Lead and Crucibles

>Where do you boys get your lead for reloading?
roofing lead
>Also, what do you use as a crucible?
small three inch pan I used to make lead soldiers on any hob

I like mine but I'm thinking of getting a bigger pot soon

You dont need a crucible. I use old pots and pans to melt down plumbing lead from old cast iron pipe joints.

Pragmatically sure, go ahead, but as a hobby cook, don't.

FortuneCookie45LC said dentists are a good source of clean lead, the use those little lead stripes to shield your mouth during x-rays.

Lmao same

Careful, newer weights are made of zinc.

>I want ruin some perfectly good pans fucking around, and possibly lead poision other people in the future long after I've died from lead poisioning, all in an effort to save less than fifty bucks

Sure. Have fun.

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I would say dedicate it. If you can pick up a cheap cast iron pan at a garage and that's now your "lead pan" sure. But I have kids so I'm super anal about it. I will say it IS a PITA compared to my bottom pour to actually cast. I use the lead pan to clean up the lead and the bottom pour to cast.

This really is an area where you can spend a lot of money to "save" very little. If you are hard up enough that the lee pot isn't something you can afford. Waiting isn't the worst thing in the world.

If I need lead for bullets what I do is I buy bullets from an ammo store then melt them down and seperate the copper from the lead.

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Ill second this. Normally they are just in containers waiting to be disposed of. Tire shops are a great source as well. Bring some cash and beer and they will usually give you a bunch.

I use a cast iron dutch over from Harbor Freight on top of a turkey burner to smelt the wheel weights. I then put them in muffin pans to make ingots. Then i will use those ingots in the garage with my Lee pot. Works out really well.

Apparently a lot of people do. This is why I carry 3M lead test pens when I shop for used cast iron. If you use cast iron for melting lead, grind a big Pb into it.

i melt down sewer caps
it makes shit ammo
and it stinks

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>Where do you boys get your lead for reloading?
Scrap Metal from abandoned buildings in Detroit. A lot of the factories here had Lead in some way and the crackheads leave it alone due to it being worthless at scrapyards, they're only interested in copper and brass. Detroit is a pretty great place to live to be honest if you want training for collapse if you live in the residential areas like me.

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The office and the mechanics at work are on the same lot, so I grand a handful of wheel weights from the garage when I head to/from my car. I swiped a wheel weight plier once so now I do as well.

>Also, what do you use as a crucible?
Cast iron pots and a burner I bought at a garage sale. I use separate pots for casting bullets and melting dirty lead.

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>Walk into tire shop
>"Hello, may I take away your usual overflowing bucket of wheel weights?"
>Sometimes they want money for it. Sometimes they are happy to see it gone.
>Take bucket home, sort the lead from the unusuable rest
>Melt. Cast Boolits.

That, or go to a junk car lot and strip the wheels.

How much do you offer for, say, a 5 gallon bucket?

the price of scrap lead is $1/lb, keep in mind wheel weight buckets are usually 50-65% nonlead, you have to test them all. I think it would be weird to offer money for them though, I've never had a shop deny me their wheel weights, just be polite and friendly.