Scrap silver

[Shaun750]

I'll try once more to convince you to melt and roll it.
Cooksons charge roughly 62 pence(including vat) a gram for silver.
A rough guess the bullion dealer is paying you 30 pence a gram which isn't that bad a going rate.
BUT!!
So if you spent all day melting and rolling out your silver you would have saved yourself £300. Three hundred quid!!!
If you find it hard rolling silver I've even put it through the mills while it's red hot,it goes down lovely. So roll the silver out over three days and your on a £100 a day.That's what bricklayers used to charge.
If you lived in the next street to me I'd roll it for you for nothing.

[andrew_berry]

I dont specifically stop my work to melt and roll out scrap.

If I am melting down, I will melt another ingot after because the crucible and mold are hot.

Then I will pop these ingot in a box and when I am rolling out or drawing down for a particular job then I will start rolling out an ingot or too. Annealing two jobs takes the same time as one job.

I just fit it into my daily routine so buy the end of the week I have sheet and wire ready to use when I want it.

Andrew

[Di Sandland]

It makes so much sense to do it yourself. It's a pity that rolling mills are quite expensive and probably the most desired yet the least purchased tool! Then, of course, you have to have a hot enough flame. Once I can afford these things I will start recycling my own scrap. I have a full scrap pot - just silver no lemel - but begrudge what it would 'cost' me to sell it on.

[orestruck]

Yes, I did begrudge it myself Di, but 300 quid right now solves a little cashflow problem I have!
Where in Barnstaple are you? I'm in Braunton......
Sarah

[Di Sandland]

Yes, I did begrudge it myself Di, but 300 quid right now solves a little cashflow problem I have!
Where in Barnstaple are you? I'm in Braunton......
Sarah

Good grief - Roundswell

[orestruck]

Small world!