Lead is pretty easy to melt over a campfire. The issue is finding it, whatever industry could go away from lead has or is going away from it, at least where I live Fishihg wise the big heavy bottom feeder sinkers are sold in both lead and steel, it's just the small balls that you put directly on the line for float fishing. And you'd have to go diving in rivers where there are a lot of weeds, tree branches, rree roots and all kinds of... trash to put it lightly. My friend fished out a whole lamb's hide for example Pipes are PVC and have been for a while so old lead pipes are hard to find Wheel weights are pretty much all steel so you can't bring home a bucket of lead from the mechanic. You can bring home a bucket of weights but good luck fishing out a decent amount of lead, if any So far guns are pretty much the only industry where lead would be easy to come by from ranges. Would be, if I didn't live in a hellhole LARPing a country
A lot of old big buildings here still have the lead plumbing in it (not in use). A lot of places where you can fish, they banned lead fishing weights (so i was told). Lead from mechanic.., yeah they take it to the scrapyard themselves 😅. So I’m glad I can do a lot of demolition jobs in old buildings. Those jobs have given me my whole stack😅. Well almost my whole stack..
i did this with the first ever soldering iron i bought as a teenager from the usa to here in ireland ,plugged it in with a plug adapter with no idea about the different voltage ,shit went white hot before throwing glowing ceramic peieces on my carpet haha
Heck yea! Well done
Thanks buddy
A coworker found out I did melts and asked if I ever did lead. I never had and after watching this I doubt that I ever will. Great video!
Lead is a fairly simple material to work with. You can cast some detailed pieces with it.
But not with a melting pot 😅.
Lead is pretty easy to melt over a campfire. The issue is finding it, whatever industry could go away from lead has or is going away from it, at least where I live
Fishihg wise the big heavy bottom feeder sinkers are sold in both lead and steel, it's just the small balls that you put directly on the line for float fishing. And you'd have to go diving in rivers where there are a lot of weeds, tree branches, rree roots and all kinds of... trash to put it lightly. My friend fished out a whole lamb's hide for example
Pipes are PVC and have been for a while so old lead pipes are hard to find
Wheel weights are pretty much all steel so you can't bring home a bucket of lead from the mechanic. You can bring home a bucket of weights but good luck fishing out a decent amount of lead, if any
So far guns are pretty much the only industry where lead would be easy to come by from ranges. Would be, if I didn't live in a hellhole LARPing a country
A lot of old big buildings here still have the lead plumbing in it (not in use).
A lot of places where you can fish, they banned lead fishing weights (so i was told).
Lead from mechanic.., yeah they take it to the scrapyard themselves 😅.
So I’m glad I can do a lot of demolition jobs in old buildings. Those jobs have given me my whole stack😅. Well almost my whole stack..
i did this with the first ever soldering iron i bought as a teenager from the usa to here in ireland ,plugged it in with a plug adapter with no idea about the different voltage ,shit went white hot before throwing glowing ceramic peieces on my carpet haha
Oh wow, as long it only got on the carpet 🤣.
Oooh brother. When I saw the EU adapter I knew this was a bad idea
Yeah🫣😅. Well at least I know now🤣
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Good pour bro. Time to go fishing. 🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣
I have only gone fishing once and never again🤣. Thanks brother!!
Would preheating the molds help? And sorry about your melting pot, that's a real bummer.
I’m not sure. I think I couldn’t get the lead hot enough to flow through good enough. That’s ok, I’ll figure something out 😉
What exactly is the point of that adapter?
Apparently nothing 😅
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Thank you