Kitty litter is not used for fluxing. It is a heat barrier and it keeps the metal from oxidizing and forming a scum that many guys skim off, thereby losing tin. A wooden stick is used for fluxing. I use a piece of cedar house siding about the size of a pencil. One of the guys here said that fluxing can be done with anything that will form carbon. The stick does that. In my Lee 10 lb. pot I use 4 teaspoons full of kitty litter.
I heard cheap litter is bentonite clay. I thought DE was always white. Had a lot of sand in some scrap, also appeared to be a nice cover material.
This ^^. Just use a little pinch of saw dust. You should be casting with good ventilation anyway so what is a minute of a little smoke hurting?
For those that are fluxing the pot and especially using a lot of odd ball stuff for flux I sure hope you have a large fan pulling the fumes away from you. You do realize the it is the fumes coming off a pot can carry molecules of lead?
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