I just ordered a pig of lead from rotometals. I will need to turn this into smaller ingots to use for alloying or simply to fit in my 20lb lee.
I have a lee ingot mold that has not been used. It is aluminum. Do I need to smoke it like bullet molds?
I did not see anything regarding ingot molds in lyman #4, maybe I missed it.
After my 1st casting I poured my excess 20:1 in a clean aluminum beer bottle and that worked ok, just had to razor the bottle.once the metal inside was cool. I figured if I'm going to get into this I should get an ingot mold. Lee was the cheapest I could find.