I really love how he puts his name everywhere, so those thieves on facebook can't re-upload his videos.

I'm a nonprofessional chemistry and geology enthusiast, and I love your videos.

"I'll be done in about a week." Hours later: "Here's the rig!" Awesome LOL I'm looking forward to seeing this thing in action.

One of the most effective ways to strip gold plating! Great job 👍

I love your videos! The longer, the better!

Hello Professor, Thank you so much for the video. This is advanced professionalism. That's great. I'm not going to miss the rest of the video. Thank you.

Good to be back after a hacking my friend ! Great to see you once again.

All questions answered, thanks! Can't wait to see this work.

Excellent setup!

Glad to see your ideas on this process, great videos, many thanks.

The professor is giving us the REAL gold, information. I pray we all live long enough to stack gold like Sreetips.

wow, you have an epic job on your hands there Streetips, i look forward to seeing you do it all, i bet you find a few nice surprises in that lot.

Love the new method! Great equipment upgrades! :D

Awesome! I can't wait to watch the process.

At last I was waiting for this video 😅 thank you as u r ready for action 🤠. thanks

Love the ingenuity!

Well that looks just as interesting as the silver cell. Can't wait to see the results.

Okay Chief your going big time now. Looking forward to this.

You should insulate the copper wire touching the plate on your lab jack.

Looking foward to watching this series of videos. 👍

This is fascinating! I would love to see you as a guest on the Monday night live stream Scrapping Irish does. I'm sure many other would too. Great work. Take care, Poo

Lead sure is easy to work with !

Looks good, a bin under the Pyrex might help you could cool it by putting it on ice and makes a good catch trey

I trust screetips on my life with his science. ;-) Gotta love the man for showing that enthusiasm.

These videos of how to are excellent. But if you don't know what you doing folks don't do it. Thanks Sreetips!!!

Hi Sreetips, can we use Stainless Steel instead of Lead for the reverse electroplating

That's the most jewelry I've ever seen you refine. Can't wait to see the yield you get out of all of it. Are you leaving the stones and metal springs in the clasps on as you run the cell? If not that looks like a lot of prep time.

I feel like if my chemistry teachers in school were like this guy here, i would have enjoyed chemistry a lot more.

looks great sreetips looking forward to seeing it working

You can tell he really loves doing this stuff

clean and organized

Looks like a pirate treasure! :-)

Have you considered using glycine to dissolve your gold?

Can’t wait for it

Well that was snappy.

To save the hand cranking on the lift, would a drill lower and raise it?

Can't wait to see it in action brotha

Deep fried gold

You should be a spokesman for Ace Hardware with all the products that you use from them. Maybe you could be like a life size cardboard cutout in your lab coat holding some acid with a big smile with one of those bubbles with the words Sreetips says Ace is the place with the helpful hardware man! They used to have that jingle all over tv back in the day.

Can't wait to see the gold stripping off of the junk metal.

Is the copper and lead unaffected by the acid you'll be using? Also, I gather the goal is to get the gold into solution for further refinement?

Those lead ingots look very familiar, I sold a whole truckload of them to a guy in Minnesota a few years ago; looks like they may have made their way to eBay

Did you know you could use this method to refine CARAT SCRAP GOLD? The higher the carat the better. The process will remove the gold and turn it into gold powder. when the silver is encountered, it will simply fall to the bottom of the container. Then you simply dilute the ACID and extract the solids from the acid. The rest you should know. Nitric acid to dissolve the silver and Aqua Regia to dissolve the gold. I ran this experiment 4 years ago on a 14K gold ring using the exact same process you are using in this video. It took a couple of hours to reduce the ring to nothing, but it worked. When the bit of ring was too small for the clip to hold onto, i put it into a copper basket and finished it off. Try it on a small piece of carat scrap and let me know what you think. The time it takes to process the material is a bit longer, but it is an alternative to using so much Nitric acid. BTW, I had to stop my experiment half way through because the sulfuric acid got too hot for my liking. I did not have a re-circulating water pump to keep the glass from heating up.

woow awsome ;) great video ;)

Why don’t other metals, copper, brass, iron etc. Have electrons that migrate with the current ???

I ❤ this process 👍👍👍

A few things to look forward to: 1 The acid will get very hot, almost too hot if you run it too long. Take breaks after about an hour run. 2. There will be a yellowish brown foam that will float on top of the acid after a while. You might want to skim it off and save it. it will clog up your basket if not taken care off occasionally. 3. The Lead bar will turn black / goldish brown and slimy. You might want to wash it in water and dry it off every 2-3 sessions. I think the black might be oxidized lead, but could be gold plating on the lead. The acid will get VERY dark after a few runs, so it's hard to tell really what's going on under the surface.

Hey Sreetips, first I just want to say thank you for everything you do. You are an inspiration and an amazing teacher. My first question to you is, could the gold on gold filled jewelry and rolled gold plate jewelry be removed with this same process of reverse plating? My second question is more of a request for a video demonstration of my 1st question in the name of science and learning. Again thank you for everything you do. Keep up the amazing work and I look forward to your response as well as a possible video in the future.

If I only have 18k test solution and I drop it on silver and watch it, what color should I see?

wont the steel springs from the clamps mess the thing?

cant wait to see this

Are you going to do a total gold weight from all the three boxes of gold plated stuff you just showed as that would be really interesting to see what you get from all that lot buddy

Please tell us where you get this stuff from? Do you purchase it from ebay or another source? Even some of the pure gold jewelry that you show. It almost looks like found stuff.

Pretty in the tutorial, the cast cathode is 100% lead? Or other metals? What percentage is it? Thanks for the tutorial.

What is the reason of NOT dissolving the copper mesh basket and dissolve the jewellery inside the basket?

Looks fantastic streetips, only part for the course when it comes to really ANYTHING & EVERYTHING that you're involved in and/or doing yourself good sir !!!! 😊 My gawd you've sure got a massive amount of gold scraps to process my friend !! Best of Luck, cannot wait to see your results *QUESTION:* why not use a gold anode/cathode? Why will Lead work for this?

Please let me know where you get jewelry to extract the gold from it

Cool idea. Are the springs in the clips copper too, or do you just plan to keep those out of solution?

now wait, are you sure you are going to lower that with a lab jack and not an overhead pulley system?

So the main issue is the solution heating up and not being effective. How about a different rig that could be placed into a water jacket arrangement (sealed water jacket of course, no one wants water to come in contact with sulfuric acid!), then have a small submersible pump to circulate the water thru the jacket? I was thinking controlling the temp of the acid would allow you to run longer and do RGP and Gold filled, which would be much more efficient than an AP solution. What do you think?

is that stuff better than h2so4

Would it work to do this with goldplated stuff like cpu pins and ram fingers? have been saving some ever since i watched one of ur much older gold recovery vids and this seem to fit me since i dont need a whole lab

Can stainless steel be used instead of lead? I have tones of SS

Does the gold go into solution, or plate out on the lead?

Great job, Man! That should work really well for what you have.. looks like to have plenty of material to work with! Have you tried a clay pot instead of copper mesh basket? If I remember correctly, gold ions will pass through the clay and slimes will stay inside the clay pot.. keeps the slimes from mingling with the deplated gold. Also, not sure who on GRF suggested it (fairly certain it was Lazersteve, but you should ad a small amount of glycerine to your electrolyte.. I don't remember the reason offhand.. worth asking the group about)

Impressive looking

Does it matter what the base metal is? Silver,brass,nickel, and so on?

Would this set up work on silver plated items? Silverware?

Will you have to insulate the 4 gauge wire that's touching the metal jack? I was thinking the power source that connected to the copper would be a problem if it's touching the steel jack?? Look forward to seeing this procedure!! Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!

Cool beans!

Omg, you've actually got around to getting it done. Happy to see that your a very dedicated teacher when meeting your viewers expectations.

#Sreetips must it be a strong electrolyte.or could it be deluded? Say using ph down for a pool 10%ish sulfuric acid

Will this idea work for sliver plated items too?

Helow!i just got a few aluminiun gold plated high grade but dont know if i could be done the same way ?

ahhh!!! this is going to be so amazing, thanks for the updates!!!

Just asking: Is that jack made out of metal? Make sure to isolate it not to get electrocuted.

Probably the best way to do large amounts of gold pins off ewaste if you had it all for super cheap or free

Nice 👏😁

cant wait

Wouldn't a basket made in that shape make a Faraday cage and slow / block the current from getting to the plated items ?

Is their any method you do. That you are in the positive. NOT in the negative for producing gold...money wise

According to my calculations with market value. The brick autographed by Sreetips is now worth approximately 11x it's original price.

Would this work for sullins 62 pin gold connecters? I have about 600 of them. I'd send them to you if you make a video of it

Dear sreetips I would like to know if I can send in some scrap gold bars to you to be purified so I can sell them

sure you wont end up with copper plated lead ?

Why do you have two videos in my recommended? One says 34 mins ago, the other says 33 mins ago.

Won't that dissolve the copper also? Shouldn't you use stainless?

Ok, so I need to order copper mesh. And lead. I have about 3 pounds of gold plate pins from cell phone's and

you may add 5% of nitric 68% to the muriatic, the de-plating is faster and "protect" the base metal. more precisely, add sulfuric 95% slowly to nitric, who is more hydrated, it's exothermic.

Ok it's not me hitting buttons my phone is being a butt. I'll get all my stuff together and check back with you. Thanks for the info.

hi dear professor is this method can be used in gold ore? thanks alot

Oh snap, this is mad science here! I cant wait to see how this stands up to the test of time. Looks like an induction heater at glance.

Is the lab stand going to be insulated from the copper wire? When it comes to electricity safety comes first!

How about just boiling in water to clean?

Last video someone said you should get 11 grams of Gold from all that gold plated material. We shall see.

What in the world is gold plating cell? And what is it used for?

Hmm just need to find out supplies of sulfuric acid I guess I have the rest of need material 👍😁👍

Holy crud how u get all that junk gold?

Now I know who robbed my grandma's jewelry box! Seriously though, thats allot of jewelry....

That was fast