I meant to let Mr. Graham know and to anyone else I made a valve like the one pictured a while back and it works great. I have smelted over 22 buckets of wheel-wts and can't figured how I got along with out it.
I melted a big pure lead counter weight using my weed burner for heat and got 81 6lb ingots melted and poured in 1hr and 30 min.
4 Buckets of w-wts can be melted and skimmed and poured in around 2hrs and 30 min which is roughly 80 ingots.
Thanks again Mr Graham!!