I bought my 1st batch.

[Harter66]

Not my 1st bit of lead but the 1st time I paid for it.

It is from WW from a stock car racer and "some stuff I got from the news paper office". The price is right enough for 250# of WW . The bargain comes w/the included full ingot and half ingot plus 2 bricks of what seems to be lino like and very bright compared to my stash and what the other stuff looks like. About 60# worth. The other thing is 2 boxes of 150# ea that looks like dross but not the scummy dark powder stuff it looks like they skimmed off all the tin and saved it. The 2 boxes were free so even if its zinc no real loss.

I know its a pig in a poke. Is my guess about grainy stuff in the boxes good? Presuming over/under heated lino/mono/type. That's part of what came from the paper office.

[454PB]

The "stuff" in the boxes might be dross from the linotype, so melt down a sample of it and see how it turns out. Even dross can yield usable alloy.

Trying to guess what some unknown person may have done in a print shop is an exercise in frustration, but any type metal is too valuable to discard without at least trying to discover what it is.

[P.K.]

Pics!

[Harter66]

Picking it up tomorrow evening. Honey gets cranky when I haul stuff like that in the Caddi.

[Harter66]

Well, I got picked up and home . Spilled 1 of the boxes. It looks like it is all sweepings from a fire on the type setting table complete w/type rails and assorted setting tool parts.

Final score :

217# WW
50# probably lino,based on the highly unscientific pencil test and original source info. It's a small town .
25-50# of assorted unknown to be reclaimed from the boxes.
10# of brass from type tools .

I sold 2 8" frying pan cast ingots to a local up start fellow just getting in to this of 45# of the WW and another 25# of 1/20 .
At the end of it all I have 200# of clean stuff I don't have to mess w/ for $50 bucks. It also puts me very close to my 1st ton,maybe over.

[Harter66]

Here's the big piece and a brick.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/imagehosting/thum_123384ebc94a43ff0a.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=2659)

And the box of sweepings after our rains and snow.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/imagehosting/thum_123384ebc9671cb6a8.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=2660)

[P.K.]

Nice!

[Sonnypie]

Well, isn't that right at 25¢ per pound?

Warping the USPS saying...
If it shoots, it ships.

BTW, Cadillac makes a truck now, called the Escalade.
Perfect for luxury lead gathering! ;-)

http://cache.boston.com/cars/galleries/trucks/escaladeext.jpg

(I have the Po Man's model. Called a Chevy Avalanch. [smilie=l: )
(Cept mine does NOT have the plastic body armor.)

[Harter66]

The Caddi is the last of era of luxury road cars . Leather power air ride Sedan DeVille . I think I did ok .

[Harter66]

Well, I got down to working out the boxes of floor sweeps .1st I poured them through my half bucket w /the 1/2" mesh just to get to whatever big chunks or clumps there may have been and to get rid of the majority of the garbage . I've a 14" dutch oven and it went full 3 times to w/in an inch of the top . The yield,75# of damaged but credible lino . I say credible as it was full of asst type setting tools rails and permanate set copper/brass panels. Muffin ingots and my pot laddle below. The laddle my Dad found out yard saling,no clues. It pours decent off the top or bottom ,1st time I've used it.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/imagehosting/thum_123384ec83311da390.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=2765)