Lead for casting is getting harder to find

I am heading out to find lead

Thanks for the information. I am very appreciative of it. I am heading out to develop new sources.

Mr. Model P, I am very indebted to you.

The safety information you gave to us all about submerged lead possibly exploding was very important and very interesting to me. I have melted everything in that old lead pot, from sinkers to trot line weights, to motor boat anchors. I have walked around the area of the pot with the scrap in it melting, not evening thinking about something popping off or exploding in that big old lead pot. Getting lead burns are nasty, painful, toxic as hell, and often difficult to get healed of from.

Model P, because what you told me about exploding scrap, I have decided to try a whole new tact in the way I melt something. A whole new safety program. Often, we never know what the scrap lead we acquire has been through. Hell, any of it could have been under water.

A steam explosion in a lead pot would have to be a nightmare. Especially if it gets on your face, in your eyes. My bench surface is at about belt buckle level. If that lead pot exploded, it might even get on my balls! Man, I dont need that ****.

My new safety program will be to use an old bench out in the back yard, with a long cord to my heat source, well away from the house. I will need a box of excellent crackers, and an excellent kosher salami. I am going to charge the pot with ingot or scrap, and then I will stay the hell away from it until it melts completely. While it is heating up, I will go into the house, stay there, and I will busy myself eating the kosher salami with the crackers. I will go back to the lead pot later, when the crackers run out. I will find it all melted down and ready to cast bullets. In this way, if it explodes, my eyes are safe, my balls are safe, and there is nothing to do but clean the bench off, fnish the salami, and continue the operation. Thanks for your information. It is a very, very good warning. A very valuable warning.

Now, I have asked everyone about where to get the lead. You guys gave me new information and lots of help. Do any of you guys mind telling me where I can find a good kosher salami? It is a very important part of my new safety program.
 
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Gator Weiss,
If you get the extra spicy version, you can save on the amount of gas or electric required to melt the lead.
Just breath on the pot some, to get it started and warmed up good.
 
Model-P,
You needed that much weight to offset all the air in that old, extra buoyant, double hose regulator.
Click to expand...

LOL!

But, even if I went to one of those plastic single hose regs I'd still need to wear 500 bullets worth of lead........ .38 caliber instead of .45:D

Sounds like a plan, White Alligator. Even if you never have a problem with the lead, you will enjoy the smelting process even more now taking cracker and salami breaks. Just don't forget to wash those lead-contaminated hands before eating:eek:
 
I have not had any problem what-so-ever in securing lead from the recycler. Linotype, monotype, and pure lead at $.46 (46 cents) a pound for some time. Additionally, bullet trap lead from the indoor shooting range has been plentiful for half that price.
Wheel weights are also available from the recycle, but I don't like the fuss of the metal clips, dirt, & oil. Why mess with it when all the other types of lead are available at the sam price?
 
Clip on wheel weights aren't good for bp shooting unless you're using a prb. Stick on weights are fine as they're 99.5% pure lead. I was still getting them for free but haven't tried in awhile.
 
I got a ton of it when I was a kid and they tore down the old cotton compress. They used it for sealing steam pipe joints.
 
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