Is Monotype Normally Thicker Than Linotype?

[Scrounger]

Just found three of the long "canoe" shaped ingots at a local scrap dealer. I got them for $0.90 per lb. The also have a "ring" cast at one end (for hanging?)

They are called "pigs". Print shops cast their unused lino this way. It hangs by that ring and is lowered into the melting pot as needed.

[454PB]

The monotype in my picture hardness tests at 28 BHN.

[FISH4BUGS]

Just found three of the long "canoe" shaped ingots at a local scrap dealer. I got them for $0.90 per lb. The also have a "ring" cast at one end (for hanging?)

I have 8 of those. They say STAR PARTS on the top of the ingot. They are about 25 lbs each. The looped end was for hanging in preparation for the melting pot. It is very interesting to see a linotype machine still in operation. They have one in the Shelburn Museum in Shelburn VT. It makes me drool to see the pile of linotype they have there. They won't sell it. I asked.

[Misfire99]

Ive bougtht lineotype from printers that has tested as low as 18bhn and basicaly thats what new linotype and ww mixed 5050 will give yo so like nighhunter said it would sure be easy to cut good lineotype and sell it. Hell the drug dealers have been doing this for decades!

You mean my pharmacist has been adulterating my prescriptions??? Oh the Horror!!