That would be an amazing thing to watch. Thank you for explaining it all. I think I have a cutting torch from a garage sale somewhere. If need to get it checked out first. Always more to learn!
i asked one of the refineries out of state the cost of getting silver refined and what technique they used… it would have cost 20% plus shipping… they told me tht they used fire refining and not electrolytic refining.
I would have paid for electrolytic refining since that does result in 99.99% purity. Fire refining is what i basically described… they would melt the silver in a pure 02 environment… I think that can be achieved easily by 02 injection… I actually stumbled on it years ago when I experimented with scrap silver melting… I thought that 02 injection would clean up the silver faster and I was surprised to get spitting silver… looked it up and found that spitting silver was pure…used oxyacetylene because I had it for steel and the flame was big and very hot…
good luck… try an ounce first and then more,… if you have a ton of scrap, you could melt a lot more and keep the rest as ingots… alloying with copper later if you need sterling… just remember that it’s by weight percent…you need an accurate balance scale for that…
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Interesting, sorry to hear of your continued frustrations. My old setup was a 1lb propane canister with a smith fixed regulator and little torch with paige tips and a 5lpm O2 concentrator and it had no problems other than the torch in general was a bit finicky for me. Nothing like you’re experiencing. I could use a rosebud and melt for casting with a 4-5" flame on my setup.
replaced it with a meco midget when I moved overseas and that’s more to my liking.
I don’t see an obvious source of your problems although I will say there is a noted problem with little torch clones, the chinese knockoffs that look the same but might use different materials, valves and poor fabrication. A faulty regulator might also give you those problems although it would be a great surprise from Smith.
Best of luck - Lawrence
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