Where to buy a single gas burner for smelting.

I use a propane fired "Plumber's Pot". Back in the days of cast iron sewer pipes, the joints were sealed with lead. The lead was melted in the "Plumber's pot. Does over 50lbs at a time! Been using mine for over 40 years! Might find one at a Plumbing Supply house.
Mike
 
Canadian tire propane burner with a walmart pot
Reinforced the burner with iron rebar.
Can do more than 100 pounds a batch
 
I bought a turkey roaster kit from Walmart just for the burner. For a stand I cut the top and bottom off of a 30 lb bbq tank (pre ventilated) with a 4" by 5" door cut in the side for the burner. My big cast iron dutch oven sits in the bbq tank perfectly. Everything is either on bricks or surrounded by bricks. Works pretty good, but takes a while to heat up and melt everything, but I don't mind as it lets me get the zinc wheelweights out before they melt.
I don't know how much lead the dutch oven will hold, but it sure is heavy! 75? 100 lbs?
 
I use a very large cast iron pot over a low mount turkey fryer, I do about 300-400 lbs in 5 batches each session. My ingot moulds are 4- 1 foot pieces of angle iron welded on the angle with flat bar ends and a two foot handle and I use the magma engineering Master Caster for moulding and their feed through sizer for lubing.
 
I bought a single burner blind stove from Cabela's. It has a angle iron frame that I like because you can level it if needed. It will do quite a large amount and not over heat your lead. Mine was running at about 700* max. You have to be very careful with a weed burner, it can melt zinc WW very quickly if you miss one when you separate your weights, if you do separate. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Camp..._l=SBC;cat104795280;cat104754780;cat104246280 I got the 5' low pressure hose with mine.
 
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I have the same burner - bought it from Lebaron.

As for fear of zinc, I have melted over two tons of wheelweight and never melted a zinc wheelweight into the mix, and I don't even try to separate them beforehand. The only way that can happen if if you're careless - simply scoop as soon as the mix turns "porridgy" and you'll pull them out hot, but unmelted.
 
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