Inane Lead Thread

[AdamN]

To celebrate the site lets have an Inane lead photo thread. Your best/worst shots. Bullets/lead/WW whatever feels right.

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[AdamN]

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/ton.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/HG68.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/45RN.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/Full.jpg


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[AdamN]

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/Mold.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/9mm3.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/Lyman230.jpg

[lcarreau]

I was thinking of a contest where contestants try to make the most interesting lead casting. That last one there definitely looks to be a contender.

-Lonnie

[AdamN]

Yea thats my Lee drip sculpture. It would make one about every 15 minutes if you let it sit there.

Here is the current setup.

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/rcbs.jpg

[lcarreau]

Nice ventilation Aneat. I am jealous.

-Lonnie

[AdamN]

Thanks; I have an inline booster fan to help draw the smoke/fumes when I flux more than anything. Probably about $40.00 in stuff, The 90 degree fitting actually lets you swivel the whole thing out of the way if necessary.

When Im not using it I stuff a couple shop rags in it to keep the cool air from coming in.

[lcarreau]

I know 'Slick has been wanting to setup a vent in his garage. Thatr setup should be an inspriration.

-Lonnie

[AlPackin]

LOVE these porno threads :lurk5:

[freakshow10mm]

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[freakshow10mm]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/freakshow10mm/Boolit%20Casting/DSC03155.jpg

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[freakshow10mm]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/freakshow10mm/Boolit%20Casting/icastminesmiley.gif

[cohutt]

I decided to smelt tonight, even went and bought a 30lb propane tank, no pics of tonights work but if you get real close to the screen you can smell the funk from the seals & pipe that converted to breeks tonight.
14 pure shielding ingots @ 6.25 lbs + 20 soft lead flashing/pipe/seals @ 6.25 lbs = another 210 lbs processed for the great lead wall of cohutta,

but this is a picture thread, so you ho's get to see all the inane crap again

lead fairy dust from uzi barrel (oops)
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/misc080.jpg

200 lbs of boolit ore from the muddy bermining disaster of Feb:
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/misc079.jpg

'slick before he started juicing:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/TinyBAR1302_468x693.jpg

550 lbs of mo beautiful lead:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/misc055.jpg

some babbitt and 3 "Fred Flinstone" lead wheels:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/misc039.jpg

[cohutt]

size those little thangs:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/misc034.jpg

big ingots, little ingots

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/misc026.jpg

koski @ his first competition:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/Misc-Retard-1.jpg


some stuff i needed to work on (did):

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/Bulletlab018.jpg


boolits that might leave a mark:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/Bulletlab008.jpg

[cohutt]

how a furked pot looks after you smelt zinc into alien toe jam:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/funkyalloy9907009.jpg

ingots from a manly mold:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/leadaugust2007003.jpg

do we have to draw you a picture?

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/ascentofpress.gif

almost casting time, bermining experiment of 2007:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/bermining027.jpg

how much noise do 44mag and 45-70 boolits make when the hit the floor?

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/boolit002.jpg

[cohutt]

Ok so this is my inventory as of tonight complete with the obligatory lead splattered shoe

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/pb/misc086.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/pb/misc084.jpg

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the smelt pile shinks to a few hundred lbs

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/pb/misc082.jpg

[sparky241]

damn where do you guys get all this lead? all the tire places around here want you to pay for it. man you guys got alot

[yammerschooner]

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/Lyman230.jpg


Wearin' out that mold are ya?:)

[yammerschooner]

Survey says that if all goes right I will be out of ingots sometime next week. :yikes:

This does not bode well.

In fact, this could be very bad.

[AdamN]

Yea but you will have all them "little" ing-etts that fit the barrel better

[yammerschooner]

Like you told me last year, I'm going to have to start looking for a reliable source. This bucket at a time crap isn't cutting it.

Once I get rid of a few I may have to steal the old man's gooseneck trailer and pickup and start making road trips.

Spring break starts the day after tomorrow. Summer will be here soon.

[cohutt]

Like you told me last year, I'm going to have to start looking for a reliable source. This bucket at a time crap isn't cutting it.

Once I get rid of a few I may have to steal the old man's gooseneck trailer and pickup and start making road trips.

Spring break starts the day after tomorrow. Summer will be here soon.


Thus far, nobody has made you aware of my address have they?


Just checking ......

[yammerschooner]

Send it to me. If I show up for lead I will bring boolits for the masses.

ACLU's honor.

[cohutt]

damn where do you guys get all this lead? all the tire places around here want you to pay for it. man you guys got alot

That little palet barely tops a ton :)

all it has taken is a relentless and obsessive 16 month quest for any and all sources of scroungable lead

oh, and forgot the 60 lbs of lino that i haven't put up yet:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/pb/misc087.jpg

[cohutt]

Send it to me. If I show up for lead I will bring boolits for the masses.

ACLU's honor.

ACLU's honor, now thats a good one.

[yammerschooner]

took it from someone's sig line, maybe gwalch.

[freakshow10mm]

I got about 60# of lino too. I treat it like gold.

[Oreo]

What's so special about lino? (comming from a guy who knows nothing about casting)

[cohutt]

Linotype is pretty hard, has a good bit of antimony in it. It is a good thing to have on hand if you want to cast harder bullet. Not so much to cast 100% lino bullets (although i have read of people doing it) but instead to add to WW and other alloy to get the bnh you want.

I traded pure lead for it as I needed to build up my stock of harder alloys to blend into all the soft lead i have; all of my cast boolits tend to be softer than ww. Lino is good for this

[craig110]

Some of these lead stashes almost make me want to go back to a traditional smelting operation so that I have a pile of ingots before casting!

[craig110]

Yea thats my Lee drip sculpture. It would make one about every 15 minutes if you let it sit there.

Here is the current setup.

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/rcbs.jpg

Since you live in Ohio, that vent is going to pull a lot of cold winter air into your garage. I presume you have a heater to keep the garage at a bearable temperature? If so, what do you have and how well does it work?

[AdamN]

Yes I have a heated garage, I think its about 70k btu wall furnace (LP) It will keep the garage as warm as you want but thru the cold months I keep it at 55 if Im not there. 65 or so if Im in there doing something.

All my reloading/casting/machining stuff is in the garage. Along with 2 cars:yikes:

Yes it gets a little crowded:driving:

[cohutt]

i have a monkey rigged casting bench under construction complete with vent system, lighting and a trap door boolit drop.

not much yet, maybe one day when i have some time i can finish it and get casting again.

Made from scraps and scavenged wire, fan etc (gee you mean it's NOT new lumber?) in the CRB way

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/misc074.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/misc075.jpg

[jawjaboy]

All are 6 ounces or larger.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/jawjaboy/IM000651.jpg

Pure tin.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/jawjaboy/IM000169.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/jawjaboy/IM000219.jpg

[Fatdaddy]

JJB,
Where'd you get that tin and how do you recognize it when you see it?
I got a few old radiators laying around, seems like I heard some of these had some tin in them.

[layusn1]

Does anyone still sell tin foil? Would it work too?

[AdamN]

One trick I use for identifying tin is to bend it, when bent it will creak or "cry" as some call it. Definitly makes a noise when bent. 50/50 tin lead solder will creak a little.

Radiators usually have 50/50 solder at the seams but the majority is brass/copper for the old style.

[jawjaboy]

JJB,
Where'd you get that tin and how do you recognize it when you see it?
I got a few old radiators laying around, seems like I heard some of these had some tin in them.

Got it from a good feller over at castboolits.

ANeat speaks truth on da "creak" identifier.

[AdamN]

Little story here, back when I was doing some serious scrounging at the local scrap yards. Seen a buch of ingots like Jawjas tin, Old dirty stuff, looked like it had been around for years. Picked one up and gave it a good bend "creak" it said.:treerat: Head first I went in there, got about 40 pounds of it for .20 a pound:dita::yikes::prrr:

[MullahElRon]

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[MullahElRon]

http://www.picvault.info/images/537071809_leadho%20jjb.jpg

[gwalchmai]

http://www.picvault.info/images/537071809_leadho%20jjb.jpg

Just think, we could have put JJB on the Pioneer plaque (maybe get one dem Dillon gals to pose with him...)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Pioneer_plaque.svg/763px-Pioneer_plaque.svg.png

[cohutt]

Mullah,

that first lead commando pic is straight from a recurring dream i've been having for the last 2 years.

Put that one on my all time mullah list

mr hutt

[AdamN]

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/BluePress.jpg

[MullahElRon]

Do what you gotta do for your lead cohutt. :sifone:

[cohutt]

Pb stalagmites? Siamese sextuplets?

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/pb/misc089.jpg

[gwalchmai]

Dat a speed-reloader.

[jawjaboy]

Dat a speed-reloader.

:rofl:

[cohutt]

Dat a speed-reloader.


actually that's called a "responsible 48 year old man can't help being intrigued by molten metal and had to pour it on all kinds of stuff"-thing

[gwalchmai]

[Scene: Phoebe’s, Frank is melting a plastic spoon.]

Phoebe: Okay so, by melting, you meant melting.

Frank: Yeah.

Phoebe: So is it like art?

Frank: Yeah, you can melt art. Hey, can I use your phone?

Phoebe: Um, yeah sure. Why you wanna call your Mom?

Frank: No, I wanna melt it.

Phoebe: Oh, well um, not right now. Y'know I’m just gonna go to bed,
I think the fumes are giving me a headache.

Frank: (starts laughing) Yeah!

Phoebe: G’night, bro.

Frank: G’night.

Phoebe: Here. (gives him a fire extinguisher) Y'know, just in case.

Frank: Oh, excellent. (starts to melt the fire extinguisher’s hose.)

[cohutt]

funny, gwalch.

confession time:

how many here burned themselves in their younger days playing with burning melting pet bottles/ milk jugs?

You know, "zip-zipping", "zipping", "ziff ziff", whatever you and you buds called it, as in light it and listen to the cartoon sounds the burning plastic fireballs make when they drop.

When I walked into the infirmary in college, when i saw the doc guy and showed him my hand he didn't even ask how i did it, he just said "ziffing, were ya? hold the milk jug on a stick next time, stupid." :banghead:

[AlPackin]

hadn't thought about that in a long time, I melted those plastic toy soldiers to get the zipping fireballs. :)

[gwalchmai]

I heard, somewhere..., that you could use the dripping plastic as napalm and hit model cars & planes with it. Models carefully constructed with firecrackers and/or Bullseye in them.

Just a rumor.

[Pitmaster]

After becoming old enough to drink illegally around 15 and cardboard beer packaging went out I learned about using the plastic rings 6-packs came in. Before that we made Moltov cocktails from light bulbs to bust on the driveway. Parents weren't happy when they came home from work.

[AdamN]

Back to regular programing

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/Smelt1.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/Smelt2.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/Smelt4.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/Smelt3.jpg

[45/70Geddumout!]

Back to regular programing

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/Smelt1.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/Smelt2.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/Smelt4.jpg

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h165/aneat/Lead/Smelt3.jpg
Do your ingots drop free of those molds without much trouble?

[AdamN]

Do your ingots drop free of those molds without much trouble?


Oh yea, there is a nice angle on the sides and I cut a pretty good angle on the ends. When they harden up, pick it up, turn it over and drop it from about a foot up and there all out:thumbsup:

I think its 3" channel iron I used for those. Ive mad a few from some bigger stuff for some friends with a "bigger" pot.

[yammerschooner]

And hopefully you are still on the lookout for more!

You are a fine figure of a man Adam.

[cohutt]

i like the wind shield around your pot. I need one. Soon.

[yammerschooner]

Here is the one I took after unloading the vehicle this afternoon.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i54/yammerschooner/bulletporn.jpg

[yammerschooner]

Do your ingots drop free of those molds without much trouble?


Oh yeah. Used the small ones today.

[yammerschooner]

Here is from yesterday's cast. All thousand of these were cast at 683-688 degrees for the hardness tester experiment I am doing in three weeks.

You don't get much shorter or fatter than this 150 grain rnfp 45.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i54/yammerschooner/45bullets.jpg

[cohutt]

little lead rabbit turds those are

[AdamN]

Well it should be easy to get a good reading off the nose, getting a good read off the side might be tricky

[yammerschooner]

I reckon I will send 10 and have everyone test the nose.

[cohutt]

Bump, cuz 1 year without a post would be sad for an inane lead thread

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/pb/leadleadlead006.jpg

[BigSlick]

Ok so this is my inventory as of tonight complete with the obligatory lead splattered shoe

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/pb/misc086.jpg



Shoulda quit while ya was ahead :rofl:

You still my hero cohutt, dat was jus too easy ta pass up :animlol:

[RustyFN]

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[cohutt]

I hear ya Slick. I saw that post from almost a year ago and thought the same thing.

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/cohutt/pb/leadleadlead001.jpg