Sreetips: you want to Borax glaze season all your new crucibles and molds , this will seal them from the crude and scale. Also go to the gas grill store and get you a electric spark igniter and grill spark tips , you can then safely lite the furnace . You also need a horizontal pour crucible piliers , that way extract the crucible onto the fire brick pavers... cut off the furnace...then make your pour safely. Put a metal top on your furnace with a long handle attached so you can safely remove & replace it. Get yourself a 3ft. long / 2" i.d. stainless steel pipe and weld a funnel at top , that way you can add silver crystals into the crucible from the hole in top of furnace while it is in process.
Good ideas, the lid seemed to work okay but I agree with the glazing, that could help with the dirt from the crucible. I think he needed a big pair of channel locks to grab the mold to flip it in the water too, not using whatever it was they he had
Yeah it would be really nice to be able to add the silver without having to take the lid off. I felt like there would be a small chance of a steam explosion from adding the silver.
Sharing your fails and your successes is why we love watching you! I've never refined metals and may never but I am so intrigued by the process and your videos! Don't be discouraged! Thank you for doing what you do!
You cant just drop the crucible into the pot. The tongs are vertical so that he can gently place the crucible at the bottom of the pot. If you tried with horizontal tongs, the side of the pot would get in the way and you'd have to drop it in. Also, how would one go about getting the hot crucible out with horizontal tongs?
Great video! Maybe pour a concrete pad somewhere away from the deck for future melts. A bad spill could burn your whole show down, and put some cardboard under the crucible so that it doesn’t stick. Looking forward to a 5 kg melt soon!
Wooooooooow! SPECTACULAR! So cool. Hope I can one day see your stack of silver bricks. I cant even dream what's your poured silver stack today, but surely with the bricks will be one of the wonders of the world. Also, you can use a hand drill with a brush to clean that bar. For reference I recommend Mr @bigstckd channel for expert level cleaning and polishment, but with one brush in the drill you can make it awesome. Beautiful bar.
@@timtom9450 He's far out man. I used his prescription to treat small bars Inpour. If it came out nice for me, imagine having one of his in yoir hands. Incredible.
Awesome man that's a gnarly bar. Haha my first melt last winter.. I dropped the bar after melting my glove, and lit the old wooden shop floor on fire. Was a good time haha. I'm stoked you always leave the mishaps in though so we can learn from them, thanks a ton for the knowledge and entertainment!! Killer bar stoked for future melts/refines, cheers man.
I'm always amazed when you melt down silver, you make it look so easy, sometimes I want to give it a try, but I'm still very gun shy to try, so at this point I will continue to watch you do it. Thank You Sir. THE SARGE
You did well for the first time. A good tip is to put a piece of cardboard at the bottom of the furnace and then put the crucible on top. It prevents the crucible from getting stuck and causing problems down the line. The carboard will char in the process and won't let the slaggy bits stick to the crucible anytime.
I did that for redundancy. I’ve ruined the pour by obstructing the view in previous videos. I wasn’t going to let that happen for this one because I will probably never do it again.
Fun video. Nice work for a first timer. My father taught foundry in school as a metal shop teacher. If he were around today we would be watching your videos together. He would have had all kinds of comments on this video. But, he would have been amazed at your chemical processing of the metals
I feel like I just watched a collaboration between my two favorite content creators. Sreetips and BigstackD! That was a great video. Thank you for that. And I'm glad I missed it yesterday, this was the first video I saw on my birthday today!
Congratulations on that first big pour, i got nervous just watching all that heat and melted silver. the bar is perfect it still 2k+ after finished. and it has the beauty marks of hand poured. good work.
I like to see that you actually take the advices given in teh comments seriously. Putting an angle to the inlet of the furnace so that you dont not fire at the crucible directly is the right thing to do.
Good job brother! Practice makes perfect! Pouring tongs would help with pouring just pulling out of the furnace sit it in a brick and quickly swap tongs. Big channel locks will help lifting that hot mold as well just be careful. You got this brother! Keep up the awesome work!! 🤜🏻🤛🏻
HEY KEVIN, THIS IS BARB, HOW ARE YOU DOING, GREAT I HOPE! I LOVEEE YOUR CZcams CHANNEL! I AM HOOKED I CAN'T STOP BINGE WATCHING ALLLLL YOUR VIDEO'S! I CAN'T BELIEVE I'VE KNOWN AND BEEN AROUND YOU FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS BUT I HAD NOOO IDEA YOU DO THE WORK THAT YOU DO IN THESE VIDEO'S! YOU ARE MY NEW IDOL SERIOUSLY KEVIN! I WANT TO DO WHAT YOU DO NOW!
For a first attempt, I'd say you did an excellent job. There are a few things you could definitely do more smoothly, but I thought it was a great attempt!
I harvested my silver cell this evening. I to had cauliflower like silver crystals. It's a brand new set up so I'm guessing my small copper clips are not allowing the set 3.5V to be achieved. Causing my resistance issues. Learning !!!
Awesome video as per usual! Ever thought of taking a wire wheel to the bar and maybe sanding and buffing down to a mirror finish. I would suggest doing it in an enclosed space as to gather up all the left over silver dust. I think that would make for a spectacular silver bar. Just a thought.
I was unlucky..my tlf went in the floor. My sweet wife have order a new on. Hope the phone come in a day, maybee two😊 God bless you both Mrs and Mr sreetips. The bar is stunning sir🎉 Arne
The trick to not getting any of that crud on the top of the bar is to leave some silver in the crucible. The last of the melted silver is where the crud comes from. Also, use a level bar to level the mold. Heat the mold prior and during the pour.
Very good first try. Also don't forget to level the mold, you probably noticed the little inclination resulting in the bar a little taller on one side.
This might help But the next time you get ready to take your metals out of your mold just have a big enough spot where your molds at just flip the mold over your bar will fall out of the mold Then put it in the water I use a big pair of channel locks to hold it and I noticed after a lot of use the mold will start sticking if so I use spray graphite I use that a lot in my projectile molds The bar looked nice Thanks for sharing great video man
That was a beautiful looking bar. Especially for the first poor that the burner equipment and crucible will will bexcellent investment in future pores.
Hello from new Zealand sreetips! Always a pleasure watching your videos!! question....why not let it cool without water? Is there an issue removing it from the mold cold?? I'm thinking of trying it myself!
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. Your silver bars is stunning😊 Nice,and fluffy. Your name ,and the sreetips is recommended offen on many canals 🎉 Have a nice day. Arne
I think that was an excellent first bar honestly! I love watching smelting videos (shout out to BigStackD and ArtByAdRock), so I guess I'm an expert at watching videos LOL! The tricks that might make sense include adding a bit of flux (borax) and skimming off slag before the pour. I don't think you should shy away from a little buffing and polishing when you're done (I know you don't want to lose precious metal). You might also want to work on a concrete surface rather than a wooden one and have an extra fire brick to move the molten silver containing crucible to before skimming and then switching to horizontal tongs. Also, definitely find a nice pair of tongs you can use to flip the hot bar out of the mold and into the cold water 😉
It's still an Amazing bar even if you did drop it . I'm a #1 fan and I love All of your videos. I have went back and watched almost all of them . Amazing 👏👏👏
Thank you - if was going to make a career of pouring big bars then I’d probably make some pouring tongs. But clearly, as demonstrated in this video, they are not a necessity.
@@sreetips I agree with you partially sreetips, all your videos place a clear warning against dangerous chemicals and fumes that can be deadly to the refiner but pouring 2 pounds off molten metal of the ground towards yourself is very dangerous ,if your crucible had slipped even a little bit the metal pour could have surged and splashed over the top of your mould with a risk of burning you. I would have hated to see that happen. Be well sir.
@@mehere6865 Those tongs are beatifully well done and grabs the crucible firmly from every angle, but it will be better to pour the silver in two steps with a horizontal tong in second place
I realise a bunch of people already said this but you need to tool up like BigstackD, side pouring tongs, some grabbing tongs to flip the bar out of the mould, a concrete slab to do this on, and optionally a massive block of ice as opposed to water. I'd also get some long thin wooden strips to light the furnace, the burnt paper is a hazard and can cause ash pollution to your environment. That bar still looked mint, nice work!
@@sreetips, indeed the tongs you have look really good but they are for placing the crucible in and out of the furnace, you should also be using a side holding one designed for pouring. Not only for ease of use and control but safety too, pouring molten metal with vertical tongs seems hazardous imo.
This is one of my favorite episodes by far. I thought that cooling the ingot in ice would ruin the integrity of the metal. Looks like I’m up to do some research.
Another tip from the UK, you need to line your furnace with a rigidiser, for two reasons, one, every time you blast it with your burner, small particles of ceramic blanket will be put in to the air, that is not nice to be breathing it in, even if you put on a respirator, others around you will be breathing it in, long term exposure will give you silicosis which is a killer as you know, the rigidiser will protect the blanket and also for a second reason, your ceramic blanket will last longer.
You should be able to skim off that black stuff with a stainless spoon while its still molten in the crucible. Let the spoon heat up a bit first, it helps with it not sticking to it as much. At least it does for aluminum and copper. If i stick a cold spoon and try and skim the slag, I get a metal coated spoon, but if its hot, tap it on a hard surface and it comes off. You could then easily run it back thru your silver cell, or save it, and remelt all your slag, skim off the junk and have another nice bar. Most impurities and junk floats on molten metal, which makes it handy for skimming off the top.
Holy cow, that's a big bar of silver! I bet you could easily polish it up shiny with a miniscule loss of silver. Good luck with the next one, sreetips, I know that you'll have a better result with the next one. It was a difficult pour with those straight tongs, perhaps a different set of tongs with some angle on it would work better. I'm just thinking out loud, I don't know what kind of tongs are available, since I've never done this before. Anyway, I enjoyed watching the pour of your 2kg bar of high purity silver. I have a fondness for silver, and I've begun to collect some to make my first silver cell.
Hi Sreetips, I have finally made it through all you videos to current, and I have loved every video you have made. I did have one thought for an experiment for you when poring silver bars. what if, in stead of melting the bar in the crucible and then pouring into the mold you measure out the pour you want to do with the pure silver crystal and put it directly in to the Bar mold and put the into the Forge sold it is melted in the mold. from what I have seen in big company refineries that is how they make there bars come out smooth like glass.
Sreetips: you want to Borax glaze season all your new crucibles and molds , this will seal them from the crude and scale. Also go to the gas grill store and get you a electric spark igniter and grill spark tips , you can then safely lite the furnace . You also need a horizontal pour crucible piliers , that way extract the crucible onto the fire brick pavers... cut off the furnace...then make your pour safely. Put a metal top on your furnace with a long handle attached so you can safely remove & replace it.
Get yourself a 3ft. long / 2" i.d. stainless steel pipe and weld a funnel at top , that way you can add silver crystals into the crucible from the hole in top of furnace while it is in process.
Even Clay-graphite? Never heard or seen it done to them.
Good ideas, the lid seemed to work okay but I agree with the glazing, that could help with the dirt from the crucible. I think he needed a big pair of channel locks to grab the mold to flip it in the water too, not using whatever it was they he had
Stainless would be ideal, but unnecessary. Calm down, I don't think sreetips is about to weld stainless any time soon.
Brilliant and practical. Sounds like you have some experience with this
Yeah it would be really nice to be able to add the silver without having to take the lid off. I felt like there would be a small chance of a steam explosion from adding the silver.
You didn’t drop it on the ground, you just gave it some 1 of 1 character marks. You’re an artist streetips, we get it
All you need now is to call up the guy who made your giant crucible tongs to make you one for pouring. Then you're all set.
the mold needed to be hotter is all
The pour he has is fine. It's technic needs work. Practice
Hell I want to know who made the tongs. I need some of those.
Sharing your fails and your successes is why we love watching you! I've never refined metals and may never but I am so intrigued by the process and your videos! Don't be discouraged! Thank you for doing what you do!
My goal was to build my own furnace and pour a giant bar of high purity silver. Mission accomplished
@@sreetips you'll get better in time
@@sreetips I like these kind of videos
Please keep these kind of videos coming
Good job sreetips nice melt and pour 💯 I had a similar experience my first time 🤜🏼🤛🏼
Fantastic pour! I’m enjoying the way your work is progressing. Can’t get enough of seeing big silver bars!
This is one of my favorite videos of yours, mainly because we see the end product of all those silver crystals. Love re-watching the process.
You should get a horizontal pair of tongs. It would be a lot easier than using those vertical ones.
You cant just drop the crucible into the pot. The tongs are vertical so that he can gently place the crucible at the bottom of the pot. If you tried with horizontal tongs, the side of the pot would get in the way and you'd have to drop it in.
Also, how would one go about getting the hot crucible out with horizontal tongs?
@@ramoddjob You use the vertical tongs to lower it in and out. You use the horizontal tongs to pour.
I use vertices for both
@@Heymrk Oh
Bare hands the best way
Great video! Maybe pour a concrete pad somewhere away from the deck for future melts. A bad spill could burn your whole show down, and put some cardboard under the crucible so that it doesn’t stick. Looking forward to a 5 kg melt soon!
Way cool! Love the use of everyday items that reduce equipment cost and showing the occasional failure is a great learning tool.
Wooooooooow! SPECTACULAR! So cool. Hope I can one day see your stack of silver bricks. I cant even dream what's your poured silver stack today, but surely with the bricks will be one of the wonders of the world.
Also, you can use a hand drill with a brush to clean that bar. For reference I recommend Mr @bigstckd channel for expert level cleaning and polishment, but with one brush in the drill you can make it awesome. Beautiful bar.
Bigstckd does awesome melts and pours. I've followed him for awhile! 👍
@@timtom9450 He's far out man. I used his prescription to treat small bars Inpour. If it came out nice for me, imagine having one of his in yoir hands. Incredible.
BigstackD is a trash to treasure resource for hobby smelting.
Love your shows mate. I use all your ideas to help me with precious metals. Thanks heaps from Australia 🇦🇺
That was awesome for a first time! Keep the videos coming!
Copper and Gold are such beautiful metals. But the simplicity of Silver, and extremely high reflectivity give it a beauty all its own 😍
Great work bro! Love seeing the hard-work throughout your videos!
Awesome man that's a gnarly bar. Haha my first melt last winter.. I dropped the bar after melting my glove, and lit the old wooden shop floor on fire. Was a good time haha. I'm stoked you always leave the mishaps in though so we can learn from them, thanks a ton for the knowledge and entertainment!! Killer bar stoked for future melts/refines, cheers man.
I'm always amazed when you melt down silver, you make it look so easy, sometimes I want to give it a try, but I'm still very gun shy to try, so at this point I will continue to watch you do it. Thank You Sir. THE SARGE
Thx so much. I love seeing the finished product.
You did well for the first time. A good tip is to put a piece of cardboard at the bottom of the furnace and then put the crucible on top. It prevents the crucible from getting stuck and causing problems down the line. The carboard will char in the process and won't let the slaggy bits stick to the crucible anytime.
I feel you did a great job from purifying to making a bar. GREAT JOB.
Been waiting for this one :) joy to watch! Thank you.
Fascinating!!
I love your videos!! Thanks for sharing.
Love ur videos dude . I've watch every one u make keep up the rad work
I really like watching you doing this. The last time you did this was very cool to make more like this 😉
Great work Sreetips, most educational videos for this field 👍
Thank you
This guy has really inspired me to get into chemistry the way I always wanted to. Thank you sir. You are an alchemist, there is no mistake.
You did great 👍.
Thanks for the 2nd angle of the pour. 2 perspectives does make a big difference.
I did that for redundancy. I’ve ruined the pour by obstructing the view in previous videos. I wasn’t going to let that happen for this one because I will probably never do it again.
You did good sree, the shape is perfect. It still came out pure silver. First time with that, great job👍
Fun video. Nice work for a first timer. My father taught foundry in school as a metal shop teacher. If he were around today we would be watching your videos together. He would have had all kinds of comments on this video. But, he would have been amazed at your chemical processing of the metals
I feel like I just watched a collaboration between my two favorite content creators. Sreetips and BigstackD! That was a great video. Thank you for that. And I'm glad I missed it yesterday, this was the first video I saw on my birthday today!
Happy Birthday!
@@sreetips thank you so much!!
I was so nervous watching this. Better than reality TV and I learned something.
Wow, what a beautiful hunk of metal!
As always your videos inspire me to no end my friend ❤.
Nice camera angles!
What a chunk of silver!
Have a Great Day My Friend!!
more capacity more $$$. Very nice developments Mr. Sreetips!
Every good camper has dropped His hotdog in the dirt . I greatly appreciate the great videos.😁
Congratulations on that first big pour, i got nervous just watching all that heat and melted silver. the bar is perfect it still 2k+ after finished. and it has the beauty marks of hand poured. good work.
Thank you!
I like to see that you actually take the advices given in teh comments seriously. Putting an angle to the inlet of the furnace so that you dont not fire at the crucible directly is the right thing to do.
Agree
Excellent. Glad I stayed up late!
Loved it Sreetips!!!
Two uploads in one day! Let's go. I appreciated your sentiment in the former. Thank you so much
Good job brother! Practice makes perfect! Pouring tongs would help with pouring just pulling out of the furnace sit it in a brick and quickly swap tongs. Big channel locks will help lifting that hot mold as well just be careful. You got this brother! Keep up the awesome work!! 🤜🏻🤛🏻
HEY KEVIN, THIS IS BARB, HOW ARE YOU DOING, GREAT I HOPE! I LOVEEE YOUR CZcams CHANNEL! I AM HOOKED I CAN'T STOP BINGE WATCHING ALLLLL YOUR VIDEO'S! I CAN'T BELIEVE I'VE KNOWN AND BEEN AROUND YOU FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS BUT I HAD NOOO IDEA YOU DO THE WORK THAT YOU DO IN THESE VIDEO'S! YOU ARE MY NEW IDOL SERIOUSLY KEVIN! I WANT TO DO WHAT YOU DO NOW!
Hell of a bar man great video
"We're gonna charge this new crucible up" I love it!!
Very nice video! Thanks for making it.
Love this guy. Great job man.
LOL .Great adventure and thanks for sharing . I for one look forward to your next attempt and am also hoping for a bit better result .Cheers
My wife wants a repour. And she usually gets what she wants.
For a first attempt, I'd say you did an excellent job. There are a few things you could definitely do more smoothly, but I thought it was a great attempt!
I harvested my silver cell this evening. I to had cauliflower like silver crystals. It's a brand new set up so I'm guessing my small copper clips are not allowing the set 3.5V to be achieved. Causing my resistance issues. Learning !!!
Awesome video as per usual! Ever thought of taking a wire wheel to the bar and maybe sanding and buffing down to a mirror finish. I would suggest doing it in an enclosed space as to gather up all the left over silver dust. I think that would make for a spectacular silver bar. Just a thought.
he could then just put the silver dust back into his silver cell
I was unlucky..my tlf went in the floor. My sweet wife have order a new on. Hope the phone come in a day, maybee two😊
God bless you both Mrs and Mr sreetips. The bar is stunning sir🎉
Arne
The trick to not getting any of that crud on the top of the bar is to leave some silver in the crucible. The last of the melted silver is where the crud comes from. Also, use a level bar to level the mold. Heat the mold prior and during the pour.
that is en realy awsome filver bar ;) great job
great video
Very good first try. Also don't forget to level the mold, you probably noticed the little inclination resulting in the bar a little taller on one side.
Yes I did see that
@@sreetips I'd fill it with water beforehand, so to make sure it's leveled. You surely thought of that, but just in case you haven't!
You are doing fine their is a learning curve and your right in it couple more times and you will be great thank you for another fine video two thumbs
Thank you
There is always a first time for everyone. Wise minds will learn much from Sreetips!
did a great job!! better than the gold pour for sure !!!
It takes a steady hand and nerves of steel to pour that much glowing hot molten silver at once.
This might help But the next time you get ready to take your metals out of your mold just have a big enough spot where your molds at just flip the mold over your bar will fall out of the mold Then put it in the water I use a big pair of channel locks to hold it and I noticed after a lot of use the mold will start sticking if so I use spray graphite I use that a lot in my projectile molds The bar looked nice Thanks for sharing great video man
AWESOME POUR!
Om Ah Houm
What an adventure! Cheers! To many more grand adventures for all! Many more blessings and Blissful moments, yum!
That was a beautiful looking bar. Especially for the first poor that the burner equipment and crucible will will bexcellent investment in future pores.
Always educational watching sreetips. Thanks for sharing your world with us Sir.
Thank you
I have found getting the mold glowing red hot will keep the molten metal from solidifying in layers and make a nice smooth bar.
Hotter the better
Hello from new Zealand sreetips! Always a pleasure watching your videos!! question....why not let it cool without water? Is there an issue removing it from the mold cold?? I'm thinking of trying it myself!
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. Your silver bars is stunning😊
Nice,and fluffy. Your name ,and the sreetips is recommended offen on many canals 🎉
Have a nice day. Arne
I think that was an excellent first bar honestly! I love watching smelting videos (shout out to BigStackD and ArtByAdRock), so I guess I'm an expert at watching videos LOL! The tricks that might make sense include adding a bit of flux (borax) and skimming off slag before the pour. I don't think you should shy away from a little buffing and polishing when you're done (I know you don't want to lose precious metal). You might also want to work on a concrete surface rather than a wooden one and have an extra fire brick to move the molten silver containing crucible to before skimming and then switching to horizontal tongs. Also, definitely find a nice pair of tongs you can use to flip the hot bar out of the mold and into the cold water 😉
All good points, thank you
AWESOME REFINERY SKILSS SIR!!!
@@sreetips I really enjoyed watching this a second time! Someone should buy you a Devil Forge! Or maybe they should sponsor you!
I already have a propane furnace that I made myself.
@@sreetips And that is impressive but honestly a little scary too. So far you've done pretty well keeping safe - please keep at it! 🙂
Very impressive bar sir, Thank you for this interesting video.
felicitaciones hermosa barra!!
Wow this is different but just as cool of a vide thank for sharing
Have you tried wiping new graphite molds before the first melt? You can significantly reduce the scale, or eliminate it entirely this way.
I love silver. Not because I'm cheap, I just like it more than gold. TY for the vid.
You’d be surprised at how many times I’ve heard folks say that.
I like the layers when viewed from the side.
The sides and bottom look the best
Awesome! you are a boss brother
That is beautiful! I wish I was in the market to buy a sreetips silver bar like that.
I wasn’t going to do any more big bars. But Mrs sreetips has tasked me to do a repour.
I like your setup.
Thank you
This was fun to watch! Lol I can't lie. No better teacher then a mistake and experience!
It's still an Amazing bar even if you did drop it . I'm a #1 fan and I love All of your videos. I have went back and watched almost all of them . Amazing 👏👏👏
ps you have done a great job thank you much jim
Interesting view from side, how it cooled down by layers
Nice job, imho people learn more from those minor mistakes than videos of perfect execution. Thank you
Experience helps ya learn. Cool video.
There is no substitute for experience
A beautiful pour despite not having any horizontal pour tongs. I look forwards to seeing more of these videos.
Thank you - if was going to make a career of pouring big bars then I’d probably make some pouring tongs. But clearly, as demonstrated in this video, they are not a necessity.
@@sreetips I agree with you partially sreetips, all your videos place a clear warning against dangerous chemicals and fumes that can be deadly to the refiner but pouring 2 pounds off molten metal of the ground towards yourself is very dangerous ,if your crucible had slipped even a little bit the metal pour could have surged and splashed over the top of your mould with a risk of burning you. I would have hated to see that happen. Be well sir.
@@mehere6865 me too!
@@mehere6865 Those tongs are beatifully well done and grabs the crucible firmly from every angle, but it will be better to pour the silver in two steps with a horizontal tong in second place
Will be more comfortable.
I think it turned out well. Can't wait for the next pour
Mrs sreetips has ordered a repour. Just when I thought that I was done with that 2000 degree monster!
@@sreetips lol
What causes the layering in your pours? Is that from non uniform cooling? Great work! Beautiful bar!
I think the molds are machined, and that pattern is on the edges of the mold. See the light shining on it at 1:21
Mate for a first attempt at a pour that is an amazing result on that bar.
I realise a bunch of people already said this but you need to tool up like BigstackD, side pouring tongs, some grabbing tongs to flip the bar out of the mould, a concrete slab to do this on, and optionally a massive block of ice as opposed to water. I'd also get some long thin wooden strips to light the furnace, the burnt paper is a hazard and can cause ash pollution to your environment.
That bar still looked mint, nice work!
Ok, thanks. Those tongs worked very good for me.
@@sreetips, indeed the tongs you have look really good but they are for placing the crucible in and out of the furnace, you should also be using a side holding one designed for pouring. Not only for ease of use and control but safety too, pouring molten metal with vertical tongs seems hazardous imo.
This is one of my favorite episodes by far.
I thought that cooling the ingot in ice would ruin the integrity of the metal. Looks like I’m up to do some research.
sreetips is my favorite since 2016..😘😘😘
Another tip from the UK, you need to line your furnace with a rigidiser, for two reasons, one, every time you blast it with your burner, small particles of ceramic blanket will be put in to the air, that is not nice to be breathing it in, even if you put on a respirator, others around you will be breathing it in, long term exposure will give you silicosis which is a killer as you know, the rigidiser will protect the blanket and also for a second reason, your ceramic blanket will last longer.
You should be able to skim off that black stuff with a stainless spoon while its still molten in the crucible. Let the spoon heat up a bit first, it helps with it not sticking to it as much. At least it does for aluminum and copper. If i stick a cold spoon and try and skim the slag, I get a metal coated spoon, but if its hot, tap it on a hard surface and it comes off. You could then easily run it back thru your silver cell, or save it, and remelt all your slag, skim off the junk and have another nice bar. Most impurities and junk floats on molten metal, which makes it handy for skimming off the top.
very nice looking bar even with the crud on the surface of it... a few minutes with a polisher and it will be just fine
awesome very impresive 👍😀👍
Awesome looking good
Holy cow, that's a big bar of silver! I bet you could easily polish it up shiny with a miniscule loss of silver. Good luck with the next one, sreetips, I know that you'll have a better result with the next one. It was a difficult pour with those straight tongs, perhaps a different set of tongs with some angle on it would work better. I'm just thinking out loud, I don't know what kind of tongs are available, since I've never done this before. Anyway, I enjoyed watching the pour of your 2kg bar of high purity silver. I have a fondness for silver, and I've begun to collect some to make my first silver cell.
He can lose 18 grams (dross and silver together) and still have a 2 KG bar.
Hi Sreetips,
I have finally made it through all you videos to current, and I have loved every video you have made. I did have one thought for an experiment for you when poring silver bars. what if, in stead of melting the bar in the crucible and then pouring into the mold you measure out the pour you want to do with the pure silver crystal and put it directly in to the Bar mold and put the into the Forge sold it is melted in the mold. from what I have seen in big company refineries that is how they make there bars come out smooth like glass.
I’ve tried that and the surface turns out very frosty. The best looking bars come from a preheated mold with a reducing flame applied.
Amazing stuff we all made mistakes our first time smelting it gets easier over time and you learn tips and tricks
Smelt: rendering metals from ore.
You did good for a first timer 🙂👍
U can take and brush out the inside after seasoning it. Borax? Will that help like gold?
That was a excellent first try.