WL smith Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Use it for making fish weights. You do fish don't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Use it for making fish weights. You do fish don't you?No. Just a regular lead swinger.Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Please feel free to disprove my guess, I'll look forward to your results. Sorry, too busy; I have to go iron my smithing shirts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted September 1, 2015 Author Share Posted September 1, 2015 No. Just a regular lead swinger.AlanThat's just dead mean, I think I'm gonna go sit in a corner and sulk! In the mean time you go and get hayfever & diarrhea Together!!!!@ WL , no I don't fish anymore, I used to live in Capetown and go deep sea fishing every day & the novelty kinda wore off. We get a fair number of folk who come and stay at our place in La Lucia and a lot of them go deep sea fishing, they bring home the catch and they 'abandon ' it in our freezers(I never complain). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Shears Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 ianinsa - I had to think a bit about potential uses for a while.I finally remembered the use of a lead bath for tempering blades, springs, chisels and punches.I saw this technique demonstrated over ten years ago by Lloyd Johnston, another smith who lives in my region of Ontario, Canada. Lloyd used a lead bath over his coal forge to temper a replacement spring he had made for a leg vice. It's difficult to maintain a low steady temp over a coal forge to keep the lead from fuming (definitely not healthy), so the electric temperature control is a bonus. The disadvantage of the pot you have is the small overall size and shape of the pot. Since the temperature is a known, as is the mass being tempered, time becomes a more predictable variable.Not an ideal repurposing of the tinning pot, but the best of what I've been coming up with.Cheers.Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted September 6, 2015 Author Share Posted September 6, 2015 Thank for putting in the effort Don! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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