Irishpride said:
This Forum is awesome and teaches you alot!! But what i hate!!! is when someone just asks a simple question and everyone just says.. Well go read Hokes.. Or they say well everything you said has been answered over 100 times on this site lol like really? why cant you just help someone and answer them? lol dont have to be a dick and act all smart just to make that person feel stupid pretty messed up... This Forum site is awesome but alot of you guys are annoying when someone really needs help.. SOOOOOOO been reading all day and night on process's and techniques and ways to refine the gold from cell phone parts and gold fingers, i have some of the chemicals down and the melting part down, just would like to know the basic beginner step by step. Going from scrap gold from computer and cell phone parts to gold powder
and the use and just the step by step of the chemicals! it would be greatly appreciated and YES ive been reading the Hokes book lol
I become incensed when I see the sense of entitlement in some people. Even though you have 3 posts, you act as if you have been here awhile. I have to wonder if you have been here previously, were banned, and came back.
In any case, if you haven't read Hoke, how do you expect to understand the language used to describe what we do? How can you effectively ask a question in a way that someone else would understand, and be able to give you advice?
If you are looking for specific processes, check under that section. If you are finding the forum search too difficult to use, you can enter a search string in google with Gold Refining Forum as part of it, and do a fairly good job of targeting the information you are looking for.
To assume that people are on this forum, waiting, at your beck and call to give you instructions that have been posted, in many cases numerous times. You sound extremely impatient to me, the type of person who gets a bunch of scrap that looks like it has gold in it, and wants to start right now, today, refining it. That's not how this works, not by a long shot. If you have no experience you need to take it very slow so that you don't put your life in danger. I am talking about the potential to kill yourself. For example, do you know why you do not pour water into acid? If you made that one single mistake, with the wrong type of acid, you could seriously harm yourself, blind yourself, or worse.
Personally I would feel very sketchy about giving advice to anyone who could then take it and harm themselves or others around them. The gases that are produced when metal is dissolved in Aqua Regia alone could kill you or those people/animals in the immediate area. Do you honestly think it would be responsible for anyone to give you instructions or advice? You could be a kid, you sound like you are young to me, your impatience gives it away. It's great you have that type of enthusiasm, but truly, you need to prepare yourself before you just jump right in. If you do not you will very likely make a mistake that you can never take back.
You also might want to think about not using exploitatives, it's frowned upon here. This is a professional forum and although many of us curse like sailors in real life, that type of language does nothing to advance the quality of information on this site. It really demeans all the people who have posted their experience and knowledge in such a way that people like you can find, read and apply it. Thinking about what you write, and how it will sound to others on this site might prevent you from being banned.
And please, tone down the sense of entitlement, it's insulting.
Scott