I excited to see how these customs molds turn out, thanks for the work putting this together for us.
I excited to see how these customs molds turn out, thanks for the work putting this together for us.
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Lakehouse it's been a long road and 2 different threads now your idea finally came to fruition. Congrats.
Harbor Freight has sets of letters and number stamps for not much money. I use them to stamp ingots with type of lead or source and often a batch number or letter. Since much of the raw ingredients are in 10# slabs from bread loaf pans I use as molds and I do big batches I can get one tested and use a marker to write the alloy percentages on each slab. All the slabs with "TM-A" are the same batch "A" of type metal.
These new molds are motivating me to take some of those raw ingredients and build "known" alloys that I can stamp on the ingots. Or as you mention I have some broken pieces of Lino pigs that would store and use better as ingots. I'm guessing around 600# - 800# of lead to make into ingots of ready to cast alloy, or plain and COWW lead. The printers stuff such as lines of type or individual letters stay in raw form until use. Same for solder that is in foundry bars with Sn percentage on it. I want those in a verifiable form until use or sale.
Here is a link to the HF stamp sets. I plan on using an X to mark which type on the ingot where the label is already provided. Pb, WW, Lino. I am still mulling over how to mark "other" such as Lyman #2 or Hardball. Might just follow a Sn - Sb number for percentage ## - ## Or come up with an abbreviation or... who knows.
https://www.harborfreight.com/36-pie...set-63676.html This is the smallest set at $10 for $14 can get the next size up of 1/4 inch stamps. Don't forget to use a smart phone to locate the 20% off coupon. Brings those prices down even more.
I learned that a 50 caliber ammo can of bullets weighs waaaay more than I want to pick up but ingots wouldn't be as bad. Probably prevent some of that oxidation too.
Scrap.... because all the really pithy and emphatic four letter words were taken and we had to describe this source of casting material somehow so we added an "S" to what non casters and wives call what we collect.
Kind of hard to claim to love America while one is hating half the Americans that disagree with you. One nation indivisible requires work.
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I too am like you, RogerDat. Contemplating the possibilities is great entertainment for me.
I use the HF stamps to mark my ingots now. Mostly it's lot numbers, but I've also marked content of Sb and Sn in three digits (005 is 0.5%). For ten pound storage ingots stamping on a total of ten numbers and letters (some stamps are taped two or three together and done simultaneously) is worthwhile to me. But the same weight of 2.5# ingots is four times the work, and I'm not quite sure there's enough space on the ingot. We shall see soon!
A bit more eye-candy.... Ingot mold dies are complete, they sent me this short video tonight and wanted to share. They will be installing the dies tomorrow and will run the entire production order this week. He believes that he can have it packed and crated by end of this week!!! WooHoo!!!
That is fascinating! Glad someone like you is in charge of this group buy. I wouldn't even know where to start to get something like this done. Thanks again for all your hard work.
Is that the spacing of the ingots when cast? Hopefully there will be more space in between them as there doesn't seem like a lot of draft in between the ingots.
Like I said, I literally have a ton of alloy waiting...
Glad I upped my order to 6! Nice.
Question. What type of handle would I use with these?
I have been using vice grips for years on the ingot molds with just that little ear.
WOW......!!! They look even better than I was expecting!
Can’t wait for them to arrive....
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BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
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