Howdy. A buddy pointed me to this site and I am looking forward to spending some time on here. Lots of info, and all in one place too! Anyhow, I'll get right to bugging you guys. The more I read the more questions I come up with, so please bear with me. I just started casting not long ago, in fact, my moulds are still on back-order, but in the mean-time I have been making ingots out of wheel weights. In short, I am smelting them out in my garage over a turkey fryer and an old pot. Its not a cast iron pot, but just a metal pot, no teflon lining in it or anything, but not cast iron. Anywho.....I'll melt down the WW, skim of the clips and crud, and I have been fluxing with Frankford arsenol fluxing agent, its in a tub and is a grainy-like powder, the directions say about a teaspoon for 20lbs. Almost never does the stuff fully mix into the molten lead alloy, but it does bring allot of crap to the surface, which I skim off. After my alloy is a nice shiny silver, I pour into a Lee ingot mould, and they look as good as anything to me, but just running this by the guys in the know. I am starting to cast mainly for shooting my 1911's as the price of reloading componants skyrocket, Just waiting on the .452 200gr LSWC TL Mould. I put allot of volume through my 1911's, maybe 500rds a week, that was until even commercial cast bullets went pretty high, so here I am. I understand WW is a good choice for the 45acp, but soon I'll pick up a hardness tester and learn the finer points of casting. So, any advice or comments on my humble operation thus far? I don't know anyone who casts so really no-one to turn to for learning the ropes as when I started reloading years ago. Thanks all.