Silver Cell Harvest and Restart

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[@Sovereignty420]

Just discovered your channel today after KZbin's algorithm decided that today was a great day to check out your silver cell clean out from 2020. Enjoyed that video and now I'm going through your entire channel. Solid content and I enjoy how you explain what you are doing and why. Science is always fun in my eyes.

[@sreetips]

Welcome. Thank you!

[@MrRebar15]

*sreetips* Bravo well done, that 3 hour time lapse was amazing to watch. Thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. God Bless.

[@tomahawkmissile241]

Love to see a bung hole get filled with so much silver that is will not drain

[@adhawk5632]

Love the time lapse bit, it would be wicked to see a full cycle of growth, a lot a camera work and setup, but the results would be like a nature documentary 👌👍🇦🇺

[@scottwigham]

It doesn't matter how many times i watch you do these processes, be it the crystal silver recovery or pure gold refining, I still find them massively interesting, thank you for the content.

[@SubjectiveFunny]

Was excited to see, once again, the end of this process. Thanks for letting us come along with you on these journeys.

[@fieldie]

Just never gets old! I could watch you harvest the silver cell every time!

[@greogewestmann4913]

A timelapse video of the crystals growing would be awesome. And thanks again for sharing, I've learned a lot.

[@shywatcher1961]

awesome silver cell harvest once again. that is some beautiful looking silver crystals. thank you and i look forward to the next video. have a great day and stay Blessed

[@raytruesdell7873]

That’s cool watching the crystals growing but great job 👍🇺🇸

[@kurtremislettmyr7108]

I must say, I'm truly impressed with your work.

[@ennetttrue]

My neighbors love my fume hood..best times they have ever had..lol

[@viscountalpha]

shared your video with a friend during my work hour. he was impressed. those silver cells looks so pretty.

[@keiphillips7648]

Feels like an organism, complex cycles of rinse and repeat, so nothings wasted. I’m not explaining that well. But incredible videos. Me and my brothers watch your vids, you should make a night time video for sleep/meditation lol, such chilled vibes.

[@HiwasseeRiver]

That's good looking material. I've worked on large scale Ag & Au refining and your crystals look great.

[@andrewadams9686]

I'd love to see you make big silver bars, like a bunch with all of that pure silver! Your ability to purify a bunch with the electrolyte is super cool!

[@pullyoursocksup6302]

He made a 2kg bar once... and immediately dropped it into the dirt 🤣

[@JESTAz]

Excellent crystals Sreetips, you always amaze me with your videos and explanations. Thank you 🙏

[@SuperLaplander]

Thank you sir for your excellent explanation! The time lapse was great, please do more. The blue solution and the glistening silver crystals is simply mesmerizing!

[@adamtheninjasmith2985]

Nice! I just got my silver crystal yesterday and it is absolutely stunning! Thank you so much for the silver and the videos 👍

[@pabblo6103]

I built mine and will put it in service this weekend! Can't wait to see the crystals.

[@bobcansee]

I love the silver refining process.

[@JSGilbert]

I suppose I’m like a lot of viewers. I have no idea what you’re actually doing, but I love these videos.

[@j.jasonsantilli297]

I remember when the silver cell was in glass jars with smaller crystals, come along way, street tips really got the silvercel working spectacularly! Have a good weekend brother!

[@genehasenbuhler2594]

love looking at the crystalized structure- like tiny little silver Christmas tree's growing sideways!😁👍

[@wow-nn3tu]

Thankyou for the time and effort with these videos.

[@benstrait333]

Very interesting series, thanks. I had no idea that silver crystallized like that!

[@tassovarvarikos384]

I never get tired of these videos! Thank you SREETIPS!

[@trentonevans8574]

Excellent production on the run I like the way you mixed it up and ran through it really helps out and I think it would be a great idea to slow Mo the crystal growth lapse time thank you so much for your time and patience

[@JohnCampbell-ho8qz]

I don't cement the wash water, I filter it and use it to refill the cell as it dehydrates. It replenishes the levels and silver concentration without needing more electrolyte, since electrolyte and silver is in the wash water. I love watching your vids Sreetips, it's fun to watch how everyone uses the same concepts in refinement, with small nuances of method and strategy. 🙂

[@pullyoursocksup6302]

Is there an advantage to maintaining the higher concentration? Or is the slight dilution negligible to the end result?

[@JohnCampbell-ho8qz]

@@pullyoursocksup6302 the silver concentration needs to stay higher than the copper concentration, in the electrolyte to prevent the copper from plating out in the cell. If the copper concentration gets higher than the silver content, the copper plates out of solution instead of silver.

[@pullyoursocksup6302]

@@JohnCampbell-ho8qz Right, I see. So basically even if you're adding only small amounts of electrolyte you're offsetting the Cu in solution regardless, and the dilution with distilled water has no impact? Is that accurate? I think I read somewhere once the solution reaches ~60g/L Cu there's problems. Might've even been sreetips.

[@sreetips]

The electrolyte loses silver as the cell operates. It plates out on the cathode. I’ve seen electrolyte so devoid of silver that I couldn’t get any to precipitate when I added HCl.

[@pullyoursocksup6302]

@@sreetips Oh wow. Makes sense.

[@djcbanks]

Man, video never does the beauty of pure silver crystals (or gold bars for that matter) justice. I wish everyone could get to see them in person. The silver crystals shine like diamonds, it’s spectacular. That being said, it still is an awesome site to behold. Refining precious metals is one of those things that is so fulfilling for me. It’s very rewarding… like having a vegetable garden but much more costly. Haha.

[@pittuk6500]

as usual, pleasure to watch your work - i appreciate no bs, no clickbaits no exaggerations so prevalent on YT.

[@acidburner420]

Quality video like always. Beautiful job on the silver cell

[@yourdrummer2034]

This is one of the coolest things and brilliant too. It's time consuming but relatively effortless and the end result is beautiful silver crystals that look really cool and worth much more than it originally did!👍

[@jamesway5036]

That is an amazing process. Thank you for sharing.

[@pank524]

Another sweet video so glad I found ur channel thanks again for sharing

[@burriedhistory]

That was a so good and easy-to-understand explanation of the whole cycle/process of silver purification.

[@keiphillips7648]

Thank you for your gift. Videos are a real treat

[@jasonwilliam2125]

Awesome. So happy you are sharing all of this with us.

[@chariotrider4656]

Absolutely gorgeous crystals!

[@Antonowskyfly]

You’re welcome. Excellent production. Always interesting. Thank you!

[@daviddavis703]

Gooood afternoon from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great day! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@kennyarmer4092]

Very interesting to watch your videos, thank you for sharing!!

[@rupertlongfellow1388]

Tip: if you get a real bowl scraper with a flexible, rounded edge, you'll have that bowl clean in 10 seconds!

[@raymonddesrosiers6762]

I think this is completely amazing 👏

[@Reasonist]

That’s awesome how in the time lapse you can see a fluid current taking place🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@sreetips]

I seen that. Only visible with the time lapse.

[@spinnerr]

Thank you Sir for another interesting Silver process routine ..

[@marknlynette6623]

Love you videos! Thanks for sharing!!

[@shaneyork300]

I'd have to try to find my prediction but I believe that I predicted that you'd be at 250k subs around the first of 2023 (I made that prediction when you hit your 100k subs), however I think you'll shatter that!! CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SUCCESS MY FRIEND!!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@sreetips]

It’s coming on strong. I’m truly blessed and thankful for what has been granted to me. Thanks Shane.

[@fredrichardson9761]

Really amazing process you have going there - the shot itself looks really amazing with gold and copper colors - not sure how much of that is the camera. Really love the forest of crystal you grew - it's surprising how good a substrate that stainless bowl is for silver crystal - it just works amazingly well. You could spend a minute or two zooming a small camera through the crystal forest after you've drained off the electrolyte and it would be amazing to watch. Fantastic video! Now you have to pour a really big silver bar! 👍

[@ricknelson947]

I enjoy watching your mythical process. Yes a long period time lapse of silver crystals growing would be awesome. Maybe even submit it to daily dose of internet.

[@stevezozuk9622]

Hello Sreetips , great show and tell today . I really appreciate the efforts you go through to make great content . Thanks for keeping yourself safe . See you soon my friend . Cheers

[@trevatrevs]

i love time lapes and would like more please

[@cancer_sucks]

almost like a storm in a bowl

[@matthewdroz5613]

Thank you for these educational videos! Where did you learn to do all of this? I would love to try my hand at some of these processes someday. For now, I'll just enjoy your content!

[@sreetips]

I learned on the goldrefiningforum.com

[@gossman75]

Awesome! I was looking for such a video earlier. Well done!

[@billiehydrick6417]

Thank you for sharing this my friend

[@ThePalatineHill]

that blue solution be lookin like forbidden coolaid

[@jackwarneckii4406]

Thanks for making this!

[@mitchwolff13]

I'm so excited to see this video 2 weeks later!

[@flyinpolack6633]

that is really cool. thanks for vid!

[@shannonlbaker]

This is fabulous !!

[@sreetips]

Shannon! Thank you

[@BADHIGEEN]

Can't wait to see that time laps.

[@josephpecoul6532]

I hoping for a video of your silver process your mentioned in this video. Thanks for the video Sreetips.

[@CrimFerret]

The silver crystals look really nice. I imagine you can get sterling scrap silver for far less than the spot price for pure. The one downside to the crystals, is you'd have to keep them in something airtight. With that much surface area, I'd imagine they'd oxidize pretty quickly otherwise.

[@bdub2622]

That is awesome!

[@seanthompson6720]

looks like the silver grows on the fine scratches in the stainless bowl, I wonder if you could scratch a design into the bowl to make some cool crystal formations

[@iknklst]

The Silver Cell Slimes is going to be the name of my glam-punk rock band.

[@sreetips]

I think “Three Nines Fine” is a good one.

[@iknklst]

@@sreetips Sounds like a good chick band name, for sure.

[@spamaccount6460]

Gold looks amazing, don't get me wrong - but I just find the silver crystals to be the most beautiful.

[@showmeyourkitties]

I have some really dope long crystals, and I would 100% buy some bigger ones from you. I love collecting KZbin Channel silver.

[@jasonmeachen4187]

Please remake the connection from the power supply to anode @the joint i see a lots of corrosion the end of the pure silver connection. Might do u good. Love the content keep on keeping on. 👍

[@remzo500]

Awesome thanks for sharing : )

[@lionelboulay9732]

i remember mention of adding a bubler in the silver cell ' ( pobably throo a rubber pipe ) to prevent short cuts from rapid forming silver crystal hiting the anode basket , but i wonder if itwould change the crystal shape

[@HiTechFX]

Awesome!

[@radiocomponent]

Считаю самый хороший способ очистки серебра электролизом в нитрате серебра. I think the best way to clean silver is by electrolysis in silver nitrate.

[@marcoallin]

the whole time i thought it was the silver from the gold refining, i will rewatch this series because im missing parts still , thank you

[@sreetips]

Hold it, the silver liquid is from gold refining. But I do add chunks of raw sterling directly into the silver jars to consume the excess nitric

[@doitforthamaytus]

That's right, you mentioned the gas fired furnace on your last video. I'm excited to see it in action.

[@sreetips]

Probably crank it up very soon because I’m running out of feed stock

[@rickdienel3349]

Use an aquarium bubbler as an agitator

[@MerchantMarineGuy]

Awesome! Have you considered using any of the pure Ag in your scrap gold inquarting vice sterling? Why do you use sterling when it takes so much more nitric to dissolve the Cu?

[@sreetips]

Because I refine silver too. Adding the silver crystal to inquart would be a step in the wrong direction,

[@35THIRTYFIVE]

Amazing again 10/10

[@scotthultin7769]

24👍's up thanks for sharing

[@nathancaton8813]

Question: Since surface passivation is what makes SS steel stainless, do you scratch the surface of the bowl before starting the cell? I noticed the lines where the silver starts to crystallize when you initiated the silver crystallization.

[@sreetips]

No

[@josephcormier5974]

Very nice five stars

[@Chipz0r]

The copper on the connection is starting to tarnish , over time this will case a bad connection , maybe when you harvest your cell , use some wire wool or something to clean the copper on the connection to ensure a good connection.

[@kashmirgoat]

Hey sreetips, I see you use dacron bags and trim them down. Why not make a bigger basket? More utilizable bag cm2 and fewer recharges needed. Not that I can complain, great work! Awesome vids.

[@derekagnew4059]

Hi Sreetips, have you ever thought of using a bigger cathode, say a Stainless Steel stockpot and a larger anode basket to get a larger harvest of Silver Crystal? I think that would be an amazing video and I know you are more than capable of it

[@edwardmccarthy4505]

I have a whole machine from Eco-Goldex for sale that will drown every problem.. Complete gold and precious metal recovery.. Mr Sreetips cant even thank me for the gold and palladium I sent to him... Not even with 1 gram of silver from his cell...

[@sreetips]

I’ll be constructing a second silver cell - watch for the video

[@nicevideomancanada]

Pore out the liquid then pore in some coloured Epoxy Resin.

[@sledgenwedge]

Great video sir always enjoy your content, from what I've heard when you're running DC you want braided copper not solid something about greater surface area and more electrons flow. Unless you've already tried it and found it to be lacking. AC solid DC braided

[@JohnCampbell-ho8qz]

I used twisted wires, for mine. It does deliver more consistent current flow and steady amperage vs a solid wire. why? don't know, but the braided wire idea does have some merit

[@sledgenwedge]

I know sreetips is always looking for the best results, from what I see braided copper wire and or stranded copper wire is typically better for d.c. specifically because of surface area. Hardly any room for improvement in his process but every little detail counts in chemistry evidently.

[@TheWolfster001]

Thank you for sharing.. I have learned so much, just watching and also doing further research on what you are doing.. Seems you go into more detail then people being paid to teach it.. LOL.. Once my wife & I move into our new home, I am thinking hard on doing it.. I have tons of e-waste (bits & pieces from very old computers) also the house is in the country and garage far enough from the house that the fumes will not harm anyone.. Would you do a video on how to setup a proper ventilation booth?? Also would filtering the fumes through a water tank reduce any pollutants??

[@sreetips]

I’ve got still pictures in a video of my fume hood installation. I don’t know about filtering it through water. No experience with that.

[@michaelgreen9866]

Great harvest, when you remove the crystals, do you ever come across any of them with a silver foil appearance on the back of some of them ? Again, thanks for all you do !

[@sreetips]

I’ve never seen foils in the silver cell crystals

[@michaelgreen9866]

@@sreetips Thanks for the reply, maybe I have the cell running too hot.

[@jamisontaylor878]

Excellent video thank you 😊 the problem I'm running into is buying enough silver to keep it moving at a reasonable price

[@sreetips]

I wouldn’t sell it. If you don’t need the paper to buy food or pay rent then just keep the silver.

[@jamisontaylor878]

@@sreetips sorry I meant buying junk silver refining and stacking my friend

[@buckwildebeest398]

This is what's cool.

[@ZoonCrypticon]

@15:25 That greenish solution looks like Iron(II) nitrate contaminations, but I guess it would not harm the other process of cementing out the silver nitrate with copper, as it would stay in solution.

[@sreetips]

Palladium in solution is yellow. Copper is blue. Blue and yellow make green

[@fatmirsejdini5992]

Waiting for him to say " pure elemental silver" and graaams

[@BattleChemist]

Excellent video, as always, Senior Chief. The thought crossed my mind... have you tried making the silver shot directly from the Sterling at 90% Ag/10% Cu? I realize getting it to 98-99% Ag is a huge improvement, but I wonder if the extra effort and cost of the Nitric Acid is worth it. Not sure if perhaps that extra 8-9% Cu would overload the silver cell's electrolyte quickly and start causing copper to plate out with the silver... thus wasting the point of the silver cell.

[@DiverCTH]

The sterling is used as feed stock for inquartation of his karet gold. The shot is the result of processing the gold refining waste. As far as the HNO3 is concerned, I've asked if he'd do an experimental run of the NurdRage method of thermally decomposing and distilling the dilute Cu(NO3)2 into Cu(OH)2 and dilute HNO3, but he wasn't interested.

[@alanpecherer5705]

You have the right idea/suspicion. If you do that, you will triple or quadruple your nitric acid consumption AND risk polluting your silver which one assumes you want to get out at .999+ (otherwise you'd just keep your sterling scrap as it is, as found) Watch this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXScfYJrjNOorLc if you want to know the details. Copper in solution (inside the cell, as the electrolyte, consumes the nitric acid about 3x as fast as silver. So if you can get your feedstock down to 99% silver/1% copper (after the dissolve > cement out step) instead of 92%/8% Ag/Cu as in raw sterling you are way, way ahead of the game in terms of how much nitric you ultimately use.

[@justinm6379]

Thank you for all the videos! I’ve made a couple silver cells before but I’ve got a weird electrolyte color this time. It’s dark green. Any thoughts on what could be causing this green color? I’m using shot from sterling silverware.

[@sreetips]

Green could mean nickel, iron, or palladium.

[@justinm6379]

@@sreetips Thank you. Appreciate the quick reply

[@richardyates8670]

Hello I really enjoy watching your videos I learn so much thank you for all you do. I was wondering do you have step by step instructions for how to do your silver cell refining im interested in trying this myself

[@sreetips]

I made a small 1 liter glass cell. Type “silver cell” into search block on my channel to narrow it down.

[@svjackal8595]

Is there a specific electrolyte you need to use for the silver cell or are there multiple choices you can use? If so can you "point me in the right direction" of a chart showing what works for various metals?

[@sreetips]

I use silver nitrate 150 grams of pure silver per liter of electrolyte concentration

[@filonin2]

Have you thought about pressing the cement silver into a solid pellet using a press? Might save money and time over having to melt it into shot. It might not clog the filter.

[@sreetips]

No had not thought about tgat

[@scott2296]

Today is Earth Day, always a good day to do some environmentally friendly refining, Hahahahahahaha!!!

[@sreetips]

I had no idea. Happy Earth Day!

[@ruffanuff]

Sreetrips reminds me of the guy off Breaking bad lol. Cept hes cooking up silver crystal, instead of meph.

[@disgruntledtoons]

At today's spot price, about $1150. Not bad for a day's work. I notice that the silver shot looks like Cracker Jack.

[@charleswise5570]

Sreetips, would it work if instead of the piece of plastic holding your anoid basket, you use a piece of acrylic? You would be able to watch the silver crystal growing, and filming would be easier. That would be really cool!

[@sreetips]

No, moisture condenses on it and obscures the view.

[@charleswise5570]

@@sreetips Thank you for your response. I appreciate it.