It was a great weekend!
Three other boat builders came to visit me so that we could cast the lead bulbs for our boats together.
First up was Fabian (#208), who built two beautiful moulds.
We were able to borrow the casting equipment from Thomas (#66), who has already finished his lead bomb. Many thanks to him, it worked perfectly!
We were fortunate in obtaining the lead: the company on whose premises my workshop is located had manufactured a batch of lead casings for X-ray machines and saved the milling chips for us.
It took us almost an hour to melt the lead and bring it to the right temperature.
We cast two bulbs one after the other and then waited four hours until they were cold enough to remove them from the mould.
At first, we were afraid that we wouldn’t be able to get the bulbs out of the mould. But the lead shrank as it cooled, and soon we could see a gap between the mould and the lead.
The result of the first two runs.
And these are the four of us boat builders: Oliver (#273), Fabian (#208), me (#165) and Dominique (#220).
