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According to the Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook, third edition (from 1980) it is not safe to use battery lead. The reason is that maintenance free battery lead contains both calcium & strontium and when they combine with the antimony & arsenic, found in many other sources of lead such as wheel weights, the dross plus moist air or water produces poisonous gases stibine & arsine. Stibine is used as a fumigating agent and 10 parts per million are lethal to mice. Much more on the subject in the book.

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Good question! The answer is simple, you don't remove the clips before smelting. When you melt them the steel clips float to the top and you skim them off. Thanks for watching!

Do wish you had said something about batteries. Loading book Information on the topic feels "censored". Why is recycling them for lead recovery not done other than just they are "harmful". A more detailed answer would be appreciated. Otherwise great video! I am trying to imagine what chainsawing through a lead keel looks like. Dust?? Chips?? Environmental mess! Also some accurate information on free lead solubility in water might be appropriate. My understanding is that lead as lead from lost fishing weights and waterfowl hunting shot does not degrade or otherwise materially degrade those environments. The driving political forces behind lead banning is truthfully about fear of firearms in general. Strong acid ( as is found in batteries) is required to dissolve metallic lead and allow it to mix with plant or animal food sources.

It is a hobby, and there is also the independence factor that I can produce what I need when I need it of the quantity desired. I spent a year scrounging lead here and there, now I'm set for life... priceless. :)

for example my local caster charges 42 dollars for 500 158 grain 38 bullets. that is just over 11 pounds of bullets. when i buy lead i pay 50 cents a pound. so thats 5.5 dollars of lead to make 42 dollars worth of bullets. that leaves 36.5 for gas, electric, lube and effort. to me it's worth it.

There, I think I found the safe way to recycle car batteries now.

Don’t forget about car batteries if you know how to get it out

lead is everywhere if you look for it. I scrap for a living and clean out foreclosed houses and old barns sometimes and have found strange things made from lead such as lamps, lamp shades, and even find many ingots left behind or thrown in the bushes. I also work part time as building maintenance and we have a tire place next to us so I find lots of weights when I pick up the parking lot. I find a lot of fishing weights and kite weights (I assume) when metal detecting and I have an old timer friend that finds lots of lead at yard sales. it is out there, I have a few hundred pounds saved up to one day start molding for my 45lc and 357's, to start.

Also,lead sewer pipe is a good source.I recently scored almost 800 pounds of lead almost pure sewer pipe. It had been power hosed out,and cut into smaller chunks with the plumbers chop saw. After I got it home I used a wood splitter to cut it smaller,then made my ingots.

I get all of my lead from the ocean, so much lead is thrown away every day. Some places it is just handfuls and it also cleans up the the environment.

Never thought of fishing piers, great idea. The hippies will love you for picking up the lead too!

If an old hospital closes up, seek out the owner, and ask if you can have the lead lining in the X-ray room walls. Old hospitals are full of other cool stuff, too. Almost any old building, for that matter. +1 on leaded glass windows. Better, if you remove the glass intact, if you or someone you know has a stained glass hobby.

Absolutely my friend, thank YOu for watching it! May your search for lead be successful.

Hi, great question. Often times the number 2% is thrown around. If your mold is not filling out nice and sharp then adding tin will help the lead flow, then pretty boolits are born!

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Correct! Lots of good tips from viewers... Shielding lead, medical, dentist, lead pipes and fittings, etc. Thanks folks.

same boat here lol. i dont cast bullets. but i do have a lee casting pot, and molds. for what? fishing sinkers. i catfish alot. and here in il they have banned lead wheel weights. that sucked. cause i had a tire shop close to me and i would get a case of beer for the guys and get a 80-100 lb bucket of tire weights in return. thats dried up. i do have about 40 lbs of sinkers made now and about 100 lbs of lead in clean ingots around. i used to cast them and sell on ebay. not now since it dried up.