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Show us your Smelting Setup. Vote for the best submission who will get a Cast Boolit Bumber Sticker.
Good Luck!
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
- Albert Camus -
Nice setup...I like your ingot mold setup!
Wow them some serious pots there I’ve never had a pot but 1/2 full, leaves Room for fluxing.
wow GRMPS.. will you adopt me?
Any technology not understood, can seem like Magic!!!
I will love the Lord with all my heart, all my soul, and all my mind.
So.... Where ya'll finding the completely clean, apparently brand new GIANT cowws???? I want in on that....
"Do not follow where the path might lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" Ralph Waldo Emerson
The small squares are 5 pounders, the bricks are the 10 pound ingots. I needed a bigger mold so I could empty the pot faster, and the 10 pound ingots still fit in the 40 pound pot on the Master Caster. I'm now making a pot out of a propane tank. And let me tell you the price of steel angle iron has increased astronomically. But, this setup has given me about 4,000 pounds of alloy, so no complaints.
Last edited by MOA; 05-22-2021 at 09:13 PM.
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MOA I to have melted about 4,000lbs of lead but not all with the setup I have now.You have allready done what i am going to do if I ever get alot more lead to clean up.That is get the ingots off the ground.In the 10 oe so years i been collecting lead i am not getting any younger and every little this helps. Yes steel prices ar hi right now I am a tool and die maker in a stamping plant.the steel has gone way up and alot of things they use are getting harder to get.
I had converted a Weber grill that neighbors down the street had put out for collection. Walked that suckered almost a 1/4 to my place. Works for me and when I had neighbors the lid really hid what I was doing and cut way down on the smoke.
Put a turkey fryer in it and cit the bottom of the charcoal pan to fit the cut off propane tank. Can handle 150lbs with no problems. Used a welding blanket as a wind screen.
Ron
That's a nice burner an stand setup Backcut.
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I only have a propane tank and burner......boy do I feel under equipped.....all my WW sources seem to be all Zinc now I have about 100# of pure lead sheet( x-ray room re-model) and 100# of COWW.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |