Originally Posted by
SteveLAO
From experience in a previous life it's a load of extra hassle! (And the finished product may or may not even pass assay depending on the scrap you're starting with.) As Caroleallan also mentioned, it's a load of extra time involved too!
The public think it will be so much cheaper as they are supplying the raw material, but what they don't get is that you have to spend so much time working that raw material into useful metal - melting up, drawing it down and so on - before you even start.....and time is of course money! I found that sometimes it actually cost the customer more, and not less, to reuse their own metal!
However if it's for sentimental reasons......then what price sentimentality!!
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