flux

[Bookworm]

I use pine pet bedding because it is easy for me to get.

I've often wondered; just what is a Pine Pet, and what do they bed in ?

[Adam Helmer]

dragonfire,

YES, Flux your Wheelweights. I hope you flux outdoors due to the smoke and fire. I live on a farm and have an old haywagon in a three bay wagon shed. I use a Coleman stove and flux with candle wax from my church.

Adam

[GregLaROCHE]

I first flux with sawdust, but no wax. I flux again in the casting pot with sawdust and bee’s wax. If I don’t have any dry sawdust around, I have been known to use Quaker Oats. I used to spend a lot of time fluxing ingots, but not as much now to save propane. However, I do a thorough job in the casting pot.

[FLINTNFIRE]

I use wood , sawdust , old oil , bacon fat , whatever is handy and the junk mail I would rather burn the credit card offers then throw in trash , best use for all that type of mail , outside and stay upwind .

[Peregrine]

I'm really liking bacon fat. There's always plenty, and when it burns off it leaves a crispy black foam like layer. That's exactly what we want, the carbon is what adsorbs all the impurities for us.

I pour generous portions of bacon grease into the ww before I even start the heat. It takes a long time to burn off so I don't use for final fluxing before pouring ingots, I use a wax for that.

It seems generous portions help everything melt faster by facilitating better heat transfer, fried to perfection.

[daloper]

I use Pine bedding that is left over from having hamsters. I also use broken crayons left over from when the kids were little.

[fiberoptik]

I use Pine bedding that is left over from having hamsters. I also use broken crayons left over from when the kids were little.

So does hamster poo improve the burn???


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[fredj338]

I plan on turning my ww's into ingots ,do i need to flux if i'm just making ingots? ,i have bar solder i plan on adding at a later date ,i'm new to this so any info is most helpful ,thanks.

To me that is the perfect time to flux is making ingots. Then I put clean alloy into my casting pot & just stir with a wooden stick.