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[quicksylver]

Drool over this..a couple of days ago one of my scavenger friends brought this in..these are overly large 5 gallon buckets..

First I've seen in years..usually I get 10# or so at a wack..

He felt badly because he forgot about me and off loaded 1100# else where..

Guess I should have posted this AFTER lunch..see picture below

 

[Creeker]

How much lead would that require to get used up ??

I have 13 pounds so 13 X 7000 = 91,000 grains of powder divided by 30 grain charge = 3033 loads? 3033 X 210 grain bullet = 636,930 grains divided by 7000 = 90.99 pounds of lead. Did I do that correctly Quicksylver? I'll check back after my nap.

 

[Missionary]

This is how math should have been taught !

 

[Brad]

But which is heavier, a gr of lead or a gr of powder?

 

[fiver]

10-K [130ish] 9mm boolits cost me 180 lbs of alloy last spring.
it was under 8 lbs of powder at 3.2grs a pop.

I calculated my main alloy pile had just over 120-K 200gr boolits in it the other day.
I was having a hard time doing air space deductions because there is 2 different ingot types there and I was doing the math in my head.

 

[quicksylver]

Again over sized 5 gallon buckets..

 

[quicksylver]

But which is heavier, a gr of lead or a gr of powder?

Ahh!!..a trick question...everyone knows lead doesn't come in grains like powder..

 

[Rick]

Ahh!!..a trick question...everyone knows lead doesn't come in grains like powder..

Sure it does. I have about 3,500,000 grains of CCW in ingots.
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[quicksylver]

I have 13 pounds so 13 X 7000 = 91,000 grains of powder divided by 30 grain charge = 3033 loads? 3033 X 210 grain bullet = 636,930 grains divided by 7000 = 90.99 pounds of lead. Did I do that correctly Quicksylver? I'll check back after my nap.

Spot on .but I thought we were working with a 55 gallon drum ..(400#+/_) of powder...

So x by 30.76923...

Not all that bad 2,799.6923 #

'bout three trips to a tire store in the old days..

 

[Brad]

I have 6 five gallon buckets of range scrap to melt down. I should easily get 150 pounds of ingots from each. Call that 900 pounds. I have another 400 in I gots now along with some lead bricks which go 100 pounds.

I figure I have close to 1500 pounds. In 200 gr bullets call it 52.5 K, need 38 pounds of powder at 5 gr per load. I'm kinda short on large pistol primers for that....

 

[Creeker]

But which is heavier, a gr of lead or a gr of powder?

Why everyone knows the answer to that.

 

[Ian]

How many Joules of powder is that?

 

[fiver]

Joules?
I was gonna work it out in BTU's but now you went and ruined it..

 

[Brad]

I don't powder my jewels....

 

[Brad]

How many Joules of powder is that?

I don't know but I'm sure I need a bunch more Dacron

 

[fiver]

the wife's new couch is probablynot a good place to look for some Dacron batting.

 

[Brad]

the wife's new couch is probablynot a good place to look for some Dacron batting.

Let her know I'll be over about noon. I will bring my own knife and collection baggie.

Thanks for the offer fiver, right neighborly of you

 

[fiver]

gotta read the fine print..

our 'new' couch is someone else's 'old' couch, I doubt the wife would even notice some of the stuffing missing from a cushion.

 

[Brad]

I KNOW better than to take stuffing from my wife's couch. I may be dumb. It I'm not stupid!