[Jewelry making - Article 00402] - Re: [Orchid] Rolling and making wire

[John Donivan]

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>     Once you have the total fine silver and alloy weighed, put it into
>     a melting dish you can pour with, and melt it all with a suitable
>     torch, and mix with a carbon stirring stick until all is melted
>     together. Got fire? Turn it up, and get the flame HOT! When the
>     metal is quite liquid, tip the melting dish toward the pouring lip 

    All of this is true and accurate, except that you shouldn't alloy
    and pour. Melt your alloy, pickle, remelt and pour. It's not really
    an alloy until it freezes. As others have said, an ingot mold is an
    indispensable accessory to a rolling mill - and melting dishes as
    needed. I also melt a couple of dwts. of metal and just rest a flat
    piece I have on it to start out flat material, or I'll get self
    locking tweezers, straddle the globule, and partially close them, to
    get a quick square ingot on a small scale. 

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