Todays lead project

[shootinfox2]

285674After several hours.

[gwpercle]

You might need one of them PID's ... yeah that's the ticket !
Gary

[kungfustyle]

puttin the stress test on those saw horse :kidding:

[ulav8r]

Looks like steel sawhorses can handle it, the plywood looks stressed.

[kevin c]

I think your driveway would like to have a little talk with you...

[Conditor22]

I think your driveway would like to have a little talk with you...

They use lead for roofs, why not waterproofing the driveway [smilie=l:

BTW, them's some ginormous molds :)

[lightman]

285674After several hours.

It looks like you had a good day. Tell us a little more about it.

[shootinfox2]

Picked up 1000 pounds from the scrap yard. Mostly pipe.
Wanted to pour into ingots before the rain started. The bigger molds are 4 inch angle by 12 inches.i use that for bulk storage ingots.

It looks worse than it was. Driveway cleaned up with a push broom. I have had multiple sessions in that spot. The burner is NG powered and the connection is at the meter.
The plywood bends a little, but has been in use for a while.285988

[Soundguy]

nice!

[Conditor22]

It's surprising how small a pile of ingots 1,000 pounds makes.

Good stock of pure for a while.

[John Boy]

Couple of years back, took all my muffin tin ingots and Lyman ingots, all marked with Bhn ratios …. And proceeded to remelt them into 6 lb ingots by Bhn … 1800 lbs of Pb
Took several days but sure cleaned up an unsorted mess of the little ingots
My pure Pb’s look nice close to 4 feet stacked up against the basement wall

[Soundguy]

I recently re smelted all my stuff that was in ingots or muffins that are larger than 1.5#. I have half and 1 pound lee/lyman/saeco ingots as well as some nearly 1.5# angle iron ingots, and mini muffins that are near 1#. Using anything larger hits the melt temp in my 10# pot too much.

[00buck]

Be careful you don’t crack your basement floor stacking to much in one spot.

[kevin c]

Which is why my stash is mostly on pavers over a gravel and sand bed in my "basement" (hillside home built out on stilts makes the crawl space high enough to stand in and is mostly above grade).

A ton o' lead'll take up less than three cubic feet, though airspace between stacked ingots means probably twice that. I have that much in bar ingots in a space a little more than six feet long, piled up about a foot high and across.

Soundguy, you might want to try Lakehouse's CastBoolits ingot molds. The rectangular bar ingots are 2-2.5#, and, put in end on in the pot, the part sticking out will self feed as the submerged part melts, and shouldn't lower the melt temp that much if preheated on a hot plate or on the lip of the pot.

[MR CHEN]

When I see piles of shiny lead like that, my eyes get big, :shock: like I'm looking at gold.

[shootinfox2]

That was spread over about 7 square feet. Had a bunch mor286083e stacked there before.

[shootinfox2]

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[Rooster]

It's a lead peep show!

[GregLaROCHE]

Nice set up. Looks like you are in full production mode.

[shootinfox2]

One pot full fills all the molds. Heat, pour, repeat. I only use the large molds when I have enough lead to store in bulk for a while.