Melting 30kg / 66lbs of Lead and pouring ingots
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Today I am melting all the Lead I found and was given to me over the last year. I am using my home made metal melting furnace based on the mini metal foundry by the king of random. It burns scrap wood and charcoal, using forced air and can even melt copper. I plan on making a propane furnace in the future.
leuke video!
👍👍👍
Awesome video! I wish I could get my hands on scrap lead in the USA. 27.7kg is 61lbs. Wow that's a lot of lead.
Great Video biggest fan 😁👍
Such a tidy work area! Nice amount of lead there and great ingots. Can't wait to do mine 👍👍
Long time no see Ralph! COOL seeing ya smelt the lead into ingots and lead batteries eh,...but that's for another video, yeah, keep us in suspense! 😂😉👍
Great video. Only took me like 2 weeks to get around to watch this video. Also This is my 1300th "liked" video.
Excellent I like to melt it and then cast bullets and fish sinkers but the sinkers are going to be outlawed very soon oh well thank you for sharing this with us five stars sir
That is really cool. I've seen it melted before but not like that. My stepdad used to melt wheel weights in a ladle with a blowtorch.
I did that too years ago. That is basically how I got interested in melting metals.
good to see you making vids again, hope all is well
Busy busy, but all good 👍
beautiful bars! love it
Lead slag is so gross, I wouldnt bother with that crap/ Great vid Ralph. reallly enjoyed.
I wonder, could you pour the molten lead through a seive to clear the dross? It looks so fluid you might get away with it.
Might give that a try next time 😁👍
17:50 I love that mold 👊🏻
Thanks buddy, I like the sharp angles on those ingots, to bad the steel is flimsy and warps. Maybe I'll learn welding and make some on my own ingot molds some day.
@@ralphmourik dude I love the waves in the too if the bars that the molds left .. makes the light pop 👊🏻
@@streetcopper1151 well that is true 😅👍
@@ralphmourik like Destro face from G.I. Joe👊🏻
Hey. FYI on the lead weights. If you use a crucible that's shorter, or fill it to the top with the steel bearing weights, the steel floats to the top and you can easily remove the metal tabs and slag with a spoon or similar tool before you even pour. At least, that's the way I do it. Thanx for vid!
Indeed, for lead that works better, I used to do it for Zinc like this, because in Zinc the steel bits don't float.
Always enjoy your uploads my friend. Hope all is well =)
Very busy but all good 👍 thanks for still being around 👊
Glad to have you back Ralph and how have you been?
Very busy, but good 😁👍
Very cool my friend. I came over from minutes of horror. I did not even know you were here. I just subscribed and I am going to check out your vids. Where are you located? I do not recognize the accent.
Hey, thanks for watching and commenting. 👍 I live in the Netherlands, so the accent you hear is Dutch. I had someone comment I sound like the Terminator 🤣
Just curious is there a set time before you take the metal out of the pans it seems some come out better than others ? Cool video hope you do more soon !
The ones that didn't come out were new unused molds, and therein lies the problem, the anti stick layer becomes sticky at to high temperatures, it kind of fuses to the metal, the older molds were used for Aluminium that melts at way higher temps so the layer burns of and it becomes oxidized, the bars come out very easily out of those.
1 of the big molds I had to completely destroy to get the ingot out.... my own fault but I got them really cheap so no big loss.
@@ralphmourik Thanks for the feedback
What type of material or metal were the pans made of? I noticed some when you removed the lead from the pan, some came out easier and some you had to pound it on the ground ti get it out?
The ones that had trouble coming out are steel with a coating on it, the anti stick layer becomes sticky when it gets to hot. The ingot molds with the handle are cast iron, those work best. Thanks for watching and commenting 👍
✌️👍
3rd
First!