Finished My Lead Today

[BigBlack]

Well just finished smelting my two buckets of wheel weights. I ended up with 185.5 pounds or 1,298,500 grains which ever way you want to look at it.

What to do What to do :Fire:

[jnovotny]

I too cleaned one rather full bucket of wheel wieghts, ended up with 142 lyman ingots.

[NSP64]

BigBlack, that thar stuff is dangerous, send it to me for proper disposal.

[Gunslinger]

Do you guys seperate all the Zinc weights, or do you just hurry and remove them when the lead is melted?

What is the approximate gain from say 100lbs of WWs? I ask cause I have about 500lbs that I look forward to melting down when winter is over, and am eager to know how much "pure" WW-lead I'll end up with....

[Railbuggy]

Both.I try to seperate but miss a few.Keep a close watch on my melt,try to stay under 700, and skim off the float.

[jnovotny]

I just watch my melt closely and skim off the ones that float.

[opentop]

What is the approximate gain from say 100lbs of WWs? I ask cause I have about 500lbs that I look forward to melting down when winter is over, and am eager to know how much "pure" WW-lead I'll end up with....

You will get some where around 400Ibs of WW alloy

[Gunslinger]

Okay, that's a little more than I had hoped for :cool:

Can't remember ever looking so much forward to winter ending, he he.

[BigBlack]

I try to seperate my zinc weights but some always get over looked. I watch the smely too and remove them as soon as I see them floating.

Imagine 400lbs = 2,800,000 grains or 15,555 180gr bullets.