Safety first ...

Gotta make ingots for makin Snake n da brush[emoji768] ...

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Smart man


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it always pays to take precautions

And I thought I was the scrounge king for lead scrap. Smart man Rickie.

Excellent idea!!

Excellent!!


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Chicken!

And he is wearing his Shop-O-Rama tee shirt !

A fellow member of the 1980 GA BASS Federation Top 6 Team made the best spinnerbaits I've ever used. He was career military and made all the spinnerbaits time would allow. Later he started experiencing some health issues that puzzled the Drs until they checked for lead. He had poured lead spinnnerbait heads for years and the lead eventually hurt his health.

I've been guilty of not wearing the amount of protection Rickie has on when pouring lead weights, jigs, and duck decoy strap weights in the past.

Organic Vapors canister?

NIOSH recommends a P100 rating filter ...
CDC - NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards -
Lead

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Thanks and thanks for the thread. It's a very timely thread for me. I picked up somewhere close to 500 lbs of wheel weights from a local shop this morning. :) I'm definitely going to get a respirator for me and my son if he helps me. I didn't use one when I melted down the last lead that I got. I used fans to pull quite a bit of air through the shop while I was working, but you can't be too safe with this stuff.

I highly recommend getting a thermometer that will read over 800°F ...

Lead melts at 621.5°F (321.5°C)
Zinc melts at 787.2°F (419.5°C)

You will not be happy if your slurry temp gets hot enough to melt a zinc wheel weight that you accidentally missed in sorting ...

https://youtu.be/1zskn38Ggos

Rickie