NickB65 Posted March 19, 2016 Report Share Posted March 19, 2016 Is there any use for spent .17 hmr cases other than the bin? All creative ideas welcome :-) - within reason knowing how some minds work :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dob Posted March 19, 2016 Report Share Posted March 19, 2016 Try doing this, it's from the natural history museum. Made from spent .22 cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benthejockey Posted March 19, 2016 Report Share Posted March 19, 2016 With a meting point of just over 950 degrees Celsius and a scrap value of over £2k a tonne keep them and melt them down! Shoot more, melt the brass and you'll be rich! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickB65 Posted March 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2016 Hmm thanks...... guess I will just have to shoot more and save the empties...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekers Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 There are some jewelry options, but probably scrap value, if you get enough weight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 A lot of scrap dealers won't take empty cases because they have to be hand sorted to make sure there are no live ones. We found a small engineering company who would melt them down to make handles but he didn't want to give us much for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besty57 Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 (edited) I was thinking about scrapping some spent cases .what if you deprimed first and then crushed them. What sort of min weight would they take Edited March 25, 2016 by besty57 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbiep Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 In all honesty, unless you're going through hundreds, or even thousands, it's not worth the time or fuel of taking brass to weigh in. I chuck all my old brass in the recycling bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 (edited) In all honesty, unless you're going through hundreds, or even thousands, it's not worth the time or fuel of taking brass to weigh in. I chuck all my old brass in the recycling bin I don't know if its different where you live but here they don't recycle metals. I've been on a tour of our local recycling depot and its quite interesting. Its a long slow moving conveyor onto which all the stuff goes and various people then take off specific items. One or two people take off paper and cardboard, another couple do bottles and glass, same for tin cans, plastics etc and everything else is left on and just goes in a huge skip at the end. About a good third goes in the skip, its very wasteful. Edited March 25, 2016 by Vince Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbiep Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 I don't know if its different where you live but here they don't recycle metals. I've been on a tour of our local recycling depot and its quite interesting. Its a long slow moving conveyor onto which all the stuff goes and various people then take off specific items. One or two people take off paper and cardboard, another couple do bottles and glass, same for tin cans, plastics etc and everything else is left on and just goes in a huge skip at the end. About a good third goes in the skip, its very wasteful. Very different up here. A couple of large plants for Cheshire / Manchester and North Wales, so running off a huge population base, but with no councils insisting on their own plant and empire building. Denbighshire is consistently one of the highest councils %wise for waste that is recycled generally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted March 29, 2016 Report Share Posted March 29, 2016 (edited) Very different up here. A couple of large plants for Cheshire / Manchester and North Wales, so running off a huge population base, but with no councils insisting on their own plant and empire building. Denbighshire is consistently one of the highest councils %wise for waste that is recycled generally. The figures are corrupted because as long as the waste goes to the recycling depot it is classed as recycled even if it doesn't actually get reused. Most glass and bottles just get pulverised to reduce their bulk then dumped but its still classed as having been recycled. Virtually all recycling is unprofitable and one of the biggest problems is finding companies willing to take the output. The biggest plastics recycling plant in the country in Dagenham went bust last year because nobody would buy the recycled plastic granules they produced. It was more expensive than unrecycled granules The printing inks used on magazines and cereal boxes etc contain heavy metals so most paper and cardboard can't even be incinerated to produce heat or electricity. Most recycling is a con on the public but as long as the waste drives in the front door and out the back door it is said to be recycled. Clause 28 of the EU 2008 Directive on waste says that we have to do it so we do (or pretent to!) Its more EU gibberish Edited March 29, 2016 by Vince Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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