Lead pellets???

[Herb G]

What are lead beads/pellets used for when casting resin?
I'm talking about these:
Weights

 

[mecompco]

They are used to weigh down tubes when doing tube-in casting in large molds. Check out the Resin Casting video for usage: Videos | Page 1 of 1

Regards,
Michael

 

[jttheclockman]

Used by some to weigh down tubes while casting in resin.

 

[Herb G]

Ooooohhh. OK guys. Cool deal. Thanks for the info.

 

[JohnU]

I used to use BB's in the tubes to keep them from floating. Unfortunately my mold at the time was larger than I needed so the BB's works great for weights but the tubes would move around in the mold and a few were too close to each other. Next I made smaller molds with cutting boards and just used scrap pieces of resin, cut from the previous blanks, to wedge the tubes between the walls of the mold at each end. They didn't move around and there was no need for weights anymore. Good Luck!