Very cool, super useful, but "well ventilated" may be an understatement; Hydrogen Sulphide is roughly as toxic as Hydrogen Cyanide. Anybody who tries producing more than a very small quantity of this stuff without the proper lab setup will die. Period.
@MysteryBowl don't forget about the sulphur dioxide, that one gives you more trouble than anything else, especially if you goof it up and set the sulphur in the spoon on fire...cheers;)
Great video, saves me a lot of time an hassle. Thanks very much.
Two questions: One, what measurements did you use for both chemicals? Looked like about 50/50.
And two, have you used pharmacy grade "flowers of sulfur" to do this? It's been purified with an acid and thus is still on the acid side of the PH scale.
@metalhead0jtk I did this today and got great results and I answered both my own questions. It is about 50/50 mix and medicinal sulfur works. Thanks again very much!
This is great! Thank you! I've been looking all over to buy LOS but haven't found it in my country and don't really feel like ordering it from abroad. Just one thought though; since LOS is potassium bisulphate, what would happen if one used KOH instead of NaOH? I'm afraid my chemistry is now quite forgotten.
@XofHope if you'd use potassium hydroxide instead of sodium hydroxide than you'll get the real liver of sulphur. i used sodium hydroxide because the other one is not available in my country.
also check out nurdrage 's video watch?v=VrA7Jyw1uOs
instead of making this as a response to restoring silver, it might be better targetted to make this a response to my other video, "make silver different colors by anodizing"
i was not aware of the existence of the above mentioned video.
you are right, it suits it better than the video showing the restoring. anodizing, might be a nice alternative to liver of sulphur, maybe i can use it to craft some jewelry.
@weightSndrumS i never thought about applying a patina to copper. i can only tell you that this improvised liver of sulphur will give copper a black-grey color.
Very cool, super useful, but "well ventilated" may be an understatement; Hydrogen Sulphide is roughly as toxic as Hydrogen Cyanide. Anybody who tries producing more than a very small quantity of this stuff without the proper lab setup will die. Period.
So saying, I am totally going to go and try this.
MysteryBowl 3 weeks ago
@MysteryBowl don't forget about the sulphur dioxide, that one gives you more trouble than anything else, especially if you goof it up and set the sulphur in the spoon on fire...cheers;)
fedaikn 2 weeks ago
Great video, saves me a lot of time an hassle. Thanks very much.
Two questions: One, what measurements did you use for both chemicals? Looked like about 50/50.
And two, have you used pharmacy grade "flowers of sulfur" to do this? It's been purified with an acid and thus is still on the acid side of the PH scale.
Thanks very much.
metalhead0jtk 10 months ago
@metalhead0jtk I did this today and got great results and I answered both my own questions. It is about 50/50 mix and medicinal sulfur works. Thanks again very much!
metalhead0jtk 10 months ago
good video,i don't like the colour i get with sulphur.I may try it.
I read that you can use photographic developer to blacken silver.
punkjewellery 1 year ago
This is great! Thank you! I've been looking all over to buy LOS but haven't found it in my country and don't really feel like ordering it from abroad. Just one thought though; since LOS is potassium bisulphate, what would happen if one used KOH instead of NaOH? I'm afraid my chemistry is now quite forgotten.
XofHope 1 year ago
@XofHope if you'd use potassium hydroxide instead of sodium hydroxide than you'll get the real liver of sulphur. i used sodium hydroxide because the other one is not available in my country.
also check out nurdrage 's video watch?v=VrA7Jyw1uOs
fedaikn 1 year ago
@fedaikn Thank you! I'll buy the components soon and try it myself.
XofHope 1 year ago
instead of making this as a response to restoring silver, it might be better targetted to make this a response to my other video, "make silver different colors by anodizing"
NurdRage 2 years ago
i was not aware of the existence of the above mentioned video.
you are right, it suits it better than the video showing the restoring. anodizing, might be a nice alternative to liver of sulphur, maybe i can use it to craft some jewelry.
thanks
fedaikn 2 years ago
@fedaikn can you tell me how to turn freash new copper a brown dark color thanks
weightSndrumS 2 years ago
@weightSndrumS i never thought about applying a patina to copper. i can only tell you that this improvised liver of sulphur will give copper a black-grey color.
fedaikn 2 years ago
@weightSndrumS try these methods
ww w. squidoo. c om/oxidizecopperbrass
ww w.artenero .c om .a u/91_supplement/pat1_11 .h t ml
ht tp : / /secure .sciencecompany. c om/Do-It-Yourself-Patina-Formulas-W12. a sp x
fedaikn 2 years ago
@fedaikn thanks
weightSndrumS 2 years ago