When I lived in South America I saw people that had bought rolls of .22 caliber lead wire. They nipped off chunks with side cutters and shot them through air rifles.
As a last resort it is a good idea. Kind of slow but good idea. Do not breath the lead fumes, they are bad for your health. So do it outdoors. Also avoid direct contact with skin
You can't breathe the lead fumes, what's evaporating are oil and other residues. Lead evaporation starts from 1749 °C, 3180 °F,. You shouldn't eating anything when handling lead and wash hands afterwards with soap or better dedicated washing stuff for lead cleaning. And also not breathing the powder from grinding lead.
What a great idea , I've been looking at molds costing 300 bucks or more it's crazy what some manufacturers want , I would take more care in the process and maybe make a way to clean then up a bit while still semi molten , have you tried cleaning up the tabs while still molten , just take a putty knife and hit the tops with it right after you pour , anyway you thought outside the box and took me with you , I got a lot of ideas from this , if indeed I do make my own or have any mods I will for sure do a shout out and give you credit for sparking ideas
This is a great idea for a field expedient pellet mold/s for long duration field ops, like what our founding fathers [early settlers] did for their muskets.
Interesting approach. I would recommend a drill press whenever possible. And just as an FYI, while it's always stressed to wash your hands after handling lead (yes it's important), the single biggest source (medically speaking) of systemic lead poisoning is inhalation. So, always wash with soap and water, and always have Good Ventilation. Do that, and handling lead isn't an issue. Of course some like to use nitrile gloves, and that's fine, but good handwashing with soap and water will work, as long as your hands stay away from your mouth until wash-up time - i.e. no drinking, eating, smoking, gum chewing, or etc.
People done this since 1800s they lived there life fine, and there's no proof of what you're saying. There is proof of people using it everyday and living normal life expectancy with normal life issues.
@@Polo_CJR - ??? No proof? Sorry, you are wrong about that. Back when lead was still used in gas, parking lot attendants had high lead levels - to the point it was considered an occupational hazard. Indoor firing range operators also had high lead levels persistently. Neither group handled lead, but were in areas where lead would be airborne for significant periods of time. Removal of lead from gas has eliminated the occupational hazard of high lead levels of parking lot attendants, and mandatory air scrubbing has eliminated lead in Indoor range operators. Also, took care of a patient who had persistently high lead levels. He was a reloader. Swore up and down he was washing his hands and avoiding eating and drinking while at the bench. Come to find out, he was a tobacco chewer. Since he didn't eat or drink tobacco, he truthfully said he avoided drinking and eating. Tobacco got added to the list of things to avoid, and his lead levels came down. The only other intervention was washing his hands well with soap and water after a stint at the bench. Mercury is the only heavy metal I'm aware of that will absorb through skin, and it does this by readily compounding with skin cells. The only way to get lead through the skin is through a cut. Large, small, micro, it requires a cut. That leaves inhalation and ingestion as the primary routes to get lead into the body. Bullet fragments from getting shot aren't usually a problem because the body walls them off with scar tissue, but if anything breaks that scar tissue down, then bullet fragments can become a source, but that's a rarity, not a rule. The biggest problem with lead in the bloodstream is that it enters the body more easily than the body can get rid of it. Yes, the body can eliminate lead, but it's a very slow process and takes a long time. If you keep adding exposure, the lead levels will keep climbing. So, I repeat, good handwashing with soap and water is required when handling lead. Do that and there isn't any reason to be afraid of handling lead. Want to use gloves? Be my guest. Nothing wrong with that approach, but good handwashing after is fine. I know of someone else who uses a lab coat when at the bench. Takes it off before picking up his kids. That's also a valid approach. I'll repeat lead is a problem when it gets into the bloodstream. That can happen easily through the lungs and stomach. It DOESN'T happen easily otherwise, and good handwashing with soap and water will remove any lead molecules from the skin - which is why lead has been used "without any problems" since (1800's - nope. Since before Christ).
Have you ever chronyd them? I have a 44 fpe .22 Walther PCP and did the same shit (with a 2.5 mm hole through the middle and a nail to make hollowpoints). The rifling grabs the whole length of the pellet thus slowing it down immensely. Mine are 25.5 gr and they fire at about 760 fps - normally I´d get 860 from a pellet of this weight, so I lose 100 feet to friction. I can´t imagine what the speed would be in a 12 fpe springer...
I don't have a Chronograph but I would be really interested to see how they perform, I thought about making a slightly altered mouldt that allows for a hollow part in the back so it can deform more to engage the rifling :)
Wow. Excellent stuff. Looks like you covered all safety aspects. Good engineering. A new idea on a target. Light a fire in front of a high pressure can? Just one little something I'd like to add which will help you and mostly other people too. For christ sake sell your gun and and do the real shooting fraternity a real favour. Maybe take up bird watching. Real air gunners do not need to be told DO NOT SHOOT CATS.
You have a perfectly good grinder on the table and yet you try to hacksaw or dremel off the end of the pliers? I was wondering if you were going to injure yourself.
I'm trying to find a way to cast .25 cal pellets because I have a lot of lead in my garage I could melt but I don't know a fast, efficient way to do so
I got to do the measurements for mine cuz I don't want to go and make it and I thought find out well this is a put a whole bunch of crap and time enough
scrap yard but mate i honestly dont recommend this idea. just buy pellets they will be much much more accurate ..... or buy a hunting catapult then u can cast lead ammo i do suggest this www.ebay.co.uk/usr/westyorkshirecatapults
You can cast anything you can melt but other metals are more expensive. Tin is easy to melt . Tungsten too but you are looking at high costs , I guess you might try melting aluminum cans and using aluminum for non lead
Allah's Snackbar i was just inquiring about lead free options and my surprise that there are not many available, and producers have not overcome this, especially with the technology we have and the new plastics available!
@Brean Targaryen You're not cooking the lead long enough. That's the impurities in the lead, which will separate entirely when lead is cooked long enough at the right temperature. I went to a trade school for plumbing -- we had to cast iron pipe w/ lead & the instructor would Jimmy them to test
Junior Sachinelli Hay veces que uno vive muy lejos de una tienda y esto se hace en caso de una emergencia. He hecho bolitas de plomo grandes para cazar cerdos con mi escopeta cuando no tengo para comprar cartuchos caros.
Such comments don't surprise me when I live in a nanny state, I may be English, but I agree with the American way of life that we should all be FREE men, real freedom is in America, here we just have a false brand of freedom, where every Brit pretty much calls for literally everything to be Banned, what a joke.
yasin keskin #1 it's cruel #2 it's illegal #3 if you do shoot a cat somebody like me will find you and it will not be pretty what will happen to you. Understand?
If you shoot a cat people will get mad and try to kill you in brutal way thats the lesson kid never kill a pet or else people will get super angry and kill you
Fucking CLICKBAIT !!! Doesn't show us the finished product. Also you shouldn't be telling people that they can do this inside-- lead fumes will saturate porous surfaces like wall paper, fabric, untreated wood, etc. But who worries about possible toxic poisoning 😆
When I lived in South America I saw people that had bought rolls of .22 caliber lead wire. They nipped off chunks with side cutters and shot them through air rifles.
Wow! I’ve never seen such precision machine work ! Love that springer!
show us the finished pellet .
Love the bit where he looks around to where his mum is lol
I enjoyed the video and dug the pallet furniture. How accurate can u group these pellets. I would be impressed if they could group an inch at 20 yards
As a last resort it is a good idea. Kind of slow but good idea. Do not breath the lead fumes, they are bad for your health. So do it outdoors. Also avoid direct contact with skin
You can't breathe the lead fumes, what's evaporating are oil and other residues.
Lead evaporation starts from 1749 °C, 3180 °F,.
You shouldn't eating anything when handling lead and wash hands afterwards with soap or better dedicated washing stuff for lead cleaning. And also not breathing the powder from grinding lead.
What a great idea , I've been looking at molds costing 300 bucks or more it's crazy what some manufacturers want , I would take more care in the process and maybe make a way to clean then up a bit while still semi molten , have you tried cleaning up the tabs while still molten , just take a putty knife and hit the tops with it right after you pour , anyway you thought outside the box and took me with you , I got a lot of ideas from this , if indeed I do make my own or have any mods I will for sure do a shout out and give you credit for sparking ideas
This is a great idea for a field expedient pellet mold/s for long duration field ops, like what our founding fathers [early settlers] did for their muskets.
Yeah, honestly it reminded me of the scene in "The Patriot" when he is melting toy soldiers to make musket balls.
What was the range when shot the fire?
Your pallet furniture is a great idea. And quick to make.
Man the hassle just out weighs the benefit
Nice video man
Cheers :)
Who said, "Primitive Pete" was dead? I'll buy my pellets at Walley World.
😂👍that 100 bucks worth of labor and bs to save 10 buck per 500 pellets
Look at them soft hands,be careful babe ,don't wanna blister...gimme a break# arealcarpenter
When cats kill song birds on feeders 🔥
Interesting approach. I would recommend a drill press whenever possible. And just as an FYI, while it's always stressed to wash your hands after handling lead (yes it's important), the single biggest source (medically speaking) of systemic lead poisoning is inhalation. So, always wash with soap and water, and always have Good Ventilation. Do that, and handling lead isn't an issue. Of course some like to use nitrile gloves, and that's fine, but good handwashing with soap and water will work, as long as your hands stay away from your mouth until wash-up time - i.e. no drinking, eating, smoking, gum chewing, or etc.
Wrong it's not proven and it's 2022..
People done this since 1800s they lived there life fine, and there's no proof of what you're saying. There is proof of people using it everyday and living normal life expectancy with normal life issues.
@@Polo_CJR - ??? No proof? Sorry, you are wrong about that. Back when lead was still used in gas, parking lot attendants had high lead levels - to the point it was considered an occupational hazard. Indoor firing range operators also had high lead levels persistently. Neither group handled lead, but were in areas where lead would be airborne for significant periods of time. Removal of lead from gas has eliminated the occupational hazard of high lead levels of parking lot attendants, and mandatory air scrubbing has eliminated lead in Indoor range operators. Also, took care of a patient who had persistently high lead levels. He was a reloader. Swore up and down he was washing his hands and avoiding eating and drinking while at the bench. Come to find out, he was a tobacco chewer. Since he didn't eat or drink tobacco, he truthfully said he avoided drinking and eating. Tobacco got added to the list of things to avoid, and his lead levels came down. The only other intervention was washing his hands well with soap and water after a stint at the bench.
Mercury is the only heavy metal I'm aware of that will absorb through skin, and it does this by readily compounding with skin cells. The only way to get lead through the skin is through a cut. Large, small, micro, it requires a cut. That leaves inhalation and ingestion as the primary routes to get lead into the body. Bullet fragments from getting shot aren't usually a problem because the body walls them off with scar tissue, but if anything breaks that scar tissue down, then bullet fragments can become a source, but that's a rarity, not a rule. The biggest problem with lead in the bloodstream is that it enters the body more easily than the body can get rid of it. Yes, the body can eliminate lead, but it's a very slow process and takes a long time. If you keep adding exposure, the lead levels will keep climbing.
So, I repeat, good handwashing with soap and water is required when handling lead. Do that and there isn't any reason to be afraid of handling lead. Want to use gloves? Be my guest. Nothing wrong with that approach, but good handwashing after is fine. I know of someone else who uses a lab coat when at the bench. Takes it off before picking up his kids. That's also a valid approach.
I'll repeat lead is a problem when it gets into the bloodstream. That can happen easily through the lungs and stomach. It DOESN'T happen easily otherwise, and good handwashing with soap and water will remove any lead molecules from the skin - which is why lead has been used "without any problems" since (1800's - nope. Since before Christ).
@@Polo_CJR Wow, your a dumbass.
Look up lead poisoning before posting such idiotic statements.
This is familiar because I used to get my pellets I shot melt them down and then shoot them again but they were never accurate in the slightest
Have you ever chronyd them? I have a 44 fpe .22 Walther PCP and did the same shit (with a 2.5 mm hole through the middle and a nail to make hollowpoints). The rifling grabs the whole length of the pellet thus slowing it down immensely. Mine are 25.5 gr and they fire at about 760 fps - normally I´d get 860 from a pellet of this weight, so I lose 100 feet to friction. I can´t imagine what the speed would be in a 12 fpe springer...
I don't have a Chronograph but I would be really interested to see how they perform, I thought about making a slightly altered mouldt that allows for a hollow part in the back so it can deform more to engage the rifling :)
TheSpannerKid someone above suggested a centrepunch tapped in the pellets arse to give it a skirt, save a tiny amount of material for remelting too...
Do you need an alloy in that lead mix
i dont shoot cats they are to big to fit in my air gun
I would never shoot cats. I have a black one. I named her Jinx.
Really good joke 🤣😂
why did you have to say that? now i will live the rest of my life wanting a cat cannon.
@@JTV84 a catapult
Did you get a shoeing for using her 'good' pan?
Thank youuuu
wow, he could hit something, with springer too.
Jesus Christ, is this a video on how not to saw the tip off a pair of pliers?
Was this video to with pellets or pliers?
I also wonder if this could be done for .25 pellets or are they getting to large for this type of casting
.25 is perfect, since that's just 1/4" drill bit.
take a center punch and punch a whole in back 1/4 way down
Wow great idea !!!
why people dislike this video ?!
Because this dude is not really a handyman; the way he struggles with tools is beyond belief.
Seriously, it's the irritating music.
you mean , don't get caught, shooting cats?
Wow. Excellent stuff. Looks like you covered all safety aspects. Good engineering. A new idea on a target. Light a fire in front of a high pressure can? Just one little something I'd like to add which will help you and mostly other people too. For christ sake sell your gun and and do the real shooting fraternity a real favour. Maybe take up bird watching. Real air gunners do not need to be told DO NOT SHOOT CATS.
I would love to purchase this item from you?
Just make sure you don't get zinc in your lead. That causes casting problems.
You have a perfectly good grinder on the table and yet you try to hacksaw or dremel off the end of the pliers? I was wondering if you were going to injure yourself.
He was probably demonstrating for the people who have limited tools
I'm trying to find a way to cast .25 cal pellets because I have a lot of lead in my garage I could melt but I don't know a fast, efficient way to do so
Take an old speaker burn it get the round metal frame an old tumbler coffee cup with the metal cup inside and a simple propane blowtorch
Maybe get a lead melting pit and molds like most people do??
What size of a drill bit did you use?
Jon Neet 5.5 mm
Do you sell these?
Berapa cetakanya yg sepuluh lobang
I got to do the measurements for mine cuz I don't want to go and make it and I thought find out well this is a put a whole bunch of crap and time enough
can we just take a moment and respect bosch for dremills
nice but it looks like you need better power tools LOL this with be easy with my angle grinder and drill press
For all that time and cost to make really un-matched pellets, I will rather go mow the neihgbour's lawn and buy a proper box of pellets.
What 2as that that blew up at the begining
well if you watched the whole video you would know, stop be lazy and having the world do your work
Where do you get the lead from
scrap yard but mate i honestly dont recommend this idea. just buy pellets they will be much much more accurate ..... or buy a hunting catapult then u can cast lead ammo i do suggest this www.ebay.co.uk/usr/westyorkshirecatapults
No at all hard to find. You can buy it as scrap metal. Dirt-the molten lead is so heavy that dirt floats up and you skim it off.
but there cool targets
Umm this really works ok. Not match grade but ok it's all I ask?
is there anyway to cast lead free pellets?
Zinc
You can cast anything you can melt but other metals are more expensive. Tin is easy to melt . Tungsten too but you are looking at high costs , I guess you might try melting aluminum cans and using aluminum for non lead
is there any way to cast lead free pellets???
Edgy Memer how about plastic?
lol melting plastic, you should use a 3d printer if you want plastic, but why would you want shitty ballistics anyway?
Allah's Snackbar i was just inquiring about lead free options and my surprise that there are not many available, and producers have not overcome this, especially with the technology we have and the new plastics available!
Brean Targaryen there are pellets made out of other metals like tin. just google lead free pellets
Allah's Snackbar i searched around ther are no 35 or 45 cal pellets made of tin!
I didn't see how it's made
my dude no..you! be careful with that Russian roulette shove fam
lead particles and chips break off into the meat when i hunt, im not a big fan on feeding that to me or my family.
@Brean Targaryen
You're not cooking the lead long enough. That's the impurities in the lead, which will separate entirely when lead is cooked long enough at the right temperature.
I went to a trade school for plumbing -- we had to cast iron pipe w/ lead & the instructor would Jimmy them to test
When you start to see separation, always scrape the impurities out & stir occasionally to make sure there none at the bottom
arkadaşlar pellet bittiğinde pellet yapabilirsiniz kanalımda videosu mevcut izleyin sizde yapın pelletiniz bitip bulamadığınızda işinize yarar saygılar
nothings visible
Is it soup yet?
quanto custa uma caixinha de chumbinho aí onde você mora ???
Junior Sachinelli Hay veces que uno vive muy lejos de una tienda y esto se hace en caso de una emergencia. He hecho bolitas de plomo grandes para cazar cerdos con mi escopeta cuando no tengo para comprar cartuchos caros.
don't let your cats roam around and destroy vehicle paint jobs and out door furniture
Imprison all cats? 😺 🐈⬛🙀🐈😼😸
Is that even legal in the UK?
Yeah it's fine :)
+TheSpannerKid hopefully the British billywankers don't bust your door down(: you can't even own firearms lol.
+Memester you dont know much about England
Such comments don't surprise me when I live in a nanny state, I may be English, but I agree with the American way of life that we should all be FREE men, real freedom is in America, here we just have a false brand of freedom, where every Brit pretty much calls for literally everything to be Banned, what a joke.
Jerry and it’s fully legal to own a firearms in the uk if you have a licence 😂how uneducated can people get
as long as u r not busted its legal duh...
What's legal if not busted? Are you a misleading troll?
Verry difficult to look... Put your camera on the stand
lo único que me gusto del vídeo fue el patio de la casa, por q esta muy mal filmado hasta me dio mareo viéndolo
I was doing fine until 5:35 ….. when the "Don't Shoot Cats" propaganda slid through.
bruh
Nakakaduling ung camera..
Don't shoot cats. That's the whole reason I was watching this video.
Terrible, the camera was not centered, I could'nt read half the words and could'nt see most of it. was
On the bottom of screen..
Very disappointing.
why i cant shoot cats ????? :D
It's mean!
Das ist auch gut so,auf Katzen schiessen zum Spaß ist ein perverser Zeitvertreib
yasin keskin #1 it's cruel #2 it's illegal #3 if you do shoot a cat somebody like me will find you and it will not be pretty what will happen to you. Understand?
If you shoot a cat people will get mad and try to kill you in brutal way thats the lesson kid never kill a pet or else people will get super angry and kill you
Cool. But who want to hear that dam grinding. Really.
And the music is what's irritating.
Video malisimo yo no se ni lo que izo
WTF...
Bosta
Wtf 😂 don't shoot cats well no
Sh!t
No gloves..... guarantee no face/eye pro. What a fool
If you can't say something nice . Well you know 😏
You are an . I can't see what you"r doing
Absolute BS. Lol
Fucking CLICKBAIT !!! Doesn't show us the finished product.
Also you shouldn't be telling people that they can do this inside-- lead fumes will saturate porous surfaces like wall paper, fabric, untreated wood, etc. But who worries about possible toxic poisoning 😆
SUCKS, no close up of the lead what ever . You should be embarrassed wasting our time.
Uufffff...... Boringgggg....