How to Clean Scrap Lead and Wheel Weights for Pouring Jigs and Sinkers

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[AnxiousBaits]

Awesome and easy! That pile at the end looked great!

[shawncampbell]

I get longer, thinner candles, like a dinner candles I guess at garage sales for cheep. I can usually feed them right into the pot to flux my lead. I also save saw dust from the table saw for the save thing. Those little tea candles work good on bigger pots of lead. I just chunk them right into the pot. Best to do this outside as the pot can flame up on you. Thank you for the great video and happy casting.

[wickedbassn]

Did melted some lead flashing i found in my garage . Ended up woth about 6 pounds after it was all said and done. Thanks for the helpful video!

[cheifbrownrabbit]

Also if you're adding scrap lead in to molten lead make sure you stuff is dry.
Shooting range scrap has given me some trouble in the past

[sahmadi]

This is how new casters get in trouble with Zinc in their Lead. I ask that you tell your audience to keep the temperature under the melting point of Zinc.

[nealtressler]

Hello… will the fluxing/candle wax effect the alloy at all? I run different alloys for ammo

[Abertawe.Angling.]

Can you elaborate on the reason why moisturiser or a drop of water would end bad please? Thank you. Ps I'm completely new to melting leads.

[bobbainbridge]

Hey Scott just Subscribed. Great video. I see you wearing the respirator...but can you tell me the cartridge #? I figure it's a safety thing I don't want to mess up on and you have more experience than I do... thanks!

[mikewilson]

what do you do with the slag? do you throw it away or melt it on the next pot? thanks

[jamesmanners]

Ok to use liquid soldering flux instead of paste?

[ronrobertson]

I recall my dad using saw dust in the lead he cast bullets from.

[jarodmorris]

Can you explain to me how the flux and candle wax helps if it burns off immediately? Also, why does the ingot mold need to cool off between pours?

[fishesfromtupperware]

Great vid! But why do you need to let the mold cool down? Seems that a hot mold would help it flow better and not freeze. I haven't done this before so forgive my ignorance. I'm going to cast some sinkers,

[davefellhoelter]

done this a few times, "IN MY" opinion based on my OJT and life is WATER! MIOSTURE! Steam go BOOM!!! make 100% sure everything is DRY of very bad!

[megadome]

Hi good job! I just wanted to ask... in your opinion which is the safest and Also the best temperature to melt lead without letting it make fumes ? Thank you

[sens]

What is that item u had added FLEX. Is it any cleaning item ???
And where we will get that item

[allanferguson]

Lee ignot pot very handy I'm still having trouble pouring lead in my sinker mould I'm heating the sinker mold I'm getting no full sinker

[showproja]

Set your mold down and let go of it when you pour. What are ya? I buy scrap lead from recyclers and pour about 200 - 300 pounds of buck and slugs per week. I quit using Lee and Lyman molds and neatly stacking my ingot long ago. Now I use the corn-ear shaped cornbread molds and throw them in buckets. Way more efficient and practical. We ran at a 700% profit margin during the pandemic.

[edgarmelton]

My buddy showed me candle wax to clean it is that as good as flux

[miamiwax]

What do you do with the stuff at the top?