I can get as much of this as I want, is it lead?

[Timber Wolf]

How you gonna get one of those in your pot? Or before that, how are you going to get them home?

 

[Brazos John]

When cutting or drilling it, wear a mask, so you don't inhale lead dust.

 

[Ragged Edge]

Wear a REAL mask! Not a paper or cloth covid wrap-around.

 

[leadhoarder]

Wear a REAL mask! Not a paper or cloth covid wrap-around.

Yeah those face diapers do nothing.

 

[leadhoarder]

Nice score BTW. That is a lot of lead.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Not jealous at all, no, no ,not
Wow, nice robots.

 

[andy52]

I guess it boils down to how much lead you can use and how much you're willing to process.
Several years ago the company I worked for was decommissioning an old forklift. It had a massive piece of lead as a counterweight at nearly 1300 lbs. They were just going to scrap the whole thing at once and I asked if I could have the lead, they told me I could but I would have to take it off the machine and haul it away. Well, I did and that was 30+ years ago. I still have pieces of that weight today that haven't been processed, 1300lbs of leads makes a bunch of bullets and balls.

 

[ord sgt]

You will have much more lead than you will ever use in your lifetime. I collected scrap lead from work. I cast roundball in .45, .50, .69 + .58 minie. I melted the scrap lead, cleaned it and made ingots. I retired 11 years ago and I still have about 100 ingots still left. that's my $0.02 worth of advice.

 

[Elkhorse]

Buy a lead test kit?

 

[nchawkeye]

What do you want it for???

If you are going to make round balls to shoot, it will be fine...If you are gong to make fishing weights or jig heads with, it will work for that as well....

What many don't realize is you do not have to have pure lead to shoot out of a muzzleloader...

 

[smrz]

Use a hand held staple gun like a T50. If you bury a 3/8ths staple it's pretty much pure.

 

[andy52]

What many don't realize is you do not have to have pure lead to shoot out of a muzzleloader...

In theory, you are correct I've loaded and shot round ball using the same casting mix I do for hard cast bullets.
They shoot fine but I also tested them on milk jugs filled with water just to see how they worked for hunting.
When fired into 10 jugs lined up side by side my .54 penetrated all 10 and ended up in the berm. When I dug it out it could easily be fired again. So in the end I didn't use them for hunting.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

We are scraping several robots at work and I can buy the counter weights at 25cent a lbs. boss said he can give me a hell of a deal if I take all 8 of them. Probably about $100 a piece. As he just needs the rest of the employees to see me pay something. They are 922lbs each and seem to be lead. Any way to test them. The scrapings melt quickly. All told it’s just under 4 tons for a couple hundred bucks.

Seems like you could just call them and ask couldn't you? For more information, contact a RobotWorx representative today at 740-251-4312

 

[Ames]

4 tons? Buy it, garage it.
Pour it into ingots and sell it here for years. Or invest in the molds and pour them into roundball. Either way, if you sell it to us at half the going rate for balls or ingots you make out for years to come.
Buy it. You will make enough money to bury yourself with rifles and powder.

 

[jackpine54]

That's only 28,000ish .54 round balls in 922 lbs. Probably not worth it.

If you're close to Michigan I know a guy who shoots a lot.

Seriously, get it somebody will need it! It ain't getting any cheaper.

 

[tnlonghunter]

...and don't forget, he can get 8 of them, so that's close to a quarter million .54 round balls, give or take 25k!

 

[Ames]

Sell them half price.....10 cents a ball....only $10 per hundred. My math right? 25 thousand dollars? For a few hundred invested?
Buy it!

 

[Whughett]

Well for certain it isn’t gold and to my knowledge that’s the only soft metal that weighs a lot. My self Id grab it. There’s a markets for it right here in these pages. Current prices can run up to $2 plus a pound. JMO.

 

[Whughett]

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[Marc Schmidt]

Maybe you could open this link and ask the manufacturer about their product:
https://new.abb.com/products/3HAB6501-1/3hab6501-1