ScottV
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Thanks Heath.
Gary - just waiting on a day where the wind's not blowing 15 mph
Gary - just waiting on a day where the wind's not blowing 15 mph
My First Pours
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JUNGLEJIM1
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Seems like the winds been blowing for months here,too.
Lost Pole
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Awesome Scott. Pours look great Must be a great feeling to go from start to finish. Next thing you know you'll be cuttin'your own custom molds.
Congrats
Adam
Congrats
Adam
Fatman
Active member
Scott
Safety is the name of the game - You've seen how close JungleJim came to getting it. And I will tell you from VERY!!!!!!!!!!! PAINFUL experience you don't want a bad one. Before all the snazzy pots and melters (I was 12), I used a piece of L shaped steel pipe when I wasn't with my Uncle and a propane torch.
Had my sinker mold set up, I could pour 2 at a time. My little brother walked by with a glass of water and spilled some and I didn't see it. Poured the lead in and BAM!!!!!!!!!! Back in those days we didn't worry about all the saftey factors - I got a very small piece right in the left eye on the white part some under the chin and next to my mouth.
Face went right into a bucket of water and then my Mom took me to the Hospital - and they got the lead out of my eye and off the face. Needless to say I had an eye patch for the next 3 weeks and drops that hurt like hell, and in those days the Doc said just take some aspirin.
Scoot forward to age 48 - going to the eye doctor. She does the glucoma test with the blue beam and can no longer see the burn mark, which had showed up a year before - took all those years and so slow is good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Safety is the name of the game - You've seen how close JungleJim came to getting it. And I will tell you from VERY!!!!!!!!!!! PAINFUL experience you don't want a bad one. Before all the snazzy pots and melters (I was 12), I used a piece of L shaped steel pipe when I wasn't with my Uncle and a propane torch.
Had my sinker mold set up, I could pour 2 at a time. My little brother walked by with a glass of water and spilled some and I didn't see it. Poured the lead in and BAM!!!!!!!!!! Back in those days we didn't worry about all the saftey factors - I got a very small piece right in the left eye on the white part some under the chin and next to my mouth.
Face went right into a bucket of water and then my Mom took me to the Hospital - and they got the lead out of my eye and off the face. Needless to say I had an eye patch for the next 3 weeks and drops that hurt like hell, and in those days the Doc said just take some aspirin.
Scoot forward to age 48 - going to the eye doctor. She does the glucoma test with the blue beam and can no longer see the burn mark, which had showed up a year before - took all those years and so slow is good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ScottV
New member
Thanks for the good advise Fatman. I'll be careful.