It's All MINE!

[Crash_Corrigan]

This is my pile! It represents 6 5 gallon buckets of ww's. They are all smelted down and fluxed and ingotized into tiny cast iron ash trays (mini frying pans from Bass Pro Shops) and piled into the can, a shopping bag and a pile. Now I am moving and I have to move all this stuff. Better this than the 6 5 gallon cans of ww's. Those free crayons that Denny's gives out work pretty good as a flux. Ditto with the blue/black wax that comes on Cabot Cheddar Cheese.

[imashooter2]

I always enjoy seeing the nice pile of ingots after a day spent over the smelting pot. Congrats!

BTW, I've got a buck says you can't lift that shopping bag.:)

[C A Plater]

Ah, happiness is a big pile of warm ingots. Good job!:mrgreen:
:cbpour:

[VTDW]

I always enjoy seeing the nice pile of ingots after a day spent over the smelting pot. Congrats!

BTW, I've got a buck says you can't lift that shopping bag.:)

Too funny. Some of you fellas are a real hoot!!
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[kodiak1]

Crash that looks nice!!!! Now to get them broke down into little itty bitty cylindrical pieces that fit presicely into different sized brass tubes.
Ken.

[buck1]

"Now I am moving and I have to move all this stuff."

I have 2.5-3 tons , so here I will live forever!! LOL

[Springfield]

I have 11 buckets in my garage that I have to get melted down, but it has been too hot. Already have about 2200 lbs stored out back. Shooting for 4000 lbs, figger that will get me through until I die. That's 140,000 200 grain bullets. That's 583 bullets every month for 20 years. Dang, I don't think that's gonna do it, better raise that to 5000 lbs. , I'm only 51.

[mtgrs737]

Looks like there are other folks out there with "obsessive-Compulsive personality" like me. I too am thinking in terms of tons of casting grade lead ingots instead of in pounds of lead. I have collected 2 1/2 buckets of WW's toward my next smelt start of 4 buckets. A friend contacted me with an offer of 200lbs. of indoor range lead, he said that it should be at least as good as ww's.

Storage and moving a couple of tons is no problem, I just stack them on a pallet and use my pallet jack or my fork truck.

[Blammer]

I just sell my extra lead.... :)

[imashooter2]

I just sell my extra lead.... :)

I hear you, I just don't understand the concept of "extra lead"...

[lawboy]

Looks like there are other folks out there with "obsessive-Compulsive personality" like me. I too am thinking in terms of tons of casting grade lead ingots instead of in pounds of lead. I have collected 2 1/2 buckets of WW's toward my next smelt start of 4 buckets. A friend contacted me with an offer of 200lbs. of indoor range lead, he said that it should be at least as good as ww's.

Storage and moving a couple of tons is no problem, I just stack them on a pallet and use my pallet jack or my fork truck.

Take the range scrap. Scrap from my indoor range works out to a 20:1 mix, which is about 10 BNH and when heat treated and water quenched, ramps up to 22 BNH. It is FABULOUS lead for nearly all cast boolit applications.

[hunterldh]

Range lead is super stuff but be careful. I got 500 pounds of it from an estate a number of years ago and while I was processing it into ingots a 20 pound batch of molten lead erupted just as I was walking up to it to give it the final fluxing. Fortunately quick reflexes allowed me to dive to safety, only getting a few splatters on the back bottom of my jeans. I don't know if I missed a loaded pistol cartridge or a primer but it blew lead for about five feet all around. - Hunter

[PatMarlin]

I've got neat little RCBS ingots horded and stacked under my bench. I need to smelt about 10 more buckets. That's still not much, but all my lead shoots in my lead tree stump targets so it's totally mineable again.. :Fire:

Didn't Bubba Bill Clinton say we were not supossed to hord ?.. :confused: [smilie=1:

[jonk]

What's the scale? That looks like an awfully small pile for 30 gallons of wheelweights.

[Forester]

Looks about right to me...I smelted 3 of the 6 5 gallon buckets I have on hand last weekend and made my muffin pan ingots. It seems to work out to about 1 bucket full of ingots for every 2 buckets of WWs.

I have finally started to try and quantify my lead supply and it seems I can get about 350-360 200gr boolits out of 4 of my ingots. If that is close to right then I made ingots for 10-11 thousand boolits and have about the same left to smelt.

I shoot about 20K a year and will be out of boolits in the next couple of months. It seems my lead supply is just barely exceding my current shooting habits.

[jack19512]

It seems to work out to about 1 bucket full of ingots for every 2 buckets of WWs.









I would agree with that. If I am not mistaken it also took me two buckets of wheel weights to get one bucket of ingots.

[imashooter2]

I would agree with that. If I am not mistaken it also took me two buckets of wheel weights to get one bucket of ingots.

Works about the same for the range scrap I've been using. A universal constant?

[fireflyfather]

The ingots are probably more densely packed than loose weights or range scrap. Also (obviously), WW have those nasty clips to get rid of. As far as range scrap, I would think you would get a better ratio. Lots of jacketed bullets in the mix?

[imashooter2]

Indoor range scrap. About 25% jacketed, 50% .22's and 25% commercial cast. There's lots of dirt, target fragments, wood, rubber, oil, etc..

[Forester]

Indoor range scrap. About 25% jacketed, 50% .22's and 25% commercial cast. There's lots of dirt, target fragments, wood, rubber, oil, etc..

thats a bonus then...its pre-fluxed!

[imashooter2]

The stuff I get burns for a long time after it gets hot enough to ignite. Move the trash on the top to the side and there is a nice 3/8 inch layer of oil/molten rubber to burn off before you can pour ingots. It's a much bigger PITA to smelt than WW, but it's the only lead I can get for free, so I take it!

[PatMarlin]

You need... PMWFCFF.. :mrgreen:

[imashooter2]

I'm sure that PMWFCFF is the schiznit, but I've got a pretty good supply of IS2DCMNF* to burn up first. I'm real big on the DCMN part. :)















*imashooter2's Didn't Cost Me Nuttin' Flux

[PatMarlin]

schiznit. Been a long while since I heard that one.. :mrgreen: Now that's some hoestro getto slang reminiscent of my old neighborhood. Where you from IAS2?

[imashooter2]

LOL! I'm pure white bread from the Philly suburbs. "Schiznit" is still a popular term with the local high schoolers, one of whom lives in my house...

[PatMarlin]

HA, ha...

I'm pure white bread originally from a multi race neighborhood, and that term is derived from a black getto pig Latin slang call Pizzizz, that was very popular in the 70's.

Kids probably pic it up from rap music now... :roll: :mrgreen: