ericrm said:
i just received my silver ,im very happy. the only thing is you wroted silver round on the package ,plz do not use that kind of description anymore, it is too easy to "lose" an item that way.
As i told before i hope you will continue to ameliorate the process because im putting all my milar on the side for you.
thanks again
Eric
Eric,
I'm glad you got your silver. The reason I had to write down silver round is because it had to go through Customs, which I wasn't aware of. Paper, books and a few other light items going to Canada don't require Customs forms. Since they (at the P.O.) told me I had no paper material in the package, I had to "Declare" the package. Also, once I paid for it, the tracking they gave me was only good enough up to the point of it arriving to customs. If anything should have happened and you didn't receive it, they would have owed me $30, because that what I declared the value of the package. If that happened, I would have given you the money because of it. But I don't know what else to write down being as though they're going to open the package anyway. I hate to have to not tell them exactly what's in the package and give them a reason to investigate me or even pulling a switch on the package. But I see your point, as I didn't even want to tell what was really in the package.
On the other note of the mylars..... I'm almost finished with the 28 lb package I received and I have the 11 lbs for another member to do. I just been trying to work many angles at the same time, my wife came home after 8 days in the hospital (she's doing fine now) and I got behind on a few things. I had to take two days to refine some gold I had to help financially at home. I melted a 4gram button last night (I'll post a picture in the Gallery).
Also, like I said earlier, I'm going to redo all the incinerated mylars I've done because I'm starting to believe incinerating the mylars somehow causes loss of some silver. I'll confirm that as soon as I get to redo the ashes. I need a blender of some sort to grind the ashes into a fine powder. After this batch I'm doing now, I'm going to use my original method (nitric bath), because I did get at least 12g average from my own batches I tried. Either way, no member will be at any loss at all, especially after I confirm the yields from each method.
I, however am going to change a few requirements in order for me to continue to do this as a service due to these things which made the work longer than anticipated.
1. Dirty mylars. They either have to be cleaned before the nitric bath or they'll have to go straight to the incinerator. I've gotten mylars that are so dirty, I wanted to throw them in the trash before I started incinerating them.
2. Blank mylars. I have to go through all the mylars and separate the blanks ones from in between the other ones from that set.
3. Remove the tabs. Many tabs on mylars have a taped side which is sticky and have to be removed to recover the silver. And because that one side is sticky, nitric bath isn't good for it because the silver, even though it's in suspension, still sticks to the sticky part. So, the best way to do the tabs is definitely incineration. Also, some tabs have copper plating on them which have to be cut off before processing.
4. Time consuming. Although I don't mid processing mylars, having to do the above is time consuming.
Once I finish with these 2 orders I have and then reprocess the ashes from the incineration, and then also refine my waste solution before disposing of it, I'll be accepting more mylars.
I have to think this out, but if I can get my yields accurate, I may even consider trading silver I refine myself for the mylars. Right now it's just a thought.
Kevin
