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Post by boatswainsmate on May 10, 2016 12:21:30 GMT -5
Found a good deal today!  |
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nicholst55
.375 Atomic
Retired, twice.
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Post by nicholst55 on May 10, 2016 12:43:08 GMT -5
Looks like a good beginning! Have you sorted all the zinc and iron weights, valve stems, razor blades, snuff cans, etc. out of it yet?
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Post by boatswainsmate on May 10, 2016 12:45:18 GMT -5
Looks like a good beginning! Have you sorted all the zinc and iron weights, valve stems, razor blades, snuff cans, etc. out of it yet? Not yet. Good thing for me is the local scrap yard will give me 20 cents a pound for the zinc and steel! |
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Post by BigBore44 on May 10, 2016 17:40:07 GMT -5
Kool.... I smelted down a couple buckets today. Made some pretty nice shiny MUFFINs 
Cant eat too many though as they hit your stomach like a lead bomb. 
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Post by Cholla on May 11, 2016 9:28:27 GMT -5
Congrats on your score! Last count I have 5 or 6 buckets of raw WW's waiting to be melted. No need at all to sort, just fill a cast iron pot with the WW's from your bucket, heat it on a propane turkey fryer keeping Temps below 780° or so, and everything that ISN'T lead will float to the top where it can be scraped off. Works 100% of the time.
Keep us posted.
Cholla
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Post by boatswainsmate on May 12, 2016 20:14:59 GMT -5
It's all sorted. I ended up with 44 pounds of steel and zinc out of both buckets. I feel safer sorting. I use a melter that will get over 1,000 degrees.  |
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