This is a picture of the CCI bullet plant. Does anyone have any ingot moulds I could use to duplicate these ingots? :-P
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This is a picture of the CCI bullet plant. Does anyone have any ingot moulds I could use to duplicate these ingots? :-P
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I wonder if they'd ship one gratis?
I promise I would share. I'm 65 and shoot little boolits.
Might be a teensie bit too big for the Pro Melt. But I'm willing to try to make it work!
I am willing to share also, my son, grandson............:bigsmyl2:
I need to take a trip up to CCI for a tour.
A `ball park guess` on the weight of one of those?Robert
One warning - Don't drop one of THOSE on your foot. That'd smart. Briefly.
Reminded me of Fred Flintstone at the drivethru :) might tip my casting bench over..
Now that's impressive....they must be 2K lbs each. I want just one.
redhawk
I am guessing that they measure 30"L X 26"W X 14" tall. What do you think they are?
quote: Does anyone have any ingot moulds I could use to duplicate these ingots?
How about and old cast iron bathtub?
A cubic foot of lead weighs 709 lbs. Those ingots look like 2 ft x 2 ft x 1 foot with some missing around the bottom. So probably close to 3 cubic feet, so they are probably one ton ingots.
i would be more than happy to take a few. i will figure out the cutting and melting.
Trying not to drool, same as the rest of you folks :)
Back in the late 70's there was an old guy building a cold molded sailboat and cast his own lead keel. Built a mold by digging a hole in the ground (for support) then building a form in the hole. Set up an old cast iron bathtub for the lead pot. Built a fire under the bathtub and melted a few hundred thousand bullets worth of lead before pulling the plug on that old tub:groner:
I was once gifted a cast keel and after cutting it up with a chainsaw, hauling the pieces and turning them into 5# ingots I swore to never accept another "free" large piece of Pb alloy. This was never on my experience bucket-list but I do chalk it up to an experience not to be repeated.
Those aren't Ingots they are Pigs there is a larger size called Sows. LOL
The Pigs are probably 1,000-1200 lbs. Below is a pallet with 1,000 lbs in 30 lb ingots. Rotometals even paid the shipping!
Yeah, those will make you drool! But big lead = big work!
I remember when I used to get 60 pound lead ingots from Sanders lead. I had to take them to the place where my son worked and use their cutting torch to make them usable. They sure absorb the heat!
I've wondered if a big cold chisel would work for splitting such ingots - Maybe an air chisel. Less messy than a chainsaw or cutting torch maybe? But might be slow and annoying.
Bet they don't have to worry about a worker slipping one in his lunch box..
yep that one big ingot alright
I am looking for a printers 'pig' mould, any one seen those around here?
much obliged, Max
So how do folks usually deal with hunks too big to smelt? I saw the log splitter up there ^. I've personally parted them out with an old axe head and a maul. MAJOR pain in the butt and not personally recommended.
That's alot of bullets.
when I worked for a place that welded aluminum. we would cut bad spots out with a air chisel. it also goes through lead like butter. I have used it to cut up lead blocks.
I bought an air chisel just for cutting the soldered seams out of telephone cable splice covers! Like a knife thru hot butter!
I use to haul them to a battery plant those are 1800 to 2200 lbs.
I met a guy hauling some once in a truck stop years ago. I was thinking he said about a ton apiece but i wasnt sure.
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;) Aw geeeeeeeeeeeeeee.I`ll take two.They`re small.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo
A fellow member brought me a 3400 pound forklift weight of lead. We still have not begun to tackle it yet. But our current thinking is to elevate it somewhat and place a weed burner torch on the underside and melt it down over time. As the lead resolidifies on the ground we will drag it out and smelt in another jewel he procured ..... a large truck brake drum on stilts built for smelting lead.
Do you think we are going to run out of boolits anytime soon?
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Three44s
Probably not tomorrow anyway. Lol
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