Vise grips ;) Cheap and fast to use, C type and cut them to suit.
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Vise grips ;) Cheap and fast to use, C type and cut them to suit.
Actually going to try the seamless tube way and see if it works :ORLY: seems to be a few doing it that way, and I dont have access to any machinery at this time to make a mould
If you can use sch80 or heavier. In fact for 3/4 try and find some sch160 (a boiler shop should have it)
That is a 100% tidier but sorta same concept of how we did a similar thing years ago and what I was meaning in comment above. We just didnt have access to great tools so made do. Thats
a nice clean result on the final product ours was a little rougher than that. Brings back memeories of going through the electric motor factories in Brazil and seeing 1" inch diameter rolls of copper goin into machine at one end
and coming out at sizes like 0.32 of a mm at the other with 16 coats of varnish applied and dry... Oh and also of Cobacabana Beach in summer of course ... OMG ...
How are you melting the lead ? a bottom pour pot is probably the best way to get consistant temp and helps pouring without voids in the lead . You should flux then skim your lead to remove impurities like oxides , a lump of beeswax works well , as for moisture in lead , a drop of sweat off your brow can blow up enough lead splatter to blind you , Wear a lead fume mask if you can find one .