Remmy4477
07-29-2018, 08:31 AM
Lent out an older rcbs pro to a friend of mine.
Late 60's gentleman, retired, bored, yada, yada, yada!
Being the cheap *** he is, he got a bucket of scrap alloy from who knows where?
The majority of the bucket cantained Zinc ww's, silver solder, soft unknown alloy and very little real lead.
Well he smelted this concoction (used his torch to pre-heat the mixture while the pot was heating up) and started pouring, no fluxing, just straight into the pot and pour, the spout plugged up on him several times, his fix, heat the spout up with a hand torch to get it to flow. The top of the melt was fluffy, blue hue to it, clips, dirt and unidentifiable junk! The smelt did not look much better!
He did manage to cast several rb's for some of his cap and ball revolvers with this junk! And yes he plans on shooting his zinc boolits in them!
Of course I find this all out after the fact and the day I went to bring the pot back home. It was chocked full of his junk melt.
Told him he needed to empty it out completely and I would be back to get it in a day or so. I just really wanted to strangle him right there and then, I really thought he knew what he was doing, his talk was good but his methods???
Not a happy camper at this moment!
So with that what do I need to do to make this pot useable for clean lead again?
I'm worried that the spout is toast due to the applied heat, have no idea as to how long he heated it up with his tourch? Not sure how clean he will get the pot?
Ideas?? Kind of a spare pot but would like it to do its job when called upon.
Valuable lessen learned, Old people need adult supervision and there very own smelting pot!!
Late 60's gentleman, retired, bored, yada, yada, yada!
Being the cheap *** he is, he got a bucket of scrap alloy from who knows where?
The majority of the bucket cantained Zinc ww's, silver solder, soft unknown alloy and very little real lead.
Well he smelted this concoction (used his torch to pre-heat the mixture while the pot was heating up) and started pouring, no fluxing, just straight into the pot and pour, the spout plugged up on him several times, his fix, heat the spout up with a hand torch to get it to flow. The top of the melt was fluffy, blue hue to it, clips, dirt and unidentifiable junk! The smelt did not look much better!
He did manage to cast several rb's for some of his cap and ball revolvers with this junk! And yes he plans on shooting his zinc boolits in them!
Of course I find this all out after the fact and the day I went to bring the pot back home. It was chocked full of his junk melt.
Told him he needed to empty it out completely and I would be back to get it in a day or so. I just really wanted to strangle him right there and then, I really thought he knew what he was doing, his talk was good but his methods???
Not a happy camper at this moment!
So with that what do I need to do to make this pot useable for clean lead again?
I'm worried that the spout is toast due to the applied heat, have no idea as to how long he heated it up with his tourch? Not sure how clean he will get the pot?
Ideas?? Kind of a spare pot but would like it to do its job when called upon.
Valuable lessen learned, Old people need adult supervision and there very own smelting pot!!