Want to start making my own shot

[Shanghai Jack]

So I never got on the wheel weights bandwagon but I have several tons of pure lead, and a good supply of foundry metal that is 12% tin,26% antimony and 68% lead. Only thing I have with arsenic in it is reclaimed shot but its anyone's guess what that measures. What's the conventional wisdom for making shot i.e. percentages for alloy

Thanks in advance

[Barry54]

Start at post 4. Arsenic Is desirable...

[acesover]

What do you do with the lead tainted water? I would imagine that it would.be considered to be a haz waste. Please don't tell me you just dump it down the sewer.

[Barry54]

What do you do with the lead tainted water? I would imagine that it would.be considered to be a haz waste. Please don't tell me you just dump it down the sewer.

You should look at permissible levels of heavy metals on municipal sewer discharge permits across the nation.

I use a Big Berkey water filter for my drinking water.

[jimb16]

oops!

[jimb16]

I fired up my Littleton today. I started at 10 and finished at 3, with an hour off for lunch! 100# of 7.5 shot made. I used straight COWW alloy and dollar store fabric softener for coolant. Tomorrow, I'll rinse the coolant off then set the shot out to dry. After that, an hour with the vibrating "cleaner" and a little graphite, and I'll be done.
For those of you who have tried pure lead without success, you need a couple percent of tin to allow the alloy to flow cleanly through the drippers. Pure lead just won't flow well enough to make shot. You don't need antimony or arsenic. While those harden the shot, it just limits deformation of the shot. It is the added tin that helps the alloy flow through the drippers. It flows so well through the drippers of my Littleton that I can't walk away for more than a couple minutes because I have to be constantly feeding the machine!

[acesover]

You should look at permissible levels of heavy metals on municipal sewer discharge permits across the nation.

I use a Big Berkey water filter for my drinking water.

I wonder what the lead content is in the water you use and discard?. Seems to be a concern if you use a filtration system.

[Barry54]

I wonder what the lead content is in the water you use and discard?. Seems to be a concern if you use a filtration system.

Have you ever shot a firearm? Have you ever washed your hands after being in contact with lead? What do you do with the water from washing your hands? Hasn’t it been in contact with lead?

I’m in the water treatment field. I know what the permissible levels are. That’s why I filter my water. A bigger problem than lead is PFAS look it up.

https://www.epa.gov/pfas/pfas-explained

[acesover]

If you are in the water treatment field, you would know better that to discard lead contaminated water where it can seep into the drinking water. Again, do you have any idea of what the lead levels are in the water you dump out?

[Barry54]

If you are in the water treatment field, you would know better that to discard lead contaminated water where it can seep into the drinking water. Again, do you have any idea of what the lead levels are in the water you dump out?

Me contemplating building a shot maker and you assuming I’m dumping out lead contaminated water are two different things. Have you talked to Littleton shot maker’s to see what their customers do with the water?

Have you done any research on your own? Or are you just another millennial that thinks they know everything? Why are you even on this forum?

Bees don’t waste their time explaining to flies that honey tastes better than ****.

You’re now #2 I have blocked.
Good Day!

[Barry54]

[Barry54]

For the rest of you with the ability to think, here are some numbers.
The local municipal sewage treatment plant accepts waste water from one single location with lead content at or below 4.xx mg/l of water. So at a flow of 85 gallons per minute the sewer will accept 365 pounds of lead per year, from one site alone. This is allowed and legal. The permits get renewed and life goes on. I’m glad we live in a first world nation. Imagine what goes on in corrupt countries.

This is one reason why I filter my own drinking water.

[Agent1187]

Granted, at 120k gal/day you'd be on their radar for everything.

But the fact is that lead is generally not soluble in water in the first place. What little does get dissolved will readily adsorb with soils and organic matter and be effectively removed from the water.

This is why sportsman's clubs still have safe water despite rain filtering through literal tons of lead sitting in the soil there.

[Barry54]

Granted, at 120k gal/day you'd be on their radar for everything.

But the fact is that lead is generally not soluble in water in the first place. What little does get dissolved will readily adsorb with soils and organic matter and be effectively removed from the water.

This is why sportsman's clubs still have safe water despite rain filtering through literal tons of lead sitting in the soil there.

Bingo!

Someone else was running on feelings, emotion, and hormones. And we all know what group exhibits those traits. So beware of who might be lurking among us!!

[Agent1187]

Bingo!

Someone else was running on feelings, emotion, and hormones. And we all know what group exhibits those traits. So beware of who might be lurking among us!!

Hey now!

Some of us millennials were able to become productive members of society! =D

[Barry54]

Hey now!

Some of us millennials were able to become productive members of society! =D

Sorry! That wasn’t directed towards millennials. I was referring to the group that votes with low information.

[Half Dog]

Well it seems the lead in my water hasn’t killed me yet. I’ll give an update if I find out different.

[jimb16]

Think this one over.....Camp Perry in Ohio has been the site of the Nationals for nearly a century. The bullets all end up in Lake Erie. Once they are there, they form a layer of lead oxide. That protects the lead from leaching into the water. The EPA once tried to get the army to clean up all the lead. That blew up in their faces. Water samples showed near zero traces of lead. Congress then declared the Camp Perry range a National Strategic Lead Reserve, and told the EPA to go pound salt!