BigBlack
07-01-2008, 08:09 AM
My Setup
Big pot with homemade bottom pour valve for smelting over a turkey fryer.
Heated wheel weights (no stick-ons)
Once melted removed clips and one zinc weight found floating on top
Then dropped in a couple candles (small ones) and waited for them to burn off and stirred
Removed crap off top to uncover the beauty
Used cupcake pan to make ingots (was a pain since it was not cast but sheet metal, have since ordered some cast ingot molds from the web).
With my nice ingots I loaded up my lee pro 4 20 and waited for the lead to melt.
While the pot was melting I put my bullet mold (lee 356-102) on top of the pot to pre heat.
Once everything was ready I started casting.
Needless to say I messed up more than I was able to keep.
Attached you will find pictures of my best. The “completed cartridge” is only a dummy round. No primer or powder, I plan on keeping it as a memoir. Now to my questions.
Is it normal to have a tiny bit more crap to skim off in my production pot from my “clean” ingots? I had about a table spoon full.
Those who use the lee bottom pour, what have you found to be the best practice on positioning the bullet mold under the “nozzle”
Thanks any input would be much appreciated.
Paul
:castmine: (now)
7889
Big pot with homemade bottom pour valve for smelting over a turkey fryer.
Heated wheel weights (no stick-ons)
Once melted removed clips and one zinc weight found floating on top
Then dropped in a couple candles (small ones) and waited for them to burn off and stirred
Removed crap off top to uncover the beauty
Used cupcake pan to make ingots (was a pain since it was not cast but sheet metal, have since ordered some cast ingot molds from the web).
With my nice ingots I loaded up my lee pro 4 20 and waited for the lead to melt.
While the pot was melting I put my bullet mold (lee 356-102) on top of the pot to pre heat.
Once everything was ready I started casting.
Needless to say I messed up more than I was able to keep.
Attached you will find pictures of my best. The “completed cartridge” is only a dummy round. No primer or powder, I plan on keeping it as a memoir. Now to my questions.
Is it normal to have a tiny bit more crap to skim off in my production pot from my “clean” ingots? I had about a table spoon full.
Those who use the lee bottom pour, what have you found to be the best practice on positioning the bullet mold under the “nozzle”
Thanks any input would be much appreciated.
Paul
:castmine: (now)
7889