We scored one. Never got to the other two. There is a guy down the road who has a rotting sailboat. Have to go knock on his door.
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New to casting, purchasing lead ingots for 9mm
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Half of a 20 lb propane bottle is about perfect size. I got the bottle free at the local propane place, they will give me as many expired bottles as I wanted.
Remove the valve, fill it with water and drain it, cut along the seam with an angle grinder. Still have to cut a 60 lb ingot in half but that's a lot better than 12 cuts.
Remove the valve, fill it with water and drain it, cut along the seam with an angle grinder. Still have to cut a 60 lb ingot in half but that's a lot better than 12 cuts.
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I tried a couple of those turkey pot cookers and both were slower than the second coming until I moved the burner up closer to the pot base (reduced the space by at least 1/2), They are made so that they don't burn thru an aluminum cooking pot but no fear of that with heavy cast iron pot. Moving the burner closer reduced melt time easily in half.
I picked one up at my local PA today. Was the only one on the self. Ya, you could cook a pretty big chunk of lead in that puppy.
Still haven't found a burner I want to invest in yet. Home Depot lists a 65000 BTU/h unit for $60. Maybe?
What do you use to ladle lead out of the pot with?
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Sorry, the burner
That's better.... phew. I was thinking NOW what have I gotten myself into.
PA didn't have any burners which kind of surprised me. Army & Navy had something called a cast iron pot cooker for $44. Only 15000 BTU/h and I don't think I would trust it to carry the weight of a pot full of lead. CT has a 60000 BTU/h outdoor cooker for $60. Doesn't look as robust as the R65 at Home Depot.
I have a tiger torch but can't think of any way to utilize it as the heat source.
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fingers284
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You can build a three sided brick oven with a few bricks (8 or 10 will do) from a building demo. ( I wish you would have mentioned it when you were here, I have a pile of old bricks) and use your tiger torch in it's original config. Just place them in a U position that will support your pot, on a flat surface. Prob need two layers if you use the red building brick size, just build it high enough that the torch head will fit inside, then place the torch in the opening and "crank on er" with the heat. The heat will be directed at the bricks but it has no where to go but up to the pot base. I have done this before I built the outfit we used....not as convenient but it does work passable.
fingers284
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I think they would but they will have a little heat escape as cinder blocs have a porous composition , It'll just take a bit longer to melt the lead...a little more propane usage & time would be the only drawbacks that I can see.
Just had a thought...take a shovel of dirt and fill the openings in the cinder blocks, that'll hold the heat loss to a minimum.
Just had a thought...take a shovel of dirt and fill the openings in the cinder blocks, that'll hold the heat loss to a minimum.
