Had a productive day today. Melted down about 35lbs of wheel weights along with most of my stash of rejects. Had an additional 15 or so lbs of stick on weights and melted those down with some of my older muffin ingots of soft lead. Still have enough weights for another full melt. I had bought some casting alloy from Acme before the covid times started. I threw about 8 or 9lbs in with my clip on weights, definitely brought the hardness up, think I will do the same with the next melt. Should be good for quite a while.
Puts me at a little over 50lbs of ingots done, another 40lbs to melt with 35 or so lbs of Acme lead leftover. Not to mention the 25lbs of dead soft lead
My first run melting lead I only had wheel weights, so that was all I had in my finished alloy, I think they ran a little on the soft side. They all dropped heavier than than the mold stated, ie my 228s dropped 232ish+, my 125s dropped 130ish From what I can gather COWW tend to run somewhere in the 9-12 BHN range, ACME says their alloy is BHN 16, I'm hoping I wind up somewhere in the 10-14 BHN range with what I did today. Now I have to gear up for a marathon casting day
Puts me at a little over 50lbs of ingots done, another 40lbs to melt with 35 or so lbs of Acme lead leftover. Not to mention the 25lbs of dead soft lead
My first run melting lead I only had wheel weights, so that was all I had in my finished alloy, I think they ran a little on the soft side. They all dropped heavier than than the mold stated, ie my 228s dropped 232ish+, my 125s dropped 130ish From what I can gather COWW tend to run somewhere in the 9-12 BHN range, ACME says their alloy is BHN 16, I'm hoping I wind up somewhere in the 10-14 BHN range with what I did today. Now I have to gear up for a marathon casting day