I’m not sure I could get my pot hot enough to melt the zinc ww’s. I cut the top off a 20 lb propane tank for my pot and bought a propane replacement burner for my heat. I think it would take a long time to get to zinc melting temperature with this setup. I took a zinc and a lead weight and tried to melt the end with a propane torch, the lead melted, the zinc did not. But with that said, I don’t think I’ll fill the pot with weights and try to melt them all at once. I’m going sort what’s obvious, get 2 or 3 inches of melted lead and then put enough in to cover the top so I can see what’s happening. The big zinc ones are easy to spot, it’s the 1 inchers that will be a little tougher to see. I’ll get through them, it’s only 1 heaping 5 gallon bucket.
When I’m done with them, i have about 150 lbs of lead flashing and old lead pipe I’m going to melt into bars. I may try to make some harder bars from this because I know what I’m starting with.
