I'm having a brain fart

[Ken O]

I have some ingots marked 1-4 stacked in a corner. I alloyed linotype and lead, and dang if I can remember if it was linotype to lead or vise versa.
I have been using WW for so many years that my mind is drawing a blank.
I'm pretty sure it was 4 parts lead to 1 part lino... help me out!

[randyrat]

I'll bet it is 4 parts lead and 1 lynotype. Or 4 parts WWs and 1 part Lyno...

[Bass Ackward]

I have been using WW for so many years that my mind is drawing a blank.
I'm pretty sure it was 4 parts lead to 1 part lino... help me out!


Yep. I got that T-shirt on wholesale.

Best argument for a hardness tester there is. Star Trek used to say going where no man has gone before. My tester helps know where someone has been. :grin:

[VTDW]

I also earned the T-shirt and now use Sharpies. Hardness tester.

[gray wolf]

What was the question????

[VTDW]

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[1Shirt]

Yep, been there, done that, cast it for pistol, and rifle, and they all went down the tube without any problem. Do need to break down and buy a hardness tester however!
1Shirt!:coffee:

[Typecaster]

For what it's worth, the most expensive component in an alloy/mixture is traditionally listed first. I always follow that rule, be it for mixing my alloys or (in the old days, in the darkroom), and have taught my sons the same.

That means that Elmer Keith's 1:16 or 1:20 would be 1 part tin to 16 or 20 parts lead.

My dad used a chisel to stamp each stroke of the "W"s on his WW ingots; I just keep mine in 50-cal. ammo cans, with a laminated ID tag attached by a cable tie. If I'm taking a bunch out for the casting pot, I'll use the Sharpie.

[Ken O]

Thanks guys, must be the heavy metals in the brain. It ddn't really matter, but I have a pretty good stack of pure lead ingots, and I'm thinking of picking up some lino to use it up. Then again, I could alloy the lino with WW..... hell, tomorrow I will forget this converstation with myself anyways,LOL

[Typecaster]

What conversation?