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I melted down enough to get 100# of wheel weight ingots today. I bought a 5 gallon pail for $25 last fall and had the kid at the junk yard load it for me. When got home I unloaded it with my Bobcat. I melted about 3/4 of the pail today and got 100# of ingots. If any of you have done this before you know how much waste material their is with the steel clips and slag etc. Only wish it were gold....
 
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whee......thats a pile of ingots of black gold to a shooter.....
what do you use to do the melting??? ie heat source? pan/kettle/pot?
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That's enough to cast 4730 148 gr. .38 wadcutters. That's a ton of shooting! RD
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Rockydog wrote:
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...........no not a ton of shooting........only a 100 lbs of shooting... melting the lead down into itty bitty boolets don't make the weight of the lead multiply just cuz you get lots of them itty bitty boolets.
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I have a turkey fryer burner and an old cast iron dutch oven that was an antique but I  " wouldn't reccomend eating out of it now after the 100's of pounds of lead melted in it
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RD: I believe a ton of shooting would be: 4730x20=94,600 -148gr pills.
But you are correct, that would be a ton of shooting.
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You guys! Ya forgot to calklate in da veight uff da loob groofes. RD
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Well that's pi r squared x the times the Packers will ever win the Superbowl again divided by the Phythagorean Theorem -2. I think everyone North of Oshkosh knows that.
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If you melted 3/4 of a five gallon bucket and got 100#, that is excellent recovery!
When I buy WW from the tire shops I expect a 25% loss from Steel wt.,zinc, valve stems and cigarette butts. You did well my friend.
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Cleaning up after that melt the other day I did notice it was a little bigger pail probably 6 gal? and metal not your regular 5 gal plastic pail. I also was thinking I got a good return. Only a few valve stems and not a single valve core. Many big truck size weights too, cig butts are a good flux I think?
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I usually get a lot of dirty and grease on them also. Did you wash them first?
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Troy, I would try to put a little bit of skirting around your burner, I think you might be losing quite a bit of BTU's.
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Bear: I only tried washing once and it didn't do much good. After a few lead/water eruptions in the pot I've found I don't like that mixture. Everything looked dry but it doesn't take much water to make it exciting.
Steel: It takes me about 15 minutes to get up to temp. I only have 3 ingot moulds so once I get half a pot melted I pour those full that leaves about 1 1/2" of molten lead in the big pot and I just continue to add WW and skim clips. It goes real quick from there with a few stirs of the pot.
I usually only melt 3 pails a year and that with grilling steaks and hot dogs takes about 2 cylinders for me. Skirting sounds like a good idea.
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