what to do with .22 casings

Scrap yellow brass is worth about 2.50 a pound right now. Build a small smelter out of a propane tank and melt it, along with all your cf pistol and rifle brass that's balooned/worn out/cracked/etc into ingots. Save them in the basement until the price goes up to $5. Plus, it's worth more in a solid/ingot form than it is as "dirty" brass.
 
mwjones said:
Scrap yellow brass is worth about 2.50 a pound right now. Build a small smelter out of a propane tank and melt it, along with all your cf pistol and rifle brass that's balooned/worn out/cracked/etc into ingots. Save them in the basement until the price goes up to $5. Plus, it's worth more in a solid/ingot form than it is as "dirty" brass.
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$2.50/lb? :eek:

I've been going to the wrong scrap yard. I thought $1.25/lb wasn't too bad....
 
mwjones said:
Scrap yellow brass is worth about 2.50 a pound right now. Build a small smelter out of a propane tank and melt it, along with all your cf pistol and rifle brass that's balooned/worn out/cracked/etc into ingots. Save them in the basement until the price goes up to $5. Plus, it's worth more in a solid/ingot form than it is as "dirty" brass.
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I want to hear what you are going to use to melt this brass??
Certainly no wood/coal/oil fire will melt it.
Eagleye.
 
Teach the y'ung'uns how to blow into them to make the whistle noise.
Then send them off to school and make sure they have enough to pass
around to their buddies.
It will drive those Lieberal teachers stark maddd........ :)
 
Out of curiosity, I just weighed an empty .22 LR casing. Call it 10 gr, more or less - 700 to a pound. So, for every 700 cases you melt, you might get $2.50.

Let's say you spend $150 making or buying a smelter (and looking at the design referred to, with propane tank, air compressor, etc, that's probably conservative).

Quick count (taking off socks) shows you'd need to melt and sell on the order of 42,000 casings to break even.

I prefer lister's idea - good non-skid grit for icy patches. Mind you, I'd probably not want to have to clean up around my sidewalk come spring, so a bag in my trunk would make sense.
 
ATOM said:
Let's say you spend $150 making or buying a smelter (and looking at the design referred to, with propane tank, air compressor, etc, that's probably conservative).

Quick count (taking off socks) shows you'd need to melt and sell on the order of 42,000 casings to break even.
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I guess it depends on how much you shoot :) O have probably 30lbs of berdan primed and buggered up brass cases atm, so....only need about 25k 22s to break even :) I wouldn't build a setup like this JUST for smelting 22 brass...aluminum, copper, and lead would probably find its way in there as well at some point :)
 
kamlooky said:
Teach the y'ung'uns how to blow into them to make the whistle noise.
Then send them off to school and make sure they have enough to pass
around to their buddies.
It will drive those Lieberal teachers stark maddd........ :)
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THIS!!!

Epic Win!

Hell, I'd machine "replica" cases out of solid brass bar stock just so the Teacher couldn't use the "ammunition" word.
 
mwjones said:
Scrap yellow brass is worth about 2.50 a pound right now. Build a small smelter out of a propane tank and melt it, along with all your cf pistol and rifle brass that's balooned/worn out/cracked/etc into ingots. Save them in the basement until the price goes up to $5. Plus, it's worth more in a solid/ingot form than it is as "dirty" brass.
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I don't understand why you would go to all that bother. We are getting around $1.20 a pound here and I just take it to the scrap dealer in a 5 gallon pail about once a year. As mentioned you get around $85.00-$100.00 and then buy more components. Why would you go to all that expense and bother? Exactly how much more do they pay if it is an ingot? :):confused::)
 
ATOM said:
I prefer lister's idea - good non-skid grit for icy patches. Mind you, I'd probably not want to have to clean up around my sidewalk come spring, so a bag in my trunk would make sense.
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However be prepared for the first thaw, before the SWAT team is called in.
 
haha some great ideas here, I had no idea i could take casing to a scrap yard, but now that I think of it they take scrap steel, copper ect so why not brass
 
It's a pity there isn't a solid market for the 7.62x39 steel casings the usual knuckleheads litter the ranges with.
 
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