Weirdest thing you have cast with

[bruce381]

I worked part time as a banquet bartender for like 40 years and collected ALL the tin champange bottle seals.
on a good night I got maybe 8 ounces they worked good till the went to plastic.

 

[JonB]

I'm not sure these are weird?
But here is a list of "out of the norm" type things I have melted and poured into ingots.
Beer Cooler tubing
Tractor wheel weight
Belt buckles
Boat anchors
Lead/Oakum removed from cast iron sewer pipes.

The worst/nastiest stuff I melted down was 3 five gallon buckets of used automotive battery terminals I bought from a automobile recycler.

 

[Snakeoil]

Beer lines are 100% block tin. I cornered the market in my area when I first started shooting BPCR. They were tearing out old bar systems and installing new back then. I suspect there are no old tin lines left anymore.

Never knew that the foil tops on wine/champagne was tin. Won't be throwing that away anymore.

 

[fiver]

the only thing i can think of is some Lead wool i once got back in the 90's.

 

[bruce381]

Beer lines are 100% block tin. I cornered the market in my area when I first started shooting BPCR. They were tearing out old bar systems and installing new back then. I suspect there are no old tin lines left anymore.

Never knew that the foil tops on wine/champagne was tin. Won't be throwing that away anymore.

they used to be now maybe plastic or AL test some.

 

[Missionary]

Peruvian wheel weights. Nothing gets thrown away down here. May find one a year.

 

[4060MAY]

money bag seals
cast iron pipe seals
water lines
telephone cable covers, be careful with the connections the solder used has weird stuff in it, pitch the connections
tin babbit, machine chips from bearings
lead babbit

 

[L Ross]

Dental lead foils. Money bag seals, decoy anchor weights, old fishing jigs, sinkers, and salmon snag hooks, stained glass church window cames from 1893 from Innsbruck.

 

[Rockydoc]

Of course I have used dental lead foil. First for the X-ray then for the bullet.

 

[Dusty Bannister]

Lead seals on postage machines are pure lead and while small, waste not, want not.

 

[RBHarter]

I don't know about weird but I still have about a 30 cal can full if lead tamper seals they eyeball/pencil test as 1-20 tin-lead and we're the original "discovered" source of solution copper . Mine were from 64-74' GI packaging but are the same design size and shape as gas meters and fuel pump calibration seals .

I had a few x-ray smocks , rainy day projects , I'm not sure what happened to them in the move .

 

[Mitty38]

A roll of lead golfers tape. Yep tape made to balance golf clubs with.

 

[Maven]

A small pc. of babbit from a steam locomotive wheel bearing that failed ( think hotbox) during a fan trip. I used it for enrichment.

 

[Rick]

Weirdest thing you have cast with​

Well let's see . . . Hhmmm . . .

Ah, got it . . .

A LEE mold.

 

[Ian]

Are nuclear medicine flasks considered weird?

Theatre curtain weights and pipe organ pipes/tubing from an organ builder's junk bucket might be a little off the wall.

 

[Mitty38]

Weirdest thing you have cast with​

Well let's see . . . Hhmmm . . .

Ah, got it . . .

A LEE mold.

He now, them there's a fightin' words.

 

[Rick]

He now, them there's a fightin' words.

Na, not really. If they make any extras you can have mine.

 

[glassparman]

I picked up a 75lb ingot of Zinc some years back because I thought it was lead.

Nope, haven't made the mistake of casting with it. It is literally the weight in my roll around grinding stand.

 

[Bret4207]

Scuba diving belt weights is about the only "odd" thing I've used. I was fortunate having access to buckets and buckets of old COWW.

 

[L Ross]

Scuba diving belt weights is about the only "odd" thing I've used. I was fortunate having access to buckets and buckets of old COWW.

You do because you scrounged them up when the scrounging was good. I paid nothing, dough nuts, pizza, a buffalo roast one time, and slowed down when I had to start paying cash money.