Made some muffins this weekend

[hookup]

Had a bunch of scrap lead, wife out, had a couple hours Sunday so got to work.

Buddy left his Lee pouring pot outside one night and it rusted solid. So he got a new one & gave me the rusted one. I removed the pouring mechanism, the spout was rusted solid, and hit the whole thing with a brass brush, then sprayed it w/ silicon. I now use it to melt scrap.

At one of the cooking stores at Leesburg outlet mall, I picked up a miniature muffin tin. Melted & fluxed the lead by adding wax, cleaned off all the float-sam, and poured myself 3 dozen lead muffins. The miniture lead muffins fit right into a working 4# Lee pot.

Got enough lead now to last me through next year.

Then poured about 250 heads that over the winter will be converted into rabbit & silicon hair jigs. 50 will go to the Potomac River Smallmouth Club's annual membership drive, the others will be fished by myself & friends. Pretty much tapped out of hooks now.

 

[Fatman]

Hook that's the way to do it!!! Get it all cleaned and they you're ready to go. What kind of heads are you pouring?? and kudo's for giving to the club!!!!!!!!!

 

[smalljaw]

I do something similar when it comes to making lead ingots. I have an ingot mold from lee, I melt wheel weight lead from older wheel weights, and pure soft lead and I make them into ingots and then if I'm going to pour spinnerbaits I'll use my 4lb precision melter, 3lbs of soft lead and 1lb of wheel weight lead makes a good spinnerbait. For jigs that will be banged around I will use the 10 lb pot and for those I 6lbs of soft lead and 4 lbs of wheel weight lead, this make a hard jig head but it still pours well especially for brush jigs which can be a pain.

 

[Fatman]

I use a mix of 2 parts tire weight and 1 part pure lead. I can pour down to 1/32nd with this mix.

 

[hookup]

What kind of heads are you pouring??

Football head, 2x round ball head - 1 1/32 & 1/16, the other starts at 1/8 and goes up, tube head, slider head, a bass jig head mold, swim jig, & borrow a spinnerbait head.

Got a few more molds on the 'wish' list.

Any lead I get, I save. Then once or twice a year, I heat up the lead pieces, with a chunk of candle wax as flux, in the Lee pot for about 1/2 - 1 hour at high heat. Every so often, I stir the lead. Every bit of imputity either burns off or floats to the top. Then I scoop the impurity stuff off the top, leaving pure soft lead which I ladled into a muffin tin.

This results in clean, soft lead that pours like a champ.

 

[Fatman]

Hook we all want more molds!!!!LOL Check Zeiners Bass Shop he's got pretty good prices on Do-It's.

Here's my bar mold that I use when cleaning lead, makes about a 1 1/2lb bar and they fit great in my bottom pour pot

 

[smalljaw]

I get all my molds from Zeiners Bass shop, I don't know how they do it but the prices they have a ofter 4 to 6 dollars less than everyone else and the service is excellent!!!!