[TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 47, Issue 18-melting lead

[Ron Childers]

Jerry, 

Several re-loading supply companies sell electric melting furnaces with a
lever actuated dump valve. The down spout fits the bullet mold sprue cutter.
It should be used outside with a fan so you don't have to breathe the fumes.

Ron C

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Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:48 PM
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Subject: [TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 47, Issue 18-melting lead


I was told that I could melt lead in turkey fryer, has
anyone done
 this?


I need to turn some 10 pound chucks of lead in to more
usable ingots. 

Any other suggestions would be appraciated.

Jerry
Hey Jerry,
when i was in high school i was boiling bottles to
sterilize agar for a science project and forgot it on
the stove the nonpyrex bottles exploded leaving agar
on the ceiling and scraping the paint off the
refrigerator across the room. after i finished paying
for the burn of the linoleum floor and cleaning the
gook off the ceiling the revereware copper bottom
stainless steel pot was mine to keep. I used that with
an electric hot plate to melt lead quite efficiently
for years. I would melt it and drop it from heights
onto a waxed board. the sculptures were embedded in
resin and sold to bloomingdales as paper weights and
paid for medical school. I had no thought at the time
about the breathing in of lead oxides as i heated the
lead  but would now be concerned and likely do it
outdoors. Lead is easy to melt but it stores in bones,
marks red cells and waits to be a participant in your
demise when other things begin to fail.

Lee Robbins
Flying tortoise forge studio


 
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