Gold Filled Scrap 540 Grams Part 1

[@charleswise5570]

I love when you explain the math in detail. Makes for a really great learning experience.

[@Joe.Rogan.]

30:15 That identical JLC watch is for sale online for 3k . If the internet is to be believed this would be a good investment restoration. If anyone is curious the watch is a 1954 Reserve de Marche Automatic Swiss movement. Nice lot Sreetips.

[@Greg1096]

I was gonna let him know that the JLC was the best one in the lot, saw this video too late or i would have thrown a bid on it, i do some amateur watch repair and i few of those were decent candidates for a good service and polish to flip.

[@JoelHirtle]

When everything else in the world is going upside down, I’m glad I can watch your videos to relax and take a break.

[@Greg1096]

I am absolutely stealing that filter folding method! Ive been using the cone shaped filters when ive needed to seperate larger amounts of solids which isnt really an ideal way of doing it, thanks for the tip 👍

[@DavidDavis-fishing]

Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!

[@sherifaly1017]

From Egypt ♥️

[@davidchapman2839]

I'm from Seminole.

[@dominicandawg3455]

South florida here nights going well

[@MonasteryofLaRabida]

Are you still awake like me?😂 from Canada

[@DavidDavis-fishing]

@@MonasteryofLaRabida I'm always awake lol

[@richardwarnock2789]

That Gold Phill He's a Heck of Guy!!!😂

[@AndyGraceMedia]

Nice watches! The Seiko Sportsmatic 5 Dolphin-back is a beauty from about 1966 and the Bulova and Omegas are really pretty. Great lot.

[@Ilovegold]

I have watched every single one of your videos. Love everyone of em!

[@looweeg4229]

Starting at 6:40, the white plate under the beaker dances with the heating plate heating and cooling cycles. Found that very very funny for some reason.

[@ArielleViking]

Looking forward to part 2. Love the timelapses. 👍

[@josephcormier5974]

Looking forward to the next part thank you for sharing this six stars sir

[@plutoswrath]

I thought we were going to get a Timelapse of you making lunch.

[@MonasteryofLaRabida]

Very excited for Mr. Sreetips notification 🔔 even it’s 2:30am no matter what, I’m happy to watch my favourite show

[@josephschnabel1andonly]

Im really digging the clock

[@shaneyork300]

For me it's more entertaining to watch gold filled video over karat scrap video

[@Antonowskyfly]

You’re welcome. Quality content, quality presentation. Looking forward to the upcoming result. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟

[@obryan240]

Some nice watches, especially the elgin and Waltham. To bad i have no disposable income now 😢 one looked like a jagear lecoutre. Very nice watch.

[@Ta2dwitetrash]

I found an 18k gold thimble for 50 bucks. Ran to the bank and came back to it marked up to 400$. Grumble grumble...

[@sreetips]

You got to have it with you. Even if you go ten steps back to the car to get your money, when you go back then the item will be GONE.

[@hschultz123]

Just curious, why not soak the encorted gold material in a large volume of the dilute nitric acid and just wait for all the base metals to go into solution?

[@ExtractingMetals]

Good question! The answer is simple. The nitric acid gets used up and all your left with is the metals in solution with water. Water dissolves metals very slowly so it would take about a decade without adding more nitric or changing out the solution for fresh nitric. The reddish brown gas is actually nitrogen dioxide. Once the nitrogen is depleted from releasing NO2 then it’s not even dilute nitric acid any more. The whole reaction is just an exchange of ions. Just like a battery, once the reaction gets too weak, it has to be recharged(in this case by adding fresh nitric)

[@sreetips]

Adding heat aids the reaction.

[@odin9868]

the watch you couldnt pronounce at 30:22 looks like a jaeger lecoultre 1940 powermatic (possibly specifically for the french market?) or a Jaeger-LeCoultre Powermatic Classic 481 Cal worth between 1k and 5k, really depends on which model it exactly is, and ofc, how much a buyer is willing to pay hahaha jaeger lecoultre is a fancy swiss watch brand. whoever buys that watch bin is getting a bargain imo

[@ghosttwo2]

I had a video idea, 'Inquarting with gold'. Start with a gold-plated stock that's a bit under the concentration for inquartation. Then you have to add gold to raise it. For comparison, have a concurrent processing where you don't add gold and see if there's any benefit to raising the karat.

[@sreetips]

Gold plated stock has junk metal that can cause big problems.

[@lucashartey3244]

Jaeger le couture is a beauty

[@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730]

the little timepiece on a chain charm/bauble thing makes me think of how much timepieces are a relic of the past but also how not that much has changed; because people still have little hanging charms, nowadays people would have a smartcharm instead (though i doubt there'd be very many that are gold plated, how many gold filled phones do you see? so that part has actually changed)

[@sreetips]

One thing that hasn’t changed since biblical times; gold is real money and stands on its own. All other forms of money are really just money substitutes that require some sort of third-party validation.

[@GOLD_FEVER]

@@sreetips They require a hallucinating and easily duped public to buy into the paper being worth anything !

[@sreetips]

Ever notice how gasoline prices are kept low? They are cheaper today than they were in 1963. It creates a soothing effect, because you see them plastered on ever street corner as you drive. “See, there’s no rising prices, the gas is getting cheaper.” While on our way to buy seven dollar cauliflower, and twelve dollar bags of flour. It’s brilliant.

[@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730]

yeah gas is hugely subsidized and oil production is a market mess because of a bunch of factors, fiat currency only has as much value as people ascribe to it, and much of that boils down to perception, which means controlling gas prices

[@Greg1096]

As a watch collector, watches have evolved quite a bit, its amazing the amount of complications watchmakers have come up with, the sheer amount of engineering it takes to put together these tiny machines is absolutely amazing, started tinkering with watch repair and restoration a few years back, the precision still amazes me

[@stephenconner-py1gk]

Chee. Nice!!! Love you! Conner always going to be a top fan of yours

[@TBBWDontPlayNoReindeerGames]

@Sreetips How much for the watch you couldn’t pronounce? TBBW🐺

[@jasond4084]

Could you inquart carat scrap with gold filled? Might be an interesting video. Great content as always!

[@sreetips]

I did it a few months back. It didn’t go very well.

[@looweeg4229]

So... seeing those gold fills with thick watches that don't dissolve super well, and paper filter that take ages to filter and then burning those used paper filter. I wonder if it was possible to make shots like you do when you enquart gold plated material with silver and do your usual procedure with nitric then aqua regia and finish with the classic stump out.

[@sreetips]

No, I’ve tried melting the gold foils and it didn’t go well at all. This is the best process to use.

[@KamuiPan]

There's some watchmakers doing service here on youtube. Need to send them your ebay link.

[@willy480able]

Possible collab with Wristwatch Revival?

[@timothyodonnell8591]

Would love to see that! Marshall is a good dude.

[@disgruntledtoons]

1/20 12k gold filled material is about twice as valuable per gram as pure silver. Definitely worth your time if your methods are efficient.

[@jamesd4013]

great video and show and tell at the end

[@sreetips]

Sorry. Part 2 won’t have that.

[@metaldetectingthenortheast1294]

Saw that jeager right away.

[@warpo007]

Mr Sreetips, is it a full time job for Mrs Sreetips to supply you with scrap? or is she some kind of gold/silver magnet? I find this stuff so fascinating. i'm glad i dont have any scrap gold / silver cause i'm stupid enough to try anything i see on youtube.

[@sreetips]

Mrs sreetips loves finding a good deal at yards, but she hates refining. I can’t stand going to yard sales, but I love to refine the metals. We are a perfect match. Mrs sreetips hasn’t had to work at a job in over 28 years. She gets to get up in the morning and do what ever she wants. Same for me. And what she usually wants to do is go visit her shops to find gold and silver for me to refine. What I usually want to do (after my devotional time in the morning) is go to my shop, refine the metal she finds for me, and make videos of it for my KZbin channel. Our lives are like a fairy tale. And for that we give thanks to God!

[@ExtractingMetals]

My weekend may consist of the following KNSO3 + H2SO4 -> KHSO4 + HNO3.

[@azlee101]

Hello Mr. Sreetips. Thank you for including the calculations of estimated yeild. since 14ct is 1/10, 12ct is 1/20, what about 18ct and 9ct. im sorry im new to this. Thank you

[@sreetips]

14k is not 1/10. 14k is 14/24=0.583 not 1/10

[@roberthainline4552]

When you wash down the sides was that distilled water

[@sreetips]

Yes

[@jlemieu1]

Seeing the green flame for copper

[@kailuagarage]

Do all these chemical reactions have noticeable odors, or hard to tell with a respirator

[@sreetips]

Yes, but I can’t smell because I’m working in a fume hood that draws the odors away from me.

[@canonicaltom]

The watch with the red is a Jaeger leCoultre

[@sreetips]

Ok, thanks.

[@floydsallee2041]

You do great work

[@sarchmaster5779]

That's one solid lunch! :)

[@eddie7062]

I have a couple cuban chains mark 14k gold filled but also have a 304 ss mark , should I test them to see if there real ,and if they are how would I go about separating the gold from the 304 stainless steel? Love the videos thanks

[@sreetips]

Gold filled is usually a thick sheet of karat gold that is bonded to brass. They heat both and then pass through a roller to bond them together. Getting a sheet of karat gold to bond to stainless would be difficult, but not impossible I suppose. Best way to get that gold off would be to use a sulfuric acid stripping cell.

[@philiphutchen200able]

Hello Mr. Sreetips I’m a longtime viewer of your channel love watching everything you do and learning about precious metals! My question for you is where would I find Nitric? So that I can start my own refining!

[@sreetips]

Any chemical supply should have it. But they won’t ship to a residence. Get your friend with a business address to receive it for you.

[@richardbreisch8049]

What about calculating the copper content and just melting the lot before your nitric bath. Is this possible?

[@sreetips]

No

[@altafrahman2254]

Hello Sreetips, You always add few ml of Sulfuric acid before Aquaregia to take care of Lead "if any". In GF material processing, you have a higher probability of having high amount of Lead. You physically found Lead in this batch. Is it good to give a Sulfuric acid dip of GF material before you start adding Nitric acid to take complete care of the meta stannus issue?

[@sreetips]

No, lead won’t dissolve in sulfuric acid.

[@altafrahman2254]

@@sreetips Thank you for the reply. I would like to know why you add 1ml Sulfuric acid in every video "to take care of any lead" if lead can not be removed with it.

[@SuperDavidEF]

@@altafrahman2254 He has said before that sulfuric acid causes lead to precipitate out of the gold solution, so it can be filtered out.

[@sreetips]

The sulfuric acid reacts with any lead to form insoluble lead sulfate that can then be filtered out to remove all the lead from the gold. I add sulfuric whether I suspect lead or not. Hurts nothing, costs almost nothing, and provides a big benefit. Learned this from Harold_V on the goldrefiningforum.com

[@dimorvanerkel2025]

Cool with those watches man....haha i mean mr Sreetips...you video's are awesome specialy the gold precipritations...👍i like gold to keep it UP mr Sreetips !greetings from the Netherlands

[@sreetips]

Greetings!

[@quinton3997]

How much nitric did you use to get rid of the base metal

[@sreetips]

About 3.5ml per gram of GF scrap.

[@roberthainline4552]

Where do you get the 3 mL from for this equation of the nitric?

[@sreetips]

The pipette is 3ml dose

[@TSC1978]

I have too many questions. Do you have an email for more extensive questions?

[@sreetips]

Best to ask questions here. Thank you.

[@brandengillette7794]

Humm so i don't have acess to a fume hood and chemestry station but still have a desire to refine some gold filled things i purchased. I came to the conclusion i was going to scrach and cut it all up into pices then subject it to vinegar and hydrogen peroxide many times. I just had some questions. The sample im useing has stopped turning blue and i find that hydrogen peroxide alone is reacting with the basemetals. But im seeing a build up of a white Precipitant. Any idea what it could be?

[@sreetips]

I’ve never used those to refine gold filled. No experience.

[@charlesinscore4107]

Oh no, A cliff hanger. How many grams?

[@sreetips]

Should get about 13 grams, plus or minus.

[@VerdantImage]

Omega looks like my grandpas old watch almost exactly

[@dasraiser]

Why would you want to recontaminate your gold by incinerating the 1st filter with it?

[@sreetips]

Because it had a small amount of gold in it. The slow filtering is probably cause by the presence of tin. Tin dissolved in nitric creates a tin paste that clogs filters terribly. Incineration cause this tin paste to form another compound (I think it’s tin oxide) that is insoluble in acids. So incineration will solve the filtering problem for me. I’ll be sure to mention this in part 2.

[@D_A86]

I watched the 100g math and skipped the 540g math. Based on what i can see so far, I can't guess a final yield lol. Time to watch part 2 😂

[@QuivaRPG]

You've probably answered this, and I kind of feel stupid for asking but, why is it called gold FILLED scrap, when it's gold plated on top of other metals?

[@sreetips]

It’s a thick coating of karat gold over brass. It looks just like solid karat gold, because it is karat gold, that’s filled with brass.

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

10:10 I predict you will again get more than you expected from that old gold filled jewelry if formula weather reason than they had standards to meet but that was long enough ago there wasn't any extremely accurate way to determine the exact karatage so they over-karated to cover their ass just in case

[@ulrichenevoldsen8371]

Hi sreetips. I found out why gold percipitate out of solution. As I understand its because gold atoms loves to hook onto sulphur atoms and then it becomes too heavy to stay in solution 😊 in layman's terms 😅

[@sreetips]

I’ve heard the same, thank you

[@remzo500]

I have a clock just like that except the face is white and the numbers are black thanks for sharing : )

[@sreetips]

I’ve used it for several videos. It’s very entertaining to watch the time spin by during those reactions. But it has corroded the battery terminals terribly and will probably die in the near future due to be in those acid fumes for hours.

[@slipperysam1337]

Why do you incinerate the scrap before processing it?

[@Edgarsantosofficial1]

I remember Mr. Sreetips saying quote Eliminate humans remaining 😂😂😂 l know there is another logical explanation right?

[@brucewright5061]

Yep. Incinerate to remove oils and other human contamination. The oils will block the acids and can be removed easily with incineration.

[@slipperysam1337]

Ok thanks makes sense

[@DeadJDona]

35:00 weight it please

[@dawnjennings4864]

Yeah 🎉

[@Edgarsantosofficial1]

Like the filter

[@goldrecovery_11]

at which address can we buy gold filled?

[@sreetips]

Not sure about the address.

[@shannonlbaker]

Another great one !!

[@sreetips]

That’s the bar!

[@shannonlbaker]

That is what I thought. Beautifully crafted! Great job !

[@ivoted-5489]

Does anyone know: How much does this cost to have done for the regular consumer?

[@sreetips]

The usual fee for toll refining is ten percent. And that’s why I don’t refine other peoples material.

[@ivoted-5489]

@@sreetips Hey Man, thx for answering my question. I really appreciate it, as well as your YT content. Have a great weekend!

[@mikeconnery4652]

Nice video

[@larrykester8593]

Sir, that’s roughly the same amount of gold filled material I have to refine.

[@infectedcure157]

Amazing video as always cant ask for more thanks sreetips ❤ i got a quick question though: what happens to those little papers that u use to test if there is gold in solution or not with stanous? Im sure u probably collected bunch of em (hope u didnt throw them away haha) making a video of extracting gold from those little papers will be so satisfying !

[@spokehedz]

He does, along with filters and such.

[@aredditor4272]

You'll find what you want on his channel. He saves everything, test papers, filters, all fluids poured off. He has made vids featuring the processing of said papers.

[@scrapman502]

I would love to see a video where you use a sulfuric acid stripping cell to remove the gold from gold filled scrap. Almost every video you make is pretty much redundant, dissolving everything and dealing with the copper and base metals at the end. I know you have made this type of video before, using the cell to remove plated gold from jewelry, but I have not seen any videos trying this with gold FILLED material..

[@felsinferguson1125]

When it comes to "gold plated" vs "gold filled", the only significant difference between the two is how thick the layer of gold plating is. The "filled" piece has a thicker layer of gold on it than the "plated" piece. Everything else about them, including the stripping process, is identical.

[@sreetips]

I’ve run a sulfuric stripping cell. And after it gets saturated with gold it begins to not operate correctly. It heats up and the gold doesn’t come off well like it does when I first start the cell. If I shut it down and let it settle and cool, then it starts working properly. The gold plated stuff has a very thin coating of gold, almost nothing. So I can process a good bit of it before I have to shut it down. Gold filled is different. It has a coating of gold that’s hundreds of times thicker than gold plated. I believe that the cell would heat up rapidly and begin to act-up very quickly if gold filled was attempted. But I don’t know for sure because I’ve never tried it.

[@mikeconnery4652]

@@sreetips that's very interesting ty

[@stormdrifter7904]

Sweet.

[@stormdrifter7904]

It would be cool to see how much silver actually comes out of the GF material without consuming the excess nitric with sterling

[@muskylemon2310]

Time for a Nico Leonard reacts to Sreetips

[@sreetips]

Nico Leonard, who is he? Is he a passenger?

[@mr.g-sez]

over the years i always wonderd why sreetips is written everywhere. this might be the best copyright protection any youtuber has. every frame says sreetips. so no chance for people to steal footage.

[@sreetips]

Back in 2012, I had about 12k subscribers. People were re-uploading my videos as their own creation. One person had all 56 of my videos re-uploaded to their channel. I quit posting for about six months because I didn’t know what to do. Then I discovered copy right protection and I was able to stop it from happening. That’s when I began to place my channel name in the videos. It’s a giant pain. Some folks get annoyed by it. But it’s the world we live in. Someone always trying to get something for nothing.

[@demon007mdc]

Woah!!! First one to see this vid.

[@scotthultin7769]

First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 😊

[@osmia3561]

Gold filled in the sulfuric cell please. I want to see what happens :)

[@richardchayer6597]

Hello

[@sreetips]

Hello

[@whatthefunction9140]

#1

[@Sandermaner]

Getting tired of the sales pitch crap.

[@jamisontaylor878]

Excellent video thank you 😊 the filter struggle is real lol😢

[@MonasteryofLaRabida]

😂

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

You might reconsider destroying all that very old gold filled scrap because modern gold filled jewelry is complete garbage

[@gordonburns8731]

All of your jewellers in the US, appear to be dishonest, in grading gold higher than its actual gold content. That's what you get with a self-declared gold standard. In the UK, it is entirely honest, in that each item (over 3mg) must be tested at one of the UK Crown Assay Offices. I trust UK gold and silver as genuine... I wound never trust Silver and Gold in the US, or anywhere else in the world. Without a regulated assay, your claims are void.

[@apveening]

I trust Dutch and German gold as well and I have no reason to distrust Scandinavian or Swiss gold. The few pieces of Thai gold I had checked were also conform the gold mark (96%).

[@sreetips]

UK holds itself to much higher standards. The refiner I send my gold to uses XRF to determine purity for the payout. Mine comes back three nines, every time.

[@sreetips]

96% pure gold is 23.04k (23.04k/24k=0.96 or 96%)

[@apveening]

@@sreetips I know, that ring looked nice, but was way too malleable. It is good for small earrings though.

[@powblockchainmining]

1st

[@texanonline1244]

I dont want to see old crap watches for ten minutes...its just dumb imo for anyone to even wear a watch these days

[@sreetips]

Sorry, I need to pay bills and I don’t want to sell any of my gold and silver.

[@JR-pj8pz]

first view but there are 5 comments.. WTF??