Originally Posted by
pathdoc
Awesome post, and thank you. I have been sitting on my WW afraid to wonder what was in them, but did the snipper test tonight on a new acquisition and most of it cuts or deforms neatly.
Observations from a newbie:
1) The hard plastic coating on some COWW distorts the ease of the cut test.
2) Even aside from this, some COWW that can be cut, are harder than others.
3) Following on from #2 above, I wonder what would happen if you went to the trouble of sorting out WW by appearance and then did a hardness test (even as simple as with a Lee hardness tester) on the resultant ingots? Has anyone tried this? Ultimately I'm not sure i care; if some of the WW have a higher antimony content, this will help the whole batch be harder, which is not a bad thing.
As a last resort, I can always go to Rotometals or one of the other companies. But for now, I am content to scrounge. :)