Today i was smelting some lead i got from my dentist. Besides the foil he gave me a lead smock the X-Ray tech wears when taking X-Rays.
If you get a lab techs smock. DO NOT TRY TO MELT IT. I found out the hardway that it is rubber backed rather than material backed. I had the smelting pot half full of lead befor i put the smock into the pot. Shortly there after it started smoking pretty bad. Half hour later still smoking.
I thought to myself that whatever the stuff was that was causing the smoke mite burn off with fire. I walked away from the pot about 10 feet with my sloted spoon. I lit 2 kitchen matches an put them on the spoonwent to the pot, an tipped the matches into it. Fortunatly it wasn't a big explosion just like wax when it ignites. That was 20 minutes ago. Still waiting for the flames to clear so i can see if i have to dunp the hole pot or not.
After i lit the pot i did turn the gas off to the propain burner.
Im going back out to see how much damage ive done. Ill report later