankyou Sir, If we make aqua regia and no dessolve gold in aqua regia, we cannot recover gold from pure aqua regia? Please reply, Thanks,

@fieryvale

4 ай бұрын

@@MohsinAli-kj1ux Gold must be added for gold to be present. It does not appear out of thin air. Aqua regia without added gold is just acid.

How about just boiling in water to clean?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

I suppose if you did it over and over. The ultrasonic loosens dirt and the steamer blows it off

Cool beans!

Great job, Man! That should work really well for what you have.. looks like to have plenty of material to work with! Have you tried a clay pot instead of copper mesh basket? If I remember correctly, gold ions will pass through the clay and slimes will stay inside the clay pot.. keeps the slimes from mingling with the deplated gold. Also, not sure who on GRF suggested it (fairly certain it was Lazersteve, but you should ad a small amount of glycerine to your electrolyte.. I don't remember the reason offhand.. worth asking the group about)

Is there such thing as "Gold Cell" like the Silver Cell??

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

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@buggsy5

3 жыл бұрын

There are a number of gold stripping cells. They all work on the same principle, just the cell designs are different.

@hoseqt1

3 жыл бұрын

@@buggsy5 Yes, thank you. But, I was thinking of doing a Gold Cells in the method of the Silver Cell... Like the Silver, Gold Bath, to possibly create Gold Crystals in kind of the Silver.

@hoseqt1

3 жыл бұрын

@@buggsy5 I was thinking more along the lines of the Silver Cell where he is making the Silver into Crystals from a pure silver bar.... Should be possible from a Pure Gold Bar, right? Should have a super shine also like the silver does....

@buggsy5

3 жыл бұрын

@@hoseqt1 I don't know. All I have encountered are gold plating systems, which produce a fairly smooth layer of gold. The electrolytes used are nasty.

ahhh!!! this is going to be so amazing, thanks for the updates!!!

Does the basket have to be copper?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure, copper is the way I learned it

@carljaskulka7097

2 жыл бұрын

Well I’m going to try a old fashioned metal strainer on a small amount to see what happens. I let you know.

@carljaskulka7097

2 жыл бұрын

Btw you do a great job at explaining everything and referencing you source is awesome so I can can refer and get a better understanding of what is going on.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

If it fails you can always order fine mesh copper screen from eBay. That’s where I got mine.

@wendyzabriskie9962

Жыл бұрын

What size mesh they have 20, 40, or 100 mesh

Ok it's not me hitting buttons my phone is being a butt. I'll get all my stuff together and check back with you. Thanks for the info.

Omg, you've actually got around to getting it done. Happy to see that your a very dedicated teacher when meeting your viewers expectations.

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Thank Mrs sreetips. She said get the video done or get that scrap packaged up and sold.

@realityregulators498

3 жыл бұрын

It would be great to see your material finder (Mrs. Sreetips) in an video or two as she most definitely contributes to your success on precious metal refining. Stay Golden!!!

you may add 5% of nitric 68% to the muriatic, the de-plating is faster and "protect" the base metal. more precisely, add sulfuric 95% slowly to nitric, who is more hydrated, it's exothermic.

@hpdepasse5997

3 жыл бұрын

oops, sulfuric, not muriatic.

@hpdepasse5997

3 жыл бұрын

oops, add nitric to sulfuric, not to muriatic.

Holy crud how u get all that junk gold?

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

My wife finds it for me

Hmm just need to find out supplies of sulfuric acid I guess I have the rest of need material 👍😁👍

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Ace Hardware

@RafalScrapper

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips I heard that on vid sir tho I'm located in Europe and all drains cleaners in here are based on lye 👍😁

Last video someone said you should get 11 grams of Gold from all that gold plated material. We shall see.

cant wait

I miss streetips where is he😁?

6.68g is my guess when complete