fluxing.........

[gutpile]

folks
i heat with a wood pellet stove i end up with a bag or two of left overs they are 100 percent compessed hardwood can i use them for flux? sometimes i get a bag tha got damp and it turns back to hard wood sawdust

gutpile

[TexasGrunt]

You sure can.

Though I'm betting your pellets are some sort of pine or fir.

Hardwood pellets are used in pellet grills and are a bit more expensive than pellets for a stove. I've had a pellet stove and I have a pellet grill.

Best price on hardwood pellets I've found is $10/20 lbs.

Fir pellets were $5/40 lbs.

[gutpile]

Excellent.....I hate to throw out anything.....lol

[Hardcast416taylor]

Locate a used food processor from a thrift store or yard sale. Put a handfull of pellets at a time in and run till you have sawdust again.Robert

[runfiverun]

I'd just use the ashes from the bottom.
all your looking for is the carbon anyway.

[Bookworm]

Wait, I can use ashes for flux ? I burn piles of brush, and end up with wheelbarrow loads of ashes. So far, I've just spread the ashes out in the pasture, using a grain shovel. Just sort of fling it out there...

If I can use wood ash for flux, I'll save some for the next CWW rendering.

[mold maker]

If it's burned to ash, the carbon is gone. It's the carbon that is used to remove O2 and return the lead/tin/antimony oxides to the melt.
It's also true that a covering of ash keeps the temp up and the oxidation down.

[Bookworm]

Ok. I'll just continue flinging the ash out in the psture, and using sawdust for flux.

[Nose Dive]

old damp wood pellets...well...to me....BRING "EM ON! I used to clean a cabinet shop to get the saw dust to flux with. Yep...I swept up....he was happy,,,,I was happy... My smelt pots are THE BAD NEWS BEARS and I need alot to clean things up...I dump in sulfur from the nursery and 'get back Dick!' as the smoke and smell brings out the neighbors!! If you have old wet pellets...USE 'ME UP!

Nose Dive
Cheap, Fast, Good. Kindly pick two.

[mikeyd499]

Make sure those pellets a dry first!