Pewter?

[tomme boy]

I was at the scrap yard yesterday getting rid of some junk brass. I was looking around at the stuff they had. In this box marked "cast" was a bunch of pot metal fixtures when something caught my eye. It was a water pitcher. I grabbed it an looked on the bottom an sure enough it had a London England hallmark. I looked around in the box a little and found a flask and some kind of measuring cup. I got them for $1.25:grin:

They weighed 5 lbs. I took them home and melted them down into ingot. Now a question. These ingots appear to be a yellow color to them. Are they supposed to be like this? Also the ones I did into the SS cups from Walmart have like a crystalline surface to them. They are all sparkly. Did I get them too hot?

[merlin101]

I've got some pewter ingots that have that yellow cast to them too. Never bothered me or my boolits

[runfiverun]

gold is the indicator of tin.

[bumpo628]

I bought some pure tin mini muffin ingots on the forum last year. They are gold tinted and have a crystalline surface too. Sounds like you have some high-tin alloy there.

[imashooter2]

These are some ingots I just recently cast from modern food service pewter.

http://home.comcast.net/~imashooter2/pictures/sell/ingots2-600.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~imashooter2/pictures/sell/ingots600.jpg

[S&W-629]

that was a real good deal