Milsurp After Hours

Just got 25lbs of Wheel weights and a big heap of roofing lead.

So decidedto knock up a quick pot out of scrap.

Found a length of 2 1/2" x 1/4" strip about 4 "0" long and decided that that would do the job.

First I bent it (cold) into the required diametre.

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Next I 'un-curved' it so as to clean a bit of the scale off.

I always plan ahead.

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The bottom is three off-cuts from the same stock.

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Inside view.

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First melt

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Tomorrow I'm going to really give it a try-out

There were no leaks, which is a relief.

I'm not the greatest of welders although when I last entered the World's Worst Welder competition in Lower Slobovia I didn't win.

I did get a mention though after the first three placegetters.

Don't mix the roofing lead with the wheel weights unless you NEED harder lead. Likely the roofing lead is closer to pure. Wheel weights are certainly not.

Nice pot. Should last the rest of your life and then some.

Thanks Karl, but I'm a wake up to that.

Melting all the weights first then do the lead.

Even going to the extreme of casting different ingot shapes so there is no possible mix up.

I like pure lead for muzzle-loaders.

Used to work in a can making plant once where the seams were 'soldered' with 99.9% lead.

I have just managed to get my hands on a couple of cast iron pots from a 'second hand' market, one for wheel weights and one for 100% lead.

Can't 'justify' the extra press and lube dies for the Mauser yet - am working on it quietly though!!!

I use tartlet trays as ingot molds for the lead and I stamp each one with 'PB100' for pure lead and 'WW' for the wheel weights. http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f392/ ... cbpour.gif[/pic]

That's it ! the wife's tartlet trays. Yea.

Suppose you can use any metal tray for an ingot, tartlet, bun,pie............take your pick.

Here are mine with a couple of ingots. Note they are stamped 'PB 100' - 100% Lead. YES I KNOW the one on the left needs fluxing - done in a rush.

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Many of us over here use cast iron corn stick molds. They can usually be picked up at yard sales for less than a dollar. Ingots are about a half-pound each.

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That's a good one Karl; but whatexactly is a corn stick?

Not something that I'm familiar with.

Its a corn bread made in the form of an ear of corn.