lead from batteries

[duckloads]

Is the lead from car battreries any use to the bullet casters?

 

[duckloads]

Is the lead from car battreries any use to the bullet casters?

 

[John R]

I would stay away from batteries, there pretty nasty source of lead.

Wheel Weights are your best bet.

 

[MrPhil]

Here's a good discussion of why batteries are a bad source of casting lead:

http://castboolits.gunloads.co...owthread.php?t=40769

 

[sar4937]

We used to get lead from roofers and plumbers that was used as flashing around vent stacks.

 

[duckloads]

Thanks, I have a couple of big car batteries in my garage that I need to get rid of. So, I got to thinking...........

 

[Spotteddog]

Around here, they treat the damned things like they're made out of weapons grade Plutonium!
Freakin' Loonies!

 

[Snapping Twig]

A big NO.

While it doesn't rise to the level of radioactive waste, it'll kill you just the same.

First it'll make you suffer.

 

[Spotteddog]

Depends on the UN number for rads per hour they show on a Geiger, I guess T/H?
You could always get some smelter help at a Home Depot!

 

[HIKayaker]

The lead containers will not become radioactive from exposure to any medical isotope decay. However, if any of the isotopes have spilled and contaminated the containers, they could indeed be radioactive. It is not possible to predict which isotopes may have been carried in the container in order to estimate the residual radioactivity.

Short of running it under a Geiger counter at the highest sensitivity level and proving it "clean", I wouldn't use it for casting bullets. With all the radiation paranoia out there, I don't even want to think of the implications of cleaning up a range--indoor or outdoor--after radioactive contamination. Even though the residual product would be small.

 

[m1gunner]

Originally posted by thomashoward:
I have some lead containers that held radio active isotopes from the Hospital Xray Lab. Think that would be OK?

About 2.5" in diameter and 4" tall? Never seen one.

 

[imashooter2]

Originally posted by duckloads:
Thanks, I have a couple of big car batteries in my garage that I need to get rid of. So, I got to thinking...........

So take them down to the scrap yard and sell them for 2 bucks each. Then use that money to buy WW. You'll get a larger quantity of a better alloy than you would if you smelted the batteries.

 

[imashooter2]

Originally posted by HIKayaker:
The lead containers will not become radioactive from exposure to any medical isotope decay. However, if any of the isotopes have spilled and contaminated the containers, they could indeed be radioactive. It is not possible to predict which isotopes may have been carried in the container in order to estimate the residual radioactivity.

Short of running it under a Geiger counter at the highest sensitivity level and proving it "clean", I wouldn't use it for casting bullets. With all the radiation paranoia out there, I don't even want to think of the implications of cleaning up a range--indoor or outdoor--after radioactive contamination. Even though the residual product would be small.

The radioactive pharmacy is required to prove them clean before they can dispose of them.

 

[Paul5388]

The radioactive pharmacy is required to prove them clean before they can dispose of them.

Any "spill" would have been subjected to the proper decontamination procedure.

This is what I melted down and have used (looks like a gas cylinder cap of solid lead).

 

[duckloads]

So take them down to the scrap yard and sell them for 2 bucks each. Then use that money to buy WW. You'll get a larger quantity of a better alloy than you would if you smelted the batteries.

I was going to give them away if someone could use them.