Ingot moulds??

The 2nd hand stores have many *mini* muffin pans that are suitable. Even better if they are teflon coated.The mini muffin pans make lead ingots that are the easiest to melt & handle.
I think part of your issue is that you have not waited sufficient enough time for the aluminum trays to cool. Buy six or seven mini muffin trays. Pour them in sequence. When the last one has cooled, tip it over & start again. Don’t be in a hurry……
 
Yup, me as well, once the clouded appearance appears on muffin fills, I dump on the concrete floor. Never had one stick yet. My tins are cheap dollar store tins and have been using them for 8 yrs now. Maybe something has changed in the coatings the put on them now.
blacksmithden said:
That `MIGHT`be part of the problem. I can`t say that I`ve ever waited that long to dump my ingots out of my muffin trays. As soon as the ingots aren`t liquid anymore, out them come. That being said, I have had ingots stick in there before. I just left them and worked around them. After a few heating and cooling cycles from more ingots being made, they`ve always come out. I`ve never had to peel the tray away from them.
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hatman1793 said:
The 2nd hand stores have many *mini* muffin pans that are suitable. Even better if they are teflon coated.The mini muffin pans make lead ingots that are the easiest to melt & handle.
I think part of your issue is that you have not waited sufficient enough time for the aluminum trays to cool. Buy six or seven mini muffin trays. Pour them in sequence. When the last one has cooled, tip it over & start again. Don’t be in a hurry……
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Hatman beat me to it although I think he stole the idea from me.;) Mini-muffin trays are the way to go. The ingots only weigh around 1/2 pound or less so they melt very quickly in the casting pot so less time waiting for your alloy to come back up to optimum temperature. I use both teflon coated and one piece aluminum trays and can honestly say I have never had a single ingot stick in any of the pans.
 
Bassmaster said:
Yeah, good to see this thread resurrected and people still at it making boolits.....what frickin' choice do we have?? My biggest shortcoming is primers now:mad:
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yup i hear you. i got a bunch as i was buying up 1K here and there but now i need shotgun primers as i am going to reload for cowboy.... and caps are hard to find too, didn't buy many of them.
 
I use a cast iron cornbread pan.
A bit heavy when full but doable.

Drops great and ingots stack perfectly in a small bucket :)

Mine looks exactly like this one:
 
bertn said:
I use a cast iron cornbread pan.
A bit heavy when full but doable.

Drops great and ingots stack perfectly in a small bucket :)

Mine looks exactly like this one:
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that is cool but will the wide end fit in the lee furnace? my muffin casts will drop entirely into the melt.
 
bertn said:
I use a cast iron cornbread pan.
A bit heavy when full but doable.

Drops great and ingots stack perfectly in a small bucket :)

Mine looks exactly like this one:
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You'te not one of the cool kids till you have teddy bear ingots

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Don't use a nice cast iron pan for lead, someone later may try to cook from it and get lead poisoning. Trace lead stays on cast iron forever, and CI cooking tools have a cult like following. The lee ingot molds are dirt cheap and work better than anything else out there.
 
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2" angle iron around a foot long, 6 cavity welded up from scrap. Makes 5-6 lb ingots that stack nicely, depending on how full the pour. Nice and rusty, releases well. Need another....
 
I use what my late wife called a good brand of heavier aluminum muffin tray ( which I got a habitat for Humanity for a dollar); set on a old dampened towel. Fill it with a soup ladle of equally dubious origin, and they set about as fast as I can fill it. Then I flip the tray with the ladle and start again. They set so fast that I dont even bother useing more than one, even though I have more.
 
bertn said:
I use a cast iron cornbread pan.
A bit heavy when full but doable.

Drops great and ingots stack perfectly in a small bucket :)

Mine looks exactly like this one:
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That's the ticket for easy dumping out Ingots!.. I've looked for several years for a cast Iron muffin maker - not found one yet..I've given up on the Aluminum muffin pans also..I have one Lyman Ingot mold , makes four 1 lb bars , but after several pours it becomes so hot the wait time for the Alloy to solidify is longer and longer..So we all need several Ingot molds..Keep checking Thrift stores from time to time for a suitable Cast Iron pan of the correct size..
 
I recall that business about the ingot mold getting hot - I think mine was RCBS brand - my recollection was a good sized cookie sheet on table - then a towel folded up - soaked with water - to set that mold on - as if the water sucked out the heat from that mold, without catching that towel on fire. But need to pay attention - normally water plus molten lead invites visits from "tinsel fairy", so do not "slop" molten lead onto that water!!!
 
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