Found Dreaming

Good to see the shop has come so far! Hope your job is going as well too

We'll see after this melt... but the thing is.. the price of gold went up today... a lot... it will go up most days from now on...

bingo :\

and it's not like dissolving takes much effort :p nor filtering, but it's not open a computer and chip off the gold with a pic and melt it down

And the last dissolve step is for purification... to get to .9995

Most circuit boards have a little, and I mean little bit of gold on them. The older they get, the more gold. Or, the closer to military spec they get, the more gold. So police radios, expensive communication equipment that is more than 5 years old. As far as easy to get, anything with a lot of conne...

yeah, you can see it poking out in one spot on the left.

It's spooky to me too It gets SPOOKY hot...

Get paper anywhere near the opening and it goes up!

The gold is from old circuit boards. Maybe got a few grams by now. Tiny crucible

Electric Furnace

Used half of the element from a space heater. Plugged it into the wall... It gets REAL HOT.

I've not done a melt yet as I have only one tiny crucible and I'm going to use that for gold only.

All pics taken with my LG cell phone. Gauge is pretty accurate... I was forging under 1PSI but didn't want to claim that. I run it at around 2 psi most of the time and it can heat up 1" square stock to glowing bright red in under 5 min from dead cold. The small space is key though, you are righ...

Anyone here try this burner yet?

That's the idea Bull! Here is a pictorial break-down. You should be able to build one from this. http://s1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc439/workshop4u/How%20to%20build%20a%20Mako%20style%20propane%20burner/ It's built from crap tubing, not plumbing pipe, so be open minded in scavenging. I think one o...

lmao!

I'll be posting an instructional on the mako burner VERY soon. I want to see if the results are reproducible.