If you are at 90% then the difference is negligible, but how do you know you have 90% without testing? And as has been said, the price is going up on pewter so is it still worth it?
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
If you are at 90% then the difference is negligible, but how do you know you have 90% without testing? And as has been said, the price is going up on pewter so is it still worth it?
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
And you are not getting pure tin which you can buy at places like Rotometals and know for sure what you got. You can buy pure tin for 28.00 lb. and that pound will do a lot more than pewter alloy....
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You got your money back and you did not have to send the dies back. You yourself say they work great so will you please stop complaining about the FREE dies you got!!! Everything you buy has a...
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Hagerty covers all my cars except for the one daily driver. They even cover my 06 Mustang GT. The price I pay for three pickups and two antiques cars plus the Mustang is less that just the Mustang...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I wish I had know this a week ago, I was just through NC on 95 last Wednesday and I have tons of wheel weights I could have traded.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
You must live in a wide open area! If I tried that here the fire company would show up in very short order.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
See my post #14 where I quoted the uses of Indium.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
What is a newspaper? I have heard about them as something OLD people used to stare at. :roll::roll:
Seriously, they just stopped delivering my paper 5-6 years ago and told me to look at it...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
You would not use lead as a body dolly. It is dshaped a little like one but definitely not a body tool if it is lead.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Rotometals has super pure tin for 38.00 for a 1.1 lb. bar. Regular tin for 28.00 with a minimum purchase of 6 units.
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Interesting, I wonder if anyone has ever gone back down in those mines to do a visual survey? Or are they all flooded?
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Slick 50! There is a name I have not heard for a long time. I remember putting that in a racing engine for dirt track racing to see if it helped. I didn't see any difference in my times but I did win...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Bazoo is correct, 3 lbs. of that alloy to 100 lbs. of wheel weights will give you pb 93-Sn 3.07,Sb 3.05,Arsenic .24, Cu.10.
Another way to look at it is 4.8 oz. to 10lbs.
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Adding that to wheel weights would raise your Sb. which you would not want. This is an alloy that would be perfect to add to pure lead.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Looking at those two pictures side by side you can see that little has changed other than the modern handling machinery.
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I own Ford, Chevy and Dodge diesel pickups, Likewise I have Lee, RCBS, Hornady and CH presses. They all get the job done.
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I remember the C-Rats from Vietnam, most were dated back to WWII and Korea. But at that time you have to remember that WWII was only 25 years prior. Even then in the jungle heat and humidity, (Liquid...
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