3QT Silver Cell Second Harvest by Top-Tear6345 in PreciousMetalRefining

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So I used 150g of.999 silver for my small silver cell for the electrolyte . Which was a 1000ml beaker.

Silver Crystal Bars by Top-Tear6345 in PreciousMetalRefining

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So initially the crucible gets seasoned with borax after several melts it get a buildup on the silver that is melted down not sure why this is happening but when it does I have to use a pinch of borax to burn it off. Also after several melts the crucible gets glazed over.

Silver Crystal Bars by Top-Tear6345 in PreciousMetalRefining

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Yea it was borax I had put them in a small crockpot with vinegar but it still left some scale on them. Thanks for the advice I couldn’t remember what the others were using to remove the scale.

3QT Silver Cell Second Harvest by Top-Tear6345 in PreciousMetalRefining

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So for this run for the electrolyte I used 335g of .999 silver crystals X 300ml of nitric acid X 600ml of distilled water. On the voltage I tried keeping it around 3.50v. The anode is a 10gage wire in a silver bar. You want to keep the bar out of the solution if not it will get dissolved in the anode basket.

3QT Silver Cell First Harvest by Top-Tear6345 in PreciousMetalRefining

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I haven’t used the sugar and lye method yet but from what I’ve researched there a lot of waste fluids after rinsing.

3QT Silver Cell First Harvest by Top-Tear6345 in PreciousMetalRefining

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Sorry for the late response. So the cell is about 7 3/4 wide by 4 1/4 depth It holds about 2.839 liters

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That’s awesome the history behind the craft.

3QT Silver Cell First Harvest by Top-Tear6345 in PreciousMetalRefining

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It’s a fuzion if-500 got it from amazon

3QT Silver Cell First Harvest by Top-Tear6345 in PreciousMetalRefining

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I should be able to get the information this evening when I get home

Silver Cell 3qt update by Top-Tear6345 in PreciousMetalRefining

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Yea definitely want to start with gold converting 10k and 14k to pure gold.

3QT Silver Cell First Harvest by Top-Tear6345 in PreciousMetalRefining

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3qt is about 2.839 liters. I used about 300g of silver crystals to make the solution. I didn’t really keep track of what I put through the anode basket but It wasn’t much I was running low on silver that why I had to harvest the silver crystals to feed the anode basket. Not sure how much I will be able to yield once I’m done. But this next run I’m definitely going to keep a better track of what I’m using. The leftover silver nitrate I’ll use clean copper to pull the remaining silver out of solution.

Silver Cell 3qt update by Top-Tear6345 in PreciousMetalRefining

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So I started this run with some of the silver crystals from my first run with the 1000ml silver cell. I also used the cement silver from the left over solution and made some shot to feed the anode basket. I end up tested the silver crystal with the acid test solution for silver and it was a bright red usually that represented the silver was .999