I bought a new Lyman mould a year ago, and after cleaning the preservitive oil off of it, I put it in my wood stove.
This gives a looong heat that bakes off any trace of oil in the mould.
Did it work???
YES I will do it again.
BTW that was blocks only, no sprue plate, plate screw, washer, or set screw.

Ahhhh, yes. The old wood stove trick.

I do the bulk of my casting in winter beside a wood stove and don't bother to pull the sprue plate, etc off. Preheat my moulds and make sure my ingots are dry on it, too.

There are advantages to being single.

Ah, yes, the wood stove. I've been using mine, too. Matter of fact I cut up part of a storm damaged hackberry yesterday, still green, and yarded up the stove size pieces in the leanto to dry. Today, two dead elms come down to be cut into stove wood. All set for the rest of the winter! I preheat moulds and ingots. Cooked a few items on it for Thanksgiving dinner, and yesterday set a spell in front of it, door open, with a cool one, well actually a couple or three. Don't forget to use the ash for fluxing the pot. sundog

[ 11-30-2003, 17:49: Message edited by: sundog ]

Y'all are the folks that UNDERSTAND the phrases:

"warms you twice" and

"essence of shade-tree"

For me the smell of hardwood burning in the cook-stove is the smell of home.