Hi new guy here.
Decided to try casting my own bullets. Got a hold of maybe 80lbs of dug out bullets. A single burner King Cooker and a 1.5 qt cast iron pot from good will.
The pot would not fit on the three "legs" very well so, I got a steel plate maybe 9" across made by Camp More. It's got holes drilled in it, supposed to spread the heat over a larger area. I just needed it to span the gap, so the pot would be stable. Filled the pot with scrap bullets and an hour later had maybe 1" of melted lead in the bottom.
I scraped out the bullets that were not melted and tried to clean up the melt. Couple of questions.
1. How long should it take to melt a 1.5 qt pan of scrap bullets? Did I give up to soon?
2. I stirred the pot, added wax, skimmed off the dirt and dross. did it 3 times and still had "dirt" coming up. Looked like fine brown dust almost. How clean is clean?
Thanks for any help.