Acquired it from a local tire shop. Anxious to get it home tonight and start sorting/melting!
It's obviously not all lead. I'm 5'8"/155lbs and I picked it up and set it on the tail gate of my truck. (Though barely....)
Anyone wanna take a stab at what they think the total weight and lead, zinc, and steel weights are going to be?
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Good Lord, I hope it's more than that. If not, I've just admitted how weak I am.Originally Posted by oteroman
138.3 pounds
130 lbs
150 and 5/4 pounds
That last 1-2 inches of bucket is worth 20 lbs or even more if they are heaped up. Looks like a lot of stick ons. Was it previously sorted? My yield on stick ons is pretty high. If mostly stick ons I predict an ingot yield of at least 110 lbs in these parts, unless a bunch of those Commiefornia steel weights have spilled over into AZ....
Gross weight with the bucket is 141.6.
Man, I thought sorting brass sucked!
You'll forget those 'it really sucks thoughts' when you are sitting there grinning and looking at a stack of fresh ingots...
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Good evening. I say 58lbs COWW and 49lbs SOWW. That was alight bucket. Most of the ones I get are pushing 175+lbs. After sorting a full bucket is close to 200lbs. I sort into a bucket on a dolly....so I never have to pick it up, just wheel it to the hand door of the garage. Sometimes older is smarter
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watch for the zinc, been finding the best looking ww's are all fast becoming zinc.
Plenty of that in there. I'd say about 30%.
I'm using snips and a magnet to help me cull out the steel and zinc, but I'm scared stupid that a zinc is gonna get by me.
total all together? 123.5lbs! bet
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well I didn't see he weighed it already! I woulda faked it!
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I just processed several buckets of ww's, and found far fewer zinc's than I was expecting. Found more steel, actually. But I'm a fanatic about keeping the melt temp well under 700 degrees, so whatever zinc weights went in just float to the top with the rest of the garbage. I think you'd have to really try to melt zinc weights, JMHO.
But now I have this pile, plus 10 .30 cal ammo cans full (64 bars per can), and a bunch of stragglers in my melting pot, so I think I'm set for awhile! Quick count in my head is around 900+ bars, that'll make a lot of boolits for me.
Last edited by rondog; 02-03-2017 at 04:59 AM.
I must be old as DIRT!! ,I remember going with Dad, and a Pizza would get you two or three 5 gal. buckets.And all you had to sort out was valve stems and old chew globbs.
Have a large part of his stash still.Did buy a couple buckets a while back from a Mom&Pop shop,150# almost 95# of alloy.
I sortbut also melt at minimum temp.
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