Information about Lazersteve's DVDs.
I host a button for Chris Owen (Goldsilverpro aka GSP) on my web store to help him sell copies of his Refining Manual. I do this a favor to him and charge him nothing for the service. He receives all payment and handles the delivery of the guide to anyone who purchases it. It clearly states on my web store page that the Refining Guide is purchased as a separate transaction and delivered separately from any other items bought through my store.
GSP's Guide is an excellent book that covers his years of refining complete with techniques and scrap data not found in other compiled sources. I highly recommend you buy it. Another member posted the index and he has posted excerpts from the Refining Guide on the forum here:
The Complete Guide To Gold and Silver Scrap Index
He will have to link you to the excerpts, I think they are in the silver section.
The DVDs for sale on my web store are all 1 hour plus full length DVD titles that play on set top or computer players. They include menus and chapters for easy browsing.
The first in the series "Processing Pc Card Fingers with Acid Peroxide" is a compilation of videos from my website assembled in order to give the viewer a step by step video guide to using acid peroxide. The process shown on the video works for all copper base scrap. The DVD covers all stages of using Acid Peroxide from harvesting to melting the final gold button and all steps in between.
The second video in the series is "Processing Gold Filled Scrap" and details the process of refining Gold Filled scrap including preparation, calculating acid required, recovery, refining, precipitation, siphoning, filtering, and silver recovery. With this DVD and the acid peroxide DVD you can combined all that you learned and process nearly any type of scrap with some slight modifications to the techniques.
The third DVD is "Fundamentals of Platinum and Palladium" and demonstrates all of the steps to harvest, recovery, refine, calcine, melt, and prove Platinum and Palladium. On the DVD I process two types of catalytic converter material, but as the DVD title implies, the techniques learned on the DVD apply to processing any form of Pt or Pd scrap. This DVD is a must have for anyone who wants to learn to refine Pt and Pd.
Last year I released the "Silver Refining A to Z" DVD. It is slightly shorter than the other DVDs, but is the best quality production to date. On the DVD I demonstrate the complete process of setting up a miniature (1 Liter beaker scale) silver purification cell. I cover all stages from cell construction, making the electrolyte, operating the cell, harvesting the crystals, casting anodes, casting the resulting 999%+ pure bars from the cell, and clean up of the cell. As a bonus I demonstrate some other silver recovery techniques.
In the next few weeks I'll be releasing my fifth DVD "Testing and Refining Karat Gold" . This DVD will be the best one yet. I demonstrate testing and identification of karat gold, super close up shots of various gold markings, separation of plated and gold filled from karat, touch stone testing, acid testing with needles, inquarting, recovery of the inquarted gold, refining of the resulting gold, filtering techniques, precipitation, and finally casting uniform gold bars such as these:
Although the DVDs do cover some of the same material Chris has in his refining guide, you will learn a lot from both sets of items. I made the DVDs prior to Chris releasing the Guide, but his guide was created before any of the DVDs. We did not collaborate together on the guide and the DVDs.
The DVDs are geared towards visual learners. The DVDs also contain valuable lab techniques that are not listed in any of the guides you will find. These lab techniques apply to all of your recovery and refining efforts.
As I stated in the post above, all of the DVDs play on your standard set top DVD player, PS3, XBOX360, etc., and your computer.
Steve
I host a button for Chris Owen (Goldsilverpro aka GSP) on my web store to help him sell copies of his Refining Manual. I do this a favor to him and charge him nothing for the service. He receives all payment and handles the delivery of the guide to anyone who purchases it. It clearly states on my web store page that the Refining Guide is purchased as a separate transaction and delivered separately from any other items bought through my store.
GSP's Guide is an excellent book that covers his years of refining complete with techniques and scrap data not found in other compiled sources. I highly recommend you buy it. Another member posted the index and he has posted excerpts from the Refining Guide on the forum here:
The Complete Guide To Gold and Silver Scrap Index
He will have to link you to the excerpts, I think they are in the silver section.
The DVDs for sale on my web store are all 1 hour plus full length DVD titles that play on set top or computer players. They include menus and chapters for easy browsing.
The first in the series "Processing Pc Card Fingers with Acid Peroxide" is a compilation of videos from my website assembled in order to give the viewer a step by step video guide to using acid peroxide. The process shown on the video works for all copper base scrap. The DVD covers all stages of using Acid Peroxide from harvesting to melting the final gold button and all steps in between.
The second video in the series is "Processing Gold Filled Scrap" and details the process of refining Gold Filled scrap including preparation, calculating acid required, recovery, refining, precipitation, siphoning, filtering, and silver recovery. With this DVD and the acid peroxide DVD you can combined all that you learned and process nearly any type of scrap with some slight modifications to the techniques.
The third DVD is "Fundamentals of Platinum and Palladium" and demonstrates all of the steps to harvest, recovery, refine, calcine, melt, and prove Platinum and Palladium. On the DVD I process two types of catalytic converter material, but as the DVD title implies, the techniques learned on the DVD apply to processing any form of Pt or Pd scrap. This DVD is a must have for anyone who wants to learn to refine Pt and Pd.
Last year I released the "Silver Refining A to Z" DVD. It is slightly shorter than the other DVDs, but is the best quality production to date. On the DVD I demonstrate the complete process of setting up a miniature (1 Liter beaker scale) silver purification cell. I cover all stages from cell construction, making the electrolyte, operating the cell, harvesting the crystals, casting anodes, casting the resulting 999%+ pure bars from the cell, and clean up of the cell. As a bonus I demonstrate some other silver recovery techniques.
In the next few weeks I'll be releasing my fifth DVD "Testing and Refining Karat Gold" . This DVD will be the best one yet. I demonstrate testing and identification of karat gold, super close up shots of various gold markings, separation of plated and gold filled from karat, touch stone testing, acid testing with needles, inquarting, recovery of the inquarted gold, refining of the resulting gold, filtering techniques, precipitation, and finally casting uniform gold bars such as these:
Although the DVDs do cover some of the same material Chris has in his refining guide, you will learn a lot from both sets of items. I made the DVDs prior to Chris releasing the Guide, but his guide was created before any of the DVDs. We did not collaborate together on the guide and the DVDs.
The DVDs are geared towards visual learners. The DVDs also contain valuable lab techniques that are not listed in any of the guides you will find. These lab techniques apply to all of your recovery and refining efforts.
As I stated in the post above, all of the DVDs play on your standard set top DVD player, PS3, XBOX360, etc., and your computer.
Steve
