I picked up a used bass pro propane burner yesterday for $15, less than 10 mile ride out of my way.
Not the real beast that I wanted, but should be much better than my Coleman gas stove for smelting.
I couldn’t resist and pulled the tank off the grill to try it out.
The Dutch oven had 1-2 inches of lead in it and a bunch of water that I poured off.
Must have been condensation, lid was on and it was in a covered box.
Only took a few minutes to dry out the lead, but then I ran out of propane.
So today I filled up all 4 propane tanks and just couldn’t resist a test, even though it was lightly snowing.
5 minutes of slow heating then 10 minutes of full blast had the pot half melted, I figure 50-60lbs of lead (I added 25lbs of ingots).
The air adjuster is frozen stiff, wouldn’t move even after loosening screw.
And I think it could use adjusting.
Still good enough performance on a cold breezy day.
Now if it will dry out before July so I can harvest some range scrap to really give it a workout.
I only managed one trip last year, it was too wet.
At least I can resmelt, clean and average out the remainder of last years haul, probably 100lbs total of dirty ingots left.
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