u/Inhalationofnewtion

I'm on a Lincoln tombstone. Running AC but also was going DC straight. I really like 6010's. I had to do some low heat stuff and they LOVE to stick fast. Is it just dealing with the biting or turn up the amps? I started giving them a good strike and that helps but I lose my target a lot of times. Sometimes I'm on the game and they work OK but that's not often. Really old rods. If I rub them a bunch of dust falls off, looks kinda like mold. I don't have a rod dryer. When they work for me though I love them.

I know I can't torch weld with propane. I have an oxy/propane cutting rig and there are times I'd like a more controlled flame for brazing and localized heating. I've tried welding tips in the past but I can't get them to burn much better than a dying cigarette lighter. Can you get brazing/welding tips to run on oxy/propane? I can run it fine with the cutting torch but a welding tip just doesn't want it.

That's not my motivator. It's fun. If I weren't having fun I wouldn't be here no matter what it pays.

Just now though I looked at spot prices. I have 62g of feed stock for my cell and it'd be stupid to sell that but just for kicks that's over $132. I'm not exactly counting my time because I'd be doing this anyways but I have $35 in nitric and I still have over 1/4L left. I have $10 into a scale, $2 into a calculator, $15 in silver for some coins which may have been the guy just helping me get started and doing me a favor. $67 all in.

Does this actually pay for itself and then some? I figure it must somehow. People don't want to pump money in. You have to love it first but if it pays, like is this at least a solid side hustle?

I'm getting close to assembling a silver cell. Heavily based on Sreetips current design just scaled down.

I've been rooting through threads on here, watching vids and such. I picked up somewhere that a rough rule of thumb, one ml of nitric will dissolve one gram of silver.

Thanks to a very generous person here (You know who you are and I can't thank you enough for the assistance in getting started!) I have approx. 20g of beautiful silver crystal. I hate to dissolve it but I also think if I were to do the bootstrap method to get myself to clean electrolyte I'd be blowing a lot of money on nitric.

Conservatively speaking, could I start with 10ML of nitric, add the 20g of silver crystal and end up with 10ml of concentrated electrolyte? I know I don't want all the silver to dissolve. I want to convert all the nitric to silver nitrate and be left with some undissolved silver crystal.

Is there a good ratio as far as diluting this electrolyte? It's going to be a small batch but it seems you get a lot of pure silver out of a small amount of electrolyte. I only need one good run in order to make enough pure silver crystal to then make a decent batch of clean electrolyte. I believe I've read in here that I can dilute the electrolyte as far as I need but is there a ratio you just don't go over?

I'm going to have to dilute this a fair bit. I'll be operating something like a 1/2 L cell for the nonce.

20g silver (yet to be confirmed I'm grabbing a scale today)
add the silver to 10ml of nitric?
This results in 10ml of silver nitrate with some undissolved silver?
Can I add distilled water to dilute this electrolyte to fill a 1/2L (possibly 1L) silver cell?

I really appreciate you guys. You've all been so supportive and free with your hard earned knowledge. I'm trying to do my homework before I get on here and ask questions that have already been answered but I can't exactly find this answer.

If you guys generally just go to a scrapyard or some such I probably can't beat that. I do copper, crass, aluminum sand casting though and if there's some kind of niche I could fill for purpose made copper pieces for cementation, I don't know some kind of big chunky suckers. I do this type of nonsense anyhow and if it can help fund my own nitric acid addiction...?

If there's a thing, I need dimensions and what would you pay for such a thing? I imagine if you comb the scrapyards you can find good chunks of copper. Mayne of you probably just use flattened out copper pipes.

I have a clay graphite crucible and it's only ever been used for brass and copper. There's no iron contamination in any of my product.

Just trying to think of something I can do so I can keep going at this.

I posted here a while back. I'm running an old Fairbanks Morse 12K generator head with an old cast iron Briggs 23-D. The 23-D is definitely not up to the task.

I have a good running Briggs 18HP flat twin. I plan to mount it on the gen set. The generator head itself is a belt drive so I have lots of freedom to mount whatever I want. The generator head itself is bi-directional, can be spun either direction.

I'm trying to figure out just how I want to couple the engine to the generator. It will likely be double 1/2" V belts but also might be a single. Not sure yet. A single V belt is able to handle that engine but the generator rotor? Armature? has a LOT of inertia. The flywheel side of the engine drove the tractor and there's a magnetic PTO clutch on the other end for the mower deck.

I'm somewhat concerned that if I belt up to the flywheel end it may not stand the sudden jolt of getting the generator going. Both the plastic starter drive gear and the drive pulley itself. The drive pulley is only effectively held on with two bolts. I don't want to snap it off. This generator is going to be heavy to get spinning. I also worry about the starter gear. If the generator drive belts are under constant tension I think it may just strip the gear constantly to start it up. It'd be sort of like starting up a stickshift while in 5th gear or some such.

I thought about going to the PTO side. That seems more rigid but using the magnetic clutch even at idle might be a hell of a shock and tear the engine off the mounts.

The best I can think of here is to have the belts be slack at startup, have the engine idling, engage the PTO and then have a tensioner on the drive belts and slowly bring the generator up to speed. I think I'd still rather go through the PTO, or maybe remove it and put on a regular pulley. Maybe a centrifugal clutch and I can slowly throttle up? I'm not sure where to go but if you have thoughts I'm all ears.

I think I want to try a small silver cell. Do I really need pure silver to make electrolyte? Can I use cement silver for the first batch of electrolyte?

2007 Polaris Ranger 700 XP

I got this machine used. I was checking the rear brakes out and the rear suspension bushings are completely wasted. I have to get some new ones installed.

I know a search will turn up plenty of results. I don't know a thing about these machines though.

Can anyone give me a link to the exact kit I need? I called a local dealer a few weeks ago and they never called back. It seems like they aren't interested in helping me repair this machine. That can't be the case though. They must be very busy.

Awesome unit and it's be a God send around the house. Now that I have it I need to keep it going.

2007 Polaris Ranger 700 XP

I got this machine used. I was checking the rear brakes out and the rear suspension bushings are completely wasted. I have to get some new ones installed.

I know a search will turn up plenty of results. I don't know a thing about these machines though.

Can anyone give me a link to the exact kit I need? I called a local dealer a few weeks ago and they never called back. It seems like they aren't interested in helping me repair this machine. That can't be the case though. They must be very busy.

Awesome unit and it's be a God send around the house. Now that I have it I need to keep it going.

I gave a shot at lye and sugar. I tried it a few times. I can't get it to work and I don't think I like it anyhow. It seems messy. I add the lye and it goes dark brown not black. I add my sugar and nothing happens. I don't think that method is for me.

I'm not able to keep and maintain a silver cell. That's just not happening despite the awesome results it can provide.

I'm thinking I want to dissolve my silver in nitric, cement it out on copper, rinse with distilled water, dissolve and cement out one more time and I should be 99% right? Maybe not that .999 but maybe 99.9%? Will this at least give me a nice shiny pinhead? That's all I need. I'm obsessed with this. It keeps me awake at night and I won't get any peace until I've done it. I'm not going for money. Maybe later but right now I just want a pinhead of silver and gold. 99.9% will be plenty.

Deplated silver pieces losing my determination. I neglected to rinse the salt from the material when I deplated the silver pieces. I added nitric and it was a vigorous cloud of fumes. I think I ended up with silver chlorate. and grey looking junk that refuses to dissolve. The silver chlorate reacts with lye.

2 parts nitric, 3 parts water. This stuff will not dissolve.

I added some lye, saw color changing to brown, added sugar and ended up with this mess. Nothing happened when I added sugar. Copper nitrate in solution and junk. on the bottom?

Can I recover from this?