Casting lead

[Troystat]

For
those of you who cast your own bullets you might get a kick out of this. These guys are casting a 5 ton boat keel out of lead.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbUyt4nJlNs[/ame]

 

[yaktamer]

First instinct is to start calculating the conversion to grains in my head.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

First instinct is to start calculating the conversion to grains in my head.

(5 Tons) 10,000 pounds X 7000 (number of grains per pound) = 70,000,000 grains.

You're welcome
Ivan

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

These guys know nothing about flux! They lost a huge amount of antimony!

Ivan

 

[Imissedagain]

(5 Tons) 10,000 pounds X 7000 (number of grains per pound) = 70,000,000 grains.
You're welcome
Ivan

Or in the Smith & Wesson world that's 205,882.353 bullets for the 460 Magnum at 340gr each.
Will need more primers.

 

[Greyman50]

Should of had a real MIG machine. Enough lead for few of us that cast a lot, LOL

 

[ACORN]

Makes my wrists hurt just thinking about it.

 

[Bugkiller99]

Gonna need some multi-cavity molds.

And some more gas checks.

 

[Troystat]

I just calculated that 7.5 tons of lead translates out to about 570,000 185 grain bullets for my 45 1911