Nice haul. I would buy and stash all I can. Lead could get very hard to come by in the future. I bought some of the football shaped ones a few years ago, before I had a smelting rig and, they were hard to melt with a torch and a cheap hot plate. If you don't have a turkey fryer you may want to see if you can find one at a yard sale.
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I'm set up. I just need more ingots
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You may want to get a couple of these. They stack well and will fit in any casting pot. At $11.00 they would be great.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KI0OU8U...=IKRVSSH9ZUVAI
Originally Posted by n10sivern
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How much weight do those cast out at
Congratuations on the steady supply. From your pictures it looks like you are getting 2 different kinds of lead. The sheets are probably used for shielding in the walls of x-ray rooms or such and are probably nearly pure. The other things are known as isotope containers and the link that Beagle posted has a lot of info on them. Yours are the first containers that I have seen that are pure lead and not an alloy. I bet the smaller ones are an alloy and could be the source of tin and antimony that you are looking for. Your #4 picture probably held a small vial of medicine and fit inside another larger container. The ones that I had would come apart like a puzzle. Regardless of the alloy that you have, it is really clean lead and you made a good score.
The cornbread molds that I have used in the past made an ingot that weighed between 2 and 3 pounds. When you start smelting with a turkey fryer and a large pot it helps keep your production up if you have several ingot molds. Everytime you fill and dump one they get hotter, to the point that the lead stays molten longer and longer. I usually run 7 of the 4 gang Lyman style molds and after 4 or 5 cycles I have to take a short break and let them cool. Once again, Congratulations on finding a steady source for good lead.
I'm paying $1.0 lb at scrap yard and thought that was a good deal.
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Where can you get those at?
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If you are talking about the corn bread pan, the link is in the post. It's from Amazon.
A vote for anyone other then the conservative candidates is a vote for the liberal candidates.
I don't know how familiar you are with smelting, But if those cores have been stored outdoors you need to make sure they are placed in the pot with the open end facing up. The last thing you want to see is a steam explosion. And if it happens it may be the last thing you see. It's time consuming and it waste a lot of propane, but when I do range scrap I start each batch from an empty pot. I experienced a steam explosion many years ago and missed losing an eye by about an inch.
A vote for anyone other then the conservative candidates is a vote for the liberal candidates.
Nah. I don't smelt lead that was outdoors. It is all stored indoors and stays in my garage for a while before getting smelted.
No, asking about the lead they are talking about.
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nuclear pharmacies or radio pharmacies
Ok. Thanks.
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If you have more than you can use sell it here for a buck a pound, I would happily pay that.
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I am selling my extra on here. I have a crapload of lead either at my house or waiting on me to pick it up.
Link to the sale thread? Anything you would be willing to trade for, I work at a shooting range and can get you brass for trade.
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I don't know if it's kosher to link a sale thread here. Some forums are against it. I'll send it to you in a PM. It's titles FS: soft lead
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