Yard Sale Meltdown - Melting Metal I Found At Some Yard Sales - Treasure To Trash - TheGrowingStack
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- Опубліковано 13 лис 2022
- I hit a community yard sale this weekend in search of some items to melt down. I found some cool old dishes that people were tired of holding on to, so I bought them for a few bucks and brought them home. I wasn't 100% sure what they were all made of, but it was fun melting them down to see.
I hope you enjoy this simple melt video as much as I did making it! - Розваги
I hope everyone is having a great start to the week. I hit some yard sales this weekend for a quick melt. I wasn’t completely sure what some of the metals were, but it was fun anyways. Let me know what you all think and have a wonderful week 👍
Sterling Silver is always marked Sterling or 925. If it doesn't have those markings, it is plated and needs to be refined to recover the silver. It's a simple process checkout Sreetips Channel.
The ash that was yellow then turned white is a mix of tin and zinc
"At least these family heirlooms will find a new home.." *HAMMER!!!!!* 😂
Can't believe that big ingot spilled, it really did look frozen. Lol
'Treasure To Trash' lol
As you’re crushing those pieces I keep hearing the young Grinch’s voice, “What a lovely family heirloom!”
The "zurp" made me laugh. I'm guessing pewter of some flavor.
This video lead me down a path of wondering how to separate metals that have been electroplated or forged together. There's some pretty interesting videos out there, but wow, a lot of science!
look up UA-cam channel Streetips - he uses the chemistry method to recover precious metals. The real answer to how to do this would have involved TheGrowingStack not pouring into ingot molds, but pouring it into a tall water column to make "shot" - i.e. lots of round and oddly shaped bits that will have lots of surface area and therefore works well with acids, etc. Each of these items should be tested before melting to get an idea of what it contains i.e. don't melt a big pewter bowl in with some Sterling silver cutlery - that will just make it more of a hassle (and increase materials used) to get the silver back. :D
I watch bigstackD Casting and I'm glad UA-cam suggested your channel to my feed. I like watching these style of videos.
The legs on those pots are often castings made from different metal to the bowl itself. Mix them, and you end up with chinesium.
Seriously, you telling me that your brother is making the music is making me appreciate the music so much more. That first pour was crazy, even if it was plated tin, that was wild looking. I liked the way you checked the other ones. Oh well, great video. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Leslie! He sees the comments so I know he appreciates your comments also. Thank you as always, and I’ll see you next time, hopefully with something even more fun!
Good to see someone else doing this too! I couldn't find any videos before I tried melting some thrift shop plated wares. I posted one on Reddit too. Great results here!
Mmmm... Mystery metal melts! Yum 😁
I always like when you go off and find interesting things to melt. That would be fun for me to do and watch. So these are my fav videos that you make! I like the copper/silver the best too. Hey, It looks like fun smashing those pieces. ☺️ Almost as fun as taking things apart. 😀
Always makes my day hearing from you Tracy! I’ve been a little exhausted with work and life so this was definitely a nice break to melt and have some fun and take my brain off of things. I hope you’re doing fantastic and I’ll talk to you soon! 👍🙂
lmaoo the knee jerk at 4:48 . It shooked me too
I'm pretty sure that the first bar you casted was pewter, with the blue and purple tinge to it when it's in a molten state. but as for the others if the end up with a yellow tinge to them then it will all be Nickel Silver. but if you really want to know what is in them and you're in the now of someone with an XRF Spectrometer then that will let you know for definite, and will give you the percentages of the metals contained. as Always stay safe and keep on melting 👍
Hi, great video showing an interesting combination of metals. If you are friendly with a bullion /coin dealer ask them to put the bars on an XRF scanner to get the composition of each bar. Would be interesting to know what you got.
I was looking at buying one today. I would love to know what’s in them exactly! They are pricey but I’ll see what I can find. Great to hear from you brother!
That first one was likely pewter based off of how it pooled - as for the stainless steel, always magnet test silverware before buying.
I’d love to throw all that in Nitric Acid to get started getting all that silver out!! 👍
Sreetips out there flexin' his new hood.
Cooling times may very... 🤣🤣🤣
my guess some copper and silver plate some brass and my guess would be pewter either way it is fun you never know what you can get
Usually if it is silver it will say .925 on it somewhere. They were beautiful pieces. OMG well that sucked. It looked solid to me too. They look even better when they are melted. They all look so shiny shiny !! Fun melt to watch, thanks for sharing !!
Got to love a good yard sale. Great addition to the stack.
Cool man! Looks like some pewter in there. Off to watch now!
Holy crap, I LOL on that first pour "demold". What the heck??
Awesome
If you get the volume of the ingots (probably with a low-surface-tension liquid, like isopropyl alcohol or acetone, as there are often voids in your casts, water might not get into them due to surface tension), then you or the viewers could determine an approximation of the percentages of metals, and/or what they are. Volume and mass can be used to determine density, and density is known for pure metals, percentage can be determined approximately assuming nearly pure metals and truth in statement of what metals were involved.
The legs on those pots are probably lead pewter. LOL
Silver on copper means it's plated, for sure! LMAO
EPNS means electroplated nickel silver. Yes.
Definitely plated with silver, and nickel silver has no silver itself.
That first one you melted is probably pewter, or zinc like you think. I pewter, maybe made with bismuth instead of lead. (I saw colors as it melted)
That nasty peice is probably stainless, and the rest looked brass.
The copper on silver looks very silver! Still probably under 3% silver. Just pushed to the outside of the bar, so it looks that way LOL
My favorite too!
Thanx for a great vid!
Lol you need a press for these types of things to squeeze them flat for you
Copper and Silver for the Win.
Great video, as usual. Our family heirlooms got the wire wheel and sold as brass, copper, or nickel scrap. It took three scrap dealers to find someone to take the nickel silver. I’m surprised that melted, as I thought melt point was too high for these furnaces.
hello my friend...gonna say everyone was probably just as shocked as you were with the first one LOL but that makes it fun and interesting as always...hope ya doing well and good to see ya using the heat guard..am not sure about the difference in steel and iron.. but have you thought about trying to melt some iron oxide dust??i used to have a bucket of it then it got wet and turned into a big plug of iron LOL.. used it in inspection work for pipe and drill stem in the oil field.. you can also use it to amaze small children and make them think you are magical if you throw it into a bonfire.. it will sparkle.. grandkids loved it .. but any way was curious if it would melt easily in dust form.. just a thought for you to look into perhaps and you might also be able to get it from a local metal shop as scrap.. not sure though.. but thanks for the video as always and was cool to see the difference in how each unknown poured vs the one known silver/copper one...be well and have a happy turkey day when it gets here and enjoy the time with the family... much love and respect..and stay safe
Silver or nickel plated, with the base metal being either tin or pewter. That would explain the first ingot you poured not solidifying as quickly as anticipated. The melting point being so much lower than the usual aluminium and copper that you melt.
Agentine is Argentinium, a silver alloy. National silver, or community silver is silver plating, EPNS is electroplayted nickel silver. All just variations of the same thing, silver plating.
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Cool video n music as well
I think the biggest ingot might be pewter
If it were zinc, u could have that typical fumes when it's over heating
N for that plate u could melt, stainless steel is not magnetic but it sparks when you grinding it
Wish you could post more videos
Ty for sharing
Stainless steel u could not melt
Oops 😬
The smoke at the pour around 11:34 is that from zinc, some impurity or completely unknown?
Sorry guys, I slipped away from the page, YuTube is marking my large response as spam 😥😢
(2) National Silver Co went out of business in the late 50s. They made Sterling and Plated flatware, discerned by the pattern and the stamp/hallmark. I tried my best to take screenshots a bit before and after the 2:01 min mark. It appears to have a very small number stamped right before the company name in a different orientation. My educated guess based on this and on the pattern, you scored some Sterling Silver. The pouring confirms my suspicion since melting and pouring Silver Plated items would either not have that color or would have a very low melting point with higher density.
(3) there is not much to say about the Silver on Copper pieces. Just for illustration: copying and pasting from somewhere: "Silver plate on a copper base metal - Birmingham Silver Co. of Brooklyn, NY, and later Yalesville, CT. - The company became Birmingham Silver Co. sometime before 1957. The marks of the company include a "puffy" crown, B S C in gothic capitals, and "Silver on Copper". They made high-quality silverplate, much of it in an English style." The alternative is Academy Silver on Copper for example.
(4) The EPNS should be the standard nickel-silver nickel plated. Not a US standard though. The UK standard is 60% Cu; 20% Ni; 20% Zn. Nest I go to see melting: the temperature gets high enough to melt but not high enough to boil up potential Zn if present. Then observing the pouring, the quick freeze, and the color hints to me Cu-Ni alloy. My only question mark is the presence of Zn.
(5) The unmarked pieces behave like Ni-Cu alloy (you can say looking at the pouring resulting bar, you have the bubbles formed by the convection of Ni due to temperature differences with Cu. there is Zn dross left over in the crucible though.
You did good, you have at least 98g of Sterling Silver in a bar there. Some potentially small percentage of Silver from the Argentine Silvertone. It should have -.15 % of Silver.
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Considering the stamping, the smashing, the apparent/perceived density, and the melting:
the handles could have been pewter on that first melt
I’m no metal expert, but maybe the bar that spilled was something like Pewter? Pretty sure that stuff has a low melting point and and is really malleable
need to remelt
What do we find out what they are together?
Did you add flux like borax? Looks like when you poured it there was some slag hanging
Do you have a way of knowing what the metals are after it’s melted?
I don’t….
You need to make a coin mold for yard sale stuff.
I thought about making coins out of them, but I decided to just pour little bars to show what was in the pieces. Looking back the coins might have been a better option 🤔👍
#2 looks like nickel silver
Shoulda checked with antiques roadshow first.
4:52 that looks like metal vomit. that made me ewww
:D
Do you sell anything, i’m trying get a copper heart
I haven’t yet. Although I did just order a small graphite heart mold that I should have this week. Did you want a small one or a big one?
@@TheGrowingStack a small one
Also if i could afford to get one in silver for my stack
Perhaps real silverware is not as plentiful as silver bears say it is.
😂
also why dont you build knives and tools out of thes "materials"?
id say if it says that its sterling you schouldnt melt it
Why? 🤔
@@bartcubbins3528 historical value and you willl get more for it if its in its original creation of the piece of silverware
@@MimicRaccoon I totally agree - I would definitely look um up - if they aren't anything special ...I say melt it and make it Special!!!
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This actually hurt watching pretty things being beaten and melted into nothingness. It seems like random wanton destruction and a waste of valuable metals that could have been extracted for a greater profit if nothing else. Zero effort put into research is sad.
the part that baffles me is how he always polishes the ingots at the end - missing the point that these are just intermediate ingots to be assayed, and those with goodness inside should be poured into shot and tossed in some dilute boiling nitric acid to start with. Polish it and all you can do is lose material...
@@chouseification The amount of silver is miniscule not much of a loss.
@@Elbert844 absolute and complete difference of opinions - when one has a goal of collecting as much precious metal as possible, ANY waste is a thing you spend a lot of time to reduce. As to the pewter ingot... have fun inhaling all that lead? Some things require thinking I guess...
@@chouseification shiny ignots look nicer on the video which satisfies the basic requirements and the need for monetization of the video which likely grants him far more than the precious metal value. Thats why I get a greater satisfaction seeing base and truly wasted metals made into something.
@@chouseification That is true I just don't believe he cares he is trying to make his channel grow the silver is probably not a big concern for him.
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Hmmm, a very ornate melt my friend. That spill was bogus, but you recovered. Kickass video!!
I was going to give a thumbs down but non of it was real valuable silver. And I also love watching these melts.