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novalty
06-08-2014, 11:52 AM
Finishing melting the last of the almost 900 lbs of lead that I had picked up since last year.
This is the waste from the last 450lbs or so.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m11/novalty1970/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0869_zps9962d54c.jpg (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/novalty1970/media/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0869_zps9962d54c.jpg.html)
Most of my equipment set up.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m11/novalty1970/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0870_zps15a0d7ba.jpg (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/novalty1970/media/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0870_zps15a0d7ba.jpg.html)
Last 160 bars, about 178lbs by my estimate.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m11/novalty1970/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0871_zpsf6af5741.jpg (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/novalty1970/media/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0871_zpsf6af5741.jpg.html)
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m11/novalty1970/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0872_zpsddc7317d.jpg (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/novalty1970/media/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0872_zpsddc7317d.jpg.html)
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m11/novalty1970/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0873_zps8b376f5e.jpg (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/novalty1970/media/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0873_zps8b376f5e.jpg.html)

Guess over 600lbs total in ingots, should last me several years at the rate I shoot--have to lower that estimate if the Mrs. keeps shooting at her current rate.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m11/novalty1970/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0874_zps1e61e8d8.jpg (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/novalty1970/media/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0874_zps1e61e8d8.jpg.html)
Tatume
06-08-2014, 12:42 PM
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m11/novalty1970/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0874_zps1e61e8d8.jpg (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/novalty1970/media/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0874_zps1e61e8d8.jpg.html)

Hi Novalty,

Let's have a contest. I'll bet I can throw that white bucket at least as far as you can. :-)

Take care, Tom
Brenden
06-08-2014, 12:51 PM
Hi Novalty,

Let's have a contest. I'll bet I can throw that white bucket at least as far as you can. :-)

Take care, Tom

winner gets shoulder surgery.
novalty
06-08-2014, 12:56 PM
No doubt. The stock pot full of clips and dross weighs quite a bit too--probably 60lbs or so. Right now my body doesn't want to do any more lifting.
dondiego
06-08-2014, 01:28 PM
Are the half cylinder, ingot molds commercial or home made? I have a linotype ingot of that configuration and thought it was just a section of a 25 pound pig. Now, I am not so sure of that.
novalty
06-08-2014, 01:33 PM
That was cast with the old cast iron cornbread pan, seen on the left in the second picture down. Those half-cylinder ingots weigh in around 1.5lbs each.
Tom_in_AZ
06-08-2014, 01:53 PM
Impressive work!
novalty
06-08-2014, 02:23 PM
Thanks Tom. The set up works pretty good for the volume that I do. Have put all of the lead I have melted through it, and my father-in-law put about 300lbs through it last year. Didn't really need to run it on a warm day like today, but wanted to get my garage cleaned up--plus I can leave my equipment with my father-in-law, so he can melt down the 500 or 600lbs he has in COWW's. My RCBS Pro-melt will have plenty to work with now.
fatelvis
06-08-2014, 05:58 PM
What size Dutch oven are you using in the pic?
GLL
06-08-2014, 06:17 PM
Novalty:

Nice morning's work ! :)

I have three of those same cornbread muffin pans. They do make great 1.5 pound ingots !

http://www.fototime.com/FB02054454498D2/orig.jpg

Jerry
novalty
06-08-2014, 07:28 PM
What size Dutch oven are you using in the pic?

Fatelvis, the dutch oven is a 12" one from Harbor Freight. Think it was $30.
jimb16
06-08-2014, 07:51 PM
That amount would just about make it into next year for me......Between boolits and shot, I go thru tons.....literally.
novalty
06-08-2014, 08:23 PM
Thanks GLL, if I could find another cornbread pan like this one at a reasonable price I would buy it--cause this one works great and the ingots fit in my Pro-melt well.
Dale53
06-08-2014, 08:32 PM
novalty;
You did GOOD!

Dale53
10x
06-08-2014, 09:00 PM
No doubt. The stock pot full of clips and dross weighs quite a bit too--probably 60lbs or so. Right now my body doesn't want to do any more lifting.

Just a suggestion - if the dross is heavy, then there a lot of lead left in it. Toss it in a pot and put heat to it, flux it and see how much lead you salvage from it...
I have done this with dross and got a significant amount of lead as a result.
novalty
06-08-2014, 09:12 PM
Just a suggestion - if the dross is heavy, then there a lot of lead left in it. Toss it in a pot and put heat to it, flux it and see how much lead you salvage from it...
I have done this with dross and got a significant amount of lead as a result.

Not a lot of dross actually, mostly just the clips. The stock pot that I grabbed off of the recycling bin, cause the prior owner scorched the bottom, works well.