Originally Posted by 41haikuwarriors
My question was if any HERE without prior knowledge of chemistry had gone from scrapper to refiner.
I never said I had no knowledge.
It doesn't seem my question is being read correctly.
The answers i have gotten do seem to answer that, none of you refine. So thank you anyway.
I was just bored and wanted a story
I think your question was well understood and addressed the way it should have been.
You said you have been on the SMF for a couple of months reading. That is really not even enough time spent there to get even a basic knowledge of what is required to work with the chemicals and the dangers of what can happen.
There are actually quite a few of the users that are on both forums, you just don't recognize them because they go by different user names. How many of them actually pursue both fields actively I do not know.
How many of the close to 4,000 posts on the GRF that I have made have you read? I would venture to say that you have read very few of them or you would not have made the statement that "none of you refine".
I did not have a book or school knowledge before I took up refining. But I did have a working knowledge of most of the chemicals use because I had worked with them in my fields of work for over 35 years including a 4 year period of working at a chemical factory so I knew very well the dangers of what I was working with. Soe of the reactions in refining will kill you, not imediatly but even days after coming in contact with them.
Me personaly I have refined well over 150 Toz's of gold and and 100's of Toz's of silver since I started refining precious metals, 99% from E-scrap.
As far as scrapping goes. I have scrapped metals for over 45 years since I was a little kid. I have no idea how many ton's of copper or aluminum I have sold much less shread but it has been a lot.
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