[TheForge] Turkey Fryers

[Jerry Smith]

Frost,

I have an aluminum ingot mold that work really well. I
wear a face shield as well as a respirator. The area
that I plan on using at this time has a vent fan that
takes the fumes outside. In the spring, areound the
time was to build my deck I will put the uprights in
for my foundry building and work from there when the
building is complete.

Thanks,

Jerry


--- Jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:

> 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
> -------------------------------
> 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
> >
> 
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