<< <i>Hell, I have a MAP torch, a ceramic crucible and 10 10 ounce ingots I used to use to met lead from tire weights to store until I cast more bullets and a set of treated punches. All I need is the silver and I could start cranking these out tomorrow. I sure in hell wouldn't ask you guys to pay 3x melt for them. I figure it couldn't cost me more that 50 cents in gas to melt the silver for each bar. >>
Mike, the auction results were very dissapointing to say the least. I may have made 2 flaws. I had the auctions end at 11am on a weekday for one. Secondly, by listing 7 bars at once, I may have given the perception of them being common. But the old saying goes.,..if at 1st you dont succeed, try try again!
Okay, even easier. Take a pizza box or a wooden box. Go to lowes and buy some fine sand, sand blasting media works great. Get the sand damp and put it in the box, level it off and press it down with your hands. Then buy a 39c candle and a razor balde and carve out a small ingot, 1/4, 1/2 oz size what ever your heart desires. run a lighter around the mold to make it smooth. Then lightly heat a nail and put it in the top of the wax ingot. Then just press it down in the damp sand, row after row after row. You could probally get 100 or so "empty holes" exact size of the bar you want to pour. Melt the silver and just pour hole after hole. Let them cool, pull them out, quick rub with a tooth brush, weigh and stamp. Done. Not real tough?? My father grew up in New Mexico and Arizona and panned, sluced and dredged gold as a kid, melted it and poured his own bars. He still has some. Total cost, maybe 10-15c per bar. Not re-inventing the wheel here, I could make it up and pour lead test within half an hour of this post if I wanted to waste my time.
P.S. as my father was very poor as a kid, they made the molds in the sand in the ground(didn't buy). Had a home made crucible and his furnace was a hole dug in the ground, lined with clay from the creek bed(left to dry and lasted for many burns), where they would build a fire in all day until it was filled with hard wood coals. Then he inserted a 1/2 steel pipe to the bottom and hooked it up to a shop vac motor that blew air (instead of sucking it) to the bottom to get the required heat to melt the gold. Now that is making a homemade bullion bar!
<< <i>Mike, the auction results were very dissapointing to say the least. I may have made 2 flaws. I had the auctions end at 11am on a weekday for one. Secondly, by listing 7 bars at once, I may have given the perception of them being common. But the old saying goes.,..if at 1st you dont succeed, try try again! >>
It was also a Holiday. I imagine if you tried it again and listed maybe 3 of them they would do much better.
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<< <i>Hell, I have a MAP torch, a ceramic crucible and 10 10 ounce ingots I used to use to met lead from tire weights to store until I cast more bullets and a set of treated punches. All I need is the silver and I could start cranking these out tomorrow. I sure in hell wouldn't ask you guys to pay 3x melt for them. I figure it couldn't cost me more that 50 cents in gas to melt the silver for each bar. >>
Im not asking 3x melt on 10 ounce bars either.
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/metalman109
I already bought a few, lets see how the ebay crowd responds to these. They usually pay more so lets see!
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Some of the members on this board were right that they may not get so much on ebay but oh well, I got mine and was happy as they are cute and small.
Gecko, after seeing the ebay auction, what are you plans? Any bigger bars or probably not?
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Okay, even easier. Take a pizza box or a wooden box. Go to lowes and buy some fine sand, sand blasting media works great. Get the sand damp and put it in the box, level it off and press it down with your hands. Then buy a 39c candle and a razor balde and carve out a small ingot, 1/4, 1/2 oz size what ever your heart desires. run a lighter around the mold to make it smooth. Then lightly heat a nail and put it in the top of the wax ingot. Then just press it down in the damp sand, row after row after row. You could probally get 100 or so "empty holes" exact size of the bar you want to pour. Melt the silver and just pour hole after hole. Let them cool, pull them out, quick rub with a tooth brush, weigh and stamp. Done. Not real tough?? My father grew up in New Mexico and Arizona and panned, sluced and dredged gold as a kid, melted it and poured his own bars. He still has some. Total cost, maybe 10-15c per bar. Not re-inventing the wheel here, I could make it up and pour lead test within half an hour of this post if I wanted to waste my time.
P.S. as my father was very poor as a kid, they made the molds in the sand in the ground(didn't buy). Had a home made crucible and his furnace was a hole dug in the ground, lined with clay from the creek bed(left to dry and lasted for many burns), where they would build a fire in all day until it was filled with hard wood coals. Then he inserted a 1/2 steel pipe to the bottom and hooked it up to a shop vac motor that blew air (instead of sucking it) to the bottom to get the required heat to melt the gold. Now that is making a homemade bullion bar!
<< <i>Mike, the auction results were very dissapointing to say the least. I may have made 2 flaws. I had the auctions end at 11am on a weekday for one. Secondly, by listing 7 bars at once, I may have given the perception of them being common. But the old saying goes.,..if at 1st you dont succeed, try try again! >>
It was also a Holiday. I imagine if you tried it again and listed maybe 3 of them they would do much better.