Reeder Custom Guns - I finished melting the pure lead and casting ingots ...

Took a bit of work. My little cheap hotplate just about has enough heat .. BUT .. the wind was blowing! I could have done it in the shop but I did not want to stink it up. The propane torch helped. LOTS of dirt. I got 45 pounds of lead and 12 1/2 pounds of dirt and slag.

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I had cut the pan into smaller rectangles and then pounded them small enough to go into my melting pan.

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I have quite a bit of really hard alloy that I will mix with this.

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Cast your own bullets, and hunt with them, using your own reloads. Really inexpensive too

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I cleaned up a bunch of scrap iron on the place when I moved in here and sold it to the metal recyclers. It brought about $150.00 and I stayed at the recyclers and and bought $150 worth of lead. So my bullets only cost me my time.

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Maintenance Shop. I found 30-50 lbs. of “plumbers lead”. I think there were 6-7 bars of ingots. Hazardous material you know! It probably needs proper disposal. Long ago I worked a deal on a pallet of flexible “goose neck” connections.

You know; the EPA has mandated that the state of Michigan, and soon the rest of the nation “find” and replace every lead water pipe connection and lead service line for residential customers! Lead has been a fantastic pipe material since at least the Greek empire. (If it does not kill you in the first 15-20 yrs. it scales over) Many of their lead pipes, Roman aqueduct too, are still functional. That will be a LOT of lead in some market. Most is sold internationally at substantial profit.

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About 40 pounds of pipe lead. I melted it up in the pot, mixed it with some very hard lino ingots, and poured it into 65 pounds of clean 1/2 pound bullet stock for future use.
I set up a box fan in my outside carport, it draws all the fumes and blows it all away.

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That was connected with soft lead joints! Soil pipe they called it. It was cast iron and about everyone’s sewer pipes under their house utilized it. You’d fit a joint, fill it with the brown fuzzy stuff (we called it wool). You pour some melted lead around it and these special punches were used to hammer the lead into the joint sealing it . Actually it basically unified the two pipes as one solid piece, it was good stuff! I drug some from under my old house from the 40’s in the 1990’s! It was heavy dragging it on all fours. I now have pvc.

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It was an old fort and all the electric underground wire was in lead pipes. I was only 17 years old at the time and didn't load ammo yet so didn't realize the lead mine I had found. All the wiring was abandoned so it would have been easy to "salvage" a couple hundred pounds of it....

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I finished melting the pure lead and casting ingots ...

Very nice Jim. It’s rewarding to

A family member gave me this old drain pan ..

I was working in the rafters of the utility’s

Scotty that’s the lead I got from a friend

We used to maintain (on rare occasion) sewer pipe

Years ago I worked at a State Park...