Where did 13 ounces of Lead go?

[UtopiaTexasG19]

You lost it to inflation...

[sargenv]

I chalk it up to "the same place where all of the missing socks go from the dryer"...

[jsizemore]

The condors and bald eagles ate it.

[dbarnhart]

Well, at least you guys will help me keep from taking this problem too seriously.

[Stick_man]

I was going to offer up the reason of an Obama tax, but ThePerfessor beat me to it. So the real reason is probably the Lead Fairy sneaking it when you aren't looking to give to the Tinsel Fairy (supposedly his cousin) for practice. Since most of us do not cast 24/7, the TF gets bored and needs something to keep in practice with. THAT's where your 13 oz of missing lead went. Either that or it got beamed up by aliens.

[dbarnhart]

That's it!!!!! Aliens!!! They stole it so they can analyze it to find a way to overcome the tinfoil hats!!!

[nvbirdman]

Did you leave a boolit in the mould?

[1bluehorse]

Seems to be quite a lot. Almost a pound out of 18.5lbs. 5%....whudda thunk..

[johnho]

Dbarnhart, I'm an engineer too and that would drive me nuts. I think someone hit it with that scale. Almost a pound out of 18.5 means something is off and I vote for the scale.

You think you have it bad, I have two forms of ingots: corn cob things and fish things. Corn ingots weight 1.1 pounds each and the fish weight 1.6 pounds each. Figured that out by weighing 10 of each and then dividing. So far so good. I then counted each one and keep a chart with my inventory. I started out with almost 3,000 pounds so that's a lot of little buggers. Every time I cast I have to keep track of how many of each I use so I keep a running total of remaining inventory.

I dread the day I end up with no more ingots and still have 150 pounds in paper inventory. or I run out of paper inventory and still have ingots left-the horror.

Oh, suggestion on the 13 ozs: use all your weights to the nearest pound and the problem will go away eventually.

[dbarnhart]

May have found it.

I weighed the ingots on Scale A.
I weighed the finished boolits on Scale B.

A quick comparison shows that scale A reads approximately 4.3% heaver than scale B.

So no aliens or lead fairies, darn it.

[Alchemist]

Different scales??? Shazam!!

[mpmarty]

Try my old favorite excuse: THE DOG ATE IT

[Centaur 1]

Today a new sinker mold arrived, one cavity each of 5 & 6oz. You think your coming up short on lead. Not sure I can deal with leaving 5 & 6oz. sinkers on the river bottom.

Every 6oz. sinker left on the bottom equals 5.6451612 of my 465gr cast boolits.

Sorry I couldn't get that figure any closer for ya!

Keep em coming!

Crusty Deary Ol'Coot

I did a lot of jetty fishing when I was younger, if you weren't losing sinkers you weren't catching fish. I would collect used spark plugs, sand blast and clean them, then close the electrode gap. The standard rig used a 3-way swivel, the line that ran from the swivel to the sinker(spark plug) was a lighter pound test than the fishing line and the leader. When I got hung up on the rocks, I would pull hard enoughto beak the line going to the spark plug. All you have to do is tie another piece of line, then tie on ol' sparky. Since I started casting boolits I just can't justify making sinkers from boolit lead. I bet the new zinc wheel weights would make good sinkers.

[Casper29]

I wonder if the weight is differnt between what was in the pot and what you melted into bullets, we all no the lead get harder as it sits. maybe???

[steg]

Of course Obamma did it, but it's for your own good, somehow............

[Moonie]

Try my old favorite excuse: THE DOG ATE IT

My dog avoids the casting shed since I discovered dogs like peanut butter as much as mice and will stick their noses into snap traps designed for the latter, and WILL do it much faster than you notice when casting/loading.

[walterm]

big oops about using two different scales - unless of course they're certified for trade...
Now... you could study the scales and determine the scaling factor to correct the one that's off - unless of course both scales are off...

Fish for dinner - better go scrape some scales.

w

[dbarnhart]

An interesting factoid:

The scale that reads heavier is my office postal scale

The scale that reads lighter is the one in the kitchen for weighing ingredients and food portions.

[popper]

Because of the alloy, it DOES weigh less!!!! Nothing (well almost - you can laser treat it and it will weigh more, but who cares) you can do about it You didn't lose any material, except to the tinsel fairy.

[Love Life]

It's those dang garage gremlins. They are pinching your lead after they have a busy night of moving random tools, screws, and anything else you need to a different location.

I hate the garage gremlins.