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BBQJOE
04-03-2013, 04:48 PM
Strange. I posted the ingots I made yesterday. They looked like pure silver.
Today I'm making more, using the same lead sheets, and I'm coming out with some crazy colors. I'm sure it doesn't mean much, but it does have me curious. Blues, purples, silver and gold.
I'm melting the lead in a Lee 4-20.
Here's yesterday's, followed by 3 today. Yesterday's are at the bottom.663036630466305

Harter66
04-03-2013, 05:24 PM
There's a post in the stickies "yellow,blue,purple oh my" or something to that effect.

Short version your pure lead is too hot so you get "rainbows" of oxidation.
The above is the simplest lay terms.

johnho
04-03-2013, 08:03 PM
They sure look puuuurdy.

HangFireW8
04-03-2013, 08:58 PM
Gold is overheated tin. Blues and purples are overheated pure lead. Rainbow is overheated alloy of some sort.

HF

runfiverun
04-03-2013, 11:59 PM
turn the heat down.