From tarnished forks and candle holders to GORGEOUS Sterling Silver coins - this is what it's all about!! This is the REAL heavy metal. Hope you enjoy the video. I appreciate all the subs, and all (or most) of your comments. :) Cheers
You grew up in an era before me where we were taught, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all." So what the hell gives? You need to be better than that. What a horrible, petty look.
😂😂Forget what this geezer has to say. I'd rather have a badass silver lion coin any day than to show people a bunch of old spoons and forks wtf lol! Heck I'd even buy some of those coins from you! I like how you included the messed up pours and frustrating parts. Showed the realism in the nuances of the art.
Your into is way too short, and I fell asleep during your video😴 jk, that was a cool ass melt, brother! You were rocking those pours. RIP bob, he is in a better place now👍
In the end they look awesome! I want to start doing this hopefully this winter! Wanna get a forge asap! Once the process is figured out it’s all up hill!
Hey thanks, I appreciate it. Yeah it's not as easy as it may seem. There are some keys to success which you just have to kinda figure out. Will be doing more soon actually. Cheers!!
Hi from the U.K. I found this very inspirational. I have the same furnace and still learning how to make something beautiful. I have a brass casket about 6'' in length x 5'' high that I want to recreate -pouring into 12'' flask with petrobond mold; poured 1 kilo of silver only to find that the base plate section of the mold was all I managed to cast. I'll keep going though until I can develope the technique. Thank you for putting this video together, it has helped me realise a couple of things.
It’s like you said practice makes perfect it’s always the first several coins you pour will be difficult but it gets better and better after that lovely looking coins 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊😊😊
Everything needs to be hotter, way hotter. Go to about 1100 on the silver and pre heat your moods for at least a few minutes before the pour. Also a little borax wouldn’t hurt 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
OUCH! Some of that was painful to watch hahaha. Tough learning curve. Glad you figured it all out and showed the process. Was worried it was all gonna burn haha. Looks great! Going to try my hand at it next week.
I truly sympathize with you! I poured my first piece yesterday, into a graphite mold. It didn't work! I found out my mold wasn't hot enough and it solidified too quickly. I had NO idea pouring could be such a pain in the a@@! Great video though. I'm really happy that you finally got what you wanted.
Silver is VERY hard to pour. Mold has to be really hot. Also good to keep a flame on the metal as your pouring it. It just "cools" so quickly that you kind of have to be fast with it. Have to pour it as soon as you remove it from the heat.
Bro you really shouldn’t have the fuel tank on the table when you’re pouring. Anyways all love man thanks for showing how hard it actually is to do this work
Is It best to insulate, as shown, with Fire fibre resistance material fibre just In case? I have the same electronic smelter that is offered, & takes "FOREVER," Next move Devils Smelter & Gass, much better as I have seen for myself! P/S, great video. Please keep them coming
I appreciate that. Yeah good question, I don't know. Mine doesn't take all that long to get to temperature. I wonder if yours is just faulty. I think mine takes like 15 minutes??? Not sure that's long or not. Good luck with your melting!
What is the purpose of changing the shape if they are still .925. At least with the scrap everything is marked and verifiable as sterling. After you melt it, it could be anything. I guess if it were refined I could see the point a bit better.
Melt at 1050 F. Pour into tall column of water slowly to make shot. Then weigh out the amount of silver required to fill the mold place in ceramic melt dish and melt with hand torch. Better to use oxygen and Mapp or acetylene gas. You could also just place it inside a gas or electric furnace. The only way you could pour it straight out of the crucible is back your mold with block that has a sprue and riser.
Definitely the right way to do it. I didn't think about turning it to shot and then weighing out. Unfortunately I don't an acetylene torch - just my hand-held mapp gas and the device in the video.
With all metals heat is super important at the pour. Your mold should be hot as you showed here to avoid shock and so your mold doesn't cool the metal too quickly. Keeping heat on the pour after will help smooth it out as you have found out. You can also purify your stearling into pure silver as well by using a cuppell and separating the copper and zinc from the silver. Good luck to you and keep those videos coming!
That little “heh heh” when you dropped a spoon in there was my favorite part. The reason being, I did the exact same thing when you did. It was awesome.
did you add the borax and mix it then scrape the impurities off the top? the sluge could be the garbage you should of scraped off the top. also if some of that was zinc or nickle it couod give you issues because i believe it would float on top. you can also try a little hotter temp. i think ur good up to 1100 but by the way it was rough pours inthe beginning with the top of the batch leads me too believe its because of alag on top or accidentally using zinc or nickle. it also could be the 7.5% of the sterling that is nickle tin or copper floating to the top. try mixing it really good
Good thoughts. Yeah, after adding Borax I stirred it with a graphite stick and all the junk stuck to it. As it turns out, the biggest issue was that I hadn't heated up the mold nearly enough so it was freezing instantly. The more I poured the hotter the mold got and the better the pours got.
$400 is a bit inflated IMO. Usually old and decorative flatware is about 50%-100% above spot silver price. But its all good people like this guy just makes the stuff more valuable down the road
I'm just getting started on melting silver myself and just about to go get the mapp pro gas. But I now see MAPP Pro is not going to be enough. I need to get that smelting machine you got as well. But thanks for the video of going through the good and bad. I learned a bit. Especially not to let those hit my bench to burn it up. haha! SH@t Happens eh? But no, seriously, thanks for the video. I'm just wondering, are you wearing a mask with some 3M filters while doing this?
Thanks man. Yeah it's a bit of a learning curve. Mapp gas will melt lead, zinc and pewter if you want to do that first. Then yes all the other metals you'll need a forge. No I don't wear a respirator. Probably should.
@Skuller Metals well I like them alot ! I love all silver, I know I'm a year late on this video, lol, but I am so impressed with someone actually responding to me for once. I wish I'd of found your channel sooner man! If your interested I'd love to buy a coin. I'm also trying to get into the smelting hobby with my kiddo, she'd be extatic to receive something from a real RU-vidr!
Noooo... not the small spoon... those sell for double-triple silver price... EDIT: like for all of your struggle... My struggle is ahead, I collected some silver and going to purify and pour... looking for advice... This will help me much...
Yes I've sold many pieces, but I dont have a store. I usually sell them as they're made. I need to figure out how to create a store. I'll look into that.
@@SkullerMetals yes that'd be awesome I've bought from sellers off of ebay maybe for starters. Reach out to other coin or smelter content creators you'd be surprised how many would give you awesome advice. Good luck
@@scotts1356 I appreciate it Scott. So when you said clay, are you saying the silver is poured into a clay mold? Is that the same kind of process as using Petrobond sand?
@@SkullerMetals Yes. You use a 2 piece mold, so that both sides of the "coin" come out. Clay is basically the same thing as Petro Bond sand. But Petro Bond is more expensive.
Heat your molds more should be 400 f I found pouring on the floor rather than at waist level is better and give your self room you didn’t have much s-ace between you and your work area you were having to be careful not hitting camera etc give your self Heepz of room makes for nice steady pours! Keep it up!
No I'm going to keep it at .925. Sterling may become a good item for barter at some point. I don't have the skill set to turn it into .999 anyway. Too many acids and other chemicals I don't want to be handling.
Maybe watch a video or two on investment casting r sand casting because you are dng the cmetel wronge and with a the impurities you should be using a bit of borax
Clam like molds would yeild you a better result, or failing that make a sheet of silver and stamp out the individual bullion coins. Not to sound critical but your method here is on the dangerous side.
People who buy and sell gold and silver even if the item is worth more as a piece, they buy by weight. If I were him, I would put 9.99% pure silver 24 pure gold. Hold on to your silver coins. The gold and silver are a good investments to buy and sell things.
Well, once the metal is molten.....it's molten. I found during this pour that the key part of it was making sure the molds were as hot as possible. The more I poured and failed it just kept making the molds hotter. I appreciate the comment. Cheers!
No I haven't. The only thing worth melting in a microwave would be the aluminum windings in the transformer, which wouldn't be worth the time with aluminum being so cheap. Microwave actually have very little value.
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