Silver Cell Number 2 HARVEST Part1

[@sreetips]

I don’t know why, but somehow the comments keep getting turned off. I’ll keep checking and turn them on so viewers have a chance to leave a comment. I look forward to reading and answering all comments. Thank you!

[@TroubledOnePaydirt]

That has been happening to multiple channels the past couple days. It’s a you tube glitch I guess.

[@the1dud]

Are you ever going to sell the cemented silver in a vial?

[@Clarence_13x]

@@the1dud I’d buy some, with no more presentation than a glass vial with “sreetips” written on it with a sharpie.

[@tiktak8218]

Привет а ты после меди проверяешь раствор на наличие серебра соляной кислотой? Медь не до конца выбивает же серебро из раствора!

[@simpforjinx8022]

can you by chance make an step by step or like tutorial video for something like this?just asking i wanna try it for educational purposes👀

[@LokiLL999]

It's obvious the new power supply is far superior to the older one that you've been using.... The crystal production in cell number 2 looks incredible.....

[@mnelson10000]

I don't think that's a safe conclusion. I think there's some kind of resistance on the connection of the older cell that's less than the resistance on the new cell. Total power (~7-9 watts) is the same on both supplies.

[@milkom666]

i was about to go to bed when i saw the notification. i will be having gold and silver dreams tonight. that would be nice. lol thanks for the episode.

[@ArielleViking]

I love seeing and hearing of the whole process of gold and silver refining. 👍🏻

[@GhostU023]

You could take a few really nice crystal specimens and put it in resin to make a pendant. Could be a nice birthday/mothers day gift

[@jetegtmeier71]

Chemistry creates such vibrant and beautiful colors @11:48 the Blue in that beaker where your cementing out the silver is gorgeous !!!!

[@sreetips]

Blue is my favorite color

[@Me-into-We]

Dude I'm an idiot. I've been so busy over thinking the crystal growth between the 2 cells. That I just noticed the wattage is the same!!😊 I've been reading the two backwards or rather the 1 backwards. Soooooooo your video here. Has enlightened tremendously now. Plus it helps when your correctly reading the meters😅. Can't wait for the harvest. Thanks for not tearing me apart. I'm slow, but I eventually get it.

[@hoyolaamistad1207]

Absolutely love your videos Sreetip. Your info is invaluable and you single handedly sparked my interest in silver harvesting.

[@William_Borgeson]

I still can't get over how fantastic that new power supply is going, it's almost twice the production of the older power supplies. Great choice, we use the HP's in the labs at my hospital, now I have a good idea why. Beautiful crystals, I can't help smile when you say look at that man! Thanks!

[@mnelson10000]

I don't think that's a safe conclusion. I think there's some kind of resistance on the connection of the older cell that's less than the resistance on the new cell. Total power (~7-9 watts) is the same on both supplies.

[@sreetips]

I’m not sure. There are many variables that determine crystal size, shape and growth rate. But I like the new power supply so much, that I’ve ordered another one.

[@debcamp2359]

Thank you for the wonderful video. We love the process and good editing.

[@lylestavast7652]

Be interesting to see the shot screened by size into 2 groups and then run through the same cell with different filter but same grams on same power supply. Curious on some metric about how shot size affects the speed ...

[@carlscattergood4121]

Smaller shot size means larger surface area and so a faster reaction. 😀

[@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730]

the biggest factor for the speed seems to be the cleanliness of the shot, contamination from platinum group metals seems to really gum up the filter faster and really slow down the electrolysis rate

[@lylestavast7652]

@@carlscattergood4121 indeed. but "see" is a level of interest for viewers; HOW MUCH better... ;)

[@kingjameson1318]

My goodness that glass stirring rod in the cement silver bucket 🪣 was as thick as a broomstick 🧹 😂! Awesome video as always ! Thank you sir !

[@richardchayer6597]

IDK but I think its time to retire the #1 power supply. #2 took 7 days and #1 took over 2 weeks to fill the bowl ......

[@sreetips]

Agree. Second HP power supply ordered and in transit.

[@josephcormier5974]

This sir is going to give you more than cell number one this has been very informative and enjoyable video thank you for sharing this with us six stars sir

[@jovelhernandez772]

Once again you made someone binge worthy content. Keep up the awesome content Mr. Sreetips !!!!

[@mermaidopulence8539]

Cell number 2 has just sprouted like crazy with that new power box

[@paulknight1879]

Those silver trees look fantastic and amazing.

[@robertbull2648]

It's wild to think that you might still have silver atoms in your stock pot, from your first refining. Very nice closed loop system.

[@sreetips]

What’s even more astounding is that the gold I’m refining could have been worn by Cleopatra

[@mikeconnery4652]

Always excellent videos. What would two magnets attached to the outside of your silver cell do? One negative and one positive. Maybe no reaction or who knows.

[@celtman1213]

Cell # 2 looks like it is working better than cell #1; have you checked the voltage output of both power supplies? they may read 3.5v on their displays, but is that accurate?

[@sreetips]

Yes, I’ve checked both with a Wavetek meter.

[@Pablo668]

Nice work as always.

[@wedgetailleather]

1:17 that cement silver on the copper looks like some photos I have seen from the titanic! 😂

[@sreetips]

That’s what Mrs sreetips said

[@romar1581]

It would be interesting to see a time lapse video of the silver cell basket while in operation. Just to show how the silver shot is consumed.

[@mouserr]

the production in sc#2 is incredible and makes me even more curious as to whats going on. when you run out of the fine grain shot we' see if that was a major factor or not

[@sreetips]

I refine gold. I use sterling silver to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. The impure silver is added to the anode basket. The anode basket is suspended in the silver nitrate electrolyte. I pass an electric current through the impure silver. The silver dissolves, passes through the Dacron filter, travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte, and deposits on the stainless steel bowl (the cathode). The bowl is connected to the negative pole of the power supply. The process only deposits pure silver on the cathode. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal. Then I repeat the whole thing again.

[@mouserr]

@@sreetips oh i understand but the dramatic production difference between the 2 cells has my inner detective/chemist curious, neither of which have worked together in ages lol the old pws was, from appearance, the same make as the still surviving one so clearly the new pws has something to do with the production uptick but is it just that or some odd combination of new pws and different shot used? as both cells where using the same shot and conditions were roughly the same [no lab control here] the most likely suspect is the pws which was why i asked the other day if it was pure sine or not. i dont know in your set up if it matters but, as i said, in many other applications pure sine produces different results, usually cleaner results, especially in electronics

[@sreetips]

There are many factors that influence crystal size, shape and growth rate. Power supply is a big one. But the others can throw things into a tizzy also.

[@mouserr]

@@sreetips yeah hence the 'no lab control' if you were a different type of channel like nilered itd be cool to run lots of tests and figure out how to repeat consistently but different type of channel so more gold plz&ty if its not burning you out to keep up the content pace that is

[@sreetips]

Here’s a list; corrosion on the leads, depth of electrolyte, silver concentration, copper concentration, silver slimes consistency, filter clog rate, dirty impure silver, dirty anode electrode bar, pressure, temperature, resistance, the list goes on and on. And it really doesn’t matter as long as I get high purity silver in the end.

[@ExtractingMetals]

I did a small refining today with a final yield of 9 grams of 999 Gold. I tried the constants you shared on two previous refining but the inquarted gold always crumbled to a very fine powder. I have much better luck doing the manual calculation and then multiplying by .95 to account for the up to -5%. One final thing I’ve noticed, When doing a boil down to drive off excess nitric, it seems to stop boiling and start bumping once the nitric is gone. It must have something to do with the difference in boiling temps of nitric vs water. That change in how it boils is a huge time saver for me because it is not necessary to take it all the way to a syrup. I think it has to do with the fact that once the nitric is gone, the solution has to heat up from 83C to 100C before it will start boiling again.

[@sreetips]

When my gold crumbles it means that I included something that I thought was gold, but it wasn’t. I’ve been doing this for almost 14 years and the only time that happens is when some of the gold was counted as solid karat gold, but it wasn’t. Could be a piece or two of gold filled or gold plated got counted as karat gold.

[@ExtractingMetals]

@@sreetips maybe I was using the wrong constants from previous videos and did not realize it. Either explanation makes sense. It makes the refining so difficult when the gold crumbles into powder. I assume the larger the batch, the more forgiving it will be to accidentally putting in a gold filled piece.

[@johnmccormick650]

I keep saying it but I love the silver videos way more than the gold videos. The whole process is fascinating, almost magical! 👍

[@sreetips]

I’m finding that the silver cell video get a lot more interest than the gold videos. I think it’s because silver is more affordable to the average person. An ounce of silver is twenty three bucks. An ounce of gold is two thousand.

[@TheBiscuitFactory]

Thank you Mr sree tips for your knowledge and wisdom!

[@D_A86]

11:57 That giant glass rod is awesome 😆

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips. Whis you a lovely weekend.🌷🌷 So nice to start my day whit Sreetips clip🌷 God bless you Mam...God bless you Sir 🌷 Arne

[@sreetips]

Hello Arne - God bless you and your family.

[@arnedalbakk6315]

@@sreetips Thank you Sir 🎸🔥

[@rhetthagstrom5797]

Love these videos. The speed the crystal structures form is startling. Every couple hours they are having to be knocked back. It looks to me like they are growing maybe.75-1.5 inches. Not sure of the actual scale. It’s kinda hard to tell but your hand and the rod do offer some size comparison.

[@TrumpedUp888]

Man-o-man!!! #2 is blasting full of crystal trees! I totally get the steps in dilution and recovery, now. Sure is a lot of time involved. Speaking of time. Im getting the popcorn ready for the #2 harvesting. I can't wait. I sure do appreciate your troubles in recording and explaining each process.

[@sreetips]

My pleasure, thank you

[@digger105337]

Why do you filter the solution before putting it the bucket to cement out? What is in the filter that wouldn't get sorted out during the cementation?

[@sreetips]

Some trash and dirt.

[@dannysearcy3373]

Good morning, where did you get the new power supply? I use the power supply like your original one and it takes forever. Thank you

[@sreetips]

eBay - I just ordered a second HP power supply. Should be here soon.

[@dannysearcy3373]

@sreetips thank you sir, I think I'll do the same, have a great weekend

[@MultiGangus]

Hey, I noticed that. I felt like this video was just for me because I commented on the last one asking where does the cement silver come from. Great video I was just missing how we went from the inquarted gold to the cement silver. Thanks. I have watched your videos for several years and dream of doing this myself. I’m just wondering are you able to give a dollar amount on a start up kit for lack of better words. Meaning the vessels, fume hood, filters chemicals etc not including the base metals obviously. It’s just so interesting and is dear to my heart as a science lover and precious metal fiend

[@sreetips]

The value of the dollar is declining so rapidly, that any number that I put on it, will quickly be obsolete.

[@craigwillis9491]

I've watched your KZbin channel, for 4 or 5 years now and want to make my own silver cell. Your video on How to Build one was great! I've watched it 10 times. I understand most of that process. No problem with assembly of the cell or the procurement of the necessary materials and equipment. What I'm wondering is... if I wanted to strictly stay with silver and not chase down scrap gold for refining,... that would mean that I would not have any cemented silver byproduct to melt into impure silver shot, to feed the anode basket. Is there any issue with taking scrap sterling and copper, which are items that I can and would be willing to chase down. Can I melt 925% sterling + .75% copper by weight and use that to produce the impure silver shot to feed the anode basket? What is the correct ratio? I'm a building contractor by trade so math, formulas and procedural issues come natural. I guess I can mix distilled water and Nitric Acid along with silver shot which I have in stock, to the ratios shown in this video to achieve a acceptable electrolytes boil to supplement the startup of the cell? Looks like you use a 25% silver electrolyte with 3 additional equal parts of distilled water, to achieve a level up 1/2" over underside of the basket? Is there a ratio for this startup mixture?? As I see you add distilled water at will sometimes?? These questions have kept me from moving to the next stage. Finally I'm guessing that the yield of silver crystals would be sufficient to produce the silver electrolyte for future batches as a self sustaining process?? While I may refine scrap gold in the future, I know the commitment to do both G & S would be overwhelming for me at this time. Any answers to the above 4-5 questions would be greatly appreciated! Also, I'll be making a donation to your patron group today. under cswillis, Thanks for keeping me intrigued and entertained at night!!

[@sreetips]

I use enough pure silver dissolved in nitric acid to create a silver nitrate solution that contains about 150g per liter silver concentration. The anode silver must be fairly high purity to begin with. Could possibly run sterling in the anode basket. But with that much copper the electrolyte would quickly become saturated with copper.

[@NeverEvil1]

Holy cow Sreetips, you may have to make a mega-cell for silver recovery. 10 gallon stainless steel Booyah pot, and a full size basket with uncut Dacron filters.

[@sreetips]

Now there’s an idea.

[@hoosier762]

Not sure if it has been asked, but can you skip the silver shot process and introduce it into the anode basket in the powder form or would it clog things up too much?

[@sreetips]

Clogs it

[@grahampike488]

Question, when you make your electrolyte, you use silver crystal to make it. What do you use, when you are starting a cell for the 1st time ? Many thanks

[@sreetips]

Pure silver coins or bars.

[@pipeorganSI]

Hi ! I would like to know if the copper always decomposes to the end in the waste basket where you cement the silver, or if there are still pieces of copper at the bottom of the container between the silver cement. And if bits of copper remain, how do you remove them? By washing the cement and filtering?

[@sreetips]

Yes, the copper goes into solution as the silver comes out of solution. Kind of hard to wrap your mind around this. If every bit of copper gets consumed, then I add more copper until the reaction is complete (no more silver cements out on the copper). When silver stops forming on the copper then I know I’ve got all of it. However, some silver nitrate will get trapped in the cement silver that in the bottom of the bucket. So I stir to release and wait for it to cement out. There will be bits of copper in either the cement silver - that’s unavoidable. I just pick them out and add them pieces of copper to my silver stock pot as I rinse the blue liquid off of the silver powder

[@pipeorganSI]

@@sreetips Thanks for the detailed answer. I was also getting copper residue between the silver cement. Now I prefer to cement the silver by adding distilled water and suspending the copper plates in the container. Sometimes whole layers of silver stick to the copper and it's harder to clean. However, when I thoroughly wash the cement with distilled water and then melt that cement and pour it into water, I get what appears to be very pure silver. Of course, I still purify it with electrolysis.

[@sreetips]

When I first started I did the same thing. But as time passed I didn’t worry much about it. Because I know it will come out in the silver cell.

[@kylerodriguez6047]

Why do you need to add back silver to the electrolyte, as when your recovering the sliver from the shot ?? (P.s love your videos)

[@nikolajwinther5955]

To keep growth rate up. If the electrolyte is depleted from silver the crystal growth will decrease. Also there's a purity issue as well, I think, that copper will begin plating out sooner, when silver saturation is too lov (relative to copper saturation).

[@sreetips]

The sole purpose of the electrolyte is to provide a means for the dissolved silver to travel from the anode basket to the cathode where it deposits (on the cathode) as pure elemental silver. However, some of the silver from the electrolyte gets deposited on the cathode as well, causing the electrolyte to become depleted of silver as the cell operates. That’s why I periodically add more silver nitrate. To both increase the physical level of the electrolyte and to replenish the silver concentration in the electrolyte.

[@sreetips]

Good explanation

[@urbanprospecting]

do you recover the copper from the copper nitrate? or sell the copper nitrate to a larger refiner?

[@sreetips]

No

[@Felix_Geoguessr]

Could you make a Video about using the Clement silver to make shot, would be interesting to see

[@sreetips]

I have several videos of that posted on my channel. But I’ve got a ton of cement silver that needs to be melted into shot. So I’ll probably post another video on that soon.

[@ba-uy7ft]

Bonjour.merci pour les videos. combien de temps pour remplir de crystal d Argent le recipient ? .merci d avance

[@sreetips]

Ten to fifteen days.

[@MrPmtmedic]

Senior, Gold refining question. Can you use the impure silver shot to inquart the gold?

[@sreetips]

You could but it’s not recommended because karat gold contains platinum group metals, especially white gold. Those PGMs will tend to follow the silver and build up if used over and over to inquart gold. This could cause problems with pgm contamination in the silver cell.

[@MrPmtmedic]

@@sreetips tyvm

[@schwarg1337]

Dang it really is Silver season for sreetips. I can see how you let all the cement silver build up as this is seems much more complex than refining gold. Can't wait to see the smelting.

[@sreetips]

Silver takes a lot more time, it’s much more bulky, and it’s not as valuable as gold. For these reasons I tend to get behind on refining the silver. But I’m forging ahead until I get some of it done. Before I run out of time on earth!

[@kennyarmer4092]

You have a dandy operation going on here, I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos!

[@rcgusto2427]

The cementing silver on copper looks like the wreckage of the titanic.

[@sreetips]

Mrs sreetips says the same thing,

[@GokouZWAR]

Second comment… have you ever tried to use the impure silver powder to inquart the gold rather than using sterling silver? I mean I’m sure you have a way to get more sterling silver but maybe you could make use of the silver powder to use in gold refining instead? Maybe that could be done for people who are on upstart who can’t find silver as easily?

[@sreetips]

Not recommended. PGMs will hold up and cause problems in the silver cell.

[@ChadKWDL]

Do you recover the copper from the silver cement bucket?

[@sreetips]

Yes, it gets cemented on iron.

[@ChadKWDL]

Thank you so much for sharing, this is basically modern day alchemy.

[@TheDragonseason]

​@@sreetipsafter that you could cement out the iron onto uranium 😂

[@mikeconnery4652]

Thank you, I remember, rebar.

[@sreetips]

Won’t work, iron is way above uranium in the reactivity series of metals.

[@berndruckert2636]

I still ask myself the same question about why you should use pure silver for the electrolyte solution. I searched but couldn't find a reason. Actually it should work just as well with cement silver. The only thing that speaks against it would be third metals. But you can prepare the new solutions with cement silver that you obtained from the old solution. Than you have only copper. You would save so much time.

[@nikolajwinther5955]

Cement silver is less pure so the electrolyte wouldn't last as long before getting saturated with copper meaning he would have to harvest less silver, earlier (more often) meaning more work with the increased risk of contamination of the crystals. If he didn't care about purity he could do as you suggest. But he does, so the way he does it is the more sensible way. With more cells it also doesn't matter as much as there's plenty of crystal feedstock for the electrolyte.

[@sreetips]

When I reboot the cell, I prefer everything to be pristine. Using pure silver crystal, from a previous harvest, is the way I learned it from folks that have a lot more experience than I do. You could use cement silver to get the cell running for the first time. Actually, I think that’s what I did when I first got started almost 14 years ago. But using cement silver to make electrolyte every time is not recommended due to contamination issues. It seems like you’re taking three steps forward, and one step back when using pure silver crystal for the electrolyte. But as with anything to do with precious metals refining, it’s never cheap, easy, or quick.

[@deshazo_henry]

Hey I saw one of your shorts the other day that was awesome, apparently that's the new revenue stream for KZbin videos.

[@mnelson10000]

It looks like the new cell is producing significantly faster. It doesn't make sense to me that it would be the power supply... 9 watts is 9 watts (3 volts at 3 amps). There's got to be some kind of resistance on the connection of cell one that's lesser on cell two. I wonder if there is some kind of coating building up on the bowl on cell 1? It would be very interesting to see some resistance reading at various points between the connection terminals of the power supplies all the way to the bowls! Or maybe swapping the supplies to see if the growth increase moves to cell one... that would prove whether or not it's truly the power supply that's making the difference.

[@sreetips]

Agree, it’s probably in the anode filter. When it gets clogged with slimes the resistance goes way up. Resistance goes up, crystal growth rate goes down. Another phenomenon is that when the slimes clog that filter, fewer silver ions are passing through the Dacron filter into the electrolyte, the silver in the electrolyte will deposit faster, thus depleting the electrolyte of silver at a faster rate. And the shot is a little dirtier. So it clogs faster. Electrolyte silver concentration. Copper concentration. Corrosion on the leads. Electrolyte depth, it goes on and on. There are many variables to consider. And they all influence crystal size, shape, and growth rate.

[@MrThorp1]

those annodes areally getting " chewed up " now that youre burying them with shot. most certainly means more contact. my guess is that is helping production times considerably.

[@sreetips]

The anode electrode bars will fail in about a year of continuous use. Either by being consumed due to contact with electrolyte in the anode filter. Or from bi-metallic corrosion between the copper wire cast into the pure silver bar.

[@mikeconnery4652]

Maybe electroplate the gold on the copper wire in the anode and silver plate copper wire to the connector.

[@T-GotGold]

I have not seen you in a long time I miss these videos of yours

[@offgridstruggles7504]

how do you know when all the silver is out of the anode basket?

[@sreetips]

Visual inspection

[@8rlx0]

Did it take you long time of refining scrap gold to accumulate those buckets of cement silver?

[@sreetips]

I’ve been refining gold for going on 14years. Gold is so easy to refine in just a few hours. Silver takes a lot more time and effort and is much less valuable. For these reasons, I have a tendency to ignore the silver bucket. And it builds up on me. I currently have about a hundred pounds of cement silver that must be melted, poured into shot, and run through the silver cell.

[@JoshPeck-c6l]

Hey Sreetips, I want to say thank you for these videos. I have learned so much from them. I am going to recover the silver from circut breakers. The ones I have are around 40-60% silver. Can I just disolve them in nitric acid and then cement the silver out on copper? Thanks for any advice you might offer in this endeavor!!!

[@sreetips]

The only problem is tungsten. Sometimes they will contain tungsten. It’s soluble in nitric, but it’s below copper in the reactivity series so it will cement out with the silver. You’ll be able to tell if the silver is a bark grey to black color. Another option is to convert the dissolved silver/tungsten solution into silver chloride with HCl. Then do a silver chloride conversion with lye and sugar.

[@tadymason]

I’m sure it’s somewhat private, but I am curious what the weight/ entirety of your precious metals collection looks like these days. A regular Fort Knox perhaps?

[@keen1957]

Can’t keep up??? Ha ha what a problem to have!😁😎😁

[@antoniobalmorac3761]

Good job

[@numbersabcdefg]

How often do you check the anodes? Every 30 minutes?

[@sreetips]

Whenever I’m near the cells

[@benediktheidland4281]

Please Mr. Sreetips, show us when the Slver hits the Anode.

[@sreetips]

It causes a short circuit between the anode basket and the cathode (stainless bowl). The current flow spikes, creates lots of heat, and burns a hole in the Dacron filter bag. If it’s allowed to continue, the bag will rupture, and release the slimes that have accumulated in the filter, into the pure silver crystal and ruin the batch. I put a 3amp fuse in the circuit when the crystal gets close to the anode, like it is now.

[@jamesd4013]

great video

[@ericbeeman8717]

Have u tried a tall pot instead of a short bowl maybe them ud be able run the cell longer with that being in a tall pot

[@sreetips]

Critical distance of 4 to 4.5 inches between anode and cathode.

[@johnkimberl4222]

That silver sure Is beautiful

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Sir..How much sterling do you put in the basket before you harvest the crystal? I mean...Hove many gram of sterling🔥 Arne

[@nikolajwinther5955]

It's not sterling. It's more pure (98+). Sterling is 92+. The cementing on copper takes care of most of the copper content. The exact amount will probably vary because electrolyte silver content is a factor as well. But on average it will be harvest weight +1,5% + whatever is left over in the filter.

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Thank you...I should now that Mr Sreetips 🔥

[@arnedalbakk6315]

I mean. Thank you Nicolai 😂

[@sreetips]

I weighed the new anode filter when it was full of impure silver shot in a recent video. Now the size and shape of the shot will be different and influence the weight. But in this video, the one where I weighed the basket full of shot before placing it in the cell, those shot were very small and compact, making a dense pack of impure silver. The weight of the impure silver shot, minus the weight of the container and filter, was about 400 grams.

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Ok🌹 Thank you Sir. Arne

[@StefanShorko]

Good work team.

[@CasutaCuRetete]

You need a larger rectangular stainless steel bowl, increase the voltage to 4.5 volts, try pouring impure silver into the enlarged and putting it in the Filter, I think it will work better. The new source works over the old one,

[@sreetips]

There’s a critical distance between the anode and cathode: 4 to 4.5 inches. A circular cathode maintains an equal distance between the anode and the cathode. The voltage, according to the pro refiners that I learned from, must be kept at 3.5 volts DC. And the current is allowed to wonder and fall where it may.

[@mcjdubpower]

Sunday mornt, Cobbee, cighie, Sreetips silver haul, perfik 😎👌💥💯❤️🍺

[@Capitaine.Albator]

What do you do with the waste copper solution? Is there a way to remove the copper from the solution? With Iron? P.s.: we need more miss Sreetips. It’s so lovely seeing you both together ❤. Thanks for all the amazing content 👍🏻✌🏻🇨🇦

[@sreetips]

Yes, I cement the copper on angle iron in my waste treatment bucket. Mrs sreetips is out doing what she does; finding more gold and silver for me to refine.

[@mr.monitor.]

What happens if a crystal touches the anode filter basket?

[@sreetips]

It could burn a hole in the filter and release all the insoluble impurities from the filter, into the cell, and ruin the batch of pure silver.

[@mr.monitor.]

Reminds me a thunder egg looking in cell #2

[@scotthultin7769]

First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 😅

[@GokouZWAR]

Did you have audio problems on this or is it me?

[@sreetips]

Yes, there were some audio glitches. I’m still using a wired transceiver connect to my iPhone camera. If touch that wire in the least, the sound gets interrupted. It’s a real pain. I need to go Bluetooth and get rid of that wire.

[@paulslund1]

So this question is going to seem really wacky but here goes: I believe you mentioned in a previous video that you had read/heard that having some copper in the silver nitrate can promote the growth of bigger crystal in the silver cell. Have you ever considered using the silver nitrate created from removing the silver from enquarted gold.. instead of cementing it out? I"m guessing there's likely too much copper/other metals in there.. but could be an interesting experiment (perhaps at the risk of ruining your silver though)?

[@sreetips]

When I harvested cell number 1, the electrolyte had much copper because it was the second use. And that harvest was incredible. Those crystals were fat and chunky and well formed. I believe this was due to the presence of the higher concentration of the copper.

[@paulslund1]

@@sreetips So could be worth an experiment to try using the blue silver nitrate you get after dissolving the silver and base metals from your enquarted gold directly in a silver cell?

[@sreetips]

None of the professional refiners that I learned from recommended that. If there’s palladium in the inquarted gold, then it will follow the silver. The palladium could go-deposit with the silver. But contaminated silver is not the concern. You can have much palladium co-deposit and you wouldn’t notice until it’s around 10% Palladium is forty times more valuable than silver.

[@paulslund1]

@@sreetips So if I'm understanding this correctly.. palladium that is cemented out with the silver, and included in the impure silver shot will not follow the silver as the silver crystals form.. but if there is palladium in the contaminated silver nitrate, it could then follow the silver (out of the solution) as the crystals form? Did I get that right?

[@sreetips]

If the electrolyte has free nitric, and if there is palladium in the impure shot, then the free nitric could dissolve the palladium in the impure shot (because palladium is soluble in nitric - the only one of the six sister metals in the platinum group that is) and leach into the electrolyte. If this happens then the palladium could co-deposit with the silver. I can tell if palladium is in my electrolyte because it will turn green instead of blue. A little palladium in the electrolyte is not a problem. But higher concentrations could begin to co-deposit and contaminate the silver. But, the palladium is more valuable than the silver by forty times. So when you sell your silver, you’re selling palladium at the price of silver.

[@scottywalker701]

Do you have a notebook with all your experiments?

[@sreetips]

Yes

[@dustinscroggins3382]

Sweet video, sreetips tv back in action Lol

[@antoniobalmorac3761]

Why the color of the electolyt change into bleu?

[@antoniobalmorac3761]

@@user23867 thanks

[@sreetips]

Copper in solution is blue

[@SpartanONegative]

I enjoy the color blue 🧞‍♂️ Thank you for taking time for us Sreetips 🤠 🏴‍☠️ Excellent Work 🐉 I have silver being delivered in 5 minutes Sreetips or it's already here😮 I'm making lunch for my son and myself. We just got back from the range. 22 revolver, 9mm strike fire,Henry Lever action, 5.56 Colt A4, 7.62x51 AR10 🤠 God Bless my Friend

[@sreetips]

Nice arsenal!

[@mattlevesque5927]

That silver crystal is so shiny!!!!!!

[@justinhayes7]

How can one contact you about refining services

[@sreetips]

I don’t offer any refining services. This is my hobby

[@shannonlbaker]

Very cool !!

[@sreetips]

Dukes!!!

[@someguy-k2h]

Why were you taking this out of the end product when you have kilos of cement silver (refined product)? The purity couldn't have made that much of a difference for simple electrolyte solution.

[@sreetips]

That’s the way I was taught by pro refiners with lots more experience than I have.

[@SpartanONegative]

Sreetips, where I plan on gold mining, it's erosion caused by weather, so , virgin ground. River beds, river banks eroded recently so to say. It's crazy by classifying the material I'm running, I subconsciously do not see ancient artifacts. Pottery, arrow heads, tile, bolts 😂 18"-36" we don't have a lot of top soil over the basalt bedrock in Wisconsin. So an inch of dirt is a 100-250 years worth of history. .

[@SILVERBROTHER72]

Why can't you just put the cemented silver directly into the anode basket?

[@sreetips]

Because it clogs the filter and current flow drops off rapidly. Shot is the best medium.

[@SILVERBROTHER72]

@@sreetips How can you make the silver shot smaller with more surface area to speed up recovery?

[@sreetips]

I don’t know.

[@gnomespace]

The watch thing is cool.

[@floydsallee2041]

Well, number 2 looks to be doing better than 1. I think that the new power supply is far superior to the original.

[@sreetips]

I like the HP power supply so much that I’ve ordered another.

[@nandobrowm6070]

Top

[@canonicaltom]

What a problem to have! :D

[@JohnDoe-fd6wf]

Seems like a pretty nice problem to have!

[@sreetips]

I’ll take it!

[@shaneyork300]

I'll bet you're alot busier with 2 cells going at once?

[@sreetips]

They keep up at night

[@bascodelagamma]

👍👍

[@PapaKryptoss]

Is this a hobby or a business. How much silver you have hoarded

[@sreetips]

This is my hobby. I don’t refine other peoples material only stuff that my wife and I find at local sales. I refine gold. I use sterling silver to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. The silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. The impure silver is added to the anode basket. The anode basket is suspended in the silver nitrate electrolyte. I pass an electric current through the impure silver. The silver dissolves, passes through the Dacron filter, travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte, and deposits on the stainless steel bowl (the cathode). The bowl is connected to the negative pole of the power supply. The process only deposits pure silver on the cathode. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal. Then I repeat the whole thing again.

[@sreetips]

I’ve lost rack of the silver that I have. Can’t put a number on it. But I do have three buckets, about 33 pounds each, of impure cement silver that I need to get melted up and ran through my silver cells.

[@ernestedwards4073]

67th 👍! Hi EVERYONE

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Hello 🌷

[@youssefzouine8191]

I have a raw stone containing iridium. I am looking for a buyer

[@sreetips]

Good luck. The big refiners that I sell to don’t give credit for rhodium, or iridium.

[@youssefzouine8191]

@@sreetips Thanks for paying attention. I am from Morocco, so this is difficult

[@sreetips]

I’ve been to Tangier when I was in the Navy.

[@youssefzouine8191]

@@sreetips Ah Aaa That's why I see you as being disciplined. in general. I wish you good luck and good health ♥️

[@sreetips]

Thank you, same goes for you and your family.

[@PCMcGee1]

Have you ever watched your own videos at 1.75x speed?

[@sreetips]

Yes

[@PerforatedPaperboy]

You’d make a great teacher but really how you just repeat the same steps with every video has really cemented into my brain how your process works…. Your repetitiveness is the copper that cements out my silver braincells 😂

[@sreetips]

Reinforcement, I used to train the men under me on the ship. I had thirty men. I’d take half of them on Tuesday down into chiefs berthing compartment where it was quite away from everybody. I’d grille them on the engineering plant, on Thursday I’d get the other half down there. I used repetition to train these men on our engineering plant. When the inspectors came aboard, they told the Captain that my men were the “best trained men in the waterfront”. Got me a job on the Commodores Staff for my last four years in the Navy.

[@THEOSTHEREVELATOR]

I was here at 150 views

[@kimberlynolz5725]

Dang

[@user-cm9ok3dv2e]

Is it necessary to remove free nitric acid when replacing copper pieces in silver nitrate solution?

[@sreetips]

You don’t want lots of free nitric, it will needlessly consume the copper. But a small amount of free nitric is needed for the cementing action to take place.

[@user-cm9ok3dv2e]

@@sreetips How can I control a small amount of free acid?

[@sreetips]

I heat my solution until no more fumes and some undissolved silver remains and won’t dissolve any further. Safe to conclude all the nitric is gone at that point.

[@user-cm9ok3dv2e]

@@sreetips thank you very much ~😊👍