Advice for a newbie

[Eric Sedletzky]

You argue a valid point. Fortunately, my buddy has buckets of tire weights and a smelting pot. I'll be stopping by his place once they let me let me off of this boat. Hopefully, before class. I think I'll just buy a 5lbs mold and just smelt by weight. Or, just do like Edward3C said, and pour shot pellets. He has assorted egg sinker molds. I could just bag those up in various weights. The local tire shops are happy to have him haul their lead away.

Buy one of these:

Forget about shot weights, they hold water and form a lot of white lead oxide that leaches out and that is very toxic. Worst thing ever invented!
With hard weights they dry out fast and don’t do that.

 

[Grillins]

Buy one of these:
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Forget about shot weights, they hold water and form a lot of white lead oxide that leaches out and that is very toxic. Worst thing ever invented!
With hard weights they dry out fast and don’t do that.

I didn't think about the oxidation. I'll order one of these and just weigh out each pour for incremental sizes.