What do I do with this pipe?

[slim1836]

Those washers on the ends may not be lead, I would check them.

Slim

[skeettx]

Billythepoet
Thank you for posting
Great find
Looks like soft lead to me.
Mix it 50/50 with some wheel weights for
some target pistol bullets

Mike

[NyFirefighter357]

Great, now make some ingots

[Billythepoet]

So far I've got a ladle and some ingot molds... I need to buy a furnace and some bullet mold now.

[mazo kid]

When I lucked into several hundred pounds of lead water pipe a few years ago, I just used my limb lopper tool to cut it into smelting size pieces. Worked quick and easy.

[44magLeo]

I have a propane grill that uses the 1 lb. bottles. I bought a hose that hooks on to a 20 lb. bottle then hooks to the grill.
I have a propane torch that you use on 1 lb. bottles. I can hook this torch to the hose on the 20 lb. bottle.
When I get something like that I set it up over my smelting pot and use the torch on the 20 lb. bottle to melt in into the pot. It works well and releases any moisture inside.
I can then set the pot up on the turkey fryer and melt up and clean to make ingots.
No wasted lead from cutting it up.
Hold on. That's how I did it last time I had a big chunk of lead. I recently got one of those weed burner torches from Harbor Freight.
I'll use that next time. Much bigger and hotter flame, will work quicker.
Leo

[Good Cheer]

Some lead pipe is formulated with antimony added.
I've had some from a chemical plant salvage that I call mystery metal. It's solidifies into a soft matrix with harder crystalline structures that form first. High temperatures needed to make molds fill out. Makes good expanding hollow points.