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[biker_bill]

Never ever put a big pot of lead to melt if pot had water in it. It may look dry but you are risking death. Steam explosion is more powerful than you can ever imagine

I had one drop of sweat fall off my forehead into the 12 quart cast iron pot I was using before pouring into the muffin pan.
You would have thought someone threw a firecracker in it!
One drop of sweat, one drop, I promise, it was very enlightening!

 

[biker_bill]

Me too. It was taking too long so I got a big steel pot, a big gas turkey fryer burner and can clean 50-60 pounds in a batch. Fumes are bad of course, all done outside with a large fan blowing the fumes away from me.

Yep, I started on a camp stove and ended up with the big propane turkey fryer burner and a 12 quart dutch oven.
You can do a whole bunch in no time....

 

[Brett]

I had one drop of sweat fall off my forehead into the 12 quart cast iron pot I was using before pouring into the muffin pan.
You would have thought someone threw a firecracker in it!
One drop of sweat, one drop, I promise, it was very enlightening!

Ahh yes the tinsel fairy made a visit.

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[medium187mph]

I need to get on it. I hear goodwill is a hit or miss for some items on the cheap.

 

[C ountry]

Ahh yes the tinsel fairy made a visit.

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Only a long time bullet caster understands that. I've been highly decorated myself

 

[jeep78]

The indent on the bottom of aluminum cans make the perfect mould for the Lee bottom pour.

 

[rosewood]

Never ever put a big pot of lead to melt if pot had water in it. It may look dry but you are risking death. Steam explosion is more powerful than you can ever imagine

The water will evaporate as the pot heats up. It will be long gone before the lead starts melting.

 

[rosewood]

Same thing goes with cooking oil. You drop water in a pot of hot grease, it will pop and make all kinds of noise. The water vaporizes quickly and causes the same thing. Not as violent as lead because it isn't quite as hot. I wash my fry daddy all the time, will still have water in it when I add oil. When the pots heats up, the water evaporates first and is long gone before it is hot enough to cause a violent evaporation.

Rosewood

 

[jeep78]

dropping a tracer round in the hot lead is an experience.

 

[rosewood]

I had one drop of sweat fall off my forehead into the 12 quart cast iron pot I was using before pouring into the muffin pan.
You would have thought someone threw a firecracker in it!
One drop of sweat, one drop, I promise, it was very enlightening!

I have been blessed. I read all the stories of the tensile fairy and have been quite cautious. She hasn't visited me....yet.

I sweat a lot and am always careful to keep my head back from the pot so I don't drop any in the pot.

Rosewood