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- Metal recycler will not sell lead to individuals
- First timer here!
- Chance to buy a BIG lot of lead - opinions?
- Linotype, good deal?
- Has anyone had one of these bars before?
- Thanks, Dad
- What do I have?
- Scrap Bullets, Wheel Weights, and Time
- Excited in Amsterdam
- Type of lead in modern shotshells . . .
- lee shot good for boolits?
- What Would You Do?
- Can I change alloy to lighten bullets
- Babbitt ingot ???
- way to hard alloy!
- source for lead alloys
- Was given 100 pounds of lead,but what do I have?
- Industrial lead smelting from days gone by.
- What caused this??
- found a salvage yard with some COWW today!
- Stopped by recycling/metals yard yesterday--lots of lead
- WW inscriptions
- Friday afternoon at the scrapyard
- Pure Lead? Please confirm
- strange colors in smelt
- perfect alloy for plinking
- 95% tin/5% antimony solder to pure lead ratio?
- surface picking.
- Mystery metal
- simple question about alloy.
- Lead that expands?
- Galena
- Can someone help me id these?
- Another trip to the scrap yard
- alloy calculators
- Help please sorting COWW!
- Looking for a deal
- Measuring Brinell hardness on the cheap
- Range Lead
- Fluxing
- Today's Trip to Tire Store
- A Spring Smelt
- Crazy Question Tin?
- If you are close to Tracy CA
- Good buy?
- source for buying lead/tin mixtures for casting
- Lightening Strikes
- Mixing Pewter with lead, didn't get expected results
- Reclaiming lead from lead lined door
- tin
- New caster in Pinellas County, FL?
- I'm addicted to lead!
- 20:1 or 30:1 to get started with Sharps
- What did I score?
- Latest Bucket of Used WW
- Testing bullets with cabin tree
- Score!
- Tin
- First thread, first COWW melt.
- 1st Attempt At Melting WW
- Yard sale score
- Straight wheel weight in the pot.
- Lead Identification
- Also went to the scrap yard--isotope cores
- Circuit board solder drippings
- Local Yard
- Fetched some soft lead at the scrap yard today-
- Dutch Boy 888 solder
- wasting tin
- Maybe some tin there?
- Separating clay pigeons from range scrap
- What Did You Smelt Today?
- Nickle babbit from American smelting
- ISo Cores
- lead cable on old power pole
- More Cores
- ATTENTION Texas Caster ( Cores )
- viability of air rifle pellets for casting
- Pewterlite - What is it?
- Picked up more lino/mon
- OSHA kills a potential source for cheap range lead
- Is this tin? If so, what I am I doing wrong?
- First smelt/cast
- Just picked up some pewter?
- Solder
- Getting close to "doing" my first smelt.........Got a question.
- Plumbing lead composition?
- went by our recla metals
- Price Metal Co Kansas City MO Solder
- Lead available at the local scrap yard in CA!
- Pewter Score
- how to remove lead from pavers. tinsel fairy visited with apox 50lbs of lead
- Linotype, 10-1, 40-1 , Lyman #2?
- Encountered a new isotope lead
- your favorite boolit alloy
- Second Smelt - Range Scrap
- Look what I just found...
- How much lead in ingot form do you have and how much should we keep on hand?
- Lead-Linotype alloy question
- Sadness is...
- mystery Ingots
- I have 1000# shot, should I smelt it or ?
- Smelted a year's worth of donations
- Lead of Zinc? Cannot Indentify
- Lesson Learned
- "On da road again...................."
- tred a new scrp yard!!!!
- Tin/Pewter
- Old refrigeration lines
- gonna try a new smelting technique
- Stained Glass lead score!
- no tester 80% lead 20% antimony BHN ball park any one?????
- Confused about alloys
- What do I have, and how did I make out?
- Sinker Score
- Fair price for 63 37 solder
- mystery alloy
- X-ray shielding
- Lead Ingot Motherload mystery.
- Type
- Sizing as it relates to BHN (.001 vs .002 over)
- Work soften a WQ bullet ?
- zinc in ingots
- Bulk Buy Price??
- Hard range lead!
- Made a good deal today.
- Gold Color in Range Lead Melt
- Tin is Tough Stuff!
- lead score!
- Lee testing kit
- ID this plate???
- Type lead ID
- Pewter Value ???
- Diver Weights?
- Morning surprise
- Fluxing Tin
- Today's Haul
- How do you run your operation?
- 1:1 ww-pure
- Ney c10a
- Scrap lead smelting for finished ingot trade value?
- Roll of lead?
- turning big into little (lead not rocks)
- Removing lead "casing" from wiring
- half 'n' half
- A bunch of ??? Metal
- Alloy Ratios Question
- nickel babbitt
- What the heck is in my melting pot?
- Hardness of Range Lead
- Lead Wire or Solder?
- Pewter or Not?
- Nice find at work
- Linotype?
- Head Scratcher Lead
- A way to find out the chemistry. What alloys are mixed into ur lead .
- Newbie Question About Lead (s)
- Newbie Question About Lead (s)
- What is pewter?
- Bottom Pour Smelters
- Scrounging JACKPOT!
- Messed up a batch of alloy . Any advice.
- Smelting Question
- Plus Metal for Enriching Linotype
- Tin Price
- Recycling center score today
- Small Score
- Stick-on WW and temperature
- Stamping Plant Lead
- Advice needed.
- Testing ingots for zinc contamination with muratic acid
- What do with iron and zinc ww
- Best score ever for me
- Different softness of mixed alloys
- ss and ssss marked ingots ?
- Gold color/film on pure lead melt
- Score!!
- Babbit ingots
- X-Ray room lead sheeting?
- Calculator for BHN?
- Air Rifle pellet XRF test
- Here is what you can do with iron wheelweights .....
- Sad Day Yesterday.
- Lead BHN Calculator based on known BHN
- Epoxied/glued lead shot...concerns?
- extracting antimony from ww lead
- Scrap lead price
- my range
- Rending WW without sorting?
- Pb SCORE!
- Hardness tester Stand for Lee Precision 20x Microscope
- ww marked AL
- smelting some odds and ends what is this stuff.
- This lead is the "bomb"
- First time caster and need confirmation/help
- Melted unknown metal amongst Wheel Weigths: Which may it be and effects on barrel.
- First time pewter hunt
- What do I have here?
- 2-2-96
- First cast today
- Facts, realities, economics of lead casting: break even with factory bullet costs
- Casting With 50/50 Solder Remnants
- So...what are the upper FPS Limits then for Pure Lead Boolits?
- Pewter or Silver?
- alloy question
- Score!!
- 60/40 Bar Solder
- Tin sinkers
- Making Lyman #2 alloy
- Good day at the thrift store
- Core container score
- First Time "smelting" Success + a possible screw up
- 9mm alloy
- Curb Score!!!
- Found COWW for 50 cents a pound.
- alloy for hollow points
- Composition of forklift battery bracket terminals
- Silver: Adding silver to bullet alloy.
- Looking For lead, a beginner's experience (plus a question)
- VB "ALLOY" Program from The Powder Room
- I have been on the wrong track
- Using lyman #2 and lead pipe joints
- Pewter?
- A little zinc in my pewter?
- Lead Selection Help For A Noob?
- I Finally Found My First COWW On The Ground!
- Is This Lead?
- Buckets of wheel weights
- usable lead in small bucket of ww
- How do I make 1:25 lead alloy ?
- Pb Alloy = Brinell Hardness - Strength - Pressure (Maximimum PSI)
- Thats it, im done. KAPUT!
- Bullet alloys-newbie question
- Question on buying alloy
- Identifying lead I got from an old Caster
- OMG Has everyone seen the prices on Ebay!?!?
- I got a handfull, not a handout
- pure lead bars out of xray machines
- What exactly did I just buy?
- Buying cast bullets as scrap lead for smelting yea or nay?
- What year did the non-lead WW appear?
- Muffin Pan
- Connections Finally Paid Off - Buckets of WW for Little $$$
- Range scrap
- Quick question on hardball.
- Lead Alloy smells funny
- Hydraulicking
- circular ingots with "PLP" on them?
- First time buying scrap lead, what to look for
- Does this look right for lead?
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