Buying scrap silver for recycling advice, please!

sworth

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I do some silversmithing, as a hobby, and I want to buy scrap silver to melt down and reform into sheet and wire etc. then make "recycled" silver jewellery.
I think ebay may be a possible place to get some, but I'm in need of advice on what kind of £/p limit I should give myself per gram. Sites I've seen that buy scrap silver pay around 60p a gram, does that sound about right? Or have I got my calculations muddled (I'm in the right mood to misplace a decimal point in my head! :eyesmoke:)?
There's plenty of scrap on auction, which is great because sourcing it hasn't/isn't easy.
(And I really want to do pieces a bit bigger!:sad:)
My green fingers are crossed...
 
I'm just curious?,,,Do you actually know how to melt mixed metal's down to seperate the differet filler metal's?,,,Sorry I really can't help you I'm in the USA?,,,But there is silver in a Lot of thing's good Luck!
 
I'm not looking to separate the metals. I pay my bullion supplier a premium for buying new silver sheet/wire etc, but now I have the tools to make it myself out of broken 925 silver...
 
Over here the going rate for scrap, unsoldered sterling is 70-75% of market price or a credit of 80-85% to purchase new from a supplier. In an auction setting it can be had for 50-60%.

Soldered silver pieces can run near the low end of the spectrum.
 
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