whisler
11-11-2012, 05:59 PM
Friday, I decided to clean up some odds and ends of lead that I had, part bucket of wheel weights, some lead pipe and roofing lead, some purchased scrap lead,etc.
Everything went fine except for the wheel weights. I thought that this bucket had been separated so I just dumped the bucket in the plumbers furnace and fired it up. When I checked it again part way through the melt I saw that the melted part had gone way high in temperature & I noticed some stick-ons and a steel weight that wouldn't have been there if they were sorted. I thought " boy I hope there are no zincers in there but what is the chance of that". Poured the ingots and they all looked galvanized. Nuts!!!
Today I thought I would check the ingots by melting a small batch at 600 deg. and see if I see oatmeal.The strange part is that the ingots melted at 500 deg. (by my Lyman thermometer) with no oatmeal at all. The thing I find most strange is the melt point of the ingots. Isn't 500 deg. low for wheel weights?
Any ideas?
Everything went fine except for the wheel weights. I thought that this bucket had been separated so I just dumped the bucket in the plumbers furnace and fired it up. When I checked it again part way through the melt I saw that the melted part had gone way high in temperature & I noticed some stick-ons and a steel weight that wouldn't have been there if they were sorted. I thought " boy I hope there are no zincers in there but what is the chance of that". Poured the ingots and they all looked galvanized. Nuts!!!
Today I thought I would check the ingots by melting a small batch at 600 deg. and see if I see oatmeal.The strange part is that the ingots melted at 500 deg. (by my Lyman thermometer) with no oatmeal at all. The thing I find most strange is the melt point of the ingots. Isn't 500 deg. low for wheel weights?
Any ideas?