Do It Hot Pot 2 | Electric Melting Pot for Lead | Melts Lead Ingots Quickly | 4 Pound Capacity | Lead Melting Pot for Fishing Weight Molds & Bullet Casting Molds | Made in The USA

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A cheap Stainless Steel container would be better (also good heat transfer) or failing that Cast Iron. My only lead right now is a few small wheel weights but I am wondering why not to use them, and if anyone has used them?

yeah they might drip a little , I peel the pieces of solidified lead off the aluminum base and throw them back in the pot.

If you do not require the tilting mechanism on the melting pot, then our Type TE might be right for you. Services: Wars Fought, Uprisings Quelled, Bars Emptied, Revolutions Started, Tigers Tamed, Assassinations Plotted, Women Seduced, Governments Run, Gun Appraisals, Lost Treasure Found. I keep a bit of 2 cycle oil on my casting bench and lube the lift handle where it goes around the pour spout on the Lee, this really helps with the tools smoothness. If you can find someone in the large group of friends you have in the cast bullet world that will part with one of the older RCBS pots, they are worth the extra money.

I have no idea how real the threat is, but my pot came with a warning not to leave lead in it because apparently air bubbles can somehow form when the lead is cooling and when heating back up can expand and splatter lead in a very rude manner. Lead poisoning symptoms in adults include fatigue, muscle aches, insomnia, constipation, depression, headaches, and memory loss. I have also used cast iron on a Coleman stove, cast cooking pots on a Brinkman stove and other devices.I seriously doubt that a 220volt pot would heat up any faster than a 220 volt pot, but Im not an expert on such things and dont have a 220 v pot to compare. The usual cause for any bottom pour pot to leak is because the nozzle and or the rod has crud in/on it. Electric Wax Melter Pot, Candle Making Pouring Pot DIY, Candle Making Supplies for Beginners (Capacity 1. The Magma unit has worked great for me and I especially like the 40-pound capacity, which lets me have a uniform ally for those 400-grain .

I'm thinking some welding gloves, maybe some sort of ladle to scrape scag off of and to mix will be just about all I need. While I do have a lot of experience melting lead either just to reclaim scrap picked up at the range, or, casting bullets and fishing sinkers, I have more modern equipment to do that. Melting time can vary based on the heat applied, impurities in the lead, ambient temperature, and other factors. Lee Precision primarily produces equipment for ammunition reloading, but their lead melting pots and accessories have been the standard for pouring fishing lure and weights decades.This tutorial answers these questions, providing you with step-by-step instructions and valuable safety tips to keep in mind when working with molten metal. Load one, pour while the other is melting and load molds in between makes a pretty efficient system.