Silver Plated Wire Refining Part2

[@matthewf1979]

I’ve seen all of your videos and I can’t get enough of the refining! Thank you so much for making these videos for us.

[@sreetips]

Excellent

[@pauliewalnuts5241]

Same here Matt!

[@Jrny32]

Holy hell, I just finished the first and realized it was A series. Thanks for the awesome videos all the time.

[@kayneF1251]

It never gets old looking at the silver crystals , I love it.

[@josephcormier5974]

Nice recovery makes me want to do my silver copper wire thank you for another fine video two thumbs

[@ChristopherAlexander22]

Excited for part 2 of this silver plate extraction video. Thanks for the gold documentary referral, started watching part 1 last night, pretty awesome.

[@shaneyork300]

I remember well when you put it in the 5 gallon bucket and when you put the sugar in it, it went everywhere! Have a Great Day My Friend!!

[@sreetips]

It’s terribly messy. I prefer the silver cell. Less waste, less work, high purity.

[@user-lb8do4ew6k]

Thanks for going out on a limb & trying the sulfuric acid route, even though it was a pain in the neck we learned a lot along the way.

[@danielbrowning238]

Mr. Sree... I know you have taught us all, just about everything ya know... All the way down to how to find cheap metal for processing... I still don't ever want to see you go man. This is all great, and became sort of therapeutic. Keep up the good work man, I hope you guys are staying safe and living life!

[@CoinSilver800]

This series regarding the silver on copper sludge/ residue reminds me very much of a few deplating runs I did on silver plated on copper flatware and trays MANY years ago where I used Sodium Thiosulphate as the electrolyte in a silver deplating cell. I treated the solution after decanting from sludge if memory serves me right after it was "saturated" with HCL and then refined the silver chloride the same as you... either that or I may have treated a sample of the residue with nitric and then was able to get some (extremely small amount) silver from it. what I mean is that the silver would deplate quite easy in this cell but a real mucky looking sludge would form. used distilled water, a piece of stainless on a terminal and then the silver plated on the other. very much like you using your gold deplating cell but instead of using lead using stainless and also using a 5 gal. aquarium as the vessel It reacted again if memory serves me right in a very very similar way after putting in under a torch but for some reason I was thinking then and am still thinking now that it might have contained additional silver. at the time I didnt go any further with the testing or experimenting but was hypothesizing that an oxide of silver might be in the residue either I or III. I was going to see about reducing the residue in a crucible with a sacrificial piece of iron, or possible treat it with nitric (if I didn't already do that... again this was many years ago), or some other method but one thing lead to another and here I am a number of years later still wondering. might be something to look into as if there was anyone who could work it out I'm sure you would be!

[@CoinSilver800]

the reason behind my not going much further with this at the time was the price of silver and the availability and cost of nitric for me

[@sreetips]

I may try putting those solids in some hot dilute nitric just to see what happens. Thanks for this reminder. Might be video worthy.

[@aidavewaste2576]

great series.as always.great to see some refining videos again.i was getting withdrawals lol.👍👍👍

[@fredrichardson9761]

Wow! I think you made a strong case for paying a little extra to get the nitric acid! That process is really hairy and the boiling sulfuric acid looks like a dozen rabid gerbils ready to tear through human flesh. Yikes! Really great you showed us how this reaction works - and it amazes me that sugar is involved in the whole process!

[@KingCez100]

What a gem thank you Kevin for the great videos!

[@brianhbinesh]

Awesome can't wait for you to use the big furnace and crucible for some giant ingots.

[@scrappydoo7887]

Im thinking of a kilo of silver 👌

[@sreetips]

I’ve got a big mold enough for a two kilo bar of some of my finest pure silver crystal.

[@scrappydoo7887]

@@sreetips that i would love to see 👍

[@shywatcher1961]

You recovered more than i anticipated you to recover.. I honestly thought about 2.5 ounces give or take....

[@lazyjackass77]

Thanks sreetips! Looking forward to see what you decide to do with the mud left over from the refining.

[@BigWesLawns]

That Braun hand blender also happens to be the best hand blender ever made. Added bonus.

[@sreetips]

It works perfectly. Easy to use, easy to clean.

[@spillingvoid1]

"three-nines-fine" should be your catch phrase.

[@sreetips]

We plan to name our band, “3ninesFINE “

[@chrismaille3478]

@@sreetips what kind of music do you play, and what instrument?

[@linasvelavicius330]

@@sreetips What about "3 9's FINE" for the band? Love your channel, wish you the best in all your endeavors

[@sreetips]

I’ve got a song “moments” that I wrote lyrics and music posted on my channel. Guitar is my instrument.

[@chrismaille3478]

@@sreetips I checked out your song. It is cool man. I'm a musician myself for over 25 years, I play drums and a little bass. I have written a bunch of songs myself, and countless others with bands over the years. I really dig the simplicity and truthfulness of your lyrics. They get to the point, the feeling. Relatable to anyone and true. That's what makes it good writing in my opinion. Keep on jamming man. 🤘

[@stooartbabay]

Could you setup another silver cell? it may help you get through your backlog quite a bit :)

[@sreetips]

I may do just that.

[@BattleChemist]

Good stuff, Sr. Chief! This is starting to get me inspired to set up the home lab I've wanted for a while (BS Chem). I'll probably never use the sulfuric acid method, with the troubles and time seen here, especially since creating nitric acid is rather easy with potassium nitrate stump remover (see Doug's Lab video for a fantastic tutorial... you likely have all the glassware except the water jacket condenser to make your own at home). I'm concentrating lately on getting my reloading bench set up first, though. 👍😎

[@macoppy6571]

Prioritizing your lead stack over your silver stack makes sense, given your handle, BattleChemist. Will you be making tutorials on your reloading? I would love to learn more about it!

[@BattleChemist]

@@macoppy6571 I'm not much of a videographer, but very much appreciate the confidence. However, I *highly* recommend looking at Johnny's Reloading Bench channel; he goes in depth on processes where other channels may skip over the small stuff. It's kind of like sitting alongside him while he works.

[@sreetips]

You know the most critical piece is the fume hood. No way to do these reactions safely without one.

[@macoppy6571]

@@sreetips Having worked in a lab, and personally suffering an inhalation injury, I cannot agree more. A fume hood is essential safety equipment.

[@BattleChemist]

@@sreetips No doubt, No question! While getting my chem degree, I was doing an experiment with hot sulfuric acid and made a mistake (used manganese sulfate instead of magnesium sulfate) which meant the color change didn't happen, so I kept heating and it started to boil... unfortunately I was in the half of the Quantitative Analysis classroom that didn't have a fume hood above my bench and it started quickly filling the air with sulfuric acid vapor and causing coughing from me and the TA's. I had to hold my breath as I grabbed it and ran it to the fume hood about 30 feet away to cool down. Having worked with "the hard stuff" as far as deadly chemicals in hoods, I'm not only aware, but happy to see you repeat the need for a good hood. As you've mentioned recently, a larger hood will really improve the ergonomics and safety of your home lab with the large glassware you're working with. I think overbuilding a hood is probably one of those items in the "buy once, cry once" list, hehe. Keep up the fantastic work, good sir! Would love to buy you a drink of your choice someday if I have the chance.

[@danielparsons5519]

As always, we thank you for more Tip blessings. I know what I'm going to be harvesting. Thank you. Sir, you have get a peek at creating you own nitric. Its very simple and costs about $20 to make about a liter about 60% Nitric. Blessings to you Sir.

[@andrewsmith9678]

So when do we get to see that awesome new furnace?

[@shannonlbaker]

Another great video !!

[@sreetips]

Papers signed and in the mail!

[@garethfuller2700]

@@sreetips ?

[@KentChannelTV]

Nice silver ingot!

[@johnpowell4747]

I really enjoy your videos

[@sreetips]

Thank you

[@josephschnabel1andonly]

Did you figure out the junk? When you said you hit it with the oxy acetylene torch and didn't see any metals. I was thinking the unfiltered drain cleaner. Awesome yield. Awesome video. And its nice feeding the silver-cell.

[@johannesdesloper8434]

That was certainly a suprising yield. Even behind a screen it's scary to watch those angry beakers of Sulfuric acid. Nice you posted a video again. Can't wait to see you poor monster silver bars. Copper is taking off here and at an all time high. AS I said before copper bars can be sold 4 times the copper price so it might be worth burning some propane.

[@sreetips]

Copper is $5 per pound. Probably hit $20.

[@johannesdesloper8434]

@@sreetips Yes could be..I told people 4 times now so I tell you:" you know when sitting in a train and one of em starts to move but first moments you cannot say which one of the trains moves?" I think in Europe "the moneypress" is running full speed. I think most people don't have a clue. I saw yesterday scrap copper is now 6,20 euro a kilo. that's 38% in 4 months. All time high now.

[@sreetips]

Let’s hope folks stay clueless. When realization sets in there won’t be any more Metal to be found.

[@johannesdesloper8434]

@@sreetips haha yes..I recently heard an investor say the masses are by definition wrong in their assesment.

[@sreetips]

About 80% of people in the U.S. still believe that the dollar is backed by gold - just ask your bank teller next time your there.

[@Halloween111]

Great video series. Seems like what you save in Nitric Acid, you lose in time and leftover waste disposal. If you are out of Nitric, or can't get your hands on any, It will get the job done.

[@macoppy6571]

It would be valuable to calculate the time, materials, and waste processing cost difference of the Sulfuric Acid refining process versus the Nitric Acid process, including in-house distillation of the Nitric Acid. It might reveal that in-house distillation of Nitric is cost effective, when it cannot be sourced in the market.

[@ajikremix5383]

Hallo my friend, Have a nice day,,,,👍👍🎶🎶

[@jonnotuckster8856]

Awesome work sir

[@davidtwining4059]

Amazing process I really like your videos I commented in part one that you were making mud money, the joke's on me. thanks

[@sreetips]

I seen it. Thank you

[@weasel6three597]

Awesome! Keep the videos coming!

[@barbrashedamamiejoyner]

HOW MUCH WOULD YOU SELL EACH SILVER BAR FOR? G.R.E.A.T. VIDEO AND AMAZING CRAFTSMANSHIP AS ALWAYS SREETIPS, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK BECAUSE I KNOW YOU GOING FAR!!!

[@sreetips]

I’m asking $75 per ounce

[@barbrashedamamiejoyner]

@@sreetips THANKS.

[@richpederson6691]

Another great video 👍

[@cristianrfs]

Hi @sreetips. Please make a video showing different shapes you can get in your silver cell just by using a different voltage. I understand when using 1.5 volts you can get crystals that look like quartz, short and solid, instead of the steel wool shaped crystals you showed in your video, which were obtained with higher voltages.

[@bluegreenash]

makes me think that dissolving and cementing out the silver is a much easier process as the chemical transformation seem much more time intensive than just pouring it into a bucket and letting the copper plates do the work. what do you do with the copper you recover from cementing out on Iron? do you re-use as sacrificial material for the silver cementing?

[@bluegreenash]

if you can recover the materials it makes sense to reuse the materials in the process so you don't have to buy new.

[@KD0CAC]

Did anyone else loose the audio at the 1st melt / pour ?

[@SteveandSusiesHomestead]

yep

[@garethfuller2700]

Yep!

[@brianhbinesh]

Definitely thought my phone speakers took a dump on me

[@sreetips]

Sorry about that. I usually narrate over when I’m wearing my respirator to avoid this. It was late and I took a shortcut.

[@KD0CAC]

@@sreetips I wanted to blame YT ;)

[@whitebeard420]

Not really a question about this video, but I was wondering where you get your stamps made that you use so much? Like the SREETIPS, FINE, GOLD, and so on, that you punch in with a hammer, where do you get those made? I kinda want one and I see you use them all the time, give a shout out to the person you use on a video sometime.

[@sreetips]

Some place in Chicago - type “metal stamps” into search block. I can’t remember the name

[@gregj4857]

found this on Google maybe the gray stuff is is insulation or enamel.. Silver plated wire is available in diameters from 0.020mm to 0.500mm (AWG 52 - 24) with all insulation and self-bonding enamels.

[@patrickknigge588]

Haley Mister, i enjoying your videos for quite a time now. I have a Question: it is possible to remove all metals including gold from circuit boards and then extract them individually from the liquid by using aqua regia? Sorry for my bad english

[@sreetips]

Best to remove gold foils from circuit boards with acid/peroxide first - if possible. Then collect the gold foils and refine them with aqua regia

[@alandougan3600]

Streetips kitchen sink drain never get clogged anyway 😆

[@TrinityGoldRecovery]

Nice Video

[@BeardedDad72]

I don't know anything about what and how you do this. I enjoy your videos none the less. I do have a question though and remember I'm dumb. But wouldn't it easier to just smelt your metals? Or does the chemicals do something more then just simple smelting?

[@sreetips]

Smelt is a term used to describe the process of recovering metals from ore out of the ground. I have zero experience with smelting metals. But if you mean melt; the metals will not separate when melted together, they will alloy making separation even more difficult.

[@BeardedDad72]

@@sreetips thank you. Learn something new everyday.

[@davidmccrary8136]

Hey buddy what is the name of that thing you put on the top of your flask where you can do the vacuum siphon into it off of your pump like your funnel flask you always put that thing on there and then siphon it out of stuff what is the name of that adapter where I can order me one and where can I get it I've tried to find them on eBay and KZbin and can't find them anywhere

[@Africangold-vq9zy]

Nice work

[@peteroliver3408]

You could try electrolizing the precipitate in the presence of Ammonia or roast it with metallic Iron

[@davyguy87]

do you know why your last cell harvest turned out mossy? also i know you have a lot to do, so something that could help you save a bit of time is if you just go ahead and make a lot of silver nitrate for the silver cell electrolyte and distill it down to just the silver nitrate crystals so when you need to remake the electrolyte you can just redisolve a set amount of the silver nitrate in water saving a lot of time.

[@sreetips]

Could be depleted electrolyte, too much copper, impeded current flow at the anode filter…

[@tawnihaynie1065]

Cool...., ☺☺☺😇😇😇

[@quirrurin]

Great video my friend

[@titanicfilmsbymark]

Good video

[@toyfreaks]

How do you make the stems for the anode and attach them?

[@macoppy6571]

Sreetips demonstrates how he made his annode bar in a previous video. Check out his channel library. 👍

[@jameseves9209]

Where do you get your Nitric Acid ? I saw a bag of some Nitric Acid Substitute on the Walmart website ... would that work?

[@sreetips]

GFS Chemicals. I don’t know about Walmart nitric substitute.

[@willknight1005]

Beautiful pouring 👍

[@bestworst1979]

So i have a question I had some silver shot leftover in my anode basket i went to re-melt it with another batch of impure cement for a run thru my cell but when i melted the shot from anode basket it would not fully melt do you have any idea what could cause this sreetips?

[@sreetips]

I’ve not tried what you described here. The left over shot will be in the slimes in the anode filter. These slimes are probably impeding the melt. I redissolve the left over silver in nitric. Then separate the palladium with DMG.

[@sreetips]

If there is palladium in those slimes (high probability) and you remelt that with the silver then the palladium will tend to build up in your cell. Best to remove the palladium. If concentrations of palladium are allowed to get too high then it could start to plate out with the silver in the silver cell and contaminate your pure silver crystal. Contaminated silver is not the problem here. The problem is palladium is worth one hundred times more than the silver!

[@bestworst1979]

@@sreetips gotcha will do i will follow your steps then on recovering the palladium ty

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

My question is why put .999 fine silver bars through the silver cell? You've a fine silver. Just a question and I'm curious.

[@BattleChemist]

He kind of explained this in a prior video a while back... he sells his silver in crystal form because there's no question on the part of the buyer whether it's at *least* three nines fine; with a bar, there could be 1% copper in there and no one would know the difference until it was tested for purity. Same reason he doesn't leave his sterling in sterling form, even though it will rise with the price of silver... by refining, he *knows* it was sterling and not fake sterling and can sell the pure silver later.

[@Gainn]

I don't think that ended up as pure as the runs done with nitric so he was making sure. Messy process that has many opportunities for impurities to carry over.

[@sreetips]

While that silver from the wire was probably very close to three nines, the only way to be sure is to run it through the silver cell.

[@HFbastler1]

Would silver recycling from photographic paper be an interesting topic for your channel? I recently leached unused ones in ammonium thiosulfate and I am not really satisfied with the steelwhool method, but I also have no ditionite. Is there and easy replacement for that chemical or do I have to go with elecrolysis?

[@sreetips]

I’ve done X-ray film one time. It was messy and time consuming. And they yield was low. Probably be similar yield with photographic paper - low.

[@aaaset]

How about a video about how to recover aluminum from cans using the chemicals you use

[@sreetips]

Ive never worked with aluminum

[@aaaset]

Ok then if you ever get the chance and you want to I would appreciate it but intill then I'll be watching your gold and silver videos there always interesting 😉

[@bensmallwood8392]

seems like that wouldn't be worth the value of the chemicals.

[@sreetips]

It’s not worth the danger of handling boiling sulfuric acid

[@aaaset]

Ok I figured as much I thought it would look cool seeing how it's thin..it would dissolve quickly I wondered if you could make aluminum crystals in a cell like you make in silver videos but I'm still a fan and I'm not missing a video. 8)

[@lion9419]

Sir if we have jewellery saying 21karat then to turn it 24k can be done without inquarting with silver or copper and yes then if have made a video on similar query pls give me the link thank

[@sreetips]

Noor, the 21k will dissolve in aqua regia with no need to inquart. I don’t have a video on this. I would inquart the 21k for two reasons; one, i refine silver also and the silver must be dissolved first anyway. Two, it does such a good job of cleaning the gold.

[@lion9419]

@@sreetips that mean without inquarting silver or copper in21k scenario job will be done .I searched many videos I was not able to found that's y I asked for link .I have seen some of your six or may be more I consider you as my teacher thanks for answering my query.may Allah bless you and your family ameen

[@RuneChaosMarine]

Wait, why/how does sugar change silver oxide to metalic silver?

[@sreetips]

Something to do with the carbon in the sugar

[@quirrurin]

hey friend you know how to melt rhodium palladium platinum I have a concentrate of that minerals

[@sreetips]

I’ve melted platinum and palladium. Rhodium is still an enigma to me.

[@MrMackievelli]

Makes me wonder how much silver I tossed from wire wrap boards.

[@qcansys]

I’m use with sodium hydroxide with N2O2 and zinc granules

[@iddybox]

Hey Sreetips you gotta make two different shirts that say “I don’t know that is...” and “So what imuna do...” and sell them. Love you brother. Still have that 1.9 gram gold bead I bought from you that had the beautiful purple colloidal gold. Blows my mind to hold in my hand when I rewatch the video. The funny thing is my wife was like “You paid how much for that from that guy you watch on KZbin in bed at night?” Lmao.

[@sreetips]

Nice, thank you

[@freddystpierre9106]

Need a bigger melt furnace

[@jeffholmes1362]

Love your videos, however hot sulfuric is not for me, I’ll be leaving this one alone 😀

[@sreetips]

I’ll probably never use it again either.

[@digger105337]

Every time you rinse something in the sink, I fear it will slip down the drain😖. How about a stainless steel sink drain screen for piece of mind? Only 1$ at the Dollar store.

[@freddystpierre9106]

Add more powder to melt dish as it rendersdown

[@bobhoward6676]

So after only about two weeks time and $20 for acids/chemical then some gas for the melt you've got yourself a couple oz of silver worth $60-$70. Silver is way too cheap right now

[@sreetips]

Agree - don’t sell any cheap silver!

[@timscoviac]

Have you heard of lithic metals? He does refining just like you sreetips, pretty good too, should check him out!

[@sreetips]

I’ll check it out. Thank you

[@khangtuan4344]

hi pro, how can i get Ag from AgCl ?

[@sreetips]

Yes, I use lye and sugar to convert silver chloride to pure silver metal

[@khangtuan4344]

@@sreetips thanks pro

[@jasonwright1687]

Mmmm mmmmmm MMMMMMM! Look at those bars, and that bigtub of crystalline silver! 😍😍😍 Sreetips... I know you have the ebay and all that.... But I have a proposal for you... I will send another email (since the last one was a good while ago). It has to do with a token (or series of them, possibly).... 👍

[@sreetips]

I’m planning a two kilo bar pour using some of my finest pure silver crystal.

[@jasonwright1687]

@sreetips I thought i had sent you an email before, but i can't find it (to easily send the message about the tokens) ... Plan is... My organization i am a part of (one of the leaders), we are going to make an NFT and are considering a limited run of a physical token, made of high grade silver, and I have asked that we consider acquiring our silver from you, specifically some of that über-high grade stuff.... So, i guess if you're interested, let me know and i can maybe post a comment (for a short time) with my email (so we can discuss this further). Tons of love to you and Mrs. Sreetips. 💛

[@sreetips]

Jason, I’ve got some double refined silver coming up in this current batch from my latest video. I sell it on my eBay store. Thank you.

[@MiguelSierra]

Excelente.

[@sreetips]

Gracias!

[@selwynjacobs]

@sreetips love your channel but youtube needs to be boycotted.... can you also post on other platforms like rumble?

[@davidmccrary8136]

Hey buddy you want to know a little secret I found out yesterday while emptying my silver cell

[@qcansys]

But it is good way with sugar.

[@SteveandSusiesHomestead]

First