Linotype score!

[44Blam]

Just picked up 50 lbs of letters for $1/lb. I'm pretty stoked!

[sledgehammer001]

Nice! I've never had the chance to play with lino. I've used COWW with added tin, or pewter, and never had issues. May have to aquire some lino soon to play with.
Nice score!

[lightman]

Thats a good score! Lino is getting harder to find.

[bangerjim]

Are they cast as long “lines of type” (full words and sentences) or individual alphabet letters? If just letters what you have is NOT linotype. Do some research on the net B4 you start using it.

Bangerjim

[RogerDat]

^ +1

Individual letters are typically mono or foundry type, a different alloy than Linotype. A richer alloy because Lino was typed out on a machine, then used to print, then melted to be re-used in the linotype machine. Typical use is printing news papers. Individual letters were arranged by hand, used to print a flyer or brochure, then the letters were taken out and put back in the storage drawers. Not re-melted. So individual letters had to be hard enough to use over and over again for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_metal
vs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_(alloy)

Using foundry or monotype as linotype in a casting recipe is a huge waste of alloy, in some applications foundry or mono would yield bullets with a tendency to shatter (sometimes on way to target) and zero expansion. Don't forget linotype pig can be broken into pieces with a hammer. Foundry/Mono is harder than that.

[Grmps]

Banger is right, there are many different types of printer alloy with different compositions

https://i.imgur.com/I7PvAkl.png

Your score may be better than you thought

[bangerjim]

Also......whatever the version of type metal you actually do have is.....keep it in it’s original form! DO NOT ingotized it. Once melted down, nobody knows what is in there and the resale value goes to pure lead ( and your word). Levaing it as-is proves what it REALLY is. You may need to sell it someday.

And it is very easy to add small bits of type metal to your mix that way.

[Taterhead]

Also......whatever the version of type metal you actually do have is.....keep it in it’s original form! DO NOT ingotized it. Once melted down, nobody knows what is in there and the resale value goes to pure lead ( and your word). Levaing it as-is proves what it REALLY is. You may need to sell it someday.

And it is very easy to add small bits of type metal to your mix that way.

That's good advice, and I wouldn't have thought of that. I haven't ever encountered type metals, but will remember this good idea if I ever do come across a good deal.

[fredj338]

Good score, I would be a buyer all day for $1/#.

[bangerjim]

Good score, I would be a buyer all day for $1/#.

“Buying all day”..........is how I ended up with 350# of the darned stuff!!!!!!!

[evoevil]

Il get around to this type soon,. How does if flow in mold

[ThomR]

Where does one find this sort of stuff?