[TheForge] Turkey Fryers

[Jerry Frost]

You're not talking a lot of heat, welding a cap or 
plate on a piece of pipe and putting it in a small 
charcoal briquette fire will do fine. I used to do 
exactly that all the time when I was a kid. Lead melts 
between 600-621F. (I just looked that up my memory 
isn't all that good)

If you use a propane burner, turkey fryer burner (crab 
or dogfood cooker in AK.) or even a Colman stove, you 
have to be careful not to boil the lead. The link says 
it's boiling point is a lot higher than I thought, 
3164F. THAT makes me wonder what was bubbling in the 
pot when I overheated the stuff so many years ago. 
Maybe there was something eutectic going on with 
antimony or something.

Almost anything made of steel will make a dandy ingot 
mold, it doesn't need to be cast iron at all.

Stay out of the fumes, etc. etc.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

http://www.artmetalradio.com/

From: "Jerry Smith" 
<jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com>


> Kim and all
>
> I may get a HR cast iron pot unless some one gives 
> one
> to me, then make a stand out of rebar. The burner
> could one like Frosty built.
>
> I am still open on ideas. This has to be propane
> heated as that I have had the time and resources to
> put proper power out to the machine shop/smithy, my
> barn, storage shed and tractor building. That may
> happen in the spring. Even then I would prefer 
> propane
> for this project.
>
> Jerry
>