Gentlemen, I think I've been lucky in scrounging free lead but now it seems tin is about to cause setback. I've not been able to find cheap pewter or solder so I've considered just to buy pure tin to get that out of the way. What I'm looking at is 99.9% tin that is in form of 0.177" thick sticks weighing about 55.6 lbs in total. Price of the pile is about $620 so that's about $11.15 per pound. Sounds like a lot but that's about half of the tin "nuggets" on Midway.
Buying just a few sticks is not an option, I'm afraid, so it's 55.6 lbs minimum. That's probably all the tin I'll ever need so I'm wondering if that would make any sense?