Well, actually not rain...
More like water dripping off my deck onto the concrete patio below!
You see, I've been working down in the man cave for four days; cleaning and packing up all my stuff in anticipation of moving next month. As I was working away, I saw the buckets, boxes, cans, etc. of lead in various forms stashed under my casting table. I figured they would be easier to move in ingot form so I set up a "mini-smelter."
Actually it is one of those single element electric burners and a small (20 lb.) cast iron pot. I set it out on the patio, loaded it with scrap and let it cook while I was a packin and a cleanin! I'd check it every so often and when the melt was ready pour it into the ingot molds.
It's mighty slow work with that little burner and small pot only pouring about 16 pounds at a time after a long period waiting for it to get up to heat.
Hi-ebber, and day always be a hi-ebber!
I've managed to do all my pure lead and am well into my WW's! Only a couple of hundred more pounds to go!
But, as slow going as it is, I'm able to other things during the process and all my lead will be in nice neat ingots when I set up my casting area in the new house!
Oh, the rain thing...
I didn't have any problem when it was cold out but the weather warmed up yesterday and the snow on the deck over the pot started to melt. Naturally gravity saw to it that it looked like it was raining on the patio! Not being one to be deterred by a small thing like a lead explosion
I took precautions and finished the batch I was working on yesterday. But it's warmer today and consequently the snow is melting faster so I'm delaying further smelting until the deck dries off!