Originally Posted by
MikeS
It's not only water that makes the tinsel fairy appear. If you pour hot lead into cold (but dry) ingot moulds, they will do a dance! Once I decided to mix up some more alloy (which involves a turkey fryer and ingot moulds), and it was cold outside (well, for FL at least) I think it was either in the upper 40's, or lower 50's, I took the sheet of drywall like substance that I put over the cement benches in the backyard, fired up the turkey fryer, and set my ingot moulds on the board. Once everything was mixed, and fluxed, and ready to pour into the ingot moulds I started pouring. I got my first ingot mould filled, and was halfway thru the second one when the first exploded, it jumped about 8" into the air, emptying itself in my general direction!