DeanWinchester
01-07-2013, 11:53 AM
I work in a tire shop so I've never had t be overly frugal with my lead. Supply has always been a plenty and I have more now than I will shoot in this lifetime so I have always scooped off the dross and tossed it in with scrap metal.
I decided to start keeping it and I am shocked at how much I've been wasting. I waited until I filled a large coffee can and then I used the wood furnace to smelt it down again. It gets VERY hot, hot enough to make steel glow. Too hot really but since I am certain there are no impurities in there, I stuck it in there. I got about a 50% return. Half a coffee can is a lot of lead to just throw away.
The other half is a yellow ash with the same consistency as sifted dirt.
I imagine I have burnt off the tin.
No surprise to many of you, but as I say, I've never had a need to save it. I still don't, but I will just out of principle!
I decided to start keeping it and I am shocked at how much I've been wasting. I waited until I filled a large coffee can and then I used the wood furnace to smelt it down again. It gets VERY hot, hot enough to make steel glow. Too hot really but since I am certain there are no impurities in there, I stuck it in there. I got about a 50% return. Half a coffee can is a lot of lead to just throw away.
The other half is a yellow ash with the same consistency as sifted dirt.
I imagine I have burnt off the tin.
No surprise to many of you, but as I say, I've never had a need to save it. I still don't, but I will just out of principle!