Problem Making Lead Weights

[Snatcher]

All good advice. Just make sure you mould is "piping hot"

[Terry Davison]

Many thanks lads, lots of good advice. Much appreciated.

[Toerag]

find a big iron pot (ali is risky) ......

once the mrs gets fed up with those very expensive french cast iron saucepans going rusty you can use the biggest one of those

 

Or you could do what I did - cut the top half off a 7kg butane gas cylinder and use the bottom half as my crucible. I'll post some pics sometime, but I can keep 100oz molten with my BT cable jointer's stove running on butane.

 

Go to www.fishingweightmolds.co.uk for ladles and other accessories.

Edited September 19, 2007 by Toerag

[Ken Davison South Wales]

Many thanks lads, lots of good advice. Much appreciated.

 

I missed this thread being a lazy blighter I buy my leads and therefore I missed an important post.

 

Welcome aboard Mr. Davison from Mr. Davison

[chesters1]

Or you could do what I did - cut the top half off a 7kg butane gas cylinder and use the bottom half as my crucible. I'll post some pics sometime, but I can keep 100oz molten with my BT cable jointer's stove running on butane.

 

Go to www.fishingweightmolds.co.uk for ladles and other accessories.

its nice to see purpose "built" items for lead making now ,blooming expensive but safer than making do ,my first efforts were a very light weight ladle on the gas stove