That was my take too. All that work to grow and process it. It must become a part of you at some point. I've done business with JMB for a few years now. 😇🤑🤣
Just a public service announcement. This guy isn't "making silver". He is removing copper from sterling silver. You need thousands of dollars of scrap to do this. Not a hater, just pointing out that you can't build a cell and get free silver.
Since the sterling silver is a refining material that he uses in his refining of gold, and this is a byproduct of his work, and he can turn around and recycle his refining material for additional profits for his business, I don't understand the public service announcement lol I think we can all deduce that you need base materials to eloctrolitically refine pure silver from, and that it isn't just coming from the void. Thank you for your incredibly pedantic and utterly useless disclaimer.
2 observations I have made watching sreetips videos: one, you never “waste” anything. Even though you might be justified in throwing some by-product out because of the small amount of recoverable metal, you don’t. Used filters come to mind. Two, you always slavishly follow protocols. For example, taking the silver bars out of the anode basket, you always use the forceps, instead of using your fingers. Good discipline!
I've been watching his videos for a long time, I have learned a lot, I think I'm almost ready to start a refinement of gold from jewelry, which will give the the opportunity to start a silver cell, getting nitric acid is a bit tough it seems, not many if any places cary it on hand
@@damiansullivan9728yes, this does seem to be an issue. i havent had much luck prepping myself. what I might have to do is make some via other means. i cant justify buying a couple gallons if i don't end up getting into the hobby.
It always amazes me when you melt the beautiful pure silver crystals and it changes form to its equally beautiful silver liquid form and then to its solid form which reflects the light like a mirror. Our natural elements on this planet are a real gift.
Some of our elements are stunningly beautiful, for sure. Then of course, there's the really dangerous ones, and the really ethereal ones. All are amazing in their own way, I think.
This has to be one of the most satisfying channels on youtube, you waste nothing, everything is a closed loop. That is one big honking bar of silver, it's gorgeous!
theres nothing better than the finger prints of a poured bar. its a beautiful thing. melting silver is such a satisfying chore. i always want to melt my silver down just to melt it but it would be pretty inefficient to just melt silver bars into silver bars for no reason lmao
Here’s what’s missing: I really didn’t want to sell it because I know when silver gets to a hundred bucks then that bar will be twice as valuable. So, if I do make a sale, then I’m not going to let it go for the grossly undervalued thirty bucks (with premium). If I can’t get fifty, I’ll just keep it. Time is on my side. Hope this helps.
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, 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, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
The cell is a monster! Been waiting on this video for a few days now. Spectacular result! The deposits at the bottom of the cell were thicker than anything I could have imagined! Great looking bar as well! Well done sir, very well done!
For Sreetips Try a pasta sauce ladel/scoop combined with the scraper to move silver across from the stainless steel bowl to beaker until it gets a little lighter. Don’t want to get sore wrists and or risk dropping kg of silver everywhere!
@@danger3_255 That's a great idea! Hey @sreetips ! Got any way to cast some high purity silver bullets? I bet they'd go over REALLY well at the eBay store
If the torch flame is yellow/ orange.. youre carborizing too much you need to use more oxygen to tune the flame out to a more blue flame or just barely white flame. It takes time to get used to your torch setup and to really dial in the amounts of O2 to Acetylene But this new silver cell youve made is just brilliant !! As always I really enjoy watching your process
First of all I'm glad you followed the idea to drain the cell with a tube instead of lifting the whole thing. Second, a small good quality plastic shovel (IE sand toys) could pick up most of the metal without the bowl being in the air. Also I'm sure we can find a better way to rinse the silver. I'm thinking to start by puting the silver in a fine mesh seive rincing with tap water, first then when it's somewhat clean, using distilled water like you usually do. A serious foundry setup would melt this amount of silver in less than 10 minutes. Could be great for impure silver shots as well. What a fantastic harvest that was. That melting silver looked incredible.
That time lapse was near the end of the run with the filter clogged and current flow, and therefore silver consumption, was slow. I’ll do another from the very start with a clean filter and it should much faster and more dramatic.
Also if you watch any of his previous videos you can easily get the backstory of what his whole gig is. I've found it to be very informative & interesting
Wow. To get those blue crystals in the face of the ingot, I bet that only has 30-40 ppm of impurities (99.997 - 99.996%). That's a credit to your precise technique and determination.
I watched a jeweler coat their silver and gold melt dish with liquid borax and build a glazed layer that hardens when dry. Do this to separate dishes. She also explained to let silver get watery looking like a mirror 🪞
love your videos man, started my own silver and gold cells in the garage a couple weeks ago, so far i've measured the difference between the weight of the gold and silver and the solutions they're "growing" in and so far i have 10 lbs of silver and 7 lbs of gold growing. no i dont have a fume hood but i did utilize my welding extractor to great effect
@@icedragon1000 i got my impure gold and silver from old jewellery and computer hardware bought from pawn shops and junk stores, all together i have about $600 invested
Electrolytic refinement of copper--which is done on an industrial scale--also produces anode sludge, but like you, they keep the sludge; it contains silver, gold, and platinum-group metals, as well as base metals (which at the scales involved are still worth extracting, if for no other reason than to keep them out of the waste stream). Anyway, $4200+ at today's spot price, not bad for a day's work.
Sreetips, have you ever considered using coin molds? Just the idea of buying some small wooden chest and adding some pirate décor and casting pure silver coins would be freaking awesome!
I would say the cracking is the temperature change making the crystals crack before they melt. 19:19. The pour. That is a thing of beauty that bar and it has sold already.
torching smaller amounts at a time would actually save you a lot of time and fuel. if you run the torch and just add a touch of silver at a time, itll melt within seconds and just sprinkle new on slowly while torching and youll hit a rate thats almost an instant melt
I'd sure trade you my problem of not having enough silver for your problem of having too much silver 😂 Wonder if a guy could use a screened colander to strain off the excess electrolyte from your silver beaker. Love this step in the process. Thanks for sharing 👍
Tapping the Oxy/Acetylene head against the table usually clears that fouling , so you don’t have to stop while pouring Really nice bar . I’m moving up to 250g bars next . Always enjoy your channel
I used to harvest silver from electroplaters for a company when the tech was printing plates and x-ray film. The silver in those machines looked like this stuff. One time a machine discharges some silver solution in my face. Silver tastes like powdered sugar.
Very nice job! I know how hard it is to pour silver and keep it from absorbing oxygen and bubbling and to do it with that big of a poor, you did a perfect job. Very nice.
My friend, it seems to me it has become time to start thinking about some production streamlining. a collection, wash and and straining station would be relatively simple and would make your life easier along with decreasing waste. Also a smelting forge large enough that the crucible could hold 5 pounds of your elemental silver would make things so much more efficient. Cheers!
get a fime mesh screen for pouring out the electrolyte and get a spatula with a curved or round edge for scraping the silver off the cell. super simple tools thatll make your life a lot easier
I guess these people in the comments weren't around when you first started selling PMs on eBay. I remember several pieces that went for under spot. I happy as a clam that now Sreetips silver draws a premium price, you deserve it.
You know, if you used a sifting bowl for your silver and a big enough catcher bowl you can make it much easier to rinse off the electrolyte Just be sure to use your industry coffee filters. What a beautiful harvest you have.
The way you said, "If it doesn't sell, i get to keep it," sounded like you really want to keep it 😂😂😂
I’m starting a stack of 2 kilo silver bars.
That was my take too. All that work to grow and process it. It must become a part of you at some point. I've done business with JMB for a few years now.
😇🤑🤣
That’s why they set the price at about double its true value.
Actually, the price is only about 1/4 of it’s true value.
@@sreetipsyeah I saw that you explained that in another comment. Good man I wouldn’t sell it at the current spot value either.
Just a public service announcement. This guy isn't "making silver". He is removing copper from sterling silver. You need thousands of dollars of scrap to do this. Not a hater, just pointing out that you can't build a cell and get free silver.
Correct
Since the sterling silver is a refining material that he uses in his refining of gold, and this is a byproduct of his work, and he can turn around and recycle his refining material for additional profits for his business, I don't understand the public service announcement lol I think we can all deduce that you need base materials to eloctrolitically refine pure silver from, and that it isn't just coming from the void. Thank you for your incredibly pedantic and utterly useless disclaimer.
@@barberjr1742honestly I’m glad he wrote that and was searching the comments for someone to explain what was going on.
Thank you for the explanation. I just couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that he is “growing” silver.
@@barberjr1742the average person doesn’t understand even the basics of chemistry. The title is purposely misleading
“Pure silver crystal” goosebumps every time.
2 observations I have made watching sreetips videos: one, you never “waste” anything. Even though you might be justified in throwing some by-product out because of the small amount of recoverable metal, you don’t. Used filters come to mind. Two, you always slavishly follow protocols. For example, taking the silver bars out of the anode basket, you always use the forceps, instead of using your fingers. Good discipline!
I'm at the age where that tinkling electrolyte required a visit to the bathroom.
I've been watching his videos for a long time, I have learned a lot, I think I'm almost ready to start a refinement of gold from jewelry, which will give the the opportunity to start a silver cell, getting nitric acid is a bit tough it seems, not many if any places cary it on hand
@@damiansullivan9728yes, this does seem to be an issue. i havent had much luck prepping myself. what I might have to do is make some via other means. i cant justify buying a couple gallons if i don't end up getting into the hobby.
It always amazes me when you melt the beautiful pure silver crystals and it changes form to its equally beautiful silver liquid form and then to its solid form which reflects the light like a mirror. Our natural elements on this planet are a real gift.
Some of our elements are stunningly beautiful, for sure. Then of course, there's the really dangerous ones, and the really ethereal ones. All are amazing in their own way, I think.
This has to be one of the most satisfying channels on youtube, you waste nothing, everything is a closed loop. That is one big honking bar of silver, it's gorgeous!
Thank you for showing the time lapse of your silver cell.
Senior Chief, that's amazing. If I had the money I would have already bought what you have and would never get rid of it. 👏 👏 👏
theres nothing better than the finger prints of a poured bar. its a beautiful thing. melting silver is such a satisfying chore. i always want to melt my silver down just to melt it but it would be pretty inefficient to just melt silver bars into silver bars for no reason lmao
I think you went past the limit of what is doable in an easy way by one person. Nice work! Beautiful process here...
Watching you do these videos is like poetry in motion. Mesmerizing the process of refining.
There's something satisfying listening to the crunch of the silver when you scrape it out 😊
Wow, that is an awesome result! Amazing to see the silver crystal in one single huge bar. The bar is another beaut! 👍👍
Pretty awesome to see the impure silver get eaten in the cell. Love this time lapse. I don't remember ever seeing this before.
Also, I wonder if you couldn't scoop out that silver with a stainless spoon, once you've got it scraped down.
Probably could
Siphoning off the electrolyte instead of trying to lift and pour is a seriously big-brain move!
ok that timelapse is amazing, really shows how much the cell is eating through the silver
I reslly appreciate the hard work that you do so that I can watch your hard work. Thank you! Silver cell refinement has been amazing to wtch.
That silver looks amazing. You are really perfecting your craft! Great job and thanks for the awesome entertainment!
Wow!
What an amazing and beautiful harvest. Absolutely stunning 👍🏻👍🏻
Watching the blue electrolyte get siphoned out of the bowl to reveal the sparkling white silver crystal was magical!
Very cool visual effect. I agree.
Don't understand trying to sell at $50 a ounce when an ounce of silver plus buy premium today is around $30 a ounce. Am I missing something here?
Here’s what’s missing: I really didn’t want to sell it because I know when silver gets to a hundred bucks then that bar will be twice as valuable. So, if I do make a sale, then I’m not going to let it go for the grossly undervalued thirty bucks (with premium). If I can’t get fifty, I’ll just keep it. Time is on my side. Hope this helps.
@@sreetips I see that makes sense. Understood. What did you start out with in the silver cell to make the silver?
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, 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, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
The cell is a monster! Been waiting on this video for a few days now. Spectacular result! The deposits at the bottom of the cell were thicker than anything I could have imagined! Great looking bar as well! Well done sir, very well done!
An amazing bar of silver.
If you made enough of those you could build a house of silver with bunch of Bricks like that!😊
Love these silver videos, definitely my favourites. An added bonus of a big melt and pour this time. Great content as always 👍
Thank you for making this monster ultra fine silver bar!
I can’t think of a better way to use the silver crystal from your silver cell
Beautiful, precise work!
Well.. The one bonus of having too much silver is that you won’t have any issues with werewolves 🤷🏻♂️😂
I'd bet good money he has casted silver bullets.
Fun fact: The Sreetips family has been providing silver to the Helsing family for generations 😂
🤣🤣😂😂👍
For Sreetips
Try a pasta sauce ladel/scoop combined with the scraper to move silver across from the stainless steel bowl to beaker until it gets a little lighter.
Don’t want to get sore wrists and or risk dropping kg of silver everywhere!
@@danger3_255 That's a great idea! Hey @sreetips ! Got any way to cast some high purity silver bullets? I bet they'd go over REALLY well at the eBay store
Its absolutely beautiful. Love watching you work!
Thank you for sharing. Love watching this
Good stuff as always....Always amazes me how so much silver never looks like it is as much as it is.
5:18 like scraping ice off my windshield in the winter😂
WOW look at those crystals. That is so cool.
Congratulations on a fine refine and pour. Looks like Sreetips is the proud father of a fine piece of bullion.
The best silver bar i ever saw! Holy smokes again mr Sreetips!🎉
Nice to see you working smart and not lifting that monster. The beast looks heavy when ready for harvest.
4.6kilos. Major haul, man. Wow!
Lol that's a massive bar of silver, wow that's fantastic job 👏👌👍👏 it's amazing to watch u pour that bar and it looks gorgeous .
If the torch flame is yellow/ orange.. youre carborizing too much you need to use more oxygen to tune the flame out to a more blue flame or just barely white flame.
It takes time to get used to your torch setup and to really dial in the amounts of O2 to Acetylene
But this new silver cell youve made is just brilliant !!
As always I really enjoy watching your process
Thank you for the amazingly informative videos, but also thank you for your service!
Thank you!
U know I love the way the blue electrolyte looks it's prdy neat color especially when the silver is growing in it looks awesome
Gooooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
@@sreetipsGuten Abend
Could you run the silver back through to refine it further?
@@johngalt2506 You could, but it is a waste of effort (it already is about five nines).
Helllllo you two 🌺🌺🔥
Good evening Sreetips 🏴☠️ Thank you for sharing your alchemy with us ✨ God Bless
thats so mesmerizing ! i wish i could hold what much silver in my hands at once someday !
The best silver bar i ever saw! Holy smokes again mr Sreetips!
An ice scoop would be handy for transferring from the bowl to beaker. At least until the bowl is light enough to handle more easily.
I would recommend emptying the bowl in a fine strainer (over a large beaker).
I love that Timelapse!!
Can't wait to see the slimes refining from all this silver you've been processing!
Great job. Very impressive.
First of all I'm glad you followed the idea to drain the cell with a tube instead of lifting the whole thing. Second, a small good quality plastic shovel (IE sand toys) could pick up most of the metal without the bowl being in the air. Also I'm sure we can find a better way to rinse the silver. I'm thinking to start by puting the silver in a fine mesh seive rincing with tap water, first then when it's somewhat clean, using distilled water like you usually do. A serious foundry setup would melt this amount of silver in less than 10 minutes. Could be great for impure silver shots as well.
What a fantastic harvest that was. That melting silver looked incredible.
the time lapse at the beginning was so good!
That time lapse was near the end of the run with the filter clogged and current flow, and therefore silver consumption, was slow. I’ll do another from the very start with a clean filter and it should much faster and more dramatic.
You are very good at pouring silver bars. And you make it look incredibly easy and it is not, at all
I think the thumb-nail paired with the warning at the start is low-key genius.
Thank You Mr and Mrs Sreetips
Also if you watch any of his previous videos you can easily get the backstory of what his whole gig is. I've found it to be very informative & interesting
Gooood lord look at all that silver the time lapse shows how fast it works man oh man that is sooo cool
Wow. To get those blue crystals in the face of the ingot, I bet that only has 30-40 ppm of impurities (99.997 - 99.996%).
That's a credit to your precise technique and determination.
Close to five nines.
Heisenberg.
Wow ! Mr Sreetips congratulations with this ashtonishing great 999 pure silver bar....keep it UP...👍 greeat result man greet from the Netherlands 🎉
Awesome video absolutely beautiful 2 kilo silver bar thanks for sharing sreetips
Did I hear 50 dollars a Troy oz. Gees I hope not kind of double the going rate. Maybe I miss heard. Great set up and video !
Now THAT's an ingot. Nice.
You keep it! 🫵😉👍✨
That's a good bar of silver sir and not to bad a price thank you for sharing this six stars
The price is terribly high.
Sreetips wants to buy, not sell!
Smooth pure that was great
That is one beautiful bar of silver
A big thanks who learning us..if you have a passion for something...so go for it🔥🙂
I watched a jeweler coat their silver and gold melt dish with liquid borax and build a glazed layer that hardens when dry. Do this to separate dishes. She also explained to let silver get watery looking like a mirror 🪞
That’s exactly how I do it.
Those large singular silver crystals are works of art! Please consider selling some of them!
love your videos man, started my own silver and gold cells in the garage a couple weeks ago, so far i've measured the difference between the weight of the gold and silver and the solutions they're "growing" in and so far i have 10 lbs of silver and 7 lbs of gold growing.
no i dont have a fume hood but i did utilize my welding extractor to great effect
What does that cost to produce?
@@icedragon1000 i got my impure gold and silver from old jewellery and computer hardware bought from pawn shops and junk stores, all together i have about $600 invested
Beautiful silver bar
Electrolytic refinement of copper--which is done on an industrial scale--also produces anode sludge, but like you, they keep the sludge; it contains silver, gold, and platinum-group metals, as well as base metals (which at the scales involved are still worth extracting, if for no other reason than to keep them out of the waste stream). Anyway, $4200+ at today's spot price, not bad for a day's work.
Holy guacamole, that's a tasty bar of silver! Thank you
YOU DID THE TIMELAPSE!!! THANK YOU!! SO COOL!!!
I’ll do another but this time at the beginning when the filter is clean and the silver gets consumed much faster.
Sreetips, have you ever considered using coin molds? Just the idea of buying some small wooden chest and adding some pirate décor and casting pure silver coins would be freaking awesome!
That was an awesome timelapse, thank you. Always look forward to your videos!!
Yesssss I've been patiently waiting for this 😂 very excited to watch.
Always watch ya , doing very good job
Great job, enjoyed your video
Wow!! Now that's a bar!
Man that was just awesome. What a beautiful bar as well. I wish that i knew how to do that. Great job bro.
$1869 Bar of Silver...WE did great Chief!! 😂😅
I would say the cracking is the temperature change making the crystals crack before they melt. 19:19. The pour. That is a thing of beauty that bar and it has sold already.
This is really amazing stuff man.
I love watching your videos
Thank you
A great video ! Thank you!
There is just something about pure silver that looks clean, I think I will have to go buy some next month.
Ha Streetips is farming Silver. Awesome harvest. Would be extremely cool you minted your own coins.
This guy is playing with fire.
And there’s something primal about melting with fire. Especially when the metal is SILVER.
Silver coral 😍
Great Job 👍
torching smaller amounts at a time would actually save you a lot of time and fuel. if you run the torch and just add a touch of silver at a time, itll melt within seconds and just sprinkle new on slowly while torching and youll hit a rate thats almost an instant melt
I'd sure trade you my problem of not having enough silver for your problem of having too much silver 😂
Wonder if a guy could use a screened colander to strain off the excess electrolyte from your silver beaker.
Love this step in the process.
Thanks for sharing 👍
UK price today 22/04/24 is £1492.76p on that bar Mr sreetips good haul not only are you the gold master your now the silver slayer lol nice one dude .
Tapping the Oxy/Acetylene head against the table usually clears that fouling , so you don’t have to stop while pouring
Really nice bar . I’m moving up to 250g bars next . Always enjoy your channel
I used to harvest silver from electroplaters for a company when the tech was printing plates and x-ray film.
The silver in those machines looked like this stuff. One time a machine discharges some silver solution in my face. Silver tastes like powdered sugar.
Interesting
Very nice job! I know how hard it is to pour silver and keep it from absorbing oxygen and bubbling and to do it with that big of a poor, you did a perfect job. Very nice.
Thank you
My friend, it seems to me it has become time to start thinking about some production streamlining. a collection, wash and and straining station would be relatively simple and would make your life easier along with decreasing waste. Also a smelting forge large enough that the crucible could hold 5 pounds of your elemental silver would make things so much more efficient. Cheers!
I dread rinsing the silver off
thanks for doing better with the mic
much appreciated
get a fime mesh screen for pouring out the electrolyte and get a spatula with a curved or round edge for scraping the silver off the cell. super simple tools thatll make your life a lot easier
Fine mesh screen and curved spatula, thank you.
Now Mrs. Sreetips is going to want all her baths heated, by the Mr. Sweetips dumping in the lightly cooled bullion bars.
I guess these people in the comments weren't around when you first started selling PMs on eBay. I remember several pieces that went for under spot. I happy as a clam that now Sreetips silver draws a premium price, you deserve it.
Thank you
You know, if you used a sifting bowl for your silver and a big enough catcher bowl you can make it much easier to rinse off the electrolyte
Just be sure to use your industry coffee filters.
What a beautiful harvest you have.
The crackling noise is the sound of the silver crystal bonds breaking.
Sounds like my pooch scarfing down a bowl full.