I think so ,the 2lb chunk melted in the before the coww.....looking at google pics leads me to belive its part of a lino pig
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I think so ,the 2lb chunk melted in the before the coww.....looking at google pics leads me to belive its part of a lino pig
Test it for hardness and see how close it is to Linotype Bhn
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John
If you don't have a tester, use a screwdriver blade. Lino will be much harder to scratch than ww.
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Do you have other lino, that you know for sure is lino ?
One test that gets a guy into the ballpark, is the drop test.
listen for the 'ring', Lino should sound different then COWW.
and, of course, pure or near pure Lead with give no ring and just a THUD.
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Think you made a great find. compete it should look something like this. John and William's tests should verify it.
Very hard sounding "ting" when dropped on concrete,and melt temp is low. I broke a piece off with hammer and vise. The only bad thing is that the scrap yard i went to said they had 16 full ones but some guy bought em all but this one. Paid 65 cents a poumd for any type of lead they have.
But the good thing is you got one! That stuff routinely sells for $2-$3/lb.The only bad thing is that the scrap yard i went to said they had 16 full ones but some guy bought em all but this one.
Lino has a BHN of 20-22 and a tin content of 3-4%.
1/3 lino and 2/3 pure lead would give you an alloy around 11BHN, good for any handgun load, and a little over 1% tin which is in the 1% to 2% recommendation for mold fillout. Might be kind of a waste to mix with COWW unless you're looking for around 16BHN.
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looks just like the pigs I have here just broken.
lino has a melt temp that's low, 515 airc.
YES, almost certain it is!
Lower, under 500 degrees, around 465 degrees F for true Linotype.
Last edited by Defcon-One; 10-09-2014 at 11:47 PM.
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Linotype melts eutectically at 465 F. This results in a very distinctive "flat" in the cooling graph at that temperature.
Melt a few pounds of your bar and let it cool slowly while recording temperature vs. time. Plot the results on graph paper.
Jerry
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