Matt_G
07-06-2010, 09:44 PM
Last month I went to a 1000 yard bench rest shoot at Colorado Rifle Club.
Did pit duty to fulfill my work bond obligation.
Anyways, I was talking to one of the shooters there and after hearing I cast my own boolits he mentioned he was a plumber and had been for many years.
Told me he had quite a bit of lead around and would I like to buy some of it?
Well, after a few phone calls over the past couple of weeks, I went down to his house on Saturday and scored the following for $165.00
http://www.goodrichfamilyassoc.org/downloads/Lead_from_Tom_1.jpg
I got all the pipe etc. melted down Sunday and yesterday.
That came out to 288 pounds of clean ingots.
I still have all the ingots from his plumbers pot to do. You can see quite a few of them in that picture.
Has to be close to 400 pounds worth.
I've tested random samples and all of them are dead soft according to my Cabin Tree tester.
I'm a happy camper, let me tell ya!
I didn't really have anything to mix with my clip on WW's till now.
I'm gonna be a HP casting and testing fool now. :mrgreen:
Sure am glad all that pipe is melted. All of it was from the sewer side of things.
That was the nastiest, foulest smelling stuff this side of hell. :shock:
Did pit duty to fulfill my work bond obligation.
Anyways, I was talking to one of the shooters there and after hearing I cast my own boolits he mentioned he was a plumber and had been for many years.
Told me he had quite a bit of lead around and would I like to buy some of it?
Well, after a few phone calls over the past couple of weeks, I went down to his house on Saturday and scored the following for $165.00
http://www.goodrichfamilyassoc.org/downloads/Lead_from_Tom_1.jpg
I got all the pipe etc. melted down Sunday and yesterday.
That came out to 288 pounds of clean ingots.
I still have all the ingots from his plumbers pot to do. You can see quite a few of them in that picture.
Has to be close to 400 pounds worth.
I've tested random samples and all of them are dead soft according to my Cabin Tree tester.
I'm a happy camper, let me tell ya!
I didn't really have anything to mix with my clip on WW's till now.
I'm gonna be a HP casting and testing fool now. :mrgreen:
Sure am glad all that pipe is melted. All of it was from the sewer side of things.
That was the nastiest, foulest smelling stuff this side of hell. :shock: