1longshot
02-20-2011, 12:54 PM
No that is not the last fish I finished eating before this post!
Well in my ever constant quest to become a bullet caster I seem to find smelting the cheapest and most frequent of activities I have accomplished thus far. I don't have a furnace yet. I have one mold from NOE that requires gas checks. I have couple of group buys I am waiting on and a whole lot of other equipment that I am planning on getting. I am sure that list will be endless[smilie=6:
For now however I am reserving my time accumulating lead. It has been fun. I added about 126lbs give or take to my stash yesterday. I am feeling very fortunate.
The question I have is: When melting I am using a large cast iron Lodge pot. It will do approx 130lbs in WW alloy in one homo-genius melt. When checking the temperature with my RCBS thermometer the dial reads just below 600 when all is melted. Is this normal?
Well in my ever constant quest to become a bullet caster I seem to find smelting the cheapest and most frequent of activities I have accomplished thus far. I don't have a furnace yet. I have one mold from NOE that requires gas checks. I have couple of group buys I am waiting on and a whole lot of other equipment that I am planning on getting. I am sure that list will be endless[smilie=6:
For now however I am reserving my time accumulating lead. It has been fun. I added about 126lbs give or take to my stash yesterday. I am feeling very fortunate.
The question I have is: When melting I am using a large cast iron Lodge pot. It will do approx 130lbs in WW alloy in one homo-genius melt. When checking the temperature with my RCBS thermometer the dial reads just below 600 when all is melted. Is this normal?