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Date:  3-1-2018
Number of Hours:  1.00
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Brief Description:  Cast Lead weights for control surfaces

Today I cast lead into my molds for the control mass balance weights. I used lead from fishing weights and since my brother-in-law reloads, he gave me some lead he uses for bullets, and one big chunck that came from a sailboat keel ballast - thanks Dick.
I melted it all on a popane camp stove in a old aluminum pot. I used candle wax for flux.
On pouring the melted lead into the wood molds the lead boiled quite a bit. Aparently the wood was outgassing a lot. The wood was bone dry, stored inside for years, so I don't think it was water. I will need to melt a llittle extra lead into the resulting buble cavitys if nessary.
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Melting the lead

Melting the lead

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fluxing - this is getting to be fun

fluxing - this is getting to be fun

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pouring the stab mould

pouring the stab mould

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