Speaking from experience, you should smelt lead in cast iron containers. Rounds rarely are in the mix and don't always go off, but don't go far or do much without being in a gun barrel.
It's not the speed or impact of the round he was worried about ( the case actually is more dangerous than the projectile) but instead he doesn't want hot lead splattering everywhere when it explodes in the liquid. It's not terribly fun I would imagine :)
LegendLength the barrel is what contains the pressure pushing outward from inside the bullet casing, making the bullet the weakest point for the pressure to release through. Without the barrel, the explosion just blows the bullet casing wide open and the bullet barely goes anywhere.
LampP0st If you like seeing metal getting turned into blocks look up the channel "bigstack D Casting". Every video the dude makes is him turning scrap into blocks.
Wow, that really must be a ton of shooting going on in that spot. You could probably make a decent hourly wage selling lead as scrap with how much you were getting in each pan.
cody is the type of guy i would take if i had to go on a survival trip or maybe i was stranded in the middle of mountains with mining tools, i would totally survive with cody's sheer knowledge of the earth and its rocks/minerals. Good job Cody, like always.. good job
@@officermeowmeowfuzzyface4408 lol meow meow fuzzyface.. gotta love bojack :P but yeah dremel would probably work better for this application, cool idea to brand his ingots tho! only downside is it makes one side of the ingot not quite so flat and might be less-than-ideal for some projects
I love shooting there. One time when a group of us were there an older gentleman brought out his belt fed M2 Browning. That was pretty cool to see in action.
@@bobby8012 ACTUALLY, that's precisely what it means. You just don't know what you have. Look at the 9+ imbeciles, who agreed with your comment. Pitiful!
@@CooManTunes i know its 3 years ago but if you wanna go to russia and be like my family then you wouldn't have to save up much to buy a big piece of land
bcubed72 For just about anything using smokeless powder you need an alloy harder than pure lead. Basically the bullet needs to be hard enough not to warp under the pressure of acceleration, but soft enough to obturate into the rifling. i.e. it needs to be within the 'spring back' range of compression. Thus there is no single ideal alloy. It must be tuned to the load, or the load tuned to the bullet. The higher the chamber pressure the harder you alloy needs to be. For black powder, pure lead or pure with a little tin in it is standard.(aprox 5-8 Brinell Hardness Number) Non magnum pistol bullets do OK in the 12-14 BHN range. 18-22 BHN will do for moderate rifle loads (including most of the reduced power loads that are typically designated as suitable for cast bullets). For modern rifle pressure at full power you tend to need 32-36 BHN. Hardness needs to be such that the compressive strength of your bullet is 90% of the force which acts upon it. There is a formula to derive ideal alloy from your known or estimated peak chamber pressure. It really does produce better performing ammo, and is a huge labor saver over guessing and checking. I find that I can find the accuracy node between alloy and slight variations in charge weight in a single range trip. I heat treat my bullets for more consistent properties and to get more performance out of cheaper alloys.
***** Yes, I meant for the guns most people shoot. I know you have a mosin-nagant from your other vids. If you were casting for that, you would need an alloy in the 22-34 BHN range.
Cody'sLab you would make an epic science teacher. But not in a public school, or a private school, but one of those authentic alternative schools where they actually teach valuable stuff.
Holy shit, how much lead does that quarry hold?! o-o I think ecological disaster is a bit of an understatement if you get several bullets with a single pan... Anyway, loving the uploads, keep em going! ^^
If a small group of people are shooting there every weekend, they're adding several thousand bullets a week. Do that for 10 years and this is what you end up with.
Just imagine if this man had grown up in a standard middle-class, white neighbourhood instead of a 100-acre ranch... The house wouldn't have survived long...
So I know that I'll never be able to do these things and I probably won't even go into a science-based major in college, but I just love watching all of your videos. They are so well done and really fun to watch. Great job man keep it up! :)
+Cody'sLab sounds about right...America...The country that has to be different from nearly everyone else even if it is wrong...Which only means it is more right in the eyes of America.... *rolls eye so hard they pop out*...god damn our crazy country...
Actually, America did sign the Metric treaty, all their imperial units have metric definitions and they are, after all, using the metric system. They're just converting it to obsolete units. Also, does anyone find it weird that America, the revolutionary, rebellious, freedom-loving country uses the *Imperial*, as in, the empire they fought for about 8 years to get rid of, system?
I made several lead bricks in the past as well as pouring some into the body frame of a mini-stock race car to help with balance. I stopped at an old auto-repair shop and he sold me a bucket of wheel weights for cheap.
Hey cody I was reading about how Robert Hooke extracted phosphorus in the 1600'e using his urine. Sounded like the perfect experiment for you to replicate.
We did gold panning in Alaska, too. Got enough for, as the guide called it, "one souvenir." (Flakes that would assay to less than $5, I'm sure; but it was a fun experience) Though he had a story about one guy finding a "lead musket ball" and tossing it back in the river. The guide nearly had a heart attack, got him to stand exactly where he was and recreate the throw with a rock. When they screened it out of the river, the guide sliced a chunk off of the outer lead casing to reveal a solid gold nugget. They paid for their vacation, everyone else's food & drink for the night, and gave the guide a big tip. We also had the opportunity to pan at one of the beaches on Nova Scotia, which the rangers say on average will yield after a full day about what you pay for one day of access to the park, and lunch... About $10-$20 worth. Again, fun, not really profitable.
Can you publish the levels of lead and mercury in your blood before and after you started playing with it? You will need to sign this youtube HIPAA form.
@@bigjohn7818 Dirt cheap, doesn’t hurt gun barrel steel, and it’s the densest softest metal that carries the most momentum as a projectile. Very malleable and is perfect for hollowpoints and other expanding bullets. People have been shooting and eating animals with lead for 1,000 years now and lead poisoning is not even a remote concern if you clean the animal correctly. You don’t eat any meat around where the bullet/shot entered/fragmented. The biggest lead hazard with shooting is not the bullets at all but the primer compound lead styphnate which is vaporized upon firing and is inhaled by the shooter especially indoors. Only thing similar to lead in shooting is bismuth or tungsten in a polymer matrix. But lead is so superior with expanding hunting/defensive bullets and the others are way too expensive. Steel shot sucks so much and wounds as many birds as it kills and it’s not suitable for handguns or rifles except as jacket material and even then it causes forest fires from sparks. Uranium makes a great bullet too but it’s too hard to work with, too expensive, and the ATF and NRC both frown strongly upon them because they’re both armor piercing and radioactive. Copper is becoming a lot more popular but every bullet has to be precision machined which makes the ammo prohibitively expensive for anything but hunting or defense. Nobody could afford to shoot 2-500 rounds a month for practice.
People like you who waste your time on RU-vid to teach us when you can be out getting smarter and inventing new ways of making math/science/chemistry/electric engineering, way easier are awesome just wanna say thanks for making my homework easier to understand
I used to run a recycling yard in Rancho Cordova, CA and I would love to see your process on lead wheel weights. At the end of our experiment we ended up with 2,000 lbs or so of clean lead.
I subscribed to your channel because of the videos you did mining ores and processing them. I was so curious about watching the process and you were the only person who did anything remotely similar to what I was looking for. Since then you have made some fantastic content, best sub ever.
The old timers used to also put it on a sheet 2 man job they flick the sheet up, the dust blows away and your left with the heavy stuff to pan. This was done when there were no water supply near, but i bets most folks know this :)
Hello, I'm from Spain so my english is not perfect, I wanted to know the meaning of lead, because you use it in all your videos and the meaning for me is the element Pb (82) Is that the real meaning or you have other meanings? thanks and greetings from Spain
The word lead has 2 main meanings I think. Lead as in the element Pb. Lead (pronounced with a long e sound, like Leed or see) which means to have someone follow you, and "led" is the past tense of "lead, and sounds like how you say the element lead Pb. But lead(long ee) can also mean an exposed wire in an electrical circuit (he says "im going to connect these two leads) and it can also mean a pipe or hose that transfers something important as in this pipe leads into the engine. english is fun haha
I find taking a shovel and a screen is much for effective for range scrap. We all really need to clean up the lead waste left around. ive been collecting and refining for lead lined walls in my eventual bunker.
I totally enjoy everything Cody does. So MUCH using such basic, simple tools and a LOT of knowledge. However, I grew up in the days when lead was considered a non-reactive metal. My big old tomcat and I used to spend hours hunting with my pellet gun. It was a single shot, so I carried the pellets under my tongue so I could rapidly reload and shoot down sparrows...and the cat was in the game for the dead birds. Somehow, and of course modern scientific hysterics will wet their panties in dismay, I managed to earn several advanced degrees, score over 145 on IQ tests, and become very successful in several highly technical business endeavors.... while growing up with lead bullets in my mouth. I wonder what I could have achieved if, somehow, I had known what the hysterics know today.
This was my second video of Cody it won my heart ! I actually found him while I was bored and seen a video of his crazy butt trying to sweep a Utah highway for elements lol. Had me at hello. Way to go Cody. Sunset, Utah YEAH!
Hi cody! I have a little challenge for you :) Can U make explosive matter from the things you can find in an average woman's beauty box? I mean It has a lot of chemicals I'm sure U can do It! please like this comment so he might read it!
Well... you could, hypothetically, cast it into a shape that you could then, hypothetically, use to bludgeon her to death with. Hypothetically, of course.
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You can get a steel mesh spoon or similar utensil to separate the jackets from the lead pot before you pour it. If you have a steel 5 gal bucket laying around you can just toss the copper into it and then melt it down later. I've been melting lead to make bullets in large plumber pots for many years, this is how we separate our jackets.
+ClapTrap You're a moron. Lead poisoning is believed to have contributed to many of the problems of ancient rome, as well as violence more recently due to leaded gasoline. Touching it won't hurt you, but drinking from it, breathing it in, etc definitely could over time. Just because something doesn't kill you immediately doesn't mean it isn't harmful.
Larry Pseudonym I do agree that it's toxic in the long run but unless you inhale/eat it days to days, it's shouldn't cause much trouble, it's fine for a little experiment here and there
I should try this. I go out in the deserts down here in AZ, usually every other weekend or so (less in the summer, unfortunately) and take truckloads of trash out of the public use areas. I pick up bullets when I see them on the ground, but I don't gather very many.
jet fuel didn't melt the steel beams in the world trade center. it only needed to soften until they could no longer support the tower. imagine taking a piece of hard plastic and placing it near a fire for a few minutes. it won't melt, but it will be more pliable. this is the same (albeit on a much larger and more extreme scale) for the 911 attacks.
The reason the statement "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" came about is because molten "steel" was found at Ground Zero, supposedly it couldn't have existed with just the heat from burning jet fuel and was presumed to be from additional explosives, thermite or something similar. However, it was likely actually molten aluminum that was found, not steel, which came from the plane fuselages and burns at a much lower temperature. No legitimate conspiracy theorist, or anyone with a brain for that matter, believes that the steel supports needed to melt for the building to come down. I have no idea where that belief came from or why pretentious people, like yourself, think you are doing some sort of righteous "educating of the masses" when you type up these comments. You all regurgitate the same exact thing, that's how I know you have not even bothered to do a quick google search on the topic. We all want to believe that conspiracy theorists are a bunch of brainless idiots, but perhaps do a little research into what they are saying before you start trying to disprove them.
I know am 2 years(exactly) late(am on a Cody marathon), but I wish Cody had put the descriptions of the musics/soundtracks he puts in his outro/intro. The musics are really good.
Hi Cody. You should think about getting a 12 volt battery powered dry washer. I use one in the southern Cali deserts to recover gold and get some lead with it sometimes. Being battery powered they are quieter and less of a fire hazard than the leaf blower powered ones. It can concentrate the lead out of dirt as fast as you can shovel it and you should also recover the very small lead and also gold flakes if there are any.
Cody, the lead bullets also contain some amount of arsenic, antimony and even bismuth. Most common impurities of lead minerals are antimony (Sb), tin (Sn) and arsenic (As). You check this from the periodic table: Tin is in the same group with lead and through the effect of inert pair: antimony, arsenic and bismuth (Bi) are impurities of lead.
For panning down from the point your tossing fine heavies. Screen, Try a board. Its processes of sloughing material over a thin board cut across the grain. you bend you bend it with one arm. And tap with the other. Between tapping and sloughing the separation occurs. Very fast and very effective for fine gold. just screen and save your compleated plans into a bucket. And then finish with a board. Also, a fine paint brush is really handy in the gathering of heavies left behind. Then wet pan down from there. It will in work any ground as long as it is extra dry.
Aso in dry panning it was an old trick to toss a small hand full of slugs or just making chunks of lead that are hammered round. Put in the pan for measuring daily competence in technique. And loosening up the clay and finely packed ground. they also form opening cavities that traps the heavies with them. By concentrating the bottom layer with their mass versus their weight. The closest thing to a magnet that you're going to get. This really speeds up dry panning significantly.
What the heck?! I just came back to your channel to rewatch your "Cody's Mine" playlist but they've all been made private =( I loved those videos! Sometimes I watch your older videos bc for whatever reason I find them quite comforting and relaxing, not to mention enjoyable and educational! I'm sure you have your reasons but I'm still bummed.
I wish I could load up all of my casting and reloading equipment and come visit you for a few days. show you some of what I have learned about it over the past 30 years. I believe it would be a mutually beneficial educational experience
*"I got me here this gold pan"* Cody has an old prospector accent. He should say "Derrs GoLD in them their hills over yonder. But watch out for KI-OTES! It's gonna be dark so follow me lantern"
I couldn't believe how many bullets he found in that first pan! Looked like there were 6+ in there. Wow, about 100 lbs of Pb. I'd have never thought you could find that much using his method. Must be a whole lot of people shootin guns around there.
It doesn't take much. Even if you only have 20 people shooting there per weekend, that's likely 2,000-4,000 bullets per week being added. Multiply that by a decade or two.
I have watched a ton of your vids, and this showed up in my suggested video area. I thought it was a new video at first because I hadn't seen it before
