My thoughts as well. I'll probably not do it again for those reasons.

No kidding! "How hard can it be!? i said, i can do this! I said. Watched this amazing video and yea, ill leave this to the pros!😂 great videos! Love this channel!

What are you talking about ... It not dangerous .. it's a walk in the park ...just be smart , protect yourself . Leaving everything up to companies and the " professionals " is alot more dangerous that doing it yourself

​@@sreetips😂 I like your style , making smart videos

@@sreetipsthey don’t give credit for the most expensive metal in that whole concoction of precious?!? Rhodium 😮 wt…😂 how much would you guess is in there? A grams worth?

Thanks Coin, I just got done watching it for the first time all the way through myself.

Same here, interesting video.

Made to stop folks from doing it? Mark, nobody, and I mean nobody, who has it down, is going to show you their process on a social media like this. In fact if you look you will find that there is no other video, like this one, that shows the ENTIRE process start to finish, on the entire internet. Platinum refiners don't like to talk about their highly secretive techniques, and they don't like talking to people who do. By posting these videos, especially this one, I've made myself an outcast among the refining community. They wouldn't touch me with a ten foot pole because I've taken the time and effort to figure out how to do it on my own, then produced a video to show you what I have learned. They don't want their secrets divulged. Go ahead and check. You won't find another video with this much detail anywhere. I've got the only one on the planet! Plus if you look, I've got previous videos leading up to this one, where I refine a platinum coin for practice and some palladium to gain the experience required to make these catalytic converter videos. Thank you for taking the time to watch them!

Thanks for your time and energy, but were not worth the risk... I'm watching the gold video now.... I see you did t need me to tell you that platinum is not easy

Some things to improve your yeild, first it does not need to be terribly acidic, what the acid does is get the salts in solution, secondly actively agitating them will speed it up a lot, thirdly, adding a little bromine with the chlorine will strip it super fast. Also use some distilled water for your chemistry.

Not to be insensitive, but it seems like it would be easier to make meth. For someone without a degree in chemistry, you are doing quite well.

Man that was a bit of time to get through,awesome video

nj anderson Dude. I literally wore a respirator like he has in the video... while I watched the video

I had a platinum erection.

Did you hold your breath for the entire hour and 22 minutes? 😝😝

@@RockDog645 mostly

You breeth daily three times you aa superman in few days

Irish knackers do it then sell them to chinese metal mechants that do the durty and dangerous chemistry in china.

I it's been in service for nine years and still going strong. Those things are bullet proof.

Yep as long as you change the oil frequently it will give you years of trouble free service. My Robinair is 30 years old and still pulls 30” of vacuum ...!

William, I'm glad that you liked the video. Thank you

MMCS (SW)

sreetips AWO2 (CAC)

According to the pros, folks who do this for a living, sodium carbonate is the chemical to use. The exchange of electrons is called "cementing" because when copper is placed in an acidic silver nitrate solution, the resulting grey silver powder looks like wet cement. Some free nitric is required for the reaction to take place. I've put copper in a silver nitrate solution with the nitric used up so completely that the copper just sat there and no silver formed on it. To get the reaction started, I added a single ml of concentrated nitric acid then stirred. Then the reaction began. So some free nitric must be present to get the reaction going. This has been my experience.

Jes sir, that is right, a littlebit acid. Here you needed huge amounts of zink to kill the HCl , so my thoughts are to lower more with NaOH, not all!. Over here was an old copper-lead-zink mine from the 18 hundrets, where big copper trees got buildet on the old steel-rails from the ore-carts under water, the same process I guess. I do the same with my stockpot, copper tubes in it. After a while I check the PH and lower it if needed. Sodiumcarbonate Na2CO3 is a good choise either and cheap, it builds with 2HCl --> 2 NaCl (table salt) + CO2 gas + H2O so you get rid of the surplus of HCl. NaOH should do the same, just without the carbon dioxid. HCl + NaOh --> NaCl + H2O and the zink is doing Zn + 2 HCl --> ZnCl2 + H2 gas Is the H2 needed for PM to drop out?

Snoozin, trying to do cats, in a back yard setup, could never be a profitable venture. The amount of metal recovered is small, waste production high, and it's too dangerous handling those toxic solutions. Plus the metals are difficult to separate, they don't cooperate.

Thank you.

I thank you for doing that. I've been trying for viral but can't get the hang of it. I guess refining is too specialized, only a small percent are interested.

I wondered what that thing was.

just to add to the range of hazards in the video!

You would be wise to sell the converter stuff rather than try to extract the metals. It's too dangerous and the amount of metal won't begin to cover the cost of doing it. However, the profit that I gained, while not in dollars, is incalculable. The personal triumph of being able to finally pull this off was indescribably exhilarating. Having the only video on the entire planet that demonstrates the process is, well, quite glorious! But, as General George Patton once said, "All glory is fleeting."

And follow yer gut feelings eh. Well done fella. Great success.

@@sreetipshow do you feel today? Fleeted or must have plenty of fleeting to do yet? 💜

My life is fleeting. It’s been a wonderful ride.

Dang bro but I guess Father Time is undefeated, your videos are amazing and will stand the test of time

Ever heard of a gas mask

It's probably done differently with a big refiner. I did this at the hobby level just to make the video and gain the experience. To the enthusiast it's well worth it. To those who are thinking of doing it to make profit from the metals, probably not. Too much risk for the casual back-yard refiner.

Its well worth the risk, buying old cars and stripping the cat is the way to go, ur problem is ur costs depend directly on the platinum output, strip ur old car and sell spares, ul make more money and have a bigger refinery

Refining platinum group metals is for the pros. There is too much danger. Selling the cats just like they are is the way to go.

I give you a shout, thank you.

OK I'm in

I need d more info......

Tyler, the platinum refining video is uploading as I write.

I'll have to remember to do that when I try to refine it in part 2 of 2

Waste treatment... I'll have to make a separate video. We use chemistry to get out the toxic metals and make it safe for disposal.

that would be grate I don't think anyone wants to heart the earth .

That should prevent the cores from not reacting equally and lowering volume of hydrochloric acid .

I too am a nerdist.

@sreetips You sir, are the cool Poindexter

The stock market is the BEST way to make a few quick bucks these days.

Sorry to say that I wouldn't wish the stock market on my worst enemy right now.

Good

I still can't believe that I was able to pull it off.

@@sreetips Aren't you doing this on a regular basis?

Excellent advice, Thank you.

Scrap yard remove the cats right away apon receiving junked cars

Yeah I saw just universal catalytic those works like $10 each

If you or a loved one has.....

Lead dioxide from years ago, manganese from now, benzene, so yeah a lot of crap.

Platinum is simply too dangerous for the hobby refiner.

Palladium is not as bad a platinum, but both are highly toxic in solution. Get it on your skin and the rash could take months or years to appear. Platinosis.

Wise decision.

You're welcome Red

After part 2of2 is done my next video is my stock pot. Thanks SONNY.

sreetips as I watched this video I filtered my stock pot 😁 took me several hours to filter about 3 gallons of solution....well worth it got about 5 g....

Nice! I wish I could get metals for free.

Well free but I have to work hard hauling and processing the stuff. Watch my latest video about storage units and let me know what you think.

How do I get in on those

Sorry. I had those sitting around for years so I wanted to get them processed and get them moving.

I think calcium carbonate is ok to neutralize, but I've never used it so not 100% certain. How to know when all the platinum is leached? Not possible, you simply can't get it all. The best case is to leach for about a month, then harvest the liquid.

Thank you for the response. Appreciate it

I added some more dilute HCl and spoon full of sodium chlorate every week or so. They are still leaching. I'll get the liquid some day and slowly add it to my stock pot. I don't think it's possible to get all the metal. Diminishing returns sets in very quickly.