Results of my first lead melting session

10x said:
I use a 20 lb propane tank with the top cut off and a tiger torch to suppliment the turkey cooker burner under the tank. I intend to thread 1/2 pipe into the bottom of the tank so that lead can run off into a 15 litre cast iron dutch oven for the second melt, fluxing and cleaning.
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What do you intend to use as a shut-off valve in between pours?
 
NavyCuda said:
I have read that cast lead doesn't do as well in supersonic autoloaders.
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Sks and 858 are great to cast for as the gas system is readily accessible. You can cast for an AR, but cleaning the lead fouling would be difficult. I did cast for an AR 180 B but those little bitty boolits were pretty tedious to put gas checks on.
 
jasonburnsdundee said:
Sks and 858 are great to cast for as the gas system is readily accessible. You can cast for an AR, but cleaning the lead fouling would be difficult. I did cast for an AR 180 B but those little bitty boolits were pretty tedious to put gas checks on.
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I've been looking at a corbins swaging press pretty seriously to do my own copper jacketed stuff, but I haven't decided what my first caliber to load should be...
 
CALIFORNIA said:
What do you intend to use as a shut-off valve in between pours?
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Two ways - a 90 degree elbow just inside the pot fitted to a 3/4" nipple through the pot wall A long 3/4" nipple virtical just next to the inner wall of the tank, a hole drilled just above the 90 elbow and a rod or a pipe that drops down the inside of the nipple that can be raised and lowed - making a gate valve over the drilled hole.
Either that or no hole in the vertical nipple and it gets unscrewed from the top resulting in a massive dump of lead into a second melting pot.

Or just a pipe out the side and the lead dribbles out as the wheel weights melt.
I haven't decided yet.
 
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