Lag Bolt anchors

[armexman]

All, I was given many lag anchors by our warehouse as the maintenance techs at work where not using the type with a hard threaded insert and a soft anchor.
I seperated the two parts and sent the obviously zinc containing inserts to recycling.
Being of an inquisitve mind I took half of the anchors to my lead processing center and tested for BHN; they came out to a BHN of 8 and produced well filled out and sharp boolits.
I just made over 350 Lee SWC-105grn boolits and with a little enrichemnt form some "Rotometals" antimony rich lead and a couple of ingots of WW metal came out with a hardness of BHN 17.YMMV
Please do not overlook this gift horse if you run across some anchors.
HTH

[bangerjim]

Now you know one of my secret sources!!!!!!!!!!!

HA.....ha.

banger

[zuke]

Shoulda brought that zinc to the scrapper's and traded for lead.

[Hardcast416taylor]

YUP! Used to do that trick for quite afew years when I was in the construction trade with the scrap anchors that were always in the bottom of the box they came in.Robert

[MTtimberline]

Any pictures of what they look like?