[Jewelry making - Article 00900] - [Orchid] Casting Stainless Steel

[Miche]

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    I would like to start making rings from old stainless steel
    "silverware". A plentiful resource. 

    I am familiar with casting platinum and know I can generate the heat
    required to cast stainless. I also know there are some alloys that
    can be purchased as raw material. I am particularly interested in
    recycling the "renewable", seemingly endless resource of used
    silverware in Thrift shops, garage sales, etc. 

    I don't really know much regarding the different types of stainless.
    I know there are numerous stainless alloys but it seems from
    preliminary research that there is a particular family of alloy used
    for silverware. 

    A couple of questions specifically are : whether stainless steel
    forks, spoons, etc. would be suitable to remelt and cast and whether
    there are different types of stainless used by different silverware
    manufacturers and would that be a problem. 

    If anyone could shed light on this and/or point me to a good (but not
    too indescribably technical) site to research this - I would greatly
    appreciate it. 

thanks,
Miche
http://www.sumiche.com
http://www.eco-gold.net

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