Melting a silver alloy in a boosted fire #2/3

Melting a silver alloy - part three

Here, after putting more pieces of wood into
the fire, I am taking out the crucible.
The molten alloy (silver, copper, nickel)
is filled into a mold made of plaster.

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• melting
• metal
• silver
• gold
• diy
• hacked
• hack
• thermite
• reaction

[clubdore]

Whats that black stuf drifing on the top of the liquid zilver?

[desinfector]

@clubdore

oh, that were just pieces of charcoal, I did this in a fire of pieces of residual lumber

[beamerboy325e]

When you melt gold is there anything your supposed to add to it while its melting? I always see these people adding soming to it but I dont know what it is.

[desinfector]

here I did not add any liquifiers,

this was just a test which temperature I can

reach without using special equipment.

A common liquifier is borax.

[clubdore]

@desinfector Now I see it. Yesterday I meltet some Zilver my self but there was some black stuff in it I cant determine what it was, some black hard stuf mix in the zilver. Tomoro I give i a new try, might post a vid respones ;) Cheers

Robert

[beamerboy325e]

Thank you!

[daemon2797]

cool

[SmiertSpionem]

Thanks now I understand ;)

[desinfector]

Yup, only the switching parts are made of Silver, and silver-alloys, sometimes covered

with gold (very thin layers)

This is due to the sparks that can occur during switching. A normal piece of copper would burn off in quite a short time.

The normal conductors e.g. in a cable are made

of Copper or Aluminum.

On PCB (circuit-boards) the conductors are

always copper.

[SmiertSpionem]

they say that silver is the best conductor, many times better than copper (but far less economical) :)