I embarked on smelting/cleaning up my first small batch of clip on wheel weights. I just used a propane burner and lead pot. Heated up until wheel weights were mostly melted, added sawdust, grated ivory soap and used a dowel with lard as the flux. I scraped the flux on all sides and bottom vigorously for 4-5 times until the lead shimmered on the top. 2 of the wheel weights floated to the top and were discarded (zink, I'm assuming)
Here is a picture of the first ingots. Are they supposed to be this satin type finish or are they supposed to come out a bit more on the shiny side?