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- Alloy Choices
- Lead score!!
- Alloy ratio vs. hardness
- Reclaiming water quenched slugs.
- Need Alloy Advice
- What to do?
- Alloy Mix for Revolvers
- Melting roof jacks
- Type Metal
- mono Type
- !st time smelting, here's a pic what is this?
- Ingots $1 a pound.
- Unknown lead
- use of babbit
- fluxing- why bother?
- Same alloy - different boolit = same result?
- Whizzin Match! What's the "Optimal" BHN to...
- Hardness of different alloys?
- How much in a 5 gallon bucket?
- Lead hardness ?
- Another "new" WW?
- Soften Wheelweights
- 99.375% pb .625% tin
- ? On lead hardness
- Dissolving alloyed lead?
- What's a good 'scrounging' source for TIN?
- WWs!
- What alloy for casting HP bullets?
- Heat treating Linotype
- Safety Issues
- Birdshot melt
- Smelting, clip on to stick on ratio?
- auto body lead
- My first WW score!
- lead free solder
- How to seperate Zinc
- Identify this chunk of lead?
- Mystery!
- Linotype versus wheelweights.
- So I found some Linotype
- If you snooze, you lose!!
- Lookit What I Found...
- .40 # Wheel Weights
- I know The Answer's Here Somewhere
- Does hardness verify lead alloy's chemistry?
- You may not want to smelt...
- My first gloat...........; )
- Additional diameter with 2% tin?
- First WW score and little smelting session
- Pain of sorting WW's
- General Rule for Lead Hardness
- Funny but good alloy
- WW's may be a thing of the past
- Just getting starting
- lead alloy questions
- Whats the most youve overpayed for lead?
- can I use Tin solder with acid core???
- free wheel weights
- Melting Wheel Weights
- Casting Silver Bullets
- Made a good deal on W-W today.
- Stick-on weight ingots - no blue color?
- how many pounds in a 5gal bucket?
- The leading mystery has finally been solved!
- adding tin 2 the mix ?
- WW balances for race car
- Gonna smelt some WW this AM.
- Finally started sorting WW
- Interesting smelt tonight
- sMELTing POT question
- Wally World Fish Fryer
- Where to buy ingots of Tin?
- smelting question
- Anyone ever use 'stickies' to slug their barrels?
- Dealing with Stick-Ons
- Melting solder into balls
- Tire stores going to steel weights...
- End of an era!!!!!!!!!!
- Is this Linotype?
- The Definitive Answer page for Lead and Alloys!
- Galena: Boolits in the Rough !
- Too much Tin?
- Radiation concerns
- Good alloy for 44?
- Chinese Smelters driving up Lead Prices
- How do you store your lead?
- Alloy for hp rifle boolits
- Radiator solder drippings
- Sorted some wheelweights today...
- Composition of lead plates
- Berm-mining results
- Lead Hardness Testing
- Lead "hardness"
- "Odd" sources for WWs?
- Mystery Metal!!!!
- Is this pure lead, or mystery metal?
- quick question
- Lead
- Stick on mess?
- Struck it rich at the radiator shop today
- Why is alloy so expensive
- Tin addition by weight or by volume?
- Linotype ?
- Can anyone identify these ingots?
- Lyman #2 alloy
- Making WW-equivalent alloy
- ID this solder?
- Wheel Weights
- Melting Pewter?
- water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink
- Pure lead?
- 130 Year Old Lead
- Fix zinc problem?
- Lucky Dog
- shot for hardening
- Am I hooked?
- Ingotizing Linotype?
- Went to the junkyard yesterday
- Another radiator drippings ?
- Alloy for Gould HP?
- crud on top
- Almost had a heart attack!
- 50/50
- Down rigger weights
- Yippee, my first metal finds!
- Casting metal?
- Making 20-1, start with W/W or Soft?
- How to Process X-Ray Lead
- 1st rendering went well with no visits
- Trophies?
- Radiator scrap
- Harder metals, bigger bullets?
- Roof flashing score
- Water pipe joint pics
- new to casting
- Good score for the first time?
- delete / double tap
- Got some 67/33 SnPb solder drippings. How much of the Tin would have oxidized out?
- lead, EPA and ????
- Lead ID ?
- Soft Lead Gathering Suggestions?
- First WWs find
- Tin sheet?
- Need help with alloying.
- stick on ww
- Need some assistance
- A possible way to remove zinc from molten lead
- Best Alloy for Lee 45 ACP Microband Mold
- Dental x-ray foil - any zinc?
- Oh man, the zinc devil got me.
- what is it
- WW vs Lyman #2
- Zinc Removal with Sulfur Report
- can you use solder for a source of tin?
- Bird Shot for casting
- Newbie..how to distinguish lead and zinc WW's?
- Fishing Weights
- Zinc - fix by alloying with pure metal?
- a nice free score!
- Lead sheet
- .22 Lead smelting losses
- How much is lead from electrical sheathing worth?
- Clip-on/Stick-on ratio
- Has there been a detailed study of what jacketed range scrap is?
- Greenish yellow dirt????????
- Good general .357 alloy?
- How much to add to 4lbs of molten lead?
- unknown type metal
- What would you pay to know?
- FINALLY........ today was my day
- Running out of excuses...
- Gold and purple and blue... Oh My!
- Alloying Antimony/Tin/Lead?
- Lead in Kittery ME area
- can you flux with this???
- 40/6 solder price????
- 50/50 hardness
- Multi-Colored Melt.
- History of lead-History channel
- Tin From Pewter
- Battery terminal lead make-up
- I've had amnesia for almost 20 years.
- How hard is my alloy
- Confused about these BNH readings!
- Zinc Wheelweights not a new problem
- Lead price increase
- what to do with zinc
- To much Antimony
- what alloy fills out the best?
- just smelted my first range scrap
- Identify this metal weight
- New guy, question about price and alloy
- Did the blind pig find an acorn?
- he difference between hard and tough alloys??
- lead shot hardness?
- Brick weight
- nickle babbet ???
- 2% tin or 3%?
- Ames Virgin Lead, is this worth $10?
- Help with lead free solder
- bulk solder What to do?
- Is this plumbers lead
- Need inputs on a new mixture!
- first score of wheelweights!!!
- fellow boolit casters, what have I ??
- I think I ruined my batch, now what?
- Score!!!!!!!!!!
- suggest an alloy for me...
- WW-equivalent arsenic-free alloy heat treatment
- 79k lbs of lead
- Newbie question - how can I tell Zinc WWs from Lead WWs
- Shrinkage: wheel weights vs lead/lino?
- Lead leaching??
- Frosty looking ingots
- Odd looking "dross"
- Does Lead "Boil"?
- Very odd looking WWs smelt?!
- Garage sale find (pics) !!!!
- Need Tin/lead alloy melting points.
- Lead
- Score, and question re hardness
- solder?
- Adding arsenic to lead alloy
- WW alloy
- alloying pure lead
- Lead chart???
- I need a hardness tester...
- Can I USE THIS?
- Dooh!! Cleanup on aisle 5...
- Source of lead
- Really poor man's hardness tester
- What to do with Group Buy alloy.
- Lead Oxide
- Unknown Mix of Linotype and Lead
- Unkown solder melt experiment
- perhaps a new source of lead?
- This Boolit Alloy
- Smelting question
- How to tell Zinc
- Correct recipe
- Melting Large Chunks of Lead
- question about likely hardness
- Melting points of Lead and Alloys
- What do I have here?
- Hot Plate for melting lead
- Scrap lead prices.......
- Can this material be used for casting?
- Things that make you say Hmmmmm??
- alloy recipe for rifle and high vel handgun
- Unknown lead shot brand and size.
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