I'm proud of you son. Back in the day of almost free wheel weights. We would call it a day after 2 five-gallon buckets. I'm still blending those 2 plus pound "Muffins" into the scrap I scrounge up nowadays. I Add some pewter scrap 1 or two pounds per 40 lbs of weight. My cast Dutch oven pan is not huge. Keep up the good work. It pays off big time long term. Uncle Mike in Ct.
Ps. w/o blending tin into that stuff. You have over 55K 200grain boolits. That's a nice size pile.
Last edited by unclemikeinct; 02-20-2022 at 03:09 AM. Reason: add to
It's running between 7.8 and 8.4 BHN on the batches that have aged two weeks. I'm happy that the hardness is very consistent across batches which is one of the things I wanted to accomplish. A batch was 75 to 85 lbs per batch with approximately 20 lbs left in the pot to help melt the next batch and to smooth the BHN across batches.
Finally figured out the picture thing.
Started with 34 buckets with 50-90 lbs each of range lead
Lots of trash. About 40% by weight but about 80% by volume
Those are 11+ pound bricks on average
These bricks and the ingots in the below picture is the first two days (one weekend)
Angle Iron Ingots are about 1 1/4 pounds each
The next pictures are of three days of work spread over two weekends. This is almost a half ton of lead in this picture.
Last edited by SoonerEd; 02-28-2022 at 09:16 PM.
40% trash?? Any copper salvageable from boolit jkts??Originally Posted by SoonerEd
Most of the trash by weight was sand/dirt. I would have had to run everything through my cement mixer but that would have been another major project for likely only a couple hundred pounds of copper or less. Not worth two days work.
Same buddy has 500 lbs of reclaimed shot he wants me to come get.
Do they slide into the pot whole lake that??
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I have an RCBS pot and one will fit. Of course the angle iron ingots fit without issue. The bricks I'm using for long term storage mostly to some day when needed pour into ingots. I already had over 2,000 lbs in ingots. So, did not need this in ingots as well...too hard to store and move.
Last edited by SoonerEd; 04-20-2022 at 09:39 PM.
Sounds like you need a modified propane tank for your project.
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