I can scoop these out once in a while.What could I use after bucket washing the dirt off them,to remove the old lube?
lacquer thinner?
thanks
B
I can scoop these out once in a while.What could I use after bucket washing the dirt off them,to remove the old lube?
lacquer thinner?
thanks
B
I use heat in a cast iron pot.
if extra lube floats to the top I light it on fire.
heat, the lube may even act as its own flux.
I would smelt and light the smoke as said
But if your thinking that you don't want smoke because of your location you can boil them clean works well when you want to clean and re lube something also probably need solvent for LLA though
Location exactly,would rather like to cleanly dissolve in a bath of some sort.
I "tumble" them in acetone......for quite a while. Dissolves it after a time, but some can stay in there.
Better is to just melt 'em down......you know it is gone! After all, it is only a bit of grease and wax.
bangerjim
Put them in a pot with water, boil until tender. Old lube should float to the top. Plus no worries about how to dispose of filthy laquer thinner.
Just melt them down w/the lube stirred in make your ingots. Any thing else in addition is just extra work.
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I Agree with the above.. Either boil them or melt them down as is.
Shad
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thanks,looks like soup ala boolit de jour it be..
My question is why? I just melt them all together, the lube acts as a flux. Throw some sawdust in too, done.
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Rubbing alcohol will dissolve must lubes very quickly. And it's cheap!
Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints!
Melt them down. That will clean them with lot less work!
The OP is trying to avoid the smoke and stink.
I vote for the boiling treatment.
Nothing getting vaporized to flash over when the fumes hit the pilot light (old school) in the water heater, or to light up your life when the piezo-electric or electronic start gas appliance fires up. Acetone and even alcohol baths are for closed containers only, dumped out only outdoors to be safest. I get nervous just using that stuff on a rag any more.
I don't agree with this statement..Nothing we do here except sizing, powder charging and boolit seating should be done inside.
bangerjim
Many of us have done numerous aspects of this hobby indoors with complete safety. I have a setup that allows me to do both my smelting and casting in my shop, rain or shine.
Shad
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Shad
mineral spirits will cut most of the lube off the boolits, might take a little scrubbing with an old tooth brush to remove some residual from beeswax. The mineral spirits now is 140 degree flash point so relatively safe, but still best to do outdoors. Then boil with a strong soap and you should have a clean smelt.
I have used this method to remove lubes that I didn't like so it does work. The nitrile gloves are recommended also, even though the mineral spirits is not as nasty as laquer thinner.
For a small number (under say, 100), I put the boolits on a piece of plywood and hit them gently with a constantly moving propane torch. Very little left on the boolits.
I do this because I don't have a smelting setup yet (I buy clean ingotized range lead) and I don't want to yuck up my pot. Not all the stuff burns off and overall, it takes me less time to do this than burning/fluxing the lube out of the pot and less time than waiting for a pot of water to boil. If I had a thousand plus boolits to do, I'd probably boil.
I have used a kerosene soak overnight.
Jeff
The first few buckets of range scrap I got, I rinsed off. Then I realized it was a waste of time. Now I just knock off the loose dirt and fry 'em up. That dirt is lighter than lead. Maybe I'm missing something. But I don't think so.
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