I have never seen this before

[armoredman]

I've been casting about 6-7 years now, same pot, flux it out with candle wax and a stainless steel spoon, (that never ever seems to heat up), and been using the same temp setting for probably close to the same time. I dumped some mixed ingots for some hi velocity handgun lead, (will be powder coated), and when I got ready to flux...I saw this.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b13/armoredman/casting%20stuff/blue%20pot_zpsxefkazq8.jpg (http://s16.photobucket.com/user/armoredman/media/casting%20stuff/blue%20pot_zpsxefkazq8.jpg.html)

BTW, I know I need to wire wheel the thing clean, needs a scrub down. Still drops very nice lead. So I called LAGS, and he said the lead temp was too high ad the blue was pure lead that needed to be fluxed back in the melt. So I did, and had to several times during the pour. Ended up with some blue on the bottom of the pot when I was done.
Thoughts?

These were some of the results of the pour, so nothing went wrong, even with the cobalt hue getting involved.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b13/armoredman/casting%20stuff/124gr%20lee%20TL_zps9t7oirfx.jpg (http://s16.photobucket.com/user/armoredman/media/casting%20stuff/124gr%20lee%20TL_zps9t7oirfx.jpg.html)

LAGS has been a great friend and helper with casting, just thought I'd share this one here.

[nagantguy]

I've seen that once, was told a out the same, pure lead that needed to be mixed back in. I was smelting roofing sheet lead for the front stuffer, still have some of that same roll never seen the blue hue again .

[ShooterAZ]

I see it often when casting pure for muzzle-loaders. Blue & purple hues all the time.

[bhn22]

Your "mixed ingots" were almost totally soft lead. I hesitate to use the word "pure" anymore.

[armoredman]

Several of them were of a harder mixture, so I guess the others were too soft? Hmm, I already put the sized boolits in the general boolit stash of that caliber/weight. They get powder coated and shot at approximately 1,000 FPS...I'm assuming you would suggest that they get loaded much lower speed due to the relative purity of the lead. The ingots were of various hardness, was looking for a 8-10 BHN for GP handgun boolits, guess I went too soft. Dagnabbit.