To start with I always wear a faceprotection mask and breathing through a breatingmask, protective clothing and welders gloves while handling lead both from scrap and when melting/casting. And I always melt/cast with wind blowing away from me and the pot.
So got my electrical stove and cast iron pot and went to work melting some ingots of stained glass lead. It was a little windy so I had lead cooling at the edges of the pot, started to thinking what I could use as a shield. And found an old aluminium lemonade maker that was in my "good to have storage". Started up the anglegrinder and cut out the bottom and placed it around the pot and it was a success.
Working as intended
Some ingots:
Got a new mold for my 357 its a Lee 2cavity 358-158-RF that I got to try so later last week I casted some to try. Ive been using this alloy its pretty much lyman #2. Mixing up the stained glass lead (bhn around 8-9) with linotype lead I got, 2parts stained glass lead + 1part linotype lead gives a bhn at around 16 aircooled. Cast at around 400-420degrees celsius. Bullet drops at .360 from this mold and weighs around 157-158grain. I will try these bullets with magnumloads to see how it goes with leading since its a non gascheckbullet i Suspect I need to have higher bhn or gascheckbullets OR other loads with lower fps, but will try them and see, im sizing to .357 and lubricate with carnuba red.
Bullets
Loaded:
About gear, I pretty much use old stuff keeping it simple, trying to salvage things I already got using old candles for fluxing, stainless kitchenspoon and such. However when I cast the bullet I use a Lee Pro 4-20 pot and a digital termometer to keep everyting consistent.
Some older gear:
An old Lachmiller lubrasizer
An old Lyman Spartan
