Help with identifying what this alloy is

[dondiego]

So i did the HCL (thanks dondiego) dunk and it fizzed/reacted like crazy and dissolved.....unfortunately so all that small stuff is what i suspected as not being leadish. Put in a 44 beside it and no reaction.....it dissloved the entire piece in about 20 minutes. so who wants 60 lbs of zinc.... Attachment 273242

I had read on this forum that someone had found that some of the Asian type was made from zinc.

[interior_mike]

So took the zinc back to the shop and explained the situation. He let me switch it out with some other stuff he had. the ingots are the traditional 20lbs, and took an hour or so pull out all the spacers...

[AlHunt]

So took the zinc back to the shop and explained the situation. He let me switch it out with some other stuff he had. the ingots are the traditional 20lbs, and took an hour or so pull out all the spacers...

What are those long weights at the bottom? I found one in a road a few years back, just haven't gotten desperate enough to melt it yet. It's not pure because I can't scratch it with a finger nail.

[kevin c]

Those are bars of Linotype alloy. The eye at the end is for suspending it over the alloy reserve of the Linotype machine, to be lowered in as needed to replenish what's been cast. The open design lets the last bit fall off the hook into the tank by itself.

[AlHunt]

Those are bars of Linotype alloy. The eye at the end is for suspending it over the alloy reserve of the Linotype machine, to be lowered in as needed to replenish what's been cast. The open design lets the last bit fall off the hook into the tank by itself.

Well, that's cool. Looks like it's typically 4% tin and 12% antimony. Quite a score for me since I'm getting low on WW but have pure. Thanks. Sorry if this is thread drift.