Soft lead

[odinohi]

I bought some lead from a guy. He said it was all soft lead. Some of the ingots he used a ladle and let them harden in it. Those, when I dropped them had a slight ring to them. All the rest went "thump". I smelted those in a different batch. Took a ingot to the scrapyard and had the dude shoot it with his gun. This is what it read:
94.47 Pb
2.96 Sn
2.22 Sb
.35 Cu

Does that sound like ww lead? The rest of it I had to smelt in 3 seperate batches (pot size). Here are the readings on those:
Batch 1
96.79Pb
3.21 Sn

Batch 2
98.55Pb
1.45Sn

Batch 3
100 Pb

Batch 3 was all sinkers. I think maybe I got lucky buying this load. Now that I know the scrapyard will shoot metal for me, I'm gonna get evry batch tested.

[captaint]

Well - If ya got it reasonable, you certainly did good. Batch 2 looks the most like WW. Maybe old WW anyway. They tell me new WW's have about half a percent Sn. enjoy Mike

[runfiverun]

batch two looks like stick on ww's from the 80's-90's and even into the early 2k's.
the first looks more like isotope cores. they usually come to 2.5/2.5/95 or 1/3/96
and batch#1-#2 mighta just been 20-1 with some of other lead mixed in.
my guess anyways