Quote Originally Posted by rojoguio View Post
Respectfully speaking the scrape material you purchased may have something in it you don't know about. I'm assuming you’re preheating your mold well, I leave mine open resting on top of the kettle to heat up. Next I'm assuming you sooted up your mold, helps the lead pour in well. Can you post a picture of your pours? All the guys here can read them like tea leaves and give good advice. Right now I would suggest buying a few heavy sinkers from Walmart and dump you current lead batch back into the tins. After you do that melt the weights you bought and see if it's you or the lead. I bet it's the lead and your supplier is not selling you decent enough quality to pour the small jigs we use for Crappie fishing. I bought some off Ebay, supposed to be pure lead, anything but pure lead. I use it to pour Saltwater Jigs for Flounder 1/2 oz Jigheads, makes those monsters well but forget pouring 1/16oz jigheads with it.
The lead that I got was wall lining lead for an X-ray room and some old lead pipe. Those are supposed to be top quality. There is nothing wrong with my mold or pours. 1/32 and 1/24 ounce. Full pours, they’re perfect. I don’t have any problem at all pouring perfect jigs. My problem is rust in my pot.