Refining Lead Ingots! Fluxing with Wax Candles.
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A fine young man (Justin) dropped off some lead shielding from an old X-Ray room demolition job. I melted the sheeting down into some rough ingots that need some major refining to clean all of the slag and waste out of the ingots. This is how I do it! Important links below:
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I use crayons in my casting pot .
I was a janitor at an Elementary school so I swept up a lot !
Once lead is poured into cast iron, the cast iron can no longer be used for cooking food. Once you retire a cast iron pot from lead smelting, it should be destroyed.
Non gun/reloader types ALWAYS say that. Don't you think when we die with a house full of guns, knives, swords, tomahawks, archery (bows/crossbows/arrows), reloading/casting equipment, ammo, hunting, fishing stuff people won't be smart enough to tell the grungy cast iron pots and pans from the stuff in the kitchen?! 1966 original stuff is black and seasoned from cooking. Newer cast iron is all rusty and cruddy from melting lead in them.
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Duh!
@@JohnDoeEagle1you’re right but people my my age and younger seem to not have deductive reasoning skills so I always mark mine with my electro pencil
@@JohnDoeEagle1You would be surprised what people use for food when they do not have the money or the psychic ability to tell what the pans have previously been used for.
Someone could even melt candle wax in them, thinking that can’t be dangerous, unaware of the lead can give that candle, when heated, a somewhat hazardous abilities.
Being great at anything in this world means you have to know what others don’t know and remember how ignorant you yourself were at one point.
You never know where your stuff goes when you die. Goodwill, second hand, flea markeds, so it’s a good idea to be careful.
@@MarieIIe
I keep all mine under my reloading bench out in the garage. The cooking stuff is in the kitchen. The bullet casting and smelting cast iron pots and pans also have heavy leather welding gloves, beeswax, strainers etc etc in or near them.
Getting my stuff together to do wheel weights. Glad i found this video. Great info as always brother Wade.
@@ronaldbritton9705 my pleasure brother.
I've always used old candles.....works great....good way to get rid of all the old candles the Mrs has been collecting over the years
Lol.. does she know?
AND the lead now has a nice ocean breeze scent to it... 😂
Thanks bub for showing this, I'll definitely try it. The sawdust doesn't seem to work that great, & just watching you the wax seems to do a lot better job. Glad you are doing better, yall have been in my prayers. Take care, God bless yall.👍🙏💙🇺🇸
I've used almost everything that can be used as a flux and the wax works best for me!
Rocking raptor#
While wax does work.. Sawdust is the better flux. The trick is to let the sawdust fully carbonized before you stir, scrape, and skim. I find wax is best used in the casting pot and is an excellent reducer!
@@shadowcastre Thanks
I use white wax and sawdust. I never tried the store bought powder or anything yet. I can see you get that lead HOT the way it's turing purple
I love watching you work. Great way to get outside on a Winter's day.
Gotta love all the dry leaves around the hot melt work area 😆
Bro in rural NY that’s a non issue. Not sure where you’re from or where this guys from but sounds like you’re in California or something
@@dondr267 no NY.
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@@dondr267 not funny it can happen 🤗
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Great job bubba
I've Enjoyed your Southern hospitality, personality, and walking me through the smelting process of making 00 buckshot. I envy your white tail deer population as in Ca we have small blacktail deer and some larger Mule deer in the north east area of the state, but the weather is much less severe,.except for the draught, fires and occasional earthquake. Have taken most of my deer with bow but now that I am a senior, I've gotten back into long gun hunting. So glad I've found your videos, keep up the great work, so easy to watch and great information and resource referral.
thanks for the kind words John... I am so glad that the videos have helped ya out!
Thanks Bubba, I have been a fan for years and have learned a lifetime of information. Thank you my friend.
thanks for the kind words pal!
That is something to see i never seen anyone do that before good video.
Use candles myself. The lead looks awesome!
I go to the dollar store and get a pack of tea candles.... Stuff works great.
Great idea! . .This same technique is applicable when purifying zinc too . .Thank you for sharing. .
Got to try that with my tin as well
Good video wade, i have melted a lot of lead , fuluced with marvel fuluce ,that sucks ,rosin that sucks, wax or parrifin is the best
Thanks for the information
Keep up the good work. How about some loads for tactical shotguns with shorter (18") barrels?
Working on some Carl!
I love the 1 3/8 Oz Fury JHP Slug. Works Great for long range out of my Rifled mossy too.
CommieTube doesn't like slug videos. Buckshot makes more sense for defensive purposes anyway.
Thank you
Hot dang! Heck yes! Another good one 👍👍
Very interesting video I've never seen that doing thanks for sharing
Looks like the lead is getting to hot!
It probably was.
I was just scrolling through comments to see if anyone else mentioned this but that's the same issue I had when i first started casting with that rainbow looking lead, lowered the temp and poof, no more oil slicks, just beautiful clean ingots. I was told it doesn't affect the lead negatively but I didn't like it personally.
@@joevangorder1006 it's a common occurrence when cooking the lead over something like a turkey fryer. you're rt it's just cosmetic!
Use wax and sawdust to really clean the lead. Read "From Ingot to Target".
Wax as a flux! How clever! I'll have to try that. Any idea if that would work with higher temperature metals like aluminum or copper?
Washing soda. But I it's tough on the crucibles.
Did you not use wax flux on the first melt as well? Also, when you flux, light the smoke on fire. It works very well to help clean up the lead.
The gauntlets are good. Wash hands thoroughly after handling lead. It's a beautifully useful metal but is toxic.
Wonderful video
I have lead solder which is lead and tin that was removed from old silverware knife handles. Have you ever refined something like that
Great Video! I have lots of old car batteries. Anybody used Batteries to get lead? A bit messy I guess...
Old batteries can be dangerous to use. The lead from battery contaminated from the acid can give off poison gas ( type of nerve gas ) that can kill .
Yes sir I have. It took a bit of work & I didn't get a whole lot. I really didn't know what to expect. But I would do it again before I would waste it!. I usually recycle them for money but I had some that were busted up & I melted them down. If you have a lot you could definitely get a nice pile of lead! Casting is great & the cheapest way to shoot & reload by far. I have lots of 9mm stocked up & you can by molds for about any caliber. I powder coat my bullets just like B.R.O. does his buckshot. Good luck bud & be safe! 👍👍🙏🇺🇸
@@rocknraptor3195 Thank you!
I'd like to see someone do this with wax and stir and a different one just stirring. I don't see how the candle was burning off acts as s flux to pull that stuff up when the slag is already lighter than the lead.
That purple color is cause the leads to hot. It's not really impurities turning the temp down will prevent a lot of it b
How much of the dross is burnt candle wax? It has to go somewhere.
I'm curious the shape the lead was in when you received it 🤔
Can you flux bismuth with candle wax as well?
I've never messed with Bismuth before.
Is the blue on the ingots because it is pure lead or is it impurities ? I will be looking and saving candles form now on.
Hey Bud... it's a combination of the high heat, residual stuff picked up out of the non-stick pans.
@@BubbaRountreeOutdoors I was wondering. I never seen it before.
What do you do with all the contaminated dross?
the unusable waste goes to the local recycle center.
Will any wax work as flux or is it only paraffin wax that works?
yes it will... sawdust works great also!
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I am new to this, where do you find pure lead? I need some for musket balls.
mine is roof flashing!
Thanks, I will keep my eyes open for that stuff! @@BubbaRountreeOutdoors
Bees wax or paraffin? I recall my Dad in the 50s and 60s used saw dust in his lead. I been using flux that is $9.00 a can. These candles look like a better choice.
It all works Ron. I have used and continue to use whatever I can find at the time!
Will bees wax work as a flux?
Is this safe?
Do you have any problems with those muffin pans getting to hot and melting the bottom out of them
Not at all Bruce. Lead can't get hot enough to punch thru metals like tin or aluminum.
what's the bluish/ purplish color?
Impurities in the lead caused by other elements. Might be bismuth judging by the colors. I highly doubt it is titanium due to the temperatures required for titanium to liquefy
it's just residual impurities left on the surface of the ingots.
Micha Dunn#
The rainbow colors are a common occurrence with pure lead caused by over heating the melt... Not from impurities or other metals.
It's ghey led. But I'm not judging, any led is good for making bulllotz in my book.
I was curious about that also. Normally I have discovered any Zink present when wheel weights not separated properly produces a blue/purple color. This being from an X-Ray lab, don't know if Zink was present or not? Interesting.
What pot do you use? Aluminum?
it's an old steel pot.
That lead has bismuth in it
Do you prefer tire weight or soft lead for buckshot?
I like both David! But I prefer the wheel weight alloy because it is a good bit harder than pure lead and patterns better at extended ranges! The pure lead pours a little better and fills the molds a little easier.
@@BubbaRountreeOutdoors thanks. I have about 50 lbs of wheel weight lead and around 100lbs of X-ray room lead. I’ve been using the X-ray lead for fishing lures and thought the wheel weight would be better for buckshot because it is harder.
@@widdy I actually do the same!
Marvel fulux is boric acid and will rust everything, don't use it ,use wax or parrifin