Best way to cut through chain?

**mizgeorge** · 16-10-2009, 10:43 PM

Boo, me too

Life's too short for me to want to solder a 4mm chain link back into place. I'd rather put in the scrap pot and reuse it. I actually don't consider that to be waste as I use pretty much all my scrap for something or other.

**Ominicci** · 17-10-2009, 04:19 PM

Ooh perhaps we need a 'What do you do with your Scrap' Thread? As my little pot (spice jar size) is getting full now. I've ssen some 'scrap bracelets' where you just melt biggish ball of the silver and hammer them flat, put a hole through them and hang them off jump rings on a bracelet chain. But there must be other things? (Bearing in mind I don't have a casting set up...yet)

**Boo** · 17-10-2009, 04:31 PM

If you look in the gallery my nuggets are all made from scrap. I'm wearing one now like the teardrop pendant - I got a bit adventurous with my size of nugget and before George suggested sweat soldering them to me, ended up partly reticulating the pendant in trying to solder it on. Hence I have it. The attention of a hammer and some filing made it wearable - for me, couldn't possibly sell it.

I love making something from nothing as it were. One person's scrap is another person's treasure.

**Di Sandland** · 17-10-2009, 06:31 PM

How timely! I've spent this afternoon making nuggets out of about a year's worth of scraps - pickling now. That's one thing I love about this game nothing, absolutely nothing, goes to waste.

And isn't it a blast watching the silver melt! Little things...

**Boo** · 17-10-2009, 07:32 PM

I love how that even if scraps aren't quite touching, as they melt they come together Terminator-style and melt into a blob!

**Di Sandland** · 17-10-2009, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by Boo

I love how that even if scraps aren't quite touching, as they melt they come together Terminator-style and melt into a blob!

I know - now that's alchemy, eh? And the spinning - maybe I should be getting out more...

**bustagasket** · 17-10-2009, 10:12 PM

do you just make little balls with your scrap? in what way do you use them? (i know noobie question)

**Emerald** · 17-10-2009, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by bustagasket

do you just make little balls with your scrap? in what way do you use them? (i know noobie question)

JJ uses a lot of scrap to make his creations but yes you can just make little balls its called granulation and you can solder them on anywhere for deocoration etc

**Di Sandland** · 17-10-2009, 10:15 PM

I'm working on the idea of making bigger balls (Geti, down), giving em a bit of a whack and using them as spacer type nuggets. It looks like it might work.

**bustagasket** · 17-10-2009, 10:16 PM

Ty Jo, yeah i know J casts with his but i havent explored that avenue yet :-s so much to learn, but J's gonna show me that in the new year hopefully when we get together for my setting lesson