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Don2 wrote:
I kinda laughing about a 5 gallon bucket full of wheel weights.....I tried that trick a long time back....Got any idea how much that weighs????
Way too much..!!
Don2

Yea I tried to move one of them one day to get to some other stuff, about a 1/4 full wasn't moving without actual effort. I just throw some in a box everyday, on way in , out, lunch, break, pretty much everytime I walk by them. Sure the bucket might be great if it is set where you want , guess before I dump them all in the buckets at the house I should think the location out.

michael e wrote:

Don2 wrote:
I kinda laughing about a 5 gallon bucket full of wheel weights.....I tried that trick a long time back....Got any idea how much that weighs????
Way too much..!!
Don2

Yea I tried to move one of them one day to get to some other stuff, about a 1/4 full wasn't moving without actual effort. I just throw some in a box everyday, on way in , out, lunch, break, pretty much everytime I walk by them. Sure the bucket might be great if it is set where you want , guess before I dump them all in the buckets at the house I should think the location out.

I have a few 5 gallon buckets full of wheel weight ingots clean/fluxed and ready to use....But they are in the corner of my shop where they will STAY until I need them. Then I just grab several at a time and get after it.
A friend of mine has 900+ ingot bars ready to use....He has been collecting WW's for a long time, I would go to his house on weekends and help pour them for years. Oh well...everybody collects something

Its like having a bunch of little silver bars. Wish it was silver, but its lead....Still worth a lot, just not as much as silver

They are VERY handy when you have ingots....I keep my Lee 20 Pro bottom pour pot full of lead when off, that way all I have to do is plug it in and add a few as I'm casting.

Don2

To what Don 2 just said I'd like to add that a lot of the gear that you'll need to take up casting your own you can find in Good Will shops, flea markets and junk yards. Things like cast iron cornbread stick molds to pour your ingots are just a couple of bucks. Ditto stainless steel cook ware for melting pots, or cast iron if you prefer. $20 will buy you a cheap propane fry pot burner set to provide heat for melting your wheel weights. A $5 hot plate from Good Will is what I use to keep my mold hot between pouring sessions on casting day. A little imagination goes a long way with this part of the hobby.

Gerry

Gyrogearhead wrote:To what Don 2 just said I'd like to add that a lot of the gear that you'll need to take up casting your own you can find in Good Will shops, flea markets and junk yards. Things like cast iron cornbread stick molds to pour your ingots are just a couple of bucks. Ditto stainless steel cook ware for melting pots, or cast iron if you prefer. $20 will buy you a cheap propane fry pot burner set to provide heat for melting your wheel weights. A $5 hot plate from Good Will is what I use to keep my mold hot between pouring sessions on casting day. A little imagination goes a long way with this part of the hobby.

Gerry

You made me think of something else.
A while back I dug up an electric hot plate I bought from Walmart for another project a while back. I wanted to see if it would melt lead in a small pot. I had a bunch of pure lead scraps that I wanted to pour into ingots. Turning the hot plate to high and putting the lead into the pot, I was able to melt the lead and flux it a little and pour it into the ingot molds.
It just barely worked...it was almost not hot enough. Didn't get to flux the mix the way I usually do, but it will be ok.
I would have used my regular Lee pot, but I keep it full all the time, keeps it from rusting very bad where the lead is and melts a little quicker. Kind of like keeping bullets in your mold when they are not being used. I THINK it works, none of my molds have rusted inside
Wish the Lee pots were made of SS like the RCBS units...!
But they are a great buy and work just fine for $59 or $69 ! ( Lee Pro 20 )
RCBS unit is right @ $400.

Don2

i know its been a bit since this thread started but check bulletworks.com its a texas company and i like them for my 38 spl

Gyrogearhead wrote:A $5 hot plate from Good Will is what I use to keep my mold hot between pouring sessions on casting day.

It is a good idea rest your mold on an old pan or other piece of metal on top of the hot plate burner. If there is a piece of lead on the mold that drops onto the electric burner and melts, it will short out and ruin the burner.

You did better than me. I paid $7 for my burner new at Walgreens (on clearance).

akw419 wrote:i know its been a bit since this thread started but check bulletworks.com its a texas company and i like them for my 38 spl

I got 18k in from a couple of the places someone suggested, will check them out if I run low thought.

I just needed the bullets then, I have been reading about the casting . But when the babys need food cant make them wait too long.