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tding
03-08-2007, 03:17 PM
Has anyone had experience using toilet bowl sealing rings for flux? Does it really have a beeswax content?
Wayne Smith
03-08-2007, 03:53 PM
No, but petroleum wax works just as well. That's what they are now.
John Boy
03-08-2007, 05:07 PM
Tding ... save them rings in case your toilet has problems. Just use sawdust from any wood. You can even leave some on top of the melt to act as an insulator
44woody
03-08-2007, 05:26 PM
Tding here are a few thing that will work as flux for your lead pot --bees wax , candle wax , saw dust , old oil , pine tree sap , pint sticks marvelex , a handfull of dried leaves , cooking oil , these are all thing I have used or herd of someone using if any one else can add to the list please do :castmine: 44Woody
Ricochet
03-08-2007, 05:44 PM
When smelting scrap lead outdoors, I like to flux with used motor oil.
corvette8n
03-08-2007, 06:13 PM
I stir mine with a wooden dowel:-D
leftiye
03-08-2007, 07:45 PM
Anything that will combine with oxygen (reads burns) will probably work as a flux. No guarantee that the fumes aren't poisonous. Guys on this forum use almost everything imagineable and claim good results. Also depends on how bad the stench will be! Try it!
3sixbits
03-08-2007, 09:45 PM
tding: I have in years past used them for bullet lube. But as I recall, they turned out to be some real CRAPPY loads l (Sorry, I had to try to beat the rest of you to it).
mto7464
03-08-2007, 09:52 PM
I use toilet ring wax today since I had a partial one. It worked well. I also used used motor oil and new motor oil trying to see which worked best. It was a tie between the wax and new motor oil. I splattered a little used oil on the side of the pot and it was smoking like an old 73 chevy for about an hour.
3sixbits
03-08-2007, 10:02 PM
On a serious note, John Boy is 100% correct. Sawdust is the vary best cleaning agent and is known as dry drossing. This is what the foundries use to clean lead and lead alloys. I recommend covering your clean pot melt with powdered charcoal, it will not smoke or allow further oxidation of the melted alloy.
mto7464
03-08-2007, 10:56 PM
were to get powdered charcoal? Or better yet, how to make it?
AkMike
03-08-2007, 11:53 PM
Take your bag of BBQ brickettes and hammer them to a powder...
Simple
bruce drake
03-09-2007, 09:26 AM
All I got say is "Please use CLEAN toilet bowl rings!" Imagine the smoke coming off a USED ring!

Bruce
Ricochet
03-10-2007, 09:18 PM
Much of my lead is rings that sealed the joints between sewer pipe sections, salvaged when the sewer was dug up after many years of use. Imagine that smoke.
fatnhappy
03-11-2007, 12:20 AM
Much of my lead is rings that sealed the joints between sewer pipe sections, salvaged when the sewer was dug up after many years of use. Imagine that smoke.

On a side note, is it considered an Honor if your town names the sewage treatment plant after you?



I've used sewer joints too.
Ricochet
03-11-2007, 04:32 PM
On a side note, is it considered an Honor if your town names the sewage treatment plant after you?



I've used sewer joints too.

I sense a story here...

BTW, any tips on keeping those sewer joints lit? [smilie=1:
No_1
03-11-2007, 04:40 PM
The sewage treatment plant in your town is named "Fatnhappy"?

Robert


On a side note, is it considered an Honor if your town names the sewage treatment plant after you?



I've used sewer joints too.