Jake0111

Gives more reason to check it 🤣

Welcome to the forum, it gets addictive.

I will be wanting the same number 1oz bar as last year, will also be wanting some other new bits 😃

That's a surprise, to say I went to sleep at 8.30pm

£320 sorry @stefffana can't help my self sept to have a cheeky bid

I didn't even realise carr's of sheffield did anything gold

Ill take the 2002 please 😁

239

£160

He might catch a fish one day, if he waits long enough.

Learn something new every day, but i wouldn't say that is a tradition casting process or if it could be called that. The mould has been made part of the furnace, but still interesting. You would end up with a better gold/ silver bar than casting one with that method.

You still have to pour the metal with any type of cast unless you are Vacuum Casting or other specialist casting methods like the cosworth process (was made specially for the cosworth engine blocks) and i dont think any one casting gold or silver would do that. You dont melt the silver shot in the mould, it would kill the mould. Even large scale foundrys only use a mould one time and make a new one in most applications, even with continuous casting. I know you dont need to do that with gold and silver normally becuse you dont put enough stress on the moulds for it to warrant it normally.

You can get lines in a cast bar becuse you can get cold over lap if your pouring to slow.

Be surprised how much the plastic can take if its a blunt object putting the pressure on.

I would have thought it had happened after the plastic rapper was put on.