Found at scrap yard ?

[Wickyd]

Found this in lead bin while I was buying some lead from scrap yard.
It weighs a little over 5 lbs.No marking on spool too rusty.
From what I have read on the forum I think it is lead solder.
What do you think I have?
I have been looking for tin and pewter to add to the lead flashing I have bought.



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flattened it out on end no rosin or core that I can tell
very easy to flatten with pliers
PS went back and broke off another piece and did find a white powder inside?

[spfd1903]

Could be Lead, but I have seen Zinc wire that is just as malleable at my scrap yard. Same color. Short of an analyzer, a sample and thermometer would tell when you melted a piece. I forget exact temp., Lead melts at approx. 600 deg, Zinc above 1000 deg.

[Lizard333]

Looks like lead wire. Those of us that swage use it as core for our bullets. What's the diameter? If its .185, its lead wire for 224 cores. Worth more to some as the wire than melted down. It's most likely pure lead.

[cbrick]

Lead melts at approx. 600 deg, Zinc above 1000 deg.

Just for the record . . . Pure lead melts at 621 and zinc @ 787.

Rick

[Hogdaddy]

Just for the record . . . Pure lead melts at 621 and zinc @ 787.

Rick

A quick melt should tell ya ; )
H/D

[Wickyd]

Diameter is .074

Looks like lead wire. Those of us that swage use it as core for our bullets. What's the diameter? If its .185, its lead wire for 224 cores. Worth more to some as the wire than melted down. It's most likely pure lead.