I made my decision not to take it, based on my lack of experience and storage space.am I the only one here [besides Popper] that intentionally adds zinc to their alloy?
you use zinc to get copper sulphate into the alloy.
it's also fairly easy to remove through temperature and sulpher scrubbing.
you hold it in solution with tin.
I turned him down. But if it is offered again, or I mess up any once I start melting ww,I will mail it your way.tell him to mail it to me.
My 2000 Chevy C2500 (one wheel wonder due to open diff) has two 20mm ammo boxes full of lead alloy ingots, one strapped on each side, inside the box, behind the rear fender well. I believe total weight is around 425 lbs, it makes a big difference, now I rarely get stuck on nearly flat ground (slightly incline) that is covered with wet grass when pulling a trailer load of firewood.Fellow just asked me what he should do with it, after I just turned him down.
I told him, why don't he fasten it somehow it to the rear axle of his 2wd work truck, to help with traction in the winter.
I was being sarcastic, He thought it was a pretty good Idea. Go figure.
14 bolt...maybe? too cold to go out and crawl on the ground to check.Is that the semi-floating 14-bolt? Funky looking rear cover and non-removable carrier? After many years of ignoring that unit, Powertrax is finally offering their Lock Right lunchbox locker for those. Spendy at $450 but if you can replace brake pads and change your oil you can install one of these in a couple of hours. The only issue with lockers is I hear they are dangerous on ice. They will also give you "locker weave" on long, sweeping highway curves as the locker ratchets in slow motion. But for traction in slippery stuff a locker has no equal.
I just may.On the board from the people who can't spell, they say fluxing with Sulphur will take the zinc out of the melt. Please try it. I have no spectrometric data since I retired 8 years ago.
Normally I mind the temp, also. Probably the top thing to mind while doing anything wit melting lead.I had hear about use of sulphur to take the zinc out also and read about it. I normal do not get zinc in my alloy mix when I smelt . I use a wood fire to do my smelting and then the zinc WW will float with the rest of the junk in the alloy I use ground up corn cobs to flux with or just the wood ashes to flux. It works all these years for me. Just to give a idea. I do take what is melted that is clean and pour it in ingots to empty the pot .then I start over and melt it slow like the first time and keep the temp that just the lead alloy will melt but too low for the zinc will not .
I was thinking copper sulfate myself. Definatly something to keep out of the Lee pot for now.the green could have been the copper too.
it doesn't like to play nice with lead at that high of a concentration either.
you'll get a sheeting action and weird stalactites from the spout.