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- Pewter won't melt (23 replies)
- Don't you love surprises when casting? (3 replies)
- Babbit Alloys (3 replies)
- Alloy weight question (31 replies)
- Price of Pb (33 replies)
- Where to start with pure lead for 9mm and .45? (21 replies)
- Casting tips for soft/pure lead (27 replies)
- Strange alloy (3 replies)
- Alloy ID? (38 replies)
- 92-6-2 good target and hunting alloy ? (17 replies)
- 5 gal pail of ww (23 replies)
- Has anyone tested MP HP bullets for expansion? (5 replies)
- Testing of unknown alloys (18 replies)
- Tiny score today (9 replies)
- Cast HP testing (17 replies)
- cost of tin gone crazy (39 replies)
- wheel weight value (24 replies)
- Unexpected treat this morning. (9 replies)
- Where lead came from in the old days (USA style) (27 replies)
- Lead Wire (3 replies)
- Scored right on time... (4 replies)
- Please help identify this lead....thing... (31 replies)
- Redneck Gold ingot (10 replies)
- Pewter (32 replies)
- Is this going to be 2/6/92 (23 replies)
- Lynotype + ? = Usable Casting Alloys (19 replies)
- Sulfur rabbit hole (25 replies)
- please help with ingot ID (13 replies)
- Range scrap.... Jacketed material? (16 replies)
- Shot gun Lee Mould Buck shot loads (13 replies)
- Mixing wheel weights with pure lead (17 replies)
- Pure lead or close to it? (20 replies)
- 45 acp (25 replies)
- Casting for lever action (22 replies)
- Testing BHN (28 replies)
- determining alloy by weight and volume, hardness (20 replies)
- Another New Source for Lead (32 replies)
- Is this pure lead? (12 replies)
- Zinc cast boolits long term effect in barrel wear? (10 replies)
- Back to sorting WW's (32 replies)
- Excess Lead (16 replies)
- How soft does your alloy have to be to get hollow points to reliably expand? (26 replies)
- Ingot hardness (9 replies)
- Trouble with range scrap. (77 replies)
- Changing 1:20 alloy into 1:16 (14 replies)
- Antimony ingots question (3 replies)
- Casting ZINC bullets is tedious (16 replies)
- Bottom pour cast iron pot. (5 replies)
- 80:1 Alloy for Trapdoor Springfield "Gallery Load"? (17 replies)
- Zinc wheel weights (7 replies)
- Looking for Lead in All the Wrong Places (12 replies)
- Magnolia Anti Friction Metal Question (17 replies)
- Argon Purge (38 replies)
- 30XCB Rotometals Alloy Choice 1 in 12 308 Win (7 replies)
- Weighted Pewter filler (11 replies)
- New Supplies (26 replies)
- Foundry type? (15 replies)
- Babbit from a rock crusher; a bar of antimony? (9 replies)
- Are these figurines lead? (5 replies)
- Stained Glass Came (18 replies)
- Lead oxidation (24 replies)
- 44 mag (21 replies)
- 50/50 + 2% confusion (12 replies)
- Back to casting after 34 year hiatus (24 replies)
- What do I have here? (3 replies)
- Cheapest way to get Lead alloy to 7 or 8 Brinell Hardness ? (21 replies)
- What to do with it (16 replies)
- Lead pipe replacement (24 replies)
- Thrift Store Jackpot (19 replies)
- lynotype (6 replies)
- 86-10-4 (5 replies)
- Some 500 grain Babbitt goodness. (4 replies)
- Alloy? (4 replies)
- Buying some alloy (12 replies)
- Making yummy lead soup (12 replies)
- Nippin weights (23 replies)
- Educate Me on Lead and Zinc Sources (9 replies)
- Busy day melting lead. (14 replies)
- just found wheel weights (14 replies)
- Does adding Tin or Antimony? (14 replies)
- Zinc wheel weights are a problem (21 replies)
- Stuff growing on ingots ? (7 replies)
- did I get lucky ? (3 replies)
- OK. Now I get it. Why the hub-bub about alloys (11 replies)
- Any chance of zinc linotype? (18 replies)
- What is it lately with all the exotic homebrews of alloys? (29 replies)
- Arsenic (5 replies)
- Pewter smelting and ingots (28 replies)
- Monotype to lead ratio for 38 +p and 357 mag? (16 replies)
- Suggest an alloy? (7 replies)
- Melting/Alloying Antimony (19 replies)
- Any ideas as to what this could be? (19 replies)
- Using Foundry Type? (16 replies)
- scored some English pewter yesterday (2 replies)
- cerrobend question (4 replies)
- wiping solder alloy (3 replies)
- My favorite way of testing lead hardness. (7 replies)
- Molly Bullets (7 replies)
- Will bird shot harden soft lead? (12 replies)
- What is “lead came”? (16 replies)
- Unknown ingot (14 replies)
- Lead mix for 450 bushmaster (5 replies)
- Heavy dirt (15 replies)
- Race car ballast weights? (9 replies)
- Getting lead into a 20#pot (29 replies)
- 50/50 COWW/Pb casting temp? (10 replies)
- So I bought some solder today (4 replies)
- This Was the Haul........ (18 replies)
- I believe I contaminated 3 pounds of lead with aluminum foil... (12 replies)
- What do I have here? (3 replies)
- Small Lead find should last a day or 2 (22 replies)
- How to tell monotype from foundry type (3 replies)
- I Quit (47 replies)
- Hello, new to cast boolits and casting. I have 50lbs of plain lead needing hardening (9 replies)
- How much is lost when melting clip on wheel weights? (21 replies)
- WWs, babbit ??? (8 replies)
- ideal lead temp for casting 8BHN lead? (13 replies)
- cerrolow-136 allow (7 replies)
- Pb-Zn COWW Alloy? (11 replies)
- The most fun I had collecting range scrap..... (9 replies)
- Bullet alloy?? (24 replies)
- How to mix these two alloys for a 45-70 hunting bullet? (18 replies)
- Frankford Arsenal flux (17 replies)
- Is there a point to water dropping cast ? (65 replies)
- Flux difference? (6 replies)
- Lead question (13 replies)
- What do I have? (4 replies)
- Lead: Where are you getting it from? (85 replies)
- super hard and wheel weights (12 replies)
- Tin Ingots - How to Test Composition? (15 replies)
- Tin at walmart (14 replies)
- Zinc Test or Identification? (10 replies)
- Making 2 2 96 with Super hard and tin (9 replies)
- Interesting structure to WW pot when cooled. (9 replies)
- Loose lead (6 replies)
- I got more lead and still i'm ignoroant (22 replies)
- What mix of alloy would be the best all-purpose blend? (28 replies)
- Is there such thing as a reasonably priced xrf analyzer? (7 replies)
- zinc wheel weights (23 replies)
- simple question (7 replies)
- Question about Penn Bullets "Premium" alloy (7 replies)
- Unknown possible casting alloy? Antimony or bismuth? (7 replies)
- Who stole the Organ Pipes? (12 replies)
- Handling "pewter" (9 replies)
- What Is Cerromatrix (6 replies)
- Help with Tin and Antimony, and others. (11 replies)
- Linotype to Pure Lead Exchange rate? (9 replies)
- tin/pewter (5 replies)
- Old Wheel Weights composition? (7 replies)
- Saving pellets and rimfire bullets (12 replies)
- radiator solder (11 replies)
- Cartridge brass as casting alloy component (3 replies)
- Help: Void issue with new alloy (35 replies)
- Lead score on way home (10 replies)
- Alloy for 308 development (14 replies)
- Lead roof sheeting (19 replies)
- Lead gloves (11 replies)
- I bought some rotometals super hard (8 replies)
- A Melange of Recycled Airgun Pellets and Slugs for Casting Airgun Slugs? (17 replies)
- more galena harvesting smelting lead and silver (3 replies)
- Smelting "Lead" from range sweepings (21 replies)
- Sea Pearl Dive Weights? (8 replies)
- When you least expect it ... (6 replies)
- Harvesting lead from typewriters (16 replies)
- Sn/Ag/Cu ingots (6 replies)
- Range Lead Cost? (27 replies)
- Remington Mod 14 cast boolit loads (6 replies)
- Lead alloy advice for hollow point testing (0 replies)
- How Hard Do 125gr .358" Cast RNFP Slugs Need To Be at 875 fps Cowboy Action? (10 replies)
- Better lead than this? (23 replies)
- tin and lead flow (9 replies)
- Separate Tin ingots from Lead? (18 replies)
- Shipping Lead (20 replies)
- Cleaning and fluxing alloy (53 replies)
- to hp or not? (1 replies)
- RCBS 35 200 in 35 Rem mod 14 (6 replies)
- Lead alloy testing (2 replies)
- Another wheel weight story (9 replies)
- In praise of backstop lead (19 replies)
- Treated Indoor Range Lead won't melt (23 replies)
- Cutting Ingot (31 replies)
- Best way to cut thick sheet lead? (29 replies)
- cast boolits in 35 rem model 14 (4 replies)
- Been casting 3 yrs, fresh here (24 replies)
- A little bit of humor (10 replies)
- Pipe organ tin-lead mixture "spotted metal" (15 replies)
- Linotype vs. monotype (7 replies)
- Casting temp with 20:1 and a big boolit (13 replies)
- Lyman #2 for 9mm (10 replies)
- 2023 The Year of the Melt Um, Maybe 2024 (5 replies)
- Scrap yard haul (16 replies)
- What's that orange crust? (6 replies)
- alloy for casting 45ACP bullets (43 replies)
- Best casting use for lead shot (7 replies)
- smelting lead and ingots, is a camp fire suitable? (9 replies)
- Casting with Zinc...Pennies (73 replies)
- Pewter? (28 replies)
- W-W lubealoy bullets alloy (0 replies)
- 16-1 (20 replies)
- What is the base metal for most silver plate if it is not magnetic? (4 replies)
- Is it pewter? (11 replies)
- Stash smelted (9 replies)
- Melting monotype letters and making ingots. (32 replies)
- Pewter Figurines (8 replies)
- Wheel Weight Yield? (11 replies)
- Corn Cobs (17 replies)
- Melting lead and finding steel jackets? (15 replies)
- Alloy for 35 Whelen GC Hunting bullet (1 replies)
- soft lead (15 replies)
- Wheel weights - thing of the past? (30 replies)
- Thrifti Type (10 replies)
- Best Practices to avoid lead poisoning when casting (47 replies)
- separating zinc from lead and getting lead from ore (2 replies)
- 1:16, a few questions (40 replies)
- Help identifying this alloy? (18 replies)
- How/where do you store your ingots? (73 replies)
- Lyman #2 BHN (12 replies)
- Anyone purchasing from Metalex in Canada? (8 replies)
- Casting flux (29 replies)
- Last batch weirdness, what's this purple stuff (17 replies)
- Lead Free Solder (13 replies)
- Original alloy for 38-55 (2 replies)
- Understanding (16 replies)
- Airgun pellets for lead (22 replies)
- How much lino to add? (17 replies)
- Shot - what is in it? (16 replies)
- Help with ID of metal (10 replies)
- Tin question (18 replies)
- Bismuth ? (0 replies)
- How to find linotype or other hardeners? (20 replies)
- Baseline Check - 405 or 425 WFNGC, Mild with 5744. (3 replies)
- xrf testing questions (22 replies)
- Heavily oxidized lead (18 replies)
- Giant, Hard Battery Connector (13 replies)
- 45/70 - 425 at 1700 fps, gas-checked Lyman No 2:Lead 1:1? (26 replies)
- Is there a formula for lowering the BHN of your lead (29 replies)
- Silver on Copper Serving trays and pots….. (9 replies)
- Lead free solder, good for boolits? (7 replies)
- Cleaning bullets with phosphoric acid (27 replies)
- Lead fuse links? (4 replies)
- ¿¿ Rotary Linotype Die?? (16 replies)
- Wheel weights and hardball alloy (11 replies)
- 50/50 solder & wheel weights (24 replies)
- BHN per caliber (12 replies)
- How do you cast your scrap lead into ingots (64 replies)
- found a new source of lead today (16 replies)
- Never encountered this form before (24 replies)
- Lead alloy with Si content (5 replies)
- Lead haul #2 from favorite seller (35 replies)
- Testing tin to lead ratio? (5 replies)
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