On 3/4/2010 12:57:33 PM, Golden Aldi ([email protected]) wrote: > Thanks for clarifying, Chuck! How clean should the anvil be, since > I'll have to clean it before my husband hammers the coin.
Now this is just me... Anvil...reasonably clean...don't really worry about it...good to knock off the surface rust, if any. Come to think of it you don't even have to do this flattening thing at all. I just wanted to make silver ribbons (narrow thin strips of silver). You could hacksaw strips out of the coins. You could just use whole coins. > I don't live in > Canada, but I suppose I could possibly get one over here in Europe. Almost any coin dealer or even ebay ie: http://tinyurl.com/ydbc29d for example. Remember: one time initial investment. > The part I > didn't quite understand was the last part, after you make a thinner sheet, > like cutting into the ribbon? and what's > a "tin snip"? A tinsnip is a heavy duty scissors designed for sheet metal cutting. The tool clerk will know (and so will your husband). > I also > don't know how thick the coin is to begin with, since all currencies have > their own sizes, and then how thin is too thin, and how thick should it "not" > be. I don't > know if it would make much of a difference. If you pound it out to about 3 times its original diameter, it should be easy enough to cut with the snips. Not important the thickness, more important the workability. > haven't experimented with any of this stuff yet, and would like to learn from > those with experience, so I hope you won't > mind me asking, what might seem as mundane questions :-) > > Thanks in Advance! > Aldi > > Oh, you also mentioned, that they last longer than the wires or strips. > Why would that be? The coins are a full ounce. That's a lot of silver for CS. This will last you forever... > Does it have anything to do with the total area, like > the larger it is, the better the energy is dispersed? > > And > I'm trying to think of what someone said about brewing in the sun and adding > something to it for the stirring motion? That's Ode's idea. A black area on the jar in the sun will heat higher/faster than the rest of the area, starting a thermal difference and thus thermal stirring. Chuck Ifyoucanreadthis,youspendtoomuchtimefiguringouts. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:[email protected]> List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:[email protected]>
