Puff501
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A week or so ago, I melted down my gold powder and turned it into shot. After glazing my crucible, I added the powder, and put more borax on the top, hoping to deter the powder from flying away. I got a good melt and made some nice shot. However at that time, I noticed there were a few very small beads of gold still stuck in the crucible in the borax.
Which leads to yesterday when I decided to try to melt some of the shot I made into a few gold bars using the same crucible. First I tried to make a 1/4 ounce round and failed 3 times to get it into the mold satisfactorily, so I gave up on that. Then I decided to make a couple 1oz bars, pre-weighed the shot to like 31.13g, did both melts and pours, and made 2 really nice bars for my first attempt at making bars.
Anyway, today I'm looking at my equipment and I notice all this gold still in the crucible, I hope you can see it in the pic. This I'm pretty sure it all got stuck there from the first meltings when I initially melted down my powder or maybe when I was trying to make the 1/4 oz gold round because the bar attempts came out right on as far as weight on one try. I don't have the 1/4 ounce round attempt anymore because I just turned that back into shot so I can't get a weight loss on that.
So now the problem I have is, how do I get the entrapped gold from the crucible?
Which leads to yesterday when I decided to try to melt some of the shot I made into a few gold bars using the same crucible. First I tried to make a 1/4 ounce round and failed 3 times to get it into the mold satisfactorily, so I gave up on that. Then I decided to make a couple 1oz bars, pre-weighed the shot to like 31.13g, did both melts and pours, and made 2 really nice bars for my first attempt at making bars.
Anyway, today I'm looking at my equipment and I notice all this gold still in the crucible, I hope you can see it in the pic. This I'm pretty sure it all got stuck there from the first meltings when I initially melted down my powder or maybe when I was trying to make the 1/4 oz gold round because the bar attempts came out right on as far as weight on one try. I don't have the 1/4 ounce round attempt anymore because I just turned that back into shot so I can't get a weight loss on that.
So now the problem I have is, how do I get the entrapped gold from the crucible?