I smelted down some wheel weights yesterday. That's something I've never done before and I was surprised at just how nasty smelling the process was with all the paint and grease and grime burning off. A big THANK YOU to who ever it was that suggested using side cutters to sort the lead from the zinc W-W's - that was a great tip. Fortunately, it looks like the W-W's I'm working with are about 95% lead with very few zinc or iron rejects.
I didn't have an ingot pan, so I went and used a cupcake tin as I've heard of other guys doing. I didn't think of smoking the muffin cavities and unfortunately the lead "muffins" stuck fast and I had to flip the pan over and heat the pan with a torch to get them to fall free.
Live and learn, I guess. At least I'm making some progress.
