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When you smelt your ww down and have flux ,what do you use to remove the dross from the pot ? And does it need to have slots in it? And if there are slots does it let all of the other junk go back in the pot? May sound lke some dumb guestion but being bad new to this casting business . I I may as well start off right. Thanks | ||
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I use a melon baller that I stole out of the kitchen. It has a hole in the enter but it cleans the crap off the melt very well. Use one that has a wooden handle as the plastic ones melt!  The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? | |||
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A slotted or perforated skimmer makes removing the ww clips and other large junk easier, but it's not absolutely necessary. You can use a large kitchen serving spoon. If you want holes in it, drill them. A non-perforated spoon will work best for removing the dross, but a perforated one will work. It's just slower. The good news is SS kitchen tools are cheap to buy so you can get two. Mark Pursell | |||
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I just use a wooden paint stick. | |||
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I use an old Tablespoon. Has worked fine for about two decades. | |||
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Depends on the size melt we are talking about. Tablespoon will work fine if you do 5-10 pounds at a time. I do over 100 pounds at a time and a long handled holey spoon is an absolute necessity. On the big melts, you loose too much alloy unless it can drain as you scoop out the clips. It is a good citizen's duty to love the country and hate the gubmint. | |||
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I just used to use an old tablespoon. Would cast about 1,000 bullets per session using two Hensley & Gibbs six cavity moulds. Used to use a half inch length of candle to flux. Just have to skim the surface to the side of the pot. Never had any problem with taking any lead out at all. | |||
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For smelting I use a HUGE t-spoon (3"bowl, 18" long - Army surplus I think). For my bottom pour casting pot I use an iced-tea spoon - to get a little further away from the melt. Tim K (trk) Cat whisperer Chief of Smoke, Pulaski Coehorn Works & Winery | |||
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I use a table spoon, silverplate, with a rounded front. I guess it's more like a soup spoon (I don't know my spoons all that well). Just enter the pot slowly cause the moisture on the spoon will cause a splash. I flux with Lee Flux or beeswax. Alan But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.-Thomas Jefferson | |||
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