On Saturday, my Dad, Ali and I, all got to make bullets! It was a LOT of fun. A friend of ours used to do it, and he asked my dad if we would like to try it. So he came, and we made about 300 bullets!
This isn't all of them, but its still about 100.
The lead took only about 3 minutes to melt, so we could keep going for a long time, even while the lead was melting!
We made "candy bars", which were solid blocks of lead. If you look hard, you can see the lead pouring!
The candy bars took a lot longer then the bullets. They took about 20 minutes to cool so we could touch them, and they were still pretty warm!
This is what they looked like when we took them out of the mold.
Ali pouring in to the mold. (You can look at her blog for more pictures of her and stuff.)
Dad had to cut some of the blocks of lead so they would fit in the pot!
Sorry it took me so long to post about it. I've been really busy!
Looks like fun!
ReplyDeleteI've been wanting to do this for awhile. You'll have to teach me.
ReplyDeleteIt was lots of fun Bud!
ReplyDeleteYa looks like alot of fun. Roy cast's his own lead and stuff, i've been wanting to do it for a while too.
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