try to get a separte pot to melt your wheel weights in to clean and flux , try to get a cast iron pot for this , you can flux with wax, or saw dust and many more things as you will learn, a turkey fryer is a great heat source for melting lead so you can make ingots for your melter that you are going to cast from, keeping these two things separte will let your melter last longer and if you have a bottom pour it will not have the trash from melting wheel weights cloging up the spout and your cast bullets will come out nice and shiny without trash in them , you will also need something to pull the steel clips out of the melt I use a large spoon , you will also need some ingot molds to pure your lead in and a ladel to do that with, and this is just to get ready to start casting , now along with what you mentioned and alot I left out you can cast and you will be hooked by the silver stream ( a brotherhood of the silver stream) it will also help to have a hot plate to heat your mold up to temp before casting , doing this you will make good bullets right off the bat , and YES you will need a casting Book , I never had one but it would have been alot of help, I learned everthing to start from the guys at cast boolits.com they are a great bunch of people just like the guys here , try them out they love to help some one get started