What to do with 100lbs of roofing lead

[nitroproof]

I recently scrounged a few buckets of mostly new roofing lead.

I'm trying to figure out how to get it into something shootable for my 38/55 & 45/70.

I have a meager supply of:

Roofing lead
Lead pipe
Range lead
Wheel Weights
Tin

Any suggestins how to mix this stuff? Casting 30:1 was a lot simpler!

[grumpy one]

The roofing lead that I am familiar with, is dead soft, rather high purity. You can verify that yours is the same by seeing how it behaves if you fold it or hammer it, if you don't have a hardness tester. For your black powder era rifles it should be very satisfactory mixed 30:1 with tin. I personally might mix in about 10% of wheelweights to give it a very small antimony content that would harden it a bit more if you are using smokeless powder. However if you were happy with 30:1 lead to tin, you can easily reproduce that by treating the roofing lead as pure lead.

[Frank46]

And mix it up in the biggest batch as possible. Keep notes so you can reproduce it later on. At our old range we used to clean the berm during hi-power matches when we could not shoot. Since most of us did use the hard cast lead bullets, that stuff was set aside after smelting to sweeten up a lot of roofing lead. I have about 500lbs under the car port right now. Frank

[Reload3006]

What to do with 100lbs of roofing lead?

LOL Send it to me and I will swage it into some mighty fine J-word boolits LOL Go to roto metals buy 2 lbs of tin and 6 lbs of antimony and you will have a fantastic Boolit alloy.

[nitroproof]

I cut up the first roof flashing Saturday (look like Cat-in-the-Hats), two I weighed each went 9.5 lbs. I'm not sure how many I have... there flattened & folded, have 2 five gallon buckets worth.

Searching the interent roof flashing could be pure lead, or 4%-6% antimony.

My alloy testing method is really crude, I drop an ingot on the concrete floor. My lead pipe ingots make a thud compared to WW's that 'ping" and range lead ingots being somewhere between. I stamp all my ingots with a W, B (range), or 3 (30:1). The ingots from the roofing definitely are plain lead.

Now if I could only find a sorce of free tin!

[canyon-ghost]

Not free but, how about cheap??

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