by tattoo on Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:57 am
For the movable ballast placed in the bilges, I plan melt some of the large ingots that I have and cast the lead into convenient sized ingots using an old cast iron mold for cornbread sticks. Each stick is a half-round about 4 inches long and 1 inch wide. Question: Does anyone know if the molten lead will stick to the cast iron? And if so, is there some kind of coating that can be applied to the cast iron before each pouring of lead to make the "cornbread sticks" easily fall out of the mold?
Pete McCrary, launched Tattoo Oct '10.