More user friendly ingots

[Reefinmike]

I have a lee 10# bottom pour pot and ive been getting tired of feeding it my 25oz beer can ingots- the spout arm gets in the way and sometimes causes the surface to freeze for a minute which really plays with my mold temp.

Ive poured ladles of lead on the garage floor before to create "ribbons" for easier pot feeding. I had the day off today so I formed up a wood ingot mold with four cavities measuring 9.5x2.5". I just lay this on my garage floor and pour a full ladle into each cavity. They all set up enough to move the mold after about 15 seconds. super easy to pour fast and very easy to feed large amounts of "cold" lead without freezing up the top of your pot.

 

[Dave Bulla]

Looks good.

Think there is any issue with picking up bits of sand, dirt etc from the floor? I'm thinking even if you sweep it, the hot lead could cause fragmenting of the concrete surface but that's just a guess.

Might try laying a piece of sheet metal or a piece of 4" wide steel flat stock on the floor and put the wood frame on top of that.

 

[ClarkEMyers]

Cast iron corn bread molds and other such work and some people use biscuit/cupcake sizes

 

[GP100man]

I use angle iron 2", besure ya put a little draft on the ends .
Pour em as small or as large as you like . Mine are 6" long in gangs of 4 & when ya pour em full ya get 3# to the ingot.

When I blend some lino in I por em `bout 1 1/2 " wide for ID purposes.
& they stack wonderfull !!

GP