Cupcake molds disaster

[imashooter2]

If what you want is to store your lead in the most compact area possible, long angle iron molds are the ticket. They stack with very little air space.

I want to cast continuously preheating ingots on the rim of the pot and adding them as space permits without impacting melt temperature much. The Lyman bricks are perfect for that. Angle iron about the same length would be good too.

I will agree that you need to have a few of the smaller molds available to keep moving if you are smelting in 100+ pound pots. Of course, bigger molds take longer to cool, so I guess you need a few of them too.

[Mal Paso]

I chose a 7 inch length so the ingots are mostly inside the casting pot when you add them.

Here is the ingot casting setup.

[imashooter2]

I guess that’s why ice cream comes in chocolate and vanilla.

[guzma393]

Good read on why not to use cupcake pans. Told a buddy about this mishap. The angle iron mold concept is something new to me. I currently use a cornbread cast iron mold which seems to do a great job in making thin ingots that readily drop into a meltpot. Time to hit up the scrap pile with a grinder and a welder

[Chaparral66]

I started with one piece stamped mini muffin tins. They worked well and made small "ingots" that fit perfectly into my old melting pot. I have a pair of the Lyman molds and now that I'm smelting in bulk and pouring with a large ladle rather than out of a frying pan my ingots are uniform in size and stack nicely.

[alamogunr]

The ingots I pour in the Lodge muffin pans weigh about 1# each. That would be an average since it is hard to maintain a consistent weight when pouring from a #5 ladle. They store well in some boxes I cut down from wood crates I rescued from the trash before I retired. Each box holds 100# + or - 2#. These same boxes, when filled with Lyman, SAECO or RCBS ingots weigh about 200#. More than I care to try to lift. I might lift it but I might end up with back problems too. They stack fairly well too.

[6mm win lee]

I bought a couple of these for when I return from overseas but it looks like I may just have to use them for blueberry muffins. Lead. Blueberries. Win-win either way.

https://www.lodgecastiron.com/produc...n-pan?sku=L5P3

[rintinglen]

I guess that’s why ice cream comes in chocolate and vanilla.

Don't try to use Ice cream containers for your ingots, they're too big to fit in the pot.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

I need to make a plywood box with a handle to tote ingots in from the garage. One that can hold about 30 1# ingots. A 30 cal ammo box would probably work too. I use the Lymann ingot molds, they make it easy to batch up an alloy.

[imashooter2]

I need to make a plywood box with a handle to tote ingots in from the garage. One that can hold about 30 1# ingots. A 30 cal ammo box would probably work too. I use the Lymann ingot molds, they make it easy to batch up an alloy.

A three or five gallon bucket would do that easily and these days probably cost less than the plywood.

[somedude]

I have used the cupcake mold method for a while they have worked well but don't stack as well as the lee ingot mold I recently aquired