On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:48:58 -0700, in rec.crafts.jewelry Abrasha
wrote:

BTW, how many Gingery machine tools have you built? You don't sound
like the kind of person who has built any.

I kinda wondered about that too, what with talking both about the Gingery
foundry/melting furnace, but then about melting over a propane camp stove
instead. A considerable step down from that fairly capable home made furnace...
But in the end, it doesn't really matter, does it. The main subject, whether
pennies are a good, legal, economical and metalurgically sound source of zinc,
is seperate from what machine's he's built or not. And it appears that well
informed opinions on the matter are meeting a bit of a brick wall. OK. His
choice. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."

Peter