Alrighty then, I know it's late after the 4th now, but I was able to buy about 250lbs of tire weights on Friday for $30.  Now I want to melt them down to cast some crushing media for a ball mill to make airfloat charcoal and mill other things to a fine dust.  And also to cast bullets.  I bought some muffin tins to use as ingot molds.  It is my understanidng that tire weights are supposedly 4-5% antimony to harden the weights a bit, which is good for ball milling media and bullets.

Any hints or tricks for the first melt to get rid of the steel clips and any rust/contamination in the melt?  Do you guys use any flux of any kind for lead?  Thanks.

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Nick A

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