Hey guys, Love the site very easy to navigate, a bloody lot of information, i just love it. I am 19 years old and started stacking mid july and already have over one troy pound of silver bullion and a heap of pre-decimal aus coins, I also Have a heap on sterling silver jewelry that i am going to melt into different size ingots. Would love some advice about findind cheap sterling silver Talk soon
Hi, I got gold fever from bering sea gold last year.. and I made my first silver and gold purchase to day
Great to see young members joining SS. Welcome to the den of silver brothers and sisters. Regards Errol 43
Sell the sterling silver jewellery on this site, shame to lose the premiums. Use the money to buy silver bars. The cheapest stirling silver you are likely to find is going to be pre-45 pre-decimal which can often be had for spot price or just above. Stirling bars do sell but most people want 999 for their bars. If you are going utilitarian and stacking bars it is because you are more concerned with getting the most bang for your buck in the smallest space so having that extra 7.5% copper sitting around is a waste of space! Have you got all the gear for making your own bars? It is not a free process converting from jewellery into bars and you will spend money to do it and end up with a product worth less money (depending on how sexy your bars are of course!) Oh, and welcome!
Welcome JollyKB, It's great to see young people making good descions! The young stackers joining will become: Millionaires of the future! This could be the greatest transfer of wealth seen in any generation!! Disclaimer: A million $ might only be equivellant to $100 to less than 10c at tomorrows inflation exchange rate. Statement is exempt in case of but not limited to: Ore rich meteorite crashes into earth survivors stacks may be debased by 1000:1 &/or the birth of space mining, perfection of alchemy, substitution of materials/minerals as form of inflation busting substance etc without notice & at the reasonable or unreasonable discretion of any country with more guns, printing presses, bullcrap artists or anything not contained herein at anytime without any good reason & without your consent.
Thank you very much for the warm welcome. @ Jislizard. Yes, I already had a torch(just one that connects to the butane canisters you can get at coles, big W, or bunnings for $5 for 4 cans which last quite a while) borax and sterling silver, also my 1 ounce ingot mold arrived today(which cost $18 shipped from CA U.S.A). All I need now is another torch some more borax and my 1 and 2 ounce crucible's which are on their way and cost only $14 for 2 1 ounce and 2 2 ounce crucible's shipped, also a tumbler would be nice but i can't find any that are cheaper than $30 unless (i use a drill tumbler). I agree that the copper in sterling (or what ever the jewler used) is a waste of space, I would love to refine it myself or if i could get it done cheap even better, but I dont have alot of sterling only about 8 ounces at the moment, most of which has already been melted on charcoal blocks so it can fit in smaller containers, so i can't goto a refiner, also nitric acid is hard to find (can not find it any where, at all). I was also thinking about melting down some of my crap coins (either really worn or just damaged or undesirable in any way) to make some more sterling ingots and some 50% ingots (just a thought) I can also get .999 or .9999 silver cheaper than I can get any other silver (except for jewlery) and was wondering if i should make my own pure silver ingots/rounds? Should i mix it with my sterling and with a bit of math work out the purity? Sorry, rambled on a bit there but that is what i am thinking of or am doing as a bit of a hobby Thanks again guys
hey mate welcome to the forum i'm another young bloke from geelong to. if your ever selling anything close to the spot price be sure to let us no.. haha
