SBrown said:I am going to assume you didn't season your melting dish, just based on your pictures. If I am wrong please correct me. You can try a few things. First I would try re-melting it by adding borax. Slowly heat up the dish so you don't cause thermal shock and crack or break it. Once it's heated up, sprinkle borax over the inside surface. That way if you do loosen the gold up, it won't stick to the sides, and your melting dish will be seasoned over the rest of it. Then add small amounts of borax while playing heat across the bottom, until you have a little molten mass of borax that covers the area that has the gold. What you are attempting to do is bring the gold together into one mass. Once you have it in one mass you need to keep the heat on it until it has a nice uniform color, you don't want the gold mass to have any mottled look, it should be one glowing ball.
SBrown said:It also looks like you might have been scrapping the bottom of the dish with a screwdriver or something
Jim said:Dude4ever,
What are you using for a torch? It looks to me like you aren't getting it hot enough.
Geo said:are you melting in the fire brick or the dish above it in the picture?
one thing i can tell you is, the gold has not melted. that looks like an incomplete melt. if that firebrick is rated above 1200 F , just melt it where it is, just like it is. the borax will melt before the gold does. as the gold melts, it will come together.
Dude4ever said:Darn. Something went wrong:
Can't get it out, and don't wanna, before someone give me a tip It's like fused in glass.......... The cracks is from the self-cooling.
How do you guys clean the melting dish after melting with borax anyway?
Thanks in advance
Erik
nifty fox said:I had something like this happen to me today , I used a 3 inch melting dish in a fire brick furnace , I used too much borax and never seasoned my dish I had no idea you had to is there a link I can get with preparing the dish ?
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