Has anyone used this propane burner...

[TORCHrider]

... and does it work well for melting lead? I have a cast iron dutch oven from Harbor Freight that will sit on top of it. Anyone know if it will support that full of lead? :coffeecom

DOH!

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[McKee Boykin]

What propane burner?

[Hickory]

Where's the propane burner?:mrgreen:

[TORCHrider]

Sorry guys just added it. I seem to do that alot :-)

[Muddy Creek Sam]

Looks just like the one I use.

Sam :D

[BABore]

I use pretty much the same unit, but purchased it from Menards. For smelting I use a 4 qt dutch oven on it which weighs about 115 lbs when full. No problems at all. I also use an identical unit for casting with a 40 lb stainless dipper pot.

[7of7]

I have a similar cooker, however the burner looks the same.. I ended up taking a 6" bolt, and replaced the bolt that holds it to the support, and adjusted it up so that it is about 3 inches from the bottom of the dutch oven... it really heats up quick, and it is almost off in order to maintain a good casting temp..

[mike in co]

the legs look wimpy....sheet metal no 3d....too easy to flex...my opinion.

welding a face to the two sides to make them a channel would help

mike in co

[Bob J]

I have an earlier version of this burner as well as a new "fish fryer" that I just got from Bass Pro.... Running them side by side during my last smelting session, the Bayou Classic melted the lead much faster.... Weather was cold and blowing a bit but still a marked difference.... The high pressure they advertise is well worth it IMHO..

[94Doug]

That is the same one I use, got it from Amazon as well. It works fine.

Doug

[remy3424]

I like Mike's idea

[KCSO]

I put a shield around mine so it would work better in a breeze. I limit it to 50 pounds of melt at a time.

[Alan in WI]

Works great! I've been using one for a couple of years.

Alan

[Steel185]

i have one of those for boiling crawfish, the output is limited to the regulator, since this one is only 10psi it will be great for melting lead, but if wanted to use the cooker for other things like, fry turkey, fish, crawfish you might need one with a 20psi regulator, or one of those Jet ones. The jet one's double the power and are just a couple of bucks more. I guess it depends on what you plan on using it for.

I will be using both (jet and cast burner) to see which works better. Don't worry about the legs they will hold, when i do crawfish i put a 180qt bucket on there full of water and crawfish (300lbs) and never had a problem. Putting a wind guard on it is a good idea, it claims to have one but any wind over 10mph messes with the flame.

[10 ga]

Mine came from a yard sale, looks the same, works good when I added a wind screen. 10 ga

[hammerhead357]

I have the same basic burner if you look at my post number 68 in the sticky titled "one home smelting set up". I have thought about adding extra supports myself. Just haven't gotten to it. I have had as much as 200 lbs on top of mine at one time and it was still sturdy but that was just mine. The one I have has an adustable regulator. I may have added that myself I don't remember now....Wes

[fastgun]

I melted almost 2000 lbs of alloy last year with mine but kept each batch to about 100 lbs. I am sure it could even handle more.

[grumman581]

The burner itself should work well enough. From a structural engineering standpoint though, I would reinforce the legs a bit. At the very least, I would weld a pieces of rebar between each leg on the bottom. Maybe also add couple of 1/2"x1/8" steel bars along each of the legs to make it more resistant to collapsing. Depends upon how much weight you are going to put on it though. I'm a firm believer in the concept of "anything worth being engineered is worth being over-engineered".

[Daves1]

Same as the one I use, a shield is a good Idea!