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The trick is to cast large/heavy conicals is to slightly enlarge the spout. I forget what size Idaholewis drill his out with but I’m sure he’ll comment on that later.
That man KNOWS !!!!!The trick is to cast large/heavy conicals is to slightly enlarge the spout. I forget what size Idaholewis drill his out with but I’m sure he’ll comment on that later.
I did that. I don’t remember the size either, but it does pour fast now. I’ll see if I can find the size.The trick is to cast large/heavy conicals is to slightly enlarge the spout. I forget what size Idaholewis drill his out with but I’m sure he’ll comment on that later.
Youll figure this out . Got faith in ya and besides theres a REAL DESIRE there for just That.......I read up on a ton of stuff this afternoon, everything I’ve been watching/reading points to purifying you’re melt in a different pot, then adding that to your bottom-pour. I do dump my sprues and culls back in as I go, as well as adding sheet lead to film the pot.get the ratio right. Gonna try some, home cleaned, only lead ingots in there and see if that makes a difference, as soon as I get some time that is..
So I already know a few of you are gonna tell me to just buy certified alloy. I have been ok much free stuff floating around. Here’s what I did today...
Was it a bottom pour ladle? I’m using a ladle, but it’s a soup lqdle.Looks good but I'd say you could use a ladle like I used when doing lead joints in cast iron pipe plumbing back in the day.
that batch was primarily sheet lead as you just described. Is the flux maybe causing stuff to stay in the melt instead of bringing it to the top? I thought it did both, mixed the metals and floated the junk...Adding way too much junk for flux. Not sure what your lead looked like before you started, Did you have any zinc wheel weights? Your ingots should have been cleaner than that. Impurities are coming from something you added. I clean pure sheet lead and never get junk in my ingots and my lead has glue, sheetrock and who knows what. Impurities will burn off but I've heard the new zinc will totally mess up your mix. It has to be something like that. ??
No I just bought that one at a thrift store for $5. The Teflon coating, if it had it, is gone.Is that the same pot you always use? You have a lot of fishing weight material there. Does that pot have a Teflon coating?
It weighs 160 lbs and it seems very stable. I tried rocking and moving it with it loaded before I started melting because I was nervous of that very thing. I can remake the stand pretty easily so that will never happen. Point taken though, thank you.I think I'd re-think using that grill top to set the pot on, especially one as large as you were using in the video. Lead can create tremendous weight in a very small package. If the legs on that burner or the grill should collapse with the pot full of liquefied lead everything within several feet would be in harms way.....and I am speaking from experience here as a long-time jig, sinker and tackle maker. I use sheet lead in what I do along with plumber's ingots and do all my cleaning in a two quart cast iron pot anymore. That pot is approaching 90 pounds when full to within an inch of the top so I can't begin to imagine what your soup stock pot weighed with all that lead in it. I was making ingots one day and somehow hooked the handle of that pot of mine with a pants leg and flipped it. I had good boots on. That molten lead went everywhere including all over the foot of the offending leg....including well up on the lacing making it literally impossible to get the boot off quickly. First, second and ,yes, third degree burns on that foot along with about a two month-long recovery. I have since sawed the handle off that pot, but in your case I would urge you to do your smelting on a small basis and get rid of that big pot. That's a serious accident waiting to happen.
I’m just trying everything I’ve EVER read to get contaminates out.I don't know if that is how you first did it but sit back and watch your own vid. your adding way to much junk to your pot . I have never used any thing that you added for flux and I'm guessing that may be part of your problem. .I use sheet lead , lead pipe, lead sheathing and even medical lead. All which is supposed to be pure. I never mix them just so I don't cross the types I'm casting. . I first burn off the contaminates , ( paint or what ever) . When the dross is skimmed then I flux with bees wax, It don't take much. I have a piece about as big as a bar of motel soap, I just dunk it in lightly and pull it back. I stir it in, don't have to light it. Scrape the pot as you do and skim the dross again and its done. I use a cast Iron pot and a plumbers ladle. I pour my ingots as you do with muffin tins. Here is my set up. View attachment 7840
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