u/jeremykot

I need to make a tiny bit of Everose gold for microwelding to Rolexes.

The recipe is 1g Au, 0.3g Cu and 0.02g Pt

I snipped 0.3g of copper from a speaker cable. Put it in a ceramic melting dish with borax. But couldn’t for the life of me get it to melt the way I effortlessly can gold or silver. The copper sort of fused a little to each other but wouldn’t collapse to form a molten bead. Even when the dish was glowing red.

Is there a particular way to incorporate copper into a gold alloy?

I’m very familiar with melting gold and silver. First time handling copper

Most of the employed have either a very big or a majority portion of their wealth in the EPF.

The EPF has by law some 75% of its many billions in domestic fixed income securities. In other words, Malaysian government bonds. So actually, your retirement money has been loaned to the government.

It also means it will never be anything other than in ringgit.

The monies in EPF is vulnerable to everything that a currency is vulnerable to and MORE.

In particular it is vulnerable to hyperinflation. Just in recent years, various currencies have undergone hyperinflation. The Syrian pound has lost 98% of its value since 2011. In the last five years, the Turkish lira hyperinflated 578%. Lebanon had 171% inflation in one year alone.

With the EPF, the government doesn’t even need capital controls. You and your employer are forced by law to pay into it but you cannot withdraw it at will.

The government can change the law around EPF withdrawals at any time. They can change the age at which you can withdraw. They can change the rate at which you can withdraw.

It is captive money. If the Malaysian ringgit breaks, you can do nothing to save your EPF money. You cannot change it into other currencies. You cannot change it into gold or crypto. You just watch it die.

I’ve been keto, then increasingly more carnivore for the past three years. I’ve observed all kinds of things in myself on this journey.

In recent months I thought that maybe I’ve been too dogmatic about carnivore. It’s ok to have some carbs. I mean, 90% of what I eat is still meat. It’s ok to indulge a little.

I like dark chocolate for the indulgence part. And salty potato chips. I normally have them late at night, when my self discipline is eroded. I would be plagued by sugar cravings. I would give in and buy them at 7-11 and stuff them into my mouth the moment I got to the car.

Last week, I was inspired to do a 36hr fast. After the fast, I realised that I have lost my sugar cravings. I can look at a chocolate bar and be entirely indifferent to it.

My theory is that the 36hr fast erased some insulin resistance that had crept up. Now that I can produce ketones very efficiently again, my brain no longer needs the sugar to power itself. So it no longer craves sugar.

Sugar cravings could mean a brain that is undersupplied with energy. Restoring insulin sensitivity fixes this.

Am I missing something

Is a 99.5% gold, 0.3% antimony and 0.2% cobalt alloy. As published in the paper “The Development of a Novel Gold Alloy with 995 Fineness and Increased Hardness”.

Once work hardened and aged, it has a hardness similar to 22k gold.

It can be made in any workshop without exotic equipment.

Anybody has experience with this alloy?