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- ar battery terminals
- lead free solder as an additive for casting
- Moving with lead stash....suggestions?
- Making Monotype from Super Hard
- High in Antimony for Pistol & Rifle? Newb
- Cabine Tree Hardness Tester
- Sheet lead content ?
- Pewter instead of tin for lyman #2?
- Question about Solder
- marvelux!
- Rotometals?
- antimony percentage
- First smelt
- A thought on fluxing.
- Zink cannon balls in a Do it cannon ball sinker mold
- Sodium tetraborate (Borax)
- Old car battery?
- What can I get for $10?!!
- .38 cal solder? In large 30# rolls
- Kudos to Rotometals
- Linotype v. Lyman #2?
- Need help identifying mono vs foundry
- In the immortal words of Ice Cube
- Range scrap
- What am I
- Pure lead to useable alloy
- Smelting TMJ bullets?
- Ingots left out?
- Loss of tin during the melt & cleaning of WW's
- The Cost of making your own Blends
- Alloy composition question.
- New to smelting WW, mixing alloys and casting bullets: Thanks for the help.
- Small score!
- Score
- Stratification by temperature in the melt.
- BHN of smelt?
- Alloy sticking to ladle
- No Score
- Any Idea what CB might stand for?
- http://www.ltfjox.com ???
- Rimfire 22LR lead
- gotta love my range
- Possibly Good Score
- A beautiful day for making ingots!
- Pure Lead Worth $1/lb? Access to 1000s lbs.
- good day range mining some strange finds does anyone know what these are?
- alloy mixing
- Lead mine
- 20# of pure pot on the way (4 5lb ingots)
- Scrap yard only place for XRF scan?
- mystery metal
- Hardness
- Lead shot ?
- What hardness should I try for?
- Reclaiming Lead From Wet Sand
- old Christmas tree tinsel
- Must have illness
- A good day with my son and his friend
- Bars of "CERROTRU ALLOY" 281F"
- A new old score
- I am bumbed
- Woops! Dodged a Bullet This Time
- A Tool Question
- scrap yard lead
- Contaminated Bullet Alloy: The sludge that plugs the nozzle
- Rockford, IL lead n alloy source?
- What to do with lead shot?
- A Good Reason NOT to Smelt Car Batteries
- I'm done smelting
- A bit of lead
- Operation Cast Lead is a success (lead from Behr Iron & Metals, Rockford, IL)
- Make alloy this weekend?
- What is this strange projectile found in bullet trap.
- Why you should INSIST on an x-ray shoot of the lead you buy
- 1/4 bucket of ww content
- Mystery alloy
- cheap lead shot at Rotometals.
- Our new range scrap miner at work.
- New caster
- Pewter vs Tin
- Fake Lino ingots
- Empty bullet jackets in the berm?
- Sheet Lead
- Help with new scrap - old lead organ pipes
- WDWW Permanent or Temporary?
- got a homie hook up
- PC'd Range Scrap Question
- What is this?
- expense of smelting verses buying
- I have 3 80+ pound ingots of this.......
- I have a question
- Casting with magnum shot
- Propane Exchange vs. Fill
- clean out day at the range!
- Trap Clean Out
- 220 pounds of range scrap.
- Got Faked out to the Max
- Pewter find
- Gunned Linotype Spacers - YMMV
- Big Lead Purchase Out of State? Shipping?
- Got a big score but need to cut it down
- New Caster Lead recipe question?
- Help making casting alloy
- Saturday Afternoon Smelt and Experiment
- how much do you loose?
- Lee hardness tester question
- Kester 63/37 Tin/Lead Sn63/Pb37 Solder Bar Ingots
- silver vase in the pot?
- Am i getting the lead shaft?
- First Pewter score
- virgin ingot???
- What's on your casting bench?
- am I missing something?
- Alright I'll ask the stupid, lazy, question
- How many lbs of pewter would you guess?
- Is tin still used in medication tubes?
- Size vs Weight for surface area and accuracy
- Value of wheel weights
- Anybody know what composition this might be?
- mystery alloy
- I..uh... melted my boolits in the toaster oven
- Fiberglass encased sailboat keel
- Zinc Warning
- wire type solder value
- Solder Analysis - What happens to Tin over time?
- Why low BHN from COWW's ?
- Only you guys will understand...
- Fluxing does nothing
- Brinel 6 OK for muzzle loader round ball ?
- Casting pure lead bullets for light rifle loads
- Question about hardness testing - right after casting
- Lead score and future source found
- Too Hot to Smelt
- First Time Smelt
- Same BHN, Different Alloys?
- Heavy Bullets for Small Calibers (DO NOT TRY THIS!)
- Storing Lead Outside In Shed? Ideas? 1000+ lbs
- Really pleased to get ingots gunned.
- Lead flow problem
- Range full of lead!
- Alloy masters.. A question
- What was your biggest melt in one sitting???
- What did I put in my promelt
- Learning alloy calculator - GREAT tool but...
- Useful pewter?
- Need alloy help from the masters
- Scored a few buckets of WW's
- Massive Tin find
- Acid core solder??
- I have a queston A friend gave me a few ingots of???
- antique ammonia type refrigeration tubing
- Sn turns into Ag
- My first hunt for pewter
- I'm done.
- Buying alloy
- XrF Suprise
- Lead prices dropping
- "Dimples" in your ingots
- Tin and antimony
- Small find
- Hello Everyone!
- potential steady supply..... we'll see
- Appropriate Hardness for 44 Mag Rifle boolits
- Approximate BHN if poss.
- Mysterious bullet material
- Perfect Wheel Weights
- Different fluxing dross consistency
- Oh For JOY! Xrf testing comes to my area!!
- How to estimate BHN with sharpen pencil?
- Testing BHN and finally reread instructions
- I think I Scored Big Time
- Did you say ARSENIC ??
- Lino Ingot
- Need advice
- Silver solder alloy for those that need monster bullets...
- Well this is Nice! XRIF reassurance.
- Lead alloy hardness question
- approximate wheel weight alloy
- First Time Smelthing WW
- D#&@med weighted candlesticks
- decent trade
- Radio therapy demo.
- Decent Size Melt
- LINOTYPE Lead Fishing Weights - clean all linotype lead - Carlsbad, CA (San Diego)
- Pewter confusion
- What is this stuff?
- Changing alloy on the fly
- lead score
- Low cost / no cost lead by the ton
- Possible zinc in the ingot bars
- ? Pewter pills ingot question ?
- Pewter, In the pot or not?
- My alloy mix, getting confusing
- 100's of lbs of led ingots in The Dalls/Hood River area
- Melting Season!
- Mixing to average alloy question
- Zinc ammo now hitting shelves near you. Range lead smelters beware.
- Antimony - What should I make with it /
- How to tell if solder has zinc
- Window weights
- Lead score question.
- Lead score!
- Great Score today
- NIST technical information on alloys
- Melting range scrap.
- Shotshells
- Kirksite
- Zink Wheel Weights Do Float - Finally Took a Picture
- Worth getting an oil change
- Anyone recognize these ingots?
- How hard is too hard for 45 acp?
- Bismuth question
- Aircraft wheel weights
- Linotype? Ha Mono Vs. Foundry
- score?
- 93% lead 7% antimony?
- Diamond L ingot
- "Billy Bob" lead Hardness Tester
- ID lead bar help
- Where do I get tin?
- Newbie questions
- Why this alloy water quench hard??
- lead bullet ballistics
- cutting the lead block
- Anyone know of a source of lead near Salt Lake City, Utah
- Hit a home run today.
- Anybody ever seen one of these?
- Mystery metal?
- Uh..... I'm going to need more ingot molds!
- If lead melts at a lower temp than zinc....
- Smell when melting down Wheel weights?
- Question about testing WW with pliers
- My turn at a good score!
- First Pewter Score
- Lead score...help me identify this!!!
- Stick on wheel weights??
- cooking out my Sb ?
- 1 st range lead
- Just Speculation on Flint Mich lead source
- Free wheel weights
- Range scrap curiosity?
- Saturday morning smelting
- Pewter and Fluxing
- Super Tinsel Fairy Visit
- Pewter score!
- Ingot size for 1.25# of linotype
- n00bie Lead Alloy Advice - Mixing Alloys?
- Smelter a bit of Wheelweight this morning.
- Cast bullet weighs more than 230gn- what to add to alloy
- Jackpot!
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