If it were me, I would pick a day when the wind is the right direction, set things up on a picnic table, and have at it. My nearest neighbor is a full 1/4 mile away. They might smell the smoke, but it wouldn't be a problem.
If it were me, I would pick a day when the wind is the right direction, set things up on a picnic table, and have at it. My nearest neighbor is a full 1/4 mile away. They might smell the smoke, but it wouldn't be a problem.
If you have a large cast iron pot with a heavy stand, just bring the alloy pot temperature up to 700 plus degrees, antimony and arsenic, with a gas flame up over the top, it will burn all flammables off. Make sure the stand can take the heat and weight with heat. If the smoke and gases do not burn, toss a small block of bees wax in and light that off. Burn the fumes. Flux, flux, flux, I get paint and rubber all of the time.
Sand will go to the bottom of the pot.
“There is a remedy for all things, save death.“
Cervantes
“Never give up, never quit.”
Robert Rogers
Roger’s Rangers
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers
Big pot, lot's oh heat, light the smoke with a torch.
Well I had a chance today to give y’all’s suggestions a try. I used a wheelbarrow, dumped about a quart of the raw material and set my shop vac to blow. I waived the hose over the pile and after a few minutes of sifting with a scoop while blowing, I was able to blow maybe 90%-95% of the rubber either to the end of the wheelbarrow or floated over the side. The stuff that floated outside was small and was sometimes some small lead flakes and jacket material but when I swept it up it really was mostly rubber debris. The lighter lead flakes and some loose jacket material went to the front of the wheelbarrow. The stuff on the back was mostly the larger lead chunks. So I set those aside. The front pile was mostly small lead flakes, jacket material and the majority of the rubber. It was about 15%-20% of the initial quart. I did another batch like that and then dumped the pile with the rubber into a bucket and easily floated the majority of the rubber off while agitating the lead slush at the bottom. I torched some of the dry lead and the fumes were nominal so it was a huge improvement. It may take a while to process it but at least now I have a technique that will be pretty effective to eliminate most of the rubber. I am hoping when I get the melt pot going the jackets and penetrators will float and separate easily. My local scrap yard buys dross but I would love to separate the jackets to try to smelt into a copper ingot. I read that jackets are only 95% copper and 5% zinc. I don’t really have the capability to remove the zinc so it is as good as I can get. If not then the scrap yard buys the jacket fragments but at dross price which is next to nothing.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |