Would appreciate some "recipes" for mixing monotype and wheel weight/range lead
Howdy Pards
Hope someone out there has some quick 'n' handy recipes for combining monotype and soft lead or ww or range lead.
Recently bot a batch of pieces of what were advertised as linotype (84-12-4) but have found it's actually monotype (72-19-9). I'm delighted with the harder alloy. I use lino by itself for casting hard rifle bullets and hard pistol bullets for mag loads and as a "sweetener" to improve the hardness and casting capabilities of soft lead, ww, and range lead.
Don't think I'll cast bullets directly from the monotype as I've read reports of them actually being too hard. There's lots of formulas available for mixing various alloys to achieve the desired brinel hardness. Hope some of you good pards have a computer or smart phone program that will get me more specifically to where I want to go.
I cast my alloys into the Lee ingot mould which turns out ingots of approx 1 lb and of 1/2 lb.
Specific questions:
(1) how many ingots of monotype and soft lead to get to approx linotype hardness?
(2) how many ingots of monotype and wheel weight to get approx linotype hardness?
(3) how many ingots of monotype and range lead (in my experience a bit softer than ww) to get approx linotype hardness?
A recent article in "The Fouling Shot" (magazine published by the Cast Bullet Association) indicated that adding 1 ingot of lino to 9 ingots of wheel weight/range lead gave measurable improvement to bullet composition and pouring/casting capability. From there, additional inputs of lino did not greatly improve the mixture until substantially larger amounts of lino were used.
I suspect, and please disabuse me of my assumption if you differ, that the monotype will be an excellent substitute for lino in the 1-to-9 mixture of ingots for everyday use ... in my case Cowboy Action Shooting and Cowboy pistol-caliber lever action silhouette matches. I do like lino for high-speed rifle loads and mag pistol load.
Sorry for being so long winded. Hope the seemingly superfluous info may have added some perspective to my questions.
Many thanks
Fort Reno Kid