The teflon does gas out on the first pour, you'll hear it sizzle a little, pour slowly. You may get a small bubble or two on the first ingot, but it is only an ingot that is going to get melted down again, so it is no big deal.
The teflon does gas out on the first pour, you'll hear it sizzle a little, pour slowly. You may get a small bubble or two on the first ingot, but it is only an ingot that is going to get melted down again, so it is no big deal.
True, but that gas is strong enough to kill a pet canary (bird). Not outside of course, but it is not good for you.
Also, mine would bubble every time I used it. So, I sand blasted it and now I get perfect ingots every time.
Worth 10 minutes of effort? To me it was!
I still prefer my little corn cob ingots made from the cast iron pans.. I can put two on top of my warm pot to keep the pot full as I cast.. after about 40-50 bullets, I drop an ingot in, and replace it from my bucket..
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I've used about everything for moulds. You can spray anything with dry moly lube, and it will release the lead. I have used alot of teflon coated as is and they work fine for years,.
Mike
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I have used the cast iron corn
moulds and are very happy with them.
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I use the cavity in the side of a red brick. They cost me nothing and produce an ingot that weighs approximately four pounds.
I use cast iron corn cob molds that were headed to the scrap yard. Have about 6 of them. That's what I use for my coww alloy. Then, I have stainless steel condiment cups from Walmart (mentioned above) for pewter and solder. I bought 2 cast iron muffin pans off Amazon for the pure lead and soww. As forgetful as I am (chronic CRS) it helps to have different shapes. I ladle cast from a 40 lb pot, so size of ingots works for me. RayinNH makes some nice molds. I have a ladle and skimmer from him and just love 'em.
One of my father's favorite statements: "If I say a chicken dips snuff, look under his wing for the snuffbox" How I was raised, who I am.
I am inthe process of making several molds out of channel for me and a few other close by members.
I bought a dollar store cupcake pan tin coated like mentioned, what a mess! Luckily the cups pulled out of the 'frame' then I was able to clip the edges of the cups in about eight places and peel the cups off the lead. It was such a pain I started using a cast iron baking dish the wife no longer used. Search 'sissy mold' page 2 and you will see what it was.
I've got some little "mini-loaf" pans that are seamless stamped stainless; they've got considerable draft, so the ingots should drop right out, and the size is just right to make three to five pounds (depending how deep you fill), and they're not joined together, so you don't have to lift twenty or thirty pounds to flip them over to drop the ingots. These particular ones are still in the kitchen waiting to do duty for individual bread loaves, but if you could find a set of these cheap at Big Lots or some such place, they'd make excellent ingot molds.
i cut soda and bear cans to fit under my bottom pour,
and then tear off the can when the ingots cool down.
i consider them to be esentialy free ingot molds,.
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