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whelen fan
07-23-2014, 03:39 PM
Can someone tell me what this stuff is?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/Kman338/20140723_131928_zps8c93af1b.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/Kman338/20140723_131952_zpsfedb5aec.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/Kman338/20140723_132041_zpsfaa203e6.jpg
cabezaverde
07-23-2014, 03:56 PM
The long strip is bar solder. The Canada Metal Co stuff is foundry ingots, but you are going to need to do some research on composition. What did the seller tell you?
cdngunner
07-23-2014, 06:49 PM
The Canadian stuff is probably babbit.
whelen fan
07-23-2014, 07:22 PM
I emailed the foundry and will post if they get back to me and are able to help me. The 30/70 stuff is 30% tin and 70% lead? The shiny bar in the last picture is tin?
RogerDat
07-23-2014, 11:14 PM
I emailed the foundry and will post if they get back to me and are able to help me. The 30/70 stuff is 30% tin and 70% lead? The shiny bar in the last picture is tin?

The advertisement posted by cdngunner indicates this company made Babbitt metal. Babbitt is a lead or tin based alloy designed to be used under pressure or heat. Bearings on shafts are a good example. Reading this Wikipedia article, especially the chart will give you a good overview. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_(metal) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_(metal) Bottom line Babbitt metal is all good alloy but can be really high tin based alloy, or pretty high antimony lead alloy with various smaller amounts of tin. Hopefully the factory can tell you what grade that ingot would be. Or a scrap yard could shoot it with an xrf gun and tell you.

The strip is surely 30% tin 70% lead.

No way to tell what the "shiny bar" in the third picture is. No markings. It does look like it might be melted a bit on the left end. If it is melted from use I would guess some type of solder but it would be a SWAG because someone could have melted the end for any reason. If it has no markings and you have a thermometer the melt temp can give some clue, not absolute but can narrow it down. Scrap yard with a gun will be the only way to know for sure what it is.