Boolit recipes

[Yooper003]

What is your best & cheapest recipe for turning my pure lead into cast boolit material .
I see on line some material that is 65 1/2 lead - 23 antimony- 12 1/2 tin. I was thinking adding 15# of my lead to 5# of this. Would probably cost me about 40$

[Tatume]

Look in the Swappin & Sellin forum:

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/forumdisplay.php?18-Swappin-amp-Sellin

I looked, and the very first active thread was alloy for sale. You could mix 50/50 clip-on wheel weights, add tin (two pounds of 50/50 solder with 18 pounds of pure lead will make classic 20:1 alloy, or just add a big handful of linotype.

[cga]

If my math is correct...........
2.5 lbs. of that alloy with 20 lbs. of your pure lead would be about the same hardness as clip on wheel weights, about 11.4 Brinell.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

If I had a stash of pure (or near pure) Lead, and nothing else to blend with it, to make it a useful boolit alloy, I would search locally for Lino-type or Mono-type. Sometimes it can be found for near the price of scrap lead. Then I'd use the alloy calculator to formulate a blend for a desired application.

[Grmps]

Lead alloy calculator
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=45784&d=1341560870

[Yooper003]

Thank you, I went ahead & ordered that material. I have the lee .459 340 gr. Mold. Wii that 11.4 hardness work to push that boolit about 1800?