Originally Posted by
sawmilleng
Alloy,
Keep your comments and explanations coming! They are fascinating.
Dumb questions...why aren't you going to smelt Kovar? Does it take a LOT of heat to get Nickel to melt?
Is the parting cell a particularly bad actor with the necessary chemicals?
It seems to me that, for scrappers at least, we all seem to be avoiding melting stuff down because the yards figure anyone that is melting stuff will embed a big old rock in the melt and rip them off... Kinda like the gold boys in New York who got fooled by someone putting tungsten blocks into the gold bars. How do you deal with this..do you sell to people who do the refining or are you taking the precious metals to .999 yourself?
What about selling the plain old copper? Same problems with getting rid of the cast blocks?
Jon....kinda worried after asking a shztload of dumb questions that would get him tarred and feathered on the gold refining forum!!
As of last October I have officially become a dependant of the Canadian Government, turned 65 and have a monthly pension direct deposit and my back is totally buggered. So I'm looking to do something less strenuous, I don;t have enough money to lay on the beach but have plan "B" ready to put into action.
Plan "B" is to head north with my Garrett Infinium and find some nuggets or even some small flakes would put a smile on my face. Also want to buy some gold from the miners willing to sell for cash.
Take the Induction furnace along as you never know someone might want their gold melted into bars, how much better can you get than that the furnace coming to your works where you can keep an eye on the melt from start to finish.
We'll see how the summer unfolds.
To smelt the Kovar would require a larger furnace and I'm downsizing or disposing a lot of stuff I own and no longer need.
Also I'm just passing through the forum, I was a member long ago and some may have already have their suspicions of who I am. Admin and Mods you have nothing to fear when I'm ready to leave of my own violation my posts and pictures will remain.
I have started taking pain medication for my back injury which has helped with the mood swings.
It has been said no pain no gain, ha this is BS you guys that scrap for a few dollars look after yourselves now or pay the price when your older.
No I am no longer refining, I have been getting the metals down to concentrates then shipping these to the refinery.
Most scrap yards have an XRF for the following reason they may buy an exotic alloy which will look like stainless steel when in fact it is monel which is difficult to distinguish from the former. An XRF will identify the more valuable alloys which may now be removed from the stainless steel bin.
You will not see an employee walking around the yard with a $30,000.00 hand held XRF nor find one laying about where it could be easily stolen. These units are entrusted to one person.
So you may have to ask to have the XRF brought out to settle a dispute.
The XRF units owned by the yards usually do not have the precious metals package installed.
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