A very humble hello to the entire Gold Refining Community,
My name is Trevor and I am a relatively new resident to the state of Florida, originally from Tennessee. I have been a hobbyist in basic scrap metal salvage, recycling, and supplemental income for 4 to 5 years now off and on. It's always been enjoyable and an afterthought, however some late night ideas and curiosity has led me to the world of precious metal recovery via the crumb trails of YouTube and various, intensive web searches to discover new methods of getting the most out of my materials. Man, did I strike gold in discovering this amazing community.
I am an Audio Engineer by trade, and am currently serving as a recording tech intern by choice stepping down from paid work. (Unpaid) I took every bit of financial resources I had to leave Tennessee and come down here to study with a specific engineer. It's been tough to find sustainable work so I began collecting and organizing scrap materials as I have done in the past to help bring in some extra funds. Venturing into the world of e scrap, precious metal recovery, and refinement processes couldn't come at a better time. Being an engineer, one of my few confident qualities is the ability to learn fast and patiently apply collective knowledge in order to achieve the most efficient, effective results.
This community, which I only discovered earlier today, is something of a world wonder. The way in which all of your senior membership guides and nurtures rookie refiners without condescending attitudes or superiority complexes is absolutely astounding by comparison to other specialized skill forums scattered all over the internet. There are folks here that are actively working their butts off on a daily basis to compile, organize and translate the finer details regarding recovery, refinement and profit with little or no garaunteed return for their efforrs.
You guys rock and this place is a blessing.
Without taking a turn for personal biography and elaboration on my situation, I will only say this. I intend to use a relatively substantial amount of resources to invest in the ability to create at least somewhat sustainable income through PM recovery and refinement for a period of time. I'm not a chemist or an expert in the field of precious metals. However, I am an engineer. And engineers, like many of you here, understand that knowledge, safety, proper procedure and a dash of improvisation all come together to get positive results. I have already begun to download and read all of the recommended literature, ordered basic necessities for the most common extraction methods, and my first AP test batch is hard at work as I write this, small indeed however it's meant to be a proof of concept to me. I have some prior knowledge on these subjects, enough to provide a foundation of comprehension regarding the forces at work during these chemical procedures.
My ultimate goal is to build a part/full time weekly schedule of collection and processing here at home that will, at its peak,, produce pure precious metal yields in a quantity and quality necessary to turn a weekly profit. Granted, I've read enough so far to understand that this is no simple task and requires a great deal of study and trial and error, not to mention the steady acquisition of supplies, equipment and product. There are no garunetees and no promises of consistently making money. I am willing to commit to building this from the ground up quickly and efficiently and giving myself the best odds possible to provide for myself in such a fun and intriguing way.
I'm not here to simply soak up all of the open source information and be on my way with a system built on everyone else's shoulders. I want to contribute. I want to know HOW I can contribute. I applied some resources to lazersteves gold refinement store today which is a fountainhead for beginners like myself, and I would like to discover the best path in which to share my own personal experiences to help others have references. I'm a wild note-taker and I would be happy to publish the details regarding my own success and failure from today until I'm sleeping of a gold nugget mattress. (Yup, 24k gold is malleable and therefore must be comfortable. Right?) I also keep and seperate components I harvest from EVERYTHING and would love to add to any archives or collections of descriptive component lists.
Here is the bottom line regarding my membership on this thriving community. I'm going to invest the time, effort and resources necessary to accomplish a quality end result that creates income. In doing this I want to give back to everyone providing the lessons learned and successful methods I experiment with. When I woke up today I was completely convinced that a refinement community such as Gold Refining Forum didn't exist and going about extracting PMs was the wild west of scrapping. I couldn't have been more wrong, and I'm extremely glad I was.
A lot of rambling and unnecessary details, but the bottom line is I'm thrilled to be here and I want to help and contribute in addition to applying the resources available through this place to build a sustainable system. Thanks to everyone and this week I'm getting to work!
My name is Trevor and I am a relatively new resident to the state of Florida, originally from Tennessee. I have been a hobbyist in basic scrap metal salvage, recycling, and supplemental income for 4 to 5 years now off and on. It's always been enjoyable and an afterthought, however some late night ideas and curiosity has led me to the world of precious metal recovery via the crumb trails of YouTube and various, intensive web searches to discover new methods of getting the most out of my materials. Man, did I strike gold in discovering this amazing community.
I am an Audio Engineer by trade, and am currently serving as a recording tech intern by choice stepping down from paid work. (Unpaid) I took every bit of financial resources I had to leave Tennessee and come down here to study with a specific engineer. It's been tough to find sustainable work so I began collecting and organizing scrap materials as I have done in the past to help bring in some extra funds. Venturing into the world of e scrap, precious metal recovery, and refinement processes couldn't come at a better time. Being an engineer, one of my few confident qualities is the ability to learn fast and patiently apply collective knowledge in order to achieve the most efficient, effective results.
This community, which I only discovered earlier today, is something of a world wonder. The way in which all of your senior membership guides and nurtures rookie refiners without condescending attitudes or superiority complexes is absolutely astounding by comparison to other specialized skill forums scattered all over the internet. There are folks here that are actively working their butts off on a daily basis to compile, organize and translate the finer details regarding recovery, refinement and profit with little or no garaunteed return for their efforrs.
You guys rock and this place is a blessing.
Without taking a turn for personal biography and elaboration on my situation, I will only say this. I intend to use a relatively substantial amount of resources to invest in the ability to create at least somewhat sustainable income through PM recovery and refinement for a period of time. I'm not a chemist or an expert in the field of precious metals. However, I am an engineer. And engineers, like many of you here, understand that knowledge, safety, proper procedure and a dash of improvisation all come together to get positive results. I have already begun to download and read all of the recommended literature, ordered basic necessities for the most common extraction methods, and my first AP test batch is hard at work as I write this, small indeed however it's meant to be a proof of concept to me. I have some prior knowledge on these subjects, enough to provide a foundation of comprehension regarding the forces at work during these chemical procedures.
My ultimate goal is to build a part/full time weekly schedule of collection and processing here at home that will, at its peak,, produce pure precious metal yields in a quantity and quality necessary to turn a weekly profit. Granted, I've read enough so far to understand that this is no simple task and requires a great deal of study and trial and error, not to mention the steady acquisition of supplies, equipment and product. There are no garunetees and no promises of consistently making money. I am willing to commit to building this from the ground up quickly and efficiently and giving myself the best odds possible to provide for myself in such a fun and intriguing way.
I'm not here to simply soak up all of the open source information and be on my way with a system built on everyone else's shoulders. I want to contribute. I want to know HOW I can contribute. I applied some resources to lazersteves gold refinement store today which is a fountainhead for beginners like myself, and I would like to discover the best path in which to share my own personal experiences to help others have references. I'm a wild note-taker and I would be happy to publish the details regarding my own success and failure from today until I'm sleeping of a gold nugget mattress. (Yup, 24k gold is malleable and therefore must be comfortable. Right?) I also keep and seperate components I harvest from EVERYTHING and would love to add to any archives or collections of descriptive component lists.
Here is the bottom line regarding my membership on this thriving community. I'm going to invest the time, effort and resources necessary to accomplish a quality end result that creates income. In doing this I want to give back to everyone providing the lessons learned and successful methods I experiment with. When I woke up today I was completely convinced that a refinement community such as Gold Refining Forum didn't exist and going about extracting PMs was the wild west of scrapping. I couldn't have been more wrong, and I'm extremely glad I was.
A lot of rambling and unnecessary details, but the bottom line is I'm thrilled to be here and I want to help and contribute in addition to applying the resources available through this place to build a sustainable system. Thanks to everyone and this week I'm getting to work!