MadMat Posted August 7, 2015 Posted August 7, 2015 I just acquired a couple pounds of clean magnesium turnings. What I would like to do is reduce them in size to approx 80-100 mesh. Any suggestions? I was thinking of ball milling them, but I hear that can be dangerous. What I was thinking of doing was milling them with either ceramic and passivated stainless steel media and even going so far as to purge any oxygen out if the milling jar with argon (MIG gas).
Andres1511 Posted August 7, 2015 Posted August 7, 2015 if you purge all the oxygen out of the jar, you'll/can get pyrophoric Mg. That's really dangerous, because when out of the jar (in contact with oxygen) it ignites very easily. Honestly, I wouldn't know how to reduce particle size...
MadMat Posted August 7, 2015 Author Posted August 7, 2015 Hmm, yeah I figured this might be a no-go situation. Hell I would be happy if I could get this stuff to even the 40-60 mesh range.
taiwanluthiers Posted August 7, 2015 Posted August 7, 2015 What if you slowly introduced the oxygen into the milled jar after you finish, so over the course of days you let in very little oxygen at a time to get it coated?
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