Type Metal Rescue

[2wheelDuke]

A friend has been making and selling fishing sinkers. He recently told me about a bunch of little he had that was going to be turned into deep drop sinkers soon.

I traded him range scrap ingots from my stash.

Hard to beat a deal like that.

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[Grmps]

Great deal. Occasionally my friends will bring me mystery lead, this makes good trading stock.

[lightman]

Nice save! Looks like a mix of Lino, Foundry and Mono type. It would have been a shame to drown that!

[LandSurveyor]

While working around an old demolished house site years ago, I found a number of sheets of what appeared to have been old school tests (I live near a college town). I presume this is Lino? Seems pretty hard.

I'm wondering if I should use it to alloy with some soft lead or if it would be better to save it for something special like maybe 22 Hornet boolits.

[fredj338]

Well done! A total waste of good alloy at the bottom of some lake.

[kevin c]

While working around an old demolished house site years ago, I found a number of sheets of what appeared to have been old school tests (I live near a college town). I presume this is Lino? Seems pretty hard.

I'm wondering if I should use it to alloy with some soft lead or if it would be better to save it for something special like maybe 22 Hornet boolits.

Are those full "sheets" like a full page, made of a single piece of metal?

Linotype ("Lines O' Type") is a thin strip of alloy with a single line of reversed print on one edge. Monotype ("Mono" as in a single letter) is a single reversed letter on a small block of metal, as is foundry type. Lino, mono and foundry alloys are hard, being high in tin and antimony, and higher going from Lino up to foundry.

A full page of reversed print cast in one piece sounds like stereotype. Wikipedia describes stereotype alloy as being between Lino and mono in both tin and antimony content (though there were several proprietary formulas of each, and type casters would occasionally use alloy that was in some degree depleted in tin or antimony, so overlap in content from one type to the next is possible.

Short version is that it is probably a high tin, high antimony alloy. Hardness testing would give you an idea of what it could be used for as is, or, if harder than needed, how much soft lead to mix in to get in the desired range.

[LandSurveyor]

Are those full "sheets" like a full page, made of a single piece of metal?

Linotype ("Lines O' Type") is a thin strip of alloy with a single line of reversed print on one edge. Monotype ("Mono" as in a single letter) is a single reversed letter on a small block of metal, as is foundry type. Lino, mono and foundry alloys are hard, being high in tin and antimony, and higher going from Lino up to foundry.

A full page of reversed print cast in one piece sounds like stereotype. Wikipedia describes stereotype alloy as being between Lino and mono in both tin and antimony content (though there were several proprietary formulas of each, and type casters would occasionally use alloy that was in some degree depleted in tin or antimony, so overlap in content from one type to the next is possible.

Short version is that it is probably a high tin, high antimony alloy. Hardness testing would give you an idea of what it could be used for as is, or, if harder than needed, how much soft lead to mix in to get in the desired range.

A full page.