Took my first shot at melting some lead and casting some ingots this weekend.
(Don't have molds yet, and haven't picked out a melting pot yet, but really wanted to get started)
I went to some tire places near where I work, but nobody had any scrap wheelweights. So I just went to a recycling center near where I work and bought some lead. Had an old cast iron skillet in the garage I been meaning to clean up but never did....
Starting the melt -
After the first pour -
Popped out of the mini muffin pan ( i thought it would be cool to have a bunch of small ingots, thinking maybe they'll heat faster or afford me more flexibility on the amount to heat up)
Made some big ones too - ended up with 84 (7 dozen) small jobbies and a bunch of big ones in different thicknesses -
I really liked this one.....smooth both sides
69# of scrap yielded 63# of clean ingots
This was really fun.
Welding gloves and safety glasses the whole time.
Watched a lot of youtube videos before doing it, pretty easy.
Did I mention it was fun?
(Don't have molds yet, and haven't picked out a melting pot yet, but really wanted to get started)
I went to some tire places near where I work, but nobody had any scrap wheelweights. So I just went to a recycling center near where I work and bought some lead. Had an old cast iron skillet in the garage I been meaning to clean up but never did....
Starting the melt -
After the first pour -
Popped out of the mini muffin pan ( i thought it would be cool to have a bunch of small ingots, thinking maybe they'll heat faster or afford me more flexibility on the amount to heat up)
Made some big ones too - ended up with 84 (7 dozen) small jobbies and a bunch of big ones in different thicknesses -
I really liked this one.....smooth both sides
69# of scrap yielded 63# of clean ingots
This was really fun.
Welding gloves and safety glasses the whole time.
Watched a lot of youtube videos before doing it, pretty easy.
Did I mention it was fun?
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