Duke's Foundry in Action! Pics

[Just Duke]

Nice operation Duke but we really need to get some dirt on you.

DIRT!!! ...

Thanks Pat and 45. I just busted the bibs out of the package today as it is a tad bit cooler here in Vegas so yes they are pretty clean but sweaty now..

[Just Duke]

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[PatMarlin]

How could you have the smell of WW in your nose with that space mask? I don't even smell it with my indoor casting bench. I think it's to much of that "new car smell" you have around there...

[Leadforbrains]

Nice set up duke. I got my #3 Rowell from Advanced Car Movers as well. I am looking at your pictures and I am realizing I need a bigger pot, more ingot molds, and a bigger ladle.
I guess I am suffering from Ladle envy.

[Just Duke]

Nice set up duke. I got my #3 Rowell from Advanced Car Movers as well. I am looking at your pictures and I am realizing I need a bigger pot, more ingot molds, and a bigger ladle.
I guess I am suffering from Ladle envy.

Thanks LFB's. Yes the pot hold 200 lbs of lead unfortunately. I wish I had a 300 to 400 pounder with the bulk of lead I need to process. The guys here in the Black Powder Section tell me I need to make a certain alloy and duplicable so I figure just a larger pot might work. 20-1 and or 30-1.
This setup should work fine for my 45-70, 500 S&W's and 45 Long/ACP bullets.

[Just Duke]

How could you have the smell of WW in your nose with that space mask?:

That's just a Home Depot respirator and a pair of ESS goggles.

[Leadforbrains]

I love the smell of NAP..... errr ahh... Lead wheel weights smelting in the Morning! It smells like VICTORY! Borrowed a quote from a movie.
I am getting to the point now that I am associating the smell with something positive. Sorta like the Hoppes #9 smell, or the smell from a highly active range. I am still going to get me a better respirator before the next go around though.

[PatMarlin]

I'm just jealous Duke.

Everything around here is old, warn, stained, in serious need of repair or rebuilding with myself included sometimes..

[Just Duke]

I'm just jealous Duke.

Everything around here is old, warn, stained, in serious need of repair or rebuilding with myself included sometimes..

That's ok but thanks Pat. I envy the guys with the Master Casters and Magma Engineering bullet makers. Now those guy got the setup.
Still enving........................... THE MOAS MELTER... OOOO AHHHHH. lol

[Limey]

......just thinking about your proposed Jennifer Tilly mould.......


....yer definately gonna need a bigger ladle Duke!!!.....


Safe casting

Limey

[Just Duke]

......just thinking about your proposed Jennifer Tilly mould.......


....yer definately gonna need a bigger ladle Duke!!!.....


Safe casting

Limey

How you doing there Limey.

[mikenbarb]

I can make a ladle to match the pot I made for you and will send it with the stand. Hope ya got big arms.LOL.

[ddeaton]

Dinner at the Casino and a wild party tonight and another tomorrow. I guess I got all winter.
I still have the smell of wheel weights melted in my nose. NASTY!

What a great pic the wife took here.




Here are the Bottom Pour Rowell Ladles.





We went withe the Rowell Bottom Pour Ladles for making ingots and poring moulds. These are a cast iron ladle and very affordable. the large one has a flat bottom so it won't tip over when sat down. We went with the #3 and the #5 Rowell ladles which can be purchased at Advanced Car Movers.com.


http://www.advancecarmover.com/detai...02&line=Ladles
No. 2 Rowell Bottom-pouring ladle
2-1/2" bowl diameter
2 pounds lead capacity
10" wooden grip handle
Item #: 03602

$21.00



http://www.advancecarmover.com/detai...owell_ladle_#5
No. 5 Rowell Bottom-pouring ladle
5" bowl diameter
9 pounds lead capacity
24" sliding sleeve handle
Item #: 03605

$36.00

I ordered mine today Duke, thanks for the link

[Omega47]

I never cease to be amazed on how creative people are on these boards. Sure, Duke looks like something out of the new "L.L. Bean for Casters" catalog, but man, everything he does is first rate.

Me, I'm still waiting for the first JT mold production photos

[Just Duke]

One like this?

Can euw send that mould up my way Wills for a 2 week loaner? I'm thinking about casting some "Sheep Belt Buckles" out of zinc and sending them to my friends just due south of me as stated by RRR.

[Just Duke]

I never cease to be amazed on how creative people are on these boards. Sure, Duke looks like something out of the new "L.L. Bean for Casters" catalog, but man, everything he does is first rate.

Me, I'm still waiting for the first JT mold production photos

Why thank you sir.

[Just Duke]

Safety
$60 bucks worth the El Cheapo welding gear.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...t=51265&page=2

[grumman581]

YES! After they were full the ingots broke when I flipped them.
It's a big one. 9 pounds of lead. http://www.advancecarmover.com/detai...owell_ladle_#5

Nawh, you should have gone with this one:

http://www.advancecarmover.com/detai...well_ladle_#10

[grumman581]

Gotta say you always run high end Duke! You could park a truck on that thing. My pouring table is literally a sheet of 3/4 ply between 2 saw horses. It chars up a bit from the heat of the molds and ingots. I suppose if it ever gets too bad, I'll just replace the sheet:

That thing looks scary... You really should consider putting some 2x4s edgewise around the edges with glue and a lot of wood screws for support.

I'm not a big fan of saw horses for anything heavy. I'll stack some cinder blocks for legs instead. Assuming that you want a table top at around 30 inches or so in height, it takes 8 cinder blocks on each side to make end pedestals / legs. If it still bows in the middle with all your weight, add a single stack of 4 blocks in the middle. At Home Depot and Lowes, cinder blocks are usually only around $1.25 each. If you want to get fancy and set yourself something up in the backyard of a more permanent basis, pour a couple of concrete pads with rebar sticking up where the cinder block legs are supposed to be and when you put the blocks over the rebar, fill them with more rebar and concrete.

Anything worth engineering is worth OVER-engineering...

[grumman581]

That's just a Home Depot respirator and a pair of ESS goggles. The stench was really bad. There's a colum of black smoke that comes up when I'm melting WW's down. Most of my WW''s are oily/greasy. The wife says she can smell it 1 block away until I get the clips out.

A couple of years ago, I was working with some rather nasty chemicals in an enclosed area and just blowing a fan would not have been acceptable from a safety standpoint. What I created was a forced fresh air supply. I bought one of the Israeli surplus gas masks, removed the filter, and adapted it to a hose which went around to my back and then went into a garden hose that I used for the primary air supply from well outside the building. The garden hose was attached to a disassembled shop vac exhaust port and the shop vac head was not attached to the body and it did not have the filter on it, so I was getting clean air instead of air that had been collecting the smell of the shop vac stuff. Since it is a forced air supply, you do not have to have the mask all that tight on your head -- unlike what you need if you are using filters. Another advantage is that if you are working in a hot area, you can have the shop vac located in an air conditioned area and it will help you feel quite a bit cooler.