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Jim, have you started saving your swarf to melt down and re-use?

There's a metal recycler in the town an hours drive North of me. About once a year I take it to them and all the little offcuts etc.....last time was about $300

I've watched countless YT vids of blokes building DIY furnaces to melt down there ali and brass. I'd really like to do it, but it looks pretty involved.

I have a little Lee electric lead melter that has a lever and you put the .44 cal round ball mould up to it and pull the lever up and fill the two cavities in the mould. That's about my experience with molten metal