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fourarmed
08-13-2010, 03:45 PM
A friend has some ingots that he would like to know about. These are commercial ingots of around 5 lbs, marked S-G. They are quite hard. I ran a ball-bearing test using one of my soft lead ingots, and estimate the hardness as 21+/-2. The tab where it was broken off from another ingot shows bright specks surrounded by darker matrix.

Doby45
08-13-2010, 03:51 PM
bright specks surrounded by darker matrix.

http://i33.tinypic.com/59uc15.jpg

runfiverun
08-13-2010, 11:06 PM
with a large crystalline structure and a straight break.
that'd indicate linotype or a mix of mono-stereo-lino.
the bhn after casting and waiting is a good indication of lino.