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Hello forum members,
I would like to start off by saying if it wasn't for this forum, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing with precious metals recovery and I wouldn't have been able to do what I recently done. Much love to all of you.
After I joined the forum earlier this year I purchased some cemented silver (a month or so after joining here) off of eBay for less than the spot price of silver. I held onto it until last month sometime while I was still compiling supplies, equipment and such. Then I finally took a crack at melting.
I used a cast steel (or cast iron) conical mold with two cavities with 5oz each. After reading the forum, looking at the videos I've purchased from LaserSteve and buying the supplies I needed, I managed to make the molds below. They're not perfect at all, but it gave me a starting point of inspiration as to seasoning melting dishes, types of heat/fire to use, etc,.
I will eventually melt all of the pieces into one piece to make at least a 5oz silver mold.
one side of the pieces
the other side of the pieces
each piece that I weighed after cooling down
I laid them on a piece of paper towel with a cigarette lighter to show the size
This is the other side of the pieces.
What I used to pour the melted silver in.
The one piece above that weigh 30.9 grams was 31.1 grams until a piece of it broke off. I guess it didn't melt well enough.
Through this forum I now have the confidence to at least melt silver (I still need practice though). I was trying just one 31.1 gram at a time and then I tried more to see the difference and the time it would take for the differences. I did however learn one thing though. Since all of my silver didn't pour out in a straight shot into the mold, do not heat the melting dish and melt the silver and pour it into the mold because it won't mold properly. It just drips in the mold into clumps and hardens immediately. Also, with the mold I used, in order to get silver to melt in it (if you try to use it as a melting dish) you will have to get that mold red hot, and that will take much fire and heat to accomplish.
I'm learning. I still have over 60+ lbs of keyboard mylars I'm going to process soon, but, I'm still reading Hoke's book and reading the posts on the forum.
Thank you all again for making me feel that I can accomplish what I set out to do from this forum.
Kevin
I would like to start off by saying if it wasn't for this forum, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing with precious metals recovery and I wouldn't have been able to do what I recently done. Much love to all of you.
After I joined the forum earlier this year I purchased some cemented silver (a month or so after joining here) off of eBay for less than the spot price of silver. I held onto it until last month sometime while I was still compiling supplies, equipment and such. Then I finally took a crack at melting.
I used a cast steel (or cast iron) conical mold with two cavities with 5oz each. After reading the forum, looking at the videos I've purchased from LaserSteve and buying the supplies I needed, I managed to make the molds below. They're not perfect at all, but it gave me a starting point of inspiration as to seasoning melting dishes, types of heat/fire to use, etc,.
I will eventually melt all of the pieces into one piece to make at least a 5oz silver mold.
one side of the pieces
the other side of the pieces
each piece that I weighed after cooling down
I laid them on a piece of paper towel with a cigarette lighter to show the size
This is the other side of the pieces.
What I used to pour the melted silver in.
The one piece above that weigh 30.9 grams was 31.1 grams until a piece of it broke off. I guess it didn't melt well enough.
Through this forum I now have the confidence to at least melt silver (I still need practice though). I was trying just one 31.1 gram at a time and then I tried more to see the difference and the time it would take for the differences. I did however learn one thing though. Since all of my silver didn't pour out in a straight shot into the mold, do not heat the melting dish and melt the silver and pour it into the mold because it won't mold properly. It just drips in the mold into clumps and hardens immediately. Also, with the mold I used, in order to get silver to melt in it (if you try to use it as a melting dish) you will have to get that mold red hot, and that will take much fire and heat to accomplish.
I'm learning. I still have over 60+ lbs of keyboard mylars I'm going to process soon, but, I'm still reading Hoke's book and reading the posts on the forum.
Thank you all again for making me feel that I can accomplish what I set out to do from this forum.
Kevin