How To Melt Silver and Pour Into a Mold
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Melting one troy ounce of silver and pouring from a ceramic crucible into a graphite mold. A max heat torch is used in this video to melt the silver, and a high heat torch is used to warm up the graphite mold, both using map gas.
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That's possibly the best silver pour i've ever seen, at least without higher temps. thx!
Thank you, I appreciate the feedback!
Best tutorial for melting silver at home. Thank you
Thank you very much! I was just thinking about doing an updated version of this...
Good video. Nice pour of your silver. Thanks for sharing.😎⛏⛏🔥🔥
I like that beat in the background
Thank you! 👍
Love it, simple, easy to follow, informative. Thumps up.
Thank you 👍
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Really cool and helpful video thanks!
Thank you!
You are excellent
Good job
Thank you
I have found some rock containing silver sulfide in the mountain, please tell me how and with what acid can I convert silver sulfide into silver metal, with what materials should I dissolve it and with what materials should I precipitate it 🙏🙏
Please make a complete video in which 1 to 2kg silver and cadmium are being molten and poured into a mould.
Thats amazing! Fab work ❤Are they just concrete blocks you are using please? Im just researching at the moment for all the items i need ❤
Thank you, yes just simple concrete 'bricks/blocks'. You might be interested one of my newer videos, 'Everything you need to start pouring at home'. ua-cam.com/video/XVQFdvp6pYk/v-deo.htmlsi=piyiPdeidPilPM_N
Wow beautiful pour man! I love it in I'm still struggling to get that fluid movement down
Thank you very much! Those smaller pours can be tricky at times...
@@JoshuaAndersonLife yes this I'm finding out as I go along lol it looks so easy on video but irl it is a bit nerve wracking the first few times
@@mouthofthesouth4267 sometimes it can be helpful to put a penny at one end of your graphite mold, pour on the end that's slightly elevated and let the silver move down to the bottom half.
I do this but it never works with s silver just like you do it just doesn’t flow why? Help.
@@JoshuaAndersonLife I have to try that one next time
Hi there, great video! I am wondering where I purchase these moulds from? I found some but not sure if they will work with this heat, they are steel
Hey, you can find a variety of graphite molds on both Amazon and eBay.
WOW you make ut look easy
@@cowboys1spurs Thank you! 👍
What’s the max amount of oz one would be able to melt this way before having to move to a different method?
The max I would pour with a torch and ceramic crucible is about 5ozt. Then move to a furnace with larger graphite crucible for bigger pours.
Hi Joshua. I have been melting silver for various projects. But I have not been able to get those crucibles to work right. I tried to do the borax trick, but the borax just melted in with the silver when I melted the silver.... What is the trick to correctly boraxing the crucible so the borax doesn't just remelt into the silver and ruin it? It ruined my silver and the crucible....
Hi, I'm going to try to get a crucible glazing video out here in the next week or two. When you're glazing your crucible you really want the thinnest layer of borax on it as possible, as long as it covers the entire surface of The crucible on the inside and rim.
Even when done perfectly you'll often times get a little bit of borax that will melt into your first one or two pours. Either plan for this and polish off any excess borax on your silver. Or, I usually make a point of my first few pours going into a double-sided mold, that way any excess borax will end up at the top on your extra silver pour over. You can then just remelt the excess silver from the spout and burn off any extra borax moving forward. Watch for my crucible glazing video coming up soon 👍
@@JoshuaAndersonLife thanks for the reply! With the research I am doing, why should I not just use a graphite crucible instead, that doesn't need borax? It seems like that would make sense. And unfortunately I am not pouring into a mold. I am making spanish cobs, so it will get poured directly onto an anvil both as individual small circles I will flatten into coins as well as the more traditional method of pouring a whole strip of silver and then cutting it up and making those crude shapes into coins exactly like they did back in the pirate days! Fun stuff. Since I couldn't get the crucible to work, I have just been melting the silver on a polished piece of steel. Which works fine for small amounts actually. But not more than 1oz at a time. And still not ideal either.
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Thank you!!
@@JoshuaAndersonLife your welcome
Why do you not use Borax to season your crucible?
Hi, I do a one-time glazing of the crucibles with borax before use. That's all that's necessary.
Hey Josh, I was just thinking about finally melting down my scrap silver. I’ve had the mold that has two sides. One is for sheet metal and the other is for different sizes of wire. Do you happen to know what the name of the spray you use for the mold? It’s used to prevent the metal from sticking to the mold? I want to order it and while I pretty much order everything from Rio you have to be totally specific on what you want when your ordering online. They’re system is definitely NOT user friendly! It’s not bad when customer service is there during the day. They usually know what you’re talking about. If you know, a quick response from you would be awesome! Thanks! Teri
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Hey, sorry for the late reply. I just got Google analytics and started using it for the first time, and realized I was missing so many comments that I didn't know I had before. With two-sided molds I actually just use Gold Bond body powder, which used to be simply talcum powder. I'm pretty sure I show using it in some of my pouring videos? I'm about to put out a video on Saturday that will show the use of it for two-sided mold.
Right on! I’ll look for it. It should probably be out by now. I’m late reading and responding to your late response! Lol! It all good! Thanks so much for the much needed info. That’s definitely a lot cheaper than what I’d end up paying for whatever I would buy from Rio! 😉
Hey, yes I did post that video it's the one about melting down and replicating a Morgan silver dollar.
Where do you get the molds
You can buy various graphite molds on Amazon or ebay.
Is it possible to just put the silver shavings in the skull mold and melt it from there or will it not work that way?
It's typically much faster to melt in a crucible and pour. Maybe I'll do a video on this 👍
@@JoshuaAndersonLife nice. Either way you sold me in buying an electric crucible for starters :)
What brand of torch did you use for this?
Torch is Bernzomatic TS8000
What torch are you using
It's a Bernzomatic TS8000. Sorry I just got the UA-cam analytics app and now seeing so many comments I never knew I had ☹️.
im having trouble melting 925 silver, everytime i melt it, it cools down with a really black and disturbed surface, any recommendations?
Thank you!
Are you using a torch? If you feel like you don't have quite enough heat I would add a second torch. Have one mounted on a table and then you can hold the other one if you'd like. You can also try adding some borax which can help remove impurities. Check out one of my more recent videos on how to use borax.
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Also, make sure that your main torch is a 'max heat' torch. I believe it's the Bernzomatic TS8000. Also noted in this video. 👇
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Badass
Thank you!
Is it oxyacetyelene flame??
No, just standard MAPP gas with BurnsOmatic TS8000 handle.
Could you use silver solder instead??
You could use silver solder... You're best off buying silver shot if you plan to keep making silver pieces however.
Hello, what material is that mold made of?
Graphite
Yes, graphite. Sorry, somehow missed the notification for this...
how did you shape the graphite, and where can you buy bulk graphite like that? and where did u get your silver bullion? thank you!
Hey, I got this particular graphite mold from eBay. You can find various graphite molds on both eBay and Amazon these days. However for the most part I really prefer to pour in petrebond molds which can be double-sided or single-sided depending on what you want to do. You can buy silver shot which is what I use almost exclusively for all of my pieces. Silver shot can be bought online at places like apmex.com, but I purchase virtually all of my silver shot from Facebook groups and I have since found two people that are very reliable and priced a little bit better than Apmex for example.
i melted some silver 925 halmarked and it turned out to be black after pouring. why?
Caused by oxidation from the copper in 925 silver. Just pickle and you’re good
Should come right off with a silver polish 👍
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How do I learn this?
Watch various UA-cam videos. It's really quite simple, just be sure to be safe with your methods, and wear safety equipment.
Is it profitable? And how many temperature? And tell me is silver metal can brakeable from hammer???? Plz reply
Sorry for such a late reply, there was a period of time where I was not getting any notifications. It can be profitable, however really mostly only as a hobby in my opinion unless you can dedicate a lot of time to it. It can be done with regular torches you can buy at hardware stores or with ovens that you can buy from Amazon or eBay.
I must have had my map pro torch on for 10 min and I cannot get the silver to melt!!
Same with me. I resorted to putting the silver in my forge to get it to melt. Luckily I have that at least...but no clue why my map won't get hot enough.
Same. I can get very small amounts (less than 10 grams) to melt after about 5 minutes, but anything over that... nope.
Really curious on the brand of torch being used here.
Torch is a Bernzomatic TS8000... Should work really well! If you watch some of my newer videos you'll see I started using a two torch setup one fixed and one that I hold on to. The fixed one is a Bernzomatic TS 4000.
Did you put a pouder on the mold ?
Yes, it's talcum powder to help keep the piece for the mold and the two sides from sticking together.
@@JoshuaAndersonLife does they sell it on amazon ?
I just use Gold Bond body powder that I bought from Walmart.
@@JoshuaAndersonLife okay thx
@@JoshuaAndersonLife is ther anyways we can talk in private?
I’ve seen too many videos of these people holding the torch in their hands while melting and I’m confused. I’d never do that because I have.
They are literally "hand held torches". I like to keep one mounted, and hand hold another.
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Friendly heads up bro. Your mic gain is too low. I checked your most recent video, and apparently you haven't changed it. It's really hard to hear without earbuds, so you're probably losing most of viewers as soon as they realize they can't hear you well.
Thank you for the info! I know there's a short 2 - 3 sec section in the silver refining video where the sound cuts out, but I don't hear any problems on newer videos when I listen on my computer or earbuds. In this particular video I probably should have reduced the background noise more however. I'll pay more attention to this moving forward. Thank you for the feedback.
@@JoshuaAndersonLife Awesome. Sure thing 👍
Forgot to ask, what device(s) did you notice the sound issues with?
@@JoshuaAndersonLife Android phone
Thx 👍
I'm not trying to troll you, but the silver would melt SO MUCH faster if you find the best angle and fix your max-heat head in one spot. Moving around costs a lot more time. Other than that, nice setup for what you're doing.
Yeah I agree I was moving around a bunch in that video. Watch one of my newest videos and you can see I do much less of that, which is my normal method. Sometimes I'll move more if I'm reaching for something or checking my phone...
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Is it oxyacetyelene flame??
No, it's MAPP gas.