Muffin Tin Ingots

Yah the coating above a certain temp will cook or burn off, I wish I could find lead good enough to cast some rounds here.
I got a handful of weights that's all, the shops here actually really use them
 
What about a water bath, cools the outside quicker.
I remember back in the 70's Uncles used to fish allot and would make weights just by pouring directly into water lol.
 
Don't go breathing the chemical gas-off if you're using newer pans with non-stick coatings. Most are carcinogens. Actually throwing them into the woodstove to burn off all that crap couldn't hurt. Just like bullet moulds, most muffin pans will drop ingots much easier after smoking them in the same manner as you would with your mould blocks.
 
tigrr said:
After the burn off spray it with liquid graphite from Canadian tire and the ingots will fall out easily. All my bullet molds are coated with liquid graphite for easy bullet removal.
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THIS EXACTLY! I've been using the graphite spray for a couple of years now. The ingots pretty much jump out of the pans! A light dusting is good for many rounds of casting.
 
Dragonsfire said:
What about a water bath, cools the outside quicker.
I remember back in the 70's Uncles used to fish allot and would make weights just by pouring directly into water lol.
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A fan works well. A couple minutes at most and you can drop the ingots, just flip the pan over. They don't stick as much if you drop them hot.
 
I set the tin in a tray with 2" of water, pour ingots, remove previous ingots from water, flip tray, pour ingots, and repeat.
The upsides to this are:
The teflon dosent burn off and the ingots basically jump out of the mold
I only have to wait 20 seconds for them to harden, yes I am impatient

The downsides:

The muffin tin floats until 2 ingots are poured
The water is boiling after 2 muffin tins and needs to be changed
Soaked leather gloves will steam fry your fingers when you grab anything hot, and pretty much everything is hot. I dip my hands in cold water every pour to combat this

The odd ingot makes a cute rumble noise when put in the lee 20lb pot, not really an issue with proper precautions

Fast and only requires 1 tray
 
They were cold - the bubbly surface is cosmetic and will go away with subsequent pours. Buy good steel coated muffin tins of various sizes (small, medium , large and Loaf") at Canadian Tire or the like - avoid aluminum - too weak, especially when hot.

I didn't realize there was such a science behind pouring ingots. Now I know after I've made two tons worth.
 
2strokeforever said:
I set the tin in a tray with 2" of water, pour ingots, remove previous ingots from water, flip tray, pour ingots, and repeat.
The upsides to this are:
The teflon dosent burn off and the ingots basically jump out of the mold
I only have to wait 20 seconds for them to harden, yes I am impatient

The downsides:

The muffin tin floats until 2 ingots are poured
The water is boiling after 2 muffin tins and needs to be changed
Soaked leather gloves will steam fry your fingers when you grab anything hot, and pretty much everything is hot. I dip my hands in cold water every pour to combat this

The odd ingot makes a cute rumble noise when put in the lee 20lb pot, not really an issue with proper precautions

Fast and only requires 1 tray
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Water and molten lead is an extremely dangerous combination! Getting sprayed by molten lead is no fun. If you're impatient, run multiple ingot moulds or muffin pans so that no one pan gets overheated. Steel is much better than aluminium.
 
Mobular said:
I've been using the graphite spray for a couple of years now.
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What kind dry or wet? What brand? From where? I need to treat my mold with something.
Been doing a lot of beating on the handle hinge to get the boolits to drop out of the mold recently.

M
 
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gnmontey said:
What kind dry or wet? What brand? From where? I need to treat my mold with something.
Been doing a lot of beating on the handle hinge to get the boolits to drop out of the mold recently.

M
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Cast Boolits has a thread describing a process dealing with molds that don't drop nicely. I think it was called Leementing a mold. I didn't have much confidence when I tried it but it made a big difference to my Lee six cavity.
 
skookumchuck said:
Cast Boolits has a thread describing a process dealing with molds that don't drop nicely. I think it was called Leementing a mold. I didn't have much confidence when I tried it but it made a big difference to my Lee six cavity.
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Hmmm, maybe I just need to re-smoke my mold? I'll try that first.

M
 
Today I tried a non coated mini-muffin tin my wife donated to my hobby.

That was a disaster! The alloy welded it self to the tin so bad I had to cut the cups out with tin snips and re-melt them cup and all.

Won't be doing that again:redface: Coated all the way now.

M
 
Listen to me...rust is the best releasing agent.

Also have heard of people using silicone molds.

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I melted my lead wire find into ingots today and got something I have never seen?

Blue splotches in the ingots. One batch was all blue so I re-melted it.

What's that about?

M
 
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