100# range scrap = ?# ingots

[Furncliff]

I have roughly 100 # of range scrap. I'm mulling over the efficacy of melting them to make ingots. I reload but don't cast bullets at this time, perhaps I'd sell the lead ingots at the biannual gun show in town.

What's your best guess on the amount of lead ingot that's recoverable from the 100# of range scrap?

Thanks
Tom

 

[Sunray]

Range scrap what? Lead? It'll have lots of contaminates in it. That being stuff that isn't lead. May be little lead in it at all too.
How efficient it'd be will depend on what percentage is lead, what kit you have and what you'd need to buy.

 

[jwrowland77]

Melt them in a pot, skim the jackets/plating off the top, and flux it to clean it up. Doesn't take much to flux it well.

Run your temp around 650 and you should be good.

 

[243winxb]

50 lbs. Scrap lead .50 lb Copper jackets $1 lb.

 

[Rule3]

I am "assuming" you mean range mining of the berm, bullets?

Wouldn't it be mostly lead with the exception of the jackets on the FMJ bullets?. Lots of folks get their lead that way.

I don't cast as that is the only way I can get free lead in Fl. No wheel weights to be had as they are a Haz Mat and must be picked up my licensed recyclers at the tire shops.