Does anyone here melt lead to make sinkers?
Does anyone here melt lead to make sinkers?
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Yes
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Do it outside .
I reasearched this a lot last year thinking i would do it. Juice not worth the squeeze.
Did you get a new truck?
I make these ones
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I do not. Hope that helps.
Yeah, ducks and offshore lead.
Outside, positive pressure from behind me with a respirator. Don't add lead to a hot pot, I start with a full cool pot each time to prevent moisture explosion.
Yep.
Yes...offshore lead 6 OZ and above.... Too much of a pain in the behind for anything smaller than that.
1 and 2 Oz inshore/nearshore egg and banks are readily available and reasonable when purchased in bulk....16 Oz banks are going for a few bucks piece nowadays. At those prices you could lose 30-40 bucks a day in lead depending on where you're fishing.
Much like reloading shotgun shells, I don't fool with 12 and 20 ga since i can buy flats for less than 50 bucks....hell, I haven't run the numbers on it lately but I am pretty sure I would have more than that in just materials, not counting my time. 100+ dollar flats of 16, 28, and 410 are another story all together.... Cost of materials goes down, while finished product acquisition costs go through the roof.
Last edited by FishSticker; 04-19-2018 at 03:14 PM.
I have about 300lbs of lead that was in a flip house I purchased. The previous owner melted them into muffin pans so they are shaped like a puck. I will help somebody that melts them into sinkers and we can split the sinkers when they are done. I would like to make 6 oz sinkers I'm thinking, for bottom fishing.
Rhett, yep, the ram is my new truck. Got it back in december.
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That's a lot of lead. I guess if I came into that much lead I'd melt some down as well.
The muffin pan weights make good decoy weights.
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