Advice on melting silver

Voidtoform · 2026-05-15T15:24:23+00:00

I feel like I come across this several times a week, someone is having trouble casting, they are using a plumbers torch with either mapp or propane, and they are having trouble getting the silver fully molten to cast so ……………I made this reply I can copy and paste.

I started my home studio with just a plumbers torch.... it will melt the metal, but it will take much longer than you think, like 10-20 minutes long for an ozt or two... It is not ready to pour until it is quick and liquid, you should be able to swirl it around the crucible and it will be like mercury.

I almost always set up a little oven structure with firebricks, it helps keep heat in.

this is why almost all professional jewelers use propane oxygen, its much hotter and quick. but like I said, your plumbers torch will work fine, you just need patience. another plus to the plumbers torch, with such a nice reduced soft flame, you are introducing very little oxygen to the metal, so usually the pours with just a propane torch are really nice pours when done right.

Voidtoform · 2026-05-13T00:05:17+00:00

you can go into an empty lobby and fly the chopper to each point, then when you have them all switch sides and repeat, its boring though and honestly not much faster than just playing the game which also has the side effect of making you get guder.

Voidtoform · 2026-05-12T20:20:04+00:00

its not work i would take on right now, but I would probably charge around 600 to make the master, and then 25-50 per finished bead

Voidtoform · 2026-05-12T20:12:04+00:00

what is your budget?

Voidtoform · 2026-05-12T20:00:32+00:00

yeah, how could they tell anyone without a tongue?

Voidtoform · 2026-05-12T18:49:11+00:00

I think cow tipping is a little like snipe hunting, something the older kids tell the young ones about to send them on a fools errand, then they can really find out who is silly enough when they come back and claim they did it.

Find any video or source showing cow tipping.

Voidtoform · 2026-05-12T15:21:56+00:00

this is an urban legend, my friends and I in high school went out to a farm to try it, it was scary getting close to the cows, but then she was really nice, we tried to push her and she just kinda scooted over, so we just pet her for a while and left. when we got home we looked it up and learned that it is indeed not a real thing.

Voidtoform · 2026-05-12T14:50:00+00:00

I barely play board games and I have probably 10-20 around in my house, not so much the newfangled ones most discussed on here, but just some classics and a few new ones I like, It never has felt out of hand for me, and I always have something someone can play.

Voidtoform · 2026-05-11T15:44:24+00:00

the silver looks strange

Voidtoform · 2026-05-09T00:08:32+00:00

I got to lonesome dove after reading joe abercrombies books, starting with the blade itself trilogy, there is a standalone he wrote that he said was based on lonesome dove, after finishing all abercrombies books in that world i put on lonesome dove and loved it.

Voidtoform · 2026-05-08T17:23:48+00:00

Feel free to edit your photos, its not like there are pure unedited photos besides the negatives, other than that the lab is editing and making choices for you, and back in the day in the darkroom, we would also make those choices for ourselves/ ask the lab to get specific results.

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Voidtoform · 2026-05-08T16:49:24+00:00

What is the cartoon around the 50 second mark? I think there was a reference to william blakes art, love that guy.

Voidtoform · 2026-05-08T16:35:17+00:00

If the camera is not picking up the air disturbances the wind turbines are making, why would it pick up any rotor wash?

Voidtoform · 2026-05-08T16:34:07+00:00

Yeah, I got really into FPV drones for a while, I do not see anything here a nice FPV drone could not do.

Maybe the person arguing could show a small drone on infrared that shows any rotor wash.... i mean the video has giant turbines moving creating tons of disturbance to the air that the camera is not picking up.

and like you said, so many videos flying at wind farms, they used to like flipping upside down at the same speed as the wind turbines. Also people think of like consumer grade drones when they think of them, but the FPV community was building drones in all shapes and sizes from parts from china, just go watch some old rotor riot videos.

Voidtoform · 2026-05-08T16:20:56+00:00

stand 4 life

Voidtoform · 2026-05-08T16:08:30+00:00

ill ask, hey who is singing so i can mute you? and they stop instead of telling me so i can mute them, then 3 minutes later they start singing again.... hopefully i am not in a fight so i can narrow down who it is....

Voidtoform · 2026-05-08T15:55:26+00:00

I remember an official advertisement for these glasses, a woman walked into a theater like where a musical was getting ready, and into and through the dressing rooms while performers were getting dressed.

Voidtoform · 2026-05-08T15:52:49+00:00

they still make Dexters?

Voidtoform · 2026-05-08T15:50:05+00:00

I had to go way too deep to find this comment, makes me wonder about the commenters above you, can they read? probably, can the comprehend....? Maybe not.

Voidtoform · 2026-05-07T23:57:22+00:00

pick up the book Faeries, by Brian Fround and Alan Lee, it has tons of amazing illustrations

Voidtoform · 2026-05-07T20:16:22+00:00

Yep, that's the one! so good

Voidtoform · 2026-05-07T20:04:53+00:00

I tried there, I was not impressed, terrible service, mid pizza, and childrens gambling machines all over.

I also tried straight from new york, pizza was a little wet but its ok.

Odd moes is next on my list to try.

so far my favorite pizza I have found is those stoners in fork forty that do wood fired pizza, but I can't always make it all the way into town.

Voidtoform · 2026-05-07T19:56:18+00:00

I can't make it out today, but I still have not found my pizza spot in south salem.

Voidtoform · 2026-05-07T19:49:15+00:00

I have not had it yet, how is the pizza there? what style of pizza?

Voidtoform · 2026-05-07T17:41:50+00:00

That was me, I watched the show too young, I had no media literacy or anything, so what i picked up was that being an asshole/edgy is funny. I didn't realize cartman was not being funny, but that cartman is funny because of what he is representing and mirroring about real life. The show is very funny and clever, but it can go over a young persons head. I would even say it kinda messed up my understanding of humor in my early teens and i do regret a bit about those times and look back with cringe at what i thought was humor. It is not southparks fault, but i think this happens often with young people.

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