Recycling BB's

Inari

I plink a good bit - in the house and garden, and as such I have ended up with quite a few containers of spent/used BB's. I was wondering if there is any information on how to recycle them, i.e. what type of plastic they are (in recycling plants, each plastic bottle is given a number which corrosponds to what container it should go into etc). I would really prefer not to just throw them out, so if there's a viable recycling option then happy days.

Otherwise it's a switch to Bio's methinks

J.D.R

One thing to do would be, just for plinking, re-use them in your pistol. You shouldn't re-use BB's in you AEG, but in a pistol I was always told it's grand. Except if you plan on using the spent BB's in a Skirmish, as they may shatter against Mesh Goggles if they have been shot before

Never mind, I was told complete sh1te

Puding

J.D.R wrote: »

One thing to do would be, just for plinking, re-use them in your pistol. You shouldn't re-use BB's in you AEG, but in a pistol I was always told it's grand. Except if you plan on using the spent BB's in a Skirmish, as they may shatter against Mesh Goggles if they have been shot before

would not re use bb in anything other than claymores and 40mm grenades, anything that uses a barrel be it a pistol or an aeg it is a bad idea to reuse bbs

BioHazRd

Reusing bbs is abad idea - even in a pistol. Many bbs get slightly distorted when fired and I am sure your nice expensive pistol would not like to have the barrel or hop unit damaged by a deformed bb. There is not a whole lot of difference between the physical parts of an aeg and a pistol.
As for recycling the bbs, I am not aware of any manufacturer who provides the info regarding the plastics used, so it may just be a case of binning them.

J.D.R

Puding wrote: »

would not re use bb in anything other than claymores and 40mm grenades, anything that uses a barrel be it a pistol or an aeg it is a bad idea to reuse bbs

I don't mind being corrected, but I was told that since the pistol propelled the BB by air, and since there was no contact between the BB and a Piston (which there usually is with an AEG) that it would be fine to re-use.

Am I wrong?

Stercus Accidit

J.D.R wrote: »

I don't mind being corrected, but I was told that since the pistol propelled the BB by air, and since there was no contact between the BB and a Piston (which there usually is with an AEG) that it would be fine to re-use.

Am I wrong?

Slap upside the head whoever told you that pile of cobblers.

The feeding nozzle on a gbb is far more likely to break than the same part on an aeg, and is a lot harder to replace.

J.D.R

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

Slap upside the head whoever told you that pile of cobblers.

The feeding nozzle on a gbb is far more likely to break than the same part on an aeg, and is a lot harder to replace.

Will do.

Apologies to OP for giving bad advice, and thanks lads for putting me straight

BeardySi

J.D.R wrote: »

...and since there was no contact between the BB and a Piston (which there usually is with an AEG) ...
Am I wrong?

Just no.... AEG's use the piston to compress air which blows the BB out of the barrel - the piston doesn't ever have contact with the round.

Gather 'em up and flog them to your mates who use claymores, grenades, moscarts etc.... they're all pretty ammo intensive and will all work wine with second hand BB's. When I'm test firing I normally fire into a soft shot trap (a towel suspended inside a cardboard box) and reuse them in my mossies...