Casting Lead Bullets Part 1 - Making Ingots from Lead Tire Weights

Part one of the bullets casting process. This video describes the process of taking lead tire weights and turning them into lead ingots for use in casting and making of bullets.

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[Tacticalreview]

copper has a melting point of almost 2000 degrees F. You need special equipment for that. Pure copper without a lead core would be to hard to use as a bullet and would fail to form to the barrel when shot, thus causing damage. That is if it did not stove pipe.

[supergoat343]

What did he use for flux?

[Tacticalreview]

I mentioned the brand I use in my videos on casting lead bullets. For the initial melting and ingot making, I rarely use flux. When I melt the ingots in mu lead furnace I use flux.

[Tacticalreview]

Elements Melt Point F Aluminum 1218 Brass 1652-1724 Bronze 1562-1832 Cast Iron 2300 Carbon  6512 Chromium 3034 Copper 1981 Gold 1946 Hydrogen -434.2 Inconel 2540 Iron 2786 Lead 621 Magnesium 1240 Manganese 2300 Monel 2400 Nickel 2646 Phosphorous 111 Silicon 2588 Silver 1762 Stainless Steel 2550 Steel-High Carbon 2500 Medium Carbon 2600 Low Carbon 2700 Tin 450 Titanium 3263 Tungsten 5432 Zinc 786

[Tacticalreview]

The stove is a no name brand I got from walmart. Nothing special. All metals have different melting points. For example, Aluminum melts at 1218 degrees, copper at 181, and bronze at 1562. However, lead melts at 621 and tin melts at 451. Lead and tin are manageable with basic equipment. Other metals would not be easy to melt without special equipment.

[sacr3]

So you can just melt lead basically on any stove top? Or does it have to be direct fire?

[Tacticalreview]

As long as the fire is hot enough, any fire will do.

[LongRifle100]

Nice video. However you want to monitor the temperature, so you don't melt the Zinc weights into your lead. Also, helps to make friends with the tire store people, before asking for stuff. Especially now, that the lead prices are going through the roof.

[Devorvan]

anyone else just love seeing a pile of ingots stacked up? xD

[ataurus62]

Should you wear a mask too?

[iserhof1234]

I was wondering if u knew anything about makeing shell caseings

[deviljunkie23]

@mazerrackham001 proper sizing and lubrication of the bullit helps tremendously

[deviljunkie23]

@empty5290 its the brand

[deviljunkie23]

@tom77685 did you try a salvage yard?

[monsterman27]

dont tire weights have too much tin in them making the lead to hard?

[tom77685]

how did you get free lead noone around here will give me free lead they say they cant give it out they wont sale it to me so i dont think u got free lead

[tom77685]

well no one around here will will give me lead I went to all the tire shops and asked to day a whole tank of gas and noting and a brand new Lyman Big Dipper Casting Starter Kit $135 and I can’t use it I can’t find any lead and the $1,000 Dillon 550b press and dies for it all sitting set up and I can’t use them. I am out of money now so I can’t buy lead don’t know how you got free lead I cant