Everything is so regional. I hardly ever see solder. I’m lucky to live near an affluent college town and all that hollowware that a 1950s housewife needed to impress her friends holds no interest to the kids settling her estate.
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I use mini muffin tins. Vary the pour to give me different weights. Weigh & mark. Use as needed.
I use duck decoy strap weight molds. They are easy to store and I just use tin snips to cut pieces into a scale to add to my alloy.
I still have a box or two of those I bought from you several years ago. I wish I could find a mold like that. I refuse to use bullet molds or sinker molds because there is always the chance of an OOPS! Then you just shot a very expensive group of bullets or launched some real expensive sinkers. I want something small and unique.
Perhaps you could cast your pewter bullets in a mold of the correct weight and then smash each one with a heavy hammer. Or cast with the sprue plate open and have a horribly rounded base. That would prevent their use in reloading.
Thanks for the suggestions!
I squashed down my thrift store finds to fit my PID controlled ProMelt. Smelted down at 475 degrees and cast coins using SST kitchen sauce cups.
Coins are 1.5-2 ounces.
It was about 10 pounds that cost me around $48. Not bad.
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Those look great.