I use my kitchen stove when working with ingots. It may add a dollar or two to my gas bill a month. When melting down the wheel weights I melt them outside with a propane fired camp stove. Cost to melt 200 pounds of lead was less than $5.
Wheel weights cost me a 12 pack of Bud Light, and a bag of ice. Showed up on friday a few minutes before closing time said I would trade a bucket of ice cold beer for a bucket of wheel weights. They load them in the truck every time.
