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    Flaming Bertha the ingot maker.

    I'm bored at work, this may be a benefit of self employment, or a disadvantage depending on how you look at it. Anyways I thought I might post a few picture of my bottom pour ingot maker Flaming Bertha. She holds about 10 gallons of water. which comes out to around 1100lbs of lead if she were to be filled 3 inches from the top. I don't fill her that much do to safety concerns. Construction is 3/8 plate and pipe, with large legs that can be bolted down and a 12 inch propane burner. The plate for bolting to the floor is repeated underneath the container, so she is well supported on the edges with over 1/2 inch of steel. She sure is a hot number.
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    nice job that will make quick work of making ingots

    Is that a well casing pipe?

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    I dont know, it was radiused on one side for welding. It's whatever the scrape yard had.

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    Nice looking melter!

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    wow My kind of pot.And bottom pour to boot.Just a sugestion if you ever fill her up you might want a few people to help.Now on your nest slow boring day you need to make lots of ingot molds lol.Very nice melter for sure

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    that's a cool piece of equipment

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    I haven't found a source of lead that justifies a pot that big, but that is awesome, and I'd love to need one!
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    Wow...nice pot. looks like it could hold about 250-300# at a time. That's definitely for the serious ingot maker. Easy to make a consistent 300# batchs.

    Be safe...nice rig...thanx for sharing.

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    I'd love to borrow that for a week or two.

    I've got a large propane cylinder, full of tap water, that I plan on cutting for a pot.
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    Redhawk,
    Yep, I only put a few 100lbs in at a time to be safe.
    dbmjr1 just drive on over and get it, just how much lead do you have? You could smelt actual tons of lead in a few weeks.

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    I've got 15 5gal buckets brimming to the top with wheel weights to smelt. Only thing is they are a 3hr drive from me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ramson222 View Post
    I've got 15 5gal buckets brimming to the top with wheel weights to smelt. Only thing is they are a 3hr drive from me.

    Hope you’ve got a minimum 3/4 ton to haul that back in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by osteodoc08 View Post
    Hope you’ve got a minimum 3/4 ton to haul that back in.
    Thats for sure! I've hauled weighed loads of weights totaling 2700+ and 2800+ twice in my Super Duty.

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    No problems getting large homogeneous batches from that pot!

    Nice job
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    Nice set up. I just finished a wood burner melting pot set up. Cut the top off a 30lb R-134 tank then cut a hole in the top of a 32gal drum to accept the R-134 tank. Cut an 8x8 inch door and a 3 inch smoke stack and now have what I told the wife is my off grid lead melter for the up coming cool fall days. She just shook her head and said I better get it out of the driveway because the drug helicopters have be flying over the fields.

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    What's she trying to tell you?
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    Nice
    Just needs a few finishing touches like a windscreen and a lid to save money on gas
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    Funny I happened to add the windscreen today. I keep forgetting about the lid when I'm at the scrapyard.

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    Please post up some pictures when you get to use it. Over the years I have developed a pretty efficient smelting operation but seeing others in operation is always interesting.

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    Mine is a Redneck Special 1/2 of a 10 gallon water heater (lengthwise) sits flat on the ground and give me 300-375 # batches.
    Plenty of limbs for fuel, especially this year.
    My 1.5X1.5 angle iron ingot molds average 1 # and due to their shape stack vertically very neatly in my Lee 20 #pot to start a melt
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