I’ve been reloading since I was a teenager. Grandad was the caster and resident mad wildcatter. Sadly I never got in to casting,fast forward 25yrs and now it’s me teaching my daughters reloading and want to add casting to our repertoire. Besides that,it seems I inherited the mad wildcatting gene from poppop lol I have several hundred pounds of various alloys that I saved from pops loading shack before the sale back in 1998 as well as more babbit of various grades and types that I’d even venture to guess the weight of that I’ve saved out of engines and machines I’ve serviced,rebabbited or scrapped over the years.
I have a couple of his molds but nothing else so I’ll be buying some molds for calibers we shoot and load for. As far as smelting for molding and melting for casting,can one melt our alloys in a gas forge? I’ve shod horses as a sideline for 20yrs and my propane forge can be ran hot enough to forge weld steel or ran at a low enough pressure to work aluminum hot but not turn in to a puddle on the liner.
Thanks in advance for any tips,hints and advice.