My lead has got a blue hue.....

[FORKLIFT352]

I bought all my stuff for casting a year
ago.
A friend gave me about 50# lead "blob."
It looks like it was from a kettle smelter..?

I cut it up and meltted it down.
Mind you this is my first melt.

So...my book said the grung at the top
would be tin..
It went on to say add flux (wax.)
I used one of them tiny emergency
candels.
It flamed up and I stered it.

Butt loads of what I think was dross.
So I skimed and skimed and fluxed and
fluxed.....I was getting a rainbow effect (color.)
And then a gold/brown color.

The book said it would be a silver color...?

Sooooo....I got a big pile of dross and
my ingets got blue streeks on them.

I still only get a gold/brown gravle on the top.
Should I keep sciming the dross??

I hate when stuff don't roll with the book...LOL
Any help .....

[geargnasher]

What you got is very close to pure lead. It does the color thing unless there is some tin and/or antimony in there with it. There's a sticky on this very thing in the alloys subforum here, check it out.

Gear

[lwknight]

You got the true blue, the real deal, the holy grail of lead.
Cherish it. Pure lead is hard to come by these days.
I would save some of it out as pure lead instead of mixing all of it with other ingredients.
You never know when pure lead might be needed.

[FORKLIFT352]

Thanx....so all the **** I'm pulling off is still ok to
scim off?

[shotman]

you need a better flux . bee wax or some rosin solder it dont take much. The solder wont hurt your pure lead. You said emergency candle? is that the ones that dont blow out? If so it may have stuff that is floating off.

[FORKLIFT352]

I'm using saw dust now...it may be I'm runnen to hot.

[Lizard333]

saw dust is the best.

[EDK]

saw dust is the best.

AND the price is right! I love FREE!!!!