More jewelry scrapping! Yay fire!

in steemsilvergold •  7 years ago 

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Its that time again! After work today, I put the torch and crucible to work.

I dug out one of my baggies of scrap sterling and weighed out how much I thought I could melt

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Alright, 34.4 grams of .925 sterling silver ready to met it's maker...

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The first pic is of this melting, It's hard to take many pictures with a torch in one hand and a crucible in the other hand, lol😆

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That definitely needs to be cleaned up! My rotary tool will do that, a little wire brush, then a Polish wheel.

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And with it all congregated in the middle of the scale, it's final weigh in. And it seems to be a bit heavier than before...

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There it is then, a 35.1g pillow of sterling, or 32.46g silver weight.

I'm going to try to melt about twice that amount now, stay tuned for tomorrow's post!

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Usually there is loss of matter, not creation of matter. Am I wrong?

I would think, I'm guessing it's cause it was spread out on the scale

Practice makes perfect brother.👍

I did a bigger pour. I'll post it tomorrow, it turned out really cool! This metal pouring is really quite fun!!

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