WWs, babbit ???

[jdsingleshot]

What are the drawbacks to casting with just WWs?

Also, I have a few pounds of babbit metal. Is it useful as an alloying material?

I shoot only PB bullets.

Thanks

Jim

[wmitty]

The wheel weights are lead/antimony/tin alloy and are harder than what is necessary for plain base boolits. If you have access to them they can be mixed with lead to reduce the brittleness of the alloy. Sorting them out from the iron and zinc wheel weights is fun, too. The babbitt metal might be tin based which is valuable as a constituent in your casting alloy, but as I understand it, there’s a number of types of babbitt metal with some being lead based and having copper and antimony in different quantities in each type.

[jdsingleshot]

Thanks wmitty, and amen.

[rockshooter]

I have a bunch of tin-based babbit that is shredded (lathe curls). Whenever I start getting poor fillout I dump a full tablespoon full in a 20# pot of lead.
Loren

[lightman]

I've been casting with clip on weights ever since I started casting and they have worked well. The only drawback I know of is that they are hard to find in some places. Some casters mix them 50/50 with soft lead and add a little tin.

[WRideout]

I used clip-on WW straight, for many years, both pistol and rifle. If you are just killing paper, I would try clip-on WW just the way they are, and see how they do. I did discover that there are varieties of stick-on WW. Some are almost the same as clip-on, others are more nearly pure lead. A cut with wire cutters will tell you the difference.

Wayne

[GlocksareGood]

I cut every ww. The little square tape weights with the rounded circle on them are as hard as COWW. I sort them with the COWW.

[justindad]

I cut every ww. The little square tape weights with the rounded circle on them are as hard as COWW. I sort them with the COWW.

Are those square tape weights harder than COWW? Might not be lead.

[Rickf1985]

I have found quite a few zinc stick ons, or at least they did not melt at 700 so out they came. If it does not melt by 700 then it is not lead and I do not want it in there. I NEVER get zinc in my melt for that reason, i always keep my melt at 700 or less, I watch it closely and stir it as it is melting and at a certain point you can tell what is not going to melt and take it out with the clips. If you do not keep stirring then the stuff stuck under the top layer can get well above 700 and you can melt zincs in there so the trick is to keep stirring to keep the temps even.