I live next to Fort Polk, and on one of their ranges they allow air craft to shoot at ground targets. As an end result, they have thousands of 30mm lead nuggets lying all over the place. I really want to take a bunch and melt them down, but they all have these plastic rings around the diameter.
It looks like the rings function as a sabot, and fit the rifling of the barrel, as such they're pretty darn hard to remove. Also, some of them have minor rust as well as small patches of blue paint.
My question is this, if I threw them in the pot and melted them down, would all of the junk (including the plastic) melt and separate so I could skim it out, or would it blend with the lead?
I would just melt it down and see what happens, but I don't have my melting pot yet and the wife probably wouldn't take kindly to me using her cooking pots. That being said, any advice would be appreciated!
It looks like the rings function as a sabot, and fit the rifling of the barrel, as such they're pretty darn hard to remove. Also, some of them have minor rust as well as small patches of blue paint.
My question is this, if I threw them in the pot and melted them down, would all of the junk (including the plastic) melt and separate so I could skim it out, or would it blend with the lead?
I would just melt it down and see what happens, but I don't have my melting pot yet and the wife probably wouldn't take kindly to me using her cooking pots. That being said, any advice would be appreciated!