Do you guys use water to cool ingot molds when smelting? I find that setting them in about 1/8” water on a surface will cool them safely (I think) and greatly streamlines the process but I’m concerned my fancy new noe aluminum molds will crack from this. I have two molds that each drop two, 2lb ingots per cast.
Just wondering how people smelt. If I had about 10 more of these molds I could just air cool them but that would be expensive!
My previous mold was a mini loaf pan but it was too flimsy to be safe and ingots were too big. These noe molds arent cheap but they are pretty nice solid cnc aluminum rigs. I know they are worth what they charge because I have a cnc mill! I just don’t want to break them. They work great as a system, I can barely keep between the two molds.