Thanks for the input I appreciate the honest critique , I wanted to stay away from salt as an electrolyte because of the chloride production . I have used KNO3 as an electrolyte and it very efficient . I think at this point I like using Sulfuric/ Nitric to selectively strip silver , then diluting and cementation the silver cement really looks nice . I will make shot with it then run it through a silver cell. Thanks for dropping by and please comment on other videos . Any processes that can be improved I am all in . Honestly since it’s an experiment and it’s the third time it was mentioned let do this . I’m going to add some salt today . Stay tuned Again thanks

@Hill-13 Epson salt is a form of magnesium dissolved with sulfur acid. If that helps they both work though if you get cooper or tin precipitate contamination boil In HCL.

The plain water cell works fine. I use table salt fir conductivity. It creates silver chloride but also oxidizes base metals in time. I then convert it with the sulfuric and iron method.

@ I just looked it up add bought some years ago . I’m going to try it out as soon as I get home . Thanks really appreciate it .

@ thanks M I had just been leaving it alone try to exercise patience . I was able to process the flatware in no time . If I was to to pick a favorite acid it would be sulphuric .

👍 KNO3 works well, it was the first cell I used to strip silver . I have to say I starting to like sulfuric acid and incremental dosing of nitric to strip silver.

When I get home there is only a few minutes of daylight . I poured off the solution and cleaned up in the hood , LOL . Work shop fume hood coming up !

@Hill-13 take your wages spend the lot on sterling scrap refine it during the week. Stop going work

@empirefinds if I did that my son would not be dependently wealthy 😂

@@Hill-13 I'm always lurking 🤣

Killing me , thanks Matt . 2.87 grams towards the bar . Hitting up an Estate sale next .

Can't wait to watch brother

Take video while your at the sale if they'll let you

@mattlevesque5927 all good . Can we make it cheaper or buy ? Silver stacking questions to be answered soon

@ I will try usually it’s hit and run because it’s so late in the day ( after work )

Didn’t think about that . I hand scrubbing them with a bottle cleaning brush . Any thing left over I was going to smelt into a bar and recover any values from the slimes in the copper cell .

@ Interesting experiment. Waiting on the results!

@naughtiusmaximus830 me too , looks like it’s finished cementing out . I will start on cleaning it up today . Lots of rinses the on to drying

@ Electrolysis seems to have limited utility.

@ I had some bigger pieces and honestly I thought it would go faster . But lesson learned I’m going to shut it down in a couple of days . Pull the cathode out wash off the silver and process it the tray will be melted and run through the copper cell also to collect any silver as slimes .

It’s sulfuric acid and Nitric I misspoke once in the video and did not catch it . Have you ever used this method before ? I know you have seen me use nitric and sulfuric acid to strip silver before .

@Hill-13 lol It's been so long for me I've forgotten how to do a lot anymore.

Looking into that

Can You can hit CC. On the top of the video ?

@ *Yes, it's working now, thank you.*

Thanks.Its surprising how heavy it is

Yes hit me up at [email protected] and I will shoot you my number

@Hill-13 awesome brother

I try to make it fun

Both I was trying to stay away from making any chlorides . I have flatware I’m going to strip with sulfuric acid and nitric coming up next .

Me too . Stay tuned we will be stripping silver from plated flatware with Sulfuric acid and gradual additions of Nitric Acid next

My plan is to reduce the voltage . When I started it up at 12 V it had no wattage . 30V at .04 amps was .9 watts . So I pushed the Volts up to get some ions in the water then reduce voltage . The copper hydroxide formed can be removed through filtration then heat is my plan so far . Thanks for stopping by , stay tuned for results Ps the size of the material was also an issue

@@ScroogeMcDuckn soon this will be shot w/ a go pro . Taking some scrap copper in to finance .

@Hill-13 o i wasn't saying anything, I need glasses .... but that would be fancy my man..... I drank way to much Mt.D and went to get my free gopro..... and it was gone..... so upset,..... thanks Mt.D now I have 8 lousy beenie hats hahaha 😆

@@ScroogeMcDuckn sounds like Christmas give aways , I also need glasses . Positive critiques are always welcome bro .

Salt ..... The Ions my man, the Egyptian people did this for the "Baghdad Battery "........ is that even close Hill-13 ? Lol trying to learn 😂

@ScroogeMcDuckn I have all the gear but no idea on this I got to the rabbit hole looked in and said to myself this comes somewhere in my chemistry lessons let's stay on track. One thing at a time interesting and confusing as it seems the.

@@empirefinds yes, we all are at a precise moment if learning, organically letting it develop, rushing is how I'll get hurt for sure .... can't have my videos to watch if I can't make them lol 😂

I’m not sure of the cell mechanics on this it was suggested as means to remove silver plate . It’s not efficient but after 3 hours I started to see results . I did put some well water in which is high in manganese and had some iron to help with a little conductivity . I’m not sure if it the HOH that the cell is using but it works . I will have answers before we conclude this series

@Hill-13 I did hear the well water in the beginning of the video , it differs wildly , even from house to house ..... actually ran into an issue with my purchased Distilled water..... you can't even trust water now-a-days, dogs and cats living together,,Its MASS Hysteria !!!!!

2.5 hours in operation silver is plating on the cathode . Non toxic no fumes . Four gallons of distilled water one gallon of well water

We are going to find out

3340 grams of plated material was processed this weekend , cementing out the values tonight should have an idea of the yield soon

We are going to find out . I will be starting a water cell to remove the plated object ASAP.

Worked in local scrapyard for ten years and we threw all silver plated shit in with the brass.he was makin loads o money and didnt even let his boys into it .proper wanker​@@Hill-13

I did not want to mess with any chlorides ( 🤣 here we go again) my well water is high in manganese so I was thinking it would be conductive enough

Man that’s a drag deals are getting harder and harder to find .

@ Goodwill sucks anyway. All the charities are run by hostiles. I was asking for sterling tho. I might do a run around town looking for plate depending on your results.

@ ordering new alligator clips tonight should have the cell up on Friday . Then start on the flatware with sulfuric and nitric this weekend

@ I was reading on the Gold refining forum about heat separation of silver from tin and lead. They cut it in half and melt the insides out. Melting temp of silver is much higher.

@ 👍

Thanks , really should have used weak sulfuric acid and iron . I love how it works .

I’m dying

You can make this with 120-150 grams of .999 silver dissolved in 100 ml of nitric acid then micro dosing to dissolve the remaining silver I would leave some silver undissolved that way you are using up the nitric . If you don’t have pure silver yet you will have to building it up , Sterling silver flatware dissolved in nitric acid then cementing it out with copper , clean it well to use as feed stock and material for the silver nitrate electrolyte in the cell , you can use electrolyte made with just Sterling silver but it will foul quickly .

Thanks I should have gone with weak Sulfuric acid and iron . Lesson learned

I think I’m ready for summer now

@Hill-13 me too

Me 3

Had to convert it from silver chloride to silver oxide then metallic silver .

@@naughtiusmaximus830 I would need to research that before offering any opinions . So behind on things mountain of e waste , unfinished copper cell run , silver plate stripping .

@ I will look into it. My pressure cell is about 500ml but maybe for pins it could be useful. The crew at Hard Rock university had some ideas. I have 6L centrifuge that does 10,000 x G that might be interesting too for extraction.

I was in a hurry and just wanted to clean up some waste containers , I think there may have been some tin in it . Probably should have biles in HCl I thought the lil bit of purple was a reaction to light . Maybe not .

@ Sreetips last video was interesting. His chips kept recementing but he kept testing like a pro and pushed the reaction through.

@ saw that too .

Thanks probably should have done iron and weak sulfuric acid conversion , what could go wrong ?

lol thanks Matt

I gave you a shout out in a video “silver chloride what can go wrong “….

I think they had a decent amount of values . I just took apart a cable box it was sad .

@@Hill-13 just a set top or DVR , those DVR have a bit, I been debating on the set top ...did you tape it

@ kinda snap action . While watching YT , I have a Silver chloride recovery video I have been concentrating on .

@Hill-13 don't you meen a silver video your refining...... ba-dom..... yeah dad jokes for days ahhaha

Those were some nice boards. Nice components! Can't beat free! Waiting to see snow actual refining video from Mr. @ScroogeMcDuckn lol

Thanks I have a pile to start processing , stay tuned . I just cleaned up my chloride jar and processed the silver . ( spoiler alert )

You can use Sterling in a cell but the copper will “ foul ‘ the solution quicker Sterling 92 percent silver Cemented silver 95-99 percent silver.

@@Hill-13 ohhh, so nitric acid is a necessary step for the solution! Thanks, and you’ve got a new subscriber!!!

@ thanks for subscribing I have early videos where I made very efficient 1 and 2 liter cell , and the traditional stainless steel bowl silver cell if you have any questions I can try to walk you through it

👍

I was disappointed with the transformers , but found free silver so it was a win and they aren’t taking up space anymore

@Hill-13 yeah, i don't pass them up , at least for my area , I know other places it's just not worth it

No copper on these , might make a good boat anchor

I was hoping for more copper . I did those three last night while converting silver chloride . The transformers had aluminum windings ( drag )

@Hill-13 in England there are screw apart plugs and moulded plugs the screw apart plugs are always copper windings on everything

@ I think I found three of the cheapest made microwaves. But I did get some silver contacts and the fan motors had bright copper . I see a copper ingot in the future

@Hill-13 mate I hate them because of the beryllium magnetron pink I see people mess with them all the time like me you know that 0.006 of a gram airborne could kill you. That's a grain the size of a pin head. Even though them microwaves are aluminum oxide it still freaks me out and the costic soda used in dishwasher liquids burns like sulphuric acid and gives nasty vapours

@ i agree I had never taken one apart until Saturday night. Unless it’s old then I will pick it up . Finding aluminum windings in those huge transformers was disappointing .

Thanks bro , we are in this together

@Hill-13 I just need more time, isn't that the way it goes

Yep tell me about it …

@Hill-13 well just know, I'm always watchin..... wait,,, sounds creepy

@ all good , I just finished converting silver chloride food for the silver cell. You watching the Green Bay game ?