Smelting cartridge brass

[R3dundantC]

Anyone in Southern Oregon have any experience smelting cartridge brass? I've got about 30lbs of cases and spent primers saved up that I need to have smelted down in into some 2.5"x8"x4.5" ingots.

The end goal of this project is to have them milled into AR receivers for a charity auction. Maybe casting the receivers would be easier but I don't know anything about metallurgy and not sure how much shrinkage one could expect.

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[Lightborne]

The end goal of this project is to have them milled into AR receivers for a charity auction.

Are you talking completed stripped lower receivers or 80%s / uppers? I'd imagine there's a bunch of legal muck involved with creating lower receivers not intended for your own use unless you're a manufacturer. Just something that springs to mind.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[R3dundantC]

They'd be 0% for what I need. I've floated the idea to a couple different manufacturers and they're tentatively on board with finishing/manufacturing the recievers for me. I just need to get the ingots/casting first before I take those talks any further.

The finished project will be serialized guns from a PNW manufacturer

 

[Lightborne]

They'd be 80%. I've floated the idea to a couple different manufacturers and they're tentatively on board with finishing them for me. I just need to get the ingots/casting first before I take those talks any further.

The finished project will be serialized guns from a PNW manufacturer

Sweet, sounds like a fun project. I'd love to see the finished results.

 

[Alexx1401]

Very interesting idea. I too would love to see how the finished product comes out. I had never heard of this before.