[lbo-talk] 12%, plus

[John Thornton]

Jordan Hayes wrote:
> If you do that with a coin, you've lost any premium it might have had 
> for being collectable.  But you also might have made it an expensive 
> proposition to get someone to buy it, because now it doesn't have any 
> markings from a producer that's known well enough.  ".9999 HENWOOD'S 
> KITCHEN" doesn't sell so hot these days.
>
> And of course you'd have burned up some of it during the melting process 
> ...

Yellow gold melts easily with no appreciable losses but you can always 
throw in a penny to add zinc and lower the melting point a few degrees.
Also melt in a clay-graphite crucible rather than a carbon steel or even 
silicon-carbide since the clay graphite will not react with yellow gold 
and generally has a smoother finish that the other types.
Some gold with adhere to the crucible walls and form a skin of gold foil 
but if you melt 8.0 ounces when including the remains in the crucible 
you should end with 8.0 ounces.
White gold is harder to work with so avoid it.
Actually the whole idea of doing this for anything except fun is 
probably best avoided as well.
Goldbugs are strange people.

John Thornton