Last Sunday Afternoon Smelting Pictures

[lightman]

Finally got some decent weather and fired up the smelting pot. Ended up with a 142# batch of odd soft stuff and 410# of cable sheathing. Still have maybe 400# of cable sheathing left, then I guess I'll start sorting wheel weights. A friend showed up to do some case prep with my Giraud tools and drink a little beer, and got drafted for smelting duty. Forgive him for wearing the Auburn sweat shirt, he don't know any better! :grin::grin:

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this was the driveway score from my favorite phone man. there is about 800# of cable sheathing

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This is a pot full of odd cable sheathing and sheet lead. It produces 142#.

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My friend Roy using my new ROWELL Ladle

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This is the landing zone for the finished product.

[RedHawk357Mag]

Sweet! Going to be me next week. Glad you had some great weather.

[Charlie Two Tracks]

That looks great! That is one nice phone man friend you got there. Better keep him happy!

[sidecarmike]

Wow. At first glance I thought that was a single ingot mold. I was jealous!

[prs]

Kinda looks like you were inside a garage. It musta "smelt" bad in there. ;-)

Yep, keep that cable guy happy.

prs

[jsizemore]

Auburn sweatshirt is probably pretty good for smelting, changeing oil and sloppin' hogs.

[lightman]

Thank for the reply's, everyone. Yeah, The Phone man knows where the beer fridge is located, and that haul scored him a case of Octoberfest, plus the fact that he can stop by anytime! Yes, that was inside my shop, but I have a large exhaust fan in the gable end that will change the air several times a minute. It does a good job, what with the both the overhead door and the walk in door open. I have 6 RCBS/Lyman/Ohaus/Saeko molds that I use plus my buddies Lee mold. About the time I get the last one full I can dump the first one and start over. After about 3 cycles I have to slow down and let them cool, perfect time for a quick beer break!

Somewhere in all that clutter there is a welding machine. I have thought about making a few larger ingot molds, like out of 1-1/2 channel, but the molds that I'm using seem to be ok. The melting pot will hold a little over 400#of molten lead and the homemade burner will melt it pretty quick. I have the material to make a bottom pour pot like Shadowcaster uses, but I'm not sure how many more times that I will have to do this to have that 'Lifetime Supply'.

The next session will be to sort a bunch of wheel weights. I'm kinda dreading that project. I had a pretty good year scrounging last year!. Oh well, the addiction is alive and well! Lets see some more of you Guys pics! Lightman