To work silver you should know that silver hardens when beaten or worked under force. The best is heating it with a gasflame till its colour is lightred (temp.= about 1000 degr.Celcius). When the colour is just that put the coin in a warm sulfuric acid solution 30% (preferably or nitric acid solution) to take away the silveroxide layer. Rinse it in water. If you have some stone material with provides a V-type gutter you may even melt the coin into a bar. Then you work it until you feel that by hammering that the resistance becomes too strong and then you repeat the glowing out process.
To obtain pure silver one could ask a silver-smith which firm supplies his rough silver material. But here one should keep in mind that silver for jewellry etc. cannot be used because of its >6% other metals mainly nickel, added for hardening. But the supplier of gold and silver to the silversmiths has the pure materials. RB Message ----- From: Tel Tofflemire <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 6:59 PM Subject: Re: CS>source for silver wire > coin shop is cheaper, and you do not want Jewelery silver with nickle or > other addittives, ,,do not use sterling silver,,,use 99.99 or higher purity > silver. > the Candan Silver Maple leaf coin is not made for circulation, (too solft) > but it is pure 9999 Silver stamped on it..it is a $5.00 piece..I paid $8 > dollars each for it at a coin shop, I bought 2 of them and I beat them on > an anvil and made them larger in size, they work real well, and they are a > full oz of pure silver & should last for years in makeing CS....If I had it > to do over I would only buy one and saw it in 1/2...That would be enough > surface area to make good cs. Be careful not to let your alligator clips > touch the water, they will contamonate it. I drilled holes in the coins and > hammered in silver wire to make good tight connection, & to extend it lower > into the 1/2 jar. Works but I am still experminting. > Tel Tofflemire > Phoenix, AZ > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
