motorcycle_dan
06-05-2006, 07:35 AM
Had a good match on Saturday, Shot well but so did everyone else. Big match this coming weekend. Need to put in some serious practice time if I'm wanting to do well.
Sunday decided it was time to brew up some wheel weights and make a fine batch of bullet soup. Local tire shop is very handy with letting me clean out their buckets. Mostly cause they are busy eating pizza that I brought. That is my plan distract them the swipe the lead. Works so far, manager asked for something other than peperoni next time....
For those of you who wonder where I found all the ingot making material. Most of the hard parts can be had new from harbor freight. And Cheap. The two burner gas stove, the modified dutch oven and the skillet are all harbor freight items.
So with a late start after a great breakfast, I stacked up just slightly more than 220 pounds of clean ingots.
One spill from me trying to improve the process. I learn, slow but I learn. Thought it would be better to pick up the pot with both hands rather than one used to steady it on the vise grips. Weight of the grips allowed the pot to tip to that side, molten lead shifted to that side, and over it goes. Rather than graping for the vise grips which were being covered in lead, I just sit the rig down as quick as I could. Spill about 10# what a mess. I wrote it off as important lesson learned then gathered it all up and remelted it.
Pictures here in folder "2006-06-05 Bullet Soup"
http://photos.yahoo.com/motorcycle_dan
Sunday decided it was time to brew up some wheel weights and make a fine batch of bullet soup. Local tire shop is very handy with letting me clean out their buckets. Mostly cause they are busy eating pizza that I brought. That is my plan distract them the swipe the lead. Works so far, manager asked for something other than peperoni next time....
For those of you who wonder where I found all the ingot making material. Most of the hard parts can be had new from harbor freight. And Cheap. The two burner gas stove, the modified dutch oven and the skillet are all harbor freight items.
So with a late start after a great breakfast, I stacked up just slightly more than 220 pounds of clean ingots.
One spill from me trying to improve the process. I learn, slow but I learn. Thought it would be better to pick up the pot with both hands rather than one used to steady it on the vise grips. Weight of the grips allowed the pot to tip to that side, molten lead shifted to that side, and over it goes. Rather than graping for the vise grips which were being covered in lead, I just sit the rig down as quick as I could. Spill about 10# what a mess. I wrote it off as important lesson learned then gathered it all up and remelted it.
Pictures here in folder "2006-06-05 Bullet Soup"
http://photos.yahoo.com/motorcycle_dan