Has anyone ever gotten strange colors while smelting WW. After it melted it started to get a blue/green/purple, almost swirly psychadellic lol. It even showed up as small blue streaks in the 4 ingots I poured and the tiny amount left over in the pot, i dont know if zinc does that or something else made its way in but ive been through a hundred buckets of WW and never seen this. I dont think its a heat issue but I dont know. Any thoughts
it's not zinc.
you either had the heat up to 850 or so or you got some super soft lead.
blue is indicative of pure lead.
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Do NOT worry about Zn!
Your colors are normal for over-heated Pb alloys.
Cast away and don't sweat it.
Pure lead has the pretty blue swirls in it.
It's sorta like 'shorting out an electrical device', the smoke comes to the top and drifts away. No matter what you do you can't get it back in, now it is 'broke'!
Now you let the 'blue' get out…whatcha gonna do?
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good deal. Im using a turkey fryer and cast iron skillet to smelt and I used to use coleman stoves to smelt. I know the turkey fryer got way hotter but I didnt expect that. It kinda threw me. Thanks for the info Now ill know everything is all gravy
Blue gravy is a hit on Pandora ... Now if you had some unobtainium
I had the same issue first smelt. I think many do till we learn how/when/why to control the heat
Your all good to go .. and many a happy smelt to you !!
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