Anyone ever poured silver?

[YUK0N]

Bored and wondering if I need a new hobby.

Recommendations to get started?

Where can you buy cheap silver for pouring?

 

[GAGunguy]

start with Aluminum.

 

[Moondog1]

I've smelted some brass, aluminum, and silver. I made our wedding bands. I ruined a few silver dollars and silver quarters practicing but I didn't want a cheap chinese made ring.

I used one of these https://www.gesswein.com/p-12905-electric-melter-furnace-3kg.aspx

I never got good at pouring it into molds quick enough before it cooled off.

 

[chucklenut]

if there was a place to find cheap silver id be on it lol

you can always strip computer parts and melt them into ingots to sell to scrapped who can purify the metals out of them. but its a hobby

a buddy of mine made a furnace out of a waste oil burner and a 55 gallon steel drum for copper shot (copper melts under 2000F and steel melts around 2500F i think)