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fourdollarbill
01-04-2010, 04:17 PM
I bought a large amount of lead alloy from an estate sale and found a uniformity to it. WW's ingots, pure lead ingot, bars of 50/50 and then I have have 15 little ingots about 2.25" round and 1/4" tall that look like the 50/50 solder in color. I'm assuming the guy made these pucks out of the 50/50 and used it presized in a recipe. Is there a way to tell if it is 50/50 for sure?

lwknight
01-04-2010, 04:49 PM
Specific gravity test. If it is 50/50 the SG will be 8.88
This spreadsheet will help. You can change the values in the top row to your needs.
I guess if you wanted to you could extend the sheet to cover oll ratios of mixture.

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