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I'm wet tumbling now with SS pins. It's pretty darned amazing. However it IS work. You have to drain it and then rinse it, otherwise they'll have a green tarnish.

It wont work with a vibratory...

Wow... Thats like 32 cents a lb! Killer deal!

I got my AK74 receiver from historicfirearms, awesome shape and great communication!

I originally sent a PM for the 74 but he said it was taken, so I was going to take on of the 47's. I pm'd him...

Figured I'd pop my load on here.

M80 147gr 30-06 milsurp pull.
17.5gr of H110
CCI Small Rifle NonMag primer
COAL 2.015

My group at 50yds was around the size of a quarter. This from a 16'...

Hollow spots of that size are generally indicative of Monotype.

If it were me, I'd melt it down, cast a bullet and test the hardness.

Yup! You have Linotype!

The second picture didn't come from a burned down shop or a meteor crater.

Those pieces of already melted stuff were more than likely thrown into a scrap bin. Same as...

FWIW, we found that there was a practice of making stamps for limited runs out of Linotype. They cast long thick blanks, like a big fat cookie sheet, an inch or so thick out of Linotype. They'd then...

Melting point of Linotype is pretty low, right around 475 degrees because of all the tin.

And those blocks are BIG. So dropping it and it bending and the corners smushing doesn't mean it's soft,...

I've seen ALOT of Linotype over the last three months. I think we shipped out something like 3,000+ lbs.. Amoung the stuff we got were blocks, where the print shop didn't want to spend the time or...