Echo
04-25-2017, 02:41 PM
Got energetic and hit the turkey fryer about 0800 this AM. I had prepared the dutch oven last PM for the first effort - and had a problem.
I bought 60 lbs of ww ingots on eBay, received them yesterday, and split out 35 lbs to make my favorite base metal (35 lbs WW, 5 lbs Mono, + 1% Sn). Flooded ingot molds to make about 40 lbs of alloy (8 molds full), and then made ready to make some WW+2%Sn with the rest of the WW's. Should have been 25 lbs. Wasn't. Was only 15 lbs. Paid for 60 lbs, received 50 lbs. So. Started the process...
Anyway, made the 15lbs WW + 2%Sn this AM, then made some pistol alloy. Fifty/fifty the base/Pb, plus another 1% Sn. Makes about 2+% Sn, ~3-% Sb, and did 23 lbs base/23 lbs Pb, and 7.3 oz Sn. Enough for one morning...
I bought 60 lbs of ww ingots on eBay, received them yesterday, and split out 35 lbs to make my favorite base metal (35 lbs WW, 5 lbs Mono, + 1% Sn). Flooded ingot molds to make about 40 lbs of alloy (8 molds full), and then made ready to make some WW+2%Sn with the rest of the WW's. Should have been 25 lbs. Wasn't. Was only 15 lbs. Paid for 60 lbs, received 50 lbs. So. Started the process...
Anyway, made the 15lbs WW + 2%Sn this AM, then made some pistol alloy. Fifty/fifty the base/Pb, plus another 1% Sn. Makes about 2+% Sn, ~3-% Sb, and did 23 lbs base/23 lbs Pb, and 7.3 oz Sn. Enough for one morning...