When melting range recovered lead, what to do with jackets

[lup]

I'm still buying for projects.

[bobthenailer]

I recently got $2.45 a pound for my smelted jackets ! 57 lbs = $139.00 , I got dirty copper price, as one formula for gliding metal jackets is 95% copper.

[lup]

What are you using to smelt the copper? I need to improve my process.

[Any Cal.]

I have quite a few jackets and a forge. What can be used as a crucible for copper?

[John in WI]

I get #2 prices for mine. I don't do a whole lot of range scrap, but last time I did a run (a few 5 gallon pails full) I made a quick and dirty cleaner. I punched a bunch of holes in the bottom of a 5 gallon pail, then covered that with some coarse pond filter material (it's this kind of plastic spongy stuff they use for landscaping). Then I put that into another bucket with a squirt of dish soap. I shook it around and pulled it in and out of the water and that got a huge amount of **** off of copper. Then I ran over it with a strong speaker magnet to get rid of the steel and that was it.

[bslim]

The jacketed lead I get is from an indoor range that uses rubber blocks for a back stop. The bullets are realatively clean when all of the rubber bits and pieces are removed. After smelting and removing the jackets, I get #2 scrap copper prices,roughly $2.00/lb. Well worth the effort. I have 18 / 5gal. pails to smelt this spring and my back is already hurting just thinking about it. I wouldn't scrap copper jackets until I checked out all available markets for them.

[lup]

I have quite a few jackets and a forge. What can be used as a crucible for copper?

You can use something as simple as a flower pot.