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- BHN? Pencils vs. Lee Tester
- Just what is clean WWs, LinoType, pure lead or even tin worth now?
- What To Beware Of When Buying Someone Else's Ingots?
- Alloy for .30-40 Krag, and pressures
- Babbitt composition
- Score
- Tin is where you find it!
- Daily spot prices for metals - good resource
- OLD wheel weights composition ?
- Cobalt Blue surface dross?...
- lead hardness ?
- Found Second Batch Of Lead
- Pewter Haul
- Lead Free Solder
- Old grill to make smelting pot
- Ideas as to what this might be.
- Weird "Skin" on Hot Lead
- Mystery metal
- Thought I'd hit a jackpot
- Observations from Fifty Years of Boolit metal scrounging
- Marking Ingots from Redneck Gold Mold
- Alloy for .32 S&W Long?
- monotype
- Buying Range Scrap
- Indoor range .22lr lead for cast hollow point bullets
- Pewter from Woodbury Pewter
- Missouri bullet alloy
- Melting wheel weights with wood
- So smart - so dumb!
- Found a little keel lead
- Heat treat effort made bullets softer?
- Rotometal foundry metal. Reasonable?
- Hoyt and Castomatic
- "Hardball" Alloy
- Looking For Advice About Consistency of My Lead Stash
- On cloud 9 this morning! 300# for $1.00\# WW ingots
- Root Kill in Lead
- Have you ever mixed copper sulphate with molten lead?
- Latest and Last Lead Haul - Don't need no mo!
- Commercial cast bullets that you don't load?
- 2860 lbs, Friday’s project
- Tackle box find
- 30 to 1 alloy from 50/50
- Recent Score
- Little experiment
- Left overs from melting range scrap
- Bullet weight used to identify gift lead
- Nub question
- Battery post clamps
- cleanup weekend
- How MUCH will your Truck Hold...
- Unique find; 30-pound "Tin pot"...
- Gifted a MEC loader, wads, primers and shot
- Alloying with pure sb
- Suggestions needed on alloy
- Sailboat keel
- First run of pewter pot sweeteners
- Testing hardness with pencils
- Got some alloys tested with an XRF gun
- Looking for a reasonably priced online lead source
- Question on lead / tin percentages
- sheet lead?
- Thought on Rotometals
- Removing rubber from lead
- Lead And Limestone
- Oven Heat Treat Up to Jacketed Velocities?
- Freezing boolits for hardness and toughness
- Pewter that contains no lead
- wheel weights score, YES they are still out there
- 16:1 alloy hardness questions...again
- I tawt I saw a Wabbit!
- So what’s the difference between 16:1 and 50/50 alloys?
- Heat treating gas checked bullets
- Lyman #2 recipes wanted
- I can get some monotype but don't know if it's a good deal
- Today’s score 2400 lbs
- Are WWs still worth pursuing?
- What to do with zinc contamenated lead
- Web pewter?
- water quenching
- Scrap Yard Lead
- How to sort Pewter
- Testing tin to lead ratio?
- Lead haul #2 from favorite seller
- Lead alloy with Si content
- Never encountered this form before
- found a new source of lead today
- How do you cast your scrap lead into ingots
- BHN per caliber
- 50/50 solder & wheel weights
- Wheel weights and hardball alloy
- ¿¿ Rotary Linotype Die??
- Lead fuse links?
- Cleaning bullets with phosphoric acid
- Lead free solder, good for boolits?
- Silver on Copper Serving trays and pots…..
- Is there a formula for lowering the BHN of your lead
- 45/70 - 425 at 1700 fps, gas-checked Lyman No 2:Lead 1:1?
- Giant, Hard Battery Connector
- Heavily oxidized lead
- xrf testing questions
- Baseline Check - 405 or 425 WFNGC, Mild with 5744.
- How to find linotype or other hardeners?
- Bismuth ?
- Tin question
- Help with ID of metal
- Shot - what is in it?
- How much lino to add?
- Airgun pellets for lead
- Understanding
- Original alloy for 38-55
- Lead Free Solder
- Last batch weirdness, what's this purple stuff
- Casting flux
- Anyone purchasing from Metalex in Canada?
- Lyman #2 BHN
- How/where do you store your ingots?
- Help identifying this alloy?
- 1:16, a few questions
- separating zinc from lead and getting lead from ore
- Best Practices to avoid lead poisoning when casting
- Thrifti Type
- Wheel weights - thing of the past?
- soft lead
- Alloy for 35 Whelen GC Hunting bullet
- Melting lead and finding steel jackets?
- Corn Cobs
- Wheel Weight Yield?
- Pewter Figurines
- Melting monotype letters and making ingots.
- Stash smelted
- Is it pewter?
- What is the base metal for most silver plate if it is not magnetic?
- 16-1
- W-W lubealoy bullets alloy
- Pewter?
- Casting with Zinc...Pennies
- smelting lead and ingots, is a camp fire suitable?
- Best casting use for lead shot
- alloy for casting 45ACP bullets
- What's that orange crust?
- Scrap yard haul
- 2023 The Year of the Melt Um, Maybe 2024
- Lyman #2 for 9mm
- Casting temp with 20:1 and a big boolit
- Linotype vs. monotype
- Pipe organ tin-lead mixture "spotted metal"
- A little bit of humor
- Been casting 3 yrs, fresh here
- cast boolits in 35 rem model 14
- Best way to cut thick sheet lead?
- Cutting Ingot
- Treated Indoor Range Lead won't melt
- In praise of backstop lead
- Another wheel weight story
- Lead alloy testing
- RCBS 35 200 in 35 Rem mod 14
- to hp or not?
- Cleaning and fluxing alloy
- Shipping Lead
- Separate Tin ingots from Lead?
- tin and lead flow
- Better lead than this?
- How Hard Do 125gr .358" Cast RNFP Slugs Need To Be at 875 fps Cowboy Action?
- Lead alloy advice for hollow point testing
- Remington Mod 14 cast boolit loads
- Range Lead Cost?
- Sn/Ag/Cu ingots
- Harvesting lead from typewriters
- When you least expect it ...
- Sea Pearl Dive Weights?
- Smelting "Lead" from range sweepings
- more galena harvesting smelting lead and silver
- A Melange of Recycled Airgun Pellets and Slugs for Casting Airgun Slugs?
- I bought some rotometals super hard
- Lead gloves
- Lead roof sheeting
- Alloy for 308 development
- Lead score on way home
- Help: Void issue with new alloy
- Cartridge brass as casting alloy component
- radiator solder
- Saving pellets and rimfire bullets
- Old Wheel Weights composition?
- tin/pewter
- Linotype to Pure Lead Exchange rate?
- Help with Tin and Antimony, and others.
- What Is Cerromatrix
- Handling "pewter"
- Who stole the Organ Pipes?
- Unknown possible casting alloy? Antimony or bismuth?
- Question about Penn Bullets "Premium" alloy
- simple question
- zinc wheel weights
- Is there such thing as a reasonably priced xrf analyzer?
- What mix of alloy would be the best all-purpose blend?
- I got more lead and still i'm ignoroant
- Loose lead
- Interesting structure to WW pot when cooled.
- Making 2 2 96 with Super hard and tin
- Zinc Test or Identification?
- Tin at walmart
- Tin Ingots - How to Test Composition?
- super hard and wheel weights
- Lead: Where are you getting it from?
- What do I have?
- Lead question
- Flux difference?
- Is there a point to water dropping cast ?
- Frankford Arsenal flux
- How to mix these two alloys for a 45-70 hunting bullet?
- Bullet alloy??
- The most fun I had collecting range scrap.....
- Pb-Zn COWW Alloy?
- cerrolow-136 allow
- ideal lead temp for casting 8BHN lead?
- WWs, babbit ???
- How much is lost when melting clip on wheel weights?
- I Quit
- How to tell monotype from foundry type
- Small Lead find should last a day or 2
- What do I have here?
- This Was the Haul........
- So I bought some solder today
- 50/50 COWW/Pb casting temp?
- Getting lead into a 20#pot
- Race car ballast weights?
- Heavy dirt
- Lead mix for 450 bushmaster
- Unknown ingot
- What is “lead came”?
- Molly Bullets
- wiping solder alloy
- cerrobend question
- scored some English pewter yesterday
- Using Foundry Type?
- Melting/Alloying Antimony
- Suggest an alloy?
- Monotype to lead ratio for 38 +p and 357 mag?
- Pewter smelting and ingots
- Arsenic
- What is it lately with all the exotic homebrews of alloys?
- Any chance of zinc linotype?
- OK. Now I get it. Why the hub-bub about alloys
- did I get lucky ?
- Stuff growing on ingots ?
- Zinc wheel weights are a problem
- Does adding Tin or Antimony?
- just found wheel weights
- Busy day melting lead.
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