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United States
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I'd like to get into melting and pouring scrap sterling silver into bars, but I know nothing of how to go about it. I'd appreciate any & all input I could get...actual "how to" info would be great, as would leads on info sources I could run down.
Thanks for your help.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Strickly smelting, just search smelter on ebay and you will get 100's of choices. Cheapest and most pratical way. Its a fun hobby. If youre thinking of getting into refining its a whole different ball game |
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United States
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A quick google search produced several youtube videos and several threads...mostly not a good idea for several reasons; hard to produce (several "crucible" mentioning), hard to sell and dangerous!
Edited by oih82w8
10/22/2012 11:03 am
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1200 Posts |
Thanks for the leads. One thing I hadn't even thought of was difficulties and "purity concerns" involved in selling home-poured bars. Looks like another of my "great ideas" (to be ranked up there with making a hang-glider out of aluminum tubing and sailcloth, making a surfboard by pouring a polystyrene core & fiberglassing it by hand, & many other such bonehead schemes) just got consigned to The Great Idea Graveyard after a little research. I think I'll still get into garage sale/rummage sale/flea market sterling hunting, but just trade any junk sterling I manage to find with a local coin dealer for bullion coins. MUCH simpler & easier that way, no hassles about "purity concerns" and I end up with ASEs instead of dubious-content bars that nobody'll touch with a 10 foot pole!
Thanks for saving me from a pile of self-inflicted complications and grief!
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If you have a good rep on ebay people will buy them. I got spot for my friends first set that he made and they were very crude looking. |
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United States
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I made multiple bars and sold most of them for over the current spot price.... If you know what you're doing, and have the right equipment, it is very fun, and you WILL sell them! Heres the ebay auction to one of my small bars.....cant find pics of my 2 and 3 oz... But for example this one was sold when silver was around $30.90. And it sold at about $33.30 an oz with the actual silver content. http://www.ebay.com/itm/27104547993....m1559.l2649 |
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United States
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Freddy, good ideas, all. Best of luck. You know, I had a Bahne board in the '70s, which was along the same lines.
colu, that's one neat pour you made/sold.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1200 Posts |
I was around in the 70's (and in fact already out of college), but I missed that one --What's a Bahne board?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1200 Posts |
Did a little research & found out what a Bahne board was. Ohhhhh, boy - I'm having flashbacks! I had a Hobie board back then (before marriage and parenthood, needless to say)...
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United States
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Microwave kit (260 retail), entry level short of a smelting bowl and torch. Hey it works, may just be a bit Crude as TBK mentioned.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/MICROWAVE-G...em3a7afea375Deluxe microwave kit (385 retail).... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Smelting-Me...em484380cae2I want this one here, a bit more advanced.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Smelting-Me...em484380cae2Just so happens I had the gears turning earlier and imagined a Silverhawk stamped GOLD bar lol, why not go big.... Overhead for smelting is not cheap eh, beyond this set..... Scrap 14k on ebay all day, again NOT CHEAP HOWEVER. If I could buy it cheap on bay, I simply would take to my gold kiosk and sell back to work and always be number one in district and win ALL contests, lol.... Get a kit, get a how to book, then KISS, keep it simple stupid. Not crude, nicer then crude, but keep it simple I figure is best..... Edited by Silverhawk74
10/22/2012 11:46 pm
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I want a smelting furnace so bad I see one in my near future.
colu,
Thank you so much for all your help. I need to clean mine up a bit a stamp them. I have to say though your bars are pretty impressive.
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Posted 10/22/2012 10:55 am
