This whole series is a master class, including typical failure points and how to anticipate or correct them. Thank you for this John!

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Excellent tutorial. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing, great details and video !

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Great content no BS . Just started playing aroud with making things out of scrap as a hobby.

Thank you...very educational

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Is there a way to fix overmolten metal or still be able to do something with it, or is it useless?

Thank you so much for this great video!! Are Parts 2 and 3 available for viewing yet? I cannot find them. Thank you!

Thank you. I have learned so much from your videos as an amateur hobbyist. As i stated in on your other video i got my self a mill to make sheet from scrap silver. I need to make a sheet with dimensions, 2 inches wide - 8 inches length and about 1.2 mm thick. Is there some kind a formula to calculate amount silver needed and bullion size to cast so you get the desired dimensions? Or is it just to try, try and try again? Thank you for possible answer.

Hiya John, thank you for this great video, wonderful to see a complete series on how it works from someone who actually does it as part of their jewellery life. A question if I may, I use propane gas, can this do the 'sooting'? If not what else can I do? OK two questions, I hope you don't mind? OK, that's three, I... Stay safe...Steve...

you stated in the video that you should keep solder, etc out of your melt. I have some sterling rings that I've been trying to make and screwed up with part of the soldering (major learning experience) . How do I melt these to re-use? I know they won't be 925 sterling, but wondering if the solder would hurt it? Forgot to mention, that it was a sterling shank w/ twisted sterling-14k gold bands going around the shank)

I have a project which is at an impasse, More my limitations then anything else, I have a silver refining shop at my home in St. Michaels, MD where I refine scrap sterling silver to .999 fine . Starting with nitric acid boil, plating out with copper, melting the silver cement into shot and then 10 days in the electrolytic silver cell. This pure silver crystal stock is great for casing bars, I usually do 5 and 10 oz bars and logo and hallmark them. This has gone well and I have no issue with making bars. My next quest is to manufacture fractional rounds, and that's where I'm running into issues , I'd like to have you do a consult for helping me come up with a good system for making good quality ingot stock to roll constant strips. I'm clearly overworking my stock by rolling it to death and yes I'm Annealing it as needed, but I'm starting with a an ingot that is too thick and not consistent. Is this something that you might be able to help me solve? A phone call would explain the issues better, anyway let me know your initial thoughts, Not looking for any freebies just problem solving. Best Craig

My tutor never uses flux when melting scrap silver. Not sure why he doesn't. Would you recommend using it?

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i have a military police badge from my USMC Acitive duty days. can you strike the numbers 2901 on the bottom banner of the badge. Looking to put in a memorabilia shadow box. If not can you recommend? Thank you very much.

What kind of safety glasses are you wearing?

How do you keep silver from sticking to small molds?

What is the reason for adding the borax? Not everybody seems to do it

So any scrap that has solder on it is no good anymore!

What type of gas were you using? I have Oxy/Propane & Acetylene/Air.

Competent as always.