FORKLIFT352
07-24-2011, 02:23 AM
I bought all my stuff for casting a year
ago.
A friend gave me about 50# lead "blob."
It looks like it was from a kettle smelter..?
I cut it up and meltted it down.
Mind you this is my first melt.
So...my book said the grung at the top
would be tin..
It went on to say add flux (wax.)
I used one of them tiny emergency
candels.
It flamed up and I stered it.
Butt loads of what I think was dross.
So I skimed and skimed and fluxed and
fluxed.....I was getting a rainbow effect (color.)
And then a gold/brown color.
The book said it would be a silver color...?
Sooooo....I got a big pile of dross and
my ingets got blue streeks on them.
I still only get a gold/brown gravle on the top.
Should I keep sciming the dross??
I hate when stuff don't roll with the book...LOL
Any help .....
ago.
A friend gave me about 50# lead "blob."
It looks like it was from a kettle smelter..?
I cut it up and meltted it down.
Mind you this is my first melt.
So...my book said the grung at the top
would be tin..
It went on to say add flux (wax.)
I used one of them tiny emergency
candels.
It flamed up and I stered it.
Butt loads of what I think was dross.
So I skimed and skimed and fluxed and
fluxed.....I was getting a rainbow effect (color.)
And then a gold/brown color.
The book said it would be a silver color...?
Sooooo....I got a big pile of dross and
my ingets got blue streeks on them.
I still only get a gold/brown gravle on the top.
Should I keep sciming the dross??
I hate when stuff don't roll with the book...LOL
Any help .....