Improve the look of my silver

[Wilton David]

Hello everyone, greetings from Ecuador, my English is not good and I use a translator to learn more about this forum, my question is how can I make my silver cleaner? I have around 800 grams and I mixed it with nitric acid which has a blue color and my question is what can I do to make it come out better quality, thank you very much for your comments.

The method I use is to add salt (sodium chloride), stir well with a wooden tube and wait for it to settle, pour out the acid and I am left with a white material that is like cheese, then I add floor shavings that replace the steel or aluminum nails and I proceed to dry and melt in fire, but I would like to improve the quality of my silver, thank you for your time.

 

[Yggdrasil]

Hello everyone, greetings from Ecuador, my English is not good and I use a translator to learn more about this forum, my question is how can I make my silver cleaner? I have around 800 grams and I mixed it with nitric acid which has a blue color and my question is what can I do to make it come out better quality, thank you very much for your comments.

The method I use is to add salt (sodium chloride), stir well with a wooden tube and wait for it to settle, pour out the acid and I am left with a white material that is like cheese, then I add floor shavings that replace the steel or aluminum nails and I proceed to dry and melt in fire, but I would like to improve the quality of my silver, thank you for your time.

To improve quality use pure Zinc, Aluminum or Iron.
Wash well when you are done converting it.
What kind of acid do you use?

Edit for thick fingers

 

[Yggdrasil]

Hello everyone, greetings from Ecuador, my English is not good and I use a translator to learn more about this forum, my question is how can I make my silver cleaner? I have around 800 grams and I mixed it with nitric acid which has a blue color and my question is what can I do to make it come out better quality, thank you very much for your comments.

The method I use is to add salt (sodium chloride), stir well with a wooden tube and wait for it to settle, pour out the acid and I am left with a white material that is like cheese, then I add floor shavings that replace the steel or aluminum nails and I proceed to dry and melt in fire, but I would like to improve the quality of my silver, thank you for your time.

Welcome to us by the way

 

[Master Nater]

Setting up and running a Silver cell in a stainless steel bowl

 

[Yggdrasil]

Setting up and running a Silver cell in a stainless steel bowl

That will be the next step.
When he has had a good clean conversion from Silver Chloride.
Probably would have been better to cement on Copper in stead of going via Silver Chloride.

Edit. Added missing word

 

[Marcel]

You could refine it using a copper electrolytic cell if there's still a decent amount of copper in your silver. (Is it reddish? Show the button!)