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Old October 18, 2009, 04:58 PM   #6
snuffy
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Trip, to answer your question you had on the video, you should have been stirring the wax into the lead as it burned. Letting it burn off like that did little or nothing to flux the lead. Also, you should have fluxed while the jackets were still in the pot, fluxing then would have reclaimed some lead from them that didn't come out/off them at the end.

The white stuff on the ingots is lead oxide. It will float to the surface when you re-melt the ingots, it CAN be reduced by a lot of fluxing back to it's non-oxide/metallic state. Otherwise skim it off and discard as dross.
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