[Jewelry making - Article 00334] - Re: [Orchid] Reuse Sterling Silver from flatware

[Lee Einer]

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>      if you figure how much Stuller charges to alloy the metal for you,
>     you might be surprised at what you can save doing it yourself. I
>     don have different karat gold shot sitting around.Once you figure
>     the math part out, it is very easy. 

    I am terribly lazy, so I created a spreadsheet that I call the
    Kozmik Karat Konverter. It has built-in formulas which will do the
    following math for me- 

    1). Convert grams to troy ounces 

    2). Convert troy ounces to grams 

    3). Given the gram weight and karat of an amount of gold, will tell
    me how many grams of alloy are required to alloy it to a specified
    lower karat (e.g, if I have 8.6 grams of 22K gold and want to reduce
    it to 14K, how many grams of alloy must I add.) 

    4). Given the gram weight and karat of an amount of gold, will tell
    me how many grams of 24K I must add to increase the amount to a
    specified karat (e.g, if I have 7 grams of 14K, how much gold do I
    need to add to increase the karat to 18K.) 

    This saves me the agony of applied mathematics and also prevents
    potentially expensive mistakes due to math errors. 

    It is in Open Office format. If anybody wants it, I can e-mail it to
    them. 

Lee Einer
Dos Manos Jewelry
http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com


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