Casting Lead Bullets Part 2

[maxmorter]

shouldnt a breathing aparatus be used as well thats probably not good on the lungs

[kypitbull]

why don't you add the flux when making ingots? Is it because there is to much trash from the weights?

[hioncheesenips]

Why do yo not put something over your mouth and nose?

[Tacticalreview]

Flux

[thesuperfan99]

At 5:25 you added something into the pot, what was it?

[njmvermont]

i think thye mold had oil or some kind of fluid in it that boilled and blew up

[njmvermont]

yea i always make shure the molds hot and free of debris. i was using an old one i found in an auction box and started cold. my n a friend decided to use some toy car bodys which i think were zinc and or tin. anyway id just poored a round when we were waiting for it to harden it exploded spraying liquid metal seemingly everywhere around us but not on us. WE WERE EXTREMELY LUCKY THAT DAY. the metak burned into the counter top that could have been our skin or eyes

[TerminatorFRA]

I like leaving a coat of lead oxyde or other crap on the top of it, it ensures there is less evaporation too.

[CrocoDuck420]

Comrade, which metals would you recommend to mix with lead?

[Tacticalreview]

tin

[MrOlekul]

@Tacticalreview dosent tin makes the mix melt faster, but it gets harder than just pure lead?

[M40A5]

Another option for fluxing, and probably cheaper, is Crisco. I have a friend that has done a lot of reloading and casting, and that's what he uses.

[paulviek]

@M40A5 I found that sawdust is also a good flux. It seems this is what was often used in the lead smelting foundrys. just don't do it in the house.....

I imagine Crisco would work well too, as another old-time flux was used motor oil.

[Yunwaeya]

is it completely neccasary to use flux? thanks.

[M40A5]

@Yunwaeya It is necessary. There are other metals in the pot that you want to combine with the lead so that it's not too soft. If it's too soft, the bullets will foul the barrel faster.

[paulviek]

@Yunwaeya It is absolutley necessary to use flux. It serves 2 purposes: 1. causes the dross to float to the top easier. Dross is dirt and impurities, not to be confused with the tin, which naturally wants to come out of the alloy, and therefore #2, keeps your alloy well mixed. Keeping the tin in your is essintial. It aids in good casts.

Fluxing should be done at least every 20 minutes while casting, and cannot be done too much.

[armypenguin]

could i use the flux over a regular fire like you did in part 1?

[jeshua568]

how much is a lee furnace

[Tacticalreview]

149.00

[romansten9]

@jeshua568 You can get a 10 lb. Lee furnace with a bottom pour valve for $45 if you look around. I just bought one for that price. Some places charge as much as $75 for it though. I've never needed anything bigger than my 10lb. Casts LOTS of bullets fast.

[jeshua568]

is a lee furnace expesive

[TarzanArmani007]

Good tutorial. Your a natural teacher. Thanks for posting this.

[bjizzle123]

when you get that little bit of "over fill" or whatever on the mold its self, when you knock that off should it be trashed or can it be re melted down? i would assume it would be safe because its fairly clean, but i just wanted to double check for safety.

[Tacticalreview]

Put it right back into your pot. It's perfectly safe and clean.

[bjizzle123]

@Tacticalreview i found this video again and my comment from 5 months ago, since then i have gotten my furnace bullet molds, and ingot molds, and probably have casted 2 or 2-1/2 thousand bullets. great videos man

[generalcarver]

Excellent video and camera work. great job.

[XxGanjaXXGOD]

are you wearing a mask?it doesnt sound like you are

[TerminatorFRA]

@XxGanjaXXGOD I personally use a fan just next to it to blow it away of me and outside when it's a little windy, i know it's not recommended but I don't know why.

[62sugarbear]

why clean the wheelweights melt?

[Jonj57]

will it really just explode like that?

[sociopathpsych]

why make lead ingots? couldn't i just dump the lead in the pot and then get the impurities out after it melts and then add the flux?

[KrypticGuy666]

Can you make a list of equipment I would need to start making my own Ingots and bullets? It would be much appreciated, danke.

[ramdaspadhye]

Just curious, could you have used the flux when melting your raw weights vs doing this in the furnace? Is there any reason that you did it this way?

[Tacticalreview]

There is so much junk and trash that forms during the initial melting that I find it easier and cleaner to scoop most of the initial stuff off before fluxing. I can get it almost mold ready just through the initial cleaning. Then when I smelt the ingot I use flux to give it that last little purification. I just find it work better for me that way.

[Tacticalreview]

There is so much junk and trash that forms during the initial melting that I find it easier and cleaner to scoop most of the initial stuff off before fluxing. I can get it almost mold ready just through the initial cleaning. Then when I smelt the ingot I use flux to give it that last little purification. I just find it work better for me that way

[huckleberry803]

are you using solid lead bullets or a lead tin mixture? if so, where to you get your tin?

[Tacticalreview]

no.

[hemna]

respirator!!!

[bombsaway44]

can you do this with copper

[mifslim]

@bombsaway44 No, Coppers melting point is 1080 degreees, comparied to lead at 600.

[OregonBackpacker]

will it hurt anything to put the wheel weights directly into the molding pot.

[Tacticalreview]

You can do that, but its harder to work out the junck in the pot.

[solider1986]

@OregonBackpacker i would suggets no melt them in a cast iron pot first!!!

[prickskytte]

I have used for fluxing Sodium hydroxide NaOH , but dont do that in home .

[camerl2009]

dont hit the mold blocks i cracked 2 mold

doing that