Lead Alloy Smelter Bullet Casting Ingots

Picked up a Linotype smelter on fleBay and made it work.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• bullet
• lead
• casting
• alloy
• linotype
• reloading
• shooting
• hunting

[cyclops5276]

If your ingots are from wheel weights I am interested in buying some from you.

[tycer7]

@cyclops5276 Mine are not for sale, but on eBay you can get WW alloy for about a buck a pound.

[penguinistas]

Please, could you tell me what you use to flux (purify) the lead with?

do you, or can you use lead acid batteries?

one last question please, what do you use as your sources of lead? wheel weights, or something else.

Thank you

[tycer7]

NEVER use batteries. The dross cannot be made nontoxic.

Candles for flux.

Wheel weights mostly. Metal recyclers are a good source as are tire stores.

[Triorieel]

I'm in the process of designing my own hobby furnace for aluminum and everything with a lower melting point. Ive been trying to figure out some sort of arm mechanism like your furnace has and I am lacking experience for my design. If you don't mind...How does your valve work? Why don't more people use the arm idea? Do impurities always flow to the top? Does the liquid metal stick to your furnaces arm? How easy is it to change the type of metal you are melting?

Thank You

[tycer7]

The valve is an enclosed gear or cam that I cannot see. It is a commercial linotype smelter not of my design.

If I were to design one myself, I would use a weighted needle and seat valve like on the bottom pour casting pots.

Lead alloys do not stick. The only metal change is between lead alloys in large batches, so contamination from the previous batch is no problem.

The bottom burner area is lined with a 2" cast-in-place firebrick and the burner is a double ring like in an old gas furnace.

[cory8791]

you must do alote of shooting because you have alote of lead. nice set up!!!!

[sharpie443]

you are hard core my friend.

[joshforman83]

Nice set up! No worries of the ammo coding for this guy!!!

Do not allow one to infringe our Second Amendment Right!!!

[Zicro12]

lol

why don't you put on some glasses and take in the surrounding of the location.