Gas checks in your melt

[foxtrapper]

I started casting this past year with good results so far. I was smelting wheel weights ,sinkers that were cast from WW and some bullets with gaschecks still attached. I figured I would scoop out the checks along with the ww clips. Plenty of clips but no gaschecks were found. So the GC are in the melt ,good, bad or ugly?

[Cooperwin]

gas checks will come out with the other debris when the melt is fluxed. Stir well, flux, remove, should be good to go.

[HeavyMetal]

Checks were most likely stuck in the clips where you couldn't find them.

GC boolits put alone in the pot will always have the check rise to the surface

[Blammer]

yea the GC's turn color and are really hard to find in all the c.r.a.p. and trash.

no they didn't "melt" into the lead. :)

[chboats]

foxtrapper - I once put about 50 boolits with GCs in the bottom of an empty pot and added ingots to fill the pot. It took a lot of fluxing and stiring to get all of the checks out. I didn't count them but each time I would ge one or two more. I just kept fluxing and stiring until I didn't get any more.

Carl

[foxtrapper]

10-4! Thanks guys. Just for the heck of it. How hot would the melt hafta be to melt the copper checks?

[GLL]

Well over 1900 degrees F to melt pure copper! Other factors come into play depending on the alloy the checks are sitting in .

Jerry

[fredj338]

Yeah you aren;t smelting hot enough to melt gildign metal. They are there in the debris.

[bumpo628]

Sometimes they stick to the walls of the melter.

[Gohon]

Sometimes they stick to the walls of the melter

Yep......been there done that. You think you have them all out but when you stir the pot, ups pops a couple more.