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I emailed N-F Metals and asked about the composition of the nickel babbitt bar i have and this is the response i got:

"That is an old bar that's not used any longer and really has little value....

Right now i have a good assortment of no. 4 babbit, linotype, wheel weight, and soft lead. I think i'm just going to use that nickel babbitt for it's tin content when alloying.:Fire:

Will that 3-4% copper hurt anything?

Did some googling and from what i can find it appears Nickel babbitt is 88-90% tin, 7-8% antimony, and a very small percentage of other metal like copper, silver, nickel, arsenic, and lead.
Does...

I made another visit to my lead scrap supplier and came away with over 200 lbs of mostly soft lead, some No. 4 Babbit, misc. bars and ingots, and 45 lbs of wheel weights. I did find something shiny...

Here's todays hual, 125 lbs total. The square ingot bars just to the right of the can of wheel wieghts is the babbit, then the lino bar and a couple in the same shape as the lino stamped "sold...

Interesting...i'm new to casting so not very educated in the types of lead alloys. I think i'll go back tomorrow and clean up on that lino and babbitt. I began just digging into the wheel weights,...

Thanks...looks like i got a good deal on the babbit, should be good for alloying with some pure lead i got.

You're right...i thought they looked familiar.
I wonder what the composition of this foil is? From what i can find, it looks to be almost pure lead 99%+

I just found a place where i can get lead for .30 a pound. I loaded up a bucket of mostly ingots and bars of lead plus some wheel weights. In the container with all the lead was stuff i think is...

I have a pound of Green Dot I need to use, have had it storage for many years and can't remember why i got it. But anyway, what are some recipes for these loads? I could use it in my .45 200gr...

I have the .358 - 158gr RF mold ordered and will be shooting my loads out of a GP100, i've been debating on the 158gr SWC with the gas check but it looks like the standard bullets may work fine...

Is that with or without the gas check installed?

How fast do you guys push your bullets with tumble lube as opposed to lubrisizing? Do the gas checks make that much of a difference as opposed to just tumble-lubed?

Cool, thanks Gianni!

I've been by his shop but never ventured inside. Next time i'm over that side of town i'll drop in.

The bullets i've dropped so far have been pretty close...didn't take a whole lot of effort to push them through the sizer.

BTW, i lived in Cd'A for a couple years. Montana has always been 'home'...

Why not? If i can eliminate having to use the kitchen counter for boolits drying overnight for the first step, i will. Then the process is size/lube/dry instead of lube/dry/size/lube/dry.

I...

Thanks Spud,

I think you answered my questions. You're probably right about getting two molds for the two purposes i mentioned.

I haven't had any problems sizing my .452 boolits without lube...

I'm looking into casting boolits for .38/.357 to be used in 4" barreled revolvers (GP100).

I see that the Lee C358-158 is a gas check design...my question is can this be loaded without the gas...

Thanks guys, i was one step ahead of you on cleaning up the blocks

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i'll wait until i get the bull plate lube before putting the...

Thanks! I'm a total nOOb to this casting thing. I shoot USPSA matches and ran into a problem getting boolits last year. I finally added things up and decided i have more time than money on my...

I'm new to casting too, purchased the all-economical Lee set-up- 10# production pot,
2 cavity mold, sizing die and alox lube. Used anit-seize (waiting for bull lube to arrive) to lube the sprue...