Bulk Bullet Shells To Mirrored Bar - Trash To Treasure - ASMR Metal Melting - BigStackD Casting
Today another great addition to the stack with a nice brass bullet mirrored casing bar. I have so many of these things lying around and as I'm in Australia they are considered scrap so I thought I would use a heap and add to the stack👌🏻. Not a very long video today but it still has all the usual bits and pieces. So sit back relax and enjoy today's video and as always have a great weekend and I hope to see you all next Friday😁
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Bulk Bullet Shells To Mirrored Bar - Trash To Treasure - ASMR Metal Melting - BigStackD Casting
Welcome back , how are all you sensational subs? Now I haven't done in mirrored bar for awhile so I thought today why not as I have about 80 kilos of casings left . Quick and simple with all the usual stuff in today's video so sit back and enjoy and I'll see you all hopefully next Friday. And as always have a great weekend😀👋🏻
Goody good, mate
I miss your vids fr Although its just a week still miss you
well its three in the morning for me lol, perfect time for casting metal!
Dang i been your subscriber back at the day you have 97K I be looking forward to check the merch
Love this channel.
These are 7,62x51 (or .308 Winchester, in civilian version). From the headstamp you can read AFF 91, which usually denotes the manufacturer, in this case, Small Arms Ammunition Factory No. 1 Footscray, Australia, and the year of manufacture, 1991. By the look of the bullet, these are most likely M80 rounds with standard lead-core bullets. But looks alone can be deceiving, however, different types of rounds usually have color coded bullet tips, these don't, that's why I'd think they're simple M80s.
nice
So those bullets are 30 years old?
So 308 Winchester can fit in an ak? Never knew.
Amscray Footscray. I love pig Latin. LOL! To think back in the early 90s, we would buy 1,000 round crates of .308, .223. & 9mm military surplus ball, all for $135.00, that's 13.5 cents a round. The good old days!
@@joshschneider9766 well bullet diameter yes but the cartridge will not. its closer to a mosin or SVD sniper rifle
Don’t know what I enjoy more, the melt, the visit with the pups or lunch break! Oh yea, can’t forget the boot toss/sock reveal or the smashing of the ice block. Another great video, keep ‘em coming!
I came for the melts I stay for the pups.
Haven't seen the creepy clown in a while.
I stay for the pups and the melt
I like the random places he finds food. Oh, and can't forget the socks.
@@tinydancer7426 glad someone else has taste. The food hunt/sock reveal is 90% of why I watch the melts
Note: you likely have a lot less slag because you used plenty of borax that prevented a lot of the zinc in the brass from oxidizing to the air (borax forming a layer on top sealing off the brass while being heated in the furnace, pretty much)
Zinc does oxidize at high temps but the bigger problem is that his furnace goes over its boiling point. However this generally shouldn’t be a problem as it’s incorporated into the alloy
That has nothing to do with it
@@nobodycares3897 you must be a woman 😬
To answer your question about what would happen if you had a furnace of live rounds, the live rounds would cook off (explode from heat) and the lead would stay there however the brass would become the projectile. This would damage the crewsible and the furnace a little but not much as the casings wouldn’t have much energy. (For those of you wondering why the bullet wouldn’t fly it’s because the bullet is heavy and what makes it fly is the barrel. If there is no barrel or locking lug for the casing then the lightest thing will fly aka the brass casing)
Don't share comments like this with the missus while watching a movie. She will not thank you. Lol
Should send a message to Demolition Ranch and get him to test with a local furnace...😏
@@P1cwh0r3 who still watches that guy?
Not too far from where I work, a store caught fire. They were in the archery business, but also sold ammunition. We heard a LOT cook off, but no flying flaming debris. The burning palm trees caused more exported damage, than the ammo. (Chunks of flaming palm fronds, would float away and cause other fires.) Yes, we had someone on the roof, with a hose. (Nice to have forklifts.) steve
The bullets would have no velocity tho because they need a barrel to channel the energy. Maybe stick in you but not far.
The melthead in me loved this video, but the reloader in me was crying the whole way through.
It’s a sad state of affairs down under..
I’m just thinking about the amount of vaporized lead from the primers an interior of the shell casings this guy just released.
But also yes, next time maybe ask the subs if we would t mind paying freight to the U.S. I’d have happily reloaded all of those
He's not only a good smelter, he's also a good cook! Very rare indeed
You play with fire long enough, you get good at using it for a lot of things.
smelting and cooking are basically the same things if you think about it ;)
The slag spoon is my favorite character on this show. So glad to see him back in action!
I love the look of polished brass, when I was a teenager in the 70's I worked for while in a polishing shop. We mainly did sand casted brass taps, I never did much actual polishing but I was doing the linishing. We 1st used a new 80 grit belt, then broken-in 80, then broken-in 320, then polish on a buff with tripoli. Lots of different ways to polish these days. We used to chrome them too
Those are 7.62x51mm NATO casings. The civilian version is .308 Winchester. You are absolutely correct to inspect them first!
Inspecting is good....but in the cooker they would have not caused any damage
@@brianthaxton229 It would splash molten brass around and possibly crack the crucible, neither of which are good
My first though was that they looked like 30'06 cartridges, but off. Big honkin' cases. I reasoned that they were .308 when he was measuring them. And I reiterate your advice of always checking cartridges first! :)
@@flykintoun Neither would happen....no pressure to create explosion....only heat to melt the brass and burn the power...
@@brianthaxton229 the powder would ignite before the brass melted, so there would be pressure. I've forgotten who it was, but their video is still on youtube, they had a round cook off when they were melting down lead, it sprayed lead all over their bench top. This isn't a theoretical scenario here, people have had rounds cook off while melting and they have caused dam
So the primers must have melted too and mixed in with the brass. You ended up with a slightly different alloy. Surprisingly very little trash to skim off. I love it when you pour all the way to the top of the mold to get a loaf-like ingot. And the textured "crust" always looks great 👍 👌 !
Primers are usually nickle plated brass.
Probably should make sure all the primers have been struck as well, wouldn’t want a live one in there.
@@silentlandthousandvoices Wouldn't hurt anything
@@silentlandthousandvoices its why he stacked them neatly in the middle of the cut yerrycan thingy, so he could look and look again.
he could make his bars perfect if he wanted to, it would just take more time with the grinding wheel etching it all the way down past the deformations, excepting in the cases where the metal cools exceptionly fast the 'pour lines' you see on the side of some of his ingots are where the metal froze as he was pouring and formed layers...that goes all the way thru the bar, you can obscure it with buffing and polishing, but you can never get rid of it without remelting the bar
YES!! You added Borax precisely when I was yelling, "Add some Borax Bro!!" at the screen. Haha. 👌😎🇦🇺
I think your place is big enough but the choice is yours of course. Just remember, no matter how much room we have, we will fill it up and always find a need to have more
He totally needs more space!
I vote for an ice melt compilation! This one in the video was very satisfying.
These videos are the best thing about waking up in a Friday morning!
I love that he checks on his doggos in like every video. :)
A furnace full of live rounds would cook off. It wouldn't be too dangerous since the cartridges need to be chambered to build significant pressure. You wouldn't have to worry about metal splashing since the rounds would pop before the brass would melt. I know this because me and a buddy put a crate of horribly corroded 5.56 in a burn barrel for fun. It's like angry popcorn.
that’s awesome haha
A non corroded 5.56 has less humidity and is more likely to explode, and the heat for casting is higher then just burn barrel Also who wants to be around such a thing when it goes off
I guess that's why when you hear gunshots in movies and TV that spook characters, but turns out to be popcorn, that's where the thought comes from
I imagine uncorroded rounds would trigger. Corroded ones would have weakened casings, so they would explode in all directions and minimize the force. Uncorroded rounds would likely hold as they trigger to direct all the force behind the tip. A crucible full of them wouldn't likely be catastrophic, but the fallout most likely would cost you the crucible and likely heavily damage the inside of the forge. It all depends on how strong that lining in the forge is. But, yeah, the crucible would likely be toast.
Wow, this would have to be the stupidest comment I've ever read on YT.
wow! its always so statisfying when the metal cools into a solid piece. the mirror finish afterwards is just *chefs kiss*
Called freezing. Think about it. At 32° water freezes. At 1700°f brass melts at 927°f it freezes
@@DisgustedGenXr but that is not a freezer
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15:12 this is a certified bigsnackD moment right here
Talk about a sandwich😲 Holy cow ✨🐮
started watching this channel for the ASMR. Keep coming back for the food!
All the excitement of the melt and gourmet cooking lessons as well. Man, you do it all... Thanks
I was at Cabelas last week. It was $400 USA for a bag of reconditioned brass ammo. About a 1/3 of what you melted in this video.
Seriously, and they cant import these to the US since it would break some ATF rule they just made up yesterday....
This was more like treasure to trash.
@@alericc1889 What rule and where?
@@francoisross2480 Did you see the part where I said they make them up as they go ....
Turned a $1000 dollars 💸 into $10 . LoL 😂
I just love to see so much 308/7.62x51 casing. Glad you double check and make sure you only grab the empty casing. Even if you did put a live round into the smelting furnace the bullet won’t go anywhere.. if the round doesn’t have a barrel to build pressure to be a projectile will will simply just explode a spit out the round maybe a yard away.. but always be safe bud!
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Today's brass melt was awesome, love how polished it turned out. Bigstackd is the best smelter on youtube
Love the enthusiasm in the comment, but, smelting is refining raw ores, this is just melting and casting. Cheers!
@@acrazedtanker1550 thank you for the info.
I love to wake up on a Friday to a new melt video!!
Wowsers! From those nasty old bullet casings to a bar of beauty. Well done…well done!
That ice melt was perfect! 😚👌
Great Job, as always! Amazed at how little slag there was, especially with some of them pretty dirty..... You ought to do another silver melt. I know it's expensive.... But I bet if you announced you were doing one in a couple of months, plenty of your subscribers would be happy to donate scrap silver....broken jewelry, coins, old silverware.....Especially if you had a big giveaway. Maybe for reaching your goal?? I'd donate!!! 🙂
Ahhh so cool and calming I'm catching up but I came for the doggos lol stayed for the sock reveals oh and the melty thing to I guess 🤣🤣🤣 no you are doing great stuff man love it
This is has been now my habit to watch your videos every Friday. Keep posting. Thanks
This man living my dream. Small house two dogs one plate, all the lavishes
75 kg left to melt. Do one more mega melt, use the HUGE cast iron mold and grill the dinosaur leg in freezer. All will be good for a week. Thanks for sharing your goofing off with us.
Not sure if this is the case with these M80 casings, but M80 cartridges in the US use lead styphnate in the primers, which is released when the primer is detonated, but only in small amounts. When the primers are melted though, more lead might be released as fumes from the melt. Just a heads up so you and others are aware 🤙
Ive melted about 50lbs of casings. The main thing to consider is that some will actually contain small amounts of unspent gunpowder that will pop so be careful. I always got plenty of slag with mine as I picked them off the ground from a local shooting range so be sure to clean them if you pulled them from the ground.
Agree with the live rounds just popping here and there. Most of the casings would probably melt open before the primers go off so all the gunpowder would just burn up with the rest of the melt. Should reach out to Demolition Ranch and do a joint video on it. I'm sure he would love to find out what would happen.
Thes are always really nice to relax to before I fall asleep. for me these come out really early in the morning on Friday. as in this one came out at 1:10 A.M. roughly? but it's nice and relaxing for me so thank you for that.
6pm here
These are my Friday morning bathroom watch, and it's become part of my routine
It’s so weird seeing the yellowy crust when the bars were pored, beautiful though!! Plus I love that ingot is so chill and bullion is always ready to start some ish so cute!
The only ASMR I can enjoy and respect
Glad you double check to make sure you're not putting live rounds into the melt...OUCH. I love a good mirrored bar. Great video.
Any old candles that you have laying around the house use a choke of candle wax as a extracted for impurities it works very well. By the way love watching your videos can't wait to see what else you melt down
Very much appreciate your content!
Always enjoy watching your new video while eating lunch at work
Gold new fire gun bar👍😍!
good job! your videos are amazing!
As a reloader, I think I died a little inside watching this 😢
You and me both lol.
4:25 It would be like lead pop corn. The rounds wouldn't have any real velocity behind them because there's no way for pressure to build behind the projectile.
i think that was the best ice block meltdown ive seen in this channel. absolutely lovely the second bar going into the "pool" perfectly centered in the ice block
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Judging from the shape and the case length you provided those are .308 or 7.62x51mm NATO rounds. The diameter of the projectile right beside the end of the case will provide enough information to tell for certain, it should be .308 inches or 7.82 mm if they're .308/7.62 NATO.
😂. What the heck 😂. I sign me up..... What a Great clip... What a Great finish of the bar🤹 You truly make my Day sir. God bless you, and take care👍. Big smile from Norway 😊
You melting them down and I'm sitting here wanting to load them back up and shoot them. 🤣 Thanks for the amazing content.
The live rounds don’t actually do much, they explode, may possibly damage your equipment, but I doubt it, there is seriously near no pressure, they leave a slight red mark if they hit you, We used to throw them into bonfires as “stupid kids”
In a bonfire, sure they don't do much. Having them pop in a pool of molten metal is way more dangerous than a bonfire though. It's best to make sure and not risk it.
@@itar99 and just how is that living dangerously? 😂.. Nar your right, they still won’t fire like a gun, but they could fook up the equipment.. i did actually write that.. but I’m definitely not disagreeing that checking first is actually better!
Owww I loved how neatly all the shells got stakes it realy made my OCD fill good than gave shivers as thay fell ☺ thank you!
Wow! That mirror finish. 👍🏻
When melting brass casings do you notice a big change in the properties from the zinc loss? If you wanted to keep nearly the same metal content would it be necessary to add zinc?
I wish I could find a bunch of those casings to reload. It looks like 7.62x51 NATO ammo but those are normally around 71 mm long overall.
Looked like 5.56 to me.
It appears you are correct, sir.
It's not a NATO round AFF is Small Arms Ammunition Factory No.2 produced in Melbourne Aus, the number 91 is year of manufacturer
@@mattgraham1983 The calibre designation is 7.62mm NATO.
Only when loaded. The 51mm in the length of the case.
You put more time and effort into your lunch than I do for some entire projects.
Nice, you really fired those bullets :)
As a reloader, it breaks my heart to see all this brass being melted down.
I've seen multiple boxes of them at the scrap metal yard. The boxes are 48 inches by 40" by 36" gaylord boxes. Must be like a million casings in each box.
It hurts so bad, even though it’s great to watch
This one hurts to watch you meltdown so many reloadable shells that are worth way more than brass itself.
Ex military brass has twin flash holes, which makes it hard to deprime. Strangely though, tracer ammunition is single flash hole.
AFF 91 stamped casings are able to be reloaded easily of course you have to check headspace and all the specs to make sure each shell is up to standards it’s very easy to tell old shells that have been over reloaded apart from the others. It all just depends on what you know and how you know doing it! Personally myself I don’t my brother on the other hand has the knowledge to do so and has been doing so for many years! It all depends on how far you are willing to go and how much time you willing to put in to your reloading! Obviously not all that brass would be viable a good 25% of it would be though
That is a beautiful mirror bar of brass... Wow to think it was nasty casings a short while ago... Well at that time... I'm watching newest to oldest and enjoying myself immensely...
Awesome brass bar's always great to see the boys and thanks for sharing bigstackd
I've got a question, what do you do with the live rounds? Cause I though it was illegal here in Australia to keep them unless you have a gun licence and you need them.
He's probably licensed, or the person donating them definitely is. It's not illegal to keep spent casings here in Oz I'm 95% sure of it. Could be wrong but it's not a big deal unless you're CAUGHT repurposing them. If the cops showed up to ask about them it's pretty clear they're for melting. They'd need clear evidence he's up to no good before anything could be done. 👍😎
@@subliminalvibes spent casing definitely legal to keep I use to shoot recreational at a club when I was 13-14 and I was always allowed to take the spent casings home. I'm curious about the live ones though 🤔
If he doesn't have the relevant means to fire the rounds. And can still prove his reason why he has them ie found them in these tubes of spent rounds. I see no issue at all. Not like he just has two live rounds just because
There was a case in Sydney where a guy got popped for a few when using spent cases for an epoxy tabletop. Judge fined him and said turn them in next time lol! So it would seem the surrounding circumstances factor in. Least in Sydney anyhow. Australia is a big island.
It’s easy enough to pull the bullets and empty out the powder. Removing the primer is slightly more difficult but not by much - you can use water pressure to pop them out. Then he’s fine as they’re not live anymore.
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never thought i’d get hungry from a video of a guy turning bullet shells into shiny bars
Love your videos, and your patriotism. It's usually only Americans that fly their nations flag so prominently! BRAVO!!!
First: it was a perfect ice cooling scene! Second: to answer your question: a crucible full with live cartridges would be devastating and we would not see the outcome, just the ruins. Third: your snack was yummy, as always. Cheers mate!
This is the most reasonable video you have ever made. The food was actually in a sensible place, and I'm astonished, and frankly relieved.
I also been watching this channel fit over 2 years now and it's very fun to watch casting videos enjoy your content man 👍
Ahhh thank you for another great video. I love Fridays!! ✌️😊
Love the 'simple' melts, bar came up a treat.
There will always be a special place in my heart for lovingly polished brass...
I don't remember how I found this channel but I'm glad I did. These videos are great.
I especially like your videos, the brass ingot is really nice. Your food also looks delicious. Turning waste into treasure is meaningful. Your videos make me have a great weekend👍😀😊👏
The bullets would go off and damage your crucible. Also is it weird that I look forward to whatever the meal of the day is? The random places he takes them from are entertaining.
You make One of a kind satisfying videos.
Never disappointed when I watch your videos sir
I have a confession to make. Every time you do the "Cheers" in front of the flag of Australia, I do the same. If I don't have a beer, I'll wait to watch until later when I do get one. Cheers!
I give that ice melt 10/10
Great video! Very easy ro enjoy without an ad every couple of minutes
its so satisfying seeing the metals melt and become very very mushy!
Another awesome video from you, thanks and keep them coming.
Love all the different socks you be having
love bullion and ingot and your socks and the way you run to check the boys!
Seeing all those casings melted and gooey like that reminds me of a macaroni casserole. Now I'm hungry.
I hope you never stop uploading!
I’ve been have trouble sleeping your videos knock me right out it’s so relaxing lol
Such a good looking Ingot, oh and the dog is cute too.
Wonderful kindness shown throughout the video...I'm hooked ...Great work friend..
You really should send that bar to Matt at Demolition Ranch. He recently posted a video asking how bulletproof are bullets but that bar would be a much better proof of concept test. Maybe a collab' video?
Today's BigSnackD looked particularly tasty 😋
Good vid 👍👌they polished up nicely
Rite down the middle. Love it 🍻👍 Love the Alien figure. I like the story line you’ve come up with.
Ive been waiting forward to this melt since i saw these casings in videos a couple months ago, shame i can’t be in finland to enjoy this with my boyfriend over dinner but at least i can share the video over call to enjoy the puppers together!
Always Perfect brother 🤜🏼🤛🏼
bigstackD I was saying to myself while watching this. Damn that brass looks hot and it stayed perfectly in the center we even have a great side shot of where it was even crashing the ice. Then I say Man it would be cool if he put the small one on top of this one. Bam it happened and I loved how it boiled the water while just sitting on top of his big brother. Probably my favorite ice melt and break of all time. Cheers and I hope to still see you ( Ha Ha ) and your videos after you've reached the goal.
Thank you for putting the total value in Argentine pesos (ARS), sadly we have several types of dollars and the value you put is incorrect, but it is greatly appreciated, thanks for this great content man, greetings from Argentina🙌
Fun fact about this guy: If the apocalypse starts, this guy will have rnough metal to rebuild society (Btw great channel)
It's so cool to see the boys sunbathing plus your sock choice😊