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  1. 08-13-2020, 01:49 PM #1
    ridenclimb
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    Free lead from friends remodeling :) 50+ pounds

    Friend of mine was remodeling a bathroom and there was a 55# lead shower pan. He knows I cast so asked if I was interested. Not one to pass up some free lead I said sure. He dropped off the 55# of scrap a few days ago. It feels like pure lead as it is very bendable. Been too warm to melt it down but maybe this weekend if things cool off I will fire up the turkey fryer and see how many pounds I get after skimming off the junk.

    I am betting it will be somewhere around 50# of ingots. Will make a nice pile of 45acp or 9mm bullets once I add some pewter scrap and COWW.

    Plan to cast in Sept/Oct when the temps are nice to be outdoors and then size/reload indoors over the winter.
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  2. 08-13-2020, 02:13 PM #2
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    Nice...I have some roofer/plumber/mechanic friends that give me scrap as well....good folks to have around for sure.

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  3. 08-13-2020, 02:57 PM #3
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    Yeah, its good stuff and about as pure Lead as you'll find.

    For .45ACP I put just enough goodies or wheel weights into pure lead so it casts nicely.
    Then load to speeds like the factory made Lead swaged bullets.
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  4. 08-13-2020, 08:16 PM #4
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  5. 08-14-2020, 12:15 PM #5
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    Great find! I can remember when I thought of 50 lb of lead as being a large amount... until I started casting Minie Balls and other big stuff for muzzle loaders. Now I'd grab that 50+ lb of lead and have it in bullets before you could blink... and be looking for more. Those guns are insatiable!

    I hadn't thought of shower pans as a lead source... I guess as lead becomes harder and harder to come by we'll have to look further afield and for less conventional sources. Thanks for the suggestion.

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  6. 08-14-2020, 02:09 PM #6
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    Thats a nice score on some soft lead!
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  7. 08-19-2020, 02:35 PM #7
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    Well the weather finally cooled off and I melted the scrapped shower pan into ingots. There was definitely more sand/slag than I had thought there would be. Final yield was about 32# of ingots. Not stellar but happy to have more ingots in the stockpile.

    Now I have to get to casting so I can keep busy at the reloader over the winter.
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  8. 08-28-2020, 03:33 PM #8
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    Good score. I have a friend in construction, came up with over 1200# of roofing lead. he is melting it into 1# ingots & we are trading. I dont need anything near that much pure lead but free is free.
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