Lead list?

[bpd303]

At that price, I would buy all they have.

 

[HPS]

I don't know if this will help in identifying the scrap window framing lead I purchased today, (you call it window came ?), so I took a photo in the hope it would pin it down. Appreciate your help. :hatsoff:

 

[bpd303]

Looks like it. https://www.google.com/search?q=le...d+came&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&spell=1

 

[mooman76]

I agree, looks like the stuff I got. They used to do stained glass at work so I acquired some of their scraps. Not pure but still very soft. I acquired about 300#. I wish they were still doing the windows.

 

[HPS]

Thanks gents. Now looks like I need to melt some down in a pot and see if I can clean it up and pour some ingots. Would any of you know of a one burner camp stove that could bring the pot to 700 - 750 degrees?

 

[bpd303]

Just about any will heat the lead to proper temp. Just be careful with the one burners, because a pot of lead will make them top heavy and they may tip over. I started out with a 2 burner coleman stove. The Lee electric pots are very good and cost about the same.

 

[mooman76]

Turkey fryers will work too. A hot plate will work if it's a real hot one but I don't know what watts are needed. I started on a Coleman stove also.

 

[Billnpatti]

Be careful when using a camp stove to melt lead. I know a lot of folks have used them successfully but I had a near miss using one of them. Mine was a Coleman one burner stove. It looked like a lantern bottom with a burner on top and a heavy wire grate to hold your pot. I sat a cast iron pot on it that would hold 10 pounds of lead and put enough lead in it to fill it. When the grate got hot the weight of the pot of lead was too much and the wire grate started to sag. The pot turned over and poured moulton lead on the garage floor. It happened pretty quickly and fortunately no one was near the pot when it turned over. So, when you pick a stove on which to melt your lead, just be sure that the grate is strong enough when it gets hot that it doesn't sag and let your pot of lead spill.

 

[leonard5054]

:thumbsup: I've used window lead,i cut joints out trade with buddy for soft lead,he cast cf pistol bullet. :v I pay 1.00/lb :2

 

[nhmoose]

Testing lead hardness with pencils. From Cast Boolits Forum

Cant post link go to the alloy forum it is a sticky

 

[larry wv]

Soft lead is going for .75 cents a pound here when the junk place has it. Which is rare anymore.

Larry