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Trying to get some solid resources on what to buy to get started into melting precious metals.
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Trying to get some solid resources on what to buy to get started into melting precious metals. Cant see it worth while melting .999 sliver to make bars, with the cost of fuel or electricity equipment etc your better off just buying the low premium bars. Now if you were to make skulls or some such and can sell for a high premium then "maybe" it might be worth your while. |
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Trying to get some solid resources on what to buy to get started into melting precious metals. Get a torch. Melting is the easy part. Getting the metal in the first place is the hard part. If you mean refining from other metals that's different. Interested in such things there is the "Prospecting and mining journal", www.icmj.com It is the magazine of real miners and industry hands on people. I've subscribed for many years. Mined gold for many years. |
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There are several videos on YouTube that go through the process from melting Sterling silver (jewelry or flatware) to refining to casting.
Seems like more than a little work for the result...
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Wondering why an amateur would attempt to cast their own bars? Cost prohibitive and end result of unknown purity.
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Well, I don't want to get into refining sterling or coin silver at the moment. Mostly just want to get in on melting .999 silver into my own bars. I have a design/look I'm going for that will be attractive to me. In my head it also seems like a promising way to make a little money with the premiums of hand poured vs other bars/rounds.
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Well, then, you need a torch and a crucible.
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Sound like it could be a losing venture, but then again to being human is to make error's good luck
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In my head it also seems like a promising way to make a little money with the premiums of hand poured vs other bars/rounds. Unfortunately it is not hand poured bars, it is the old pour bars that command premiums. Rare, limited old pours from "classic" smelters and refiners like Engelhard. You can make a coin that looks like a Morgan, but it will never be worth a classic Morgan, just the spot price of silver. (unless you put a skull and crossbones on it and tell everyone that it's a pirate round) Edited by denco7
08/02/2015 10:14 pm
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You can buy crucibles and molds online from several sources. you can make your own furnace fairly easily. You can then melt your known purity stock into an funky shape that unless it is very arty will most certainty be a losing proposition moneywise. If you have your own cool design and are doing it just for your own amusement it can be fun yet slightly dangerous, which as with everything, often increases the fun.
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