Thanks for all the great posts. I must spend 3 hrs a day just reading and trying to understand it all. Also thanks to steve for your great website and reasonable products and videos. I am 62 years young and haven't had this much fun in a long time. We should all get together and have a Party/confrence some where. I have all sound gear and video equip. to donate to the effort.
so to my question:
1) I have about 1 out of 3 of my drops using msb fail... i warm the Ac up just a little and most times it works fine with just a little msb added while i stur .... but lately i have been getting this orange liquid after i add the msb. it never clears and turns black & drops. I am working with gold boards processed in AP for the most part, My fluid tests positive with sc, befor and after the attempted drop, so i know there are values in it. the reddish orange liquid is a puzzle to me. can't find any posts that address it so here i am. any thoughts or ideas of how to proceed would be appreciated and if anyone else has adderessed this issue a link to help me along. I thought i might run the whole thing threw a graphite cell to drop out all the metals and start again. or is there a better approach? this by the way works great to clean up ap solution before reuse.
2) is there a good way to deal with spent msb liquids?
In the way of additions to the forum: Ihave found by tilting your flask and gentely bumping the bottom edge with a rubber handeled plyer causes the drop to move to the edge so siphoning can be done easer. it is similar to when you bump the side of your gold pan to move the gold to the edge of your pan.
so to my question:
1) I have about 1 out of 3 of my drops using msb fail... i warm the Ac up just a little and most times it works fine with just a little msb added while i stur .... but lately i have been getting this orange liquid after i add the msb. it never clears and turns black & drops. I am working with gold boards processed in AP for the most part, My fluid tests positive with sc, befor and after the attempted drop, so i know there are values in it. the reddish orange liquid is a puzzle to me. can't find any posts that address it so here i am. any thoughts or ideas of how to proceed would be appreciated and if anyone else has adderessed this issue a link to help me along. I thought i might run the whole thing threw a graphite cell to drop out all the metals and start again. or is there a better approach? this by the way works great to clean up ap solution before reuse.
2) is there a good way to deal with spent msb liquids?
In the way of additions to the forum: Ihave found by tilting your flask and gentely bumping the bottom edge with a rubber handeled plyer causes the drop to move to the edge so siphoning can be done easer. it is similar to when you bump the side of your gold pan to move the gold to the edge of your pan.