Soundguy
04-14-2023, 07:04 PM
Hit a mom n pop gun store on way home on the interstate..they had about 480# of mixed lead..i bought it all at .39c per pound..cheap enough for me to figure it out enough to use.
About 40-50# was in partial bags of chilled magnum lead shot. Say 10# a bag..from #4 thru #9. Good and clean and I'll leave it as shot and use it as shot.
Of the other 430ish pounds.. Over half was in ingot form..scratches easy enough with brass key but dings when banged together..feels like at least 10bhn. Some was marked that too. The ingot feel like range scrap ingot I've bought in that range. Most of the ingot are Lyman..but say 40 % are half rounds and a bout 7-8" long..look fairly uniform. Some are segmented into 3 pieces..no markings.
The rest of it is in some pigs and some soda can and tuna can ingot. The soda and tuna can ingot will definitely get melted into smaller ingot.. They feel dead soft and thud when banged together...scratches with fingernail. Also have some lead sheeting..i know it's soft.
The 3 other types of pig i'm wondering about are marked as follows.
2 individual 5? # or so ingot..say:
National lead co. 777. 777
Then some stringers of pigs that say Missouri
But I have one stringer of Missouri. That have a different name on the first pig
Geitzinger's. Atlanta
And finally a long pig that says National Boston lead co and stamped 7. Has a ring hook end.
These 3 types feel harder than dead soft.. But hard to tell 'how much' harder till I melt some and try a hardness test.
Any ideas appreciated.
Update: I see the Dutch boy 777 are solder pigs.. Maybe 60/40??
About 40-50# was in partial bags of chilled magnum lead shot. Say 10# a bag..from #4 thru #9. Good and clean and I'll leave it as shot and use it as shot.
Of the other 430ish pounds.. Over half was in ingot form..scratches easy enough with brass key but dings when banged together..feels like at least 10bhn. Some was marked that too. The ingot feel like range scrap ingot I've bought in that range. Most of the ingot are Lyman..but say 40 % are half rounds and a bout 7-8" long..look fairly uniform. Some are segmented into 3 pieces..no markings.
The rest of it is in some pigs and some soda can and tuna can ingot. The soda and tuna can ingot will definitely get melted into smaller ingot.. They feel dead soft and thud when banged together...scratches with fingernail. Also have some lead sheeting..i know it's soft.
The 3 other types of pig i'm wondering about are marked as follows.
2 individual 5? # or so ingot..say:
National lead co. 777. 777
Then some stringers of pigs that say Missouri
But I have one stringer of Missouri. That have a different name on the first pig
Geitzinger's. Atlanta
And finally a long pig that says National Boston lead co and stamped 7. Has a ring hook end.
These 3 types feel harder than dead soft.. But hard to tell 'how much' harder till I melt some and try a hardness test.
Any ideas appreciated.
Update: I see the Dutch boy 777 are solder pigs.. Maybe 60/40??