how can i melt down a gold ring?

Answer 1

How to Melt Gold

Melting gold is easy and fun, especially useful for casting gold items or pouring gold ingots from scrap gold or gold dust.

Steps
Get your scrap gold material
Place in crucible
Turn on acetylene torch
Point at gold until melted
Using crucible tongs, pour into ingot mold or other shape (or bucket of water if making gold shot).
Cool gold piece, turn off torch and enjoy.



Tips
A little flux always helps keep the gold liquid.

Define flux:
. (Chem. & Metal.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.


Warnings
Don't burn yourself and wear welder's goggles.



Things You'll Need
How to use an oxy-acetylene or oxy-propane torch.

Answer 2

By supplying sufficient heat to it. The melting temperature for gold is 1064∙4ºC.
You will likely find that the gold ring will contain a mixture of metals. These metals, if present, will likely have a different melting temperature.

Answer 3

buy a furnace, a pair of bellows, a pair of heat proof gloves, long heatproof tweezers & a gold ring

light up the furnace, use the bellows to rais etemp of furnase the more oxygenin the furnace the hotter the fire then the more chance you can melt down your gold ring

just out of curiosity why would you want to do this why not just sell the ring or is this a science project

Answer 4

Hi my dad's a goldsmith/jeweller and he does this. Look up goldsmiths (as jewellers generally just sell the jewellery - goldsmiths do the work) and you're bound to find someone who'll do it and it shouldn't cost too much. Only thing I would say is that I've seen a lot of women wearing flashy wedding rings and I think they can look really beautiful sometimes. Maybe think about it as people will just look at it and think "wow, the lucky thing!". Oh and if you do decide to get it melted down, why not use the diamonds and get them made into a nice necklace or something else...

Answer 5

Keep in mind it's an alloy, unless it's 24 carat gold. The other metals in the ring will have a tendency of oxidizing, so you want to include a flux when you melt it. If you don't have a good flux, use borax. This will dissolve the oxides and keep them from contaminating the metal when you pour it.

Answer 6

Get it up to 1065 C (just under 2000 F)

Answer 7

First go to Mordor
Then find Mt. Doom and cast the ring into the fire.
Beware of Sauron

Answer 8

Apply heat.

Answer 9

Whatever you do, make sure you take it off the finger first!!


I learnt the hard way :(