smelting lead

dangerranger · September 05, 2010, 08:08:13 PM

well the weather was nice today, under 100 f. and Im out of bullit alloy, so I smelted down 200lbs of raw wheel weights into 150lbs of clean WWM. this is normaly a winter activity but Im out. so in the next couple of days Ill be busy casting up bullits. DR

Deja vous · September 05, 2010, 08:19:57 PM

"the Dangerranger muffin" the UN hippy cupcake.. lol.. so cool.. lol.

Green River Powell aka RonC · September 05, 2010, 08:37:41 PM

I smelt some lead once. My brain has never been the same.

Ron

Deja vous · September 05, 2010, 09:12:58 PM

i am pretty sure I ate it off my crib as a child.. nothing else explains me.. lol...

GunClick Rick · September 05, 2010, 10:21:13 PM

Must be a hell of a front stuffer

What do you use for a patch?

Gypsy Bob · September 05, 2010, 10:55:02 PM

Smelting is the process of extracting metal from ore, perhaps you meant Melting......

Silver Creek Slim · September 06, 2010, 09:49:10 AM

Good job, pard. I got some lead muffins, too.

Slim

Green River Powell aka RonC · September 06, 2010, 10:09:16 AM

Have you ever smelt smelt?

I have been on mining and smelter sites from Brazil to Ghana to India, and if I am still alive after exposure to lead-zinc-tin smelting, cyanide in gold ore processing, and native people trying to shake me down, a little extra lead shouldn't make much of a difference.

Ron

Gypsy Bob · September 06, 2010, 12:29:54 PM

YES, I've smelled smelt, used to catch em (sewer trout) n I've smelled a smelter smelting (Rus-Alum Novokutznesk Siberia USSR) worse headache EVER, or maybe it was allthe free Vodka and Pivo...LOL

dangerranger · September 07, 2010, 04:01:35 PM

Quote from: Gypsy Bob on September 05, 2010, 10:55:02 PM
Smelting is the process of extracting metal from ore, perhaps you meant Melting......

also the prosses of seperating lead from clips , trash,rust, nails, etc..... now I need to find a way to store it. Ive got it in buckets, and am up to 400lbs or so. I either need more buckets or something on steel wheels. maybe an Ore Cart. DR

Green River Powell aka RonC · September 07, 2010, 04:38:20 PM

A neighbor here in Golden, CO, has an ore cart in their yard that probably dates back to the 1880s. We can do a midnight requisition (after unloading the gravel in the ore cart).

Ron

Deja vous · September 07, 2010, 08:54:18 PM

okay.. from a girls perspective, you SMELT lead if you heated it up.. sort of like baking bread.. you SMELT it when the oven got hot.. lol