I am still a little confused about this part. Last week I had my first smelting session with wheel weights, I fluxed 3x with pine pet bedding and some candle wax on the last time. I now have about 30lbs of clean ingots.
So I will be using a lee 4-20 bottom pour pot for casting I have read some very conflicting info some say do not introduce anything but lead into your bottom pour pot, some say only use wax ( or beeswax), some say use more pine shavings and form a layer to protect the melt from air.
My questions :
1) How much wax would I use? would I keep having to add it whenever I see the tin on top?
2) When I fluxed with pine shavings while smelting after they burned off the char only covered maybe 1/4 of the melt, to form a layer would take a LOT of shavings to completely cover the melt right?
and yes I read the sticky about fluxing but I still have these questions
thanks!