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CoInSide7CoInSide7 Posts: 144 ✭
edited March 14, 2018 3:54AM in Precious Metals


14 Unmarked 6.6 gr. 999.5 platinum squares

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,201 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How can you tell they are platinum rather than some other white metal without first testing each chip?

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not only would the element be questioned, but where did you find such pieces?? Cheers, RickO

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,198 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Your best bet is to send them to a refiner.

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A quick check of the S.G. [21.4 + -] would determine a lot :smile:

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  • Mission16Mission16 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭

    rare, mint error platinum ingots? Looks like a brockage strike to me.

  • ADGADG Posts: 438 ✭✭✭

    No no. Clearly platinum. Have your credit card number ready.

  • CuKevinCuKevin Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭✭

    We need more info

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  • Mission16Mission16 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭

    @CuKevin said:
    We need more info

    Won’t get it.

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Keep us posted, good luck :smile:

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  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks a lot like lead. What kind of torch did you use?

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,198 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Remember, Platinum melts at 3,215°F. What kind of torch is this?

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  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @asheland
    I was hoping he wouldn't know that and answer MAPP or Butane.

    To melt Pt with a Oxy Acetylene torch is a hard thing to do in quantity. Anything more than 2 ounces and your asking for trouble. That chunk he's holding looks way more than a few ounces. 10 ounces of Pt is 1 inch cubed, so that must me at least that. Making it nearly impossible to have all the Pt in liquid form with a torch. I have an induction furnace specifically set up for Pt melting and assaying and that takes nearly half an hour to get 4-5 ounces to a liquid state. Not only is keeping it at temp difficult, it will be so bright white and emitting so much heat you need special equipment just to be near it.

  • Mission16Mission16 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭

    @CoInSide7 said:

    @PerryHall said:
    How can you tell they are platinum rather than some other white metal without first testing each chip?

    I had already tested 494.2 grams

    What does that even mean?
    Weighing is not testing.

  • Mission16Mission16 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭

    @CoInSide7 said:
    I inherited them unknowing what I had at first.

    @CoInSide7 said:
    The guy at the refinery in new orleans claims that I sent him lead. Little does he know that I still have some of the same material I sent him with me still. I smell a fish because I know for certain it wasn't lead.

    I think you are still “unknowing” as to what you have.

    You state you didn’t know what you had BUT you know it isn’t lead?

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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,883 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My grandfather used to pour lead toy soldiers.

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  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmski52 said:
    My grandfather used to pour lead toy soldiers.

    I've always wanted to try that. Well with silver instead of lead. Once painted no one would know.

  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,407 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Jinx86 said:

    @jmski52 said:
    My grandfather used to pour lead toy soldiers.

    I've always wanted to try that. Well with silver instead of lead. Once painted no one would know.

    Few years ago didn't some company do exactly that, silver toy soldiers??

  • bestmrbestmr Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭

    I have a friend that swears he has some palladium figurines he bought years ago when it wasn’t so expensive somewhere. I’d be curious to see them.

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  • KkathylKkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    so we started with so called "chips" that look like small practice plates for engraving. Then we see a beaded pile of something that reminds me of those cake decorative beads. Now we are back to some strange looking shape of pressed
    something another with no sulfur marks just straight sparkle.

    Is this a game. Are we making toy solders? Sorry I am a little lost been off the forum for a few weeks.

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  • hchcoinhchcoin Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 23, 2018 4:21PM

    @bronco2078 I can't find the clapping emoji but if I could you would be getting it.

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't they use platinum in catalytic converters to get rid of the stink? I smell a lot of stink, here.

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,531 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it's lead you can mark it with your fingernail. Try that.

  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭

    Lead.

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  • ACopACop Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can see some of your weed flakes in the grooves of your scale.

  • blitzdudeblitzdude Posts: 5,927 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice lead, you making bullets?

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  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,531 ✭✭✭✭✭

    May be time to put this one to rest.

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