Maybe it self identifies as.....
Sorry couldn't help myself!
Maybe it self identifies as.....
Sorry couldn't help myself!
Quote: "That is entirely up to you, but if you separate the metal from the other stuff, it will be a lot easier. Though if you are doing it as a commercial enterprise, it might just be easier to dump pallets of old batteries into the furnace and go from there."
That ought to give the Greenies/woke's & EPA nightmares!!!
R.D.M.
I refine lead by alloying it with whatever metal is called for, cleaning by fluxing, molding into proper bars, thus it becomes bullet alloy. AKA casting alloy.
NRA Life 1992
My avatar is almost a dead ringer for my little buddy Chico. Six pounds of mean that thought he was a Pit Bull. Miss that little guy.
Depends on the time of year. Pretty sure in the Texas summer, we're doing both. Melting while smelting.
ETA for the pedants, I'm aware of the difference between smelting and what we commonly do with our lead, it's a joke
*Sigh* Now we're going to have to review the definition of the word "refining".
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/refine
As in the old way of extracting gold from crushed rock with mercury. First the rock was mixed with the mercury, which would amalgamate with the gold. Then the amalgam was refined by heating to evaporate the mercury. (If you think this was a dangerous process you're right. Which is why the 14th century Spaniards in Peru used slaves to do the work.)
Or as in refining molasses to get pure, white sugar.
Last edited by uscra112; 01-30-2023 at 05:17 PM.
Cognitive Dissident
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha.
Jockularity is a good think. I have joularitied myself to death.
This thread just got "Jockularized". Who really cares if it is melting, smelting, refining, or schmelting, as long as it results in galena being poured into a boolit mold... Right? Please Cast some awesome boolits and get on with it!
I agree with you. The correct use for smelting is the process of refining lead from ore (galena) into pure lead. Melting range scrap old water pipes and whatever else, I consider recycling. I once knew someone with a PhD in linguistics. Her point was languages were always evolving and the most important use, was to be able to communicate to each other. It seems that smelting, on this forum is often used for melting down any sort of lead into ingots. So maybe here it goes along in our local to us, dialect along with boolits. Everyone seems to understand what someone is talking about, when they refer to smelting their lead.
If you are melting old lead sewer pipe in the basement for cast boolits; your wife will tell you she " smelt " something unpleasant! She even has yelled!! Now lead sewer pipe gets rendered outside!!!!
If I say 'clip' (and I mean Beretta, not Garand) , will that trigger anyone?
The question of smelt vs melt was answered early in this thread,
But, ridiculing someone's lack of education only reinforces the lack of your own,
So, if the term 'smelt' ACTUALLY 'gripes' you, look within.
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 |