And then Mrs. Sreetips comes in. "Have you seen my new cutting board?"

@ChrisHopkinsBass

Жыл бұрын

Nah she’s too busy finding scrap for Mr Sreetips to refine!

@markboden2749

Жыл бұрын

And Mr.Sreetips says “yes, they’re in that cabinet over there with your 1200 Pyrex dishes”

@larrykester8593

Жыл бұрын

I would love to build one, but I don’t have a safe enough area in my Condo.

@patrickwynkoop9442

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@wadebert4458

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's a hazard I think all of us who are following as well as duplicating these activities run into. Cutting boards, Corningware, glass dishes.... It's much easier to ask for forgiveness, than for permission! All's forgiven, when you say, "Yeah. I took it. Here's 10 ounces,Troy of 99.9 Gold for your troubles"!

Of all the chemistry you do, I think I love the silver cell more than anything. The colour in the cell is just beautiful

Finally found a full video on how to build this thing 😍 after binge watching most of his videos!

This is what youtube is all about. I work in mineral processing and gold recovery - this was just fantastic! Great work!!!

This guy's priceless if you're serious about doing this and recovering PM

I'm not sure why you showed up on my feed but that was fascinating, thank you. I'm about to binge watch some more of your videos.

@trexvalleygirl2770

Жыл бұрын

Totally worth it. Have fun. I've learned a lot from Sreetips. Better than anything I ever learned in school.

@beebob1279

Жыл бұрын

They are so cool to watch. It's fascinating what can be done.

@wadebert4458

Жыл бұрын

My daily routine now is "SREETIPS TUTORIALS"! I was never much for watching a "Series". SREETIPS; however, is an exception to this rule. I am addicted! Love everything he puts up! The Man is a True Saint! Wade

@deedoesa.i

Жыл бұрын

@@wadebert4458 Yes I've had time to watch about 200 hours worth now. A true Gentleman and Scholar.

@wadebert4458

Жыл бұрын

What I find truly exceptional, is that, I was never totally immersed in Chemistry, at University. Now, because of SREETIPS, Chemistry, or rather, Alchemy is on my mind 24/7. He literally, has changed my life. My wife, of 42 years, Linda, has joined me and is also having a BLAST! The "Hunt", for raw materials, at Estate Sales and the like, feels like finding buried treasures. The refining processes are a complete adventure! For once, in a very long time, I hate going to bed at night and wake up rearing to go! All because I stumbled across a SREETIPS video several months ago. I know that I sound completely hokey; but, it's true, I owe the man allot. To be enjoying myself now? That is the greatest treasure I've found! Wade

Holy smokes Sreetips!! What an informative video for us. Thank for very much for sharing this with us.

Brilliant to watch you building a new silver cell. It will be nice to have 2 of these running. 👍

Finally! That was really needed for your current production, given the amount of impure silver you have in stock waiting to be processed, and I wouldn't be surprised if you find out you need more cells. Great content as always.

You have made a very good decision to manage with all the impure silver you made from refining gold! Congrats!

TIP: Drill two holes in opposite corners for the filter basket hole. The jig saw blade goes into those holes and you can cut the outline easier.

Thank you for everything! I just finished putting my cell together and it is growing now! : )

Absolutely love your work, you remind me of professor Julius Sumner Miller, who I used to love watching when I was a young fellow

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us! 👊😉

This is some great educational work here my friend. I love what I am seeing and makes me want to make one myself.

Been waiting for this since your short video about having all the components!

Love it can't wait to see a double silver harvest....

Red handled sheet metal shears are for turning right, green left and yellow handled for cutting straight. Didn't know if you knew that. Great video by the way.

@monkeydrains8285

Жыл бұрын

I use my reds for straight cuts lol. Plumber not a tin man thou!

@linn1934

Жыл бұрын

@@monkeydrains8285 Not a tin man either, I learned that in 4-H when I was knee hi.

@mortonyakimadetectingthepa9015

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. Just opposite of navigation lights on a boat which are red for port or left and green for starboard being right.

@linn1934

Жыл бұрын

@@mortonyakimadetectingthepa9015 Heck, I might be wrong then. I do know yellow is straight though.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Same for aircraft

Nicely done Chief! Keep the videos coming!

Step by step is good instruction for those who are interested. I reckon you're doing better job than some science/chemistry schoolteachers. Maybe have chemistry students watching

I was thinking of an auto-feed setup for your silver cell. You could find a copper pipe that fits into the filter basket. Then find a way to support it about 1/4"-1/2" above the top of the filter basket, so it doesn't come into contact with the electrolyte. The pipe would be filled with silver shot and it would serve as the positive connection, the current would travel down through the silver shot. As the silver dissolves, more of it would it slowly drop down from the pipe into the basket.

You are the ONLY channel I would ever "JOIN".

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

A demonstration of elegance in simplicity. Anyone who hates on this can bugger off. You have once again proven you don't need to get some over priced fancy pants contrivance just to do one job. It's perfect. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.

Doing work right now myself too, working on my silver video for my other channel. Thanks for your work

Awesome, thank you for sharing this with us ❤️

thank you for your willingness to share your knowledge.

Twoo-hoo! Double it up! Very good info to share for those who are serious about the game. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟👍👍🤙

You have the best explanation for this unique process. Love your videos. Science and chemistry is so cool. I’m glad your posting videos that inspire young children to focus on why they need to pay attention in school. Thank you Sreetips!

Thank you sir now we have a great list so when we set one up for are selves this was a very informative video thank you for sharing this six stars

Always informative. I appreciate you sharing the knowledge. I've used some of these techniques to process my mining cons and dore' bars separating the silver from the gold and PGMs.

Very well demonstrated and explained, great video as always.

Awesome step by step video Sreetips.

Man! That clip board has some, Sirius lockjaw going on there, hummmm.. fine work, but you all ready know that.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

My wife laughed and laughed at the clip board rust and the thrift store sticker on the cutting board.

Hello Mrs and Mr screetips. Thank you for this great clip. It seems to me that many..many going to grow silver crystal. God bless you,and all my friends on this canal😊

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Arne

@arnedalbakk6315

Жыл бұрын

You and your wife do the hard work.....your members enjoy this great canal Mr screetips 😊

@arnedalbakk6315

Жыл бұрын

On more thing sir.....A big thanks to both of you🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

A simpler way to find the center is to take the chord that you drew (the first line) and mark the center of that line, between the two points of intersection with the circle. Then use your square to draw the perpendicular line from that (flip the square and do it again just in case the square isn't perfectly square). The center of that perpendicular line is exactly the center of the circle. No need to eyeball it or guess.

Very cool,, those crystals are amazing

Gooood morning from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great day!

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Goooood morning!

@arnedalbakk6315

Жыл бұрын

Goooood morning David and Mr screetips 😊 Have a nice day both of you.

Hello all. Love this channel!

Thanks for explaining this setup in detail! Cutting the copper would be much easier using a coping saw with a metal blade!

I've done some experimental DIY in the past. Seeing how he does it, I bet Sreetips has been trough a lot of iteration, research and trial/error before finding his optimal solution. And he's giving it all up for us to use. Thanks for sharing :) Not everyone thinks about sharing their knowledge instead of keeping it for them and profiting from it. My only remark on this build is that you should consider using XHHW wire instead of solid copper. HXXW will have more flexibility while remaining quite rigid. Also AWG #10 is oversize for the 2.5A that goes through it. #14 will be plenty big enough (good for 15A), more common and less expensive. And no, the color doesn't matter :P

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

The 10 gauge copper wire cam from a yard sale. It was close to a full spool when I bought it for two bucks five years ago. It’s rigid. This rigidity help apply a down force on the anode bar and keeps the impure silver pushed down and in contact with the electrolyte. It’s the perfect wire (in my opinion, and experience) for my silver cell(s)

@beebob1279

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Great explanation

Sree, I don’t often comment on videos but I gotta say that I’m probably your biggest fan. If my tv is powered on its playing your videos. I watch you so much that when I go to get myself a drink of water think “ I should be using distilled water because tap water contains chlorine and will precipitate silver chloride.” Also I’ve written SREETIPS in black permanent marker on pretty much everything I own 😂 like my guitar, laptop, dressers. My family thinks it’s weird that a lot of your videos I have memorized word for word. I’m honestly considering getting a tattoo of a gold ingot that reads SREETIPS on KZread. And no I’m not a creep. Just a sreetips super fan that’s all 😅

That is the most beautiful color I've ever seen in my life it's beautiful on its own but it's magnificent with the silver growth I wouldn't be surprised if it's over a million different shades of blue if one got technical

@larrpenn

Жыл бұрын

Just sent a text

Another great creation by sreetips 👍 kudos 👏

Thank you for putting this video together .

This is the video I've been waiting for

@beebob1279

Жыл бұрын

Me too. I won't get into this knowing the dangers of the chemicals that he uses, but it sure is cool

Your videos are great!

one of your best videos to date!

238k members🎉Spread the good news.....😊

You could use the handle opening for the sight “window” also.

You can scribe/ score and then bend copper and it will break off after a few back and forth. Also, your jigsaw will cut copper. Third, Wiss makes a straight cutter that works better than the Wiss red handle you were using. Yes that one is for straight but it wanders. The one you really want cuts a channel. It’s great, especially on thicker sheets

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Like a nibbles. I need to get one.

I want to talk about better ways of cutting through the cutting board. Irrelevant! You made an accurate enough hole! More entertaining than other silver cell videos due to the anode bar pour. This is an excellent how-to. I need to start storing some value.

Would love to see the slimes processed out of the old anode bags

@infernalchaos1066

Жыл бұрын

Sreetips actually did a video (or a series- I don't remember which) where he processed his used anode bags. Go to search and type "Sreetips anode". It should pop up.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

It’s coming soon

I see that steady hand that used to fill out shipboard logs. You cannot take the Navy out of the man...

If you're cutting plastic with a circular saw, especially brittle plastic, and the cut looks rough you can try turning the saw blade around so the teeth are backwards. We use this trick in construction all the time. Don't forget to put the blade back in the proper orientation when done and remove the battery when changing a blade.

awesome info, thanks Sreetips!!

Morning Gunny! Thought I'd share this with you. Seems to be noteworthy. Since I contaminated my Silver Cell with TIN, and, didn't have enough Silver shot to make it worthwhile to clean, right away, I started thinking, (usually dangerous). I salvaged some, heavy duty, Stainless Steel screen a while back. I've been "Bubbling" the Stock Pots, (fish tank pump as you suggested), and have gotten some plating on the Copper I placed in them. I saw that moving the Stock Pot solution with air, made a difference. I then was curious to see how moving electrons, through the solution, would affect the plating of precious metals. I used the Stainless Steel screen as a Cathode, cutting it to fit into the Stock Pot, fairly snug at the bottom of the bucket. I then used ¾ inch PVC, with holes drilled into it, to insert a 4 AWG, Copper wire into, as the Anode. I wired it in Parallel, to my DC Benchtop power converter. I pushed 13.5 volts with 4 amps of current. After a day, I was pleasantly surprised, by the plating of metals. Just thought I put it out there. It was an experiment. Thanks for all you do! Wade

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Nice!

Cool Beans! What about adding a glass rod to your list?

@firstnlast

Жыл бұрын

Haha good catch!

Excellent. Save a some bucks; ditch the stainless clamp, and copper strap. Attach wire directly to the bowl rim at four points, evenly spaced points around the rim. 12 Gauge wire is more than adequate.

Excellent video

Also idk if you already do, but you should sell some impure silver shot by weight as well.

Sreetips, I love watching your videos. I really like the chemical reactions and your detailed explanations. Lately there's been a lot of silver cell videos, which I like, but when will you be doing more Gold refining videos?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Soon!

@user-ht9gt4rs3r

7 ай бұрын

​@@sreetipssir have you tried to convert silver to gold?

@sreetips

7 ай бұрын

@@user-ht9gt4rs3r no, I’ve never tried converting silver to gold. As far as I know, it can’t be done.

Wondering if the water temperature is relevant? Has it been tested? Amazing work brother. Thank you.

Great stuff Sreetips! A lot of your costs only partially consumed the amounts that you used (wire, copper sheet, etc.). On the other side, ~600g of silver is ~18 troy oz. ~ $450.00.

@beebob1279

Жыл бұрын

But he already has it, so it's costing him nothing.

Superb as always! Are you planning on any shirts videos of the progress? Perhaps every few days?

A tip If your copper sheet is too hard to bend to the shape of the bowl, heat the copper with a gas/blow torch to a red heat, then quench it in cold water this will anneal/soften the copper making it easier to bend.

This is so cool 👏

It wouldn't be a thing but Sreetips I just really get your language and style of teaching. No other refiner has the way you do your videos . If I could I would try it myself but as you have clearly concaved to us you're faithful viewers not a good idea I do watch prospector Trip PT for short and it worries me to see his refining videos... I digress what can I do as a viewer to encourage you to Teach us and make videos again my friend.

@sreetips

5 ай бұрын

I’m taking a break and working on my taxes. I’ll resume video production soon.

thank you for making this :)

You left 13 off, Spoon and paper towel to cover the opening. Gotta get the fine details.

Sreetips is helping me kick my “news” addiction.

@davesmith9684

5 ай бұрын

thats exactly how I ended up here Maximus.. You got a 9 month drop on me you, did you give this a try?

@naughtiusmaximus830

5 ай бұрын

@@davesmith9684 I’m playing the Eco-gold at the moment. I eventually would like to use ion exchange resins but I do want to build one of these cells

Thanks for sharing! Going to be my next future project! Turning 925 scrap to pure silver! One question, I use silver solder in my work would that extra metal burn off in the acid?

@sreetips

8 ай бұрын

The acid won’t burn it off. The acid will dissolve the metals if they are soluble in nitric acid.

A very informative and entertaining video sir! I have a question. Do you plug your DC power supply into a GFCI protected circuit? Since there is liquid and electricity in close proximity do you feel it is necessary?

Hey Mr Sreetips! You inspired me to build one of these for my very own, the only problem I seem to be coming across is finding a source for the impure silver granules to fill in the anode filter with, silver bullion and silver casting grain are the only options I could seem to find online that I could think would work but cost an arm and a leg for the amount required for a decent yield. Is there anything else I could possibly use? Love the videos and the information you constantly put out!

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I buy sterling silver at estate sales. I use it to refine gold, then I recover it and run it through my silver cell.

2:56 just gunna point out an easier way to find centre would be to just draw 2-3 lines across the middle of the circle from different angles. Where they intersect is centre of the circle.

just a thought, would it be better to "tin" the copper wire with silver and flux before pouring the pure silver bar? It looks like a thin layer of copper oxidizes before the molten silver is poured. That oxide layer could limit electrical flow that gets worse over time

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Good suggestion, thank you

Love your channel and all the work you put into it , and thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, My question is can you run bigger size bowls? Also what is you increase your power setting higher then 3volts ? Will it still work or does it effect the silver purity ? Keep up the amazing stuff your doing and for sharing your knowledge Kind regards Sam

@sreetips

10 ай бұрын

Critical distance between anodexbasket and cathode 4 to 4.5 inches. I run the cell at 3.5 volts, higher or lower could cause contamination,

@user-de9jb5hi4i

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for answering my question , hoping to build my first silver cell this weekend Take care

Thank you for a very informative video. I have cemented out silver powder from silvernitrate by using a copper rod. Is i possible to use the powder direct in the basket without melting it to shots ?

@sreetips

6 ай бұрын

I tried once. The filter clogged and current flow dropped off rapidly.

@suddgummi1

6 ай бұрын

@@sreetips Makes sense. The cemented silver is a partly very fine powder. Thank you for the reply.

This is incredible. Thank you. Not sure how you learned and figured this out. But I need to know, How do you make the 600gs of diluted silver? How much does that cost? How much does the acid and beakers and other equipment cost? Where can I find impure silver and how much is that? Does the electrolyte turn blue on its own? Thank you again Sreetips.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I reserve some of the crystal from the harvest to make electrolyte. I bought all my glassware on eBay. We buy sterling silver at estate sales. Dudadiesel.com for nitric acid.

@mattcluk7092

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips dude you're awesome. I didn't expect a thorough response. Much appreciated. Thank you for being an awesome person

How about a piece of acrylic so you can see thru into the cell?

Thank you sir!

Hey Sreetips do you have to use a brass bolt/wingnut to connect the power to the bowl? Won't regular steel work?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Yes

Hi sreetips. I love your videos. I have been thinking, would you like to write a book on gold and silver refining? Such as how to identify what scrap parts contain gold. What are the processes, and how to get the tools?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Yes

I'll hang onto this... I'll be swimming in inherited pawn shop glory in less than a month😅

LIKED~~~PLAYLIST😁

Drilling one of the corners of the anode basket hole may have been easier for that jig saw to line up with the edge of the hole instead of coming from the center?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Agree

Great stuff as usual my friend.. How much cement silver is it going to take to feed both of them with snotlet's?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

It should go through fairly quickly. I’ll have to melt some more shot very soon.

Curious why you dont use lexan or plexi for the cover. Would be able to see the whole bowl workings easier. Or is the electrolyte light sensitive ?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Didn’t think of it.

Have you tried placing a few pieces of already formed silver crystals into the silver cell when you start a fresh batch? This may form some larger larger crystals by giving the silver a nucleation point.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

They are not true crystals. They are actually dendrites. But silver refiners call them crystals because they look like crystals.

Hello sreetips my name is Yoem Diaz and I tell you that I have learned a lot from you, I saw some of your videos that I would like to know how many grams of silver came out on that occasion with only 150 grams. here is the link of you tube Silver Cell Build Step by Step From Scratch thank you very much for what he does

@sreetips

11 ай бұрын

For every 100g of impure silver that gets added into the anode basket, I’ll get about 99g of high purity silver.

Excellent informative video , Thank you Sreetips 👍👍 😊

I am wondering why you don't just use a larger container instead of 2 setups. In the last silver cell video, I mentioned why not use something as large a drum barrel. Does that require a different approach? Is it too costly?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

4 inch critical distance between the anode and the cathode. Too close and the silver will contact the anode filter and burn a hole through it. Too far away and the silver takes forever to deposit on the cathode. I could set up a thumb cell; alternating anode and cathode plates hung suspended in silver nitrate electrolyte. But that’s too big for my small hobby operation.

Thanks for the video Sreetips, just in time for my first sizeable bottle of nitric! I made my anode out of lead...and it seems to be creating some problems, do you have any advice for cleaning up? I remember you saying something about sulfuric acid?

@williamfoote2888

Жыл бұрын

Advice? Don’t use lead.

@apveening

Жыл бұрын

Why would you use lead? Besides giving all kinds of problems, it is also toxic.

@brandonowens282

Жыл бұрын

@@williamfoote2888 congratulations captain hindsight!! Didn't think about that one. Now how bout using that brain of yours and read the actual question. Asshat

First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing

Awsome man

Very, very Good. I enjoyed that. Thank you. ;^)

When you have a solution with mixed PGM's (no contaminates)... is the solution heavier at the bottom and lighter at the top (not sure I asked that right). Or does the solution through out weigh the same. (like heavy water in none heavy water?) In other words. If I were to take (with a skinny hose) a sample of the solution from the bottom of a container having PGM's in it, would I get a better recovery from the bottom of the solution vs the top of a solution?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know, I’ve never tried that experiment. But I have seen solutions that I filter form a light liquid (water) layer on top of the more dense silver nitrate solution. But they are miscible and will form a uniform mixture once stirred. After that, the heavier silver nitrate will not sink to the bottom and separate from the water on top.

@downyourtube

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Thank you for your reply Sir. I ask because I duplicated your experiment where you are leaching out the PGM's with the catalytic combs. It's working well. But I started to notice that there seems to be a difference in results when I took samples from my 5 gallon buckets to test. It seemed to imply that a solution density is different at the top and the bottom from the results I got (I tried both). I was just wondering if you knew for sure. I like many others sure do appreciate you sharing your adventures with us. Thank you so much. When I'm finished I'll tell you all about my results. (still working on it). My goal is to get it only to the contaminated black sponge stage and then approach a refinery for its completion (if that's a option open to me that is).

Sreetips, I love your videos. I'm just wondering how much silver shot is needed to start with. How much is used in a typical run.. much appreciated.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

A small 1 liter glass cell can run as little as 1000 grams.

When running the silver cell for the ten days, how much silver do you go through refill the anode basket?

@sreetips

11 ай бұрын

For every 100g of impure silver I feed in, I’ll get about 98g of pure silver.

what kind of impure silver and where are you getting it from that you put in the anode basket ??

@sreetips

11 ай бұрын

Local estate sales

I just realized...Sreetips is basically the Walter White of pure silver "crystal". 😂