As a bullet caster, my dreaded time approaches!

[Jack Ryan]

I sold my steel, zinc and scrap today from those ww and got $43 back today. I had 450 pounds saved up.

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

I've been saving my Zn weights. I ingotize them, in an ingot mold that is nothing like the one I use for lead. I'm not sure why I'm saving it, but that's what I do.

I will probably eventually sell it as scrap. It's not pure Zn, but a Zamac of some sort; a Zinc/aluminum/copper alloy.

 

[Bazoo]

I process to ingots in my campfire area, on a wood stove I built just for it. Flux out there with pine needles and saw dust.
Store and use the ingots in the garage.

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Very nice, thank you for sharing!

I have smelted with fire before, using a car rim with a cut propane tank inside of it, making a sort of rocket stove. It worked well.

I'm considering making a small rocket stove setup for casting out of a scrap small air compressor tank. I want to see if I am able to regulate the heat well enough to cast. Just for the fun of figuring it out.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Having a few buckets of wheel weights to smelt down is a good problem to have these days. When I first started casting it was easy to get. Now it gets sparse some days.

Now that wheel weights are pretty much dried up in my area, I just buy scrap lead from RMR.

Do you buy online from them? Or do you have to go to a physical location? I went to their website and didn't see an option to purchase from there.

 

[WeekendReloader]

Having a few buckets of wheel weights to smelt down is a good problem to have these days. When I first started casting it was easy to get. Now it gets sparse some days.




Do you buy online from them? Or do you have to go to a physical location? I went to their website and didn't see an option to purchase from there.

I buy it online from them. There is a link right on their main menu at the top of the screen for "LEAD".

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I buy it online from them. There is a link right on their main menu at the top of the screen for "LEAD".

Thank you!
I was looking at a different site with the same initials.

 

[Alaskamike]

I've bought lead from RMR before as well--it's good stuff. It's definitely much cleaner to melt into ingots than wheel weights, that's for sure.

 

[WeekendReloader]

I've bought lead from RMR before as well--it's good stuff. It's definitely much cleaner to melt into ingots than wheel weights, that's for sure.

Definitely cleaner than wheel weights!

I don't do ingots anymore. I just refill the melting pot as I go with the RMR lead straight from the USPS box it shipped in. It makes a little smoke, but not much to be annoying. The 60lb boxes stack easily on my garage floor.

 

[AJC1]

Definitely cleaner than wheel weights!

I don't do ingots anymore. I just refill the melting pot as I go with the RMR lead straight from the USPS box it shipped in. It makes a little smoke, but not much to be annoying. The 60lb boxes stack easily on my garage floor.

I do the same thing, the oil serves as a Flux so helps keep the lead clean. I'm currently out but I'm working my way through dad's supply.

 

[lightman]

Definitely cleaner than wheel weights!

I don't do ingots anymore. I just refill the melting pot as I go with the RMR lead straight from the USPS box it shipped in. It makes a little smoke, but not much to be annoying. The 60lb boxes stack easily on my garage floor.

I pretty much have to melt my scrap and wheelweights down in another pot. But its a real joy to cast with new clean lead. The cleanest thing that I have found other than "new" lead are Isotope containers. Other stuff is just too nasty for me to melt it in my casting pot.

 

[Targa]

At this very moment, 04/08/2024 1005 hours mountain time, I am watching Mash as I procrastinate getting busy with some range lead processing…