odoh
02-21-2009, 10:01 PM
Found some various lead stuff (pipe, ladle ingots, roof jacks, sheathing etc.) at the local recyler this week at a fair price and figured on smelting it today. The pb stuff went as expected until I was wrapping up the old ww's and thot to chk the ladle ingots someone had used for fishing wgts. Removed the eyelets, scratched them and determined to my own satisfaction, that 2 were soft and 3 were hard so, assumed in all likelyhood to be ww's. Until . . . .
I went to ingotize it in my old standard RCBS mold and they came out a weired satinty. Looks like as brushed SS Torus finish. The pure lead and the ww ingots were shinny but these are frosty looking. Not temperature related as nothing changed but the unkown alloy. Full wgt is 1.25 lbs as are the ww ingots.
Any ideas from you experienced casters?
TIA
I went to ingotize it in my old standard RCBS mold and they came out a weired satinty. Looks like as brushed SS Torus finish. The pure lead and the ww ingots were shinny but these are frosty looking. Not temperature related as nothing changed but the unkown alloy. Full wgt is 1.25 lbs as are the ww ingots.
Any ideas from you experienced casters?
TIA