Post by dana on Mar 18, 2021 13:29:46 GMT -5
On my way to Wal Mart and thought I should start my lead begging program today. First stop my mechanic, filled the tank and begged for lead I got a small container full free! Second stop the local tire shop, life long neighbor, but his son runs it now, not sure he recognized me with my mask on. He says he has lots of it, his guys sell it for $20.00 per 5 gallon bucket, he has 3 buckets full, so I buy the 2 overflowing buckets to see what It can get out of it. One weighs 140 lbs the other 160 lbs.
At 98cents a lb market price ($2.00 a lb) in ingots on E Bay I think I did ok. What says you, how did I do? What to do with the stick ons? How do you process Wheel weights? Thinking I have about 200 pounds when its all smelted! What should I look out for?
I thought it would go like this;
1- Separate the stickon's as I am smelting also a few really good ones as I mount my own tires.
2- Melt them the clipon's into the pot and pull the clips out with needle nose pliers maybe hold the clip and dip to melt.
3- Add flux mix/scrape dross
4- Pour a sample wafer/ pour the batch until all used up store with wafer. Repeat
5- In a few days after it cures test the wafer for hardness and mark the ingots in that batch accordingly.
6- Need to figure out how to deal with the stick on weights
Am I making too much out of it? I want to basically have ready mixed ingots in 3 harnesses. Muzzle loader/pistol/rifle. I think that's as complex as I need to be for plinking. What should the BHN High and low harnesses be for the 3 categories? I don't mind keeping the velocity down if the gun can still maintain a decent group.
Shooting mostly lever actions at 50-100 yards.
Thanks Dana
At 98cents a lb market price ($2.00 a lb) in ingots on E Bay I think I did ok. What says you, how did I do? What to do with the stick ons? How do you process Wheel weights? Thinking I have about 200 pounds when its all smelted! What should I look out for?
I thought it would go like this;
1- Separate the stickon's as I am smelting also a few really good ones as I mount my own tires.
2- Melt them the clipon's into the pot and pull the clips out with needle nose pliers maybe hold the clip and dip to melt.
3- Add flux mix/scrape dross
4- Pour a sample wafer/ pour the batch until all used up store with wafer. Repeat
5- In a few days after it cures test the wafer for hardness and mark the ingots in that batch accordingly.
6- Need to figure out how to deal with the stick on weights
Am I making too much out of it? I want to basically have ready mixed ingots in 3 harnesses. Muzzle loader/pistol/rifle. I think that's as complex as I need to be for plinking. What should the BHN High and low harnesses be for the 3 categories? I don't mind keeping the velocity down if the gun can still maintain a decent group.
Shooting mostly lever actions at 50-100 yards.
Thanks Dana