Learned something today
 

Yesterday I melted down some previously cast bullets that had bullet lube on them. Good thing is was nice enough to melt them down outside to pour into the ingot mold. Boy did they smoke. I was wondering how to get the lube off before adding to the melting pot so I was watching a video today and the gentleman soaked his lubed bullets in Xylene to remove the lube (it took a bit over an hour). He was going to powder coat them.
Well I got a can of Xylene (Xytol) at my local hardware store and have some more of those bullets soaking in it as we speak. These bullets have a BHN of 12 so I am going to be adding linotype to them to boost the BHN up to about 18 for my 375 win.
Just thought I'd pass this tip along in case you didn't know like me.

most bullet lube acts like flux when melted, so re-melting previously lubed bullets is a good way to recycle and improve bullet alloy, yeah it smokes a great deal, but it also causes impurities in the lead alloy to surface and mix as dross where they are easily skimmed off as dross, thus improving the alloy that's left

http://www.lasc.us/FryxellFluxing.htm

http://www.lasc.us/Fryxell_Book_Chapter_4_Fluxing.htm

http://www.lasc.us/CastBulletAlloy.htm#alloyrecipes

http://www.lasc.us/HeatTreat.htm

http://garage.grumpysperformance.com...35/#post-84993
saw dust, with a bit of bees wax is a very effective flux, bees wax and paraffin both work, but bees wax in small amounts mixed with saw dust preferred, it can remove unwanted calcium, zink etc. flux and stir the alloy frequently to reduce contaminate content before casting with lead from old bullets



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