Originally Posted by
RogerDat
You my friend are getting close to needing an intervention!
My bench has a small loaf pan for culls and pull downs, that pan gets dumped into the smelting pot when I melt down drippings, dross, and dibby dabs from bottom of the pot. Have three 5 pound slabs of that mixed lead under my bench. If it gets up to 20 pounds I'll melt it all together, get it tested and use it.
The loaf pan along with a babbitt ingot weigh down the base a powder thrower is mounted on. So it works as a weight until it becomes casting alloy again.