I finally got around to remelting for consistent range lead. Here's the back story....I started many years ago getting buckets of indoor range lead from my local gun club. I was a newbee....I melted in a 10 lb pot over 300 lbs of range lead...yes...it took a very long time.
Those ingots are sitting in the barn for 20+ years and I never trusted the consistency of my ingots from one to the next just because it was melted in such small batches.
Since I finished my smelting pot (made from a 20lb propane tank)...I decided it was time to make some consistency from all those ingots.
So...here is how I did it with the remaining 195 lbs of Range Lead. My pot holds about 100+lbs so I split my ingots in half. Smelted half at a time...then poured new ingots....labeled so I could keep batch 1 separate from batch 2.....then split each batch 1 & 2 in half and smelted together again.
I now have one large batch of consistent range lead. Quite happy.
I used a front rotor from my Silverado as a lid to hold in heat. The ingots displayed are only half the batch.
redhawk