Cast and fishing weights

[MGnoob]

I know it’s not bullets. It’s the same thing I haven’t cast in like must’ve been seven years now… I figured I’d just use the 5 pound pot rather than fire up my 50 or 100 round pot. It didn’t work because I still had fishing weights stuck in it last year. That’s why I stopped for the day…. also, there’s no good way to preheat the mold and the bullet release agent doesn’t work great when there’s already dish weights stuck in it stuck in it… on the large pot. It has like a 2 inch rim around the whole thing so you can just set your hand molds right on it to warm up then it just starts spitting them out perfectly.


The point of this post is I’ve always used 1 pound ingots in my 5 pound pot because you’re gonna just add them and it doesn’t drop the temperature but if you’re initially heating it up, I’ve never tried it. You can put a whole 5 pound in it in there. I only did it cause I didn’t have any one pounders around I could find and then I gave up and let the pot cool off and I realized I should’ve poured the lead out into my 1 pound molds. I guess when you don’t do things for a while, you forget.

I also skimmed out all the garbage off the top before I put the ingot in and then once it was full, I went to flux it again, but I use the warm ladle, the scoop, the wax the flux it and I poured it in there, but then I didn’t think about how they were still wax left inside of it so I stuffed it in there. I put it below the surface and it gave me a little pop and fired up a little bit amateur mistakes…. I didn’t want to fire big pot too cause it’s such a waste of energy. Usually, I only only cashed the weights after I’m done casting for a few hours of bullets.

Love it the weight mold has lead stuck in both sides. I’m just gonna wait for it to heat up and I’m gonna just dip the whole thing right into the larger pot till it cleans up…. then it’ll be ready to cast I’m just gonna make a pile of them.

Also, I never wear gloves before I picked that thing up twice with my hands on the inside of the mold handles and holy shit it was hot

 

[MGnoob]

I just fired up the big pot and the small pot and I tried to melt out the old lad that I had f***ed up in the other one and I made it even worse than I realized I was dealing with the fire hazard around me so I gave up it’s like three hours and I haven’t produced a single weight…. At this point if I was 175 feet I would just drill a hole in a 1 ounce bar and call it good

I haven’t used my stuff since they shut down Mondo, so I guess I forgot a lot of shit. I knew I had all kinds of dirty little tricks.

I bet if I left it in there a little longer, it would’ve corrected itself and then sprayed a little CLP on it. It would’ve been good.

My next wife’s day off I’m gonna have her throw all our shit out dude anytime I gotta go get anything. It’s under 12 piles of flammable f***ing material like stupid shit. I got to get the furnace fixed, but I don’t even wanna do that because she doesn’t understand that it operates on fire.

 

[mac1911]

I just fired up the big pot and the small pot and I tried to melt out the old lad that I had f***ed up in the other one and I made it even worse than I realized I was dealing with the fire hazard around me so I gave up it’s like three hours and I haven’t produced a single weight…. At this point if I was 175 feet I would just drill a hole in a 1 ounce bar and call it good

I haven’t used my stuff since they shut down Mondo, so I guess I forgot a lot of shit. I knew I had all kinds of dirty little tricks.

I bet if I left it in there a little longer, it would’ve corrected itself and then sprayed a little CLP on it. It would’ve been good.

My next wife’s day off I’m gonna have her throw all our shit out dude anytime I gotta go get anything. It’s under 12 piles of flammable f***ing material like stupid shit. I got to get the furnace fixed, but I don’t even wanna do that because she doesn’t understand that it operates on fire.

Im not sure what your saying , but if your tossing out all your casting stuff I will take it.
Where are you

Now if your struggling to melt fishing weights very possible they are not good lead.

If you have lead weights stuck in a mold or trying to clean up lead covered tools.
The small yellow tank torches from gome depot wirk great and come in handy for many other things the blue tanks cant handle.

 

[240Geezer]

Where to start....
Find a decent place to work without a lot of clutter. Even if it's a table outside.
Yes to the torch. You can apply heat directly to the area that needs to get melted out.
Carefully do that because the Mapp gas can get hot enough to melt aluminum if it is aluminum.
When you're done with the mold set it aside and heat up the pot and drain and clean it.
I need to do that every once in awhile. The lead I reclaimed was glued to plywood and the glue leaves residue that scums up the pot.
Start fresh and it shouldn't be an issue unless there's zinc mixed in which royally sucks. Throw that out.

 

[MGnoob]

Im not sure what your saying , but if your tossing out all your casting stuff I will take it.
Where are you

Now if your struggling to melt fishing weights very possible they are not good lead.

If you have lead weights stuck in a mold or trying to clean up lead covered tools.
The small yellow tank torches from gome depot wirk great and come in handy for many other things the blue tanks cant handle.

The issue is you want soft lead for your fishing ..weights .. i’ve got all my lead set up for rifle bullets. It doesn’t work well as fishing weights. I’ve got 1000 pounds of lead set up for rifle and handgun. I gotta go get some soft stuff if i wanna do fishing weights.


Just updated my iPhone, which is basically the biggest pain in the ass ever

 

[Demoman]

The issue is you want soft lead for your fishing ..weights .. i’ve got all my lead set up for rifle bullets. It doesn’t work well as fishing weights. I’ve got 1000 pounds of lead set up for rifle and handgun. I gotta go get some soft stuff if i wanna do fishing weights.


Just updated my iPhone, which is basically the biggest pain in the ass ever

I have plenty of soft stuff ton or so if you need some we can work something out