Melting lead with a Conclusion

First whatever you pour the melted lead into has to have been heated. If there is even the smallest amount of moisture in it, the water will flash into steam exploding liquid lead everywhere. That is not a good thing. Don't use pottery it would be very hard to get it dry enough. Second pyrex might work and it might just crack in two, so wherever you do the pouring make sure you and your stuff will be safe if the container breaks. Third, lead melts at 621 F, alloys will melt at a lower temperature. Somewhere around 900 F lead starts putting out fumes that will cause lead poisoning if you breath them. Do this outside, upwind and use a HEPA mask if you have one. Also don't melt the battery pieces, it is not worth the risk. Some wheel weights are made of zinc which melts at 787 F. So if you melt wheel weights and some are floating instead of melting they may be zinc instead of lead. Let us know how it goes and be safe!!



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