Roof vent for casting?

[Macinaw]

My neighbor gave me some roofing vent that I think is pure lead. I've been using WW for Cowboy bullets. Can I mix in some of the roofing alloy with the WW and still get good results?

He also gave me some "sheets" of lead that is soft lead. Can I mix this in with the WW and still get good Cowboy bullets?

I was thinking one ingot of the soft lead with 5 to 6 ingots of the WW lead. What do you think?

Thanks for the help! Macinaw

[KYCaster]

50/50 will work great. You can go a bit softer if you want to.

The sheets and flashing will probably have a bit of Sb in it and with the Sb and Sn in the WW your alloy will respond to heat treat if you want something a little harder.

Adding some Sn will help fill out the details in the mold...3-4 oz. of 95-5 or 6-7 oz. of 50-50 solder per 20 lbs. of alloy.

Jerry

Edit to add.....Welcome to the Cast Boolit forum, hope you enjoy your time here.

[crabo]

I'm mixing 50/50 wheel weights with roofing lead and getting great results. I started that since WWs are getting a lot harder to find.

I came home from work one day and found the 900 pound pile in the driveway.

[BOOM BOOM]

HI,
A GIFT FROM HEAVEN!

[crabo]

HI,
A GIFT FROM HEAVEN!

Almost, I paid $400 for it, but it was delivered.

[stubshaft]

Time to smelt it and pour ingots!

[Beau Cassidy]

Roof flashing is good stuff. Kind of smokey to melt but the results are the same. The scrap place I went to yesterday probably had a few thousand pounds of it. I passed and got 500 lbs of ww, about 10 lbs of linotype, and probably 30 lbs of plumbers lead in ingots. They had 3 full 55 gallon drums of 22 for .45 cents a pound. They also had thousands of pounds of cable sheathing and lead lining for .65 a lb.