[TheForge] reclaiming copper

Grover Richardson grover.richardson at gtri.gatech.edu
Fri Jun 30 09:27:40 EDT 2006


	Get the book by Amen on non-ferrous casting.  He talks a lot about
copper and melting.


Things that I remember:

1.	Don't melt copper in a high humidity atmosphere if you expect to get
the best quality.
2.	Wire has a large surface area to mass ratio and therefore usually
oxidizes heavily.  The resulting copper oxide is not desirable and harder to
deal with (for some reason that I don't remember).

If you wish, I can look for my copy at home and get the isbn.  I think I
purchased it from Centaur Forge. 




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