I’m going to share some of them again here, in no particular order, in the hopes that one or more of them will apply to the particular talents, interests, and/or inclinations of everyone reading them. [More]
Feel free to add your own– just be sure to DO them. And Happy New Year.
Here’s an idea for those familiar with casting lead bullets. When you buy a new car battery, they charge you a ‘core fee’ of about $20 if you don’t have the old battery with you to turn in. You get your $20 back when you bring in the old ‘core’ battery.
Pro-communist democrats have been on a crusade to close all national lead smelting operations for quite a while. Why? Because lead is the absolute best material for making bullets. Currently, all the lead used in manufacturing bullets and many other things is imported. If democrats want to make our guns useless, all they have to do is restrict the importation of lead.
Back to batteries, which have an average of 25 to 30 pounds of 99.99% pure lead in their cores. This lead is worth currently $1.0598 lb. That ‘core’ battery they give you $20 for is actually worth about $32.
Everyone should be keeping all their old car batteries and not giving them back to the battery store.
That lead, plus a bit of antimony to make it a little harder, will melt down and cast great pistol bullets and double O buckshot. If you are into swaging, you can swag soft lead rods into brass or copper jackets with a Corbin swaging press and make jacketed bullets that are as good as or better than anything you can buy. Rebated boat-tail bullets being the absolute best, most accurate long range bullet there is, and Corbin has dies that can be used make bullet jackets out of spent .22 LR cases!
Keep your old car batteries! It won’t be long before the commies start making lead hard to find.
Keep your old car batteries– that’s a good resolution.
One pound of lead can cast 60-115 grain 9mm bullets, or 30-230 grain .45 ACP bullets. If you have a Corbin Swaging set-up, you can swag 134-52 grain 5.56 X 45mm rifle bullets. Just crimp a copper gas check on the back end and you can fire these at any speed you want. A pound of lead can make enough double O buckshot for 16 rounds. Or you can cast 16-12 gauge slugs.
There is 25 to 30 pounds of lead in a car battery. So just one battery can be transformed into a pile of lead bullets or shotgun rounds.
Just know what you’re doing and safety first. And then again, considering price per pound, this looks pretty time and labor-intensive and don’t forget to factor in the disposal.
Good words. Reminds me of a ditty we learned in high school
Little Willie was a chemist
Little Willie is no more
Cuz what he thought was H2O
Was H two S Oh Four
H2O is of course harmless water. Drinkable. H2SO4 is sulphuric acid, the active electrolyte liquid used in lead-acid car batteries.
Make sure you wear shielding for your eyes (it WILL blind you) and skin. It will also melt cotton and linen clothing, maybe other natural fibres. Ask me how I know that…) Keep a bowl or pan of baking soda mixed in water to neutralise spills and splashesbut be careful cause adding this to the mess on the floor can get exciting. Charged garden hose is probably safer.
I save the acid and blend it with two other acids to make a wonderful de-rusting solution. Only put one type of metal into the soakbath in any ine batch. It also saves having to dispose of the acid ince the battery is broken up. Take the plastic casings outside and wash down with the garden hose to dilute the acid.. again taking care against splashes causing YOU great harm..
BAck when I was driving truck I regularly got full loads of “junk” batteries to haul up to the reprocess lead smelter in Seattle. Long gone now, one more victim of the Green Cops and AllGunZareEvil lot. Sixty two thousand pounds in that dry van was a load. I never had to buy batteries… I always had a few junks of my own, and whenever I needed a particular type I could always find a good one in any given load..As long as the net weight of the load did not change no one knew or cared.
Most guys are smart enough to cast lead bullets outdoors. When government restricts lead, it will be priceless in value. In a war zone, who gives a crap about ‘disposal’.