Platinum Recovery From Automotive Catalytic Converters Part 2of2

[@mildlyacidic]

I greatly appreciate how clean and efficient you are with your materials, processing, and transferring. It is very satisfying. I hate it when chemists are messy.

[@sreetips]

I like being tidy. It makes for a better shot.

[@icenesiswayons9962]

Thanks Sreetips! I'm doing a thesis on "Our world recovery/reuse" recycling. This video has helped me very much in what some call a useless attempt or our children's paradox on wanton waste without responsibility. We need and should be more like our great ancestors and take just what we need and give back a little. Instead of just frivolous, selfish waste.

[@sreetips]

You're welcome! That's why I made the video. To show you that it's just not worth it. Too much time, trouble and danger for so little pay. I hope I've done my part to discourage those who believe that this can be done to make money. Quite clearly - it can't. Glad I could help.

[@hectororellana3397]

Streetips thank you for your presentation is very didactic and I for one appreciate all the work and explanations you give us , may the Lord keep blessing you and give you and your family health and protection from any exposure to the gases and chemical reactions, keep up the good work.

[@sreetips]

I thank the Lord, on my knees, every morning, for what has been granted to me. May I utilize it in a worthy way and not squander my life or my talents.

[@theaussienurseflipper.8113]

Great video. Here in Australia, a company buy 44 gallon of the inside of the cats. They crush it up, Weigh it and test a sample and give u a price. They ship it to china. I couldn't give u a guessement, i never done it. I know some cats r worth a lot. My son's car needed cats. Mechanic said only needed one. I looked into original which were over $1000. Second-hand from the wreckers was $700. I could got aftermarket ones, but was told they might throw codes. I found guy parting out cars. He sold them for $200 each and told to sell the old ones for no less $150 each. Which i got, a lot eager people wanting to buy them

[@vonhench]

Wow!!! this is amazing! reading about science can be a bit boring, however watching science being done is just fantastic! I take my hat off to you. thank you for that journey and experience.

[@carlostriana1540]

My brother and I call our friend and teacher THANKS

[@00DDS]

Love the time and effort put in to your video’s

[@myfastcars]

I just can get how comfortable you are with chemistry. Well done my friend!

[@christianleoncio4717]

Man this channel is my favorite channel to binge. I wish we had access to videos like this when I was younger. I would probably be in a different field of work

[@scotthultin7769]

2.6k+👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing this video with us all

[@tittsburgfeelers2214]

Man thank you for the video...When the acid turned the ammonia solution into palladium salt I was floored trueley amazing...I am subscribed

[@jetman1963]

Sreetips, I find it amazing to watch your experiments. I watch them often for entertainment! Thanks for sharing!

[@sreetips]

Glad you like them!

[@jameszeschke2182]

I love the fact that you just keep on going ,man it’s a long and careful process, so worth it to get it right,well done,subscribed

[@Dr.Gunsmith]

Why couldn’t my teachers learn us useful stuff like this in school.

[@AbsHello]

Absolutely amazing. I am a mechanic and I am amazed. Well done.

[@sreetips]

I was an engineer in the Navy. Main propulsion and auxiliary equipment for 20 years. Back when they had steam plants.

[@bigmountain340]

Your videos are always so informative and entertaining, thank you for your work.

[@ericg4267]

It's so crazy how this works very interesting. Thank you for the videos.

[@miketurany2082]

Mr. Sreetips you are the coolest channel on KZbin..

[@sreetips]

Thanks Mike

[@knutritter461]

What I realized in many of your videos: You tend to use sodium carbonate for neutralization often. In my studies at the uni we hardly ever used it coz it increses the amount of unremovable salts. The results are forming precipitates of unwanted substances. In this series you finally managed to use ammonia instead which is the best option - because as you have demonstrated it - you can remove ammonium chloride easily by heating it out. Well done!

[@sreetips]

I saved all the platinum salts and made a separate platinum refining video to get some pure platinum metal. It's posted on my channel.

[@julianteso4857]

that piece of pure platinum metalic definitely worth all that work. congratulations for that!

[@jace1873]

Holy crap that's a huge amount of work for such a small yield. Not to mention all the chemicals and tools that are required. Crazy

[@rabie4x4]

If anything is more trouble than removing the lid from a beer bottle, count me out..

[@dwright9778]

Very educational!!. But the the process... I'll go buy my platinum from the store. Lol. Love the videos. Watched both of them!!!! Titanium should be next!!

[@jmalmomn175]

Perhaps zinc is the next

[@poosmate]

Just watched both videos back to back, brilliant! Jeez I'm sure if you tried to buy all those chemicals here in UK you'd have an anti-terrorist unit camped on your doorstep disguised as trees and the SAS ready to storm your house as soon as the last package was delivered! LOL Excellent videos Sreetips!

[@sreetips]

I'm sure that once they seen what you were doing there would be no problem.

[@Enjoymentboy]

As always your videos are extremely educational and incredibly inspirational. I've finally gotten around to working with some of the white gold I've saved up. Has me scratching my head though. Testing on individual pieces to gain knowledge before I lump it all together. Two 14K rings for a total of 7.4gm fully dissolved in AR without inquarting. Zero silver chloride formed. Solution was clear and started out orange then transitioned to a very dark red with a slight brown tint. Got 4.25gm of gold after the SMB drop. The leftover solution was a washed out orange/mustard yellow. Stannous test before SMB showed a nice purple and slight brown. Very dark, quick brown after SMB and it looks very much like a false positive. But if not I can't figure out what the other 3.15gm was so I'm stuck figuring out how to work with it and get it out of solution. My best idea is to cement with zinc but that still won't tell me what it was. Since no silver chloride formed in the AR I have to think maybe palladium, but again...not sure and I'm just guessing. These were old worn out rings and any rhodium plating was virtually gone so I'm doubting that was the cause of the deep red. I'm stumped here.

[@sreetips]

Some older white golds were alloyed with palladium. If you got a brown stain then that may be what it is. Less concentrated solutions of Pd produce a green stain with stannous. If it were me, I would add it to my stock pot and let the PMs cement out on copper and accumulate. trying to recover and refine small amounts of platinum group metals is difficult.

[@15secofFame]

Wow great video, and I dont think I'll try this one! :) But, the knowledge you provide us is another form of gold. Thanks.

[@Rogue3269]

I absolutely loved the 2 video series, and I really appreciate the reply to me on your Part 1 of 2 video. I liked and subscribed and look forward to your next video.

[@sreetips]

Thank you Scott

[@michealklonowski5267]

thank you for sharing the adventure and information on this project.

[@imcirgold]

Metal refining at it's best Thanks for sharing this amazing procedure wish I had half the skill and knowledge you have !!!

[@apveening]

@Nome I challenge you to reproduce it.

[@Jaims9186]

Great video I knew nothing about any of this and it just makes me wanna learn more.

[@sreetips]

glad you liked it. Thank you

[@tobeysdonutshop8251]

Probably the most in depth and precise videos I've watched on the process. Nice job. BUT.. no matter how much you clean your propane torch tip, it wont turn it into an oxy-acetylene cutting torch!! just sayin'... Besides that, a 5 star video! I was amazed with the amount of palladium you extracted! I thought it would be less than the platinum, but wow. Current spot on that is at $1,320.00 per oz.

[@hiltonkuykendall9375]

You could probably use pool "shock" powder instead of the chlorine tablets. Double check with a chemist if possible to make sure or experiment with a small amount if possible. I cleaned pools for years and consistently substituted powder shock spread across the top of the water to fix chlorine deficiencies much faster.

[@jph8266]

Thank you for the amazing video proving catalytic converter metals aren’t worth it!

[@sreetips]

Too dangerous for the backyard hobby refiner.

[@la7era1u54]

I watched both videos and I have to say, that is a ton of work

[@sreetips]

Agree!

[@robertevras6577]

Wow! Thank goodness I was able to see this amazing video BEFORE I tried it myself......you would need to be a full on Chemist and have a full lab to be able to do this safely. I can’t see any way to do this profitably.....

[@sreetips]

excellent. It's the reason I made the video. It's too difficult and too dangerous to try. Even for an experienced gold and silver refiner. I'll probably never do it again. But at least I gained the experience from doing it this one time.

[@MrWylis]

That is a lovely series of blues!

[@rockosgaminglogic]

47:24 a cheap method we use in chemistry for drying out chemicals is to place that petri in a bag, then put a plastic cup with a scoop or two of NaOH in it next to the petri dish in the bag, and seal the bag. The NaOH will pull all the water from the petri by desiccating the air in the bag. Then just replace the NaOH with fresh pellets when it gets too wet unless your compound is dry. NaOH is strongly hydrophilic.

[@billygagne2139]

Awesome another awesome video I'd like the way you explain everything perfectly as if You were talking to somebody that Has ADD and that's pretty cool because there's a lot of People that has that problem and Your name of the channel is perfect for about you present yourself street talk not smart Talk were nobody knows what you're saying... So thank you for your video and one day I hope I can do same thing But I would wanna Do everything the right way , Environmentally friendly exactly how you do it... Keep being awesome my friend street tips the perfect name for you .... Thank you for your service and have a great day sir

[@cyrusvariawa4706]

Very best video i have ever seen for refining palladium .

[@sreetips]

Cyrus, watch for the platinum refining video. I'll get it done real soon.

[@Flat_Earth_101]

No wonder Mr. White didn't choose Platinum as his revenue source.

[@stevewentzell2925]

This vid was as entertaining as watching "Breaking Bad". Thanks. You copped a pile of wood making it.

[@Energy321com]

Impressive job. Thank you for puting this video together as it was entertaining to watch.

[@MrLukealbanese]

Great work. What you need is a mass spectrometer...;-)

[@heliarche]

I have a few cats and I was thinking about it but I'm glad I saw this first. To me, this is complicated, dangerous, tedious, expensive, a lot of waste to deal with, and plenty of opportunities to either screw up the process and/or get sick and/or killed. I'll sell the cats to the scrap dealer and use those to get some scrap sterling silver. Growing silver crystal is not to be disrespected either but it looks attainable to me and the crystal is so awesome looking.

[@sreetips]

Wise decision

[@6980869]

If you were to ask if I would be willing to spend 2 1/2 hours to watch you do this, over 2 1/2 hours ago, I definitely would’ve said no. 40 minutes into part one I pressed on the screen only to realize that I was only halfway into that video(For some reason I didn’t check the length of the video before started, probably because I had no idea it would’ve been that long). That was too much time invested into that video to not watch the rest of it, and thus too much time to not watch part two, and so here I am finished with both videos. Thanks for sharing that, and although i did find it interesting to watch the process, I would not do it again, not for that long of time. Aloha

[@sreetips]

It's the only video of its kind on youtube, the Internet, the whole world! Thank you for watching

[@timeless_realm]

Thanks for taking the time to make this video.

[@SURFEAMORETERNO]

I thank you for all that beautiful work.

[@timeillusion4581]

HUGE amounts of chemicals been used in this process! 👍🏼

[@thelemmingherder9385]

Great video! Thank you! If you could point out tap or distilled water (at the beginning of video 1 you added water from a bucket with the HCl leaching process ). Where I live (Eastern Washington St.) the water has high concentration of calcium carbonate from our glacial aquifer--water spots on everything and 10 miles north of here they have iron sulfide in the ground water and as I understand parts of upper NY St. have lithium in the water... Many catalytic converters from the 1970's and n1980's were contaminated by the use of leaded gasoline in unleaded only autos. Also worn engines that burned oil from that era often contaminated the cats with zinc additives from the consumption of oil. Modern motor oil and auto manufacturers no longer use metals (zinc) in engine oil since modern autos have roller lifters/camshafts that no longer require the added benefit molabnanim /zinc/ manganese etc as flat lifter/cams previously did.. Because of metal contamination of emission systems and exhaust emissions, auto manufacturers moved toward expensive roller lifter/cams. Auto manufactures began phasing out the need for zinc (metals) and sulfur (and other chemical additives) in engine oil from the mid 1980 to the mid 1990s in order to meet increasing EPA regulations/standards. Hope this helps to figure out 3 potential sources of the unknown filtered crud. Thanks again! (I realize - probably lecturing to the professor)

[@sreetips]

I used tap water for the leach.

[@dylandownright8844]

The videos been up 5 minutes and there's already dislikes? Lmfao haters gonna hate! Keep up the good work buddy, Go Navy!

[@peterwilson7532]

Wow! That Palladium salt looks just like Yellowcake Uranium. Interesting chemistry, silver and gold gets a boring after a while.

[@johannesdesloper8434]

Oh man what a nice vid and you certainly did your preparations there... bit of a bummer you put the PtCl4 out of the way but hey I like suprises... I'd really like to see you upgrading your fumehood. Also vacuumfiltration in a twice as big fumehood and a huge sink untherneat. maybe a glovebox would be best. I think you are tempting Murphy here. pity you put 2 batches of PtCl4 together... I was interested in the yield of 1 catalytic unit. but I ain't gonnah do that at home :D

[@sreetips]

When I get the Pt from my stock pot I'm going to go all in with all the Pt that I've harvested so far. Either bromate hydrolysis or formic acid reduction. Watch for the vid!

[@martinmilligan4521]

Now if you were my teacher back in the day I recon I wouldn’t be a truck driver today

[@badsantaclaus4522]

Enjoyed leaning from you!. Thanks for sharing.

[@pauldunneska]

Leaning or Learning?

[@scaphite]

You are a helluva chemist fella. You may be an engineer but...

[@PauIieWalnuts]

Sreetips looks like walt Jr grew up in dads footsteps but makes metals.

[@misterbee4574]

When are you going to recover the platinum from the platinum salt? Really want to see that video.

[@sreetips]

That's coming up.

[@herbcasillas2516]

Alchemy Skywalkerb

[@V2k2010]

@@sreetips I was wondering if you ever buy palladium through the mail if the seller promise to give you a good deal? I will be having some palladium in the near future [that won't be as refined as you have done on your video] because i don't know that i have the equipment or skills to get that done but i would want to see it go to the best possible person all the same. My email is [e-mail] if you are interested in buying or even if you are possibly interested in collaborating on the refining process of palladium.

[@sreetips]

Greg Skomaroske I appreciate the offer. I only refine material that my wife and I find at local sales

[@CoinSilver800]

Welcomed part 2 to the video, great video as usual!

[@DrTeddyMMM]

Damn, forgot to write "Streetips" on the beaker....

[@jhyland87]

Hey, I'm not sure if it was this video, but in one of your videos I saw you using a _huge_ glass pipette, it was the size of a turkey baster, if not larger. Where did you get that from? Does it have the brand/size listed on it? Sorry for posting this on a random video of yours, I just remember seeing it in one of them and I'm skipping through your videos and I can't find which one has it. Thanks again.

[@TheScapegoat420]

You are the man Walter!

[@martinmilligan4521]

Staaak pot , Niaakrid acid ,, love your accent and fascinated by you vids

[@mikeconnery4652]

Wow nice button and a great video

[@lazyjackass77]

By far my favorite video so far. So many knows!

[@igorbanski5157]

Pilot AND chemist. Keep the Vids coming!

[@royalbrecht7043]

thanks for the info! Altruism is a beautiful thing.

[@sreetips]

Altruism; concern for the welfare of others without regard for ones self.

[@judithyoungquist8409]

Holy crap! Do you have a recipe to follow or do you just keep that info in your head?? Truely amazing ...✌🏼

[@sreetips]

Judith, I watched this video all the way through again the other day. As I'm watching I'm thinking to myself, how in the heck did I pull this off. There is no recipe. I just built on my knowledge and experience and forged ahead leaning as I go. But I'd remiss if I didn't give some credit to the goldrefiningforum.com

[@Mr007troy]

Here is the video that I was asking about the other day. I am still wondering what is the ROI and what would happen to the Platinum, who would buy that and why, would it end up going back into a Catalytic Converter? So basically you are doing the recycling?

[@richardmccann4815]

I wonder if crushing the ceramic substrate would release more platinum metals.

[@aga5897]

Superb work sreetips !

[@DakodaWolff]

usually if cameras (both video and still) are set for tungsten, it can give many colors a blue-ish-looking appearance (as you probably already know, yellow and blue make green).

[@Screamingtut]

that 12 grams of Palladium is worth about $550.00. wonder how much Platinum you got out? Also, I cannot believe that Palladium @ $45.25/gram is worth more than Platinum @ $29.50/gram.

[@GermanNightmare1976]

Dear Sreetips, in this video series you're sometimes using the vacuum pump to filter the solutions and sometimes just a regular filtration. What's the reason behind the alternation between methods, please? [Thank you, by the way, for being a big part of my 2020 youtube experience -- I wish you and Mrs Sreetips a blessed Christmas and a good and healthy 2021. Best regards, Stefan]

[@Liammcgowan]

sounds like you got a drag strip in the background there buddy.. the only good bafel is used to modulate weight transfer in the fuel tank.. make peace not war, live long and prosper.. Liam

[@sreetips]

We used to have a half mile dirt track here. Met Dale Earnhardt there one Friday night. He was near the ticket counter signing autographs. The Summerville Speedway. It’s gone now, they built a subdivision there where it used to be, about thirty years ago back in the 90s

[@matthewcaldwell1384]

I’ve sent material in for refining twice.Both batches took around 12 years to accumulate.The first company’s yield was 33.1 ounces au the other company’s yield 4.1 ounces au even though the materials submitted were twice as heavy.I was robbed !! But still I’m not ready to attempt the process.I will definitely use the first company next time I have a batch.

[@sreetips]

That’s one of the reasons I only work on my own material. If the yield is off then I only have myself to deal with.

[@basspro373]

Bafelous that's fabulous u do that buddy.🇺🇸👏

[@danyhaihuy2106]

The best video ///good work thenks you,,,

[@Bobbywh521979]

Hey I've stumbled across your video's. Love the content. Small suggestion in the description part of your videos where you add websites you can add your link to your eBay store's. It makes it easier to click then to play the video back to list to the name of your store and write it down. Lol....

[@sreetips]

Will do, thank you

[@purpleXpotion]

Meanwhile.. wife is wondering where all her plates, casserole dishes, and beauty supply products have disappeared to.. 😂

[@sreetips]

Playes casseroles dishes all come from the thrift store and yard sales. Beauty products are purchased at Sally's Beauty Supply.

[@shaneyork300]

Very Nice melt! Beautiful Palladium Button!! I have a question, at the 51 to 52 minute mark you took the torch to the palladium sponge because the palladium wasn't getting hot enough on the top. There was just a little that didn't get hot enough. Would a lid over the corning wear dish (to circulate the heat) be a another way to heat the top?? I'm just asking to learn and see what your opinion is if that could be another way to get it dry?? Thank you Sreetips!!!

[@sreetips]

It needed more heat under the dish. I should have put it on an iron ring stand and applied a low flame directly to the bottom of the fused Quartz dish. But be aware, heating the salt too fast can cause it to vaporize and cause loss of metal.

[@TechneMoira]

Loved the video. As usual instructive and entertaining. I was just wondering.... what sort of metals would be hiding in that pale transparent yellow liquid underneath that creamy yellow palladium? Thanks for sharing the video, and nice work :)

[@sreetips]

That will probably have some palladium and maybe a trace of Pt. I tried to rinse that yellow precip with cold distilled water until the rinse water was colorless.

[@allrightenergy]

Dear Mr. Sreetips, You are the greatest! Where did you get your Glass HCL Gas Generator valve? I would like to automate the valve but first I will try your method. thank you for being so safe.

[@sreetips]

I bought all my glassware on eBay.

[@robbiggar8137]

When you assembled the chlorine gas apparatus the powder became wet somehow. What did you add to the the dry chlorine powder and how much? I realize this was 2 years ago but I'm hoping you remember. Thanks mate! Nice work!!

[@sreetips]

I added a little water to the powder to form a slurry.

[@davielocker6031]

paladium is $34.46.. per gram wow, i enjoyed the video thanks.

[@sreetips]

I'll be doing the platinum soon... Watch for the video

[@jasong8377]

Very nicely done thanks for the great work

[@jefferycrawford9194]

Hello StreeTtips author. Why you only end up with 6 grams of pure palladium? I noticed in the beginning you have almost 20 grams of black pgm powders. Did some of it get lost in the process? Or did you only refine a portion of the pgm powder solution?

[@sreetips]

Good question. I don’t know. Some of it was platinum and rhodium

[@downyourtube]

I've watched part 1 and 2 I don't know how many times. I love what you do Sir. I was wondering. Do you do this just for you or do you also do it for others for a percentage of whats recovered? Either way, I think you're great. Hope you and your family are well.

[@sreetips]

I’ve only done this once, just to make the video. I still can’t believe that I was able to pull it off.

[@downyourtube]

@@sreetips I think you're a incredible person. Best to you!

[@downyourtube]

@@sreetips I think I have a problem. During the initial filtering processes, where you're removing any solids from the solution during the 5gl bucket process is where I'm at. My problem is. I was almost done to the point of having a clear liquid, BUT on the last filtering I did it in the sunlight. The solution started to produce a black spongy looking material! Freaked me out. Can the sun push the PGM's back out of solution? Or do I have another metal being produced because of the sunlight (being pushed out of solution)? Can it possible be silver (which I don't understand how it would be there). I just don't know?? What can the sun in a white 5gl bucket push out of solution?

[@sreetips]

Silver nitrate reacts with light, and that about all I know. I’ve never experienced what you describe.

[@downyourtube]

@@sreetips Everything was going smooth with no problems at all. Until I put a white 5gl bucket of partial solution in the sun. First it started out a light grey looking see threw gel floating thru out the solution then slowly it got darker until it was a black looking spongy material. My first thought was, is the sun pushing out my PGM's? (but I couldn't wrap my mind around that). Then I thought. Silver? From where i got my original material, I wouldn't think there was "silver" in it. So I thought of you and thought I'd pick your brain. Thank you for your reply. I hope you and your family are having a great day Sir!

[@drJonas-hg3fy]

Super mr sreetips.

[@TheRedneckAtheist]

No wonder all the "scrappers" stop at gold!

[@runstreetsofvegas]

No shit

[@hibbanimran2010]

Mdakbal

[@hibbanimran2010]

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[@PigMine6]

Ammonia is a real bear to work with! Be very careful!

[@chrisanderson9737]

There is nothing better than sreetips with his child like hand writing, putting his name on everything. It's great. It literally wouldn't be a sreetips video if he didn't.

[@gustavostapait5981]

Congratulations for the video. I didnt understand well why did you re-dissolve the Paladium salt in NH4OH after this precipitation process with Cl2 gas?

[@sreetips]

I’d have to check. After precipitating the brick red Pd salt the next step is to dissolve it in ammonia and filter. Then re-acidify with hydrochloric acid to form the beautiful canary yellow palladium salt. Then calcine to burn it to a fine gray ash. Put it in a crucible and melt into a button

[@horaciocobian2105]

Wow that was amazing 🎉

[@markjob6354]

*That's a hell of a lot of work for very little yield.*

[@sreetips]

Not to mention the danger of handling platinum salts. Palladium isn’t quite as bad. The backyard refiner has no business trying to work with automotive cats - none. Too dangerous.

[@mikeconnery4652]

You can use a vacuum to evaporate the water more quickly. Lower air preasure I think

[@susanholiday7347]

My question is: What is the Net worth of the button after all of the gallons of materials and the hours invested? Really, how much is Palladium worth?

[@sreetips]

I can’t remember.

[@TheChad138]

8 videos in, and I just now realized it’s Sreetips and not Streetips

[@newcollectiondaily5215]

Hi boos I'm currently 250 kg 30 deyas

[@TheScapegoat420]

This is A LOT of work.

[@sreetips]

Platinum in solution gets on skin can cause platinosis.

[@louchitouchi831]

Hey sreetip firstly thankyou for giving your time and effort by puting this knowledge out to the public. I have a question regarding the Rhodium content, does it precipitate like platinum using ammonium chloride or is there another reagent one must use to separate it from the rest of the pgms. Thanks again, and i would be greatful if any of you guys can refer me to documentation on the proces of precipitating rhodium.

[@sreetips]

Unfortunately I don't have any experience with rhodium.

[@none.892]

Awesome! I just stepped in the door!

[@RedmanOutdoors366]

Great video bud I love it very nice info nice bead

[@luedsfarout4731]

so involved... You got the good kit though..