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Woodchuck
03-06-2008, 10:21 PM
Has anyone ever seen the lead pill bottles that radioactive nuc med doses come in? I'm wondering what the hardness of them is. I also have a lead liner that they used to use in walk in tile showers. I had been selling the pill bottles for scrap but with the cost of lead bullets going up I'm thinking about casting.
454PB
03-06-2008, 10:27 PM
One of these?

http://www.castboolits.gunloads.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1278&d=1144720231


It casts and is the same hardness as WW alloy.
joatmon
03-06-2008, 11:33 PM
Casting is good!!! Now if you decide not to atleast let a caster buy it for what the scrap
people pay you! Casting still sounds the best though!
Woodchuck
03-06-2008, 11:54 PM
I was saving a little to cast jigs with but a little will go a long way for that. I just need to decide if I want to buy a sizer lubricater or tumble lube. The place I was getting the pill bottles has stopped getting them like that so I don't get much. I haven't checked tire shops yet but a friend used to work at Firestone a year or so ago and said they just threw them away when the bucket was full.
joatmon
03-07-2008, 12:13 AM
Hope you find a good constant source and join in on the fun! What round would you cast for
first if you do make the plunge? Aaron
LET-CA
03-07-2008, 02:15 AM
I have a whole stack of the lead "jars" from a nuclear pharmacy. They're great for casting. I add just a little tin to a 20 lb pot and get great bullets. I'm not sure what the exact compostion is, but they cast weights which pretty well match Lyman #2. There's a place not far from me that gets about twenty thousand lbs per year of them. They sell most to a fishing company but he sells some to me too. Good stuff!
Woodchuck
03-07-2008, 10:34 PM
I would be casting for the .357/.38. And I just got a .40 a few months ago and would like to try some in that.
testhop
03-08-2008, 10:22 AM
the shower liner is pure (soft)lead so if you use it for anything but blackpowder round ball
you will need to harden it up some juse add ww you dont need much for the handguns you are useingof better yettrade it to a b.p. shooter for ww both of you will be happy he more than youcause soft lead is harder to find