This contest is open to all forum members (except moderators), professional or amateur and the winner will be decided by the board of moderators.
We want to see your refineries and your equipment, home-made or purchased. Winner will be judged by his or her setup. Its capabilities, limitations, ingenuity of design, effective use of cash to build it, safety, and overall versatility. You can post as many or as few pictures as you deem necessary to show the details of your operation.
Please note that professional refiners can enter with their professionally bought or engineered systems, they will likely score high for their capabilities but low for their effective use of cash to build it. However, if your goal for being on the forum is to solicit work from our members, a few pictures of a fine tuned operation may get you some work.
Similarly a backyard refiner who carries out his or her digestions on a picnic table on a windy day may score high in cost effectiveness but low in other areas.
It's my guess someone in the middle of these extremes will be our winner.
The prize for the winner, in addition to the extreme sense of pride that being crowned the winner will bring, is
1, a hard copy of Hoke's book, Refining Precious Metal Wastes, signed by our founder and site administrator NOxx
2, 1 pound of gold plated pins
3, One half dozen, three inch scorifier dishes for torch melting.
4, One gram of platinum sheet
and of course shipping to wherever the winner specifies.
In addition, the owner of the lab voted for honorable mention will receive a pound of gold plated pins and a half dozen scorifiers.
The contest is starting with no posted finish date as we would like to give everyone a chance to participate so if new contestants are pouring in, the event will go on. We will however post an end date in a timely manner.
It is our hope that a good turn out of refining labs posted here will help to inspire other members to build their own labs and in the process show us all some unique ideas about building small, safe, efficient and inexpensive labs.
The decision of the judges is final, I expect we will comment as posts come in, and please refrain from removing pictures which have been posted, as we all know how happy that behavior makes the Mod's.
We want to see your refineries and your equipment, home-made or purchased. Winner will be judged by his or her setup. Its capabilities, limitations, ingenuity of design, effective use of cash to build it, safety, and overall versatility. You can post as many or as few pictures as you deem necessary to show the details of your operation.
Please note that professional refiners can enter with their professionally bought or engineered systems, they will likely score high for their capabilities but low for their effective use of cash to build it. However, if your goal for being on the forum is to solicit work from our members, a few pictures of a fine tuned operation may get you some work.
Similarly a backyard refiner who carries out his or her digestions on a picnic table on a windy day may score high in cost effectiveness but low in other areas.
It's my guess someone in the middle of these extremes will be our winner.
The prize for the winner, in addition to the extreme sense of pride that being crowned the winner will bring, is
1, a hard copy of Hoke's book, Refining Precious Metal Wastes, signed by our founder and site administrator NOxx
2, 1 pound of gold plated pins
3, One half dozen, three inch scorifier dishes for torch melting.
4, One gram of platinum sheet
and of course shipping to wherever the winner specifies.
In addition, the owner of the lab voted for honorable mention will receive a pound of gold plated pins and a half dozen scorifiers.
The contest is starting with no posted finish date as we would like to give everyone a chance to participate so if new contestants are pouring in, the event will go on. We will however post an end date in a timely manner.
It is our hope that a good turn out of refining labs posted here will help to inspire other members to build their own labs and in the process show us all some unique ideas about building small, safe, efficient and inexpensive labs.
The decision of the judges is final, I expect we will comment as posts come in, and please refrain from removing pictures which have been posted, as we all know how happy that behavior makes the Mod's.