Cheryl Weickert on fri 18 feb 05
To make a long story short... my brother got some gold teeth from somewhere
or other and heard that gold melts at 1100F and since his sister, me has a
kiln he thought I could melt down that gold for him. Has anyone ever tried
to do this?
Thanks for any help
Pinky
Randall . on sun 20 feb 05
>
>> To make a long story short... my brother got some gold teeth from somewh=
ere
> > or other and heard that gold melts at 1100F and since his sister, me=
has a
> kiln he thought I could melt down that gold for him.
Oh boy, you will; need a lot more than 1100=20
degrees to melt gold, at least in Fahrenheit, you=20
will need around 2,000 degrees and I suspect your=20
kiln won't get there which is why they use a gas=20
torch, or gas furnace like a "Speedy-melt"with a=20
blower, or with small jewelry perhaps an electric=20
furnace. A cruciable is used to hold the molten=20
metal;
Melting Point:
1064.43 =B0C
1947.9741 =B0F
I've done bronze casting with a Speedy-melt=20
forced gas furnace, it took about an hour or more=20
to melt the ingot and opening the top to remove=20
the cruciable despite Kevlar clothes, shields and=20
all that was like looking at the sun, pouring the=20
molten bronze into plaster molds was amazing the=20
first few times- it was like a little river of=20
shimmering gold that was on fire, your face from=20
10 feet away felt like it was on fire too :)
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email to it unread as spam. To contact me you can=20
mail
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Dorothy Feibleman on sun 20 feb 05
Temperature depends on what alloy is used with the gold. In many cases with
platinum. Best to ask a dental technician or, look up my interesting dentist on
the internet.www.kertesz-peter.de/ he will probably answer you. he does cats
teeth as well as tigers and elephants.
Best,
Dorothy
Quoting Cheryl Weickert :
> To make a long story short... my brother got some gold teeth from somewhere
> or other and heard that gold melts at 1100F and since his sister, me has a
> kiln he thought I could melt down that gold for him. Has anyone ever tried
> to do this?
> Thanks for any help
> Pinky
>
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Cheryl Weickert on mon 21 feb 05
Thanks for everyones input, although acording to Randall's post gold would
melt at less than cone 6, I think it's something I'm going to pass on to a
jeweler. As gold is naturally a rather soft metal I'm rather leery of what
else maybe in it. Plus firing a KM1027 with a few teeth in seems like a
waste of electricity to me!
Thanks, Pinky
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:53:38 -0600, Randall .
wrote:
>
>Melting Point:
>1064.43 =B0C
>1947.9741 =B0F
>
Marilu Tejero on tue 22 feb 05
Cheryl,
you could try firing to ^ 018 like a luster 745 C
or ^ 05 in your next bisque 1064 C
I remember melting dental gold in a very short time.
good luck
marilu
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