I only recently found your channel. I've been watching a bunch of your videos over the last couple weeks. I really enjoy them.

I'm just a modern age city boy, but I love watching videos like this. Looks like so much fun.

Thank you Wade, im new to reloading and have watched many of your videos and learned something valueable from each of them. You are the best resource that i have found to learn from. God bless you and yours

Thank you. Learned a lot! Tire shop gives me all the WW's I want (have two 5 gallon buckets so far), just gotta bring an empty bucket back each time for exchange. Never imagined that the steel clips would float on top.

I am just starting out in bullet casting I will only be making round balls for my cap & ball revolver Now I can use the wheel Weights I get them for free my son-in-law works at a tire shop I am going to order all of the tools I will need to begin casting the round balls You have helped me out ALOT SIR Thank YA Very much

Always enjoy watching newer videos of casters at work. Your vid reminds me of the good old days doing wheel weights. I used to get them for free from tire shops, and I'd also buy them from metal scrap yards for 35 cents a pound. Used to buy them 300 pounds at a time. And the older wheel weights had more antimony and tin (they were perfect for 44 magnum Keith bullets as they were - your newer WWs have less antimony and tin - I'd love to get a whole bunch). When the price went to 50 cents a pound, I started to use range scrap (free). Now, in CA, you can't even find lead wheel weights anywhere, not even in the street, or lying around parking lots…steel and zinc have taken over. But range scrap is pretty doggone good to use - it is antimonial lead (2-4%) and perfect for making standard velocity handgun loads as is…Good castin' to ya...

I use the zinc ones for fishing sinkers and jig heads.. I mix it with some soft lead... but for fishing only.

Came looking into ways for making my sinkers for fishing. Learned something new. Thank you!

Love vjdeo great info. I work at a tire shop / almost shop we do mostly Automotive work but we do tires as well I get all my leg for free from Wheel weight I've been melting it down four years to race car LED for the white boxes for Circle Track Racing but now I'm trying to get in the bullet making and I'm trying to learn how to do the whole process of using wax to separate and refine it down the more peer-led get the sink everything else out of the wheel weights that are LED because they're mixed with other alloys

Nice video presentation and i like the chicken coop, my grand parents used to raise chickens, we often had fresh eggs. Somehow they always tasted better than the store bought.

Youre a good ole boy son. Thanks. You'd be a great neighbor.

Ah I found it. 😁 I knew you'd have a video showing this. Thanks Wade.

Extremely informative Bubba!! I work at the Gadsden Al Goodyear tire plant so I'm sure I can get my hands on some easy. This kinda stuff will be worth more than gold if stuff hits the fan and ammo is no longer available. Ppl will hav to use these skills to survive

JUST PICKED UP 2 1/2 GALLONS OF WHEEL WEIGHT AT MY TIRE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER. THANKS FOR THE INFO. WHEN COOLS DOWN THIS FALL I WILL BEGIN MY ADVENTURE THANKS GOD BLESS

I just bought a reproduction pepperbox black powder pistol and it came with a bullet mold can't wait to start making my own!

Never thought of using muffin tins as ingot molds. Great idea.

Love your chickens! I have 6 :D Thanks for the vid on casting man it was helpful!

Great video, that looks so relaxing

the great state of NY will not let tire shops use anything but zinc or non lead wheel weights therefor I get about 25 percent good lead and 75 percent steel and zinc weights when I can get them. It was a great source of lead for me for a long time. No more. Thanks for the video Bubba.

thank you for this video, helps an old man a lot looking to cast some bullets

Thought it interesting using chunks of old candles to bring out the impurities. When I use to mold bullets muzzleloading about fifty years ago (yeah I’m old) it was common practice to use a dollop (if you don’t know what a dollop is ask grandma) of Crisco for purifying.

Good job using the gloves... I was wondering, does melting lead have breathing hazards? I know lead particles in the air at gun ranges is bad, but does fumes include lead?

i tie wire to the steal tops so i can pull them out

I need 36 cal ball lead ammo for my Navy Colt. Is that the 1/16 size & do u mold ammo for the muzzle cap & ball weps Thank u

hey how heavy is the melted lead in that pot, I'm looking at trying to melt a bit under 20kg in one go. reckon it would work?

Great video, thanks for sharing.

Thank you so much buddy for posting this video! I’ve been wanting to melt a bunch of wheel weights into fishing weights but I wasn’t sure if I need two pots to melt the wheel weights and the lead before I could turn them into fishing weights -- one for melting the wheel weights into lead ingots, the other for melting those lead ingots into fishing weights. You have answered my questions for me! Now, you said these lead could be melted into molten lead even though they aren’t pure lead? I thought any impurities in the lead would simply be separated from the lead and would float onto the surface into their own seperate metal or element. Guess I’m wrong about that.

Interesting. Great video.

Other than cast iron, is there another pot that could be used? And is there a specific metal I would need to stir it? As far a molds- tin? Aluminum? Thanks.

Just what I needed....at an affordable price!!

Thank you Sir, doing the same, smaller scale.

What really makes this whole process possible is that fact that lead is one of the heaviest elements known to the man. Thus, all other metals (steel, iron, zinc and so on) float on the melted lead's surface, making it easy to pick them up with a spoon or ladle and throw this crap away.

Nice video man. You just saved me alot of money (was going to invest in a smelter). Hope you are doing well. Take care.

if the lead is 100% pure. do you add anything Before you make bullets?

God bless, can I use wheel weights for. .490, muzzle loader 50 cal round ball

Can you pour the lead straight from your pot, into the bullet molds?

I use the wheel weights.I tried useing copper wirer but can't seem to get it right

When I cast Hard BULLETS I mix 50/50 Wheel Weights with Linotype Lead. it comes out as number 2 alloy on the hardness scale.

EXCELLENT VIDEO - Thank You.

If you flux it before you take the steel clips out the tin wont stick to the clips when you remove them. Not skimming off any tin so it stays in the lead is always a good idea.

if you flux it before you scoop off all the clips and crud it pulls all the tin and antimony back into the alloy and you'll get a better end product

I got some lead from a hospital we were putting up new drywall in the X-ray room and there was a big slab of lead in the wall and I took some of it. 😂 I haven’t started casting my own bullets yet but I was hoping it would be good for doing that once I get around to buying all the stuff needed to cast.

The reason why I’m here is because I buy old cast iron cookware, want to know if just by looking at a piece if you can tell it’s been used for melting lead?

Awesome video. Thank you. Do you melt spent bullet lead? Thanks again.

When melting fishing weights and some range scrap, do I add soldier to increase hardness for buckshot?

Great video!

hello would you use the WW to make 7/8oz Lee slugs. And any special method to remove impurities thank you

Great video 👍

Bubba Rountree Outdoors Hey Wade... I was wondering where u got all your lead from for all them buckshots you be making!

Do u scrap ur steel

I just started a week ago melting my own lead. When I clean it and flux it it still gets a purple and blueish film on it. I know it’s probably burning but how do you keep it from burning? I tried turning it down but still does it. I have the exact same setup as you.

I also use wheel weights. But after the steel starts to float that is when I flux. This makes the tin and anatomy go back into solution. Then skim the steel and flux again scraping the sides. Skim again and its ready to cast. If you skim without fluxing first you are throwing the best part of wheel weights in the trash. Don't believe me? Try it both ways and check the hardness.

If you drill from the outside in 1/8" holes about 15-20 in the spoon you loose a lot less lead and is much easier to strain . From outside in leaves a little ridge in bottom of spoon which will hold debris. just a suggestion. hope it helps.

Thanks for sharing!

I have about 120 lb of leas ingots that someone used for fishing, so I don't know the composition. They feel soft so I'm thinking they're pure. how can I add tin or antimony?

shoot, I was over half way through the video before I noticed your a local. I should have caught on with the palmetto tree on the shirt haha

Drill a 1/16" hole in your latle and the clean lead will fall through it but the junk stays in.

Didn't you separate the steel before you melted? How come you have so much extras after each meltdown?

So using 100% wheel weights will have sufficient hardness for casting bullets?

Great info, thanks.

Greetings from Spartanburg SC

Could you use a portable gas stove burner for melting?

Thats cool, steel floats on molten lead.

great video thanks

Very helpful Thank you Sir

perhaps you have already. however, could you talk about fluxing. why you do it exactly.

Thanks for the info.

I picked me up a very cheap strainer ladle used for getting hush puppies out of the grease and it works much better than the regular ladle, give it a try! Also, be VERY careful messing with lead from car batteries, the lead from them contain cadmium and arsenic, which is VERY poisonous!

So you could splay the lead on the table get a magnet and pull all the steel out to separate before you start, no??

Could you melt the lead over a wood camp fire?

that's awesome yall, nice video!

Love the content those muffins are Ellie made biskets

I use a fishing weights works real good for birdshot

Can you use lead tape weights?

also so where do you get all these wights??

What the heck is a billet? I heard you use that word to describe ingots. You need better laddle, mine is more rounded and I can easily fill one muffin and more and for scooping off dross and clips I use spoon with holes, works great.

Can you still find lead wheel weights?

Nice!

Keep your temp at 750 °F or so and the zinc won't melt and contaminate the lead

U outa use the steal clips and forge something out of them

Thanks I learned a lot. What the heck is the tooting in the background noise? Too much chili yesterday?🤗😉🤗

Best 38 projectiles I made was with wheel weights

how can I ventilate the air so the toxic fumes dont go else where?

I know you said you've been doing this a long time so I'm sure you know, but saying for other folks. Watch out that your wheel weights or other lead pieces you are introducing to the pot are TOTALLY DRY. I had rain sprinkle on the last four weights and without thinking I dropped em on in. The molten lead exploded.

whatch out for zinc!

Ciao ma che metallo e zinco

Wheel weights are VERY HARD TO GET NOW here in WA SSR.

I'm from Sumter where are you just of

Mass melt no bottom pour. When I am making a product, bottom pour only, so leave all the crap on top. And flux continuously. If the layer on top gets too thick I remove some. My pot stays clean and I never have to clean it out. And lead always comes out great.

Based on Tee Shirt...what part of SC?

New.......What does the candle wax do when it burns off like that ?

bubba I got about 2000 lbs of pure lead melted in 2 lbs ingots. Care to trade for some premium hulls? Also, cant find Blue Dot around my way, but I got a supply of Pro Reach which burns a little slower than blue dot. I loaded some brand new Ficchoi hulls I bought from BPI, 37 grains of Pro Reach, with a 1 oz Lee slug sitting in those wads you recommended. these are roll crimped. how's that sound for a starting point???

too cool~!

what's a good alternative to lead wheel weights

Nothing but watching lead melt where is the bullet and buck shot mold ing

Quanto costa al grammo

Shooting lead in nature is polluting , and in some countries forbidden . Make a video how to smelt steel bullets .

Do you wear a respirator mask 😷 just thinking 🤔 dangerous be careful with no wind.

Damn, that's a beautiful cast iron pot to sacrifice for lead. I get it but it still hurts to see.

Excelente.pero yo hablo español 😅