okay so clearly I have a love of all
things
metal love for Jean they love shaping
anything I can think of but lately I've
seen these videos where people use a
blowtorch our modern pennies to separate
the zinc from the copper here's my big
question why now I totally understand
this as a basically a science
demonstration that's cool you do it
three or four times maybe just to show
the difference in that melt temperatures
in combined metals but there's a
practical scrap technique it really
makes no sense to me now I have a
slightly better torch than this guy will
do it in about about about 10 seconds
this guy with his torch takes about 15
okay so let's say best-case scenario I
can do six pennies every mint that means
to get one pound of copper it would take
basically almost 20 hours and 59 dollars
and 40 cents to get one pound of copper
and about 30 pounds of zinc that would
retail today's market anywhere from $45
to $65 - the 50 bucks you're going to
blow in gas so of course when talking to
people about this to just ask me do you
have a better way
yep that's a flower sister in a coal
Forge yep that's it it's a five-minute
shaken bake anywhere from above 700
degrees Fahrenheit to about 1900 degrees
Fahrenheit and you'll can manage to melt
the zinc but not the copper and just so
you know I do provide a link right here
just to show you guys how to actually
build this thing in case you want to try
something that is cost-effective
people vote like lemon thief
