Ok, after doing this for a year I finally found a big cast iron ladle (holds about six pounds of lead, maybe a hair more). I just finished two smelting sessions and this made it so much nicer pouring ingots as my "big" ingots are 4.2lbs, and my smaller one's are 2lb and 1lb ingots. (I had been using a stainless ladle I got from Walmart that would barely hold 2lbs)
Anyway, after using this crusty old ladle and being so much more productive it occurred to me that my crappy slotted spoon is probably holding me back on my clip skimming. What do you use? Where did you get it? How does it work? Would you change something about it?
Regards,
Dave