Pellets arent expensive at all kid.

I think messing around with Pb (lead) in liquid form is something that should be avoided if at all possible and if you have to be around it you have to be extremely careful. The fumes released by lead are really nasty and harmful, why put yourself in harms way when air rifle pellets are fairly cheap and do what you need them to?

I think messing around with Pb (lead) in liquid form is something that should be avoided if at all possible and if you have to be around it you have to be extremely careful. The fumes released by lead are really nasty and harmful, why put yourself in harms way when air rifle pellets are fairly cheap and do what you need them to?

Melting lead is one of the most dangerous things that one can do. Permanent irreversable damge from lead fumes can cause all sorts of healh problems.

I wouldn't get too many of them because judging from your post they will be taken away from you after the first neighbor's phone call.

I worry more about welding galvanized steel than melting lead for bullets in a ventilated environment. Inhaling sawdust from treated wood, dust from cutting concrete, and working on remodels where asbestos(especially in insulating elbows around pre-1960 pipes) was used in materials is hazardous. In some parts of the world using basic protection and participating in activities where these dangers are encountered, considered, and overcome is called work. Work is what built our infrastructure, and lack of work is what is leading to its collapse. Let us know how the gun shoots hfedder

PS The Mercury was later arrested using a process called Chelation. Similar but not the same as Chemotherapy.

you have a point with the galvanized metals etc., but we were talking about lead...work may have built our infrastructure, but lack of foresight and sustainability is what is leading to its collapse.

Carl you mind explaining to me how chelation is similar to chemotherapy.

As a segway to a useful tip. My dad would never eat lunch or handle any fatty meat with dirty hands. Remember lead paint. If you have paint or any other similar substance. Get a piece of Baloney or any other fatty meat and use it like Hand Cleaner. You will be surprised how clean your hands will become.

As an addendum to this thread. Myself personally having placed lead cable at 28lbs per foot and wiping with a 40lbs lead pot. If I could give you a "Ball Park" estimate. I handled app 30 tons of lead cable and wiped with 10's of thousands of pounds of wiping solder. With no ill effects. I hope this is clear.

Like they said; not at all cost effective. Unless your snowed in. You can file them out of a lead rod. Just kidding.

Get yourself a chunk of aluminum 2"x2"x6" ,drill .177" holes down into the sides of the block evenly spaced about 3/8"" apart but only drill into the block about 1/4" deep. Now once you have your holes drilled get out another drill bit #18 wire gauge is about perfect for the .177 and drill dead center of the holes ,this is for the hollow section of the mold. Now on both ends of the block drill and tap a 1/4" hole for a block plate to hold it together after you cut the block in half right through your slug holes. But first you gotta drill and tap each slug hole with the correct plug.pretty small tap for #18 wire, or you can just place the metal wire inside each hole as you pour. Actually you can make a rod holder that lays on the top of the block any pour around it. Bevel the holes and then cut the block down through you slug holes and you are ready to pour. Shouldn't cost you anymore then $40 to have somebody cut,drill and tap the holes for you. The wire rods have to be 3/32" into the holes. you'l have to cut or knock off the spew after you unlock the halfs. Good luck. Cheaper,Easier and way way faster to just buy some pellets though. But hey, have you listened to anything we have said yet?

I have to differ on lead handling. I had 35 years in the phone company. Our cable was lead sheathed. We would wipe our lead sleeves with a 60/40 mix of lead and tin. I was also an instructor in that ancient art. If that isn't enough my dad was a house painter. Before Latex paint. So I can speak with some authority. The easiest way to get lead poisoning is thru lead Oxide. That white dust or black film you get on your hands. So wash your hands before you eat a sandwich and don't put a dirty bullet in your mouth. This is not to say you can not raise your lead levels by inhalation. But you would need a very busy indoor range with very bad ventilation. The real danger with lead oxide is once it's in. It's in you for good. But it has to be oxide to be absorbed. Give junior a shiny bullet to eat. In a day you will see the bullet with no difference in his lead level. As a historical side note the Ancient Romans used to sweeten their wine with lead oxide and paid the price.

Just buying pellets would be cheaper and much easier.

Carl you aren't making good points here. Your implication with steam and water is also a little misleading. Water (and all other compounds and elements) have certain 'states' i.e. solid, liquid, gas. The changing between these states varies with ambient conditions, partial pressures etc. Water can produce steam below its transition temperature (from water to water vapor/steam/gas) of 100 degrees C depending on the fluctuations in ambient conditions...

To clarify handling lead... though it shouldn't need to be clarified... is extremely dangerous when considering changing 'states' solid-liquid etc. The body has no mechanisms for metabolizing lead, so the stuff just accumulates in the body, and being that lead is a neurotoxin there is no reason to risk inhaling the vapors or potentially eating the stuff...

short story long... Buy the things don't make them... unless you have a HAZMAT suit laying around that you are just dying to use

Thanks Carl, and glad to see you are back on board. I think you migh have mean PCBs or Polychlorinatedbiphenyl's instead of PCP ... PCBs are nastey stuff... I think PCP is a halucinagen.

Sorry I'm an environmental scientist here in Anchorage, and deal with lead paint, asbestos, PCBs, BTEX, TPH, etc. contamination and remediation quite often. Sorry if I get a little heated when the topics come up.

Sorry I forgot the lower case s. But my guys have lived in the real world. I have a cousin who is a surgeon in Anchorage. So I know how you might be a little sensitive with heavy metal. This given the use of mercury and arsenic in the gold industry. If I can give you a little advice 'better to be around the block, than around a tree".

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it would be safer for you to just spend the money & buy them @walmart.

If you get just one little thing wrong when making them, they could clog the barrel & end up causing the weapon to blow up in your face. for the cost of pellets at walmart, it's just not worth your life.