Stumbled across these videos on YouTube. There is nothing professional about them. Figured it would be interesting to quite a few here.
Shorter video showing the pouring of the keel.
https://youtu.be/K1cpJBtWnQg
Longer video showing how they set it all up.
https://youtu.be/rJS5w2xO2As
And in case you were wondering how they moved it. This one had me cringing at times.
https://youtu.be/lAFNcyEIxtg
Hi Dragon.I have seen the two first videos.Most interesting.They all had me cringing at times.
They sure built one heck of a smelter.Just what we cast booliteers need in the back yard.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo
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Very informative.
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That look on your face, when you shift into 6th gear, but it's not there.
didn't you guys get a laugh watching them walk through the big fog banks of melted lead vapor?
On a side note, why do I get the impression an EPA visit to the smelter site soon?
Lead doesn't vaporize till over 1,000 degrees, so I doubt there was any actual lead vapor. Plenty of other stuff in that cloud that's not great for you, but probably not much lead.Originally Posted by Radialshave
Man that's a ton of bullets or in this case 4.5 tons of them!!
Rich
EPA won't be paying them a visit. And that want lead vapor. They didn't get the lead anywhere close to the vaporization point. Most of it was from the lead scorching the wood form. Bad for you to breathe but not lead vapor.
That would have put a big dent in my lead stash! Lots of Southern Engineering in that video!
No wonder there is a lead shortage!
Three44s
how much 22 shorts at 29 grains a pop would that be?
2,172,413.793103448
Doesn't seem like that many once you do the math.
There are a lot of things about that pour that made me cringe but I like to see younger people accomplish things/goals with just their own ingenuity, it gives me hope that this country still has a few people in the next couple generations that are capable.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyR...83SK1hk2GT-Jqg
WOW
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Interesting for sure but I can think of a much better use for all that lead!!!!
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With the speeded up video when he was sitting on top of it pulling the come-along lever toward him it looked for all the world like he was doing a pantomime of rowing a boat.
They seemed like thoughtful folks so I suspect they didn't take too many risks despite the cringe worthy spots. I did wonder about all the dross on top of it, but they were working with a makeshift lead pot literally over a 1000 times bigger than I've ever used, so I'll cut them some slack.
Just did the math, that would be over a quarter of a million bullets at 250 grains apiece. Too many for me, I can't afford the primers.
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