Recycling Lead Wheel Weights! Making Ingots...

[@ftargr]

This is like serious throwback here. Birds making noise and the whole mess

[@Bowdock]

Really informative, nicely presented, and very enjoyable!

[@joelmcmahan7386]

You give a lot of information to anyone who wants to learn about reloading and tips to save them time. God bless BRO

[@sobersportsman]

Never thought I'd enjoy watching someone pour lead into muffin tins. BRO is like a morning meditation.

[@johnndavis7647]

They stopped putting lead wheel weights on tires about 10 years ago. But they can still be found if you look for them. Sometimes a small tire-shop will sell you a 5 gallon bucket full for $20 if you ask. Lately there are fewer lead weights and more steel and zinc weights In the bucket. They are making small flat weights out of steel now too. It's still out there if you look for it. Thanks for the video.

[@bobsunkees3392]

I have found that approximately 45% are lead . and around here 80$ per bucket

[@johnndavis7647]

@@bobsunkees3392 There's lots of lead out there if you look for it. I bought a scuba weight belt with 18 pounds of lead weights for $5 A few weeks ago. Not the first time either. I eat lunch at fast food places a lot. After I eat I walk up the street for a block or two then I cross over and walk back. While I walk I watch the gutters for wheel weights. It's not unusual to find a hand full near a busy intersection. I find over half a five gallon buck a year doing that. I watch for people re-piping old houses. They cut out the old cast iron pipe and replace it with PVC. The joints in the old cast iron pipe are sealed with rings of lead. A six foot section of cast iron pipe can have four or five joints. I take a hammer and smash the brittle old iron pipe to get the lead. I have got 40 pounds of pure lead at a time doing that. I use that soft lead in my muzzle loaders. It's not as cheap and easy to find as it used to be but there's still plenty out there if you keep an eye peaked for it. Good luck and happy hunting.

[@showproja]

I had some 26lb ingots I got from eBay that made heavy blue and gold pools on the surface when melted and could not be skimmed off. I thought it was impurities, but came to discover it was the high temperature of my pot. I had been melting Eagle lead shot up to that point, but this ingot was pure lead, which, as I found out on a forum, does turn blue and gold when overheated. I turned my pot down and it went away on the next batch. I was about to holler at the seller on eBay too! Live and learn.

[@charlesdriggers199]

I have thought of getting into molding my own , but being into so much it is hard to do anything else. If I ever do , watching your videos will surely help me to get started.

[@ohiohomesteader4207]

Another great video!!!......I have learned so much by watching your videos.... keep up the great work!!

[@alanb.5445]

Very educational, practical, and interesting. The muffin pans make a perfect ingot. Thanks for sharing, Mr. Wade.

[@donaldatkinson7937]

Take a spoon and mix that wax into the lead scrape the sides of the pot also, there will be less trash floating up while you're dipping, some of the stick ons are harder than clip ons small gray with small ridges on top.

[@outdoorswithtim.576]

I enjoyed the video thanks for sharing. Bubba Rountree crew is awesome

[@officialhuntingoutdoorsdog994]

Hey wade I watch all of your videos I was just watching one when you posted

[@troyholder1]

Some of those painted weights you tossed were likely lead. Seen a bunch of them that are lead, its just a hard coating of paint. I use tin snips to cut into them, you can tell. Great video

[@shadowcastre]

Excellent...! I always like to see other casters methods. Have you tried using sawdust as flux? It will actually clean the alloy where wax does very little in the cleaning department, but is a good reducer and prevents oxidation. Sawdust will do all 3. Thanks for the video..

[@michaelhedgepeth5106]

Very informative and useful to know. Thanks Mr. Rush !👍

[@georgekapellos7025]

What a beautiful and clean work!!

[@colbyp2046]

Good luck this season to y’all . I run dogs in Carthage North Carolina

[@starcityofva]

(Wade's wife) "where are all my muffin pans?" Wade!! Love the videos stay safe God bless!

[@scottnewcomb3212]

Do a video of you making the buckshot and do you make slugs to ? Love all of yall's videos

[@BubbaRountreeOutdoors]

Working on a new 1 now! should post soon Scott... Wade

[@johnniebunton4978]

Hello great video. How is your building going on . Haven't seen any videos on it for a long time now.

[@BubbaRountreeOutdoors]

Had to pause for summer! Just started back on it! Going well and hopefully we will have it done this Fall!

[@johnniebunton4978]

@@BubbaRountreeOutdoors cool show a video when you can.

[@graysongolden2568]

Hey y’all I hunt in Chesterfield county I’m not sure how close I am to y’all I was wondering? Hey I watch all your videos great content y’all! Good luck this season!

[@BubbaRountreeOutdoors]

We're just outside of Camden!

[@gerrymatheson4020]

What kinda burner is that? Looks just like the one I picked up recently...mine's a Brinkmann...but I cannot get a nice clean (and hot) blue flame no matter how I adjust the flow. I just get a big loose yellow flame that's pretty sooty. It did melt a pot of 60lbs of scrap lead, but the flame was pretty big engulfing the pot...and singeing the hair on your arm if you weren't careful. What am I doing wrong, or is my equipment faulty?

[@michaelhedgepeth5106]

Best to try and find a old gas hot water heater burner, really smooth flame. Oh yeah, gotta have a good regulator.

[@Reloader826]

Does it have the adjustable regulator and did you adjust and closed or open your air of gas vent

[@BubbaRountreeOutdoors]

It's the turkey fryer that Academy sports sells! I go thru em rapidly sometimes!

[@tristancrowley910]

We have bucks in marlboro county and richmod county we killed this weekend that were stinking to high heaven. 2 10"s and a monster 8, 2 of them are going on the wall

[@curtiswjackson9916]

Good video wade. I've never seen that process before. What doe the wax/flux do. And how is your dad doig

[@BubbaRountreeOutdoors]

Fluxing makes it easier to remove the slag from your alloy! CB is recovering rapidly... he went and sat in his deer stand this AM so he's fine!!

[@l.a.3887]

Thanks

[@bigjhunter7660]

That's what u gotta do when u cant find buckshot at the store boys and girls …..Good deal Wade.

[@andycroft3608]

Hey can you do some 45cal for black powder

[@BubbaRountreeOutdoors]

If you can find the correct mold for your needs, then you could make up anything that you could imagine.

[@dannyrogers9787]

That's cool stuff wade 🇺🇲🦌

[@vernonmcnutt2622]

Good video Wade Rush .

[@BubbaRountreeOutdoors]

thanks brother!!

[@vernonmcnutt2622]

@@BubbaRountreeOutdoors , your welcome

[@taurushipointenthusiast1306]

Bubba I got a few questions, The average muffin pan rough average of weight in 1 lead ingot? I got a 4 pound lead pot, reason to asking. At 7:24 you answered. I think I think we I sayI think we boy gotta winner...hahahhahahahahahahah

[@2olvets443]

How do you get the sticky off of the soft lead?

[@BubbaRountreeOutdoors]

it burns off and floats to the top and you scoop it off...

[@colbyp2046]

Y have you not been in the hunting videos

[@BubbaRountreeOutdoors]

I took a big doe with a slug a couple weeks ago! I don't get in on the dog drives until it cools way off!

[@SilverScorpion]

I'm new here! Great video

[@huntfisheat73]

You could get rich with all that lead you got. that stuff ain't cheap anymore .

[@jujucattys156]

first time doing this tomorrow for slingshot ammo can i flux with bees wax

[@BubbaRountreeOutdoors]

yes you can! you can also use sawdust.

[@jujucattys156]

@@BubbaRountreeOutdoors any pasific amout to use

[@pareloader5989]

Bubba. Great video. I have to ask. I have been casting ingots for awhile now. The last 2 baches My melted lead has thick mushy stuff in it that clings to the sides of my pot. I am very thorough when sorting through my lead. But am afraid that there is zinc in the melted lead. I did manage to use some of it and it poured beautiful ingots. The other sludge i just left in the pot. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks. Chris

[@BubbaRountreeOutdoors]

It happens! Just keep fluxing it with wax or sawdust and eventually you will get most of that mess out.

[@davidrdanner4232]

Good information , B R T O ❗🇺🇸 Thanks

[@HDDynalowrider]

get yourself a metal screen scoop.

[@jeffreyboarman4032]

You got keep them separated

[@kevinrisher7658]

Wish I could share a pic. Got 112 muffins outta a bucket and half.

[@danielsalach1234]

Save the zinc people are casting with that now just dont use the lee casting pot.

[@ironleaf88]

Save the zinc!!! Iron isn't worth much.

[@peterherrington3300]

Pointless going through them . Just scrape off the steel/zinc as slag . Unless you're bored obviously

[@charlottesuleyman887]

Oh yeah. Do you love me? 😍💋 💝💖❤️

[@ГеннадийБаранников-щ2е]

Всёплавь не пебирай говно металвсплывё в шлак.

[@ГеннадийБаранников-щ2е]

Ты недал овощей температуры и уже шллак отбирает бросай уда не жир в силицыум или селитру амиачную.