Did some ingots

[perimedik]

Over the weekend and today
Tried the muffin tin route ($1 each steel trays)
in addition to my only Lee mold. Fluxed with a paint stick and candle wax.

I also "upgraded" to a 6 Qt stainless pot from a yard sale.
Went through a pail of clip on wheel weights and yeilded
121.5 pounds of ingots

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I am waiting on the midway order of molds, Lee size and Lube die, gaschecks, and my Lee hardness check kit. Thinking of mounting it on the $2 yardsale microscope.

[Swede44mag]

I have a Dual Fuel Coleman I wonder how it would work for melting lead. I have a plumbers pot it is THICK and takes a lot of heat to get it up to melting temp. I may have to get me one of those stainless steel pots.

[perimedik]

I have a Dual Fuel Coleman I wonder how it would work for melting lead. I have a plumbers pot it is THICK and takes a lot of heat to get it up to melting temp. I may have to get me one of those stainless steel pots.

I was using a cast iron skillet it seemed to take forever to get to temp. The stainless much shorter time.

[mongo]

I use an old pressure cooker pot that looks to hold about 4 gallons and a old coleman stove that uses liquid coleman fuel. Works great.Melting range scrap, there is a lot of jackets and such so I fill the pot up and end up with around a quarter pot of lead. Made over 100 lbs last week. Perimedik, Nice pictures, how has your casting coming along?

[bumpo628]

You have a steel WW in the front left of the first pic. You can tell by the rivets.

I hand sort them before smelting now. When I started out, I just dumped everything in the pot and skimmed. The problem is that the zinc ones find a way to melt sometimes.

[tryNto]

I have a Dual Fuel Coleman I wonder how it would work for melting lead. I have a plumbers pot it is THICK and takes a lot of heat to get it up to melting temp. I may have to get me one of those stainless steel pots.

I used the Duel-Fuel Stove for about 3 months till I got my Propane Burner from Storage.
The Duel-Fuel Stove worked great, Pleanty of heat.


To the OP. Good lookin setup and results.

[perimedik]

I use an old pressure cooker pot that looks to hold about 4 gallons and a old coleman stove that uses liquid coleman fuel. Works great.Melting range scrap, there is a lot of jackets and such so I fill the pot up and end up with around a quarter pot of lead. Made over 100 lbs last week. Perimedik, Nice pictures, how has your casting coming along?

Hey Mongo. waiting on an order from Midway.
Lee Hardness Tester
Bullet Mold, Size and Lube die, Gas Checks,

Once in I will be in the back yard with the Lee Production Pot and will start with maybe a 5lb pot. Add some 50/50 to the mix of WW. Cast and quench some. Test the hardness on them. look for composition etc.

It is a fun process, however I want to do it right and take the baby steps as I learn moving along. Shop bench is done too. So I want to be in full swing by the end of July.
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[perimedik]

Bumpo- I saw that too. It was a stray. I spent a decent amount of time hand sorting them,

[Dennis Eugene]

Nice job on the smelt. Boy I wish my loading bench looked as good as yours. Great job. Dennis

[dieguy59]

My guess is it won't look near so neat about the 2nd week of August. Haha. If you see a spotless assembly line someone isn't working hard enough.

[WHITETAIL]

Nice set up.
Wish you lots of luck with your new adventure.:awesome:

[mold maker]

I once (many, many, moons ago) had a nice clean empty bench. Over a month ago I BROKE it. It wasn't built, 47 years ago, to support the demands of swaging. Ha Ha It was originally made from scrap skids and plywood. When the legs folded under the added preasure, you wouldn't belive, the mess it dumped on the whole basement floor. How in the world did I get that much stuff piled on such a small space?????
The new bench has 3.5"sq X 1/4" tubing legs (scrap again) and about 85 lbs of L iron. I don't intend to ever have to pick up, and separate, that much STUFF again.

[Dennis Eugene]

lol funny story, sorry about that but it still struck me as funny and I did indeed chuckle