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Offline Chinook

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Cleaning a casting pot
« on: February 14, 2006, 03:30:16 PM »
Question from a relatively new caster:  I have been using a Waage pot for casting handgun bullets.  This is not a bottom-pour pot.  I would like to dedicate this pot to pure lead-tin alloys for casting BPCR bullets, avoiding the contamination of antimony and other impurities.  What is the best way to clean/decontaminate this pot of the residual pistol bullet lead?

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Re: Cleaning a casting pot
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2006, 07:54:10 PM »
  The crud that sticks to the inside of lead pots is oxidised metal and only a smelter can recover it back to metalic form.  In other words it won't get into your alloy, except for possible small droplets of unoxided metal, which probably wouldn't effect your black powder bullets in the least unless you had heavy visable lead clinging to the pot surfaces.

  So just scrape the empty pot out, fill it with what you intend to use and go.

  If you can't live with that or feel certain some serious contaminant is in the pot, sand blasting will clean it to the pots base metal.  don't sand blast a Lee pot or you'll probably have leaks.
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