What is it

[steeler61054]

Here are some pics from my post a few days ago. Any help identifying what it is?

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[Bullshop]

Does it weigh 50 pounds? If yes then I guess pig lead.

[steeler61054]

Yes its about 50#s

[Defcon-One]

Bullshop is right!

Pig Lead, nearly pure. I have seen one identical to that once before. It was pure Lead.

[DavZee]

I have an ingot much like that one. It weighs 38 1/2 lbs. Its a little shinnyer and has a bit of a ring when it's tapped on. Is mine the same or maybe it's alloyed?

[steeler61054]

It sure looks and sounds like the one I have

[djgoings]

DavZee, I have an "Imperial" ingot just like the one you have shown. On the underside, it is stamped "linoplus" in about 1/4" letters. My ingot is hard as a rock. Linoplus used to be added to linotype by printers when the alloy needed to be enhanced. I heard the alloy content is something like 45% antimony, 37% lead and 18% tin. Should be an excellent hardener.

[MaryB]

What does the writing in the first picture say? To blurry to read.

[steeler61054]

What does the writing in the first picture say? To blurry to read.
It says ELECTRO

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

What does the writing in the first picture say? To blurry to read.


It says ELECTRO

I couldn't read it either. If it says ELECTRO, then my guess is that's it's solder. I'd need to hold it in my hands and "play" with it a bit to confirm, that's what I think...and I'd go one step farther and guess it's 63/37...

I've worked with 63/37 in a wave soldering machine and PCB's for the first 8 years after I graduated from Elec Tech school in '85.

cut and pasted from WIKI "solder"

63/37 Sn/Pb used principally in electrical/electronic work. The 63/37 is a eutectic alloy, which:
--has the lowest melting point (183 °C or 361.4 °F) of all the tin/lead alloys; and
--the melting point is truly a point — not a range.

[MaryB]

That is what I was thinking, electronics solder of some kind.