You guy's are slackin....

I don't smelt in my casting pot, but I do smelt in a Lee 20# Magnum melter. Then I put the ingots in my ProMelt for casting. I don't need a lot of ingots and I don't want to build/buy a smelter pot and turkey fryer. :)
 
Are you guys pouring ingots out of your casting pots? That'd take forever!
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Nope.
Bullets are cast from the casting pot.

Ingots are cast from the 'smelting' pot.
It's an 8" dutch oven on a turkey fryer base. The dutch oven could, theoretically, hold 90+ lb of alloy. But I try to keep batches to about 40 lb or less. Like Mike, I don't want a structural failure to leave me in a sea of 600+ degree alloy.
 
Oh ok. That makes sense. I use a turkey frier and a dedicaded 10" cast iron pan. Itll do maybe 40#s a shot. I made two molds that make 5# ingots. Usually Ill cook up my scrap, with the molds sitting on top to preheat, a welders glove on one hand and a pair of channel locks in the other, a quick pour into the hot molds (makes for a nicer ingot:cool:) let those firm up and flip em, pour two more, let em firm up a flip em...till the pan is empty.
 
I have two if the 6"x1.5" angle iron ingot molds that I use the most. But when I pour up large batches I drag out everything and usually get about two pours per batch.

I like those ones from the angle Iron cause they stack in the Lee pot so good.
 
Chainsaw,

If that's the same ammo can i seen a pic of about a week or so back, you got a ways to go....

It looked awful big with those little rounds layin in the bottom
 
Eastwood. Its the Kawasaki green. Been doing shake-n-bake, coverage is a tad heavy but useable. Very well could be the very humid environment up gere in the PNW though.
 
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