Jerry Lester
12-12-2006, 12:26 AM
I've been smelting my weights into usable mini-muffin ingots, and the other evening, I got to looking pretty closely at them. A lot of mine have a number 57 on them, but there are a lot of numbers like 50, 70, 35, and such too. They seem to all be around the same hardness, so I'm doubting the numbers reflect that at all. Maybe it's something that identifies where they were casted? I'm not talking about the number that indicates the actual weight of the wheel weight.
Also, at first I was seperating the painted/coated weights from the plain ones, but they seem like they're basically the same hardness, so now I'm just smelting them all together, and being very carefull not to breath the smoke off of the pot. The stick on's or any "questionable" looking ones, I'm avoiding because I don't know what hardness they are, and don't want to end up with a batch of different hardness ingots.
Also, at first I was seperating the painted/coated weights from the plain ones, but they seem like they're basically the same hardness, so now I'm just smelting them all together, and being very carefull not to breath the smoke off of the pot. The stick on's or any "questionable" looking ones, I'm avoiding because I don't know what hardness they are, and don't want to end up with a batch of different hardness ingots.