Trade for some COWWs?
Type: Posts; User: GlocksareGood
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
1/2 COWW and 1/2 dead soft lead. I use cable or water water pipe lead for dead soft. Got tons. Add in enough tin to get 1-1.5%. use that for all almost all pistol bullets.
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I have bought 1750lbs of water pipe this year from a crew foreman. It is out there folks.321013
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Think I am now over 10,000lbs of lead. I am in the process of pulling it all together and getting a count. Pretty sure I will never run out.
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Yeah I am in a good place but I still buy it when I get a deal.
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I buy solder off Facebook marketplace. I pay no more than $10/lb of Tin content. I have almost 300lbs of tin now.
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I cut every ww. The little square tape weights with the rounded circle on them are as hard as COWW. I sort them with the COWW.
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Modern buckets coming from Ohio I am seeing about 50% loss from the steel. Lots of steel weights now and the plastic coated steel ones. Figuring in trash, steel and zinc out of the 900lbs I picked...
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I probably have 10,000 lbs and I keep buying. It is a disease.
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I just picked up 440lbs of water line at $0.50/lb. It is out there you just have to look. I have bought almost a ton of lead and tin in the last year.
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Neat video. Pretty sure it is easier for me personally to just go and buy lead pipe for $0.50/lb.
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I always just keep unknown solder I run across out and when I get 20-30lbs I melt it down and have it scanned. Then you can use the alloy to sweeten up your shooting alloy. Easy.
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I scrapped about 50lbs of lead blankets one time used for radiation shielding from the shipyards. It was a woolen lead mixed with some filler. When I melted it down I lost about 30% of the...
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DUTCH BOY 777
Dutch Boy 777 contains an unusually large percentage of tin for solder of this grade. It has a melting range of 363°F-450°F. UTS 7,000psi. STR 5,375psi. Bhn 13.3. SpGr 9.24. When used...
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I have picked up 1000lbs in the last three months. You can still find them. I am finding that now they are running 50% junk. Lots of steel, composite tape weights and some zinc. I am only...
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Find someone that wants to trade hard for soft. I have probably 800-1000lbs of linotype. You usually won't do 1 for 1 on that route but it also does not take a lot to harden up soft lead.
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Keep a look out on Facebook market place. I have been back to buying some lately there. You can find some deals ever once and a while. You will also see people trying to sell raw WWs for...
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Looks like a fuse link, just really large. I have seen smaller ones for like a 50-200Amp fuse but these are much bigger. Most of the ones I have seen are a lighter metal like aluminum but I am...
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I have always hand sorted them. Lots more zince now a days. I picked up little over 800lbs about 6 weeks ago. I am seeing about 25% by volume of zinc and steel wheel weights. I cut every one as...
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I used to carry an eye dropper bottle of muratic acid in case I found some lead like that. I never really used it as I would buy sorted WWs for
$0.35/lb and it was not worth the money since there...
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I paid $2/lb for the last monotype I bought and that was type in the original paper/twine packages. All the same letters like it was sold. Bought it more for the novelty as I have over 1000lbs of...
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I used to keep some around. One time my brother wanted some 15lb down rigger balls poured. He brought me good lead for them and I used all of my zinced up trash for them. Win-win.
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I picked up 810lbs in 6-5 gallon buckets over the weekend. The shop owner took down my info and told me he would call when he got another 6 buckets. He was happy to not have to deal with listing...
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Yeah this came from a print shop buy out. Guys told me they had gotten 50+ buckets of linotype. Said they still needed to sort thru it.
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$2/lb. All new letterings. Got 28lbs which was all they had. Need it like a hole in my head as I have 1k lbs of lino and 200lbs of foundry type but alas. Figured someone would enjoy the pics. ...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |