Big Day at the Smelter...with pictures.

[Old Ironsights]

I love my angle-iron ingots... at almost exactly 2# each they fit right into my lee pot and are super stackable.

I poured 150# of WW on sunday.

[glicerin]

Re: linotype ingots-long narrow boat-shaped about 24 pounds. They're unwieldy to melt but I've been able to break them into 3X8lb pieces. Put a piece of 2X4 under each end and whack it with a sledge hammer or axe.

[Dale53]

Kendall;
I bought my turkey fryer at Bass Pro. This "fish fryer" (seems identical to mine) is on sale NOW at Bass Pro for just under $30.00. It is 60,000 BTU's. It DOES put out the heat. I am extremely happy with it:

http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/st..._SearchResults

Dale53

[Old Ironsights]

Kendall;
I bought my turkey fryer at Bass Pro. This "fish fryer" (seems identical to mine) is on sale NOW at Bass Pro for just under $30.00. It is 60,000 BTU's. It DOES put out the heat. I am extremely happy with it:

http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/st..._SearchResults

Dale53

Yep. Good bargain there... just dump the aluminium pot that comes with it for somthing made of iron/steel...

More than I paid at the discount house, but these are Bonzer.

http://www.potspansplus.com/catalog/...47b759e0764e6f



$40 (I paid $15 for the same thing... look around)

[inuhbad]

NICE!!! I'm just finishing up making a similar ingot mold to the 2" Angle Iron ingot mold you pictured in the first posting!

Unfortunately I don't have a nice MIG that supplies lots of gas & prevents most 'splatter' issues - so I have to chip/grind off the the splatter & clean up my ingot mold before I can use it - or else the ingots will likely stick to the mold.

My mold tray has 6 'cavities' for ingots, they're 5" long made of 2" angle iron. So, I'm guestimating that'll be about 6x 2.5 pound ingots per pouring...

[Dale53]

inuhbad;

I think you'll really like that new ingot mould.

I just recently picked up my third ingot mould made from 2" angle iron (thanks to a very good friend). When you are smelting, those larger ingot moulds really speed up the process (faster pouring, etc).

If the weather gets nice in a couple of weeks I still have a good deal of "junk" lead to smelt. I am trying to consolidate my lead storage and getting it all into ingots should be a big help in properly organizing my garage.

Dale53

[TAWILDCATT]

just at agri and they have burners for $69 with 180,000 btu.

[Frank46]

guys,really like the gleaming piles of lead and alloys. I'm a packrat and save all the plastic pails the pool chemicals come in. Rinse them out real well and air dry them. get a good magic marker and write both inside and outside what is in each pail. Helps me keep track of what i have and what it is. Right now have about 500lbs roofing lead and about one 5 gal pail full of wheel weights. Still have a few pails stashed away in various locations so's the wife doesn't take then out to the stree and watch them disappear. One night we were cleaning up and about 5 of the buckets made the trip to the street. when we got up and all were gone. Oh Well time to start work on the pool this year. Frank