Harvey Flatbush <[email protected]> spake thusly: > I have been wondering something. Considering the relative low > cost of silver and the considerable mark up of buying electrodes > from dealers, if a person were to make a 12 or 10 gage wire mold in > plaster of paris so you could pour your own wires, would there be > any transferrance of chemicals or minerals from the plaster to the > silver that would create a toxin in making colloidal silver. The > same question would also apply to the ladle.
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt certainly make a fine set of marketing tools! Hello Harvey and welcome to the group. I know the various vendors sell electrodes for their machines, and naturally they want to make a profit. In addition, they and others make a big deal of the certifiable purity of their metal. You *will* pay more to get ultra pure, reagent grade materials, but the question is, how pure do you need? It so happens that nearly any _jewelry_ _supply_ store or catalog will sell you "very fine" or "extra fine" silver in any wire gauge you want, by the foot, FOR LITTLE MORE THAN THE BULLION COST OF THE SILVER! I am talking about the same level of "fineness" (purity) as the silver medallions and ingots you can buy in the coin shop. You have to make it clear you do *not* want sterling, or silver solder or brazing wire, which have nickel, lead, and other toxic metals in dangerous proportions, but their "very fine" high purity silver. I bought a foot or so of 12 gauge silver wire for about 5 bucks at a local jewelry supply and made my electrodes from that. These folks are used to dealing in these materials, and their clients would quickly rebel if they weren't selling the "good stuff". I suspect we make things more complicated than we have to. The coins and ingots will work, and so will my wire. You certainly needn't cast your own! Best of luck! Mike (in Detroit) [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for himself... ]
