Round ball lead and alloy?

[Turtle Creek]

Yeah, I 'll look around as it couldn't be more contaminated than this stuff was.
Prior I'd melted some odd caliber balls I had laying about...now that was clean and threw perfectly round shiny balls.
This 99.9% 'pure' not so nice.
I noted some bluish discoloration which is, I suspect, an alloy in there too.
Not happy with RMetals.

 

[mooman76]

You get that blue color when dealing with pure lead.

 

[jamesthomas]

You get that blue color when dealing with pure lead.

Yep, the blue color means you have pretty much pure lead. Show us some pictures of your dross, could be a lot of that is lead and could be re-heated and cleaned again. If your a newby on melting lead you could be throwing out lead instead of trash. Also you need to bring the temp. of the lead to at least 700 to 750 degrees.

 

[Rick Boylan]

Great information guys. Thank you one and all.

I went to Sportsmans warehouse yesterday and found a smaller Lee melting pot. It will melt 4 lbs of lead in like 10 minutes according to the box. Only cost me $40.

Now I just need the lead, and I won't be able to get it from where my wife tells me I have plenty. I'm using that for holding me to the chair. :rotf:

 

[Dickydalton]

RotoMetals pure lead works fine for me. My Lee pot is bottom pour but I still dip out of the top.

 

[bpd303]

You get that blue color when dealing with pure lead.

Especially if it gets too hot.

 

[Turtle Creek]

I'll cool it down some and then try again...I am a newbie at this.
I just noticed a dif between the old balls I melted and this lead bar batch as to the amount of dross.

 

[jamesthomas]

On the Lee Pot put the Temp. dial halfway between 7 and 8, its the Temp. that works best for me, I just cast about 180 .395 Rbs. at that Temperature.

 

[nhmoose]

$10 bucks a pound That is a rip off

I bought 10 lbs of 99.9% pure lead from RotoM and there seemed to be a lot of cr@p in the stuff for 99.9.
I'll try another source when I use this up.

 

[Rick Boylan]

I'm adding that to my notes. With the pot I bought I will get to use my dipper. :haha: