Help me with my smelting please

[montanamike]

It's just dross stuck to the bottom of the pot.

[hunter74]

I would consider this as nice clean alloy.

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[lightman]

Those bullets look fine. I get some of that occasionally, but it does not hurt anything. I use mostly wheelweights, often dirty, nasty and rusty, and its hard sometimes to get them really clean. After fluxing 3 times with sawdust and scraping the sides and bottom of the pot, my bullets will still look like that sometimes. The best looking bullets I ever cast was when I had a source for isotope lead. That stuff was clean! Like using new alloy from the foundry.

[OS OK]

QUESTION...Why not relegate the sawdust and wood chips and all that sort of stuff to the ingot smelting pot and after a good cleaning of the pour pot use only wax in that pot?
When you put the wax in there leave it alone...it's suppose to remain on top sealing the oxygen from your boolit metal.

[lablover]

QUESTION...Why not relegate the sawdust and wood chips and all that sort of stuff to the ingot smelting pot and after a good cleaning of the pour pot use only wax in that pot?
When you put the wax in there leave it alone...it's suppose to remain on top sealing the oxygen from your boolit metal.

That's what I did. No more wood in the bottom pour. And I still got those bullets you see above. I sandblasted my bottom pour and it was clean as a whistle



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[OS OK]

Then these inclusions are coming in to the pour pot straight from the ingot smelt...right?

If so...then you know what you have to do about that...right?

[lablover]

Then these inclusions are coming in to the pour pot straight from the ingot smelt...right?

If so...then you know what you have to do about that...right?

Yes, smelted pot..new ingots, new ingots went into clean clean clean bottom pour...then pics above.

Great..A quiz... Add some beeswax to the top and let it just sit there. Don't stir it in..Thats in the bottom pour that is. I think...LOL

[imashooter2]

Thank you sir! Will get some tomorrow.

I will say I'm happy with my driving bands not being rounder over anymore.......wooohoooo

Ask for the big commercial ones they keep under the counter. Much longer and heftier.

[lwknight]

All you have to do is clean up the top, dip the lead out into ingots, pour off the last bit and clean the junk out of the pot.
Start with a clean pot and clean ingots and the inclusions will go away.
That skim on top does not hurt a thing.
Just rake it aside when you add more ingots so that you don't pull the oxides
down to the bottom where they somehow get stuck.
You already have clean lead so the only problem is what is under the lead.