Thank you but I did want to see the retort you claimed to have built.
A friend of mine had purchased a building in Melville Saskatchewan on a tax sale, the building had been used as a dental clinic.
The dentist had abandoned his practice and the building leaving all the equipment behind, possibly leased and due to age the leaser had no interest in recovery.
In the basement connected to the plumbing system was a heavy metal trap, over the years an accumulation of canisters had been stored on a shelf.
The canisters contained, mercury, teeth pulp, chips and old blood, a source of precious metals which for obvious reasons could not be incinerated before further processing.
From information gleaned from this forum, Hoke's and Ammen's books and an old story Mad as a hatter, I was aware that mercury and its vapors and compounds are very toxic.
Your ignorance on the improper use of mercury - smelting it. Really upset me, yes to the point of voicing my opinion on the matter which had earned me an extended vacation on another forum as you so eloquently pointed out earlier.
It was because I had all of these heavy metal traps full of dental waste that I needed to have a retort, as some of the members here know I'm very capable of building my own equipment.
The retort build was about the time this forum took on a life, the retort having no further foreseeable use along with my decision to never take on another project involving mercury. I disposed of it.
FYI, dental clinics pay to have these heavy metal canisters removed, but from earlier research when I still had my retort I soon learned obtaining those traps is an impossibility.
