Decided that liquid and molten lead are not a good thing. So I've melted down all the WW into ingots. Been doing that for about 3 days off and on.
Since I'm a poor poverty-stricken teacher in real life, I use my 20 lb, bottom pour casting pot as my "melt the WW down into ingots" pot, too.
After all the WW are melted and the clips and other junk skimmed off, I fill 4 ingots from the bottom spout. Now I can lift the pot and finish filling the ingot molds by pouring out of the top of the pot. It's not too heavy and I can do it in a matter of seconds. Then fill the pot back up with WW and repeat.
I did find that with the hot pot empty you can put a wet WW in it and live to tell about it. The water, or whatever the liquid is, boils off way before the WW begin to melt. Did I do this often--nope--just wanted to see if this would work. I was fully suited up with face shield, heavy cap, jacket, leather gloves and work boots. Turned out I didn't need them but would have liked to have had them last Tuesday (The Day the Earth Stood Still, as I like to call it).
Please note--the pot was totally empty--not a drop of lead in it when I did this!
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