A while ago a fellow gun club member mentioned he had a bunch of lead, and wanted to know if I be interest in it. Of course I said I take it. Well, he brought it to the range today. It was an assortment of scrap alloys in a 5 gal. bucket. I guessed about 60-70lbs, so I gave him 20 bucks for it.
When I got home I started sorting through it. Well first thing I noticed was 5lbs of bar tin,1.5lbs 50/50 solder,20lbs of pure lead and another 40 lbs of on unknown scrap lead alloy that I'll take to scrap yard.
My question, in this assortment stuff were 3- 4.5lbs ingots marked Hewitt Detroit, on the back they are stamped 3-6-5.
When you lift these ingots you can tell they not heavy enough to be pure lead. I'm hoping its tin. Is anybody familiar with these markings. If not, how can find out which alloy it is??????
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