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You can use any steel pot, and your kitchen oven, but :

Do not do it inside, unless you have means for ventilation like a
blacksmith.

You can use a teaspoon of filed copper to harden the lead. Allow  for
some diffusion time.

Do not touch the fresh consolidated lead with bare hands, unless you
want to poison yourself.
Preheat the mould.
Keep it dry !
To pour the liqid lead, use a pot which's outlet pipe is below the
surface , to avoid mixing in all the oxids and contaminations floating
at
the surface.
Take care.

Just my 2cc

Matthias

> Chris Tibble schrieb:
> 
> I want to make a 'V' weight in preparation for my new twinset, which
> I'm ordering soon. I have the lead weights, and I can make a mould no
> problem, but I want to know how best to (safely) melt the lead down.
> Any ideas about heat source and suitable container for molten lead?
> Protective gear?
> 
> Chris
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