Nauticamark
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Hello all,
I have a question for the experienced on this process. I own a jewelry store, and upon changing the filters on the roof top, I decided to keep them to see what material gets caught up in these from my shop. I do a fair amount of my own production of gold and silver product so I figured surely something has to get sucked up in these.
That said, I got a large Tupperware tote, and carefully dissected the filter membrane from the wire mesh, etc. I gathered up a softball size wad of dust, and did a test run on the material. First I incinerated, did the AR on it, the stannous showed positive for AU, dropped it with SMB, and see below pic, it produced the brown powder goal.
Now to my question. I have eight of these filters, 20x25x2 inches. Does anyone have a suggestion for incinerating these filters, or another process that may be easier to do to get the dust content out of them? I thought about possibly cutting them up into two inch squares and washing the filters in a large five gallon bucket and allowing the material to settle and decant off, or boil it down, etc. I am just not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated on this matter.
Thank you for any and all feedback!
I have a question for the experienced on this process. I own a jewelry store, and upon changing the filters on the roof top, I decided to keep them to see what material gets caught up in these from my shop. I do a fair amount of my own production of gold and silver product so I figured surely something has to get sucked up in these.
That said, I got a large Tupperware tote, and carefully dissected the filter membrane from the wire mesh, etc. I gathered up a softball size wad of dust, and did a test run on the material. First I incinerated, did the AR on it, the stannous showed positive for AU, dropped it with SMB, and see below pic, it produced the brown powder goal.
Now to my question. I have eight of these filters, 20x25x2 inches. Does anyone have a suggestion for incinerating these filters, or another process that may be easier to do to get the dust content out of them? I thought about possibly cutting them up into two inch squares and washing the filters in a large five gallon bucket and allowing the material to settle and decant off, or boil it down, etc. I am just not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated on this matter.
Thank you for any and all feedback!