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One of the cheapest materials around,any haberdashery should have some.Topher_osAUrus said:
I would not expose it to strong acids but mine has held up in the cell for over two years.
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I would not expose it to strong acids but mine has held up in the cell for over two years.
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If you want something you can re-use then look at something like polypropylene filter cloth. A quick Goggle brings this up as an example in the US.
http://www.kavonfilter.com/filter-cloth.html
Lou's pretty good at suppliers of this kind of thing, so he'll probably make this link redundant quite quickly. It doesn't have to cost much and you can buy it by the square yard. For the slight uplift in cost you can get by mesh size
http://www.kavonfilter.com/filter-cloth.html
Lou's pretty good at suppliers of this kind of thing, so he'll probably make this link redundant quite quickly. It doesn't have to cost much and you can buy it by the square yard. For the slight uplift in cost you can get by mesh size
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I hadnt heard of the polyurethane being used, but am interested. I liked the idea of rinse and reuse as soon as I read another member was using polypropylene.
Thank you for that link Jon, I may just have to order and patiently wait. I prefer to go in to a store, grab it, and be gone. But, in our world a vast majority of things aren't so easy to come by (not cheaply anyways)
Thanks gentlemen
Thank you for that link Jon, I may just have to order and patiently wait. I prefer to go in to a store, grab it, and be gone. But, in our world a vast majority of things aren't so easy to come by (not cheaply anyways)
Thanks gentlemen
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You're going to get very little of the "real stuff" you need for refining over the counter in your local store Toph. That's a fact of life that you're gonna have to come to terms with I'm afraid. Once you progress beyond a certain point, it's specialist stuff but the time it saves you is worth every penny.
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Indeed.
I learned that the hard way, after buying small amounts of nitric for silver runs, to a bulk order... Had to wait a few days, but the money I saved was immense...
I learned that the hard way, after buying small amounts of nitric for silver runs, to a bulk order... Had to wait a few days, but the money I saved was immense...
Wow ! I thought you experienced refiners could get Gold out of anything, but this takes the biscuit !
It's about a month now since the Mess was made, with daily tinkering to try to recover the situation.
Today i managed to get all the potentially gold-bearing portions back into one place (a small glass tray) with the majority of the copper and zinc removed.
If i'm lucky, there'll be about 0.3g of gold at the end.
To help the 'luck' i did some trial melts with very small piles of copper powder and borax.
On the first trial i blew all the powder out of the crucible with the torch
Glad it wasn't gold powder !
Each step of this recovery/refining game is clearly a Skill that has to be learned and practiced.
Today i managed to get all the potentially gold-bearing portions back into one place (a small glass tray) with the majority of the copper and zinc removed.
If i'm lucky, there'll be about 0.3g of gold at the end.
To help the 'luck' i did some trial melts with very small piles of copper powder and borax.
On the first trial i blew all the powder out of the crucible with the torch
Glad it wasn't gold powder !
Each step of this recovery/refining game is clearly a Skill that has to be learned and practiced.
