marking ingots?

[troy_mclure]

i have 4 types of alloy, all the same type of ingots.

what are good(easy) ways of marking ingots?

[BoolitBill]

I like to use these:

http://www.harborfreight.com/40-piece-1-4-quarter-inch-letter-number-stamping-set-90125.html

I just stamp each ingot with a few identifying letters ( WW for wheel weights, L2 for Lyman #2 etc.). It is a little more work but the stamps will not rub off or fade over time.

[MtGun44]

Wide black felt tip or metal stamps which are obviously more permenent. I stamp
WW or PB or HARD or LINO on mine.

Bill

[ReloaderFred]

Stamps work well, but I normally just use a Sharpie pen and write the alloy on it, usually just the BHN, pure lead, linotype, etc.

Hope this helps.

Fred

[AZ-Stew]

Sharpie, metal stamp, china marker (doubles as micro-flux), one of those vibrating, tungsten-carbide tipped marking pens. Be creative!

Regards,

Stew

[ghh3rd]

one of those vibrating, tungsten-carbide tipped marking pens. Be creative!

That's what I use. Set it to vibrate a little rough so you can write about as quick on lead as using a pencil on paper. Quick, and permanent.

[fredj338]

A SHarpie works fine. Unless you are handling them everyday, it won't rub off. I went w/ diff size/styles of ingot molds instead. WW in one, pure lead in one, range scrap in one. Easy to see at a glance & proportioned for easy blending.

[wistlepig1]

I like to use these:

http://www.harborfreight.com/40-piece-1-4-quarter-inch-letter-number-stamping-set-90125.html

I just stamp each ingot with a few identifying letters ( WW for wheel weights, L2 for Lyman #2 etc.). It is a little more work but the stamps will not rub off or fade over time.

I also use the cheap stamps from HF, I think I gave less that $7 for them, works great.

[okksu]

I use a electro pencil from HF.

[Gee_Wizz01]

I also use the HF stamps. WW for wheel weights, LT for linotype, PB for pure lead. Then I add a lot number, especially for wheel weights. That way if I get a lot that is problematic I can identify it. WW 1 or LT2 are some examples. In the past I used a sharpie, but I had a bunch of lead I moved several times, and all my markings became unreadable.

G

[Taylor]

I normally mark the containers,pb,ww,etc with a sharpie.The sharpie has now faded,don't know at this point what is what.need a new system.

[oldtoolsniper]

Stamps for me too! I use my world famous angle iron molds which are made so the ingots stand on end, hold the w and the m (upside down) together in my goober hooks and stamp away.

[trapper9260]

I use stamps myself.I mark the few of each pile and just take the ones that is not mark. I also test the hardnest of each pile and stamp that on the ingot ,if I do not know what type of lead it is.

[Hardcast416taylor]

Not only do I mark each ingot with a grease crayon, the lead is stored in seperate bins away from each other.Robert

[Recluse]

i have 4 types of alloy, all the same type of ingots.

what are good(easy) ways of marking ingots?

I "mark" my ingots by pouring them into distinctly different molds.

WW alloy gets poured into Lyman ingot molds. Pure lead gets poured into Lee molds (the one-pound cavities). My hard alloy that has high contents of lino and tin get poured into RCBS molds. My lino gets poured into the Lee 1/2 pound cavities.

At a glance, I know exactly what kind of alloy I'm dealing with.

:coffee:

[MT Gianni]

I scratch WW, PB, Lino and #2 with the end of a screwdriver but i have always been a little retro-neanderthal at certain things.

[geargnasher]

Is it weird to stamp linotype ingots with a little row of HF steel stamps clamped together in a jig so it stamps "LINOTYPE" with two hammer blows? Maybe just me, I find humor in irony sometimes.

Gear

[Calamity Jake]

Plastic 5 gal. buckets/lids with the contents(WW, Lead or Lino) listed on the bucket.

[MtGun44]

Gear

A line-o'-type used to stamped "LINOTYPE' onto a piece of linotype alloy. Some kinda weird
karma thing there. :bigsmyl2:

[qajaq59]

I got lucky at various garage sales and now have 4 different shape molds. But I still mark em with a Sharpie.

[Echo]

Channel iron ingots are only WW+2%Sn. Other ingots are marked (w/Sharpie) W, L for lino, Pb for lead, W-L for 50/50, 2W-L, R (for range scrap), M (monotype, as 3W-M), W+ for W+2%, W++ for W+3%, and so on. And I have started marking ingots with date of rendering/alloying, to keep each lot identified.

(And note the DOUBLE BOOLIT! eeeeHAW!)

[casterofboolits]

I only mark speial alloys using a screwdriver and a hammer. L/T is lino with tin to sweeten alloy. PL for pure lead.

My standard alloy of 50/50 WW range scrap is left un marked.

However, a couple sets of the cheap stamp sets from HF are now on my shopping list!

[Boondocker]

I just picked up a set of HF stamps, up to now I just sharpie or scratched PB ,w/w and Pew or Lino. Plus I segregate to different pails or milk crates and shelves. I was even thinking of color coating the ends with paint like lumber. :coffee:

[Shuz]

Black permanent "Magic Markers" have worked for me for years. I then store the ingots in large steel (used to be 3 pound) coffee cans along with a few sample 429421's that I cast whilst smelting and put in a plastic see thru medicine bottle to used for hardness testing before use. In the medicine bottle, is a scrap of paper that indicates the metals batch source such as clip ons, pipe metal, dental lead, range lead, lino, etc.