Scrap yard haul

[dtknowles]

I was taking in some aluminum and while waiting my turn I went and looked in the lead bin. Big mistake. There was more good stuff than my truck could haul. I grabbed a few choice items. I left $50 dollars poorer.



That is a 10 pound lead weight, 10 pounds of COWW with a few stickon's and 20 pounds of battery terminals. Oh and a few stainless steel things. That crawfish pot is probably worth half of what I spent.

The battery terminals were a positive surprise. I melted them and made 20 pounds of ingots and got a pound an a half of copper.

The battery terminals came in with a BHN of more than 13 using my lee tester on a bullet I cast while melting them. I do that check so I can mark the ingots. I don't melt clean COWW, no point just consider each one its own small ingot of kind of known properties.

Tim

[WRideout]

sometimes lady luck smiles on you. good score.

Wayne

[Winger Ed.]

Cool.

In the old days, I used to take a bunch of Copper and Alum. to the scrap yard,
and leave having spent more than what I cashed in.

I had a pile of stuff to cash in one time and a buddy asked when I was going to go
the scrap yard to open up some room in the shop. I told him that right now, I can't afford to take stuff there.

[dtknowles]

cool.

In the old days, i used to take a bunch of copper and alum. To the scrap yard,
and leave having spent more than what i cashed in.

I had a pile of stuff to cash in one time and a buddy asked when i was going to go
the scrap yard to open up some room in the shop. I told him that right now, i can't afford to take stuff there.

[lightman]

Thats a nice score! Really diggin that Crawfish pot. The yards around here won't sell to the public. Won't even let you look around.

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Nice score. Test those terminal ingots again after 2 weeks. They might be even harder.

[405grain]

You hit the jackpot. Just like lightman said, there aren't any scrapyards anywhere around where I live that will sell to the public. Every particle of metal that passes through their door gets shipped to China to get turned into spy balloons.

[dtknowles]

Nice score. Test those terminal ingots again after 2 weeks. They might be even harder.

You are probably right and I will take note. I have some sample bullets that I can test later. I will still leave the markings on the ingots unchanged becuase that is my process, make with the unaged hardness at the time the ingot was cast.

Tim

[dtknowles]

I can understand why some people have to pay a good penny for alloy, not everyone can access scrap. I understand why people charge more for the alloy they sell, even when scrap can be purchased affordably, time, gasoline, propane, shipping (that does not even include profit, just labor) can add up to almost as much as the material. Scrap that can be accessed for a dollar a pound needs to sell for two dollars a pound shipped.

Tim

[HWooldridge]

"The battery terminals were a positive surprise. I melted them and made 20 pounds of ingots and got a pound and a half of copper."

Great double entendre - get it? Battery terminals - a positive surprise. Woohoo!

[Bull]

I was taking in some aluminum and while waiting my turn I went and looked in the lead bin. Big mistake. There was more good stuff than my truck could haul. I grabbed a few choice items. I left $50 dollars poorer.



That is a 10 pound lead weight, 10 pounds of COWW with a few stickon's and 20 pounds of battery terminals. Oh and a few stainless steel things. That crawfish pot is probably worth half of what I spent.

The battery terminals were a positive surprise. I melted them and made 20 pounds of ingots and got a pound an a half of copper.

The battery terminals came in with a BHN of more than 13 using my lee tester on a bullet I cast while melting them. I do that check so I can mark the ingots. I don't melt clean COWW, no point just consider each one its own small ingot of kind of known properties.

Tim

Very nice.

[35 Rem]

Yep, never go to the scrap yard without several hundred $'s in your wallet. You never know what treasures you'll find that may not be there when you go back. Congratulations!

[dtknowles]

I never get much for what I bring to the scrap yard but I collect stuff and take it because I hate to see what could be scrap go into the landfill. I always seem to spend more than I got for my scrap but I feel like I am really ahead because I took in trash and bring back valuables. One time I got a whole bunch of fishing weights, sinkers and such. I have plenty of ingots of lead so I will not be melting the fishing weights but they are way more and much heavier than the sinkers I use. I often wonder who is going to end up with my stashes when I pass on because I have more than a life time supply of many things.

Tim

[dtknowles]

"The battery terminals were a positive surprise. I melted them and made 20 pounds of ingots and got a pound and a half of copper."

Great double entendre - get it? Battery terminals - a positive surprise. Woohoo!

you are sharp but I can't claim any credit, it was unintentional but I like it.



Tim

[cwlongshot]

I have almost two 5 gal buckets of brass scrap.

I need ta go visit my guy. No idea if he has a lead bucket.

CW

[dtknowles]

Nice score. Test those terminal ingots again after 2 weeks. They might be even harder.

Well it has been a month not just 2 weeks and they did get a little harder, they are 14 bhn now up from 13.

Tim

[Winger Ed.]

. I often wonder who is going to end up with my stashes when I pass on because I have more than a life time supply of many things.

There's been a few threads here about that.

My neighbors and I talk about that sometimes too, about what happens with what we leave behind.
Most of us have dealt with massive amounts of stuff our parents left us and what we had to deal
with in placing, selling, disposing, and keeping various amounts of it... Just like their parents did.
One guy said, "Our parents weren't too concerned about what they had, and what would happen to it,,,,, why should we"?