Martijn
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Getting ready for some quality time with family and friends.
The aquarium and table/couch corner is draped with a christmas village. The tree is full of decoration, presents and chocholats.
My wife has worked hard for days in the kitchen preparing her famous stew and stewed pears for the feast meal.
It has become such a tasty tradition that the kids now expect it to be served at Christmas.
Tomorrow presents around the tree with our first nine month old grandson. I can't wait!
Time off, relaxing, playing some guitar, .... you might get bored..
so I always like to use these days to process a (for me) bigger batch of gold plated watches and other plated stuff.
I just don't have the time to watch over a process during several days as I can now. I prefer to finish and bottle the used acid as fast as possible to keep the moist from the air out.
Plus the low temperature outside helps keeping the acid cool.
So I prepared the lab, treated my waste, evaporated solutions to make room and made new copper rods to insert in the cell.
Got it all washed in the ultrasonic cleaner And dried, ready to strip.
I processed some old partially stripped parts from previous batches first in some used sulfuric and now started up the first bigger 1 liter cell with fresh acid. It's purring along, limited at 3 Amps. Second bigger cell will be set up in two days.
I have a few days of occasionally refilling a cell, washing and sorting the stripped items to reprocess and enjoying the time at home.
Januari will be for refining the slimes.
I'm sure many other fellow hobby refiners are working on some type of project with a couple of extra days off.
Have fun and be safe if you do. May your yields be sparkling and abundant.
Merry Christmas to you all!
The aquarium and table/couch corner is draped with a christmas village. The tree is full of decoration, presents and chocholats.
My wife has worked hard for days in the kitchen preparing her famous stew and stewed pears for the feast meal.
It has become such a tasty tradition that the kids now expect it to be served at Christmas.
Tomorrow presents around the tree with our first nine month old grandson. I can't wait!
Time off, relaxing, playing some guitar, .... you might get bored..
so I always like to use these days to process a (for me) bigger batch of gold plated watches and other plated stuff. I just don't have the time to watch over a process during several days as I can now. I prefer to finish and bottle the used acid as fast as possible to keep the moist from the air out.
Plus the low temperature outside helps keeping the acid cool.
So I prepared the lab, treated my waste, evaporated solutions to make room and made new copper rods to insert in the cell.
Got it all washed in the ultrasonic cleaner And dried, ready to strip.
I processed some old partially stripped parts from previous batches first in some used sulfuric and now started up the first bigger 1 liter cell with fresh acid. It's purring along, limited at 3 Amps. Second bigger cell will be set up in two days.
I have a few days of occasionally refilling a cell, washing and sorting the stripped items to reprocess and enjoying the time at home.
Januari will be for refining the slimes.
I'm sure many other fellow hobby refiners are working on some type of project with a couple of extra days off.
Have fun and be safe if you do. May your yields be sparkling and abundant.
Merry Christmas to you all!
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