mjwcaster, Yeah, MORE HEAT! When youre smelting range scrap Heat is your friend! I was using a fish fryer (propane) from Walmart with a cast iron dutch oven on top, worked good, didn't cost much. Now it only gets used to mx up the alloys I cast with. I appreciate where you're at, I was there too! Lead wheelweights were outlawed here (NY) too, I have 2 scrapyards locally where I can buy relatively clean soft lead. I still have about 200 pounds of linotype and a 50 pound spool of 50-50 solder to alloy the lead with. At 3 parts lead to 1 part lino I'll have enough for awhile. At least until the liberals outlaw the possesion of lead! LOL!