I use the Brownells salts for parts too big to fit into my old electric lead bullet melting pot., trigger guards, ect. Seems to work OK
But for a handfull of screws to blue or drawing back springs I still use the lead pot.
Heats up quickly, easy to maintain the needed temp w/the simple control knob and using my elderly but still accurate high temp thermometer.
Wire up the part(s) and keep them in the lead for a few minutes for the blue to appear. Don't let the part touch the sides or bottom of the lead pot.
It'll want to float in the lead so it takes a little rigging & bending of the wire attached to a vise grip lying next to the pot to allow it to sit submerged by itself for the needed time. You can hand hold each one of course just as easily but that gets tedious for me w/a number of small parts to do..
Shake off excess lead when they come out.
Some lead will stick on occasion especially where it's attached to the wire but that peels right off when cooled & taken apart.
Same thing when doing springs.
