Lead and Lead Alloys [Archive] - Page 2

How to sort Pewter (21 replies)
Scrap Yard Lead (16 replies)
water quenching (12 replies)
Web pewter? (4 replies)
What to do with zinc contamenated lead (21 replies)
Are WWs still worth pursuing? (22 replies)
Today’s score 2400 lbs (15 replies)
I can get some monotype but don't know if it's a good deal (11 replies)
Lyman #2 recipes wanted (24 replies)
Heat treating gas checked bullets (10 replies)
So what’s the difference between 16:1 and 50/50 alloys? (3 replies)
I tawt I saw a Wabbit! (9 replies)
16:1 alloy hardness questions...again (8 replies)
wheel weights score, YES they are still out there (28 replies)
Pewter that contains no lead (2 replies)
Freezing boolits for hardness and toughness (11 replies)
Oven Heat Treat Up to Jacketed Velocities? (1 replies)
Lead And Limestone (16 replies)
Removing rubber from lead (23 replies)
Thought on Rotometals (19 replies)
sheet lead? (10 replies)
Question on lead / tin percentages (10 replies)
Looking for a reasonably priced online lead source (27 replies)
Got some alloys tested with an XRF gun (5 replies)
Testing hardness with pencils (11 replies)
First run of pewter pot sweeteners (12 replies)
Sailboat keel (4 replies)
Suggestions needed on alloy (15 replies)
Alloying with pure sb (8 replies)
Gifted a MEC loader, wads, primers and shot (29 replies)
Unique find; 30-pound "Tin pot"... (43 replies)
How MUCH will your Truck Hold... (40 replies)
cleanup weekend (3 replies)
Battery post clamps (10 replies)
Nub question (10 replies)
Bullet weight used to identify gift lead (3 replies)
Left overs from melting range scrap (21 replies)
Little experiment (13 replies)
Recent Score (4 replies)
30 to 1 alloy from 50/50 (8 replies)
Tackle box find (10 replies)
2860 lbs, Friday’s project (13 replies)
Commercial cast bullets that you don't load? (12 replies)
Latest and Last Lead Haul - Don't need no mo! (25 replies)
Have you ever mixed copper sulphate with molten lead? (25 replies)
Root Kill in Lead (15 replies)
On cloud 9 this morning! 300# for $1.00\# WW ingots (2 replies)
Looking For Advice About Consistency of My Lead Stash (13 replies)
"Hardball" Alloy (6 replies)
Hoyt and Castomatic (2 replies)
Rotometal foundry metal. Reasonable? (35 replies)
Heat treat effort made bullets softer? (8 replies)
Found a little keel lead (45 replies)
So smart - so dumb! (7 replies)
Melting wheel weights with wood (8 replies)
Missouri bullet alloy (6 replies)
Pewter from Woodbury Pewter (21 replies)
Indoor range .22lr lead for cast hollow point bullets (12 replies)
Buying Range Scrap (21 replies)
monotype (12 replies)
Alloy for .32 S&W Long? (9 replies)
Marking Ingots from Redneck Gold Mold (10 replies)
Observations from Fifty Years of Boolit metal scrounging (6 replies)
Thought I'd hit a jackpot (14 replies)
Mystery metal (33 replies)
Weird "Skin" on Hot Lead (12 replies)
Ideas as to what this might be. (16 replies)
Old grill to make smelting pot (11 replies)
Lead Free Solder (6 replies)
Pewter Haul (20 replies)
Found Second Batch Of Lead (9 replies)
lead hardness ? (8 replies)
Cobalt Blue surface dross?... (10 replies)
OLD wheel weights composition ? (11 replies)
Daily spot prices for metals - good resource (7 replies)
Tin is where you find it! (4 replies)
Score (19 replies)
Babbitt composition (10 replies)
Alloy for .30-40 Krag, and pressures (26 replies)
What To Beware Of When Buying Someone Else's Ingots? (14 replies)
Just what is clean WWs, LinoType, pure lead or even tin worth now? (5 replies)
BHN? Pencils vs. Lee Tester (12 replies)
interesting ... (4 replies)
Something in the ingots (3 replies)
How much flux do you need for 1 lb lead alloy? (10 replies)
Will walnut hull polishing media serve as flux? (22 replies)
What does "TC" and "LAN" mean in the CB world (3 replies)
Zinc in the ingots (14 replies)
Planned lead mining (11 replies)
Cleaning Lead (40 replies)
Need Advice For First Smelt (29 replies)
Excessive lead dross (25 replies)
Interesting video on lead mining. OLD video (2 replies)
Lead cover on telephone wire. (41 replies)
Smelted Up About 60# of COWW yesterday (19 replies)
Lead tin or tin lead? (14 replies)
Lead-Bismuth-Copper (16 replies)
Is this Linotype? Help ID'ing a Alloy (19 replies)
Dad’s Monotype (13 replies)
What are these lead torpedo/space ships? (18 replies)
Galena smelting, from mine to silver (6 replies)
Should I be concerned!! (31 replies)
Looking for ideas for a bottom pour spout/valve (9 replies)
What is your ultimate alloy? (27 replies)
Can I melt tin out of alloy? (26 replies)
BHN and up for Brown bear protection? (43 replies)
Stirring Lead with Copper Wire (20 replies)
Steel muffin tin problem (29 replies)
Mystery metal bar (19 replies)
20/1 is fine stuff. (14 replies)
Another source of soft lead - clock counterweights?! (3 replies)
Schmelting safety Precautions & Warnings (31 replies)
Testing for Zinc with Lysol Toilet Cleaner (4 replies)
Fixing alloy question (5 replies)
linotype Question (5 replies)
Price for a 5 gallon bucket of mixed wheel weights. (21 replies)
over cooked lead? (30 replies)
eutectic solder (12 replies)
How long after casting before sizing and or shooting (15 replies)
Range Lead - The Big Smelt (28 replies)
44.6 oz pewter tankard (15 replies)
Another way to blend alloys (19 replies)
I do not understand the calculator (13 replies)
A source of pure TIN (50 replies)
What are the biggest wheel weights you ever got? (17 replies)
Scored Today! (5 replies)
Pencil hardness testing methods (2 replies)
How do you melt your pewter (16 replies)
Alloy hardness question (12 replies)
Lead free solder (9 replies)
Do all alloy? Any suggestions? (40 replies)
Linotype score… or maybe not (23 replies)
Odd idea. 230 volt electric heating/lead melting pot? (27 replies)
Todays haul (8 replies)
Can someone identify this? (5 replies)
wheelie (1 replies)
Ay propane tank experts here? (24 replies)
Need some help here (23 replies)
Processed the last of the scrap type metal cache I found. (5 replies)
Help with, or suggestion on fryer/burner for melting lead (33 replies)
Identify this? (4 replies)
Alloy (14 replies)
What is the most lead you melted down at one time? (29 replies)
Is this pewter? (20 replies)
COWW clips (10 replies)
Adding lead to 30:1. (6 replies)
Price to pay for WW and Linotype (61 replies)
Alloy not coming out as it should. (18 replies)
Lead ratio (4 replies)
Where to get lead alloy analyzed (10 replies)
Mixing alloys? (11 replies)
Current 2021-2022 tin/pewter prices (16 replies)
lead roofing boots (34 replies)
Isotope lead (14 replies)
Anyone in Dallas want to go halfsies on 1000 lbs of lead bricks from Rotometals (0 replies)
How to tell the difference in materials (25 replies)
final, for now, type metal score (8 replies)
Melting linotype bars? (21 replies)
Scored lead from a friend (12 replies)
You think this is zinc or some other type of contamination? (8 replies)
Networking pays off (12 replies)
To alloy or not? (1 replies)
Soft lead from old roof jacks? (9 replies)
Stupid car part leads to Lead Score (21 replies)
Adding tin/pewter to lead, why? (19 replies)
Federated Castomatic babbitt? (0 replies)
Chromium contamination of lead anode -- any problems?? (3 replies)
Front load washer counterweight material? (8 replies)
Different weights of different alloys? (7 replies)
Checking hardness?? (13 replies)
Unable to get any wheel weights (56 replies)
Percentage of lead versus other in a bucket of COWW's (9 replies)
NO EXPENSIVE FURNACE can compare with a LEE 4-20 'dripolater' (32 replies)
What do I need tin for again? (23 replies)
? Uses for Solder (9 replies)
Powder Coating and lead hardness (6 replies)
Lead from a Pepsi vending machine (10 replies)
Is There A Ready Source For Tin? (49 replies)
lead/tin solder at an auction. (11 replies)
16 Lb. of pewter today (11 replies)
Zinc is immiscible? (7 replies)
Reclaimed lead shot score! (11 replies)
Pewter find (14 replies)
What is hard ?? (3 replies)
Lead in Lake Tahoe ... (10 replies)
A big Thank you to Bumpo628 (1 replies)
Have I ruined my alloy (6 replies)
Metal strips in buckets of linotype. (22 replies)
Pewter find that wasn't (18 replies)
Safest way to cut a propane tank for making a smelting pot? (36 replies)
Mystery Lead ? or Nickel ? (16 replies)
Best source for pure tin metal? (12 replies)
Casting temps (46 replies)
Smelting Linotype Colors???? (6 replies)
How do make an alloy (6 replies)
Lead water pipes (13 replies)
Mixing for casting alloys (17 replies)
Alloy vs bullet size (9 replies)
Alloy for rifle boolits (9 replies)
Scrap Range Lead Experiment (47 replies)
Turkey friers ? (24 replies)
Hardness of zinc wheel weights (9 replies)
How to cut up sheet lead. (19 replies)
Another Linotype Yard Sale Score (8 replies)
Smelting Galena to Lead and Silver (13 replies)
Acculoy what is it (4 replies)
What's a good lead or non lead to buy to for HP mold? (22 replies)
Wanted your FOUNDRY alloy recipes. (2 replies)
Thought on Why WW's (45 replies)
Equivlant to WW lead (7 replies)
Melting and casting zinc (13 replies)
Auto body solder? (13 replies)
Lead Came Score (9 replies)
recovered saltwater fishing weights (13 replies)
WW Score (16 replies)
Rmr lead+rotometal superhard+tin (4 replies)
Final tally on my type metal score (12 replies)
Score or not? (19 replies)
What was this lead used for? (7 replies)
Question on blending monotype with range lead (6 replies)
Lead Linotype blend for 45 ACP ? (8 replies)
Cleanup ??lead spatter and lead spilled on outdoor patio (9 replies)
Picked up some new monotype (5 replies)
X-ray machine lead (9 replies)
1 st time alloying with pure antimony (6 replies)
Gulf Coast Foundry pigs from Sarasota area (9 replies)
Babbit material (4 replies)
What is this lead alloy? Some type of print related? (Hard lead score) (25 replies)
Photo of a Linotype pig? (15 replies)
Melted some boolits (7 replies)
Binary lead tin alloy (11 replies)
Copper sulfate (18 replies)
Linotype score (25 replies)
A fun and challenging way to find WW lead (17 replies)
May have hit the mother lode. (20 replies)
Tire shop score results (18 replies)
Alloy analysis (4 replies)
Using pure antimony (5 replies)
scrap yard SELLING prices (40 replies)
Tin (8 replies)
Lead Weight & Storage (33 replies)
Melting Pewter...How Do YOU Do It? (26 replies)
Give Lead to Get Lead? (4 replies)
scrap bullets. what to do? (8 replies)
Extra wiping?? (2 replies)
What are soww these days? (2 replies)
How I alloyed pure antimony to pure lead (25 replies)
What is in this alloy (7 replies)
Golden sheen on pewter ingots? (8 replies)
What is this in my alloy? (26 replies)