Quick Silver!!! 1000 Grams in 1 day!!!

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:07]So, today on Project Shop, we are back on the backyard silver processor.

[00:00:13]Uh, we got I got a new burner. I got new beers.

[00:00:19]We got some sugar. We're going to do this uh sugar and lie method. I I like how that went. Nick's got what' you say?

[00:00:27]130 lbs.

[00:00:27]>> Yeah. about 130 lbs of silverware heat cut up. And this looks like a buffet, man.

[00:00:36]We got um the two things sucking. We got this thing fired up. I am running a generator this time. We're really far away from the house. We were pulling a lot of power out of this thing last time. We're going to be running two burners. He's going to be doing his stuff. I'm going to be doing my stuff.

[00:00:55]We're getting a little uh Oh, we also we got chemical gloves this time. People were in the comments about that. Uh we have a fan blowing hard across here. And uh yeah, we're going to be as safe as we can.

[00:01:11]This is backyard silver processing at its finest. I do have a couple.

[00:01:18]He actually gave me this one. I'm going to go cut these up with a jaw. We tested a bunch of uh that's not silver, but all this stuff, that's all silver.

[00:01:31]So, a silver test kit that we were using. Uh so, I'm going to mill through this. We're going to cut out all the copper and and that stuff there right there is silver. We tested it. So, we'll run that. But, we're going to start off with the nuggets. I got 100 or 1,040 g we're going to run this time.

[00:01:53]And um I almost want to put Kenny on uh bashing up some things.

[00:02:04]We'll see. We'll see how it goes, man.

[00:02:07]Um but this is the stuff the leftover last time.

[00:02:11]We're going to process that as well today. So, we got a lot going on here.

[00:02:15]We got distilled water, regular water.

[00:02:19]Uh I got to go get my respirator. I know it's not the safest, but yeah, this is what we're doing. And if my wife doesn't start using this uh workout station, we're going to take this over and uh make a proper silver refinery. Gold refinery. I was just showing him my gold. He was >> got a bunch.

[00:02:37]>> Yeah, he said he said, "I got a bunch of gold, man. I just been throwing it in the bin." So, we'll get we'll get into some gold, too, one day. Um so, we're gonna get set up and get this going. And then I got Kenny over here. I'm going to get him going on something else. And uh we're just going to be pulling a bunch of uh a bunch of scrap today. Scrap silver, scrap copper, and whatever else we can find around here.

[00:03:13]Okay, we kind of got rained out for a minute and we got some bad news. So, we were running this stuff and we came a bunch across a bunch of this stuff here.

[00:03:28]I believe that's copper and it was coated.

[00:03:35]This stuff here though, I don't know what it is.

[00:03:41]Some of this stuff is like a ceramic or carbon. It's like it's just deteriorating. But this stuff was all coated.

[00:03:54]Like this one here. Look at that.

[00:03:58]It's not silver.

[00:04:03]That sucks cuz that's a huge pile.

[00:04:07]Some of it did have silver on it.

[00:04:11]Um but I'd like to I I really need to um figure out where this came from, which ones these were because that was a lot of work to get this stuff, man.

[00:04:33]And I was I was figuring we were going to have all this in silver. That was almost maybe a quarter of what I put in there.

[00:04:42]Um, now I did start running some of this stuff that was silver coated.

[00:04:50]I had cut up some stuff.

[00:04:54]Now, we checked. Not all this stuff was silver. Like this stuff was not silver.

[00:04:58]These were silver coated. And all this stuff I'm touching, it's been washed.

[00:05:03]So, it's been like neutralized.

[00:05:07]We're going to get set back up.

[00:05:09]We've got um he's running his stuff and I'm running my coated stuff. He's running the rest of his coated stuff.

[00:05:22]And then this is all that we got out of um still got a little bit of bubble action going on there. Something's Oh, something's reacting.

[00:05:38]could just be water.

[00:05:41]So, I'm going to start washing that.

[00:05:43]There's actually a lot of silver down in there. And then we're going to continue to run this stuff here. Um, we're basically heating it up and running. What are we running this stuff with? Uh, >> sulfuric acid and a little bit of nitric acid.

[00:06:00]>> It's peeling that stuff off pretty fast.

[00:06:03]He's running a bunch of the stuff. This is um stuff he's ran already.

[00:06:12]Actually does a really good job at pulling that stuff off. So, all right guys, it's been a long day, but this is what we got. This is all the silver from my contacts.

[00:06:26]This is all silver from silverware that he processed.

[00:06:33]We actually I I I I didn't weigh it or keep it separate. I should have showed, but um Where's the scrap bucket at?

[00:06:50]>> This is all This is what it looks like when it's done.

[00:06:52]>> Probably 500.

[00:06:55]>> Yeah, probably another 500 bucks. And copper and brass.

[00:07:00]That's mixed lead stuff. of my stuff.

[00:07:03]>> Where's the scrap bucket with the >> your right bucket?

[00:07:09]>> Oh, that's my bucket.

[00:07:10]>> Yes, sir.

[00:07:11]>> Oh, okay. It all looks the same to me now.

[00:07:17]So, um because we were running two burners, we had a fan going. I had my generator running back there all day.

[00:07:28]um on top of having the the the hood running and uh the hot plates.

[00:07:34]So then we have this bucket. I started a 55gallon drum and someone said that I can neutralize everything with uh baking soda, which um I'm going to let that stuff settle. Uh, you know, I've been let we we actually had some buckets from last time that I had stored with lids and we actually pulled some copper out of it or some uh silver out of it. Not much, but you know, it was worth letting it settle. Couple ounces probably.

[00:08:05]And um so I'll do the same thing. I'll let that settle. I'll dump it into that drum. I'll dump a bunch of uh you know, baking soda in there. And then I'll have to figure out what we're going to do with it at that point. That thing he's dumping in there right now was our baking soda water tub that uh just in case we splash acid on us, we can rinse, you know, neutralize it. But yeah, all in all, it was good. We're actually talking about finding stainless pans for that that we can heat up cuz he was used to using plastic that we couldn't heat up. But we're going to uh we'll get it dialed in, man, for the second run. I mean, that's a that's a lot.

[00:08:47]See? Uh, I mean, this is a gallon jug back here.

[00:08:52]That's a lot. We got a lot. Hopefully hopefully I'm going to hit my two grand uh mark. And he's probably got about two grand over here as well.

[00:09:04]So, it's all in all seems like it was a good day, man.

[00:09:24]Heat up here.

[00:09:39]Heat. Heat.

[00:09:50]Heat.

[00:10:06]Heat.

[00:10:41]Take two minutes.

[00:10:45]She toasty.

[00:10:48]>> Wow.

[00:10:51]All right, guys. It's getting wee into the late night, but we finally pouring some silver.

[00:11:00]That's a huge chunk. That's kind of warm.

[00:11:04]That's a huge chunk.

[00:11:08]And um now we got two more.

[00:11:15]This was a a lot of work getting to this point, man.

[00:11:20]Definitely got to be set up for this stuff. And we're getting there.

[00:11:25]We did a lot more material this time.

[00:11:28]How many pounds of stuff did you run?

[00:11:32]>> He ran 122 lbs of silverware, um plates, dishes, and um literally like knives, uh spoons, and forks.

[00:11:47]And this is what he got out of 120 something pounds to be determined what the weight is.

[00:11:56]Um, and then I didn't weigh what I did or I had so many grams, but I also had all the other stuff that we added to it.

[00:12:08]This is about ready.

[00:12:11]We're going to start with this.

[00:12:13]This here's a little I guess it's about dry now.

[00:12:20]So, and then look at this, man. I found some some gold.

[00:12:28]>> Gold.

[00:12:29]>> Yeah, I got a bunch of gold fingers out there. He got excited about.

[00:12:34]>> Hey, have you process gold yet? What's >> Have you processed gold yet?

[00:12:39]>> Not yet.

[00:12:39]>> I tried it one time, but >> Okay, good. We'll learn together.

[00:12:46]>> And that stuff out there, I got nothing in it. So, if we screw it up, I'm not I'm not going to be uh upset about it.

[00:12:54]>> Yeah.

[00:12:56]I want to try to do it ourselves, man. I like I like this. This is cool.

[00:13:00]>> Yeah.

[00:13:03]Let's see. I say we just get right on this. What do you think?

[00:13:08]>> Okay. Okay, guys. I wasn't um prepared to video the pour, but this is what we got. This is from the >> silver plate.

[00:13:20]>> Silver plate. This is from the contacts.

[00:13:24]I do got some borax on there, but it is what it is.

[00:13:30]First one, 407 g.

[00:13:37]Wow.

[00:13:43]588 gram.

[00:13:46]>> It's a kilo, man.

[00:13:48]>> Nice.

[00:13:50]>> 99.

[00:13:53]Oh, we're going down. We're losing grams. What happened here?

[00:13:59]N 996.

[00:14:04]Wow.

[00:14:07]I feel like we should scrape some [ __ ] out of something. The bucket still >> 994. I guess what happened here? Now, this scale might not be totally accurate.

[00:14:25]>> 171.

[00:14:30]>> That was heavy.

[00:14:33]424 595 >> 1%.

[00:14:44]>> Now, this one here might that might just be what? Flux.

[00:14:49]>> No, there's a couple% >> little bit of copper in there or something.

[00:14:52]>> Yeah, there's a couple percent contamination. These are actually really really good. When they come out shiny like that, it's real high.

[00:15:00]>> Oo, look at that.

[00:15:03]I can't wait to go to the place tomorrow, dude.

[00:15:08]These are so much bigger than the first ones we did.

[00:15:10]>> What's that?

[00:15:11]>> These are so much bigger than the first ones. And we lost a ton. Where's it at?

[00:15:15]I brought it up here, man. What' I do with it? Um, is it in that little white bucket right there?

[00:15:28]>> I want to weigh that. I want to see how much we lost. We would have been over 1,000.

[00:15:39]>> I like them little buckets, man.

[00:15:40]>> Yeah. Tractor Supply, Maddie. I'm going to tear this cuz I don't want to dump that on my wife's food scale.

[00:15:55]151. We would have easily had another 100 grams.

[00:15:59]>> Yeah. Right.

[00:16:01]>> Yeah.

[00:16:02]>> Figure probably 50 losing in the buckets and whatnot.

[00:16:06]>> There's there's there's probably 50 60 grams in all these buckets.

[00:16:09]>> Yeah. We we kept What happened was man, he washed his and it looked so clean.

[00:16:14]Like he got his water clean super quick.

[00:16:17]Mine I was washing it and washing and washing it. I kept pouring the silver into the bucket. It was so dense and fine.

[00:16:27]>> Yeah. It was like cement. It man it.

[00:16:29]>> You know what's crazy? I should have videoed it. When it was drying in the pot, we took the spoon and was compacting it down and it literally turned it to silver in the pot.

[00:16:42]>> Really weird.

[00:16:43]>> It was really weird. But yeah, unfortunately all that some of Now some of that is copper, but some of that is like graphite. I I might even I'm probably going to take this with me >> and have the have the dude shoot it with the gun. See what it is because that is a huge loss, man.

[00:17:02]>> Now, no, some of it's not. But some of it is copper. Matter of fact, we can test it right now. Where's Where's that copper one?

[00:17:10]Where's my Where's my dyke? So, let's cut it in half.

[00:17:14]Grab them snips right there.

[00:17:18]Should be able to cut that bad boy right in half.

[00:17:22]I'm going have to put some pressure on it. Or we're going to have to find them dikes.

[00:17:27]>> No.

[00:17:29]Shoot. Hold on.

[00:17:36]>> Tungsten.

[00:17:39]>> Here. Let's try this here.

[00:17:46]Turn that over like that. Get some traction.

[00:17:49]Got it. Stick it in there.

[00:17:53]You got it.

[00:17:56]>> It's tungsten.

[00:17:57]>> Really?

[00:17:58]>> Yeah.

[00:17:59]>> No way. No way.

[00:18:02]Terry shirt.

[00:18:07]>> Well, maybe we found some tungsten.

[00:18:09]Anyway, let me know what you guys think. How much you think that's worth. We're going to go find out tomorrow for sure. Hey, man. Do you think they're going to say anything about this crap on there?

[00:18:20]>> No, they can remelt it real quick.

[00:18:23]>> I mean, should I smack that with my little pick hammer?

[00:18:25]>> Put some You want to do it real quick before I leave?

[00:18:30]>> No.

[00:18:32]>> Just dilute acid for 10 minutes. Almost.

[00:18:35]>> Really?

[00:18:35]>> Yeah.

[00:18:37]>> Clean that right off. Or if you're that concerned about it, just hit it with your wire wheel real quick.

[00:18:42]>> Really? Yeah. Come right off.

[00:18:45]>> I got one right there.

[00:18:48]Don't dig into it too hard.

[00:18:50]>> Wow.

[00:18:55]Oh, we lost weight.

[00:18:58]Did we? Wasn't it like 99 something? Oh, we're we're 40 teared.

[00:19:05]I'm losing my mind, man. It's probably 2:30 in the morning right now. Me and this guy have been hustling all day.

[00:19:10]Wow.

[00:19:10]>> Uhoh.

[00:19:11]>> Hey, I like this scales gaining weight.

[00:19:15]We need more scales like that in the scrap industry.

[00:19:17]>> It's going to be plus or minus 10 g.

[00:19:19]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:19:22]Anyway.

[00:19:24]All right, guys. Well, I know there wasn't a lot shown in the video, uh, but we were we were hustling, man. We were like non-stop all day long. And, um, you know, this is this is Yeah, it was a lot of work, >> man. Let's let's give total weight what we did.

[00:19:42]That's too bad processing there.

[00:19:44]>> 1 1600 g.

[00:19:47]Wow. That's a stack of silver, man. Holy smoke.

[00:19:53]Hold on, man. Does this thing This does do pounds.

[00:20:02]2 lb 3.3.

[00:20:05]That's what I'm talking about. Holy smoke.

[00:20:11]1.5 lbs. Pound and a half.

[00:20:14]>> Hey, that's not bad, man.

[00:20:16]>> Yeah.

[00:20:16]>> All right, let me let me know. Uh what do you guys think all this stuff is now?

[00:20:19]Some of this stuff um like this. It's just breaking up. Look at that.

[00:20:29]I don't know. We'll take a couple little nuggets. See if the guy will shoot it for us. Find out. There was silver on it, you know. So, we did recover silver off these pieces. It's almost probably like the plated stuff you got.

[00:20:43]>> Whatever was in those really made your solution funky this time.

[00:20:47]>> Yeah.

[00:20:48]>> Compared to the last time it went like butter, but it was all silver. Yeah.

[00:20:51]With some copper stuff.

[00:20:53]>> Yeah. It made >> Yeah. We thought we thought we ran out of acid or the acid wasn't eating it up.

[00:21:01]So, we dumped more nitric in there and it didn't do nothing to it. So, this one isn't as clean, but we're 9963.

[00:21:09]>> And that was both of them the same pretty much. Here, I'll actually show you both of them. This one.

[00:21:21]>> So, that one's got a little bit of copper.

[00:21:23]>> Okay.

[00:21:39]It's got a little bit of copper, a little bit.

[00:21:43]>> Wow.

[00:21:44]>> Oh, and okay, guys. So, I got a very interesting ticket here. Um, the guy accidentally he typed in the wrong I think that's gold because the numbers I did not get $146,000 unfortunately.

[00:22:02]I only got $2,200 for that. But he basically said um he paid me 90% of what the spot price was this time even though this stuff was even dirtier than the last stuff I brought in. But he said the stuff we're bringing in is pretty pure compared to a lot of other things that he gets in there. And the crazy thing is he let me in the back in that place there. They have a vault with like safety deposit boxes and whatnot.

[00:22:34]Um he showed me their setup. Now for the most part when jewelry comes in and stuff like that, they melt it down into buttons and little bars right in the back there.

[00:22:48]They use a um a to it literally looked exactly like the setup we used with a little round bowl looking crucible and a torch, but they had a rose bud tip.

[00:22:58]And they did have a electric furnace in there and a really cool thing that they make shot silver shot with and and they had like a a chiller or something. They had some really cool stuff back there.

[00:23:16]And I was talking to him about they have a press back there for pressing their mark and stuff, you know. Um, but he was telling me over in their other facility that they have an automated system that uses acid and it dissolves it and it goes through the whole system automatically and comes out as silver shot.

[00:23:37]And he says that they run it through twice to get it as pure. So he said if you if I wanted to get the little bit of stuff that was in there out that I could have ran it through another time just dissolve it again and wash everything and do the whole process again and I pretty much much would have had like nine nine maybe even three nines you know or there's another method that we could have done but for what we did yesterday the amount of pounds of material that we ran Um, you know, I think that was probably the fastest method and we were hustling to get that done. Man, that took all day to to pull that off. But, you know, we pulled 2,200. I'm pretty sure he probably got about 1,600 or something maybe out of what he got. I think we figured. Um, but his was a little there. I'm actually curious to see what was in his. they um they weren't they weren't concerned about the little bit of borax or the discoloring or even the other stuff that was in there. What he said is he'll run that stuff through on their second pass.

[00:24:55]So when they run all their stuff through on the first pass, the stuff that I gave him was such a high purity that they'll run it through on the on a second pass to kind of just clean it up. And he said they'll dissolve that whole bar in acid, which is crazy. So anyway, if you come this far, thanks for watching. Stay tuned. We just had a It's It got dark on me, but we just had a huge rainstorm out here. Um I need to pull that trailer over and we're going to go through all that electrical gear I just got and pull some batteries and pull some copper. So stay tuned for all that and we'll see you on the next one.

[00:25:51]Heat. Heat.

[00:26:12]I'll tell you where we're going. Right to the scrap yard.

[00:26:24]Heat. Heat.

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[00:27:11]Heat.

[00:27:20]Heat.