I guess scrapping doesn't always go as planned.

**wannabescrapper** · 04-19-2022, 10:44 PM

Wow, you are doing all of the things that I have said I wanted to learn about. We just make a basic hot process soap with mostly natural ingredients. We buy the lye from the hardware store though and depending on what people want for fragrance they might be a synthetic fragrance oil instead of essential oil. We used to render pork fat from a friend's restaurant and have rendered bear fat for soap and moisturiser when some hunters from the city didn't want their fat back from the butcher.

I am glad you mentioned the freon complications as I didn't know about those dangers. These were hotel ptac units and were about 10 years old so probably not r12 but still good to know what to avoid doing.

I am very interested in the silver recovery opportunities and do plan on studying further. I have a lot of lead acid batteries and I'm currently looking for the materials to build a furnace so I will be picking your brain a lot, I am sure.

**alloy2** · 04-20-2022, 03:25 AM

Originally Posted by wannabescrapper

Wow, you are doing all of the things that I have said I wanted to learn about. We just make a basic hot process soap with mostly natural ingredients. We buy the lye from the hardware store though and depending on what people want for fragrance they might be a synthetic fragrance oil instead of essential oil. We used to render pork fat from a friend's restaurant and have rendered bear fat for soap and moisturiser when some hunters from the city didn't want their fat back from the butcher.

I am glad you mentioned the freon complications as I didn't know about those dangers. These were hotel ptac units and were about 10 years old so probably not r12 but still good to know what to avoid doing.

I am very interested in the silver recovery opportunities and do plan on studying further. I have a lot of lead acid batteries and I'm currently looking for the materials to build a furnace so I will be picking your brain a lot, I am sure.

People who melt lead acid battery's for the lead usually only get a couple of pounds, the positive and negative plates are made of grids packed with oxides which do not melt back into lead. You need a carbon source to rob that oxygen atom free from the oxides..

One the large scale this procedure is carried out in a reverb furnace.

Any pottery supply would have what you need to build a furnace, I used to do a fair bit of metal casting making fishing weight molds that I sold on fleabay. My next furnace will be smaller and used specifically for smelting.

The UniCast refractory is castible with a higher temperature rating than the wool. When I built my first furnace poured the floor first then used a plastic garbage can filled with sand before pouring the outer core. After removing the sand was able to remove the garbage can.

In the tube video Jason is using the wool blanket.

I'm not planning to be on the forum much longer, if you want to contact me use this email address. blackgold12@protonmail.com

When you tire of this forum you might consider joining the gold refining one.