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[PF45]

Hi; I'm pf45 and i'm a castaholic now:

guys,i did my first batch of boolits,bout 400 and they r ok, i just had 2 toos a few back in pot. i dont have $ 2 buy melter 4 now so i'm using my grill side burner, along w/some old ss pot and hardware that my wife gave me.

please,someone tell me HOW DO YOU FLUX,what do u use,how many times,i'm kinda confused bout that.

thanks in advance, great folks,great forum here.

PF45

[WHITETAIL]

PF45, Welcome to the forum!

[WHITETAIL]

After you melt down your lead.
A d skim off all the floating junk.
Then toss in some wax, and then
stir with a LONG spoon or dry paint
stick.
The wax will flame up so be ready.
After the fire goes out you stir more.
And try to scrape the bottom & sides.

[zombiekiller]

every time i add more lead i toss in a chip of paraffin wax about the size of a green pee for a 10lb pot. i use the cheap gulf wax found @ the grocery store around the canning stuff.

[Shiloh]

I have enough scrap lube to use for fluxing. I use a painst stick as mentioned above, Marvelux fluxing powder, and the scrap lube.

SHiloh

[runfiverun]

watch those paint sticks they will spit and sputter to all, well you know.
yo gotta work them easily and a bit at a time.
anything carbon based will work fine for flux just make sure you scrape and stir well then flux whats on top then skim the surface.
i save my scrapings and throw them in my smelting pot to get back what i can.

[walker77]

My head hurts trying to translate what you just said. You darn kids and your texting.

[Bullshop Junior]

My head hurts trying to translate what you just said. You darn kids and your texting.

I did not C anything that was Hard to understand.

[runfiverun]

i do written assessments where i work if one comes in yuped up in text, guess who don't get assessed for a raise?
typing and spelling improves 100%.

[Phat Man Mike]

welcome PF45 !!! I use some old crayon's for my flux!! and I like your lil casting bud!

[qajaq59]

Myself I prefer saw dust, rather then the wax, for the fluxing. But either will work as well.

[montana_charlie]

In the description of fluxing I linked below, there are no numbers being used as words. The punctuation and capitalization follow the normal rules for writing in the English language. Additionally, the words used contain all of the letters they would have if found in a dictionary.
If those elements make the post unintelligible to you, my apologies.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...9&postcount=11

CM

[azrednek]

i do written assessments where i work if one comes in yuped up in text, guess who don't get assessed for a raise?
typing and spelling improves 100%.

When I was serving on a jury there was a young girl that kept notes in text and symbols. I was really impressed with her ability to record just about everything said but she had to literally translate for us old fogies. The girl claimed she could keep up with a clerk-steno trained in shorthand.

[runfiveswife]

welcome to the forum. all of the advice above is great