Saw this 20# at the scrap yard for $1.50 per pound. didn't really need more linotype but couldn't leave it
I'm addicted
Saw this 20# at the scrap yard for $1.50 per pound. didn't really need more linotype but couldn't leave it
I'm addicted
Wow, what a great deal! Wish I found that but around here the yards won't sell.
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I just tested it and it was 22 BHN.
Sweet find...and pretty good price too. I've only melted finished letters/numbers (350 lbs worth)....how do you melt a pig? Do you stand it up in a big pot or do you cut it down into pieces first....just curious what your method is. I'd probably take a sawz-all to it if it were me.
redhawk
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If you melt that pig into boolits and shoot them, would that be making "pigs fly"?
Notch the triangle side woth a sawzall or angle grinder. Turn square side up and hit it with a hammer. Usually breaks at the notch.
Hi Grmps.You NEVER have too much linotype lead.A friend in Fl has been amassing that stuff for quiet a while now(about 10 years)and has about 2 1/2 TONS of it.All in pigs as shown.He works for an outfit that dismantles old buildings and his boss just gives him all the lead that they come across.Just got tired of all the BS from the EPA over disposal.And that don`t include plumbers lead,COWW(new in box)and the good Lord only knows what else.I could almost learn to hate someone like that.Lucky bugger.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo
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^^^^ and here in Florida I can't buy it. Seems all the sinker makers have the corner on the market. Scrap yard told me no way, they have a standing order for all the lead, no cherry picking...Not one Tire store has ever sold me a pound. You guys a plum lucky..
I'd say I would convert my business over to lead abatement but I hate the Government BS.
Nice score. I love how the photo shows a nice pile of cast boolits. Almost foretells the future of that pig!
retread, I like your electrical setup
Yeah, a nice score for sure. I don't use much lino but I buy all that I see. Its quickly becoming a thing of the past.
I got lucky one day and found 3 pigs for $0.85/lb so i bought all 3 from my local scrap yard. I got some other good quality soft lead and tin from them too but I need more so I'll have to go see what they got in the bin. Winter reload used up over 300 lbs of various lead, tin, lino so its time to stack up again.
Those pigs are easily broken into smaller pieces, just lay a "fulcrum" under it and smack it with a hammer. They are usually 10 kilos, which is 22 pounds.
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I had a friend (Thanks John!) score me 4 pigs @ .75 per pound....now this was some time ago but I still have them. I have been using up the lino letters and spacers but about to break into the pigs stash.
I use 1lb lino to 5lbs ww for my alloy. Handguns and submachine gun loads.
I now have enough lino to do some 800 lbs of ww's.
Should last for a while, no?
Collector and shooter of guns and other items that require a tax stamp, Lead and brass scrounger. Never too much brass, lead or components in inventory! Always looking to win beauty contests with my reloads.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |