I have about 800lbs of range scrap sitting in buckets and thought I'd get a start on cleaning it up. Melted down about 120 lbs this evening. Fluxed multiple times with sawdust and candle wax. The lead came out of the jackets very well as usual, but it just takes a while to shake all those jackets free of lead in order to sell them later.
I poured 48 ingots using my Castboolits ingot molds for the first time. The ingots average a little over 2.5lbs. Worked pretty well with my bottom pour melter. Marked the ingots with letter stamps "RL". I tape the 2 stamps together and just hit one time to stamp both letters.
Now to store the ingots. They fit perfectly cross ways in a 40mm ammo can. of course the can will hold 110 ingots or 275 lbs, if full . I'll just have to put it in the storage location before I fill it up.
I saw someone post they got $3.10/lb for copper jackets. That would be nice. I have about 40 or 50 lbs saved up. Might be time to make a run by the scrap yard to at least check on prices.
I have a whole bunch of ww to melt too, those will go a whole lot quicker. they are already hand sorted, I think 5 or 6 buckets ¾ full. The melter will hold about 650 lbs. with a usable working capacity 350-400lbs.
Time to get busy before summer gets here. Brad