A smelting tonight...

[handyrandyrc]

Having a bit of fun... Have the garage door full open, and the back door of the garage open too. It's 35 degrees here in the garage!!! There is quite a breeze flowing thru here!

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I have been having trouble getting these buckets of Wheel Weights to thaw... I finally dumped them, but I still have chunks of ice.

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Put one of the large ice blocks of wheel weights in the dry pot and put the heat on low... The water is boiling off.

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Here is the stuff I use in my muffin tins. I love this stuff!

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Ahhhhh... Good, clean lead.

[454PB]

Obviously you know the danger of moisture intoduced into molten lead.....

Try some cast iron muffin pans, then you wouldn't need any mould release.

[handyrandyrc]

Thanks for the tip on the cast iron cups... When I wear out and bend up these cheapies, I'll look into that. Yes, folks -- WATER AND LEAD IS DANGEROUS! I only am doing this from a dry pot. I don't want water anywhere near the pot once I have some molten lead in it!

Be careful out there! I got the first "ice cube" melted and transformed -- turned out great! 2nd cube is going, and while I've been waiting, I've picked MOST of the trash from the pile...