Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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03/29/20 11:33 AM
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You can get your led alloy form a salvage yard if they sell it , you looking for soft lead but need to watch it at times for zinc get mix in
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Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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03/29/20 11:31 PM
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If your registered at Castboolits, go to the Lead and Alloy section. In that forum you will find a post titled" Lead Alloy Calculator". It will give you a cover sheet telling you what is in the lead you scavenge, and what other alloys are in them. Real important when you start adjusting alloys.
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Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: Rally]
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03/30/20 12:10 AM
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If your registered at Castboolits, go to the Lead and Alloy section. In that forum you will find a post titled" Lead Alloy Calculator". It will give you a cover sheet telling you what is in the lead you scavenge, and what other alloys are in them. Real important when you start adjusting alloys. Now I feel stupid, I just toss some wheel weights into that little cast iron pan and use a spoon to scoop out anything that don't melt, then poor the rest into that little mold (preheated). lol
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Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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03/30/20 12:46 AM
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Doesn't much matter for slip sinkers Jayme, but the softer stick on wheel weights are softer denser lead. Split shots made with wheel weights (clip on type) have about.5 % tin and some antimony in them, to make them harder and tougher to close or could crack. Probably some of what you are skimming off your melt is tin, a metal we try to keep in the melt to increase metal ductility, ie mushroom rather than shear off the nose, especially important for dimple or hollow point bullets.
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Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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03/31/20 11:15 PM
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I did be I can't find my molds right now... I have a couple hundred pounds of ingots. A lot of of it came from the indoor shooting range at Camp Perry. I used shoot a lot of pistol rounds in there And the Colonel ask me one day if I want to clean out the pit and gave me a sieve. I spent I don't know hour many hours I was in there over a 3 day period, but I got about 300 of lead. I made about hundred pound of sinkers and still have the rest. I need some more sinkers of a couple sizes... so need to find my molds. All I have is a ladle and a gas burner. It takes a little longer, but gets the job done.
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Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/01/20 02:09 AM
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Turn around now! Sell the pot when it comes in. Do not go down this road. I have been down this road. I went down it before I got into trapping. It is just as addictive as trapping. Before you know it you will have a couple pouring pots, several lubsizers and several tons of lead. I have 20+ moulds with most of them being custom.
If you do not wish to adhere to that warning then you have been given good info about joining castboolits. Stay out of the swagging section. I put my toe in it and doing the best I can to not go in the deep end.
The biggest thing with boolits will be size. The boolit needs to be .001-.003" over bore size. There is so much that I can not type in one post, just read every thing you can on the castboolit site. That is if you want to go down this road.
Time is more precious than gold if you know how to spend it .... but what do I know, I'm just a dumb farmer.~My Dad NRA LIFE MEMBER, Endowment Member
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Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: illinideer]
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04/01/20 07:33 AM
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Lee hot pot....make all my round balls for muzzleloading Got the same setup i pour for 41 and 44mag spinner bauts buzz baits and jigs J same Lee Prod Pot here but 41 and 357 mag and 380 and 9mm
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Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/01/20 09:27 AM
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Well y'all went and bit the bullet on a lee production pot, gonna try to find some wheel weights and stock up till it comes in smelt in a separate pot WW (wheel weights) are nasty dirty a basic stainless 8 quart stock pot if you can find one at a thrift store with metal lid they sell them brand new at grocery stores for like 10-15 dollars they work find for smelting fill it about 3/4 of the way up and put it on the turkey fry burner a little top heat from a torch speeds up the process , I use an ice fishing ladle that is metal but a big slotted spoon works get allt he clips and garbage out , put a little candle wax on and let it burn, stir in some saw dust it helps to grab the impurities , then scoop that off with the slotted spoon. a litt more candle wax , having it burning robs the oxygen from the air so your molten lead doesn't oxidize so fast. when the flames go out start ladling it into muffin tins the cheap ones are fine but I found a use for wd-40 spray the tin before you pour and the muffin ingots don't stick last peice of advice do this all over a sheet of plywood or cardboard lead sticks to grass , dirt , drive ways , gravel but on wood and cardboard once cool pulls right up the muffin ingots are the right size to put in the pot and already clean lead dirt in a Pro 4-20 is not good and a pain to clean out and I third or whatever we are on cast boolits I go by the same name over there
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Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/01/20 09:36 AM
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Yeah, i do. 45, 44, 40, 38, and #4 buck. Pictured is a Lyman 452423 in 1:20 tin/lead
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Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/01/20 03:22 PM
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I have cast my own sinkers for ages, having first being taught back in the mid 60's. As for bullets....I didn't start that on my own until the early 90's. Mostly for my pistol (.44) & muzzleloader (.50 & .unless54). I have slug molds for 12 & 20 gauge, but have never shot anything with them. I also use WW mostly, but have X-ray room lead sheeting I use as well. It makes a buck even more special if you cast the bullet that you got him with!
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Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: gman]
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04/01/20 03:26 PM
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Anybody heat treat rather than mess with different lead mixtures? Much easier. I haven't mostly because I don't push my cast lead very hard good fit and lube can make fairly soft lead go fast enough I also powder coat for my 9mm as it runs in glock barrels I cast , coat , bake , size to .356 and load in 9mm glocks love them barrels are always clean as the lead never touches the barrel
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Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/02/20 11:53 PM
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not all wheel weights are made of lead.
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Re: Anyone Cast Bullets or fishing weights?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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04/03/20 12:21 AM
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more and more a 1/2 bucket of lead weights is doing good
you don't need to use a snips , just start melting , keep the heat not too hot and the non lead comes out with that big slotted spoon .have a metal bucket or coffee cans to put it in
ladle off muffins so that you have an inch or so of lead in the smelting pot let that cool till it has a firm top then add more WW , if water gets below the surface of the lead it makes steam that sends molten tinsel everywhere
you may want to sort clip on lead from stick on lead
if you can easily tel it is not lead don't put it in the pot.
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