PROCESSING 25 POUNDS OF RANGE LEAD - ENDING UP WITH 20 POUNDS
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2012
- In this video I go out to my local shooting range and pick up some lead from the back stop. Once I get the lead home I show you the process that I use to make that lead into ingots. Ingots is an excellent way to store your lead. It also makes the lead easy to put into the furnace when your bullet casting because of the small size of the bars. Enjoy!
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Guys, take a deep breathe, [bad pun]. I ran a lead type foundry for 15 years, in a small 1,000 foot warehouse. My casters ran 8 hours a day but not every day and I got my blood checked every year for lead levels. There was never any itty bit of lead in my system. My lead was kept at a constant 700 degrees when casting. Here is the thing: do not BOIL lead, that will certainly ruin your health. And be very careful with the oxides [the whitish powdery stuff] which can be left behind when smelting lead. For this you should wear gloves and a mask when cleaning up the slag and leftovers. Don't eat after you have handled lead: wash your hands well first. Use common sense.
blatrug thank you! Finally someone who understands!!
Well said 5 years as a caster in lead plant blood checked every 3 months always clean wear gloves and mask when cleaning off dross
Thank you, just like to add few things that might be important > lead tend to resides not in the soft tissues but rather in bonny structure and blood test some times would not provide full picture about lead poisoning right away. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning
Except if you are inhaling it on a daily basis or eating with residual lead on your hands on a consistent basis then it would go to your blood before it got into your bones.
question mate. Why has lead been taken out of petrol? why has lead been taken out of paint? Could it be that we now have a better understanding of the hazards presented by lead. FOR CRYING OUT PAL WE USED TO USE ASBESTOS IN HOUSES, FACTORIES,AND SCHOOLS.Now know better. Why would any sensible person risk their health for a few pounds of lead. ANYONE WATCHING THIS POSTING PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS. YOU ONLY GET ONE LIFE.
So those are free range bullets made from free range lead. 100% Organic.
@Robin Nilsson with such a huge market in the US, I'm surprised there isnt a few national vendors that collects the lead & valuable copper to reuse in manufacturing their own ammunition.
Bonus: All lead recycled in this video was certified to be Non-GMO.
@Robin Nilsson - I was wondering the cost effectiveness, but the personal satisfaction of a job well done cannot be measured simply in dollars and cents.
Ethical Lead
More like barn laid rather than full on free range👍
Been seven years and the creator is still reading comments
100% accurate!! Thank you... I try... it's extremely difficult... Merry Christmas !!
HOLY CRAP … Someone give this man an award almost 8 years an he's still checking comments ?? that's love for his community an Sub's .. the best creators are not shown by the main stream
The Golden Chariot
That’s class
The Golden Chariot that also tells me lead fume does not cause enough brain damage to affect your language ability.
Yes he’s alive.. Seriously though why wouldn’t he be? He still gets the notifications obviously.
This dude was on the cutting edge of resolution. Definitely NOT shot on a potato. This 8 year old video has significantly better resolution and audio than a ton of channels today. I’m impressed
Better quality than pewdiepie lol
@Nexy honestly homie alot of my home videos are on these kinds of cameras and they look like current videos and I always forget they are also recording at the same 1080p that I watch my vids at 🤣
wait what do you mean *look at the release date* WHATAFAK
@Nexy the guy obviously has a bit of extra cash would not suprise me if he had a decent camara in 2012 and did not use his HTC desire
@Pro Tengu im aware....im just pointing out that its rare to see home made videos this old have this type of quality post-upload. i'm not a complete noob...bruh
Never thought I would watch an almost hour long video of someone making the forbidden soup
the soup isnt that hot the soup
@Peter Parlee-Carr ua-cam.com/video/XICKGE1hHxY/v-deo.html
why am i here. i have never and will never salvage lead.
Snuff film because learning is fun
Will you do a snuff film tho?
blank face um... okay.
Because we are men.
PowerTuber 3.0 men in tights. .
I will never have to watch another range lead processing video ever again. I understand the entire process from start to finish. From the various hazards involved when handling molten lead, to the barriers used to prevent injury to one’s health. I don’t have a single question left in my head about the processing of range lead.
Thank you sir, you’ve cracked the code.
PS: I am awaiting my certificate of accomplishment “Expert in Range Lead Processing”.
Thank you
Thank you for the kind words and support. I do the process completely different now, I need to do an updated video
Use a lid , a 22lr case will be over looked exploding showering you with hot lead ( I have helped people do this , and heard them pop, dont put scrap in a hot pan , again for unfired casings . Also dont rinse the lead due to runoff it will Inevitably end up in lakes and rivers , especially in the sink you wash dishes and prep food in.
Get your lead from a recycler. It's about a dollar per pound. When you figure your labor into the process, that's really cheap.
this is the 5th year ive been recommended this before deer season starts. idk what prompts the algorithm, but i watch it on thanksgiving night every year lol
So glad UA-cam recommended this to me even though I've never showed any intrest in smelting
Thank you! Please tell a friend!
@@jiujitsu2000 will do 👍
maybe you should show some more intrest
UA-cam thought you had a bad case of lead poisoning.
AHHhhh - "SMELTING" = purifying or in other words removing all that is not Lead from the metal.
What you really wanted to say was "CASTING BULLETS" from previously shot bullets.
Watched the entire video and I don't even cast or shoot. Gotta love when UA-cam's recommendations actually give you something unexpectedly interesting.
i've watched it like a cooking video :d
Yeah I was watching a lock picking video, then this came up after! UA-cam really must know me and my interest in different things lol.
Enjoyed very much thank you for sharing nice tip about the wax hope your bullets fly true keep ya powder dry x
UA-cam work in mysterious ways. From watching a random guy build a boat in Vietnam from scrap to a Turkish guy making a pizza over to a Turkish guy making a bath room tiled with marble I then ended up here. 53 minutes later I can confirm that I was entertained AND at the same time stunned over the fact that this video is 9 years old but still has a superb quality in resolution.
i don't know why i just spent an hour watching this, because i will never do this in my life, but i'm glad i did
The lesson here is, with the help of UA-cam, literally millions of people with no real interest in your content will still watch your video in its entirety
Knowledge is badass.
Libterds are searching for his name to call the police.
7 years later and its still getting this many hits, i dont even really watch metal casting or gun shooting videos more than a random rare video!
It's sad when the algorithms even run out of ideas for stuff to produce and put out...
The world is truly washed up and has run its course time for a global reset.
Yep watched in 2020 during covid-19 Pandemic. Bored silly
I've seen this video five times in the last five years, it's always recommended around this time of year.
Congratulations, your video is now a holiday tradition.
Careful you’ll shoot your eye out with all that DROSS!!!
Aye, back here too. Guess we get to do a get-together annually
UA-cam comment status: won by this lad
me too & i have No Idea why. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanza, Happy New Year, Happy early Birthday & i’ll reply next year. Cheers *clink
@@corporalclegg914 See you boys next year.
You're the neighbor to have in this world. Actual useful people who know how to do things! Thanks for another outstanding demonstration.
I must have seen this video like 20+ times. Cool learning video.
Thank you, Blessings from Arizona!
I too wasn't looking for this and I watched it to the end, but I'm amazed at the number of people commenting on this video. I don't remember watching any other video with this many people, who weren't looking for this, but watched it to the end and thought it was good/interesting. I am a 78 year old widower with a physical disability and a permanent resident in a nursing facility I don't think I'll be doing this any time soon, but I enjoyed the video.
Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your thoughts I've learned many things since filming this video and my technique is much different today. Blessings from Arizona!
@@jiujitsu2000 ur definitely still reading comments im with this senior i was looking for this video either and im sitting here like a dumbass watching a video i wasnt looking for but it kept me entertained
I have a math test in 10 hours, amazing vid, I'll go to bed
@@jiujitsu2000 What are you doing differently?
Hope you are well sir
I lost my father in January. I can remember as a child watching him do this. Many many hours I sat on a tree stomp and watched him do this process and many more watching him cast slugs. This video was very nostalgic. I'm sure he explained all of the ins and outs of it to me but as an 6, 7, 8 year old child I didn't understand it nor do i remember much beyond "don't reuse the pots and ladle for anything but this." he had my great grandfather's cast iron ladle and pan. So, thank you on many levels for this video. I too was not looking for such a video but am very glad that I found it. :)
I can remember watching my dad make sinkers when I was a kid, I like to watch these type of videos to bring back the memories of time with my father.
@@davidlarocque2137 yes exactly, of happier times.
Sorry for your loss of your father.
@@stevesalisbury8206 thank you very much
I get it. Still dealing with those feelings. You don't get over it, you just get used to it.
This is what brass vultures graduate into when they’ve collected all the brass at the local range
Back in the late 50s and early 60s, my dad and I did this process to make fishing sinkers with hand moldes. Thank you for bring back the memories.
I wish I'd seen this video a few years ago.
I've been melting and reclaiming lead from wheel weights and a local range for years and I'd like to give this gentleman a bit of advise.
1) Skip the washing. Anything you can wash off is going to float on your lead as it melts and there is no danger of getting water in your molten lead when you add to your initial melt. Getting water in your molten lead will ruin your day.
2) Skip the cast iron frying pan and use a stainless steel 2 quart or larger sauce pan. Stainless steel doesn't give you all that crud that seems to form when you do your melt in cast iron. It's easier to remove your molten lead and you haven't ruined an otherwise good frying pan. I got mine for a couple bucks at a garage sale.
3) Turn your heat down once your lead melts. When the lead in your pot starts to change color and form a scum on top, you're way hotter that necessary and you can do it without fluxing and removing said scum. A thermometer would be a good idea to use.
4) Although I too have made an ingot mold from angle iron, I now use another garage sale find in the form of a muffin pan. They make nice sized ingots and release easily from the pan.
Muffin pans are probably more useful as casting molds than as baking vessels. Wax, resin, aluminium even.
Just make sure the muffin tins are all one piece and not the type that had cups soldered into the top!
*advice*
Good advice, i never washed lead balance weights and bullets and roof lead, pipes just melt it,
Poured mine in a old pot, garage sale stuff,
I did mine out side because smells
I did this when lead was 13 cents a pound to sell
Before the sinkers and tire lead was changed
Also most of the dross you collected after the initial coarse crud was out was freshly formed lead oxide. Each time you stir up that lead you give the oxygen of the air a nice chance to get in contact with metal. Same for when you "fluxed" with paraffin: you just let more lead oxide form. As soon as you see a shiny metallic surface you are good to pour.
A seven year old video has my attention so thoroughly that I never realized it was an hour long.
Well done.
Wait 10Years.. Facebooks going to be Filled with DeadPeoples Profiles.. and this Videos STILL going to get 300 views, 100 Comments, and 3 PublicShares a week.
Wait this vid was an hour long
Um....it's NOT an hour long....only 52 minutes!
Me: 43 min in I guess I need to learn what to make with led
@@TheCometHunter I can make minute rice in just 59Seconds..
You won't believe this, I watch this video and the second part reloading video before I go to the bed.
I don't have any guns, but I love anything related to guns, and bullets.
Very good video and excellent demonstration, I have learned how to before and after reloading stages.
What girls do in the kitchen:
*Cake Wars*
What guys do in the kitchen:
this
This guy is like a life coach imparting wisdom: “the last thing you want is lead in your face.”
…Or in your lap!
The last thing you want to do is have wet lead going into the melting pot !!
man i watched this and had a couple beers. legitimately more entertaining than most television! haha, thanks for the upload.
Ha ha, you rock! Thanks
Hey, unlike television, at least this is real!
Yes, YT is the original reality television. I'd rather watch this guy figure out 1000 ways to cast bullets than watch dancing with the stars. My wife doesn't understand any more than I understand why she wants to watch some Hollywood type turn circles on a dance floor. To each his own I suppose.
dito, had several beers while watching this... and i have no idea how i landed here... i have absolutely no buisiness in salvaging anything. It was entertaining though :D GG
Right there with you man. 5 beers in am glued to this shit!
2023 great video got some good info , I’ve reloaded but never cast and always wanted to . This will be my year to start, got my equipment
Excellent. I had some great casting videos and they ALL got taken down unfortunately.
I remember watching my uncles do this when I was a kid. This is a blast of nostalgia, and is what made me interested in metallurgy and chemistry.
“You wanna be careful putting your hands in here” *Plunges hand blindly into bowl*
He didn't push with enough force to get a full hand of it though.
No he plunged it carefully 😜
I noticed that too lmao
@@ryanr3071 Yes, with that open wound on his index finger. Where did he buy those invisible nitrile gloves?
Exactly what I was thinking
I've been muzzleloading for almost 10 years now. I recently got into casting my own shot and this is exactly what I needed to watch. I'm going to do this today, right now. I've got about 60lbs of lead scrap that I salvaged from a plumbing job that involved me ripping out a house full of old cast iron drain pipe. Gonna cast 60lbs worth of .50 and .72 cal round balls. Thank you
When you say muzzle loader ypu mean like a musket ?
You've given me the bug. Haven't done it in a couple years. Muffin pans are the best ingots for me. Fantastic job and thanks for the video.
this is so relaxing, I used to work with lead and never got tired of the mirror-like surface. Also, i once droped humid lead into the foundry that already had some in it and it was like a mini volcano spewing lead everywhere for a few minutes.
Why is it so satisfying to watch other people work? I love this guy's energy, he is the definition of zen, chill, cool.
Thank you! I'm pretty laid back!
this is a weird cooking show
Song Listener DeatGrips 😂😂
This has got to be the best iron chef I have seen yet
@@willbianco8931 oriental cooking class!
Megatron need does for breakfast
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Turned out to be the most legendary lead video on UA-cam
I hope you are still around after ten or twelve years. I’ve watched about five of your reloading videos. You do the best most informative videos on UA-cam and I’ve seen a lot. Getting into M1 30 06 and 45 acp. You dot all the i’s and cross ALL the t’s. Thank you.
the phrase you're looking for at 42:15 is "pride of workmanship." it's when you make something and feel like you did a good job. Not silly at all. pretty awesome, actually.
I'm not going to watch this...
(Fifty minutes later)
How can I make my own foundry?
No doubt, I'm looking up buying foundries as I type this lol
I'm not going to watch this...
But I'll give it some minutes to proof it's worth
(Fifty minutes later)
damn
all you need is a brake drum from a semi trailer, some steel pipe, and a way to force air into the fire. weld some of the bent pipe to the bottom of the brake drum, add some sort of grate to keep your coals from falling through, and attach the pipe to some sort of blower. fill the brake drum with charcoal, fire it up, and turn on your blower and you'll have a fire hot enough to melt lead and aluminum at the least. with a little fine tuning you can get it hot enough to melt gold, silver, and copper.
if it gets hot enough to demagnetize steel it's hot enough to melt lead, aluminum, gold, silver, copper, brass, etc
I been wanting to have one for awhile to melt all this gold I have that’s broken
It was very refreshing to watch a video that was very informative and relaxing to watch. But the best part was that he was not trying to get attention, not once did we see this gentleman's face.
So interesting. Brought back memories……. My dad was a melter in a steel mill so he knew the process/dangers etc. He was also an avid fisherman with a great sense of humor. He would melt lead in the basement from the flame of the hot water heater. Then he would pour fishing sinkers in the shape of a hamburger in the bun and give them to his fishing buddies. Wish I had a few of those sinkers.
🤔 *Started off watching a 'baking cornbread' video. Two clicks later; 😒 "Casting lead?! This will do..."* 😌
Well now you know it all.
This man is going to be a valuable asset and a very rich man in the apocalypse.
This man got cut by a copper jacket once, and he’s never gonna let someone pass by without warning them about it
Enjoyable presentation: I'd watched it several years ago and just rediscovered it.
I like the narration. It sounds like he took elocution lessons from Bob Ross.
I have to say that while I enjoy firearms as a hobby, I personally don’t see myself repurposing lead, or even pressing my own ammo any time soon. However, you present your information in a very digestible and enjoyable way, and I couldn’t help but watch the whole thing. Excellent video!
Her: Omg can you cook?
Him: ... Yes
i bet everything he cooks is burnt to shit lol
Are you .45 or 9mm?
@@hibahprice6887 9mm because 45 is for looozers
Thank you for sharing this information with all of us you gave me the confidence in smelting lead and I bought 1325 pounds of wheel weights and separate them and cleaned them up poured bar's and now alloying them for pistol and rifle thank you again for your helpful video.👍
You're welcome my friend and thank you for the kind words and support that you get my channel. My process of rendering lead has changed tremendously I don't wash it anymore
@@jiujitsu2000 I put it in the cement mixer for 30 minutes with dish soap and put on a screen for a couple of days to dry mine had road grime oil etc this helps reduce smoke and fumes.your process makes the most sense to me I ended up with over 728pounds of lead that will keep me busy for a while.please keep up with the videos God bless.
@@bobsunkees3392 Excellent! God bless you and yours!
This man is a wealth of knowledge, thank you sir!
Thank you!
Today on the Food Network: Cooking with Chuck Norris and his Bullet Soup.
Today Chuck Norris makes range lead fondue
Lead cover protein bars
trackerrrr 😂😂😂😂😂
😂🤣 this is too good!
FIFTY MINUTES OF PURE ENTERTAINMENT, GOD BLESS YOU MAN.
I miss the casting and reloading days of UA-cam so sad they are gone
A friend and I were shooting at an established club that had a sand bank as the bullet stop.
We noticed that the sand was displaced in those positions where targets had been placed.
In the 30 years of it's existence no one had ever bothered to recover the lead.
We dug for a couple of hours, sieved with a garden sieve and recovered many kilos of projectiles.
My friend was an engineer and also enjoyed raku firing clay pots.
He had already constructed a rockwool lined kiln in a 12 gallon drum,
put a 2 inch air pipe energised by a throttled down vacuum cleaner output air blast..
and a 1/4 inch copper pipe near the middle of the air pipe fed by a 20lb LP cylinder with no regulator.
In the hole in the top of the drum he welded up and placed a section of 2x4 steel RHS with the bottom welded shut...
with two large steel pipes as handles also welded onto the RHS at the "top" end that stuck out above the drum about a foot.
He made ingot molds out of the same right angle steel as this vid shows...just 24 inches long x 4 moulds...
also with handles welded on both ends.
Those ingot molds fit a a steel tubbed wheelbarrow filled with 30 litres of water....
The great advantage was 5 minutes in this kiln with the jet aircaft cound of the intense flame had the lead melting and the dross and projectile jackets floating to the top.
We did no real purification as we intended to sell the lead......there was just so much of it and scrap lead prices were good.
So after scraping off most of the rubbish we lifted the whole RHS out between us, rested the end on the concrete exterior pad where we were doing this and tipped the lead into the moulds...
Then after a few minutes picked up then lowered the ingot molds into the wheelbarrow of water.....
where it rapidly cooled enough to allow us to pick up the ingot moulds and flip them allowing the ingots to fall out and continue cooling in the water.
After the second go around we had to immerse the bottom half of the LP bottle in a basin containing some of the heated water from the wheelbarrow as the rapid use of the LP pouring out caused ice to form on the outside of the bottle degrading the volume of expanding LP vapour and affecting the flame in the kiln.
When we took the proceeds in to the scrap merchant he gave us top price for the cleaned lead which funded other shooting activities.
We stopped doing this when his wife said it might not be too healthy if we continued....she might have been right...
but we had also taken all the easily recovered projectiles and now it would be hard work recovering shotgun pellets.
Speaking of which when a shotgun (clay shooting) range closed down they imported a machine to sieve the soil on the range...
and recovered 190 tonnes of lead pellets..
just about broke even with the cost of importing the machine but it was part of the deal with the local council to allow the land to be sold.
6 year later, some 1.2 million + views later, your educational video is still doing its job. If youtube doesn't get stupid, people will still be learning from you, long after your gone. Hope that 1.5 & 2 million views comes quickly. the video is well worth it.
The difference in metal & smelting handling has changed so much for safety by general layman in just 6 years is smazing
Just want to say thanks for taking the time to put this video together. It's helpful and what I like about it is it's a "blue collar" home grown way of doing things. I used to make lead sinkers for my off shore fishing quite a bit, not to mention crabpot weights, etc. I've been reloading for a long, long time and though I've reused recovered brass and bullets I'm always looking for different ways of recovering the lead from the range bullets. Thanks for your input... eight years earlier. It's still a viable alternative. Good job.
UA-cam always recommending old videos, it's random but welcomed.
Its 2020, the weirdest year of my life, i still don't know why youtube showed me this at 2 am.
So this is how you make freedom soup
freedom ? its just lead. its sad that you guys associate freedom with guns.
@@tombourne7184 dude im from India. I am not looking down on you. just saying that that freedom with a threat of violence is not really Freedom
Best comment ever
@@tombourne7184 He didn't, actually. The Nazis actually deregulated the buying and selling of firearms in 1938 (to everyone but their enemies and Jews, of course). The only people they took guns from were Jews and political opponents, but many Jews and dissidents continued to own their guns well into the 30s.
@@vaisakhchandran4822 we associate GUNS with Freedom because it's the ONE right as humans to defend oneself they have tried to take over MANY TIMES OVER, and because the people we armed it was never successful. The globalist are in India as well, and when they make their move you better hope you can stand up to the one world government, bc they will have guns, and unless YOU DO, your either dead, or you will comply with what THEY dictate you do.
Very cool how the brass melts away at a higher temp than the led. This video was what kept me up past a normal hour of going to bed.
Been nine years and we are still commenting. Very good video
I love this video. It’s very relaxing to watch and it looks like a ton of fun.
Just like grand mama used to make
Skillow lead cakes. And cornbread with lead sprinkles.. Mmm how i got so smart as a kid
Wife: “honey what are we having for diner?”
Husband: “LEAD”
@Matis H yes that's the joke
Light emitting diodes
@@Crack_quality_tester, no, it seems the joke is he's melting lead in a pan like it's dinner
how do you misspell lead when it's literally in the title of this video
Lots of great info for another guy just getting into casting. Really appreciate the work, as well as sharing all the tips
This is the magic of youtube that i miss. This video was awesome. I hope the uploader is doing well these days
Thank you! Blessings from Arizona!!
this is super relaxing, i don't even shoot and watched the whole video!
Same :)
***** ;-)
uetzel I gonna melt some lead. Looks like fun.
its his voice and the way he talks. He would have a future in documentaries.
did the saee thing hhhhh
I googled the. melting point of copper, nearly 1800F I could see saving them if you had a furnace that could achieve that temp consistently. I was impressed with your strong adherence to safety. I am a believer in safety as well. I am a retired driver with 4 million miles accident free. The balance between being productive and being safe become second nature, if you survive the lessons, lol
I enjoyed EVERY MINUTE of what you said. Thank you so much for taking the time to put all this on video. CHEERS !
Glad you enjoyed it! This is my worst video! lol
Thank you!!
I was assigned a video to watch for gunsmithing class about casting and this video was in the related section. 1 hour later..... I still haven't watched the assigned video and I'm now recommending this video to my class.
copper melts at just under 2000 degrees F
when the world ends this dude is on my team...👍👍
Your more like to be killed him, by he’s not going to be on your team, your more likely to be on his team
@@atf8501 you must be fun at parties huh
@@obiwankenobi1608 I only like search parties.
Ps halos better than doom
@@atf8501 ha...haHahah...AHAHAHAHAHAH Bro for real you really have a one sided perspective don't you?
This is the third time ive been brought here by the algorithm, and the third time ive watched it all the way trough, quite the soothing experience every time.
Estimated the weight of the starting and finished product EXACTLY. This is a guy that knows his stuff! Thanks for this video. I've never used range lead but I figured this would be the process.
It's Sunday night, and I just spent an hour watching this totaly awesome melting lead video. Love it! Thank you! More contents please
i wish my college teachers were as informative as you..... really nice work....
When will I ever do this? Never.
Was it enjoyable and interesting? Yes!
Thank you!
Great video! There is so much valuable information contained here! Can't wait to get started in doing this!
I finished it til the end! Its very informative and I really enjoy how you deliver it. Keep it up!
30:20 "The last thing you want is lead in your face." Words to live by.
last thing u want is lead juice in ur stream wher ur kids swim or fish
My father was a major in the air force who was in charge of the rifle range. He new in advance that some day he would build a sailboat and would need lead for the keel. So he had the enlisted men dig out all the bullets for this project. When finally started that boat he melted those bullets and poured the lead into a cast iron corn muffin mold laid each casting into the keel.
@Evocati Slightly officious there, buddy. But don't worry, it didn't happen.
OK, I have to comment cause everbody else did. Loved this. I shoot frequently and reload but the closest I ever got to melting lead was as a kid drilling a 2x4 full of 3/4" by 3/4" holes and melting tire weights, pouring it into the holes as I insert a paper clip in each one, then hose them down with the water hose before the whole board ignites. They made great trot line weights growing up on the brazos river. Ate lots of catfish. Thanks for the lead lessons. //ji
Good job young man. Informative with no fluff or bullshit and no aggravating music. Thank you.
as long as you didn't freeze or microwave this, I think Gordon Ramsay would approve of this!
lol, most likely
Came here from Imgur. Stayed for the whole 52 minutes mesmerised. Like... This is perfect watching thing for me. 5/5, would recommend to a friend.
Great video. Clear. To the point. Very informative. Just cast my first sinkers two days ago. Lotta fun. Thank you.
Making ingots today and watched your video again as a refresher, all yours videos over the years have helped me a lot , especially reloading, thanks
Who lead me here?
I see what you did there! lol
Masterchef lead you here
@Khb 888 Don't worry man. Maybe some people in the comment section were mislead.
@Khb 888 #feelsbadman :(
Perhaps you've been lead astray?
Me: oh... lead smelting.
Reality: Today we are going to make bullet lead soup with freshly strained jackets on a grill.
That picture is a gift from god.
Because of your very well explaining the procces I have been buying Wheel Weights from a small tire shop and gathing things to start processing lead so I can cast some bullets and balls for my black Powders rifle thankyou for sharing your knowledge and experience.
I went to an old shooting range collected 9. 5 gallon buckets of range scrap cleaned up and well over 350 lbs of lead. I also get old lead pipes and sheet lead from old Dr and dental offices that contractor buddies pull out and bring to me. in all on hand now got 500 lbs cleaned up that I cast flint lock round ball and Minnie balls with. this video I watch many times. best video for the process out there.
Thank you for the very kind words and support that you give my channel.. The process that I do now is much different than what I've showed in this video. The biggest change now is I don't wash the lead at all I just melt it down!
Man this trip has taken me somewhere I never though I'd be. Sunday night youtube.....never fails.
Hey, Just wanted to say that I did a similar vid but vhs back in 1987 for my boyscout group. Back then we used bees wax to remove what we called skim. and went bass fishing with the lead we then poured into molds for jig heads. We did the same except we collected tire weights back then. It was nice to see a similar method and a bit weird at the same time hearing a voice that sounds like mine. I know I didn't do this video but that was good and strange at the same time. Hey no biggie just glad to see some old school recycle done right :)Just so everyone knows that is not me. Have a great day :) PS: My name is Jamie an i'm from Virginia :)
I keep bees and so have a lot of bee's wax. I'm wondering if bee's wax is less flammable than the petroleum candle wax because bee's wax has a higher melting point than petroleum candles. I have lead that I want to melt into ingots because I target shoot with airguns. Thing about lead from airgun pellets is that it can have antimony in it which makes the lead harder and I wonder how that will affect this whole lead reclamation process.
Somehow this gets put in my recommended every other year. Every time I end up watching it
Wow this was a cool video to watch and the time flew me by.. Thanks for sharing now im dig out my lead from my sand piles. 👌
when you removed large amounts of the dirt it was surprisingly satifying
+Erik Gustafson ASMR
Kind of interesting to see this done on this level. In my early teens I came across a guy renting a space in an industrial center, he made bullets similar to this. He had a slightly larger setup, big kiln-like thing for melting down the stuff he got from the ranges, etc. Process was basically the same though. Melt down spent ammunition, sieve off the copper to recycle, clear off the slag/dross, and then make both ingots and new bullets. He had these interesting tools that were two halves on a hinge which encased the cavities that would form the bullets, and a top part on a swivel where he poured the lead in and was channeled to each cavity. He'd use a mallet with a head of lead he casted to tap them open, breaking off the lead sprue from the top, then tap it open and drop out 8 or 10 new bullets. It was fun and interesting watching and learning, listening to him tell me the ins and outs and whys of the whole process. He'd make his quota for the day then make ingots out of the rest, dropping one in every so often to keep the pool at whatever level he preferred.
This video from 8 years ago is still better quality then some post from 8 hours ago
I can’t believe I watched the complete video. I found it very interesting. Like you I enjoy using tools and jigs I make. Thanks for sharing.
You’re definitely not silly, it’s far more satisfying to use tools that came from your own hands. Thanks for the video very cool
How can anyone dislike this, this man is so informative and interesting
it's the lead companies trying to sabotage him lol
I didn't dislike but I mean he is contaminating the water supply.
@@AdvancedAlloy801 No, if anything he'd be contaminating wastewater, nobody's getting supply from that. But this is on such a small scale that there'd never be a noticable increase of lead in wastewater.
And no matter what, supply water is treated and filtered to be sufficiently clean and free from toxic chemicals, so this wastewater being unnoticeably contaminated is no problem.
Containting the water supply and safety , I see he has never had an unfired 22lr make it past his visual screening , many people have similar , non-water contaminating very safe videos . Never rinse scrap in your sink you prep food you eat in there, Put the scrap in a COLD pot , with a lid (a must have) wait for a dropped 22lr case you missed to explode (hence the lid) DO NOT add more (IN CASE YOU DROP A LIVE ROUND IN HOT LEAD CAUSING IT TO EXPLODE SHOWERING YOU IN HOT LEAD ) screen off brass , steel bullet cores (from m882 5.56) and copper jackets other than that a good video.
@@zhopka77 except when it inevitably due to run off ends up in lakes and rivers
It's 2021 now, and this video is a really good one, I want to see the casting part now. Thank you for making it!
Thank you! I had MANY casting video's and they were all excellent. They got taken down. UGH!
From the UK thanks for taking the time to show me how that is done.