Reply With QuoteI'm thinking it's zinc wheel weight lead. I don't really know about mixing but if you can form and swap it at a recyclers you'll be better off. You can't flux it out.
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lead question
ok I got this lead and melted it down and poured some ingots and in the process of taking the lead out of the ingots it just crumbled in to pieces and chunks I'm not sure why it's happening but I know that it's not very quality lead anyone have any suggestions on how I can or even if I can fix it? to where it will be ok to pour jigs and fishing weights?
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I'm thinking it's zinc wheel weight lead. I don't really know about mixing but if you can form and swap it at a recyclers you'll be better off. You can't flux it out.
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The last post on tire weight lead might help.
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Last time I saw any that looked like that, was a few years ago. Got it for free and it had been heated up used over and over till the, well usability of it for want of a simple word made it useless. Could be zinc contamination but don't know what temps you were using to melt it down in the first place. Plus it really doesn't have that Zinc contaminated look to it.
Was this a mix of range lead???? Temps you used when melting it down???
Based on what I SEE and IMO ONLY and from prior experience- you got a batch of lead that had been overused to the point where it would melt but not be good for anything. Take a little!!! good lead and re-melt all of it, make it into blocks and take it to a scrap yard and try to swap it out for some pure lead.
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Fatman,
When lead becomes "overworked" like you mention, as I understand it sulfated. If you save your dross and slag or that overworked lead and remelt it with a temp of 1200* it will break down once again. As I understand you can reclaim quite a bit of the dross back. I haven't tried it yet, but I do store all my wastes. I am going to try it sometime, but I use a turkey frier and cast iron pot and cast tea pot to make ingots. I'm pretty sure to get my heat up enough I'm going to have to use a rosebud and oxy/act torch. I don't think propane will get hot enough. Or, maybe a bellows system like a blacksmith, any way I do it that cast iron is gonna be glowing orange for sure.
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