Tin Babbit

[beng]

Have a question for our chemist on the forum..... I have about 500lb of tin babbit. They were used for bearings (3" size with a hole in one end) We tryed making boolits from it and they came out OK, only they were very light and very shiney. a 500 gr boolit was 475 gr. and hardness of 28. It started to melt at about 440 deg. I was told it also had cu and sb in it. and to take it up to about 620 to 650 deg and hold the temp. and the cu would come to the top. We did and it did come to a copper color that we could skim off, can this be done to the sb? "Question" If I had lead 99.9 and added 1lb to 30 of lead would this work to get a 30-1 or 20-1 lead? Thanks beng

[Jailer]

I would be more than happy to take some of this off your hands and save you the hassle of trying to figure out what to do with it. :mrgreen:

You'd be better served saving this stuff to mix with wheel weights for some water dropped rifle boolits.

[runfiverun]

you ain't getting the antimony out.
unless you can build a slinger and shoot zink through the melted alloy to remove the tin.
just use it as tin and forget the other stuff.

[badbob454]

yeah add it to lead or coww's and shoot it 1.25 lbs to a 30 lb of lead should be @ 30-1 lucky u !!

[357maximum]

If you added flatrate boxes and willing trading partners into the equation I am sure you could convert that into anything you wanted and you could do it without propane.

I would be more than happy to convert some of it into brand new never installed wheelweights for you in fact. :smile:

[bowfin]

Trade it for lead here on the forum or sell it.

Lead can usually be bought for $1.00 a pound, but what you have could be worth $10.00 per pound.