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Most lead for cast iron piping is cast into semi square lengths and hammered into the joint. Ya just can't pour lead into a horizontal joint.
we had an asbestos collar that cinched around the joint and had a pour hole in the top for horizontal pours.
sometimes, yes we would have to use a oakum punch to drive in wayward flows.
still have the burner, pot, and ladle. they were antique when i was a pup. must be xxx antique now!
 
well fellows that being said about pouring the lead. I still lean to the hammering of the lead. By and By it was just easier for most plumbers to just pound it in.
 
You Absolutley can pour lead OR babbit horizonally.... I use to pour 6"&8' diamiter bearings on a cutter drive on Dredges every spring, I also poured pipe joints horizontally! 12" water mains. fit first , then pound in Oakum To center and hold pipe, then pour lead. If I found a guy poundin Lead into a joint I'd Know 2 things immediatley #1 he didn't know what he's doing. #2. he ain't working for Me any more..........Be Safe >>>>>Wally
 
You Absolutley can pour lead OR babbit horizonally.... I use to pour 6"&8' diamiter bearings on a cutter drive on Dredges every spring, I also poured pipe joints horizontally! 12" water mains. fit first , then pound in Oakum To center and hold pipe, then pour lead. If I found a guy poundin Lead into a joint I'd Know 2 things immediatley #1 he didn't know what he's doing. #2. he ain't working for Me any more..........Be Safe >>>>>Wally
this discussion has awakened some long dormant memories. thought those brain cells were long stomped! if we didn't have the collar i just remembered that dad used to pack the oakum tight in the bottom of the vertical bell. then pack oakum with a cavity between the two layers. leaving a port at the top open. then he poured it full and tamped it while still liquid/melted thereby closing the joint.
this was just after the war and up until about 1958 .don't remember how he did it after that point. i started chasing girls.
 
while you CAN do it, plumbers around here repairing piping are not dragging a lead pot into a crawlspace around here and doing it. They are pounding it in. Even my home with a basement has hammered piping. Different areas, different ways of doing it.
 
Plumbing equipment, as some others have said.
My Dad was a plumber back in the 1940's - 1960's. I have his lead pot and it is identical to what is pictured here. Except, in much better condition without all the rust.
I used Dad's lead pot for many years for casting my own lead round balls and fishing sinkers. Finally, this year I bought myself a new electric melting pot.
 
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