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  1. Crucible is about 10” of 6” Sched 80 pipe and not insulated. There’s no furnace really just trying to heat from below. I may have started with a turkey burner. It’s an outdoor 60,000 BTU water boiler piece of junk that didn’t do anything. Perhaps one with higher BTUs? I’m not working very hard, just having fun building stuff and learning from mistakes Guess I now have a working radiant heater to use for something else. Wondering though if I drill holes in the ceramic will it shoot flame to hit the bottom of the pot? I haven’t done the math but assume it will hold about 60lbs of lead. Just trying to heat it as fast as possible using propane and having the ability to pour in place without lifting the melting pot.
  2. First post here! Trying to build a melting pot for Lead, possibly even Copper. Originally tried a regular camping stove but wasn’t hot enough. Came up with an idea of using a cross section of a DPF filter that was taken out of my Jeep diesel. Instead of taking the time to build a refractory type burner Started out fantastic for the first minute. Then the xxxx filter started doing what it was designed to do, heat up and burn fuel! If I could position the element closer to the bottom of the melting pot it might be better but I need the clearance to be able to pour the lead. Thinking I may need to drill a handful of holes in the Ceramic now to get flames to shoot out and hit the bottom of the pot. Thoughts? Problem I see is it may still do the same thing, shoot flames and heat up the ceramic at the same time
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