Finding, Refining and Casting FREE Lead from the Woods
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2017
- I found some lead in the woods and cast it into ingots for a future project. The ancient lead pipe was a pretty nice find! I probably should have kept it as a whole piece because it's kind of rare. Oh well. It's going to be made into something new at some point. I hope you guys enjoyed the video! Casting lead is so easy due to it's low melting point. Be careful and where your hair protector!!! :'D (reference form the video) Also that naked baby scale is something else right?? LOL Stay tuned for more! Don't forget to click the bell beside the subscribe button so you are notified of future uploads from me.
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explorimenting, love it!
+TheBackyardScientist thanks! welcome to the channel!
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You're a Real Pro man, and especially because you use basic equipment to melt and refine, your technique is on point.
Thanks man!
Nice job and I like the recycling aspect.
Good job man ! Free lead clean up , WIN WIN all around .. Thumbs up..
Wonderful video. Two bits to keep you safe. Please avoid doing this activity in the presence of moisture. Water and hot lead are a dangerous combination producing explosive reactions that spatter lead in all directions. Also consider a stable base that gets your project up off the ground so you need not bend over the pot. Best Wishes...
You should try metal detecting! I think you would really enjoy it
I have a metal detector and I have done a little. I just don't have the time to do all the things I want to! :P
The lead parts you picked up are from an old type roof flashing they use to use and of course lead plumbing pipes. But good job collecting it and reusing it. The reason for the different sounds is because the wheel weights are alloyed with other metals making them a lot harder. The roof flashings is basically pure lead and therefore will be heavier but also much softer then the wheel weight muffins.
A small marble sized piece of bee's wax is what I normally use. Great work on the reclamation and recycle of the lead. Wheelweight would include tin, and Antimony, in the alloy.
That "lead plum-bob" is actually a type of fishing sinker, the shape helps it dig into the bottom so it doesn't wash away.
Ah yeah, I think your're right. I've done minimal fishing so I didn't know that haha
Leviathan15s
As soon I was reading"lead plum-bob", he said it.
it is a 2 ounce pyramid sinker i use them alot for catfishing
I enjoy your videos, you are a bright kid. You dont need that much heat to melt lead, You can melt it on the stove top, Also, lead oxide is extremely poisonous, Wear a respirator, and dont hand the dross that you skim off the top. Wear thick leather boots and leather aprons and chaps when casting metals or you will have a bad day, sooner or later, Take care, really loved your IC engine project.
Great stuff. I wish there were more of those sites with remnants of old industrial activity around here.
This isn't industrial. It was just stuff that someone threw in there back woods LOL
*Hey MakerJ, I went to the park and looked in the woods, but all I founds were stupid rocks and dirt, what did I do wrong ?*
CR2504life haha well you gotta do more exploring! cover lots of ground! you'll probably find some junk eventually
Cool video! Wondering what you're going to do with the lead! Guess we'll see.
Also good idea marking the ingots, think it'll work aluminium too.
Your lead "plumbob" is actually a 2 ounce pyramid fishing weight. I make those from the lead I find. Love the video by the way, thanks for sharing
Great content and great find. An is that all the lead there was back there or there more? You should make a video of trying to see how much lead you can find in that area
The environment love this
Better than McGyver... I'm now a subscribing fan.
great to see more awesome vids! keep at it and I'm sure you'll blow up, you make the same sort of fascinating content as codyslab. Just more engineering focused :)
+Zalx thank you! I'll try! I love Codyslab! My favorite UA-cam. Means a lot to me that you're saying my content is similar to his :)
The burning wax is a reducing flux, adding readily freeable carbon and producing CO2 to take the oxygen away, while simultaneously proving that chemistry is awesome.
12:25 It's amazing how fast you work! ; - )
Yeah, I think the wheel weights probably have a bit of zinc or tin in them to make them a little harder. I've found lead in the woods before too, but there's probably less of it here in Minnesota than where you are in PA just because of European settlers having lived there longer. My great great great grandpa was a lead miner in Illinois in the 1840s though.
You're probably right about the zinc from the wheel weights. That's cool that your grandpa was a miner! How long did he live?
I can verify that wheel weights have at least zinc in them.
No zinc in lead wheel weights. Only tin and antimony. Zinc and lead wont mix both have differeny melting temps and will not combine correctly
With that crucible, you should weld spouts at different heights and add plugs that you can screw on or off to make it easier to pour
Give him hell Bob !!
If you go to a car repair station where they sell a lot of tires, you can usually get them to give you a bucket of tire weights for free. then you can melt them down easily.
This kids a better scientist than some med school valedictorians
Very cool
cool video man
don't stand right above the Melting Pot your breathing in all the toxic fumes and wear some gloves
There is a famous story of a mortuary worker who was stealing the gold and "silver" (amalgam) from the stiffs.... then he melted for sale the loot.. died from the fumes of mercury
Next video: "Let's make muffins!"
the pyramid with a 2 on it is a fishing weight, although it could be used as a plumb bob.
You might want to buy or make some tongs to grip the bottom of your crucible to make pouring easier for yourself. Maybe just screw a big hose/pipe clamp to some flat steel.
Remember that soft lead is worth more than hard lead. It's impossible to make lead soft after it's hard. But soft lead can easily be made hard. And please don't turn it into fishing weights and throw it in the water and pollute the water. Make fishing weights out of something else.
Take no offense to this but
of course you were home schooled! haha literally everyone I know that was home schooled is super smart😁
LOL thanks! Home schoolers rule! :D
Yea they do, one of my best friends was home schooled :D
A buddy of mine homeschooled their son in the 90's.... He is an Air force officer today.
I also am home schooled, can you help me look for my smarts tho?
7:10 sure !!! that "wax" was used by plumbers to solder back in the days.. you can still buy it !! try that as a flux soldering alluminum you will be amazed
nice job.
Harder batch should have some antimony in it.
Possibly. Probably some zinc from the wheel weights too.
your roofing lead and maybe your radiation detector lead will most likely be pure, and the wheel weight batch (#3 when you had stacks) will have tin and antimony most likely in a 10:1 lead:tin ratio, that's what most people use for casting bullets is that ratio and wheel weights as long as you don't get newer zinc tend to be that ratio or close to 12ish:1 and people have to add tin solder to bump up the tin content for hardness. you prob alredy know lead is toxic so I wont hassle you as long as its ventilated and for the popping that's due to moisture if you put ur pan over the furnace for a min or so that'll go away
With my anxiety, I'd be washing my hands every time I pick up a piece and I would clean the area where the lead had touched xP
Trenton Zelley lead salts and other compounds that can dissolve in water are the bad things. not much lead from the metal alone can be absorbed into the body. It's also long term exposure that does damage. a few exposures here and there are not that bad.
Trenton Zelley at least that's my understanding
Makerj101 From what I know, any salt of any metal is bad, but a lead salt would probably be a lot worse
Trenton Zelley Well, table salt is a salt of sodium metal, and it's essential for us to live. But in general you're right about metal salts.
lol same. one time, i thought i broke a cfl so i left the room for 2 days so the mercury vapors would leave. it wasnt even a cfl. lol right
Perhaps the strange oxidation on the first batch was from the wax.
Hmm that could be. I did put wax in all the other batches. Just not as much.
yep
nice
The nursery scale weighing a pile of lead looks very fallout / post-apocalyptic-ish.
Tommy Callaway hahaha yeah! that scale looks like it came straight from Chernobyl
If you just go ahead and melt it the impurities, paint dirt, etc. will float to the surface of the melt and you can skim it off.
I find TONS of lead with my metal detector at popular fishing spots.
Score!
I wish to offer only encouragement. Pour from the side if you can. Dont preath, and would ask you to consider storing anything that touches lead away from the house or living areas.
One batch is har'd lead and one is soft lead
nice find
its of the roof and
lead is sweat when eaten that why the chew marks
Really? I didn't know it was sweet. I'd think it would have a metal taste like copper. Now I want to taste it LOL
Rip to the brave soul that discovered lead was sweat
Don't forget to wash your hands after handling that stuff!
+TechnologyCatalyst yep!
The thing you call a plumb-bob is a fishing weight
Throw it in the pot. melt it and all the trash will be on the surface. Just make sure you are outside when melting it down and don't breathe the fumes.
If lead is a naturally occurring metal, how is it bad for the environment? (Other than burning it in gasoline)
Uranium is a good way to veiw it.
Just because it's natural doesn't mean it's safe or good for the ecosystem.
Ciao quanto vale un lingotto di casting
cool video but i kept wondering about that spot, next to kids playground,, nope i would not let my kids go there, perfect spot for weirdo's to hang out watching kids in park, id be worried to much.
This project you want to do better be some Lead Dioxide Electrodes!
J Stuyfzand that's a good idea. and then I could make a cat whisker detector or something like that
Makerj101 Make it happen!
2.2 pound ingots would make them 1 kilo
So what do you do as an actual job?
+Ryan S I'm a college student at Penn State behrend. Studying mechanical engineering technology. UA-cam is currently my only source of income.
Ahhhh makes sense
Wood dust is good flux for lead
Kamal AL-Hinai yeah! I'll try saw dust next time! Thanks!
Makerj101yeah, I meant saw dust. your welcome ;)
Just melt it evening you dont want will flot to scoop off
That is not a plumb bob. It's a drop weight for fishing.
11:40 antimony
Yeah, your probably right. Or zinc from the wheel weights.
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your supposed to mix when the wax catches fire, mix thoroughly and scrap bottom, also heat up spoon in lead when removing the dross so lead dont stick to it and heat up molds 1st also your lucky there wasnt any more water in the molds because the water wouldve vaporised and turned to steam instantly causing explosion and lead to fly everywhere including all over you, your lucky.
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The video thumbnail looks like bismuth
Andy sinishtaj yeah it sure does!
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Tasty lead poisoning lol
I think your hobby is great but you need to do things in a safer way you could have dropped that pot and you would surely made a trip to the hospital and for lead you are heating it to hot 650-700 degrees is enough have fun and be safe
gloves dude, use them! lead and lead poisoning is no joke.
its lead, you overdid the protection
wtf was that a purse 2:36
trill adventures it’s like a shoulder bad there hell nifty if your going out and have a bunch of stuff to carry
Darcey Montgomery oh ok thx for the info
after this video I'm 100% sure you've handled too much lead
+Micoo potentially. I work with solder more than straight up lead
Lol that was a joke
Makerj101 holy mother of God a UA-camr I love actually responded to me
Micoo hahaha 😆 this is one of the best parts of being a UA-camr! 😃
Makerj101 I wish I could be a youtuber but I don't have the skills to edit and stuff, nor the time.
For Mother's Day why not bring her several tons of that shale for her famous rock garden?
Stephen Mortimer You are one bitter old man.
Ha ha.. you get to be 71 and be happy about it !!
Stephen Mortimer If you are any example of what being 71 is like, I want nothing to do with it. What 71 yr old acts like that. What happened to "back in my day we respected people"?
Ohhh ya... like you listen after someone says 'back in my day"
(you need to get some miles under your wheels before offering "advice")
You ask MrsMom if she would reject a couple tons of rock (her choice of course)