Before I describe my disaster I want to wish everyone a happy new year!
I've tried to find information on this site to sort of help me recover from this current situation but find the information is fragmented in as much as some parts are useful in certain situations but haven't found a whole resolution for my problem. As you will see from pics attached I have ended up with two much borax/sodium carbonate in the meltdish. I have only introduced sodium carbonate to try and make the borax more liquid went heated to enable the gold beads to bond together.
I use a MAP propane torch for my melts and have several successful melts but for some reason I seem to have got into a chasing my tail situation on this one. Advice needed as to what would be the best course of action.
An afterthought I have had is that perhaps I'm losing too much heat out of the dish and have noticed in some videos that some people sit their meltdish on insulating medium, I live in the UK an it is currently cold so not sure if I'm getting enough heat to get the job done properly. Not sure whether to write off this meltdish and put the contents into an acid to liberate the pm's or whether I'm not realising some other vital information.
Please see picture and thanks for looking.
Simon
I've tried to find information on this site to sort of help me recover from this current situation but find the information is fragmented in as much as some parts are useful in certain situations but haven't found a whole resolution for my problem. As you will see from pics attached I have ended up with two much borax/sodium carbonate in the meltdish. I have only introduced sodium carbonate to try and make the borax more liquid went heated to enable the gold beads to bond together.
I use a MAP propane torch for my melts and have several successful melts but for some reason I seem to have got into a chasing my tail situation on this one. Advice needed as to what would be the best course of action.
An afterthought I have had is that perhaps I'm losing too much heat out of the dish and have noticed in some videos that some people sit their meltdish on insulating medium, I live in the UK an it is currently cold so not sure if I'm getting enough heat to get the job done properly. Not sure whether to write off this meltdish and put the contents into an acid to liberate the pm's or whether I'm not realising some other vital information.
Please see picture and thanks for looking.
Simon