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Just pewter in the bag. When i get ingots, I melt them and pour into a 5 gallon pail of water and it makes pellets. Easier to melt the right amount without out repeatedly melting the pewter down.
You can lose a ton of metal to slag by reheating over and over.
When I first zipped through the video, I was wondering why you would be so crazy and heat pewter in your kitchen! Then I realized it was your garage setup.
question⌠do you have to do this with an enclosed mold? Could you just pour into the half with the carved design in it and let it cool? If you poured not all the way to the top Iâm thinking you wouldnât have any extra bits to scrape off.
You donât have to do an enclosed mold at all. Getting it to flow where you want it to go with the opened up designed I used made things easier. But if you wanted a single piece, no holes, I think youâd be good to go.
The pewter does setup relatively quickly, and pours pretty big with my ladle.
Give it a go. If it doesnât turn out, no downside really.
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Looks great! Y axis has 2 stepper motors on it you need to turn up the power in the controller. Inventables helped me and they have just added the step to the assembly instructions. It fixed all my nightmares of destroying material. Good luck. Pâs I also turn up the power on z axis just a bit.