Yes and Yes.Do any of you cast and have extra lying around for a long time?
Have you ever melted them in their specific alloys for use again later?
Yes and Yes.Do any of you cast and have extra lying around for a long time?
Have you ever melted them in their specific alloys for use again later?
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― The Dalai Lama, Seattle Times, May 2001
I have lots of different containers with boolits in them. Different sizes, weights, sized or not and PCed or not. I make sure I put a piece of paper in each indicating what they are. When I get down to less than six or so, I usually put them in the remelt can to free up the container. When my remelt can gets full, I make ingots and mark them with a ? , so know it’s an unknown alloy.
I salvage everything, never throw anything out. I shoot into a bullet trap to reclaim all my lead. Spent brass goes to the scrapyard & I trade for lead. Recycling at it's best. All about saving the environment & global warming!
I toss rejects or damaged bullets into a little box by the bench. Every so often I add them to the pot. No sense is worrying about specific alloy. If the are PC I wait till I am smelting down range scrap, as the resulting goop is not favorable to a bottom pour pot.
I have 2 buckets that are marked DIRTY LEAD,
and SPREW SCRAP.
As I pick up lead all year from every were.
That goes in the DIRTY bucket.
When I am making new boolets the sprew goes
in the SPREW bucket.
Then once a year I smelt and clean the dirty lead.
And then smelt the sprew lead and then I put it in a
bucket marked SUPER CLEAN.
That is the bucket I make my boolits out of.
The boolits come out around 7-9 SAECO.
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My Star sizer is set on top of a two step ladder and on at bottom step and the back leg brace is a wooden box to hold weights for stability.this unit set near my loading bench. As I size the rejects get dropped in it. As I load any more reject are thrown in when it gets to full I clean it out and make more of the bullets I need.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |