JFE, I am just in the initial phase of melting down the lead pipe. So, only one pile at the moment. Pipe. However, I understand the logic of not getting too many different variations sitting around.

Spent a couple hours earlier in the week with a set of lopping shears chopping the lead pipe into 4" to 6" chunks. Just finished my first afternoon of melting lead water pipe and ladling ingots. Got into a rotation with two pots and ended up with a little over 60 ingots over a 2-3 hour period. Ingots from my first melt...

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I was skimming dross off the initial melt, and then double fluxing. I have a sawmill, so, no shortage of dry sawdust to use for flux. However, even after fluxing a second time, it seemed like I could keep just stirring the pot and have a film of "stuff" form on top of the molten lead. Is this normal? Or do I need to maybe flux a third time ?