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That T-Bird it HOT!

Take the steel and the Zinc to the scrap yard. Sell for cash or trade for more lead. I NEVER give any metals to the city recycle bins. They give me cash, the city doesn't!

You are sitting on a gold mine. Keep some rare stuff for yourself, sell some, and consider donating something to a good cause too. One of those Springfields sold at a charity auction could do some...

I modified my behavior instead of my system. It was operator error, pure and simple. The flame went out on the stove and I didn't have a long lighter to re-ignite. I purchased a long lighter and...

About 30% of the COWW's were truck weights. Big monsters too. But they were offset by 20% were tiny little ones. I am going to try and clean the last of the lead off the clips today, I was not...

Well, final numbers are in. Approx 600 pounds before sort including SOWW's.

After all the sort and smelt, final tally is ~380 pounds COWW, ~40 SOWW.

Total 420 out of 600 pounds. I guess that...

I would hit them at 35 cents a pound. Go up slow, 5 cents a pound over thousands of pounds add up quick.

Ill get some pics up tomorrow. But this was NOT pure lead... It was plenty hot enough to melt pure lead.

So, I was smelting another batch today. Found a handful of Zinc that I missed during the sort, got them out before they made it into the pot.

So, this batch was pretty much all big truck weights....

Recast ALL of that SOWW lead, got yet a different muffin pan, the aluminum 9 hole one.
Fluxed with pine sawdust, and with better technique, ingots came out MUCH better.

Also, did my first batch...

COWW = Clip On Wheel Weight. Lead, Tin and Antimony. Good starting alloy for casting. Usually need to add another 2% more tin. You can use pewter for that. It is pretty much pure tin for our...

If you couldn't cut them, chances are they are Zinc. See the sticky about it. You will be able to mark the zinc with the jaws of your side cutters, but it won't cut. The lead will. Thunk them on...

I'm in for 50 pounds of lino/mono mixed, depending on time frame. I may be up for more spread out over a few months...

Here are some pics of the ingots.930349303593036930379303893039

Yeah, the top was pretty rough. Some of them have cracks in them too, right in the center. I figured that was my piss poor technique. I mixed the pure lead SOWW with the ones that were painted...

Got a different stove, which worked TONS better! Re-melted those first 5 I did, and the rest of the 45 pounds of SOWW that I had. Came out much better this time. Gotta borrow a scale to see what...

What about a regular kitchen pot? Any downside to that? I can go smaller diameter and still stay deep so I can ladle the lead out into my ingot pan.

Well, finally melted lead for the first time today.

Windy, cool. Had a hard time getting the puddle to stay liquid. Don't think I have enough BTU to get it right.

Bought a cheap cast dutch...

That is exactly what I wanted to hear! Thanks so much. I have been trying to figure out what the best mold and sizing die would be for that XD-S in 9mm. With all the nightmare stories I have heard...

Hello all, noob here.
My wife shoots an XD-S in 9mm, and was wondering if anyone else has experience casting/shooting for this particular model.

I have done searches and found zip. A few threads...

FWIW
I have had 3 different 1911's.
Springfield 1911A1
Remington 1911R1
Taurus 1911PT

Remington didn't impress me at all. Sold it pretty quick. Build quality was not there, accuracy was so...

Not that hard to believe that much tonnage from 11 keels. I would venture a guess that not all of them are 17k pounds each. The average 27 foot boat like the one I sold had 2600 pounds of lead...

My car is boring, but my daily "driver" is pretty sweet.
Ex military C-12C Huron, aka Beechcraft Super King Air 200
At take off power she is sucking down fuel to the tune of 3 gallons a MINUTE!...

I looked on CL, found a guy trading WW for ??? and did a deal. Traded a 410 breech single shot shot gun for 600 pounds of mixed WW.
I got a heck of a deal!
It was in 7 buckets, about 3.5-4 gallon...

Hello all, first post, been lurking the last couple weeks.

Sold the boat, bought a 1911 for me and an XDs in 9mm for the wife. Changed hobbies, decided to shoot instead of sail. Also decided I...