Melting sterling silverware into silver Ingot Bar!
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- This was a Wallace sterling silverware set that was hand torch melted into a silver bar Ingot.
Approximately 1500 grams which translate to 1.5 kilograms.
And the purity was 925 parts 1000.
Sterling knives were handled differently, this was only the clean spoons and forks of different sizes.
It is a shame to see that beautiful artwork go. But to most silver is silver.
No money do everything
Skill, would of been nice to see the bar
The video ended a bit prematurely.
Like the spoon's life
So what about the impurities? He didn’t slag off and just melted and poured. I’m a lay person here and that’s what I see and to me it’s low grade silver. JMO.
I don't understand why anyone would do this. All of that flatware was stamped STERLING. As such, it is assayed, although sterling rarely assays out to .925. Nobody who has processed sterling with nitric acid etc; has ever gotten .925 out of it, it's more like 90.5-91%. OK, so you melt it into an ingot. Now it isn't assayed any more and you've spent gas and time making your silver worth less. You can send your sterling into a refiner and get value from it, and even though you lose money, you have no nitric acid around (which means you didn't have to buy it) you have no PPE gear, no beakers and flasks, and possibly most important, no NO2 which can put you in a hospital or kill you with a few good breaths.
You're no fun.
That is a mega torch. Ive seen a lot of videos and you actually keep the flame on both while pouring and get a nice mold. Very nice video
ICY PROFITS thanks
Would’ve been nice to see you buff it up, weigh it and stamp it:)
5:20good job complimenting the good worker
The guy is a maniac. Many of those silver items were worth so much more than silver value.
Michael Organ so much stuff comes in and the volume is hard to deal with so for a few extra bucks we aren’t able to tie capital for too long
Oh, did you want to buy it as is? No? Oh, then maybe not judge him for melting his silver.
@@karmakittenz69 I would buy that flatware set, salt shakers and the gravy bowl behind him and pay above melt. WTF is wrong with people its hard enough as is to find a sterling set and there are assholes out there melting them down and making it harder.
That set if 5 piece for 8 people was worth more then 4 times the melt, in NJ those set go for over $10K and even if he got 5 kilos of sterling from it that still would only be about $3K not to mention that its not a certified mint bar and without papers on it good luck selling it online.
You can buy sterling junk online at goodwill look there, just because people will pay that price doesnt mean its worth that much
@@zack94attack1 "just because people will pay that price doesn't mean it's worth that much"
No that's exactly what it means.
I melt scrap silver not art work looking at that set of silver cutlery mostlikely yield more money as a complete set than raw silver
would like to have seen the bar.
How much do you buy the cutlery for? And how much profit do you make?
Can u sell them for profit?
The livid comments section!😂😂😂
3:25 what are pouring inside?
You think it's melted?
another awesome video where someone takes something useful and makes into something useless. You know, they're really not making much of that stuff anymore!
Don't know why you had to destroy a bunch of antiques to make this...
You didn't purify the silver. You didn't increase the value of the silver. You simply wasted energy (gas). Why?
Thank you so much for your comment.
The value of the silver is the value of the silver, meaning if you have 1000 grams of metals and it’s only 50% pure silver inside or 500 grams of silver inside or you purify the the 1000 grams and get left with 500 grams of pure silver it’s the exact same value just a waste of extra chemicals.
What we do is melt then assay for purity and the get an assay sheet and sell it to the open market for the exact amount of pure silver it contains and we even get paid for the bi metals inside too like copper for example.
Thank you so much and I hope it was kinda educational
@@goldsilvergenius9015 It was educational, yes. Very much so. Thank you for the explanation. But why not just sell the "scrap" sliver ware? Why go thru the process of melting it?
@@MichaelJones-gw8sg sometimes we exchange it for pure gold grain 😊
I have tons of silverware that is from the 1800s-1900s that was buried in the ground and still shining, if I were to melt it down could I hypothetically get a good amount? Im talking like a couple bags full of silverware that was really heavy individually and most of them made a clear ringing sound when struck
Could be valuable as silver or some of the silver plated items as antique. You have to spend the time going threw them 👍
We don’t get to see the finished ingot?
is this guy serious
O yes
O yes
But why????? Its still 925 silver and now there are no certified markings saying so. Its still a decent sized bar but a real Silver purchaser wouldn't buy that. Should have spent the extra 5 bucks on the chemicals and used another day to refine it and then melt it at .9999%.
Ben Smallwood all scrap metal is melted then assayed for purity. Weather you have pure gold or scrap both have to be assayed and then exchanged at a high rate with a mega refiner
How does that pot stay unnafected
It’s made out of a ceramic clay like substance 🙏
It has a higher melting point than the silver being put in it.
What did he "GREASE" the mold with after heating it up before the pour ? I assume it was something to keep the silver from sticking, but what,? Or am I wrong ?
Little Sister we use a wax stick
I use just a touch of light machine oil
Wax
You still have 925 sterling silver which is 7.5 % copper. All you did was melt it into one giant lump of ….STERLING SilVER !!L You need to do the acid, lye, sugar process to get 999 fine silver. So much for how to melt a piece of metal.
And probably selling this shit as 999 pure silver
Thank you so much for your comment.
The value of the silver is the value of the silver, meaning if you have 1000 grams of metals and it’s only 50% pure silver inside or 500 grams of silver inside or you purify the the 1000 grams and get left with 500 grams of pure silver it’s the exact same value just a waste of extra chemicals.
What we do is melt then assay for purity and the get an assay sheet and sell it to the open market for the exact amount of pure silver it contains and we even get paid for the bi metals inside too like copper for example.
Thank you so much and I hope it was kinda educational
What torch are you useing?
The one in his hand.......
It is an acetylene torch
would a homemade bar like that be sellable?
Of course, that bar is probably over a kilo.
U can always sell metals to someone. Always.
Can it also be done on stainless steel spoons and forks?
Requires way higher heat
@@thedata831 well, as long as its possible
@@b.n.lassiter9121 approximately 2500 degrees F. Depending on the grade. Silver is around 1700. So yah it can be done. A furnace or really hot welding torch would be required. Good luck if you try it.
How do u get so much silver I'm collecting but slowly
To be honest the best way is to go to garage sales and that’s basically how we started 15 years ago
Do you want to buy my gold??
I have 30kilos in my home