60 lb one piece how to dilute to usable ratio

[dukerr]

60 pounds test as 86 % pb 8.5 sb 5 % tin what would i add. Ihave pure and lino and ww,s

[454PB]

Sb is a little high, add about 10 pounds of pure lead and you'll have a good alloy.

[sqlbullet]

My math says 2 lbs of pure plus one lb of this alloy will give you pretty close to what I consider my perfect alloy: 95% lead, 3% antimony, 2% tin (actually, 95.33, 2.83, 1.67).

[reddog81]

I'm no expert and I think it depends on what you are looking for. I think 60 pounds of pure would cut the antimony and tin in half and be pretty close to a good general use alloy.

[typz2slo]

My math says 2 lbs of pure plus one lb of this alloy will give you pretty close to what I consider my perfect alloy: 95% lead, 3% antimony, 2% tin (actually, 95.33, 2.83, 1.67).

Right on the money according to my poor boy lead calculator I built in excel.

[bangerjim]

Now that you know the % contents, plug that into the free alloy calculator spreadsheet in a custom line at the botom on here and it wll let you play "what if" with different mixes.

Do a search with the white box at the top right of this page.

bangerjim

[runfiverun]

I'd just add another 120 lbs of lead.
off the top of my head that'd be about 1.5-.6% tin and about 2.5-.6% antimony.

[RogerDat]

I'm with banger download the free alloy calculator and plug your known percentages into the custom row at the bottom. Then you can enter pounds of your alloy and pounds of other common lead sources listed in the alloy calculator. Play with it and you can see the resulting alloy percentages and the approx. BHN hardness of that mix.

95/3/2 is a very well regarded alloy mix that casts well and will work for most bullets but what mix you want depends on your intended use. What you want your bullet to do makes some difference 44 mag rifle might benefit from a different alloy than 38 plinking ammo. Alloy calculator will let you see what you get from 10# of your alloy combined with all sorts of other stuff.

[dukerr]

i did as advised and I now have 15.7 bh thanks all

[Michael J. Spangler]

My math says 2 lbs of pure plus one lb of this alloy will give you pretty close to what I consider my perfect alloy: 95% lead, 3% antimony, 2% tin (actually, 95.33, 2.83, 1.67).

Good info.
The last few batches I've smelted I've aimed for about that same mix give or take. Like a sweetened up "COWW". seems this mixed 50/50 with pure does just about anything I want it to for pistols. Especially with hi-Tek coating. Great in everything from 38 wadcutters to 44 mag and 45/70. I've shot tens of thousands with roughly this same mix and I'm very happy with it.


Not to hijack but when you aim for this alloy do you look to keep the arsenic around .25 percent or do you not worry about wether it's in there or not.
In my last few batches I've had mostly COWW to work with and when I didn't I has a bunch of shot to add the arsenic. This last batch was all LINO, Pure, 63/37 and pewter.
Thanks guys!