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You might need one of them PID's ... yeah that's the ticket !
Gary
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puttin the stress test on those saw horse
Looks like steel sawhorses can handle it, the plywood looks stressed.
Spell check doesn't work in Chrome, so if something is spelled wrong, it's just a typo that I missed.
I think your driveway would like to have a little talk with you...
They use lead for roofs, why not waterproofing the drivewayOriginally Posted by kevin c
BTW, them's some ginormous molds
Last edited by Conditor22; 07-07-2021 at 12:50 PM.
It looks like you had a good day. Tell us a little more about it.
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.
nice!
It's surprising how small a pile of ingots 1,000 pounds makes.
Good stock of pure for a while.
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
Regards
John
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.
Be careful you don’t crack your basement floor stacking to much in one spot.
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.
When I see piles of shiny lead like that, my eyes get big,like I'm looking at gold.
That was spread over about 7 square feet. Had a bunch more stacked there before.
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It's a lead peep show!
Looking for USGI M1 and carbine rifle parts, please PM me.
Nice set up. Looks like you are in full production mode.
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.
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