Melting Cement Silver With Propane Furnace

[@zackc3767]

You're not a player until you got a five gallon bucket of cement silver.

[@darthsilversith667]

Right!?! That was my thought as well lol

[@max3d_0ut]

Humblest biggest flex I've seen.

[@christopherfoote1284]

And How!

[@TroubledOnePaydirt]

After a 14 hour day stacking lumber and concrete at Home Depot, nothing is as relaxing as a Sreetips video I haven’t seen yet. 💪🥳

[@andybaldman]

Devil Forge really needs to sponsor you, man. Their cost of one furnace will sell 100 of them.

[@megansmith1382]

I can never get enough of how awesome the pure silver crystal looks 😍 its gorgeous!!!

[@MmeHyraelle]

Find his ebay store! Maybe there still are some!

[@scrappydoo7887]

Beautiful isn't it 👍

[@Reasonist]

Holy hell that is one epic bucket. 🍻 😎👌🏼👌🏼

[@tracybowling97]

I thought so too. I wonder and really want to know how much it weighs.

[@three6ohchris]

I was thinking the exact same thing. Very impressive.

[@josephpecoul6532]

Well that's what I have been waiting for a 2nd round of Silver melts with the new setup thanks Sreetips very cool.

[@PeroXepatonio]

It's been the first time I saw your face. After all this time it is nice to put a face into this distinctive voice. Great content as always.

[@megansmith1382]

Seriously great video. It always shocks me to see how much you get outta your melts. You said that you got about 1/3 of that melted and that ends up to be somewhere around 5pounds of silver 😱 whoa! It is always mind blowing and at the same time super satisfying to watch, I hope you keep on keeping on and you continue to share your work with us. I absolute love it 😀 😍

[@RingMasterRay]

The great thing about the propaine furnice is the large amounts you can melt at a time. Nice job Shipmate

[@krsulock]

You’re undoubtedly got the best setup and tools for chemical refining and small scale smelting! 🙌🏻

[@nousername2986]

I love watching your videos. I dont plan on doing what you do at all but i enjoy learning and you do a great job teaching. I like to watch your videos when im putting my one year old to sleep for the night. After a half hour he is hout and i get to watch your videos in relative peace. thank you sir for the content i truly enjoy it. Keep up the good work

[@prestontucker6171]

So interesting how the little copper impurities end up dominating the color when it's cooled in the bucket!

[@sreetips]

Agree

[@canaan5337]

It looks like caramel popcorn being poured into a bucket but it sounds more like coins being poured into a bucket.

[@Y2KNW]

Oh, he's gonna melt a crucible of silver powder, this should be be nice. Silver's up so that should be worth a bit. **5 GALLON BUCKET**

[@shaneyork300]

That furnace is great in so many ways! One of the best is probably that it affords you more time to work with the gold refining. Have a Great Day My Friend!

[@Masterymagic]

I have found that you truly don’t know what “hot” is until you stand over a furnace running full blast and see a material that is normally solid turn to liquid. When I run mine, I joke that I am making a puddle.

[@sreetips]

Small amounts - no problem. But I melted over 10 pounds of metal in just three charges. That much molten metal scares me - but it’s a healthy fear to have.

[@kuznetsovsu]

Nice job! please continue putting learning videos on your channel. Really good stuff!

[@ProfessorDantheScienceMan]

Dang that handle fell right off

[@sreetips]

Aluminum rivets - I expected those to fall off long ago.

[@bfd1565]

Yesterday I checked to see if you posted any videos lately. I'm looking forward in watching you process the anode baskets. I agree it's nerve racking when melting silver. Especially when adding the dry to what's already molten. I'm always waiting for some kind of puff.

[@sreetips]

Me too, if you notice I added a very small portion to the first melt because I didn’t know what to expect.

[@Heathenheart1979]

Sir, "you're gonna need a bigger silver cell". I mean, to process all that cement silver.

[@sreetips]

Agree

[@blake571]

Or at least a second silver cell

[@metalmolisher666]

@@blake571 make it 5

[@husky500cr]

Wow, your silver process has gotten bigger. The next video will be Sreetips in a crane holding a large industrial bucket pouring the silver in a large pool of water.

[@Stein55Pan]

May I ask, how long did it take you to fill that bucket with all that cement silver?

[@sreetips]

It’s been building for a year or so

[@LOT9T]

Well Sreetips there are worse things in life than straining to pick up a 5 gallon bucket of cement silver! :) Great and informative as always sir!

[@matthewf1979]

👍 For wearing a respirator around the raw ceramic wool.

[@spokehedz]

Someone needs to get BigStackD to make a bigger furnace for buckets that big!

[@user-lb8do4ew6k]

BigStackD comes up in every youtube video where someone melts & casts metal 😄

[@timothypirnat3754]

I am so glad you made the furnace instead of using those little crucibles. Both are hot and dangerous, and the furnace is a lot faster,

[@sreetips]

Melting that amount of silver would have taken days

[@DanielKay06]

18:52 delicious home made cornflakes :D

[@masterscrap3055]

Another video from my favorite channel! Only thing I would have done differently with that furnace is enhance the efficiency. I would use a good boiler refractory cement or rigidizer on the insulation. This would provide better efficiency and safety(air born fibers). A hinged lid wouldn't be bad either but it seems to be melting just fine the way it is. Thanks for another good video!

[@ProfaneGod]

First that is a foundry not a furnace a furnace is for smelting and a foundry is for melting second you may want to position your nozzle further back so its not sitting in the foundry so much and maybe pack some more wool around it so there is not a gap because it may help with the nozzle overheating third getting a metal plate and attaching the wool lid to will help with putting it on or even just some metal rods so it does not misalign or get your hands too close to the heat.

[@sreetips]

Excellent suggestions and correction of terms. Thank you

[@scrappydoo7887]

Sreetips how much silver crystal do you have in that bucket!? 🤩

[@sreetips]

We weighed is and it was about 32 pounds

[@scrappydoo7887]

@@sreetips you can't see me but trust me when I say that I am green with envy lol

[@danielparsons5519]

Great melt! I also like how clean you want your metal. Gotta upgrade your cell now that you upgraded HOW you melt your cement to shot. Gotta be a larger scale Cell that could be created to handle atleast 2xs your current production. Great Video.

[@HumanScourgeYT]

All your videos are super interesting and have a very ASMR feeling to them. Love it

[@tracybowling97]

I use your videos to fall asleep to. They are calming and interesting and magic!

[@sreetips]

Excellent! Thank you

[@tracybowling97]

@@sreetips You are very welcome, Sir!

[@nicholasb8799]

You could smuggle that silver in bags labelled "Portland cement" lol

[@sreetips]

It looks just like cement

[@nicholasb8799]

@@sreetips Nicest spackle bucket around!!!

[@richardedwards3098]

heya steetips! you need to put something on your kao wool lining in your melter/smelter to keep fibers from becoming airborne. you need to put a hardener on it!

[@sreetips]

Roger that

[@1988Mauritz]

awsome to see another upload but please be careful about your back get a second pair of tools of the pour so you can get good grip and a nice stand when doing your pours. sorry english isnt my native launge but the "grips" / "tongs" you use is perfekt for the transport out and around with the crucibal. but forced to have max load at the end + pour the hot metal against you is not a good idea . thats why you want one so you can pour from the side (ergonomic we are not getting younger ;) ) safer. Sorry for the wall of text

[@sreetips]

The tongs work well for lifting and pouring. I only use it very infrequently.

[@excitedbox5705]

Have you considered adding a funnel feeder to the furnace? By suspending a steel pipe over the crucible with a flared top you could quickly feed material through the hole in the lid. With the right stand you could quickly move the feeder into place and dump a few scoops in the top and then remove the feeder again.

[@bitsofeverything8385]

MIght aswell get a furnace where the metal falls into the bucket directly while melting down.

[@sreetips]

Neat innovation, but the scoop works well

[@bitsofeverything8385]

happen to have found this in the while kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnbdi2V4pZKkftE

[@fredrichardson9761]

That cement silver shot creation process you use definitely requires extreme care given the dire consequences of a mistake. It's good that your a bit concerned about it - you want to be at the top of your game doing that.

[@dingo23451]

Screetips you really need a better setup for transfering the silver powder into the crucible. Something like a big metal funnel. Everytime you spill something my heart bleeds.

[@DarkMatterX1]

@@reverendtfg6802 That's not how people get, _or stay,_ rich. Rich people care about every cent.

[@sreetips]

Rich: having more than you need. By that definition I’m rich. But doesn’t change the fact that I’m nearly flat broke and deeply in debt.

[@reverendtfg6802]

@@sreetips *Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but folks with $30,000 hotrods and 5 gallon buckets filled with precious metals aren't 'flat broke'.*

[@sreetips]

I can’t get $20k for the hot rod. And it’s a 2 gallon not five.

[@sreetips]

Semantics: of or relating to meaning in language. Had to look it up.

[@tomahawktom7595]

This is a great video man keep doing stuff like this it’s really interesting and cool to see the whole process and I appreciate Are you taking the time to show the rest of us how that stuff works. Great videos, keep it up

[@MasterJJG]

@sreetips I would love to buy an Ounce or 2 of your Larger Chunk Silver Shot you just poured there / Especially the ones with the Gold Toning / Very Cool / Any chance you might put Some up on Ebay ?

[@StraightMountainArsenal]

Straight up gangsta pouring molten metal in a pair of penny loafers!!

[@WhyamIstillwatchingyoutube]

I just really want to see all that cement melted and the bar it would produce come to completion. Wow! That would be a beauty.

[@marineonamission4701]

Always enjoy watching the videos!

[@SMOBY44]

Great video Senior Chief. Those lifting tongs are awesome, but you might want to get your fabricator to make a pouring holder to go with it. Will make pouring much easier and more comfortable as well. Keep the videos coming!

[@sreetips]

Others have said the same.

[@SMOBY44]

@@sreetips If you watch the channel mbmmllc (Mt Baker mining and metals, here in Wash state) he does a lot with small crucibles and has some really cool tongs and handles. The "smelting silver ore & refining" video from 25 July has some good shots of what he uses.

[@shanemcguire170]

Just a suggestion. You might want to purchase one of the Devil Forge Furnaces, I think your melt times would be faster, and... safer than the converted stock-pot furnace you currently have. The Devil Force Furnaces I think would be worth your time for the silver melts. Not so sure about the gold, as you seem not to be processing large amounts of gold. Just a thought...

[@sreetips]

I’d never use it

[@beauhodges7957]

Great video once again. I had an observation and it got me thinking. You can see the slag on top of the molten silver. I'm curious if that was impurities or pgms that were half melted. It makes you think if those were pgms on the surface, you could skim those off of there to process separately and your silver shot would be that much purer before it goes into the silver cell. Either way, looking forward to another video.

[@richardbeee]

Almost time for a tilt furnace. That's a lot of silver.

[@sreetips]

If I’d just get off my lazy behind and do the work it wouldn’t back up on me like that

[@JC-il7je]

Not sure if others have said anything. But you should coat the fibers in refractory cement for Heath reasons. Interesting to watch but

[@kriskemp4952]

Very cool. Very good to see you being so safe

[@ogama843]

The lack of slag indicates your silver is pretty pure from the get go!

[@sreetips]

It’s about 98% to 99% pure. It must be or else the electrolyte in the silver cell would quickly become saturated with copper.

[@szaboaz]

I wonder if a "silver on tap" mechanism could be implemented, for fun, or maybe for profit. For continuous melting, the bottom of the melting pot could have a tap which could be opened to let the molten silver out right into the water barrel without the need to stop the heat. I'm not sure, if such a tap exists or what material could it be to withstand the melting temperature, and not get stuck. The advantage would be increased productivity and energy efficiency. The disadvantage is the added complexity and possible disaster if the apparatus goes wrong.

[@chemicalmike646]

Heres a handy tip; If you haven't done so already, put some paper underneath the crucible,so that it doesnt stick to the furnace. :D

[@sreetips]

Thank you

[@heliarche]

Could the cell be pulling chrome or another additive out of the stainless steel bowl and that's why you're getting the discoloration?

[@sreetips]

I’ve used the same bowls for many years. I added some cement silver powder to the anode basket and it went south from there. Clogged the filter and amps dropped off, slow crystal growth

[@DarkMatterX1]

It's funny you mention that cartoon about the guy with the rain cloud followin' him. I think it was Ziggy, but I may be wrong. I have some construction I'm doin' at my house as time allows. I had some time and material the other day, so I break out the tools and get all set up. And it starts to rain. Hard. Like, thunderstorm hard. _BUT ONLY AT MY HOUSE._ I shit you not it wasn't raining just next door. The neighbor's driveway was dry and I have photos to prove it. I've never seen anything like it in my life.

[@sreetips]

I’ve seen that happen

[@DarkMatterX1]

@@sreetips Lol. I thought about that comic to myself when it happened.

[@pknuttarlott4934]

So silver cement looks like dry concrete powder minus the gravel, and dry gold powder looks like high clay content dirt. Does customs enforcement know about this?

[@sreetips]

Gold looks like spice, cumin, cinnamon.

[@pknuttarlott4934]

@@sreetips Cool the camera does not do it justice. Keep up the good work.

[@josephcormier5974]

Sir that is a lot of silver cements !! Thank you two thumbs

[@xxvvvvdjcocopuff1xxz825]

Yeah you need to get together with a black smith to make a bottom and top ring and Handel's for the crucible so you can have more control on the poorest maybe make a permanent smelt would be awesome. Great content they should be teaching this in schools it is great knowledge

[@ja-canadian5451]

Suggestion... before starting the melt, weigh out 1 lb batches of the silver powder into bags (maybe ziplock type) then just drop the bags into the crucible bag and all. No scooping powder outside and spilling into the furnace and your hand won't get so cooked.

[@sreetips]

Interesting

[@ifindmetal]

I don’t even need to watch it first thing I do is hit like ,love all your videos !!

[@nikolajwinther5955]

It's remarkable that palladium etc. Is found in the old silverware you dissolve. You'd think the original refiner had removed all traces of it. Or is it a matter of antique silverware refined in a time where absolute purity wasn't so much of an issue and the price of recovering the pmg would outweigh the value of the recovered material? And now with palladium etc. Skyrocketing, it becomes more of an issue?

[@sreetips]

Silver is a carrier of PGMs and gold - trace amounts. They get concentrated in the silver cell slimes.

[@raypa01]

hey, been following you for years man, since the no sound videos. you look like you need to upgrade your silver cell. if 5lbs would take you months, the 5 gal bucket will take your couple years. thats only if you don't produce more cement silver. sounds like a possible new adventure for you. what do you think??

[@sreetips]

Agree

[@shywatcher1961]

another awesome video and man does that silver crystal look beautiful.....

[@dennisgeroux4483]

I liked it when the handle fell off the furnace from the heat melting the solder.

[@sreetips]

It’s a stainless steel pot and handles. The rivets were made of aluminum.

[@tonyrojas5139]

Woah now that’s a mask!! Great video as always!!

[@SilverMac47]

Also good Lort Almighty that’s a butt ton of cement silver 😎😜

[@Khodazmoon]

You play with silver like it worse nothing. I wish I could have that much silver 😊😊😊

[@sreetips]

It’s worth more than the price listed by the system - way more.

[@Khodazmoon]

@@sreetips yes, I agree with you. Silver worse nothing nowadays

[@rv-eb3wu]

guy with a cloud, were you talking about the lil Abner cartoons, the guy in the straw hat that walked with his head down. I think his name was Joe Bifstik

[@DirtyPlumbus]

The timelapse of the handle melting off of your bucket was pretty cool.

[@sreetips]

Aluminum rivets - that was expected long ago

[@Fambamm-ib6pw]

Awesome video as always!

[@masternater6721]

outstanding video. amazing amount of preparation, in building custom tools. appreciate the videos and attention to detail.

[@krakhedd]

Something about the glow of your furnace in particular reminds me of the blue glow created by Cherenkov radiation

[@dangeroustoman]

Could you please up the volume on these.

[@sreetips]

Sorry, I was in the yard and was trying to keep it down low.

[@TheKegtwo]

Your cement silver had a good range of colours. Very nice to watch.

[@megansmith1382]

HEY HEY this is the first time I've been here this fast in a long time! I miss ya sreetips im here for this though, let's go! Its going to be an awesome video im sure 👍

[@golder70]

Did you washed all your silver shots with distilled water in extenso? If not, theres your silver cristal discolouration... silver chloride. If washed with aqua dest extensively, then I have no idea, but still suspect AgCl. HCl vapours reaching the cell or so...

[@mynameismatt2010]

For doing melts that size you could probably get away with ordering an alumina liner burying it on charcoal and running a few blowers through it. The liner is like 80$ and if you treat it well should be good for a few melts.

[@tracestaker6237]

You should make a video of how you made that home made furnace!! That thing is awesome.

[@sreetips]

Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYfHi4Gwds6abrc

[@tracestaker6237]

@@sreetips Awesoem!! Thank you 👍🏼 Major fan FYI. I’ve purified now 15oz of pure silver from scrap just from watching your videos. Keep up the great work.

[@danielpeirson3071]

Love your vids Sreetips, Your kinda a dork but your really cool. Keep it up, look forward to all your vids.

[@sreetips]

Thank you!

[@rockbutcher]

Great to see you back! Now you need to get yourself a cupellation furnace for those rare times you get solids or oxides of base metals with PMs bound up in them. Bone ash cupels have been found in the tombs of Egyptian Pharos. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[@sreetips]

None of the profession refiners that I learned from used cupel - not one. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. I just don’t have any experience.

[@rockbutcher]

...And placing wet material in your crucible is a good way to blow it up.

[@rockbutcher]

@@sreetips It's simply another method. You get a PM bead faster but then have to chemically strip each PM from the flattened bead. Thank you for another fascinating video!

[@IMDunn-oy9cd]

Question for you regarding cementing out the cement silver - If I understand the process correctly, the copper is trading places with the silver as it comes out of solution and forms the cement silver. Any impurities on the copper would "fall" into the cement silver and then become one further impurity to filter out during the silver cell process - showing up in the slimes. Do you think it would be worth your time to attempt to clean the copper before the cementing process to remove as much of the impurities as you can? Perhaps a chemical cleaning or even just heating it to redness before use? I'm thinking that it may reduce the amount of contamination in your slimes and extend the life of your filters.

[@sreetips]

Copper wire and tubing are best because they must be high purity copper for extruding or drawing

[@JimFinlayson]

Is that enough volume of cement silver to get a good deal from a refiner to clear your backlog?

[@sreetips]

I’m saving all my silver for retirement - it’s the precious metals retirement plan

[@sreetips]

The refiner would only pay 80% of spot for the silver -

[@99508billy]

Hey bud.. will cooling the silver melt in chlorinated water create chlorine gasses? I am sure it would be very low levels. Also... could the process be the "mystery" contamination in your silver cell?

[@bertonswartzwelder8820]

@sreetips How would you personally go about separating the copper from the silver in Sheffield silver plate?

[@sreetips]

I don’t know, I’ve not tried deplating silver yet. But I’ll figure it out.

[@walterterrell677]

Does refining the silver crystal back through the silver cell go faster the second time around? Or does that exchange occur at a "steady" pace regardless of the purity? Thank you for sharing all this. freaking science, man...exciting stuff!

[@sreetips]

It’s the same pace

[@walterterrell677]

@@sreetips Thank you.

[@xenaguy01]

19:00 Wow, that silver sure looks like gold.

[@sreetips]

The cement silver contains 1% to 2% copper. That’s when discolors the silver shot.

[@camus6208]

Can you build a second electrolytic silver cell apparatus? Get silver twice faster. ..

[@sreetips]

Yes, watch for the video

[@bigredracer7848]

1.3K+👍's🆙 thanks for sharing

[@nathandroblyn1129]

I'm thinking you're going to need to make a larger silver cell. Maybe something around 5-10 gallons. With that much cement silver, you're past the hobby phase.

[@sreetips]

I’m still a hobbyist. The larger furnace just makes it seem bigger. I’ll only use that furnace a couple times per year.

[@MrJansenenjansen]

Great video!

[@dennisgeroux4483]

That was interesting and a pile of silver.

[@TroubledOnePaydirt]

Forgive me if you said already, maybe I’ve just forgotten, but where on Earth does one get a five gallon bucket of pure (impure?) silver powder? That’s impressive. 😂

[@sreetips]

Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. It just builds up.

[@TroubledOnePaydirt]

@@sreetips oh that’s the stuff that cements out on copper? For some reason I thought that was all thrown away at that point.

[@masternater6721]

long-time viewer. love the videos. have you thought about making a video of trying to refine/retrieving/reusing your nitric acid in your silver refining process?

[@sreetips]

Yes, but I rejected the idea.

[@user-lb8do4ew6k]

Please be safe, full leathers & boots are a must. Take care in keeping the crucible away from the water, crucibles can & do break during pours. We like you & Mrs Sree, the Sree fam, friends & your youtube fans want you safe as possible.

[@sreetips]

Thank for your kindly criticism

[@user-lb8do4ew6k]

@@sreetips I dislike nitpicking other people's work & I appreciate your videos. I have seen a metal pouring go wrong once, although nobody was hurt the other guy & myself came way too close to disaster. Fwiw, I saw you had drilled a melting dish once to pour shot & had limited success. Perhaps the holes were too large & the 5 gallon bucket was too shallow to sufficiently cool/solidify the shot before hitting the bottom of the smaller bucket. It may be worth experimenting with drilling smaller holes (1/16") in the cup of a steel ladle & pour the molton silver through that into the larger 33 gallon barrel while using a water pump to keep the water circulating. Maybe even rig a piece of 2" angle iron to use as a channel for the molten silver to avoid holding the hot crucible above the water. Also, since you are up to your armpits in cement silver I'd like to see id you might entertain experimenting with pouring anode plates of impure silver & try them in a larger secondary silver cell. I have wondered if using a porous barrier (like terracotta or an r/o membrane) might help to keep the crystals from shorting the cell out. Would a device (maybe a pump or glass bar on an actuator) could agitate the electrolyte periodically to help knock the growing crystals down? Thanks, Sree - I do appreciate all you do, the videos & your passion.

[@SJWCASTING]

Love that furnace!😃

[@1_GigaWaffle]

BigStackD would be proud)

[@ogama843]

Awww, the handle popped off.

[@sreetips]

Aluminum rivets, expected that

[@SteveandSusiesHomestead]

Great video. Why couldnt you dump the melted silver through a suspended screen over the water . To make finer shot ?

[@wormopolis9802]

I would think the molten silver would immediately clog the screen

[@sreetips]

I need a wet board to pour the silver on and cause it to spatter out in smaller pieces instead of pouring a steady stream into the water.

[@iqcops]

10:20 Left pot handle says, "I'm outta here!" Sreetips says, "I am moving forward without ya! In the name of science! "

[@sreetips]

It’s a stainless steel pot with stainless handles. But the rivets use to secure the handles to the pot we’re aluminum.

[@christurnbull2246]

Could one process sterling silver shot through their silver cell, or is 92.5% not pure enough? I googled this question, but couldn’t find a definitive answer. I expect this might use up electrolyte at an increased rate, but I feel like I could do this? Was hoping you would weigh in on this? Love the channel, thanks for all the great videos!

[@sreetips]

925 will go but the electrolyte would quickly become saturated with copper. The silver going into the anode basket should be up around 98% to 99% for best results. This is true for most electrolytic refining.

[@christurnbull2246]

@@sreetips Thanks for taking the time to answer my question!