With the issues I am having with my turkey fryer, and finding out yesterday my propane tank is expired and I will have to get re checked (no idea how much that will cost) before I can have it re filled, I started thinking about alternatives.
I have a lee 20 pound electric led pot I use when I cast. It's 110 volt, works great, reliable, and easy. No flame to blow out, no fuel to run out, just easy and simple.
SO, I got thinking. Right next to the door of my shop/building, I have a 230 volt outlet I use for my 230 mig welder, and 80 gallon 5hp air compressor.
The gears started turning and I got wondering. With as well as the small 110 volt pot works, and with 230 volts on tap, is there, or could you make, some type of electric heating element (or something) that could be used along the same lines as the turkey fryer for melting/processing larger quantities of lead?
Could you use some eyes from a old stove (since they are all 230 volt), or even the elements from the oven part itself? How stiff are those elements? Could they be re bent into different shapes without damaging them? If you found a old cheap stove, could you salvage the elements and knobs out of it for heat control?
Or would this be a bad idea?