Spent a good part of today using my new turkey fryer and dutch oven for the first time. Boy, what a major improvement over my old method of melting down wheelweights! Melted down all the wheelweights I had and ended up with about 260 pounds of ingots. Now time to turn them into something more usable!
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................Be carefull. Your wife sees you out the working like a Trojan, all sweaty and humping around those lead ingots around and she'll expect that kind of effort in future honey-do's. They're a wiley bunch they are.
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TedH,
It's nice to be able to process them like that, isn't it? While I like the convenience of some of the smaller setups, I sure like having the processed (cleaned) WW ingots ready to go when it comes time to cast.
Looks like you got a nice pile there. What do your ingots weigh out at and what sort of mold did you use?
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Dave
Originally Posted by DaveInFloweryBranchGA
Dave,
It is an RCBS ingot mold. They weigh right at 1#, some a hair more depending on how consistant I am with the pouring.
Yeah Buckshot, this kind of activity usually goes on when she's not home. If she knew how much time I actually spent on my "piddling around", she would expect a lot more for her projects.
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