Very nice, thank you for sharing!I process to ingots in my campfire area, on a wood stove I built just for it. Flux out there with pine needles and saw dust.
Store and use the ingots in the garage.
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Now that wheel weights are pretty much dried up in my area, I just buy scrap lead from RMR.
I buy it online from them. There is a link right on their main menu at the top of the screen for "LEAD".Having a few buckets of wheel weights to smelt down is a good problem to have these days. When I first started casting it was easy to get. Now it gets sparse some days.
Do you buy online from them? Or do you have to go to a physical location? I went to their website and didn't see an option to purchase from there.
Thank you!I buy it online from them. There is a link right on their main menu at the top of the screen for "LEAD".
Definitely cleaner than wheel weights!I've bought lead from RMR before as well--it's good stuff. It's definitely much cleaner to melt into ingots than wheel weights, that's for sure.
I do the same thing, the oil serves as a Flux so helps keep the lead clean. I'm currently out but I'm working my way through dad's supply.Definitely cleaner than wheel weights!
I don't do ingots anymore. I just refill the melting pot as I go with the RMR lead straight from the USPS box it shipped in. It makes a little smoke, but not much to be annoying. The 60lb boxes stack easily on my garage floor.
I pretty much have to melt my scrap and wheelweights down in another pot. But its a real joy to cast with new clean lead. The cleanest thing that I have found other than "new" lead are Isotope containers. Other stuff is just too nasty for me to melt it in my casting pot.Definitely cleaner than wheel weights!
I don't do ingots anymore. I just refill the melting pot as I go with the RMR lead straight from the USPS box it shipped in. It makes a little smoke, but not much to be annoying. The 60lb boxes stack easily on my garage floor.