Today started out with two buckets of local WWs -



















Started out today sorting and smelting:
178#/two buckets of WW.
Results: 114#, - 64% smelted WW
12.25#, Raw SOWW-6.88%
Total yield 120.88#-70.88%
Zinc WW-6.5#- 3.65%
Iron Weights- 26#- 14.6%
Iron clips after separated from smelt- 19#- 10.67% of th 178# gross
Iron clips Wt/percent of (133#raw) smelted WW- 19#-14.3%
Disappointing when realizing the time spent, particularly in sorting
before lighting up the turkey frier / 60# cap lead pot.
OTOH, after reading the above, that 70+ percent yield seems pretty good.
Hope my other buckets of WW waiting for sorting/smelting are that good or better.
I hope for fewer Iron and Zinc in these (years) older buckets.
beltfed/arnie