Making some ingots from wheel weights

[Brando73]

If the weather is good, I plan on putting a dent in the ton of wheel weights I have in buckets in my garage (wife says). I have muffen pans that I'll pour them in. I have to make sure I have a bit of a breeze to do it because I can't afford inhaling the fumes.

[Headhog]

Good move. Storing Ingots is much easier than loose wheel weights. When I was casting I had some old sinker molds that went up to 16 oz. I'd cast up a batch of 8 and 16 oz. weights. the I could control how much I added to the pot when casting bullets.

I always did my casting outside to avoid the fumes. That stuff is really bad ju-ju.

Paul

[The Happy Kaboomer]

I skip the ingot work since I cast from an iron pot....Put weights in. When they melt I add flux (wax). After the burn off I skim everything floating on top. While I'm doing this my molds are heating around the base of the pot and ready to cast. I cast with 4 molds in rotation to keep any one from getting to hot. I dump into a padded bottom divided box. Sprues are caught in a can to be added back to the melt. A cat iron pot on a gas burner is way faster than any pour pot ever made.

Was gonna post a pic but doing so seems difficult.